Before the Slytherin could leave the office, Professor Dumbledore told Selena that her things would be moved to a vacant room near the Slytherin dungeons. He also told her that it was best if she would avoid anyone at the moment (except her former dorm mates who knew of this predicament) while her papers would be edited and she had to wait for her new wardrobe. 'But I can still go to the library, right?' Selena asked.

'Of course, just try to be discreet,' said the headmaster carefully.

'And how about my homework for this week? I don't want to be late or anything,' she asked again.

'It will be given to you by the professors through the House-elves,' he told her. 'Is that all you want to ask?'

Selena nodded once and said tersely, 'Thanks, professor.' She opened the door and left the office. She walked absently in the hallway, walking down the moving staircases to go to her new quarters (where she had assumed that she should get used to her "original body" before moving in the seventh year girls' Slytherin's dormitory). She didn't know what to think of her dilemma because it seemed too surreal and unimaginable. For the past almost seventeen years, she was a male and few months after her seventeenth birthday, it was revealed that she was actually a female in origin. She was busy thinking that she didn't see someone walking opposite of her. She crashed into the person and fell on the floor on her bottom. 'Watch where you're going!' Selena snarled.

'Says the person was daydreaming while walking around,' a familiar female voice rebutted.

Selena stopped dead and looked ahead. Her heart seemed to have dropped. In front of her was Lily Evans, a seventh year Gryffindor and now Head girl.

Lily stood up and dusted her robes off from any dirt and straightened it. She looked and noticed that the person was still on the floor and was staring at her as if she had grown an extra limb or head. She glanced at her facial appearance and tried to remember who she was but sadly, nothing seemed to be registering her. 'You can't stay there on the floor, let me help you,' she said to her as she offered a hand.

The Slytherin couldn't believe what she's hearing. Lily was actually talking to her. But she realized that she only talked to her because she's not Severus Snape anymore and was actually Selena Prince. Sadness filled her and she stood up on her own without accepting help from the Head girl. 'I can stand on my own, thanks.' She said monotonously to her.

Lily looked at her curiously and asked, 'I don't seem to recognize you. Are you a transfer student by any chance?'

Selena thought for a moment, deciding whether or not she should answer. 'Not really. I was home-schooled and I asked my grandmother if she could let study here in my last year,' she lied smoothly. 'It's my first time here and – and I thought it would be nice if I stroll around and check the whole institution myself.'

'I see,' Lily smiled at Selena softly. 'It's a great school, I tell you. If you want, I can give you a tour.'

A small part of her screamed "Yes!" but her rational mind kicked in. She replied, 'No, I don't want to bother you, I'll come back here tomorrow anyway. And the headmaster has given me a map to go downstairs to the Great Hall as he called it.'

'All right,' she nodded. Before she left, she turned back and asked, 'I would like to know your name if you don't mind.'

'Selena,' the Slytherin replied. 'Selena Prince. And I just got myself sorted in Slytherin, just like the rest of my family.' She added, feeling her throat clenching unpleasantly.

'You're in Slytherin?' Lily stared at her. 'Well, I hope you enjoy your stay here.' Giving her a small smile, she left her alone.

Selena let out a groan and mentally kicked herself for being so foolish. 'Great Severus,' she said to herself. 'I just have to say that I'm from Slytherin. Good going,' but she stopped, thinking Lily would still know about her House in the end anyway. 'Bugger,' she grumbled and casted herself a Disillusionment Charm again.

For the rest of the morning, Roderick, Cyrus and Mathayus didn't see Severus. They thought he would be able to reach second period but he didn't arrive. Even during lunch, he was nowhere to be seen. 'Do you think it is worse than we thought?' whispered Mathayus before biting a piece of sandwich in his hand.

'Don't say that,' said Roderick. 'Severus can't stay like that. It's like eternal humiliation for him,' he said seriously. 'But I don't mind if you ask me, he looks okay as a you-know-what.' He ended his sentence in a low voice.

