The Burning Pen

Why Just Watch?
by Ruth Solomon

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CHAPTER 3

Disclaimer: All recognizable characters belong to JKR. All situations are mine. No $$$ is being made from this fanfic.
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Chapter 3 ~ Snape’s Reasoning or the Art of Logical Seduction

Hermione looked up into the pale face of the Potions master, her heart feeling as if it were trying to enter her throat. He gazed back at her, his face betraying none of his thoughts.

“You . . . you wouldn’t tell anyone, professor?” she asked him tremulously.

Snape shook his head.

”Not a soul,” he replied. “I’ve kept secrets all my life. Having you would be one of my more pleasant ones. I have never taken a witch of such substance and virtue before. I have never attracted one. So you see, Hermione, this would be rather special for me.”

Hermione’s face contorted slightly as she battled with herself. Professor Snape was known for his ability to keep secrets. As he said, he had done it all his life. She had no reason to believe he’d tell anyone about them. Besides, who would he tell? He didn’t seem to socialize with anyone and she couldn’t imagine him sitting in a pub somewhere bragging to other wizards. He just wasn’t that kind of man. Still there was a little flaw in what he said to her, one she addressed.

”Yes, but if I do this, Professor, what virtue I do have will be gone,” she said to him. “I’ll be like every other fast, cheating witch in the Wizarding World.”

Snape looked at her consideringly. He didn’t think the witch giving into her urges for once in her life classified her as a trollop. She was an adult and had a right to follow and meet her desires. It didn’t make her a ‘bad witch’ to do so. Only an honest one. But Hermione was a Gryffindor and they had been constantly drilled to have rather noble and completely unrealistic ideals on how life should be lived. Like in a bloody fairytale. Well, young woman . . . this was no fairytale. Snape took the dragon by the scales.

”As far as I’m concerned you will still retain your virtue since as I said, you are not a promiscuous woman and what you feel is completely natural. As far as cheating goes, that is a matter of perspective. Personally, I don’t feel it’s cheating unless you have a ring on your finger, which you don’t. Let me ask you this, Hermione . . . what good is a loyalty that has already been internally compromised? Inside, you have already broken that bond with Mr. Weasley by longing for the touch of another man. And really witch, is there anything more important in this world than to be true to yourself?” Snape purred at her.

“That’s a Slytherin philosophy, not a Gryffindor one,” she replied.

”This is true, but a good philosophy just the same. It allows us not to live repressed lives, which in turn allows us to live happier ones in which we act on our inclinations without guilt. Tell me, do you really want to go through your life wondering what it would have been like to have me for a lover at least once? As a man who has lived a life of regrets, I advise you not to do this to yourself. Don’t set yourself up with a future full of self-recriminations concerning what at you ‘should have done’ when you had the opportunity. It is not a pleasant way to live,” the wizard said softly, taking his finger away from her chin.

The wizard could see that Hermione’s resolve was wavering. All he had to do was stick the knife of logic in just a little deeper, twist it a little sharper. Appeal to her sense of reason. There was only a thin wire of reluctance left and he could slice right through it if he just pressed forward. Gryffindors had a weakness for blunt honesty, and Snape was going to be brutally honest and exploit that weakness as much as possible.

He made his final pitch. He affixed his dark eyes to Hermione’s brown ones and willed the witch to take in his every word as he spoke.

“Besides Hermione, this is nothing you can just turn off or push away. If you deny me tonight, you will still have those feelings, those secret longings. You will still lie under Weasley and wish he were me. And this will affect other aspects of your life as well as our working relationship. My job is to teach you how to be the best Potions mistress you can be, and we still have three more years together as Master and Apprentice. If there is something left undone between us, Hermione, it will affect your work. Myself, I am used to being denied the things I desire and have learned how to continue on without being affected by it too badly. But you don’t have that luxury. In the end, if you continue to fight . . . you may end up giving up your Apprenticeship and all you have worked so hard to gain. If you want a glaring example of potential disloyalty or cheating, there it is. You will be cheating yourself out of everything,” Snape said. “The Gryffindor philosophy of blind loyalty, while noble, is greatly flawed. For once in your life, be selfish . . . think like a Slytherin and act on your desires. That’s the only way you can be free of them.”

Hermione stared at the wizard, absorbing his words.

Damn. Professor Snape made one hell of a good case for a shag.

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A/N: lol. Short chapter I know but I was laughing all the way through this. I mean, he makes sense . . . but underlying it all, he wants to get at Hermione and it tickles me. Thanks for reading. There will be shagging next chapter and THE END hopefully. No larger picture, no extensive story, just sex in the lab! That’s it! That’s all I want! A real freaking PWP! :::walks off grumbling:::


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