The Things our Heart likes, without our Brain's Consent - A Severus Snape Story

Following the fall of Voldemort, Severus Snape is given amnesty by court and takes up position as the Potions Master at Hogwarts, School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, as part as his sentence to "give back to the community" and "rehabilitate". However, when his application for the position of the Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher is rejected yet again, he knows his life is going to be more miserable than it presently is. Especially since this new professor is everything he is not.

But whilst drama is firing off between the teachers in the staff room corridors of Hogwarts, intrigue and evil slithers into the safe and stable environment of the castle, sending all eyes flicking towards one another in question until many come to one conclusion:

Who could be to blame but the ex-Death Eater, the silent and moody Potion's Master?

But the new DADA professor, Irene Twill, is not convinced. She has glimpsed slivers of repressed feeling behind the firm and placid mask of the accused man and discovered raw and beating behind the Potion's Master's stone facade, and does not intend to lose it.

A clean Severus Snape fanfiction, set in the Harry Potter universe. Get ready for a slow burn...

P.S. This story is being rewritten, for the information of ones who have read it already. Enjoy!