Caught In The Act

The halls were all completely dark and Severus Snape, even though he had a candle, had a very difficult time seeing ahead of him. He moved his candle over to the face of an old grandfather clock in the hall and saw that it was 12:30.

"I should be heading back," he thought, turning around.

Just then, he heard the sound of a door slam coming from behind him. Curious, he turned around back and went over to the door that he heard slam. He was about to open it when he heard voices from inside the room. He couldn't see in it, but he stood outside of the door and listened.

"Are you sure you're ready Hermione?"

The voice belonged to Harry Potter and he was, obviously, talking to Hermione Granger.

Snape decided to just stay where he was and listen to where the conversation was going.

"As ready as I'll ever be," Hermione replied, sounding nervous.

"I have a feeling that you're going to be very good at this."

"What makes you say that?"

"Well, I happened to overhear you and Ron the other night."

"Oh," she said, embarrassed.

"He told me that you were pretty good."

"Oh, well, you know Ron. He always goes easy on me. It's not as much fun that way."

"Okay then. Let's get started. You know what to do, right?"

"Honestly Harry! I've done this loads of times!"

"Well sorry! I just never thought you were into...stuff..like this."

Hermione giggled.

"One would never guess by looking at me, would they?"

Snape then heard nothing for awhile. He reached out for the doorknob, but stopped as soon as he heard Harry groan.

"Ron HAS taught you a few tricks!"

"Yes, but I won't use all of them tonight. I don't think you could handle it!" Hermione finished, giggling.

The next 10 minutes or so was pretty quiet, except for the occasional groan and gasp.

Snape was about to open the door when he was, once again, interrupted by voices.

"Hermione! Stop being such a tease! You're driving me crazy!"

"Aw, c'mon Harry! I know you enjoy it."

"And what if I do?" Harry said slyly.

Snape then heard some movement and Hermione shrieked.

"What are you doing Harry?!"

"Hermione, I've waited long enough. I swear I'm going mad!"

Snape heard some more movement and more cries from Hermione.

"Harry! Oh Harry! Would you stop?! Would you please---"

She was cut off mid-sentence, and after a few minutes of silence, he heard her scream out,

"Give it to me Harry!"

Snape had had quite enough of this, and so he magicked the door open and braced himself for what he was sure he would find.

At first he saw nothing, but when he looked to his left, he saw a very shocked Hermione on top of an equally shocked Harry. They were both lying on a couch.

"What is the meaning of this?!" Snape shouted.

He noticed though (while Hermione was crawling off of Harry), that both of them were still fully dressed and Harry was clutching a...chess piece? Sure enough, he looked back over to his right and saw a chess board with the pieces scattered about it.

"Please Professor," Harry started. "We were just playing chess!"

Snape just stared at him, trying to figure everything out. Hermione walked over and stood next to Harry, and started babbling in that annoying way of hers.

"And we both couldn't sleep, so we thought we'd play chess, and we came here so we wouldn't be bothered, and then I was winning, and Harry got mad I guess, because he took my queen and he wouldn't give it back, and---"

"Be quiet, Granger! I don't want your pathetic excuses! The fact is, you're out after curfew. I want both of you to go back to the Gryffindor Tower this instant! And you will be serving detention with me Thursday."

With that, Harry and Hermione gathered up their chess board, and left.

They decided to spend the rest of the night playing chess in the Common Room, since they both couldn't get to sleep.

After the fourth game, Harry sighed.

"Hermione?"

"Yes Harry?"

"Wanna go snog?"

"I thought you'd never ask," she said with a smile.

THE END