"Alright everyone, it's time for cake." Hermione calls. Severus picks up Nevaeh and heads over to the cake. Everyone starts to make a circle around them and as Severus lights the candle on the cake they begin to sing Happy Birthday to Nevaeh.
"Make a wish and blow out the candle Princess." Severus says when the song is over. Nevaeh closes her eyes, makes a wish, and then blows out the candle. Everyone claps and cake is cut and handed out to everyone. After the cake is eaten and everything is cleaned up it was time for presents. "Alright Princess, which one do you want first?" Severus asks. She looks around at all of the presents on the table and chooses a dark green one with cauldrons all over it. She sits down on the floor shakes it then starts to unwrap it. When all of the wrapping paper is off she opens the bow and pulls out a miniature version of the Slytherin uniform. She looks up at her father knowing that this is from him. He smiles back at her and flicks his wand at her. The outfits swap so that she is now wearing her present. Her smile gets even bigger when she sees that she is finally out of her party dress. She throws the dress and runs up to her father and plants a big kiss on his cheek.
"Why?" Hermione groans.
"Because of our agreement with her wardrobe I now have full control of her clothing choices. You will see that her entire wardrobe has been replaced when we get back to our chambers." He says with a smirk. She groans but decides to let it go, for now. Severus lets Nevaeh down and she grabs another present. This one was long and was covered in snitches. She opened it and pulled out a miniature broom with a note attached to it. She smiles and passes the note to her father.
"I thought you might need this if we were ever going to see you on a Quidditch in the future. From: Uncle Harry." Severus reads.
"Harry James Potter! You bought my daughter a bloody broom?!" Hermione yells. "What were you thinking? She could hurt herself on that death trap!"
"Hermione she will be perfectly safe. I had safety charms put on it so that the only time she can get on or off is when both her feet are on the ground." Harry explained raising his arms in defeat.
"It's dangerous!" She cried.
"Severus already approved it so it is completely safe." Harry said. Hermione turned around to face her husband to give him a piece of her mind.
"You did what?" She hissed, glaring at him.
"Don't give me that look. I thought that would be nice to let her get a head start on her flying before she starts school. Hopefully when she ends up in Slytherin she will also join the Quidditch team. Besides do you really think I would allow my daughter to have something that might be hazardous to her health?" He asked with an amused smirk. Hermione was about to comment but stopped when she heard someone squeal. She looked over and saw her daughter hovering in the air on her new broom.
"Nevaeh get down from there this instant!" She cried. But she didn't listen. Instead she leaned forward on the broom and took off around the room, going higher and faster than someone her age should be going.
"Uh-oh" Harry says.
"What do you mean uh-oh?" Hermione asked turning to Harry.
"Severus did we remember to add-?" Harry asks.
"Shit!" Severus exclaimed. He looked up at his daughter with worried eyes as she continued to go faster and faster. "Potter, grab your broom and get your arse up there!"
"Accio Firebolt!" Harry cries. The broom soars into the room and flies into his hand. He mounts the broom and takes off after the little girl. They fly out of the room, through the halls, and out the doors to the school grounds with all of the party-goers following in hot pursuit. He chases her around the grounds but isn't able to catch up to her. Some of the others call for their brooms and they join in the chase.
"Severus, get her down from there!" Hermione pleads as tears come to her eyes.
"Accio Thunderbird!" He calls. The broom zooms into his hand and he immediately mounts it. He takes off after his daughter at a speed so fast that he passes the others in mere seconds, leaving them gaping in his stead. Nevaeh looks behind her to see her father catching up to her. She looks forward and urges the broom to go even faster. Severus sees this and he picks up speed, quickly closing the distance. He pulls up beside her. "Nevaeh Eileen Snape if you don't pull that broom to a stop I will feed you Hagrid's cooking for a week." He says sternly. She immediately stops her broom when she hears him say this. Severus turns his broom around so that they are facing each other. Tears well up in her eyes and she begins to cry. He tilts her head up so that she is looking directly into his eyes. "Princess, I'm not upset with you. Daddy and Uncle Harry just forgot to add some very important charms to the broom so that you wouldn't get hurt. We aren't taking your broom from you we just need to add them real fast and then you can go back to flying." He says watching her dry her tears and smile at him. "You are an incredible flyer and I would not even think about trying to stop you from flying. Your mother on the other hand is a different matter." He says. She frowns at this. "Don't worry I won't let her take it. But we do need to go down so that we can add the charms and you still have quite a few presents left to open." He says. She smiles and they begin to descend to the ground where the others were waiting for them. They land and dismount their brooms. Nevaeh is immediately swept into the arms of her mother and crushed into a hug.
