"Severus, when are you going to tell her?"

"I'm not ready yet, Albus. And I think that she isn't ready too."

"But Severus, the fact that you are her father is starting to shown. Soon she will understand. And I think that it is better for both of you to be you the one who'll tell her."

"I don't think she'll understand soon."

"Oh, come on now Severus, the girl is even smarter than you were in her age! At least, try to get closer to her! Talk to her! Ask her things about herself!"

"Like what?"

"Like, maybe her hobbies, what she likes to do, about her previous schools, or even... how she would react if she met her real father."

"But maybe her mother had married another man before she even gave birth to the girl."

"No, Severus. When I took her to Diagon Alley, before we bought her books, she talked about her step-brother, Mark, and how she much she wanted to be able to tell him that she would go to a magic school. She said that he would be jealous."

"So that means she knows..."

"But either way, you can always ask her about her family."

"Okay... but how am I going to talk to her? In a detention? Because I don't think that I'll ever catch her doing something wrong."

"Well Severus, I noticed that the girl skips meals. If she doesn't come to breakfast today, give her a detention for that."

When Severus left Albus' office, he had a feeling that he was going to have a talk with Vanessa that day, and in a detention.

I haven't eaten anything since yesterday at lunch. I managed to lose a couple of pounds more, but not even my ribs aren't showing yet.

I decided to skip breakfast too. I'll eat again at lunch. I'll have only one meal each day.

It was really hard to hold myself and not have breakfast. Hunger has turned to pain now, but I still can't eat. And at lunch I'll eat only the half of what I normally ate.

The lessons passed quickly, if you don't count that I was feeling dizzy all day, and for some moments all I could see was darkness.

Until the last class before lunch, potions.

The moments when all I could see was darkness were more and more now, but I was still thinking seriously to skip lunch too.

My stomach was growling all the time, and I think that Snape noticed it.

I'm pretty sure that he was going to ask me to stay after class to talk about it, but something else happened before that.

When I was going to give him the vial that had in it the potion that I and Aly made, the dizziness made me trip and fell to the ground before I even reached his desk.

The vial broke.

Draco runned to me and tried to help me to get off the ground but I was too weak to even do that.

Aly came next to me shortly after Draco did, and she tried to help Draco to get me off the ground.

Snape told everyone to get out, and had to threat Draco and Aly that he would give them detention until the end of the year if thet didn't leave right that moment.

After they left, he lifted me with his extremely strong hands from the ground and placed me on his desk. Not his chair, his desk.

"Stupid girl, why didn't you ate the morning?"

I didn't reply.

"Alright then. When was was the last time you ate?"

"Yesterday at lunch."

My voice came out as a whisper, but it was the louder I could do.

"And before that?"

"The day before yesterday, at lunch again."

With his hand he lifted my chin so I could see his eyes. His black obsidian eyes were full of anger.

"And I guess you're proud for that aren't you?" he hissed.

"I am, sir."

"You know what you are? Stupid, that's what you are!"

He let go of my chin, turned round and said a name. Something appeared in front of him but I couldn't see it, because everything became blurry. But I heard him saying to it,

"Can you get some food for the girl? Much food."

"Yes master."

What? Why did it called him master?

It disappeared, and we sat in a tensed silent. I felt as if he was going to start yelling at me at any moment, but he didn't.

In the minutes that we sat in silence my vision came back, but I felt like I was going to puke and faint in the same time. I didn't.

The creature came back with much food, as Snape told him. He grabbed the disk that had many plates on it, full of food. The creature disappeared before I had the time to see how it looked like.

Snape placed the disk in my lap, and forced me to eat one whole plate.

I don't really remember what it was, but I remember that it had amazing taste!

When he came to the second plate, my vision had started getting cleaner. I put my hands in front of me in a protective way, so he couldn't make me eat it.

The truth was, that if someone assured me that I wouldn't get any calories at all, I would eat all the plates on the disk and ask him to call this creature back and ask for even more food.

But something like this wasn't possible.

"Why don't you want this? I don't believe that you're full already."

"I don't really like this..." I said.

"You don't like steak?"

"No..." I lied. I loved steak! But I had already eaten enough for today. I already could feel the fat spreading in my body. If I ate more, then for sure I was going to go back at home looking like a pig. Mark will start making fun of me again...

"Alright then," he said and took another place. Roasted chicken! I love it!

"I can't," I said.

He let it back on the disk too, but instead of taking another one, he looked at me.

"You're not going to leave my office if you don't finish the whole disk."

"Why?" I said.

"Because I can't lose another one," he said.

"What are you talking about?"

"I can't lose another student that will possibly win the House cup for Slytherin."

"What do you mean? Has somebody died in Hogwarts?"

"I don't mean that. The actually good students have left Hogwarts."

"What do you mean they left?"

"They finished it! They went to find works!"

"Oh."

"And the only student that can actually help Slytherin win the House Cup, is you."

"Well, sir, if you mean it like that, then I prefer to die than be alive just to help you win the House Cup."

He sighed. "Eat first, and we will talk about that later."

He picked up the same place with the roasted chicken. This time, I found a very good reason to say no.

"I can't," I said again.

"Why 'you can't'? Because I can always force feed you, like people do at the babies when they get stubborn, like you are right now."

"I'm not being stubborn! I'm a vegeterian!"

"Really? Because some days ago you weren't."

"No, really, I'm a vegetarian."

He raised an eyebrow, but took another plate, this time fish. So that means he actually believed me!

"I'm allergic to fish."

"Really? That kind of fish?"

"Ehm..."

"Then, we can call a house elf again and ask for another one."

"No, no, no, all kinds."

He looked again at me and this time he took a plate with mashed potatoes.

"I don't like potatoes!"

"Is there anything you can eat?"

"No!"

"Then you'll eat it either way."

He tried to force the food down my throat, but I really didn't liked mashed potatoes.

"Wait a moment!"

"You must eat something!"

Now that I knew that I wouldn't leave if I didn't eat, I grabbed another plat without really looking what it was and started eating it.

He looked me wide-eyed until I finished.

"I thought you were allergic to that."

Then I understood that I had actually ate the fish.

"I'm not," I said.

"I realized that myself."

"Sorry," I said.

"Is there anything else you would like to tell me? Like, you're not a vegeterian?"

"I'm not. But I really hate mashed potatoes."