𝐾𝑒𝑒𝑝𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑆𝑒𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑡𝑠 𝑆𝑛𝑎𝑚𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑒 💚❤️

Chapter 10

CHAPTER 10

The next morning Hermione awoke alone. She sat up and noticed a note on her nightstand.

𝐻𝑒𝑟𝑚𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑒

𝑇𝑢𝑒𝑠𝑑𝑎𝑦𝑠 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑓𝑓 𝑚𝑒𝑒𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠. 𝐼 𝑎𝑝𝑜𝑙𝑜𝑔𝑖𝑧𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑎𝑙𝑒𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑏𝑒𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑒𝒉𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝐼 𝑎𝑤𝑜𝑘𝑒 𝑒𝑥𝑐𝑒𝑝𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑙𝑦 𝑡𝒉𝑖𝑠 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘 𝑜𝑛 𝑝𝑜𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑀𝑎𝑑𝑎𝑚 𝑃𝑜𝑚𝑓𝑟𝑒𝑦, 𝑤𝒉𝑖𝑐𝒉 𝑖𝑠 𝑤𝒉𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝐼 𝑚𝑎𝑦 𝑏𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑐𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑛𝑑 𝑡𝒉𝑖𝑠 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑠 𝑤𝑒𝑙𝑙. 𝐼 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑠𝑒𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑡𝒉𝑖𝑠 𝑎𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑜𝑜𝑛 𝑖𝑛 𝑃𝑜𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑡𝒉𝑜𝑢𝑔𝒉, 𝑖𝑓 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑠𝑜𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑟.

𝑆𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑢𝑠

Hermione put on her robes and walked to the floo where she quickly discovered a dilemma. She never figured out how to word her command in order to return to 'her' room. She began freaking out a bit. She focused on where Severus was and discovered he was still in a classroom near Dumbledore's office, where she assumed the staff meeting was being held. She tried thinking of different wording and could think of nothing to guarantee she ended up in her room. Because Severus was head of a house, his floo was connected to outside of Hogwarts, which he told her after she ended up at her childhood home. She focused on Severus' location again and noticed he was just exiting the classroom. She focused all with all her might on the bond. If she could get the bond to need a connection, he would have to come back here and help her. She focused, but could not make anything happen. She growled in frustration. Perhaps she could sneak out of the classroom, but when she walked toward the classroom door and listened, she could hear students in there so she couldn't leave out of the doors without being seen. Suddenly a way to get Severus' attention popped into her mind: their rings! She couldn't bring herself to actually try and take them off, but she figured if she spun it or fiddled with it, it would get his attention. As she spun it she 'felt' where Severus was. She could feel him stop before picking up his pace, not to enter his classroom, but their private quarters.

Severus burst through the front door with an emotionless mask on, but Hermione could sense his hurt, "Why were you trying to take your ring off?"

Hermione sighed, "Thank God you're here. I didn't try to take them off, I just spun them, because I couldn't figure out how else to get your attention. I don't know how to leave!"

Severus took a deep breath and relaxed. "I apologize, I did not think about the issue with the floo. Let me floo call Dumbledore." He walked up and spoke into the flames, "Headmaster, there is an issue I must discuss with you if you are available, alone, for a moment."

Hermione could hear Dumbledore, "Yes Severus, I am alone, what is the matter?"

"Hermione cannot return to her other room. It cannot be addressed as 'her room', 'Hermione Snape or Hermione Granger's room', 'her old room', 'her empty room', or 'home'. Any ideas of how she may call it to floo there?"

Dumbledore thought for a moment, "Perhaps I need to make an adjustment to your room. It will not be permanent, but will do for the time it is needed. I will complete it while you are busy. For now Miss Granger may leave from my office."

Hermione sighed, "Thank you sir."

Hermione turned to Severus, "Thank you for helping, I was beginning to worry I would not be able to leave without being seen."