An Unusual Solution

A/N: I know this is not to traditional snape that we all know and love but its fiction, so if you want the asshole bastard, you might not want to read this. i like to think of snape as a loving man who separates his teacher persona from real life. i got alot of heat fromone of my previous stories when i made snape lovey dovey, saying it went against character, please keep in mind that i am changing him again in this story.
Also,there is no voldermort, there is no war.



Hermione looked at the information she had been given in shock. The ministry was never going to get this passed, she thought. She knew she should feel confident, but the reasons they presented for the law were sound enough to make her nervous.

Hermione had several friends in the Ministry of Magic. They all thought of her immediately when the new law was going through the process of design. The law was intended to prevent inbreeding in the magical community. There were now less pureblood families since they were all marrying within themselves. As a result more and more squibs were being born, and medical and genetic problems were so abundant that the Ministry had to act.

Any pureblood witch or wizard would be paired up with a Ministry chosen muggle born or half blood. The Ministry claimed they would use ancient spells to find the ideal mates for couples, but the fact that your prospective spouse would be an enemy or total stranger was nerve racking.

Hermione being a muggle born was going to be the first to be paired up. Her grades had always been stellar and she was wealthy. When her parents died she was the recipient of a vast fortune, from both their assets and insurance payouts. Her husband would have access to her money under the guidelines of the new law. There would be no pre marital contracts, nothing to protect her money.

She had asked her friends the chances of this law being passed and they didn’t make her feel any better. The Ministry was fighting hard for his law and were prepared to speed the time and resources necessary to get it passed. The inbreeding problem needed to be solved.

She rubbed her eyes with her fingers. The parchments she shouldn’t have been given were on her table. Her friends, namely Ministry reporter Luna Lovegood, and Ministry Herbologist researcher Neville Longbottom, had risked their carried to get her the information as a warning. She wanted to find a way out of it but she also wanted their risk to be worth it. They had given her a heads-up and she would take it.

She thought hard about what to do, and while the solution she came up with seemed outrageous, it did seem possible. She only had to make him see it.


That evening she knocked on the door to a small house on Spinners End. Her former teacher, Professor Severus Snape, answered. “Miss Granger?” He said not quite believing she was at his home, in the evening.

“Professor. I’m sorry if this is an inconvenient time but I have some information I think you should see.” She said. He stepped aside and she entered. She took a moment to look around at his front room. The amount of books piled in stacks made her feel at home in a strange way. “Sorry,” she said when she found him staring, “I’m a book lover myself.”

“Yes, Miss Granger, I remember.” He sat down and gestured to an armchair opposite him. “Would you like some tea?” He asked.

“Tea would be lovely thank you.” She said sitting.

“Now what is this information you mentioned?” He said as he poured.

“I have a few friends at the Ministry of Magic, who have given me some information on a new law. It hasn’t been announced yet, it is still being finalized, and needless to say they took a great chance in getting it to me. I thought you might want to see it as well, sine it affects you too.”

He stopped pouring cream in his tea and looked at her. “It affects me how?”

She handed him the parchments and sipped her tea while he read. She watched his face and saw the expressions as he read. Shock, denial, outrage, disbelief. She had gone through those same thoughts herself.

“They will never get this passed.” He said as if saying it will make it go away.

“I thought the same thing myself, but my friends at the ministry say they are going to try everything the have to pass it. It’s the focus of all the higher level positions and they are working hard to pass it. They even have a division set up to begin pairing immediately when it goes into effect.” This had come from Luna and she hated to say how the girl was scared for her. Luna was married to Harry Potter, so she wouldn’t be affected, but Hermione was rich and brilliant, and that put her in danger.

“They will have to e prepared for a fight, the public will never lay down and wait for this to happen.” He said. Hermione could still see the nervousness.

“The research on inbreeding is too strong for them to abandon the whole project. The Ministry will fight as well.” She said, and watched him roll his eyes and rub the tension from his face. “Professor I may have a solution that will allow both of us to avoid the law if it does get passed.”

“You do?” He asked, looking at her. “What solution would that be?” His eyes focused on hers and Hermione was thrown back to Hogwarts were she was trying to impress her teacher.

“We could get married.” She said without hesitation. His eyebrows lifted into his hairline, and he leaned forward.

“Did you just suggest that we get married?” He asked.

“Yes, Professor I did.” She said calmly, having expected this reaction. “The law will apply to both of us and since the Ministry is going to push this law as far as they can, it doesn’t seem worth the risk to wait and see if they may or may not be given the authority over our lives.”

