Celebwen Telcontar: Now we get to Severus' reaction! Have fun!
Balrog: Stop it right there. I'm going to call the lawyers if you don't own up to plagiarism.
Celebwen Telcontar: What? You want to… You'll be out of a job! Balrog! Fine, I don't own Harry Potter! Balrog, come back, you inverted dragon!
"What?!" Severus snapped, looking confused and appalled.
"What is wrong?" the young Heir inquired. "I assure you that I did not dispel the Evil One. My mother was a Fire Elemental, and my father an Earth Elemental. They shielded me from the wrath of the Evil One to their own destruction." Severus looked thoroughly confused.
"Please, Severus, if not for me, then for Lily's sake," Valerie pleaded.
"Perhaps," the Potions Master said. "He looks nothing like his arrogant father. I was given to believe that they were clones."
"When I removed him from his relatives' home, we performed the—"
"You kidnapped the Boy-Who-Lived?!" Severus said, sounding shocked. Valerie could see an amused sparkle in the man's dark eyes and his frown lines grew deeper, as if suppressing a smile. "Minerva, what happened to you?! You used to be the epitome of Gryffindor, and now you're doing something like this! Given, it is a rash stunt only a Gryffindor could think of pulling off, but you, kidnapping the Boy-Who-Lived!"
"I loved both Lily and James as my own children, and I couldn't leave Harry with those awful Muggles. They probably would have put him in an orphanage!"
"Hmmm. Can you tell me why the Headmaster has been acting like a common Muggle chicken?" Severus asked in a rapid change of topic.
"Harry did it. I think he didn't mean to do it, but he says he did it to keep him from going insane." The aforementioned boy looked up at his grandmother, a question in his eyes, however he didn't voice it.
"I beg your pardon sir," Harry put in as Valerie gave him some space to do so. "I changed his mental pathways to reflect his Earth Elemental and not the Water that the other man had running through his mind."
"Other man?" Severus asked.
"Edward Kelly. A Water Elemental, and apparently having quite a bit of control over the Headmaster."
"I see. And the chicken?"
"It is his Animagus form. He is simply tied closer to it than others are to their's. The reason for this is because the chicken guards the formerly cut channels in the Headmaster's brain. If I did not cause the chicken to guard, then he would be fully insane and impossible to revive."
"I see…" Severus said softly.
"Why do you keep changing the topic?" Valerie asked, just now noticing that he was doing so.
"Pardon, Minerva. I have Potions students to teach."
"And this is summer. For—"
"Summer is the only time I get away from sniveling brats who can't tell their cauldrons from a cooking pan, much less their heads from their arses, Minerva!" Severus snarled at her. Valerie blinked several times, her eyebrows up.
"Severus—"
"For Lily. He had better be a good student, Minerva, or I will never forgive you for doing this to me. Now I will take my leave."
"Severus, do you have someplace to stay?" Valerie called to the retreating form. Her only answer was a snarl.
Celebwen Telcontar: What do you think of that? Please review!
Balrog: (Nowhere to be seen. Crickets chirp in distance.)
Celebwen Telcontar: (blinks.)
