Melody sat in the chair of her now former headmaster's office, waiting for him to make an appearance. Less than an hour ago she got a floo in the Slytherin common room telling her to meet him in his office. Making herself comfortable she sat crossed legged in the chair and started twirling her long black choppy hair in her fingers.
"I'm glad you could make it in here Miss. Lasure. As you are well aware of, Professor Snape is going to go back to teaching Defense Against the Dark Arts, and Professor Slughorn has finally retired for good."
Melody raised her eyebrow at the headmaster waiting for him to get to the point. "Because of this we will be out of a potions teacher. I am well aware that you are the top student in the class, and Professor Snape has been giving you private lessons in potions to advance your skills, so later on you could become a potion mistress. At this current moment, your potion skills are higher than everyone who I have interviewed for the position."
Melody starred at the old man, still not grasping what the point of the visit was. Dumbledore could obviously tell and sighed and folded his hands, leaning forward in his chair.
"What I'm trying to ask you, and I understand if you decline this offer, is if you would be willing to teach potions, at least just for this year. I will find someone for the job next year if you start this and decided that this is not something you want to do with your life."
Melody sighed and started to make her thinking face which consisted of her biting her lip and looking in the air. She then shrugged her shoulders and looked at her headmaster and shrugged her shoulders. "I don't see why not. This is something I wanted to do…I just didn't know that I would start so soon."
"Oh you will be brilliant. Now I will let you go and get back to your packing." Dumbledore said beaming at her, glad that she accepted this offer. Melody smiled back at him and started to make her way back to the common room just to sit since she was already packed.
On her way back to the dorm as she was passing the potions lab she heard a loud boom coming from there. Biting her lip she sighed and opened the door to make sure that her professor was okay. The sight in front of her made her gasp slightly and her mouth was hanging open.
"Uhm, Professor?" She asked timidly, making sure that who stood in front of her was really him.
That in turn earned a sigh, but also a response. "Yes Miss. Lasure?"
"I'd ask if you were okay, but you look okay…just really different."
With a scowl he turned to her, "What are you talking about?"
Melody sighed and took off the aviator sunglasses that were perched on top of her head and gave them to her professor to look at his reflection.
Upon looking at it, his mouth hung open and he dropped the sunglasses.
Melody glared a bit as she caught them before they hit the floor, mumbling something about the price of them.
"How did this happen?"
Melody gave him a 'what the hell' look and shrugged her shoulders. "Like I would know? It looks like an ageing potion gone wrong."
"Your lip is not necessary. If you wouldn't have just finished schooling I would be taking points off."
Melody rolled her eyes, not afraid of the potion professor unlike most students. "Yeah right. You rarely take off points from Slytherin unless you really have to. And plus, I'm your favorite student. You would never take points off from me." Professor Snape rolled his eyes, knowing what the she said is true. "So what, you're in your seventeen, eighteen year old body. It could be a lot worst."
"I guess you're right." He sighed pinching the bridge of his nose. "I should probably floo Dumbledore and let him know what happened."
Within a few minutes, the man Melody just saw was back, this time trying to hide the smile on his face while discussing the situation.
"Why is this so hard, can't you just brew up a potion that will undue this?"
"In most cases, yes. But unfortunately, we face two problems here. One, I don't know what I did for this to happen, so undoing this would be hard. Two, in general the potion that will undue this is extremely difficult and lengthy. I myself have only brewed it once." Professor Snape said sighing, and turning around to look at the potion that went horribly wrong.
"Well what's the problem? I'm sure with your experience in potions, and with Melody's help, you will have this done in no time." Dumbledore said smiling at Melody.
Melody raised her eyebrows and shook her head. "Like Snape said, we face a problem here. I want to have a summer away from this castle before I take residence here next year. I already have plans this summer."
"Do you have free time in between these plans?"
"Well…I'm pretty sure." Melody said looking at the headmaster with a raised eyebrow, once again trying to figure out what he was getting at.
"And wasn't it last year that you recently added a potions lab to your basement?" Melody nodded still clueless to what he was getting at.
"Well that works perfect."
Finally piecing the puzzle together Melody held her hands up to stop what she knew was going to be said. "Excuse me, but my lap is nothing to what I'm sure Professor Snape's is."
"Well that's fine. Severus can bring all the needed stuff to your house. Together by the end of the summer I'm sure you two can have the potion needed to bring him back to his normal age."
Melody and her professor looked at each other with raised eyebrows.
"Headmaster…what exactly are you trying to get at?" Professor Snape asked.
"Isn't it clear? You will be staying with Melody the duration of the summer to get it figured out."
Melody and Severus both had their mouth hung open.
"You got to be kidding me?" She mumbled running a hand threw her hair, closing her eyes.
"No, I kid not. Now this is my finally word. I will owl your parents and let them know what is going on. If I were you Severus I would pack for the summer. I'm sure you two will get it figured out soon."
With that, Dumbledore walked out the potion lab, leaving Severus and Melody staring at each other indifferently.
"My summer is fuckin' ruined." Melody mumbled and walked out the door to go back to the common room to sulk.