Part XII: Sweet Circe!
Chapter 12 of 12
averygoodunHermione's grandmother comes to take care of her after she's injured, but decides Hermione?s love life isn't up to snuff.
ReviewedDisclaimer: Not mine, never was. Even the plot bunny. Are you really that surprised, though?
AN 1: I am so sorry for the delay in posting this last segment of the story. Please forgive me, even if I really don't deserve it.
Warning: Yet another bad pun within. Tread with care. Oh, and there's also fluff. Lots and lots of fluff.
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Part XII: Sweet Circe!
Severus woke to find himself lying beside a mop of bushy locks. He smiled gently to himself as he smoothed back Hermione’s hair to reveal her slumbering face.
She looks so young, he thought, then frowned, realizing she was young. His doubts began rearing, but before they could take off a pair of cinnamon eyes opened and smiled at him.
“Good morning,” she croaked lovingly.
“Yes, it is, isn’t it?” he replied, more cocky than he felt.
“Indeed,” she drawled, doing a fine impersonation of him. Before he had time to respond, he was engulfed in her love once again.
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They woke up gradually that afternoon, happy, but hungry. Severus forced himself to get out of bed to Floo the kitchen while his love dozed contentedly.
He donned a bath robe and made his way to the living room.
“Good afternoon, Severus,” a familiar voice said, stopping him cold. Very glad he had tied his robe, he turned around to look at the headmaster.
“Albus,” he said, hoping he would get a chance to say good-bye to Hermione.
“I was worried, seeing as you missed both breakfast and lunch. I imagine you and Hermione must be very hungry by now.”
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Snape’s stomach plunged.
“Headmaster...” he started, wanting to explain.
“Now, now, Severus. You have broken my heart, but I will survive,” Dumbledore said with an insidious twinkle in his eye. A chortle from behind alerted Snape to another presence in the room.
“You told her,” Severus accused Dumbledore.
“My dear boy, how could I lie to my Lady?” Dumbledore responded beseechingly.
“The issue,” Circe interrupted with authority, “is what your intentions are toward my granddaughter.”
Snape looked at Circe earnestly. “I would like nothing better than to have her as my wife.”
A gasp from behind made him twirl around.
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Hermione stood there gaping, too shocked to do anything else. She and Severus looked at each other for an interminable length of time before she rushed into his arms.
“Is that a yes, then?” Snape asked into Hermione’s uncombed hair.
She looked up at him, her eyes watery, but happy. “Was that a proposal?”
He nodded slightly, his jaw tightening with fear.
She smiled and said, “Then, yes.”
Severus relaxed and enveloped Hermione in his arms, holding his world to him closely.
“I suppose a wedding could count as their final date,” Circe murmured to Dumbledore on their way out.
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Many people were scandalized by the wedding of the Head Girl of Hogwarts to her Potions’ professor the day of the Leaving Feast, but that didn’t prevent them from eating the food or drinking the wine that was served.
Hermione guessed that someone had slipped a little something into the punch, because by the time she and Severus left for their honeymoon, no one could find a reason to object to the pairing.
As they made their final rounds, Severus whispered, “Do you think Circe will make pigs fly tonight?”
Hermione snickered quietly, then turned to say good-bye to Circe.
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“Grandmum,” Hermione said.
“Dear, what have I told you?”
“That without love, knowledge is useless?”
Circe smiled down at her granddaughter. “Definitely,” she said, then turned to Severus. “Take good care of her.”
“Nothing less,” he replied.
Hermione turned to go, but Severus held back to ask, “How did you guess my true feelings?”
“Amoratherapy isn’t for the feint of heart.”
Severus blushed, but said, “It could have been for Albus.”
“Honeysuckle isn’t really his style. Though I must confess in my jealousy I forgot that fact,” she explained.
“Dumbledore?” Hermione asked.
Circe twinkled. “I always have fancied younger men.”
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AN 2: Okay, so this was the last part. Thank you very much to all who reviewed; I’m glad you had as much fun reading this piece as I did when writing it. For those of you who read and didn’t review, I hope you got some enjoyment out of it as well.
Many thanks go to the ever patient SouthernWitch_69 who has dealt with my lousy punctuation and offered validation anyway.
Cheers,
Avery
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185 Reviews | 6.54/10 Average
Wonderfully fluffy! Even fluffier than marshmallow fluff!
