HI EVERYONE!! First Harry Potter fic, so please review and let me know what you think. I don't really get into the magic, yet :) This is just to kind of let you know what is going on and start the story.

This was orginally going to be about Hermione being a goddess and Snape a god,but I just wasn't feeling it. So here is a new story. The title was inspired by the Lord of the Rings song, Twilight and Shadow. Download it if you have not heard it before.

Here is a note to Lea Vaughn, my first reviewer in case you didn't get my e-mail.

Thank you for your review. I respect your opinion and I promise Ron is not going to be an ass. They will make up, I mean they have been bestfriends for over seven years now!

I was never going to make Hermione in Persephone or Severus :) into Hades. I thought about the story and wanted to change it, since it didn't feel right writing it.

I have read the books, it was very late at night and I don't have the internet on my computer, so would have been hard to search on google, but the HP Lexicon really helped. Thanks!!

Please keep reading and reviewing, I'll dedicate the chapter when Hermione and Ron make up to you.

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DISCLAIMER: Do I need this, really? I do not own the characters, just love the books and of course Snape;) and Hermione. So,please do not sue me, I love your books!The story is mine!! MUAHAHAHAHA, Yes my precious.....

Enjoy and R&R!!

Greenleaf

"RONALD WEASLEY..YOU....YOU...." Hermione Granger fumbled her eyes dilated with anger, she was nearly foaming at the mouth. Ron had gone and done it again.

"You have really done it this time Ron." Hermione whispered quietly. Ron's normally pale skin was redder than his hair.

"Just leave me alone.I wouldn't want to go out with such a plain girl anyway.You are so boring Hermione, why don't you pick up a glamour magazine and read it while you study hours on end.It wouldn't matter anyway those books are the only thing that will ever love you." With that Ron turned and strode off.

Hermione stood there with her mouth half open,so confused by what had happened.He had asked her out, she knew it had been coming,but she kept ignoring all the looks had sent,but after the love letter she had received that morning she knew she had to tell him her true feelings. She played back the conversation they had on top of the Astronomy Tower.

"Don't get me wrong ,Ron, I think you are a great guy and there is someone for you,but you are like a brother to me,and I just could never think of you any other way.I love you Ron, just not that way." Hermione thought Ron would understand,but instead he grabbed her roughly and forced his lips against hers.

"RON!!WHAT ARE YOU DOING?" Hermione screeched shoving Ron off of her. Ron's face was bright red.

"Tell me you didn't feel anything then?" Ron yelled desperately.

Hermione looked at him sadly. "Ron, I just feel repulsed. I told you, I love you,but not that way.You and Harry are like brothers to me."

"HARRY!!" Ron screamed. "ARE YA OFF BANGING HIM, WHILE LEADING ME ON??"

"WHAT?? Ron, I JUST TOLD YOU, YOU AND HARRY ARE LIKE BROTHERS TO ME!!."

"WHATEVER,Hermione.You are nothing to me.I don't care anymore."

She shook her head and closed her mouth. How could he mean that?After everything, all that had happened to them over the years.They stood by Harry in their sixth year and defeated Voldermort.The three of them,with the help of Professor Dumbledore and Professor Snape.

Now she stood here,near the end of their last term at Hogwarts,and her best friend...lost all because of teenage hormonal feelings she did not return.The adacity of Ronald Weasly,accusing her of shagging Harry. She would sooner shag Malfoy than either one of them. The thought made her cringe.

She made her way down the sprialing stairs of the tower as she entered the hall, she glanced around and sent a silent pray that it was not only Saturday,but a Hogsmeade weekend. No one was there. She and Ron were going to go with Harry, but Ron wanted to talk with her privately and then meet Harry.

Hermione's anger grew at Ron's words about her being a plain mary-jane.She was very proud of her body.

Her hair was still bushy,but not nearly as frazzled looking. With a few products it looked somewhat tamed.Her face had lost the baby fat look and she wouldn't call her face round,but a combination of round and heart-shaped.

