Enchanted, parts 37-40
Title: Enchanted
Team Name: Spy for the Order
Word Count: 4x100
Rating: PG
Challenge: Bookmark challenge
Characters: Hermione, Severus, a random Hufflepuff
A/N: Post-DH (epilogue ignored). Thanks go to a_bees_buzz for a quick and helpful look at this set! Previous instalments: 1-4, 5-8, 9-12, 13-16, 17-20, 21-24, 25-28, 29-32, 33-36.
They didn’t talk on the way back.
Hermione wondered if this was because too much had already been said, or if he was just conserving his strength.
She also kept thinking about the enchantment on the bookmark, which she had stuffed into a pocket for the time being. It had to have reacted to something that was different about her touch compared to Ron’s.
Unless it was just slow, she mused. Perhaps there had been a layer of dust on it, and she had inadvertently wiped it off.
Not that a bookmark hidden in a book should have been dusty.
* * *
Half-way to the castle, she let the stretcher float down onto grass still scorched from the battle.
‘Sorry, sir,’ she apologised. ‘I just need a moment to send a message.’
She let her wand arm relax - although she had done nothing more strenuous than holding the wand, the effort had caused her to tense up - and concentrated on conjuring her Patronus.
Perhaps it should have surprised her that the first happy memory she thought of was finding Snape in the clearing and realising he was alive, instead of, say, the first kiss she had shared with Ron, but it didn’t.
* * *
‘There, all done!’ she declared once the sleek shape of her otter had taken off towards the school. ‘I thought it best to let Madam Pomfrey know about our arrival. At least this way she’ll have a chance to be prepared.’
Snape nodded briefly.
‘Perhaps you should also notify your friends. If Weasley was with you when the Portkey activated, he might be wondering what happened.’
‘Oh - right.’ She hadn’t even thought about Ron’s reaction to her disappearance. He’d probably be worried sick about her!
‘Unless he just went down to lunch,’ a snide little voice in her mind suggested.
* * *
Madam Pomfrey had sent a sixth year - a Hufflepuff, Hermione knew, although she could not recall her name - to meet them at the entrance.
The girl must have been told whom she was to assist, as she did not look too shocked upon seeing them. She did blanch, however, when taking a look at the black-clad form of the dreaded Headmaster, and thereafter kept her eyes firmly on Hermione.
‘I am to see that you get to the hospital wing without any problems,’ she explained. ‘Madam Pomfrey was worried that if someone else saw the Headmaster, you could be detained.’
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On to parts 41-44.
Team Name: Spy for the Order
Word Count: 4x100
Rating: PG
Challenge: Bookmark challenge
Characters: Hermione, Severus, a random Hufflepuff
A/N: Post-DH (epilogue ignored). Thanks go to a_bees_buzz for a quick and helpful look at this set! Previous instalments: 1-4, 5-8, 9-12, 13-16, 17-20, 21-24, 25-28, 29-32, 33-36.
They didn’t talk on the way back.
Hermione wondered if this was because too much had already been said, or if he was just conserving his strength.
She also kept thinking about the enchantment on the bookmark, which she had stuffed into a pocket for the time being. It had to have reacted to something that was different about her touch compared to Ron’s.
Unless it was just slow, she mused. Perhaps there had been a layer of dust on it, and she had inadvertently wiped it off.
Not that a bookmark hidden in a book should have been dusty.
* * *
Half-way to the castle, she let the stretcher float down onto grass still scorched from the battle.
‘Sorry, sir,’ she apologised. ‘I just need a moment to send a message.’
She let her wand arm relax - although she had done nothing more strenuous than holding the wand, the effort had caused her to tense up - and concentrated on conjuring her Patronus.
Perhaps it should have surprised her that the first happy memory she thought of was finding Snape in the clearing and realising he was alive, instead of, say, the first kiss she had shared with Ron, but it didn’t.
* * *
‘There, all done!’ she declared once the sleek shape of her otter had taken off towards the school. ‘I thought it best to let Madam Pomfrey know about our arrival. At least this way she’ll have a chance to be prepared.’
Snape nodded briefly.
‘Perhaps you should also notify your friends. If Weasley was with you when the Portkey activated, he might be wondering what happened.’
‘Oh - right.’ She hadn’t even thought about Ron’s reaction to her disappearance. He’d probably be worried sick about her!
‘Unless he just went down to lunch,’ a snide little voice in her mind suggested.
* * *
Madam Pomfrey had sent a sixth year - a Hufflepuff, Hermione knew, although she could not recall her name - to meet them at the entrance.
The girl must have been told whom she was to assist, as she did not look too shocked upon seeing them. She did blanch, however, when taking a look at the black-clad form of the dreaded Headmaster, and thereafter kept her eyes firmly on Hermione.
‘I am to see that you get to the hospital wing without any problems,’ she explained. ‘Madam Pomfrey was worried that if someone else saw the Headmaster, you could be detained.’
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On to parts 41-44.