Sandra woke up in an unfamiliar place and saw the ceiling looked weird and started staring, trying to remember the details, so she'd be able to know the ceiling like the back of her hand.
"What are you doing silly?" Merry asked her daughter from the doorway.
"Remembering." Sandra honestly told her mother.
"The ceiling? You'll have all the time in the world to remember it after we paint the chambers." Merry told her.
"Paint?" Sandra asked, looking at her mother after sitting up in bed at an alarming speed. Painting walls got Sandra a bit excited, because it gave her more things to remember.
"Yes. But we have to decide what color to paint it." Merry told her.
"A murky green." Sandra told her mother. "And maybe some red." She added.
"Alright, then lets go paint." Merry said, helping her daughter into some clothes that can get dirty and easily be cleaned.
They began to paint, and ended up having a paint war, somehow avoiding touch with all furniture and carpeting.
There was a knock on their door and Merry answered it. It was Remus.
"Hullo." Merry said, unable to stop herself from smiling in embarrassment. Here was someone that she had just met, and now that someone saw what she looked like covered in paint… Red and green paint.
"Enjoying your stay at Hogwarts?" Remus asked, smiling at the embarrassed teen.
"I think I may be." Merry replied. "Come in. The paints almost dry." She offered.
"The paint on the walls, or the paint on you and your daughter?" Remus asked.
"On me and my daughter. The paint on the wall is instant dry paint… The paint on us is paint for a paint war." Merry told him, laughing.
"Mummy! You missed a spot on your side of the wall." They heard Sandra say.
"Stop staring at the wall already!" Merry laughed at her daughter. "Come say hello to Remus." She said.
Sandra came over and said hello before she returned to staring at the wall.
"Wait until she sees the ceiling of the Great Hall." Remus smiled.
"I don't believe I like the sound of that statement." Merry commented, looking at her new friend. She took out her wand and cast a cleaning charm on her and her daughter.
"I'll show you how to get to the Great Hall, it's time for breakfast anyway." He smiled at the two girls.
They started walking to the Great Hall when they pass a ghost, which simply amazed Sandra since she's never really seen people, so she most definitely hadn't seen a ghost before.
"Who was that?" Sandra asked Remus.
"That, was the Bloody Baron. Slytherin House's ghost." Remus replied to the 4 year old's question.
"That's awfully strange. I mean, a house can't own a ghost. The other way around, I suppose is possible, but not the way you put it. Strange indeed." Sandra stated, looking back at the Bloody Baron.
"Ugh, tell me you're not my child." Merry said to Sandra, playfully smacking the back of her head.
"I can't. You told me not to tell lies." Sandra said, looking up at her mother.
"No, if I remember correctly, it was…" Merry trailed off and looked out the window.
The rest of the walk was spent in an awkward silence.
Sandra was absolutely amazed at the Great Hall, and Albus noticed that.
"It's charmed to change with the sky outside. If it rains, that's what it looks like. If it's night, or if it's snowing, that's what you'll see." Albus told her.
"You've got to be joking! I can't remember all that if it keeps on changing!" Sandra said miserably.
"Start keeping track of details Hun." Merry said, thoroughly amused.
"I can't believe you get humor from my misery!" Sandra said, getting upset.
"Be glad you're not an only child. When your brother's old enough, I'll leave you alone." Merry informed her daughter.
"I'd hope so." Sandra said, giving a nod of approval of the idea.
"Where is your son?" Minerva asked.
"In my chambers, sleeping." Merry replied. "He sleeps for days at a time." She commented, before looking at her daughter to see her sitting at the Gryffindor House table and looking up at the ceiling, trying to memorize all the changing details. They all heard her muttering to herself.
"Impossible. Always changing. Never memorize this. Is that a rabbit shaped cloud? It would help if the sun wasn't in the way…" And so on and so on. It was actually quite amusing.
"Aren't you going to stop her?" Severus asked, sneering, though secretly he thought it was adorable.
"Nope. It keeps her occupied and she seems to enjoy it." Merry stated watching her content child as she watched the changing ceiling from the Gryffindor House Table. "Besides, any thing that keeps her out of trouble is fine with me." She added.
Breakfast was spent with comfortable conversations and eating. When breakfast was over Merry went over to Sandra and smiled amusedly.
"Done yet?" she teased the 4 year old, who looked at her in disbelief.
"Are you kidding? Everything keeps on moving, of course I'm not done yet!" Sandra said frustratedly. "If only there was some spell to keep it from moving…" Sandra paused. She looked at Albus. "Does Hogwarts happen to have a library?" she asked.
"Yes, it does." Albus replied, amused at the child's quick thinking.
"Can you tell me where it is?" Sandra asked.
"Why?" he asked amusedly.
"Because I need to find a spell that'll make the ceiling freeze in place until I can memorize it." She replied.
"What would you do once you found said spell?" Albus asked the 4 year old.
"Cast it on the ceiling of course!" Sandra said, as if it were obvious.
"I doubt you would be able to have enough magic and brains for even perform and read the spell, if there was such spell." Severus said.
"You'd be surprised you… you… you bastard!" Sandra said.
Merry didn't even look like she cared that her daughter called him that.
"Really, Ms. Snow, should you allow your child to speak like that?" Minerva asked.
"Considering who it was to, yes, I do believe I would, and already have." Merry said, glaring at Severus for insulting her child's intelligence.
"Well, I'll do something better. I'll take you to the library myself." Albus said, changing the subject.
Sandra's face lit up and she cast a glare to the ceiling before following Albus out of the Great Hall.
"Where would your daughter learn that word from I wonder." Severus said.
"My brother. He takes care of her a lot and it wouldn't be surprising." Merry commented, looking at him. "And, for the future, Professor Snape, don't underestimate a 4 year old. Especially my 4 year old." She said before leaving the Great Hall.
"Well, I do believe that Ms. Snow will get along with you just fine Severus, just fine." Minerva said, hiding a smile.
Severus mumbled something before going down to the dungeons.
"Has anyone thought of what'll happen if Sandra actually does freeze the ceiling?" Remus asked thoughtfully, making everyone go silent.
Minerva left mumbling about stopping crazy old headmasters from corrupting little girls.
Remus laughed and went off to floo Sirius so he can come to Hogwarts, and so he could tell him of how Sandra "likes" Severus.