Misunderstood (Severus Snape X Reader)

Chapter 17

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Harry's POV

Sitting in the Great Hall with Hermione and Ron, Hermione glances down to the table to see Katie.

"It's Katie."

Looking over I stand before going over to the recently hexed girl. She looks at me as she knows what I was going to ask.

"Katie. How are you?"

"I know you're going to ask, Harry, but I don't know who cursed me. I've been trying to remember, honestly. But I just can't."

She looks over my shoulder and gulps for a moment, I turn to look and see Malfoy in between two house tables, looking at us. He turns and leaves the Great Hall, and I follow. Down the aisle and through the doors of the hall, I shove my way through a group of students going into the hall to eat.

Turning a few corners as Malfoy goes to the near by bathroom, I walk in slowly as I hear slight sobbing. Walking in I find Malfoy crying in front of the sink.

"I know what you did Malfoy, you hexed her didn't you?"

He straightens up as he turns slowly, without a word he slashes his wand at me. I dodge the beam that came out of it, stepping back out after it hit the wall and releasing my own attack. It hits the sink, splashing water. Malfoy ducks around the corner and I walk up the hall towards the sinks. Turning the corner he went down, he's at the other end by the urinals, he throws another cast at me.

Stepping behind the pillar next to me, I pant slightly. Looking into the soaked mirror as I try to see where he is, I kneel down to start looking under the stalls. As soon as I'm low enough to see, he throws another cast at me. Jumping away from it, it smashes a toilet that was in another stall.

Running back to the small area with the urinals, I find him standing closer to the sinks. Before he can cast again at me, I slash my want. "Sectumsempra!" Malfoy is knocked back into the small opening at the sinks.

Hearing the gasping that was coming from him, I moved towards the sinks once again, but this time a lot slower. Wading through the couple inches of water that was forming as I hold my wand up, ready to defend myself if I needed to. Turning the corner, Malfoy is laying in the water on the floor, blood filling the water next to him as he lays there, gasping in pain.

Getting closer to him there's puncture wounds in his shirt, with blood starting to stain his white shirt. Looking at him for a second, there's fast footsteps in the water behind me. Looking up as they bump into me slightly, it's Snape. He stands over Malfoy for a moment as he sees what's happened. His face rising to look at me.

I leave the bathroom as I hear Snape talking. "Vulnera Senantur." The words fading as I got farther and farther from the bathroom. In the Gryffindor Dorms, Ginny, Ron, and Hermione are on the bed as I stare at the floor from what I just did to Malfoy.

Ginny gets up and sits next to me, not looking at her I hear her speak.

"We have to get rid if it, today."

I nod quickly without turning to look at her. She stands up with her arm out stretched towards me.

"Take my hand."

Doing as I'm told slowly, we make our way to the Room of Requirement. It now being used for storage, chairs and various other objects being stacked almost to the ceiling.

"We need to hide the Half-Blood Prince's book. Where no one will ever find it, including you."

We move around the cluttered room, hearing a few odd noises as we step around the stacks of things, careful to not knock anything down. Getting close to a wardrobe that has a large blanket or curtain on it, we could hear a slight fluttering from inside of it. Walking over to it I put my hands on it slowly, opening it and ducking as something comes out at me. Turning to see where it went, it lands on top of a high shelf. Tweeting as it sits there.

"See? You'll never know what you'll find up here."

Ginny walks over to me and takes the book from my hand.

"All right, close your eyes. That way you can't be tempted." She starts to step back as she looks at me.

"Close your eyes." she whispers.

Doing as I'm told I close them as I stand there, unable to hear her slow movements as she stashes the book somewhere. It only took a few minutes before I could smell her perfume as she got closer to me, her lips meeting mine gently. She plants a soft kiss on my lips before pulling away.

"That can stay hidden up here too, if you like."

I give a smile before opening my eyes, finding Ginny gone. Leaving the room I walk down the hall in a sort of a daze, that was before Ron found me.

"So did you and Ginny do it then?"

I slow my steps as I turn to him slightly. "What?"

"You know, hide the book?"

I nod to him as I relax slightly. "Oh, yeah."

Looking over as Slughorn gets close to us he sees us and nods. "Oh, dear yes." he says before he practically runs in the other direction.

"Still no luck with Slughorn, I take it?"

"Luck, that's it, all I need is a bit of luck."