Slytherin Love - Harry Potter One Shots

Blizzard of the Yule Ball - (Severus Snape x Female Harry Potter

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Severus Snape harbored many regrets.

Three years after the second wizarding world war, Hogwarts' headmaster endured yet another regret on Christmas Day.

The castle once again hosted the Triwizard Tournament, and by tradition, the Yule Ball.

While the music played and the couples danced, Severus sat at the High Table in the Great Hall as he scowled at the crowd and tried to ignore the woman standing across from him.

The position of Defence Against the Dark Arts Professor had once again become available a few months prior.

At the Ministry's urging, Severus had reluctantly agreed to hire the heroine of the wizarding world and newly-trained auror, Harriet Potter.

Severus had underestimated how much his former student had matured.

The school girl that he had held such a great disdain for had disappeared completely only to be replaced by a bold and beautiful young woman.

Severus hadn't expected Harriet to show him kindness after she began her employment at the castle.

He hadn't expected her to flash gentle smiles at him, or to look at him with longing in her emerald eyes that he found so disturbingly familiar, but Harriet had, and with each look, each statement, each smile.......she had destroyed him.

Severus avoided her at all costs, terrified of what may happen if he spent a few moments alone with her or obliged one of her multiple requests to join her in her office for a private cup of tea.

When she had walked into the Yule Ball earlier that night, Severus's mouth had fallen open.

Harriet Potter looked more lovely than he could have imagined as she walked through the Great Hall in her flowing dress of red silk, overlaid with golden embellishments.

Her shimmering, green eyes had begged him to come and dance with her, but Severus had vehemently refused.

Instead, he chose to scowl at the hints of her supple cleavage that peeked over her gown's neckline and teased his tired heart.

He ignored the rippling waves of her lustrous, dark hair.

Harriet had been a student, one of his students, the daughter of-

No.

It didn't matter that she had become an adult and blossomed into womanhood.

It didn't matter that she had become a colleague, and it didn't matter at all that she very obviously wanted him........Severus Snape did not allow himself to indulge his desires.

That's what he told himself anyway, as his dark eyes narrowed and his face twisted into a forlorn frown while he watched one young man after another twirl Harriet around on the dance floor.

As soon as the ball concluded, Severus stomped out of the Great Hall with his black robes flowing behind him like spindles of angry smoke.

Harriet watched him glide through the crowd and she reached out in an attempt to gain his attention as she cried, "Headmaster Snape! Headmaster Snape!"

Severus gnashed his teeth as he continued to move towards his exit.

He regretted his decision the instant that his polished black shoes touched the stone floor outside of the Great Hall.

If only he had been willing to open his lonely heart.....then perhaps he too could have been one of those lucky wizards that waltzed Harriet Potter around in her gorgeous, red dress.