Chapter Two

Severus walked briskly through the castle to Dumbledore's office. When he got to the Gargoyle at the entrance he gave the password Lemon Drop and made his way up to the Headmasters office. He needed to know who she was. She had his mother's voice and eyes and his father's hair. He knew his mother and father were dead. They had been dead since he was a teen. He had no idea how that child could have so many of his families' features and not be related. All sorts of wild images popped into his head. Maybe they weren't really dead and had faked their own deaths. Maybe he had a sibling that he never knew about and she was theirs. By the time he reached the door to Dumbledore's office he had conjured up many out there scenarios that could explain why the girls' features were that of his parents. He knocked on the door and before Dumbledore could answer he had it opened and was walking through it.

"Ah, what can I do for you this evening Severus?" Dumbledore asked in confusion as Severus stormed in through his door.

"I need to know who that girl is Headmaster. Sevanna Everest, the one how threw Malfoy into the air this evening." Severus answered as he sat down in the chair across from the headmaster.

"Why are you asking me Severus, I've never met the girl before?" Dumbledore said confused as to why his potions master was asking him about a student. He had never behaved like this before.

"She looks like my parents. She speaks like my mother, has my mother's eyes and has my father's hair. I'm asking you because you know everyone." Severus replied hurriedly. He was tired and just wanted to get to his office so he could organise his classes for the next day and then go to sleep.

"Are you sure Severus, maybe it was just a trick of the light." The headmaster said.

"Yes Dumbledore, I am sure. That little girl resembles my parents and I want to know why." Severus snapped.

"I have never really gotten to know her family. I have heard of them, but she is the first one to have come to Hogwarts, as her family usually kept their children home to teach magic. I could look into if you like Severus and see what I can find." Dumbledore said, slightly worrying about his teacher's mental state.

"Thank you Headmaster, This is going to bother me until I find out who the child is." Severus said.

"I'll try my best to find out for you. Did you address the situation between Miss Everest and Mr Malfoy? That really was a dangerous thing to have happened, especially coming from a first year. Mr Malfoy could have been seriously injured." Dumbledore said.

"Yes, I addressed the issue as soon as I got to the Slytherin Common Room. I welcome the students then I spoke with Mr Malfoy and Miss Everest. I discovered that Mr Malfoy was teasing the girl so she punished him for it. I let her know if it happened again she would be sorry." Severus said rubbing his hand over his face in frustration.

"That's good. You look like you're either about to rip somebody's head off or fall asleep, so I suggest you do the later and go to bed." Dumbledore said. Severus got up deciding that sleep was a good idea. "Good Night Headmaster. I'll see you at breakfast." He said.

"Goodnight Severus" Dumbledore replied. As Severus left the headmasters office, the headmaster immediately started looking into the family history of Sevanna Everest. He started by writing a letter to the Ministry of Magic's department that deals with the Births, deaths and marriages of witches and wizards. He was sort of worried about the magic the young girl had performed that evening. It was particularly controlled and advanced for someone of her age. He didn't want any more Hogwarts students causing chaos in the world, not after Voldemort all those years ago. After finishing his letter, he sent it off with one of the school owls. He then continued on with what he was doing before he was interrupted.

After leaving Dumbledore's office, Severus had gone straight to his office. He had first years, for his first class in the morning and needed to get his things organised. He knew he had been kind of abrupt and rude to his Slytherin when he spoke to them and had decided that he would have a better chat with them all first thing in the morning. After setting up his class room for the Gryffindor/Slytherin first Years potion lesson, he then turned in for the night. He was too tired to worry about the rest of his lessons at that moment so he would do it in the morning and before classes the next day.

The next morning Severus woke up before the sun. It was six o'clock and he wanted to have a chat with all the students in his house before they went down for breakfast. Pulling himself out of bed, he went into his own personal bathroom and took a shower. After scrubbing himself with soap and shampoo, he turned off the shower, and dried himself off. He brushed his teeth at the sink and also shaved off the stubble on his face. He then used a hair potion his mother had had created for herself when she was a student at school to stop her hair going fluffy. He had inherited his mother's texture and his fathers colour. He always hated his hair and wished he had gotten his father's texture also. If he didn't use the product it would puff out like a poodle. The only thing wrong with it was it made his hair look unwashed and lank. He had often be teased because off it but he would prefer to have greasy lank hair than fluffy poodle hair. When he was clean and his hair tamed, he went back into his room and pulled his clothing for the day out of his cupboard. Once dressed in his clothing he put on his boots and cloak and exited his private quarters. He then made his way to the Slytherin Common Room. When he reached the common room entrance, he gave the password and entered. He looked around the common room to see if any students were already awake. There was only one other person present in the room and they were sitting reading a book with a black cat on their lap. She looked up as he entered the room laying her book on down.

