Mother In Law From Hell!

A/N: Thank you for all of the wonderful reviews! I love them.

Thanks again to snapesbbwlover for beta reading this for me!


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The next morning at breakfast, Hermione was eating a bowl of oatmeal with fresh berries. The Great Hall was quieter than normal but then breakfast was usually a quiet meal. Either the students were too tired to visit loudly or they slept in, missing breakfast all together. Last night seemed like a dream to her. It was unreal that she was engaged to Severus Snape. She wasn’t disappointed in the charade. After all, she felt she was too ugly to have a real boyfriend let alone a fiancé. ‘It couldn’t hurt to pretend,’ she thought, taking another bite of her oatmeal. It would hers and Severus’ secret.

The owl post arrived, delivering the Daily Prophet. She had been so busy teaching that she no longer took out a subscription. Sometime she would read a discarded paper in the staff room, but other than that, she didn’t have tto wto worry about the everyday news.

Professor McGonagall received her paper and opened it to the gossip section. Now that Voldemort was dead, she took the time to enjoy the gossip of the wizarding world.

“Oh – my – gods!” she cried, reading the paper.

“What is it?” asked Hermione.

“Hermione, you and Severus are engaged?!” whispered Minerva loudly. Hermione began choking on her oatmeal. Grabbing the paper from Minerva, she looked at the front page of the gossip section. She assumed her little charade would stay between her, Severus, and his mother, but she was dreadfully wrong.

There was a picture of Hermione that had been taken during her third year at Hogwarts. Her hair was frizzed, sticking out in every direction. Her two front teeth were huge and she was carrying a pile of books. Severus was in the picture next to hers. Severus’ picture was next to hers. It was a rare picture that displayed him in his Death Eater robes. From the cuts and abrasions on his face, it was apparent that it was taken the night Voldemort had been killed by Harry.

Pureblood wizard Severus Snape
and
Muggle bornmionmione Granger
are to be wed!

In a history making event, the purest of pureblood wizards will marry a Muggle born witch. In an exclusive interview with Lady Snape, Mistress of Snape Manor, she crmedrmed the news.

With tears in her eyes, she said, “My son will be disgracing the family with this marriage. We come from a long line of noble pureblood wizards and he is thng ing it all away. I have always dreamt of grandchildren, but all he will give me are $*? blood grandchildren!” Lady Snape was so distraught at the interview that she was unable to continue.

Hermione Granger is the famous Muggle born wizard who was once rumored to have been the love interest of Harry Potter, the Boy Who Lived and Defeated You Know Who, while dating Viktor Krum, the famous seeker of the Bulgaria Quidditch team. Hermione Granger is a former student of the Potions Master and they both currently teach at Hogwarts. There is clearly a twenty year age difference, making this reporter wonder, when did their relationship really begin? One can only assume it was during her years at Hogwarts. As much as I would love to refer to her years at Hogwarts as being innocent, I cannot with her tainted past. I can only believe that Severus Snape is the innocent one here.

Will Severus Snape marry Hermione Granger? Has this frizzy haired, bucktooth woman really sunk her claws into one of the most noble wizards in our time? That is the question to be answered.

Hermione slammed down the paper and stormed out of the Great Hall, straight to her classroom. She had been warned about Severus mother, but didn’t take it seriously. She tried to put it at the back of her mind while preparing for class. Her students began to enter the classrosmirsmirking and giggling at her. They evidently had read the paper too.

It was a painstakingly long day, but she had managed to get through it, mainly by staying in her room all day and skipping lunch. She had just finished grading the last of her papers when she decided to go to the Great Hall and eat dinner. She was hoping she had waited long enough that most of the students had already left. After dinner she was going to give Severus a piece of her mind, telling him that he was going to set the Daily Prophet straight. It was one thing to pretend to be his fiancé for his mother, but in front of the entire wizarding world was out of the question! It wasn’t being engaged to him that was embarrassing, but the fact that her engagement was fake would be too humiliating.

Taking a deep breath, she walked around the final corner and came face to face with Severus Snape.

“Miss Granger,” he said, raising his eyebrow. He looked as though he was challenging her to say something.

“Professor,” she sneered. She was ready to tell him off, but an idea suddenly came to her and she smiled evilly, deciding to be as conniving as him. He walked through the doors and Hermione quickly wrapped her arm in his so it looked as though he was escorting her in.

