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Dragonsprincess - Seladine is around 4 1/2 to 5. I figured any younger and she wouldn't be able to get into enough mischief and any older and she'd be too old.

Same disclaimer applies. (See chap. 1)

-------Chapter 3-------

"I'd like to know what makes you think she would be better off at Hogwarts than here. The students would torment her. I've seen it happen to the first years." Severus grumbled. Watching the two older wizards sitting in fat old chairs.

"Hmmm...I have no worries about that. Just this morning when one of the other children here insulted Sela, called her a bastard believe it or not, she responded by bashing the girl on the head with a plate."

Severus blinked. "She hit her over the head?"

"Right before the other girl pushed her off the chair and pulled her hair."

"Hrumph."

"That was when Sela did a bit of spontaneous magic and shaved the other girl bald."

Severus coughed to try to disguise a laugh.

"Oh yes, where is the other girl?" Albus asked.

"Hiding in the linen closet on the third floor, right hand side. Won't let anyone see her without her hair." Giovanni answered. Giovanni had an odd talent of being able to tell where anyone in the house was at any given moment. He stopped speaking suddenly and turned toward the wall. He looked at it and seemed to be counting, then he got up and rapped on the wall.

"If you don't get out of the wall, I'm going to come in there and make you come out. You hear me?" A chorus of muffled 'yes', 'right' and 'uh-huh' came back and now, shuffling out louder than they had coming in.

"Darn kids. Worse than rats, the lot of them."

There was a knock on the door.

"Special delivery! One Sela, hold the anchovies." Edith shouted.

"Would you just get in here?" Severus snapped.

Edith poked her head in the door.

"Ok Sevvie."

"Don't call me 'Sevvie'"

"Ok, Sev."

"Don't call me that either." Severus said with a glare.

"Ok. No problem Sevvierus."

"Severus! Say it with me Sev-er-us...can you do that?" Severus growled poking Edith in the forehead.

"All right! No need to get so touchy Severus! Really. That's behavior most unbecoming of a professor." Giovanni interrupted.

"If you don't want green stripy hair, you should be nicer." Sela said "Or maybe the colors bring out your eyes."

"Oooo! You be quiet!" Edith said waving her hands around as she was wont to do when she got excited.

Sela laughed. Edith glared at her. "You two are a perfect match! She's just as sarcastic as you are."

Sela looked at Severus. "Did you really make her hair green and orange?"

Severus crossed his arms and scowled. "That happened in my seventh year...and it was a failure."

Sela ignored Severus' sharpness. "A failure? Why?"

"It was supposed to make her vomit copiously."

"Eeeeeeeeewwwww. Gross." Sela made a face. Albus looked at Giovanni and smiled. "Do you think you could make it work? I've got a couple of people I'd like to give it too!" Sela continued.

Severus looked at Sela appraisingly. "You are a very odd child."

"I know. Everyone tells me that. But Leopold told me I had...what was it? 'Mad Skulls? No...Mad Skills!"

Severus snorted. "Skills? Like what?"

"I shaved Rieanna bald. Even her eyebrows."

"Yes and it was a very mean thing to do." Amalia admonished.

"She started it."

"I don't care who started it, it's finished." Amalia said with a scowl.

"You look like him when you do that." Sela said pointing at Severus.

Edith burst out laughing. "She'll probably be trying to run some sort of Mafia before a months out! Yeah...I can see it now...a five year old's version of the Draconic Order!"

Giovanni laughed. "I can picture this. 'You! Give me your candy or I'll bite your knee caps off."

Sela looked at Severus as everyone started laughing. "I hope you aren't as weird as they are. Every once in a while, you just have to take a nap, ya' know?"

Severus looked back at Sela. "I think you are absolutely correct. You probably will be better off at the receiving end of Hogwarts pranks than here."

"Hmm...At Hogwarts you will see things that are horrible beyond imagination."

Amalia fell of her chair at some comment that Edith had snapped off while the two were talking.

"OW!" she yelled as she landed in a heap, with her robes nearly over her head. "Oh my goodness!"

Sela looked up at Severus and pointed at Amalia. "Well, maybe not that horrible, but still pretty bad."

Severus snickered as he watched Amalia straighten herself up.

"None of you saw that! None of you!" she yelled, looking pointedly at Sela.

"I didn't see nothing." She said solemnly.

"We'd best be on our way if we're going to get back to Diagon Alley to get her things." Amalia said quickly trying to regain her composure. Albus and Giovanni said their farewells and Severus followed Amalia to the fireplace. "You're certain you didn't see anything, Sela?"

"Nopers." Severus looked at Sela suspiciously.

"So when are you going to tell her about the camera you had hid in your pocket?" he muttered.

"Never!" Sela said petting her toy cat.