A/N: Here's the epilogue. Enjoy and thanks for all your wonderful reviews!

The Several Snogs of Severus Snape

Chapter 19: In Which Our Spying on Our Favorite Spy Comes to an End

Severus Snape had always been an outsider. At school, at work; even in his own home, growing up, he had been in the background. That was not to say he didn't prefer his situation. It certainly kept most, if not all, idiots from bothering him.

Hermione Granger was not an idiot.

Severus was a very intelligent man. Intelligent enough to know that he wouldn't mind if Hermione Granger bothered him every day for the rest of his life, if only she would be there to share it with him too.

In fact, he was sly enough to realize it was quite fun to bother her back, though his tact had been thankfully morphed from a form of sharp insults to playful insinuations.

In short, Severus was inexplicably, helplessly, inconceivably, irreversibly in love. And this time around, it wasn't one-sided.

It came as quite a shock to many, including a certain thick-headed red-haired young man, to see the irritable Potions Master calmly strolling down Diagon Alley, a bubbly Hermione strolling beside him with her arm intertwined in his.

When the bold ones suggested she might be under the influence of some potion or hex of some sort, she would calmly refute their claim before giving them a five second head start. It didn't really make much of a difference. Canaries were quite fast, and the ones out of her wand were reasonably trained to make the most of their freedom, pecking and squawking in a way that left no doubt of their mistress' irritation. They weren't needed after about a half dozen times. She'd gotten her point across.

And so, dear reader, you can now be assured that, while Severus had been content to be alone his entire life, he was perfectly satisfied with changing a few things in order to live a life of incandescent happiness.

Now leave the poor man alone, for Merlin's sake.

A/N: Keep an eye out for my next story. I'm almost finished writing it and it's quite a bit longer than this one. Then, once I push that one out, I can focus on the ones I've seriously neglected.