His face relaxed just a little. “I see that point Miss Granger, but wouldn’t this be a bit extreme?”

“Are you willing to take the chance that they will pair you up with a pureblood Hufflepuff who has a craving for six children?” He looked at her shocked. “Professor, you have an estate worth millions, even through you live as you like,’ she gestured to his comfortable home, “the Ministry will see it otherwise. You have the means to support several children, and since the new law is about ending the inbreeding problem, you would be one of the first to be paired up.”

His face drained of what color he had in it. Since he had stopped teaching, he spent more time gathering his own potions ingredients and that mean more time in the sun. While he wasn’t tan, he had lost that sickly pallor one gets from spending hours in a potions lab teaching students months at a time. “I can see your point.” He looked over at her. “And you would be a target because you are rich in your own right, not to mention young and healthy enough to give a husband however many children he wants.”

She nodded. “If we marry now Professor before the law passes, if it even does, then we avoid being paired, and at least we will go into this marriage with consent. We would each still have control over our fortunes and the Ministry would have no power over either of us.”

“Why not Weasley?” He asked.

“Professor, both Ron and Harry are married.” She said.

“I am aware of Potter and Miss Lovegood, or rather Mrs. Potter now, but when did Weasley marry?” He asked.

“Ron married Lavender Brown last summer.” She answered. “Besides I could never marry either of them, they are close enough to be my brothers.”

‘Yet you would willingly marry a former teacher?” He asked, waiting for her response.

“Professor, may I be blunt?” She asked, and continued when he nodded. “I couldn’t marry either Ron or Harry because they seem like brothers to me, and I couldn’t bring myself to be intimate with them. You are different, you have a confidence and an intelligence that I admire.”

He relaxed in his chair and looked over at her. “And could you see yourself in an intimate situation with me?”

“Yes Professor I could.’ She said. She knew she had to convince him, and if this was what he needed then so be it. “Most men my age are insecure and need reinforcement of how manly and sexy they are, even if they are not. It takes away from the act itself. You however are a man who seems well aware of his talents and would not waste time asking me to make you feel like a man. You seem like a man who knows how to enjoy his time with a woman.” She said.

Severus didn’t know how to reply to that. He was confident in his abilities and he did every much enjoy being with women. He wasn’t one to play games and build his own ego. A woman willing to get naked with him was woman enough for him. He didn’t need to hear stupid phrases to make himself feel like a man. A woman wrapping her legs around him made him feel like a man enough.

“I see you have thought this through.” He said, shifting in his seat. Her open discussion of how sex would be comfortable had harden him slightly. Not enough to make him uncomfortable, but enough to make his body convey that having sex with her as his wife would be quite easy. “There are some things you should be made aware of if we decided to go through with this.”

“Alright, then lets discuss what needs to be discussed.” She said, crossing her legs and relaxing in her seat.

“I have never been married before, and my relationships were less then ideal. There will undoubtedly be times when I may be insensitive.” He told her.

“Would this insensitivity be intentional?” She asked.

“No.” He said with a firmness.

“Then I can deal with that. I am friends with Ron and Harry after all.” She said.

‘True enough.” He thought for a moment. “I do not want to be a bastard with my own spouse, but I don’t want a celibate marriage.”

“I thought we had agreed on that already?” She asked.

“I don’t want to feel like a rapist.” He told her in all seriousness.

“You won’t. I well aware of what comes with marriage. You wont be forcing me Professor.” She said.

“If we are to do this, don’t you think the phrase Professor would be inappropriate, Hermione.”

His voice saying her name was slightly erotic but she wasn’t about to admit that to him. “I suppose it would, Severus.”

Two days later, they were married by Dumbledore in a quiet ceremony near the forest of Hogwarts. Ron and Harry managed to make it, along with Ginny who had married Draco Malfoy. Severus’s parents had both passed, but his close friend Lucius had managed to make it, as well as some the teachers from Hogwarts.

Lucius had treated the whole wedding party to dinner at Severus’s favorite Italian restaurant. It was a casual, light affair. Hermione didn’t see the big deal with huge showy weddings, and Severus thought they were more about impressing people then in sharing in a union. To them the ceremony fit them well.

After dinner Hermione and Severus, left for home. Home would be Spinners End. Hermione had no use for her parents large house, which is where she had been living. She happened to like Severus’s cozy little house.

With the well wishes of their friends, they apparated away.