Forgotten_Love.txt
Severus and Hermione were in love, but due to a magical accident, Severus has forgotten all about it.
wyrddsmith
I'd post this as a challenge, but I don't have the time to really deal with the, er, consequences of my actions if I do! If you want to discuss this idea/collaborate on it, email me at wyrddsmith@earthlink.net (I am working on the idea myself, but really want to see what others might do with it.)
The basics:
1. Write the story strictly from the point of view of another character than Hermione or Snape, preferably Ginny Weaseley. Use only the one character's point of view; no skipping from head to head!
2. Setting is post final battle. Valdemort is defeated or not, your choice - but he isn't an immediate threat.
3. Snape and Hermione have had a romantic relationship of some sort, but Snape no longer recalls it due to some form of magical incident. The cause of his amnesia is up to you. Snape does NOT know he's forgotten anything, and thinks of Hermione just like he did in school - as an annoying know-it-all.
4. Ginny (or whomever) works in a job that allows her to boss Snape around a little and enlist his help to search for Hermione, who has dropped out of sight after the final battle. Snape's not exactly thrilled. You decide if Ginny is a deliberate matchmaker or if it is inadvertent. She does know what he has forgotten, however.
5. Ginny (or whomever) is actually Snape's friend, a development resulting from working together during the war. She knows a side of him hardly anyone else has discovered, the man beneath the biting sarcasm.
6. There is danger, intrigue and Hermione getting a minor booboo which Snape has to tend. He learns of the memory loss.
7. Snape discovers what he is missing from his memory, and has to deal with it.
Bonuses to you if you can figure out how to include these (I just like 'em, want to see how they can fit in!):
1. Someone parodying Snape's first lecture to his First Years ('bottling fame', etc.)
2. Magical accident was involving a pensieve.
3. Another Mrs. Weasley knitting project, preferably with Slytherin colors.
4. The conversation, "I can apparate with the best of them!" answered with, "Then why did you leave your pants at home?"
5. Dumbledore saying (and not out of character, there has to be a reason), "I'm not a clueless git, Severus."
6. The story is told through correspondence or diary entries, at least in part. (Ginny is the only character in canon I recall writing a diary, and that's why I like her for this story.)
7. The phrase "Snogging in dark corners happens to be a hobby of mine."