Something Undefined

Realization

"Today you will be brewing the Invigoration Draught. You have 30 minutes to complete your work and bottle your potions. Read the instructions on the board." Snape swished his wand and the instructions written in white chalk stood out on the dark board.

This was an O.W.L. level potion. It couldn't have been any easier for Hermione. She knew the recipe by heart. She set to work immediately. She liked it better when she was not teamed up with anyone, for when she was it always ended it with Hermione correcting the entire potion. She glanced over at Harry and Ron's table. They were looking around for ingredients they required while rummaging through the book's pages. She smiled to herself thinking about how clumsy her friends were. Hermione was way ahead of anyone in the process of completing her work. She tenderly put 4 Alihotsy leaves in her cauldron followed by dried billywig stings. Hermione loved the smell of peppermint that she poured next into the bubbling cauldron. She stirred counter-clockwise and then began to chop stewed mandrake extract. Hermione then added Infusion of wormwood and finally stirred the mixture clockwise 5 times. She let out a sigh of relief as she had finished adding ingredients in precisely 12 minutes. She knew that the potion required 18 minutes to simmer in order to be perfectly brewed. All her classmates were still being badgered with this sort of an Herculean task for them. Hermione slightly leaned on the potion counter where was seated and gripped the edge of the table behind her back. She saw Prof. Snape directing insults towards Dean who had somehow managed to add nettle leaves to his invigoration draught which was not mentioned even in the dreams of a potioneer. Hermione glanced at her cauldron. Her potion was perfectly reflecting a red colour that had slowly emerged from a vibrant yellow one. In about 10 minutes it would become orange in colour. She looked at her Golden trio friends again. They were  trying to remember whether they had to stir clockwise or anticlockwise. She smiled again. Instantly, she felt a pair of eyes upon her. Hermione averted her gaze and scanned the room. Her eyes fixed upon Prof. Snape at the front of the class from where he was looking at her. Hermione got a bit confused. Was she doing something wrong? Had she committed a mistake? She looked down out of some sort of guilt. After observing her potion for 5 minutes all the while thinking about her teacher's gaze when they were outside, she looked up again. Hermione was surprised to find Prof. Snape still looking at her. This time she didn't back out. It was her professor who looked the other way now. She was confused still.
After perfectly pouring her potion in the vial, Hermione was left with no work to do. Other students were still waiting for the completion of their work. Hermione looked at her Professor. He was not one to catch every lady's attention but all the girls in Hermione's year fawned on him. They fantasized about him which was so amiably revealed once in a truth or dare game. Hermione had always liked Prof. Snape out of respect and admiration for his intelligence. But today she felt something different. The class ended while Hermione was lost in pondering over her own behaviour. Snape had annouced that their potions will be tested in the next class. The students dragged themselves out as fast as possible. Hermione was the last one to reach the door. She stopped and said, "Thank you, professor." And then she left.

She herself did not understand why she said so. She thought it was perhaps for the help he gave her before the class, or maybe he was a good teacher, or maybe he made her feel different and ecstatic, you know.. like butterflies in her stomach...
What????!!!
Hermione mentally slapped herself. No...  this can't be happening. She can never allow herself to have a crush on one of her teachers and that too... Snape?
But it was too late. Her heart had already pushed her into the depths of the Ocean of Anonymous Adoration.

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