'Let's visit him in the Hospital Wing after this,' suggested Cyrus and the other two nodded. When they were done eating their lunch, they stood up to leave. They walked to the Hospital Wing and entered inside, where they saw Madam Pomfrey curing one second-year student who had boils on his face. 'Hello Madam,' he said to her. 'Is Severus still here?'

The patron removed the boils from the student before turning her head to face him. 'No, sh – he's not here, Severus is with the headmaster,' she said hastily.

Roderick waited for the second-year to leave and said matter-of-factly, 'Uh I think I heard you supposed to say "she" instead of "he" first.'

'I believe it's not my right to tell you,' she sniffed. 'It's best if you ask Severus personally.'

The three looked at each other with their brows furrowed in confusion. 'Thanks for telling us,' said Cyrus and the three left the Hospital Wing. 'That was odd,' he said. 'What did she mean by that?'

'I think it's going to be shocker,' said Mathayus to the two. 'I mean, why can't she tell us directly?'

'Well, the only way to find out is to ask Severus in person,' said Roderick decidedly. 'And we'll do that later after our last class.'

Selena stood alone in a handsome-looking room. All of the tables, chairs and desk were made of mahogany, and the curtains were in bloody red. The bathroom was slightly bigger than the boy's dormitory's bathroom and the bed was soft and comfortable and bigger in size. 'I guess this is fine,' she mused. She found her trunk beside the bed as soon as she entered inside and picked up one book which turned out to be a photo album. She flipped across the pages, looking each and every photographs of her being a male.

She still couldn't believe she was female. She took out one photograph of her with Lily Evans while they were eleven. She recalled how happy and ecstatic she was to enter Hogwarts with Lily, finally getting away from Spinner's End and her drunkard of a father.

And right on spot, she found a new problem. If she was a female from the very beginning, she would be a lesbian because she fancied Lily. She groaned, 'I'm so screwed.' But another thought went across her mind; if she was female from the very beginning, then her feelings for Lily were just an illusion because she thought she was really a male. Her mind spun around until she earned herself a headache.

'Urgh,' she grunted, taking out a vial from her trunk, uncorked it, and drank its contents. She checked out the time from an old-looking wizarding pocket watch that her mother had given on September first as an advance gift. 'I should eat something,' she left the room and walked towards the kitchen (she found it during Christmas break in her fifth year) to get something to eat.

Time passed by quickly and before they even realized it, classes for that day ended. Around five in the afternoon, they walked all the way to the headmaster's office. 'What's the password?' asked Roderick.

'Something that relates to sweets, everyone knows how much of a sweet-tooth our headmaster is,' said Cyrus matter-of-factly to him. 'Let's start with Liquorice Wands,' but the staircase did not appear. 'Drooble's Bubble Gum,' he said another sweet but nothing happened.

'Chocolate Frogs, Bertie Blott's Every Flavor Bean, Acid pops -' added Mathayus.

'Blood pops, Cockcroach Clusters, Honeyduke's chocolate, Tooth floss Stringments, Fizzing Whizbee -' Roderick ticked off every sweet he could remember and stopped as the staircase sprang up. 'Fizzing Whizbee? Okay then,' the three of them walked upstairs and knocked on the door.

'Enter,' said Dumbledore's voice from inside. As they entered inside, he said, 'Ah, I have a feeling you will come here.'

'Well, Madam Pomfrey told us Severus was here with you,' said Mathayus. 'But it seems that he's not here anymore.' He added as he looked around inside the office.

'I direct Severus to one of the rooms near the Slytherin dungeon,' said Professor Dumbledore to them. 'And no, it is not in my place to tell you about Severus's condition.' He added, noting the three boys' expressions. 'Look for a portrait of a fallen knight – he's staying inside there.'

'And the password?' asked Cyrus with one brow raised. 'Sir?' he added to be careful since he was speaking with the headmaster.

'Severus might have changed it now,' he said simply. 'Now off you trot,' he said to them with his eyes twinkling faintly behind his half-moon spectacles.