“What are you doing?” he hissed. Before she could answer, a surprise a waited them.

“Smile Professors!” cried a man holding a camera, taking both by surprise. About eight flashes went off, blinding both of them. Several photographers and reporters were anxiously awaiting the newly engaged couple’s arrival.

Reporters began shouting out questions.

“Professor Snape, do you intend on marrying Professor Granger?”

“Miss Granger, have you always liked older men?”

“Severus, were you sleeping with Hermione while she was your student?”

“Professor Granger, is it true you tricked Professor Snape into marrying you by getting pregnant?”

Hermione reached for her wand at the last comment, but Severus pulled it out of her hand. “Just keep walking,” he told her quietly. They made their way to the High Table. Leaning toward her and whispering to Hermione, “Are you willing to see this engagement thing through?” She looked out to the crowd and spotted his mother, smirking in the back, mouthing ‘mudblood.’

She turned to Severus and gave him a loving smile. “Yes.”

He then led her to the center of the High Table and waited for the reporters to stop asking questions. When everyone quieted down, Severus began to speak.

“I will not answer the inappropriate, moronic questions that have been asked. All I am going to say is that Hermione and I are engaged to be married.” The hall erupted again in noise as the photographers took more pictures.

“Severus! Severus Snape!” yelled a short, fat wizard wearing lavender robes and a lavender hat. “My name is Robert O’Brien and I am representing your mother.”

“Representing her for what?” Severus snapped, locating his mother.

“She is expressing her interest in the Snape trust. She wants to claim what is rightfully hers.”

“How is she going to do that?” The hall grew suddenly quiet, everyone wanting to hear every word that was said.

“In the stipulation of the Snape trust, you must marry before your fortieth birthday or your mother chooses your bride for you.” Severus had not expected this and his _expression displayed his shock.

“When is your fortieth birthday?” whispered Hermione.

“In five hours, at midnight,” he hissed in her ear. He and Hermione both looked at his mother who was standing next to one of the most beautiful witches either of them had ever seen. It was clear this is who he was going to be forced to marry. His mother was still trying to seduce him into a pureblood marriage so she would get her money.

“Is that what you want?” Hermione asked, gesturing to the woman. Severus never looked back at the woman next to his mother.

“No, I need a woman with substance.”

“Good, then let’s do it,” snapped Hermione.

“Do what?” he asked.

“Attention everyone!” yelled Hermione. “Severus and I will prove our intentions by getting married right here, right now.”

The hall erupted in applause. “You don’t know what you are doing Hermione,” hissed Severus.

“Trust me,” she said. He glanced at his mother and saw the shocked look on her face. It was clear she was trying to call his bluff on his engagement to Hermione.

The look on his mother’s face when she realized she was going to loose the trust was worth it. “Okay, Albus can marry us.” He turned and called Albus to him. Albus had been standing on the side of the Great Hall with the rest of the professors, waiting patiently to see how all of this was going to turn out.

The next three minutes were a blur. Minerva stood by Hermione and Remus stood by Severus as witnesses. Albus said a few words and Hermione could vaguely remember saying ‘I do’ along with Severus, in between his mother screaming and cursing the both of them. The next thing either of them remembered was, “I now pronounce you husband and wife! You may kiss the bride.”


Hermione thought she was going to faint at the realization of what she just did, but Severus held on to her tight, sensing that this may happen. After all, how many women would honestly and wholeheartedly volunteer to marry him?

“Kiss her Severus!” Remus cried, slapping him on the back. Severus turned to Hermione who was still trying to comprehend that she was now Mrs. Severus Snape.

He leaned in close to her and whispered, “Now what?”

“We let the marriage ride out for a few months and then get a divorce.”

“Hermione, there is no such thing as divorce in the wizarding world.”

“Oh shit,” she said, before Severus kissed her quickly on the lips to suffice the crowd. They cheered as the photographers took more pictures. When Severus pulled back, his bride fell on the floor, passed out cold.

“You pathetic excuse for a son!” hissed his mother. “She is so repulsed by you that even your kiss causes her to pass out.”

“Go to hell mother,” he said, picking up his bride.

“Don’t forget son, you need to bed her within 48 hours or the marriage is null and void. Clearly that is not going to happen, unless you rape her,” she smirked. Severus forgot about having to consummate the marriage within 48 hours, but he couldn’t think about this now as he carried his bride from the Great Hall.


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Corazon