Summary
Professor Hermione Granger long ago decided that Headmaster Severus Snape was the bravest man she had ever met, but not for the reasons that most people thought. On the evening of his forty-eighth birthday, he finally starts to see it her way. Written for the 2019 Snape Showcase on LJ. PWP/Rated M for explicit situations, language, and taking the piss out of literary tropes.