"Good Morning Miss Everest, I see that you're awake." Severus said in greeting when he saw that she was one less student he would have to drag out of bed. The first week he usually woke his students as it was usually the hardest week to get the students out of bed. He then left the task to the prefects after that.

"Obviously!" Sevanna said sarcastically rolling her eyes. "Good Morning Professor." She said when he raised an eyebrow at her sarcasm.

"What are doing awake so early?" Severus asked the girl.

"I always was wake up this early." She said like it was the most normal thing in the world, "Why are you up this early?" she asked him. "Don't old people usually need their sleep, after having to deal with bratty children all day?" Her second cousins husband usually slept until lunch time at home. He always said that he was allowed to sleep so long as he was an adult and adults needed their sleep after having to deal with children all day.

Severus looked at the girl with a raised eyebrow and ignoring her comment about old people he said, "I am awake to get all my students out of bed. They seem to think that they are still on holiday the first week of school and I don't want my students to lose house points for not being on time to classes, so I have them woken up every day by either myself or the prefects." He told her.

"Oh, Ok then." She said in understanding and continued to read, while patting the cat. Severus watched her for a couple of seconds. She was completely dressed in her school uniform, her bag was at her feet and her shoes were on. He never had a student that was up and ready for the day so early.

"Stay here while I wake the other students. I need to talk with you all." He told her. She nodded her head not looking up from her book and Severus sighed and went on to wake the other Slytherins. He started with the first year girls and made his was up as they usually took the longest to get ready in the mornings. He knocked on all the doors before opening them and calling out for everyone in the room to wake up. He told them to hurry up as he needed to talk to them before they went to breakfast. After waking the girls he then went on to the boys dormitories and did the process again. By the time he had gotten back to the common room Sevanna was gone. Severus looked to where she had been sitting and noticed that he book was there as was her book bag but she wasn't and neither was the cat. He was about to get frustrated when he heard movement behind him. Coming from the girls dormitories was Sevanna minus the cat. When she noticed Professor Snape scowling at her book and bag she said "I was putting Nocte away." Severus nodded in understanding and sat on the couch next to where Savannas' book was to wait for the other students. Sevanna sat back down in the seat she had been in before and continued to read the book.

"Good book?" Severus asked before he could stop himself. He didn't know why he was talking to the child or putting up with her snarky attitude but for some reason he was.

"It is A Beginners Guide to Transfiguration, I have transfiguration second period." Sevanna said. "I'm reviewing what we will be doing this year." Sevanna said.

"Shouldn't you be reading Magical Drafts and Potions considering you have potions first period?" Severus teased unexpectedly by both his self and Sevanna.

"First off I have already read that book, and secondly I can already brew those potions with my eyes closed." Sevanna bragged. "I don't need to review the book."

Severus looked at the girl shocked. "Can you really. He asked.

"Yes. Before my mother died when I was five she taught me how to brew a lot of potions." Sevanna said.

Before Severus could say anything further he noticed that a few other students had started to trickle in to the room. A couple of the older students were surprised to see the potions master and the first year talking. Usually he said what was needed to be said, talked to a student who had serious problems and that was all. To see him having a conversation with the first year was odd. When all the students had finally gotten out of bed and were in the common room, dressed and with their book bags it was 7:05. Classes began at 8:15 so Severus wanted to get this talk out of the way so they could all go down to breakfast. He stood up from his seat and started to address the students.

"I just wanted to say I was a bit hurried when I spoke with you all last night and I left some important information out. Don't get to comfortable Mr Goyle, I will only keep you for a moment." Severus said when he noticed the boy flop down into the seat he had just vacated and was loosening his school tie looking as if he were about to go back to sleep. "Why does she," he said indicating to Sevanna, "get to be comfortable."

