CHAPTER 8 OF CHASING DETERMINED GHOSTS IS LIVE!
“Do you recall, perhaps, several weeks ago when you were meddling where you shouldn’t have been?”
Oh God, I really am going to be let go!
Snape continued oblivious to her inner turmoil, “When you, unsolicitedly—” oh shit, oh shit, oh shit “—gave me advice about my arithmantic formula?”
Oh shit, oh shit—wait, what? Hermione blinked rapidly, her unshed tears quickly dispersing. “Your, your formula? What do you…” Her mind quickly filtered back trying to solve the— “At breakfast a few months ago.”
Not quite believing what she was saying, she asked, “Is this your… obliquitous way of telling me that I helped?”
His silence was an answer in itself.