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AN: Sorry it's been so long between updates, but I've been having a lot of problems with family still. So I will post when I can.

Chapter 5:

The day past quickly and uneventfully, well, Ron managed to fill the charms class with unpopable bubbles and so the class had to be cancelled while they were sorted out. Other than that, it was an uneventful day. Dinner came and went and Hermione began her walk to the dungeons, the book safely tucked in her bag.

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"Enter." Snape's voice rang out through the corridor. Hermione pushed the door open and stepped inside the room.

"Good evening Professor." she said politely with a small smile. Snape looked at her intensely, then nodded his head slightly in reply.

"You will once again wash the cauldrons, unless you have the book with you." he stated calmly. He watched her for a second, when she made no move he pointed to a stack of dirty cauldrons. "Get to work then."

Slowly she turned around and pulled out her wand, a couple of spells later the clean cauldrons flew to the shelves.

"Miss Granger, the punishment was to clean them without magic, for this you will have to rearrange the whole stock room." Snape shouted in pure rage.

Hermione shrugged and rolled her eyes.

"I guess that you don't want to see the book then, I will just go and do the stock room." she said in a bored tone, laughing inwardly at the expressions that crossed Snape's face. Anger, confusion, amazement, and many more that passed to quickly for her to gauge.

"Very well, show me the book." he replied finally with his arrogance back in place. Hermione opened her bag and gently pulled out the book. Placing the book on Snape's desk, she summoned a seat and sat opposite him. Snape studied the book and stared long and hard at Hermione. "And what exactly are you studying in this book Miss Granger? Everything in here is dark magic." he asked slowly.

"I am looking at page 384 and 532." she replied simply.

"Maîtriser amour et désir?" he questioned as he flipped to the second page she had mentioned, "And Êteindre l'âme? Miss Granger, what is it with you and old French? Would you kindly explain what each of these potions are?" he asked in a tight voice, Hermione could tell that he hated the fact that he had no idea what the potions were about, she smiled slightly before answering.

"Sir, I never said that I would explain the potions, I only agreed to show you the book." Hermione's smile grew a little as she watched the anger starting to build up in Snape again. "But I'm sure that if you ask nicely I might enlighten you." she continued sweetly. Snape's face darkened and he looked ready to explode, Hermione shook her head slightly and moved to put the book away.

"Please Miss Granger, would you kindly explain these pages to me?" he asked before glaring at her. With a straight face, she managed to escape being glared to death by answering.

"Certainly Professor, 'Maîtriser amour et désir', translation being 'Control love and desire' this enables the brewer to choose who falls in love with them and how strongly. In order for it to maintain its power, the brewer must accept whatever sexual advances the effected make. It combines a potion, a charm and crystal magic." she studied Snape as he took in the news, after a while he looked straight at her and nodded for her to continue. " 'Éteindre l'âme' translation 'Extinguish the soul' It kills the soul, breaks it up into little pieces which spontaneously combust. Completely irreversible. Consists of a potion and a charm, if the charm is cast incorrectly then the caster will die." Once again she stopped to let the information sink in, Snape seem to be thoroughly thinking over all of the possibilities of the potions. He studied Hermione closely and then looked away again several times.

"Miss Granger," he began slowly, "What purpose do you have studying these types of potions?" Snape stared into Hermione's eyes, intent on using legilimency.

"It won't work Snape, you cannot find your information that way, I'm not an open book to read at your leisure." Hermione said quietly. Snape looked shocked but quickly hid it.

"Miss Granger that didn't answer my question, you silly little girl, answer now or you will receive two weeks of detentions." Snape growled.

"I am merely researching, professor." Hermione replied smoothly, picking up the book and putting it back in her bag. Snape glared at her, slowly she rose out of her seat. "Well Professor, I do believe that my detention is over. I will leave you to ponder over the new information you have gathered." she said as she walked towards the door.

"For tonight yes, Miss Granger, but I do believe that you have another tomorrow." Snape sneered as she closed the door, the slight nod of her head showed she heard.

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'What would she have wanted those potions for?' Snape asked himself as he sat by his fire later that night. 'Who could she possibly want to force into admiring her? I mean just look at her; she could have any decent man she wanted.' shaking his head he continued his train of thoughts 'I really have to stop thinking like that. She's a student for Merlin's sake, and an annoying one at that. Honestly man, focus yourself.' he began pacing, firing questions into thin air.

"What does she know about legilimency?" he asked, "How and why does she know old French? How does she know of these books?" and the biggest question "Why?" yes that was the main question, why, why, why? There were many reasons he could think of and each as unlikely as the next. 'I will have to question her, maybe a little truth potion is in order.' sitting back down in his chair he began to think out the best way to question her. 'I'm not a spy for nothing, this should work perfectly' he chuckled dryly and smiled to himself. 'This will be easy.'