Severus rolled his eyes at the child like attitude. "Because My Goyle, Miss Everest was awake and ready for her day before I even arrived this morning. You were that last to arrive so I don't see why you need to be sitting like that. Now stop behaving like an animal and don't interrupt me." Severus said. Goyle stood up and stomped over to where Malfoy and Crabbe were standing.

"First off, Prefects, this evening after curfew, before the first years go to bed, I want you to explain the house rules to them. I don't have time to do so now so I want you to do it. Secondly, I know I said last night not to come to me if you have a problem, what I was meant to say was, if you had a petty problem I want you to first speak with your prefects and if they cannot resolve it then you come to me. If you are having a serious problem then by all means you can come and speak to me. I don't have the time to be bothered with petty stuff such as you lost your underwear. You are not babies anymore so you can handle that without my help. Thirdly, I want you to all know that I do not stand for harassment of other students with in your own house, or within the other houses. You may be told that I don't punish the Slytherin students but I do. I just don't hand out punishment in classes. Slytherin already has a bad reputation and the other houses constantly say you are all death eater in the making. I don't want fighting amongst you all outside of this room. If you have a problem with someone, don't air your dirty laundry for all to see, do it behind closed doors. That is all I have to say for now. Now go and have breakfast and don't lose any points for the house." With that everyone made their way down to the great hall. Severus went the back way so he could go through the teacher's door near the teachers table.

The talk that Severus had just given his students must have went in one of Malfoys' ears and straight out the other because as the Slytherins reached the great hall, Sevanna noticed Neville coming down the stairs, also about to enter the great hall. She called out a good morning to him and was waiting for him to reach the bottom of the stairs so that they could walk into the great hall together. "OOOOHHHHHH, Longbottoms got a girrrrlfri...aaaahhhhh" Malfoy called out. He didn't get to finish the rest of his sentence because he found himself being forced to a suit of armour that was by the door and he started to kiss it against his will. No matter how hard he tried to pull his face from the Statue he wasn't able to.

"It looks like Malfoy has a girlfriend too." called out Fred Weasley, who had been walking down the stairs behind Neville. "I don't think mummy and daddy would be too thrilled with your choices though." said Gorge Weasley. All the students who saw Malfoy walked past him into the great hall laughing. Sevanna and Neville entered into the great hall laughing along with the rest of the students. Only one person knew how or why Malfoy had suddenly began kissing the suit or armour, the rest of the student body could only guess. The teachers were suddenly curious as to why all the students entering the hall for breakfast were laughing. It wasn't until Peeves came along and they heard him singing one of his out of tune annoying songs that the whole school hated to hear through the doors.

"Malfoy and the suit of armour sitting in the tree,

K. I. S. S. I. N. G,

First comes loves then comes marriage,

But there won't be any babies coming in the carriage because the suit of armour used to belong to a man. Ahahahahaha."

Peeves then proceeded to make loud obnoxious kissing noises. Severus and several other teachers got up from the staff table to see what the fuss was about. When they made it to the entrance hall and saw the scene, several of them tried to contain their laughter. Severus was furious. Never had he felt so humiliated by one of his students.

In the great hall at the end of the Slytherin table after having had a quick talk with Neville, Sevanna sat eating her breakfast. She along with the rest of the students in the hall could hear the professors yelling as they struggled to get Malfoy off of the statue. Sevanna knew they wouldn't be able to, not until she would let him. For as long as she could remember she was able to do things just by picturing them happening. Like when she was a new born baby and had changed her nursery colours from pink to green. He parents had not been able to change it back, so she then had a green room.

After finishing her waffles, fruit and yogurt, Sevanna decided that she would end Malfoys' snogg fest with the suit of armour. Grabbing her book bag, she got up from her seat, and made her way back to the Slytherin common room. She still had forty five minutes until class started so she decided she would spend it reading. On the way past Malfoy she stopped him from kissing the armour. His face was bright red and his hair and robes were a mess from where the teachers had been pulling on him. She had tried to do it conspicuously as she quietly snuck past, but Severus had noticed that as soon as she went past Malfoy was released from whatever spell had been put on him, but he knew there was nothing that he could do about it because he had no proof, that it was her. He knew he would need to keep an eye on the girl. She seemed to know too much magic for someone of her age. Frustrated he went back to the teachers table and finished his own breakfast. Madam Pomfrey could deal with Malfoy for now.