First Kiss Chapter one. Trying to work up the nerve!

Chapter 113 Moody Night

Chapter 113. Moody night.

Severus was sitting at the staff table eating breakfast with the others; he had received his daily prophet but was waiting to read it in the staff room after breakfast so as to show an interest in the students. It wasn’t until he heard McGonagall comment about Rita Skeeter’s article that he finally opened his copy of it to see that she was talking about Hagrid and his giant blood. Snape frowned at the article. How did that cow learn about his giant blood? Severus knew he had not seen her anywhere around the school grounds he had of course patrolled the grounds looking for students who desired a private place.

Snape had known about his giant blood since he was a young boy attending school here. He had voiced his concern with Dumbledore about how safe was Hagrid, since Lily had taken a liking to him. After they had talked Snape had talked for a short time to Hagrid and learned that although he loved dangerous monsters, like his dog sweetum a large mixed breed that seemed evil to others though he him self was not dangerous at all. Snape had felt better since Lily had flat out told him that she didn’t care what his blood was, he was a nice man who was trying to become a better cook and she was trying to help him. Severus had laughed when she told him so far she had not had any luck and had to have a couple of teeth repaired by Madam Pomfrey after breaking them on Hagrid’s rock cakes. He though voiced no more objections to Hagrid after this unless it had been with someone from his house who all seemed to hate Hagrid on general purpose.

Snape was feeling bad for Hagrid, he knew the man was very sensitive and would be hurting from what others had thought of him. Severus made his way after breakfast to his classroom where the sixth years were all waiting for him. This class consisted of the Weasley twins since they had some how managed to get O’s on their potion finals, Snape was still completely stumped by this.

“Quiet down now, we have class.” Snape said as he opened the door to the classroom allowing the students into the dungeon room, it was as always bitterly cold in the room, which immediately started some complaints from several students about the coldness inside the room and how it would be warmer in the deep snow outside nude too boot. Snape shook his head gently he knew the Weasley’s loved to get many laughs and shock expressions from the other students with their views on things and the way they talked about it.

“We’ll be working on a new potion this one you might find interesting, it is a warming potion, it will bring warmth to you even if you happen to be in a snow bank…..nude.” Snape looked directly at Fred and George who burst into laughter at this.

Several others joined in with the laughter they had not expected a joke from Snape which made it all the more hilarious.

“Here is the directions follow it carefully, or you shall most likely find your self setting your body on fire instead. From the inside out. That is a gruesome way to go obviously” Snape said as he looked again at the twins who looked as though they were wondering about doing that very thing.

“I do not have anything handy to extinguish a fire so unless you want to be a barbeque I’d suggest strongly to keeping with the recipe,”

Fred and George still look eager to at least try it on someone else. He would have to make sure he got all their potions when they left.

“Begin class,” Snape walked around the room watching them hurriedly add things to their cauldrons.

Severus did noticed that the big topic for today was Hagrid, as they all seemed to whisper about the article in the Daily Prophet and whether this meant the end of his teaching career, some seemed to think it was for the best while others were telling them, to shut up they liked Hagrid, this was voiced the most loudly by the twins who thought a lot of Hagrid. After a while he knew he could no longer ignore their arguing over Hagrid and his giant blood so he did what he knew would stop it instantly. Snape glowered at the students for several minutes, this of course had the right affect they all hushed up and went back to concentrating on their potions.