'Milady,' said the fallen knight who just appeared in one canvas just above the fireplace. 'You have visitors,' he said to Selena who just got out of the bedroom.

'Who are they?' she questioned the portrait.

'Three men from the House of Snakes,' the fallen knight replied. 'They said they wanted to speak with you.'

'I see, let them enter,' said Selena with a sigh. 'Hey you three,' she drawled as her former dorm mates entered inside. 'How did you know I'm here?'

'We went straight to Dumbledore,' said Roderick as he sat down comfortably on one of the sofas. 'Nice place you have here,' he commented, looking around from his place.

Cyrus eyed on Selena closely and said, 'So still female?'

Selena groaned, grabbing one pillow and stuffing her face against it. Then she began mumbling incoherently through it that the three stared at her oddly.

'What? I don't think we understand you, mate,' said Mathayus while frowning.

'I'mreallyagirl,' she said hastily.

'Uh, will you say that a bit slower?' supplied Cyrus as he sat down beside Roderick. 'And you're turning red,' he pointed out, noticing Selena's color changing. 'Severus?'

'I'm not Severus anymore,' she said quietly. 'Severus doesn't exist in the first place,' she continued as she stared down.

'What? What are you going on about, mate?' asked Roderick in confusion.

'Okay, I'm not going to say this again so you better listen to me or I'll hex you into oblivion,' said Selena through gritted teeth.

'Right, we're listening here,' nodded Mathayus, leaning closer to hear her better.

Selena took a deep breath and began telling them what her mother said earlier. She didn't notice the change of expressions from her friends from looking attentive and alert to disbelief and incredulity. '…and that's why I'm staying here right now in this room – oi are you even listening to me?' she shot a look at them.

'So you're saying that you're really a female and just turned into a male when you were born and now you're seventeen, the spell your grandmother casted on you worn off and now you're like that?' said Roderick in shock. 'Bloody hell.'

'This is completely bizarre,' said Cyrus while shaking his head. 'Right now, it occurred to us that we've been living with a female in disguise for almost seven years in our life at Hogwarts. What a shocker.'

'…wow,' said Mathayus in awe. 'That's all I can say. Wow.'

'Yeah,' said Selena in dismay. 'I still couldn't believe it myself.'

The three Slytherin males nodded in agreement but stopped and stared at Selena with their eyes turned wide and their cheeks blushed deep red. 'Merlin's sagging buttocks!' gasped Roderick. 'You've seen our goods! We scarred you for a long time!'

'What are you -? Oh,' said Selena in realization. 'It doesn't bother me. It's not that serious -'

'Yes, it does!' said Mathayus in horror. 'We've been changing without realizing we have a female inside the dormitory! It's that serious!'

'You're not going to tell anyone, are you?' questioned Cyrus seriously.

'What am I supposed to tell anyone? That the rumors of you and Rick having hu -' Selena rolled her eyes but Cyrus and Roderick covered her mouth. 'All right, all right, I'll shut my trap.' She shook her head. 'Anyway, you guys can't call me Severus anymore because the others might realize that I'm Severus – or used to be him.' She muttered mutinously.

'Right, we'll keep that in mind,' said Roderick with a salute. 'But I have a question,' he said suddenly.

'What?' she looked at him curiously.

'What story are you going to tell anyone about Severus Snape? It'll cause some rumors flying around,' he said simply.

'Yeah, he has a point,' nodded Cyrus. 'Severus Snape can't just disappear in the face of the world. D'you have any excuse for that?'

Selena looked away and stared at the flames from the fireplace. 'I have an idea,' she said slowly. 'It's a bit simple and all but it'll do.'

And now the seventh year Slytherin boys of four turned into three.

The next chapter will be about Selena's first shopping experience with her grandmother Olga. And yes, how what will happen to Severus Snape? I'll try to think of a way. If you were a guy and one of your friends told you that he's actually a she and you and this friend of yours spend together for five to seven years in boarding school in the same room, how will you feel? I'd be pretty shocked and embarrassed.

Reviews will be much appreciated in this story. That will be all for now.