The buck teeth were gone,a set of smooth, pearly whites were there now.She had a cute button nose,nicely arched eyebrows and even though her eyes her brown they were anything from dull, more of cinnamon brown,like her hair.

As for her body, she wasn't going to go around and parade in mini skirts like some of the girls did,she had too much class, but she had grown to 5'7 or 5'8 and had nice legs,flat stomach,nice curves and not Victoria's Secret style cleavage,but it fit her body right.

"I'll show you Ronald Weasel." Using Malfoy's terminology Hermione lifted her head up high and walked proudly towards the library. As Head Girl, she was allowed in the 'Restricted Section' and she wanted to look for some spells that might add a little glow to her or something like that.

As she swiftly turned the corner that would take her into the library, she collided into something very dark,with hard muscles,knocking her off her feet and firmly landing on her arse.

"Son of a..." Hermione growled, rubbing her backside as she got up shakingly.Lifting her head to see who her perpetrator was. She nearly gasped when she saw long,raven black hair,hooked nose and a raised eyebrow with a snarky expression.

"Professor Snape.."

He held up a hand. "Miss Granger, 5 points from Gryffindor for recklessness."

Hermione normally would have shut her mouth,but not today.

"Well,Professor, with all do respect, it was not I you was in the wrong here, you clearly were the one responsible for this incident.

If I had been reading,looking the other way,etc. I would agree,but you came barreling ass around the corner and knocked me flat on my ass,which still hurts by the way, and didn't even bother to over a hand to help me up or an apology." Hermione had to take a breath to get air back into her lungs.

Snape looked a little taken back from her reaction but quickly masked that with anger and that stupid, yet incredibly, sexy smirk of his.

"Well Miss Granger, 25 points from Grffindor for talking back to a teacher and using inapporiate language."

"Don't get your bollocks in a twist.Take as many points as you like,I DON'T CARE.Good day,Sir." With a brief nod of her head,Hermione manuvered away from Snape and into the library.

Severus Snape stood there a little dumbfounded,not because a student had ever had an outburst, he had delt with one to many as far as he was concerned, but a reaction from Hermione Granger?

So many times he had tried to push her over the edge with his snarkish comments,but she seemed to quit caring after her fifth year.

The girl, no he corrected himself, the beautiful young woman she had developed into. He remembered the bushy hair,buck teeth, now she was quite lovely.

She had morphed out of more than just bushy hair and buck teeth, the body. Severus felt a tug at the inside corners of his mouth. 'Damnit..this is bloody know-it all,Granger. Member of the Golden Trio,friend of Potter and Weasley.What are you thinking, man?'

He traced back the memory of the final battle with Voldermort.His feelings towards Hermione would never be the same after that battle.

"SEVERUS!!" Hermione screamed from a cloud of miasma as bolt of green shot from the side towards him.

His whole body seemed rooted in place.His body refused to move. Severus feel his death in the air. This would be the end, after all of those years of spying for the Order, he would die a hero's death in the Final Battle.

Instead of feeling the gut-renching pain of the Avada Kedavra, he saw a bright light reflect the green miasma,as a mirror appeared in front of him and the green bolt shot backwards, towards the person who muttered the curse.

He turned his head to Hermione Granger leaning on one knee, panting.She raised her head and their eyes met, they seemed to stare at each other for eons.

She had saved his life,risking her own in the process. Hermione and Weasley had conjured a spell, where their life energy went into Harry Potter to defeat Voldermort.

It brought admiration,appreciation, and something else Severus couldn't not peg. He refused to call it love as he admired Hermione from affar. 'You are calling her bloody Hermione?' His conscious nagged him, but he refused to remind himself that she had become Hermione long ago.

'Now, what is Miss Granger up to ,on a Saturday in the library, while everyone else is in Hogsmeade?' Severus thought as he silently turned back towards the library and followed Hermione.