The Burning Pen

TWICE BITTEN
by Ruth Solomon

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CHAPTER 26

Disclaimer: All recognizable characters belong to JKR. All situations are mine. No $$$ is being made from this fanfic.
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Chapter 26 ~ Broom Magic

The next day, the excited students gathered at the lake’s shore. The Giant Squid was in the distance, flailing its tentacles excitedly. It knew what brooms were, and they usually meant that there would be people flying over the water. It might get a chance to fling a couple to shore if they flew too close. Squid life was pretty boring for the most part. Slinging students about would be a welcome distraction.

Hermione was there with her broom, looking sullen. Harry and a few other students were already zooming over the water and having fun.

”Get down here now!” Snape called to them, billowing up like an approaching storm.

Everyone hurriedly landed and stood in front of the wizard, giving Snape their full attention. Hermione slipped to the back of the crowd, hoping that she wouldn’t be called immediately.

”Today, you are going to attempt to stop the Broom Jinxing curse . . . yourselves. You will fly over the lake, then I will attempt to dislodge you from your broom. You are to do your best to stay on your broom, defend yourself and land safely. Of course this means you may hex me if necessary,” Snape said.

The students looked quite happy about this. Free reign to hex Snape? It was like a dream come true. Hermione frowned. She knew he wasn’t going to allow himself to be hexed.

”All right. Let’s start with someone who has experience with this kind of hex. Mr. Potter, front and center!” Snape ordered.

Harry walked up and mounted his broom. Yes, he had experience, but Snape had been the one to help him not get killed. He had never actually had to face a jinxer.

”Now, Mr. Potter,” Snape said.

Harry flew over the lake and Snape cast the jinx on his broom, Harry bucking about trying to stay on while firing hexes at Snape. He couldn’t hit him though, because Snape was jerking him around too badly. Finally Harry was flung off the broom and landed in the lake, Snape chuckling as the soaked wizard swam to shore. Snape guided the Firebolt in, landing it.

”Not a good showing, Mr. Potter,” he purred as Harry scourgified himself and scowled at the wizard.

Hermione’s eyes were wide. Harry was an excellent flyer and couldn’t do anything. She needed to think damn it.

One by one the students went up. One by one they dropped into the lake, unable to do anything to Snape at all. It was clear the wizard was enjoying dumping them. Hermione moved from place to place, hoping the Professor wouldn’t call on her. But eventually, she was the only one left.

”Mount up, Miss Granger,” Snape said, his eyes glittering.

He was going to enjoy this. Hermione scowled at him.

She knew exactly what she was going to do.

Hermione mounted her broom, pulled out her wand and muttered something, passing it over herself.

Snape said nothing. He hadn’t specified that they couldn’t use magic on themselves. Unfortunately, Hermione was the only one with brains enough to realize this fact.

Hermione kicked off and flew shakily over the lake, doing her best not to look down. Snape said the jinx and started shaking the broom. Although Hermione was jerked around, not once did she buck or dislodge. She just didn’t have control of the broom.

”She’s using a Sticking charm,” Harry said. “Bloody brilliant.”

Hermione tried hitting Snape with a number of nasty hexes but couldn’t get a bead on him. The wizard dipped her down low to the water then back up in a large, heart-stopping loopty-loop, Hermione screaming as the wizard gave a low chuckle.

This was fun, even if she didn’t fall off. He’d just keep it up until she begged to come down. He looped her down toward the water again, this time getting the witch a bit wet. She came up dripping and totally pissed off.

Also, with an idea.

Hermione waited for Snape to bring her low again, then viciously slashed her wand at the water directly in front of him.

”Tidus Gigantus!” she cried.

Immediately a huge wave rose up and crashed over the Professor, washing him away in a tangle of robes, along with a few students unfortunate enough to be standing near him. Hermione regained control of the broom as Snape leapt up from the ground and pointed his wand at her. She wasn’t on the ground yet, the little she-devil.

”Levicorpus!” Hermione cried, hitting him with the levitating curse.

Snape turned upside down and dangled in the air, the students all gasping as Hermione carefully kept her wand trained on him as she shakily landed, the Sticking charm dispelling the moment she hit the ground. She dismounted and still held the helpless wizard inverted, but shaking him so he couldn’t get a bead on her.

”Gods, Hermione. Let him down. He’s going to kill you!” Harry said to her as Hermione jerked Snape about gleefully, the wizard snarling, so pissed off he couldn’t even speak.

”Well, since he’s going to kill me, I might as well have a bit of fun,” Hermione said darkly. Harry didn’t like the way she sounded.

The other students were telling her to put him down too before he took every point Gryffindor had, but Hermione suddenly flicked her wand, sending the wizard floating high over the water toward the Giant Squid.

”Hermione! NOOOOO!” Harry cried.

But it was too late. Hermione held Snape over the Giant Squid, then let him drop. The wizard was caught by a tentacle and flung toward the shore.

”I’m going to kill that blasted witch!” Snape snarled as he soared through the air.

“Locomordres!”

Snape began to fly and landed neatly if wetly on the shore, his hair plastered to his head and looking even more like a vampire than when he actually was one. The wizard stormed up to Hermione, who stood there blinking up at him with a smug look on her face, waiting for him to explode. She had bested him and she knew it, no matter the repercussions.

Snape blinked at her and then looked around at his class. Every student was pale and holding their breath. No. He wouldn’t give her what she wanted. A rise.

Instead of exploding, Snape calmly scourgified himself and had two simple words for Hermione.

”Detention. Tonight,” he said in a soft but dangerous voice.

”Class dismissed.”

The wizard walked off. The moment he was over the rise the rest of the students swarmed over Hermione, telling her she was the bravest witch at Hogwarts and even hoisting her on their shoulders, carrying her back to the castle.

She had bested Snape and lived to tell the tale. Or came away unhexed at least.

Only Harry hung back, shaking his head and looking worried. Sure, Hermione might be on top of the world now, but tonight . . . Snape was going to be in charge. Given their history, that could mean anything.

“Oh Hermione,” he sighed, “What have you gotten yourself into?”

Hermione had no idea.

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A/N: Short chappie I know, but still fun. Thanks for reading.

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