"Oh sweetie, thank Merlin you're alright." She said peppering her daughter's face with kisses. She turns towards Harry and Severus. "I should box both your ears. What were you thinking giving her something like that?! She could have gotten hurt or worse!" She yelled.
"Hermione, love she was perfectly fine. We just forgot to put the height and speed limitations on the broom before we gave it to her." Severus says looking somewhat ashamed at forgetting something so important.
"You forgot. YOU FORGOT! Of all the bloody things you could ever do you forget to put the most important charms on a bloody broom?! What if she had lost control of the broom and crashed?" She continued.
"Hermione it was a mistake; one that will be fixed immediately." Severus said.
"It had better." She says as she scowls at him. "By the way, what did you say to her to get her to come down?"
"I threatened to feed her Hagrid's cooking for a week." He says with a chuckle.
"My cookin' aint that bad," Hagrid mumbles. Everyone laughs at this.
"That was amazing! Did you see how fast both of you were going? I couldn't even keep up with her!" Harry exclaimed to Severus. "How in the world did you learn to fly like that?"
"Potter if it weren't for your father and the rest of the Marauders, I would have joined the Slytherin Quidditch team as Seeker. Everyone in my year knew I could fly. I was faster than the Marauders, Lucius, and Rolanda Hooch; thereby, also making me faster than you." Severus says with a smirk.
"Bloody Hell you were faster than Rolanda?! I didn't think that was even possible!" Harry says as he remembers the time that he challenged her to a race around the Forbidden Forest. She had done eight laps before he was even half way through his first lap.
"Believe me Potter it's possible." Severus says.
"I still think you cheated." Rolanda says as she approaches the two of them. Severus laughs at this.
"Surely you can't still be mad at the fact you lost that race. You know I won fair and square." He says with a chuckle.
"I still think you cheated." She mumbles.
"Think what you want but if it will make you feel any better we can have a rematch. I will even use the same broom just to make it fair." He says with a smirk.
"Slytherins don't play fair." She retorted.
"Madame you wound me." He says sarcastically.
"Let's go back inside so that Nevaeh can finish opening her presents." Hermione says. Everyone heads back inside and Nevaeh goes back to opening her presents. Most of the females had given her clothes, while the men gave her toys and sweets, including Fred and George whose presents were confiscated and checked immediately. She had just finishing opening her last present when Fawks flew into the room and dropped a small package into her lap, then flew over and landed on the Headmaster's shoulder. Everyone gave the bird a quizzical look then turned to look at the package. Nevaeh eyed the package curiously and began to open it. Inside was a gold ring made of two snakes that wrapped around each other that met together at the top to hold a 2.5 carat diamond. Attached to it was a note. Severus picked up the note.
"You are the only woman who has ever managed to capture my heart. I pray that we will be together again soon. Forever Yours, S. S." Severus read. "Alright whose idea for a joke was this?" Severus demanded angrily. Everyone looked around and started whispering to one another. When no one answered, Severus' temper began to rise, making his magic unstable. All around them balloons began to pop, tables and chairs started shaking and were slowly lifted from the ground. A dark shadow began to surround the Potions Master and the entire hall could feel the negative energy rolling off of him in waves. He was about to unleash his anger when he felt someone put their hand on his arm.
"Severus, you need to calm down love." Hermione says. "This is probably just a big misunderstanding. Maybe the package was delivered to the wrong person." She said uncertainly.
"It had better be. If this happens again I will personally hunt down whoever sends the package and end their existence." He says. He calms down and his magic begins to stabilize. The party slowly comes to an end and the visitors all give their last wishes to the family before they took their leave. After everyone had left and the hall was once again clean, the house elves took the presents down to the Snape's chambers. Shortly after, Hermione picked up a sleepy Nevaeh, and carried her down to their chambers to put her to bed, leaving Severus and the Headmaster to talk in private.