Missy/LovesRickman
Lol loved the perverse pun with pig latin. Excellent ending for Snake Face
Missy/LovesRickman
This story was wonderfully entertaining and fun. I truly enjoyed it. You gave me 3 wonderful nights of wine and reading a lovely, amusing story about my favorite couple before bed. Well done!!!!! 
Good night, dearest AG.
With Circe for her grandmother, does that still qualify Hermione as a "mudblood"? I know her parents are muggles but her blood is bluer than his! Can he still call her that? Isn't her dad more like a sqib? That would make her a half blood wouldn't it? 
I second my 2011 review. My cat doen't want me to type more.
What fun!!!! I've read it years ago and remember Hermione gets fixed up with Snape by Circe and that's it. Not because it isn't a memorable story, mind. It's because I have no short term memory. I do remember being 18 months old and my brother being brought home from the hospital. Seriously. I'm terrified I have early dementia. But it won't make it better to stress about it, so I'm off to the next chapter.
Thanks for that funny story!
Hahahahaha, loved how Hermione & Severus looked for the opportunity in their predicament! ;)
This was a fun sounding challenge, and you did a great job with it! Loved this story! :)
Bravo! Quite enjoayable piece of romantic fluffy wuffy. I love romantic fluffy wuffy! 
Not as smart as one would expect of Snapeypoo! Not to be a nag, but does he not realize whom he is trying to best?
I bet Albus will play along alright. If I know him he'll tell Severus he's been in love with him too and just didn't think Snapeypoo would ever return his feelings, that's what! 
I've no idea what she'll do to Hermione. She has shamelessly embarrassed the girl. If Hermione really is the smartest witch of her age she'll apologize and explaine that she was just embarrassed, then thank her for getting Snapeypoo to fall for her.
Apparently, they forgot who they are dealing with and have grossly underestimated their adversary. Cheeky! 
The powerful witch and wizard are just a little bit too impressed with themselves. I imagine they will find out one shouldn't toy with goddesses.
So much for Harry's Bilboish speach. I was thinking that Snape would be rather stinky and not very kissable after so much time in a dungeon but then I remembered cleansing charms. That was a close one. I was about to be icked out by a Snapeypoo- Hermione kiss. That was the whole point of the story! I hope Aragog and his spawn actually ate the swine. Do spiders poop? Could Volde come back to life from magical spider poop? Let's hope not.
Circe's Big Bra on a Centaur!! Pa-leez! Must you embarrass the girl so heartlessly? Give her a break and tell her about Snapypoo in private, could you? 
Admittedly, Snapypoo did deserve to be left at the Malfoy's. But I expect you to deliver him in good health to Hermione when he's learned his lesson.
Circe's pink knickers! 'Bout time she stepped in! 
I hope she addresses the problem with Ferretbutt, as well.
I don't see why Snape would be offended by Hermione taking Ferrethead down a notch, implying he wanted to be Snape's tart. She in no way insinuated that Snape would be open to the idea. I thought it was brilliant! Too bad about Malfoy. I hope he has a change of heart and chooses the light. You'd think he'd at least be afraid of insulting Circe's grand daughter. I hope Circe has been paying attention to the little ferrethole.
How do Circe and Dumbledore expect things to progress in a romantic way when the couple have promised not to cross the Student-Teacher line? It's time for Dumbledore to let Severus know that as long as he is descrete the Headmaster would turn a blind eye should feelings develope between Severus and Hermione. Otherwise, it's time Circe laid down some more laws and told Dumbledore to give Severus permission to court Hermione if he so desires. 
Circe's Ass!
What is the problem with those Slytherin twits? Worried Hermione out ranks them? Mwaaahaaahaaa!
Sweet Circe!
Bwahahaha! I LOVE this story! Transfiguring Dumbledore into a boar! Definitely a boar and not a bore! Snapey's undies must be in a bunch!!!
ROTFLMHO! That is one of the funniest Severus/Hermione fics I've ever read. After a "grumpy" day, this brought a smile to my face and had my family looking at me like I was crazy for laughing so much and so loud. I don't think the skimming in the last chapter was a problem at all... with the style of the fic, it worked perfectly!
Very enjoyable and pleasingly in character. Altogether believable.
very good!
Meddling old biddies LOL