I do not own Harry Potter. I only own Tiffani.

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I appreciated Severus gently petting my back while I tried to take in what Minerva just told me. However, I needed to ask some really important questions. I stepped off Severus' lap and sat on the couch cushion beside him.

"What will happen to me after the block is removed? I'm not sure how a neko looks in a more human form, so I'm really not sure if I can even live like I used to," I said and tried not to start pacing.

Minerva looked down and sighed. "I'm sorry but you'll have to be registered with our ministry as a magical creature, so you will not be allowed to live in the muggle world anymore," she told me and my heart broke.

"Oh, that's, this is a mess," I said and buried my face in my front paws.

"You can stay with me," Severus said and both Minerva and I looked at him in surprise.

"Really?" I asked softly but since I was still a cat, it was just a soft meow and the quill wrote on the paper. I watched in trepidation as he read the writing.

"Really, you are welcome to live here with me in the castle and at my personal home in the summer," he said and I jumped straight into his arms and snuggled my face into his chest. I couldn't stop the happy purrs and meows leaving my throat. Severus sat back and he looked at Minerva. "I believe it would be good to remove the block now, if you do not mind. I'm sure that Tiffani would like to be in the more human form again," he said and he gently set me down on the floor.

"Understood, but Severus, you should leave the room. Oh, please grab her a robe to wear," Minerva said as she stood from the armchair.

"Why?" He asked with a raised eyebrow.

"Because she will most likely be naked," Minerva said as if it was the most obvious answer.

"You're kidding me," I whined and ignored as Minerva and Severus read what the quill wrote down.

"Right, I will get a shirt, pants, and robe from my closet. Let me know when I may enter the room again," he said and left the living room to go to his bedroom and Minerva made sure he shut the door before she focused back on me.

"Please stand in the middle of the rug," Minerva said and gestured towards the middle of the rug that was in front of the fireplace. She stepped back so I could jump off the couch and stand where she pointed. "Just stay calm and breathe," she told me before she started moving her wand and saying some spell, which I had not heard yet since I had been in the castle. I fought with myself to stay still when a gold light swirled out of the wand, floated through the air, and finally it wrapped around me. I closed my eyes when the light became really bright.

"Tiffani," Minerva said softly when I still had my eyes closed, but my body definitely felt different. It felt like static electricity was all over me. "You can open your eyes, dear," she said and I slowly opened my eyes.

When I opened my eyes, I was looking straight at Minerva. I mean, I was literally looking eye to eye with her. I gasped and quickly looked down to see my human body. I screamed in joy before quickly grabbing some couch cushions to hide my body a bit since I was naked. Minerva chuckled and grabbed a blanket off the armchair to wrap around me. When she did that, I thanked her but I felt something keeping the blanket from wrapping around my back legs. I looked in the blanket behind me and yelped when I saw a cat tail flicking around. I quickly felt the top of my head for cat ears, but there were none. However, I was still worried so I felt where my ears were normally and they were now pointed at the top.

"No way," I said and when my tongue hit my teeth, a few felt sharper than before. "Do I have sharp canine teeth?" I questioned Minerva, who nodded her head. "This is crazy," I muttered and sat down on the couch, but I was careful not to crush my new tail. "I'm really a magical creature now," I whispered while I watched Minerva knocked on Severus' bedroom door to tell him that he could leave his room. He had clothes hanging off his left arm when he entered the living room.

"Hello," I said and it was really nice to be able to speak English again instead of just meows and hisses. "Once again, I'm Tiffani and thank you so much for everything, Severus," I said to him after he was fully in the living room and looking at me. I tried not to shiver when his dark eyes glanced from my feet to my face. I was also ignoring the slight blush on my cheeks.

"May I change in your room?" I asked and motioned towards the clothes that were still hanging on his arm.

"Of course, here," he said and handed me the clothes after I stood up from the couch.

"Thanks, I'll be back in a minute," I said and gently took the clothes, and then I went into his bedroom and shut the door behind me. I could hear Severus and Minerva talking about registering me at the ministry, telling Dumbledore about this, and how it really was fine that I stayed with Severus. Of course, Minerva said that she wanted to make sure that I was ok with staying with him. I was happy about her concern, but I really think I'll be fine staying with Severus. He took such great care of me when I was stuck as a cat, and he was the one who offered to let me live with him. Plus, it will be nice to actually get to talk to the man that I got to know while I was a cat.