The next morning Cordy had woken up early and got up unknown to her Severus was already awake. He sat at the small table in the kitchenette reading the newspaper. "Papa?" Severus set his paper down at the sound of the little voice. "You're up already? It's still early."
"I always get up early. I get up before Daddy sometimes and watch him sleep. He talks in his sleep but nothing I can understand." she smiled. "Get dressed. We can go for a walk around the school." Severus told her. Cordy returned with a clean face, brushed teeth and brushed hair. She wore a dark blue dress. "Ready." Severus looked her over. "Go put on your shoes."
"You and Daddy are the same. I hate shoes." But she put them on anyway. Severus walked at a slow pace for Cordy to keep up with him. He was amazed at the well blended personalities that were him and Remus in the form of a five year old child. "Papa is Daddy going to be okay?" Severus looked into the almost golden eyes. "If your Daddy is anything like the man I know him to be he'll be just fine. We'll go visit him Saturday after breakfast." Severus smiled at her.
"'kay." Students began to come out of their dorms and headed for the great hall. Severus and Cordy walked to the great hall. The students stared after them. Cordessa stood like her sire straight backed and tall (as tall as a six year old could stand) with long strides. It was amusing to Dumbledore to see the pair. After breakfast the students began their walks to class. "Cordessa you'll stay with Sprout today while I teach for a while. Be good for her and I'll see you at lunch." Severus told Cordy putting her on her feet.
Cordy smiled she was eager to start her day. Cordessa walked over to professor Sprout giving the woman a large smile. "Don't worry we'll have plenty of fun."
"Bye Papa." Severus smirked watching his daughter leave before leaving himself. Dumbledore smiled, Minerva stared and Flitwick fell from his chair. Later that day when Cordy had to be changed from Sprout to Hooch she slipped down the wrong corridor getting lost. "You've gotten yourself lost little one?" The Bloody Baron asked. "You're a ghost." she looked at him.
"Yes. Now if I'm right your Severus Snape's little girl." Cordy nodded. "I need to find Aunt Rolanda. What's a Quibbitch pitch?" she asked. The Baron laughed. "That's quidditch pitch my dear girl. Follow me?" Cordy followed the ghost to the great hall where Madam Hooch had come during her search. "Cordy you can't go running off like that." the woman sighed with relief. "I didn't I got lost. I didn't see which way you went." Rolanda laughed and carried Cordy rather then leaving her to play catch up. Cordy was amazed with flying.
When it came time for lunch she ran all the way to the great hall and up into her father's lap. Severus had no classes the rest of the day and took the chance to go to Diagon alley. Cordy was wrapped in her cloak and her shoes on her feet as they left. Arriving in Diagon alley Severus thought he'd see some bit of curiosity on the little girl's face. "Cordessa have you been here before?"
Cordy smiled and nodded. "So what are we doing?" Cordessa asked. "We're buying you some more clothes and some other things." he told her. Cordy kept to her father's side as they walked. They had gotten five new dresses and some new shoes. Minerva had found a box of crayons and handed them over. Severus bought Cordessa four new books. It was growing dark and they had but one last stop.
"Cordy how would you feel about a pet?"
"Can we afford it? Daddy said we couldn't keep one because we didn't have enough money to care for it. But he let me feed scraps to the strays?" she told her father. "Well we can afford a pet. So we're going to pick one out." Severus watched as eyes lit up. They entered the pet shop. Cats, snakes, owls, bats, rats and other creatures. Bat's slept all day. Rats were icky. Snakes weren't playful. Cats were lazy. "Papa how about him?" Cordessa pointed to a large angry looking owl.
"No little one. You won't be wantin' that one. He bites these days." the shop keeper said. Light brown eyes stared into big yellow ones. The owl's wing stuck out from it's a body just a bit. "You're hurt. That's why you keep biting people." Cordy reached for the twig and pulled it out. It didn't snap or bite. The owl allowed Cordessa to stroke its feathers. The great horned owl hopped down to her shoulder nuzzling her cheek. "If that had been in my arm I would have snapped at others too." her father commented.
"Well I'll be." the shopkeeper said. "They were given a cage and treats for her new friend. They used the floo connection at the leaky cauldron to go straight to Hogwarts. They had just enough time to put their purchases away and get the owl set up in her room. "Come child it's time for dinner." Cordy trotted after her father.
She was in deep thought about what to name her pet. Something you don't hear everyday. She thought all thought dinner till she began to feel sleepy. Cordy did fall asleep without being read thinking of a name for her new friend.
The next day the large bird sat himself on the girls shoulder and stayed there quietly. Severus was going to bring himself to protest but when seeing the look on the girls face he did not. The owl was well behaved through out breakfast, eating whatever scraps Cordessa gave to him. McGonagall would be watching Cordy for the first class.
"What have you named him dear?" the woman asked. "I haven't. I want to give him a name he'll like." Cordy said as they continued to walk. Cordy slipped down a corridor from the woman to follow a few students heading to the library.
She stopped at the doors of the library. "Okay you wait here for me. I'll be right back." Cordy told the Great Horned. Cordessa stared at the books. She knew libraries were always in alphabetical order. Other students watched as she walked through the shelves looking for the books. "Excuse me can you get that book for him?" she asked a student.
The student said nothing and handed her the book receiving a thank you in return. In two minutes Cordy had her books. Dragons a to z, big book of owls, and magical creatures a to z. Cordy couldn't reach the counter so she walked over to a chair and placed the books upon it and pulled the chair to the counter to place the books on it and stand in a chair.
Madam Pince stared at her. "Hello little one."
"Hello. I'd like to check these books out please."
"Are you sure you can read them?"
"Papa will help." Madam Pince smiled and nodded. Cordy took her books after putting the chair back. She put them on top of her head and left the library. Her owl waiting where she had left him. Minerva found Cordessa walking with her books and owl. "Cordessa you can't wander off like that. What would you do if you couldn't find your way back?"
"Ghost."
"Come along child." Minerva couldn't help but smile. Later at lunch Cordy told her father of the books she had obtained. "Papa I know what I'll call him." she smiled at the owl. "I'll name him Avalon. Like King Arthur and his knights." she smiled at the owl that gave a bob of his head in agreement before taking the bit of meat offered to him. Severus watched his daughter and smiled inwardly. Cordessa was a well behaved child her curiosity was what got her into mischief but it was that that Severus saw the inner workings of a marauder.
A/N: please review I'm not asking for your lung.