N/A: I have taken the liberty, as a translator of my own work, of keeping the anagrams I created in Spanish, so those formed with the letters of Hippolyta's name are made from its spelling in Spanish, Hipólita.

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Name

Sev woke up after eight-thirty, after having slept almost nine hours in the new bed they had bought for his room, somewhat larger than the one he already had, and which was where the other one was before, while this one had been placed against the window wall, under it.

Wow… what a good mattress, how wonderful, how rested I feel. I have to ask the adults to Summon me to decorate my room. It would also be nice to paint it in some color, not too flashy, wallpapering it would be a nuisance, too much work. Better paint, more hygienic too, and I can do that myself one weekend, not this one, this one for enjoyment and rest, maybe the next one.

Also, I'm sure one of the boys will offer to help me, in less than a day we will have it ready. If more than one is offered, we will also paint Mum's. At the end of the summer we will have a spectacular house.

He got up, dressed, turned on the stove, ate breakfast and cleaned up after himself. At a quarter past nine his mother still had not appeared. Either last night she had a hard time falling asleep or she is finally recovering so many hours of sleep that she lost. In any case, great, let her sleep, I'm going to get to the anagrams.

He took writing material out of the drawer and got to work at the living room table, listening, very quietly so as not to wake her, to her mother's radio on the dial of good music from previous decades. When a song that he really liked came on, he wrote down the name and the group in his Muggle notebook.

He started trying with his full first name and his second last name, nothing came out. Next he tried his abbreviated name and came up with an anagram that he liked, Cris Penev.

Then he tried what would become Lauren's married name, Lauren Prince. Naurel Prenci came out. Later he did it with Hipólita Prince. Since I will never marry her, unless our names are united in this. He came up with Phil Caripentio and Phelton Caipiri.

I'm going to try the brand now, I already have four options to consult with people, of which I really like two, if I don't like them I'll keep looking for more, I'm realizing that I'm very good at this and it's fun, at any other time I can continue doing it. Better finish before Mum gets up.

He tried Hipólita and Lauren's first names but discarded it as too long. Then he searched for an anagram of Lauren's name for the brand. At the end of the day it was she who gave me the idea. He came up with many that he liked.

When he had been at work for more than half an hour, Eileen entered the room, carrying her cup of tea in one hand and a plate of ready-made toast in the other. "Are you very engrossed?" she asked him.

"No, no, I'm done, I was with the anagrams, I think I already have a stage name and brand. How did you sleep? How many hours?"

"I fell asleep after half past twelve but I did it all at once, more than nine hours."

"Great, Mum, you don't know how happy I am."

"And I have the hunger of a wolf."

"Well, eat everything you can fit, if we have lunch later today, nothing happens."

"Not at all, you see that I have prepared a good plate of toast," she said.

"I think it's great."

"And you? Did you sleep well?"

"Like a prince, in the new bed," he replied. "You don't know how well I have rested, and also almost nine hours."

"Just so you know that we also changed the other's mattress, huh?"

"Wow… great."

"Last night you were exhausted, you woke up early, and you had too many emotions in one day," his mother said.

"Don't think it was because of emotions, I get along better and better, and being alone with Hippolyta felt great. You saw that at night I was tired but perfectly fine."

"Of course, you still had to put peace between your friends. They also almost got into a fight a couple of times before you arrived."

"Yes, they clash a lot, they have very different personalities and they are more than just friends," explained Sev. "I think it is not doing them very well to have gained so much trust."

"Oh... are they lesbians?"

"Bisexual, they both have boyfriends too."

"Wow… we are recovering in two months what we lost centuries ago," Eileen admired.

"True."

"Have you had breakfast?"

"Of course I had breakfast, weren't there still embers in the kitchen?" he asked.

"Yes, of course."

"While you eat breakfast I'm going to tell you my progress. I have four possible stage names and… let me count… fourteen possible brand names."

"Wow... how long did it take you?" she asked.

"Three quarters of an hour."

"You're very good at it, huh?"

"Well yes, and I thought I was bad at these things, I've always been a numbers person," Sev admitted.

"You are not bad at all, honey, you are a true marvel. Let's see, tell, tell."

"I plan to do a survey among all my friends, I am going to give crosses to each one that someone likes and the one who has the most will be the chosen one. First I'm going to write down mine with the ones I like the most, I won't tell you so as not to influence you."

"Okay."

Sev selected. "I have them, two stage names and six brand names."

"Great, then come on."

"My first stage name is an anagram of Sev Prince, nothing has worked out with Severus, or maybe I have given up too soon."

"Great, it doesn't matter," said his mother. "Violet and Tuney also call you Sev."

"Yes, and all my Gryff friends."

"Well, that's it, and it has been the name you liked for many years, you have made it your own too, don't mind that."

"Thank you, Mum. The name is Cris Penev."

"Wow... very good... it looks Russian."

"Oh, really?"

"Of course yes, many Russian surnames end in a vee," Eileen explained.

"Oh…"

"Write down a cross at that one, write. Had you selected it?"

"I hadn't," he responded.

"Which means you have even better ones."

"According to my criteria, yes. I'm going to put an asterisk on it because it looks Russian. That gives it more value, a foreign royal surname, perfect for camouflage, will be worth double."

"Very good idea. Go ahead with the next one," she encouraged him.

"Anagram of Lauren Prince, I hope, one day, my wife's name."

"Would you marry Lauren and not Hippolyta?" surprised.

"Without hesitation, so she can get rid of her last name," Sev said.

"Of course, of course... You still haven't told me what it is, by the way."

"Parkinson."

"Of course... Of course she will want to get rid of her last name, but Prince doesn't have much better fame, huh?" she objected.

"But I'm going to change the fame of the last name Prince, when I change my last name and become a professor at Hogwarts."

"Of course you will. Hit, hit the anagram."

"Naurel Prenci," he said.

"I don't like it, and even less with the Latin i."

"I also like it the least."

"Well, rule it out now," his mother suggested.

"No, no, I'm going to do the survey, it's Lauren's name."

"Whatever you want."

"The two that remain are anagrams of Hipólita Prince, if I marry Lauren I will not marry her, this way our names will be united," Sev explained.

"Great, very good idea."

"Phil Caripentio."

"Wow… it sounds Italian, it's perfect too," Eileen said.

"It sounds like an artist's name to me."

"Of course, of course, Italy was the cradle of art in the Renaissance."

"Then I'll put an asterisk," he said.

"Put it on, put it on."

"Next is Phelton Caipiri."

"That sounds Portuguese or Brazilian, there is a Brazilian alcoholic cocktail called caipirinha," she explained.

"Ugh, then I don't like it that much anymore."

"No, besides, Phelton is ugly. Don't write that one down for me."

"I had it marked, huh?" said Sev.

"Then continue with the survey, you will decide when you have everyone's opinion."

"Now we go to the brand names. Since the two that I liked the most were the ones with the anagram of Hipólita, I have made them all with anagrams of Lauren. I wanted to make them combining the names of the two, but I quickly got tired of trying, it was too long, it would have had to be two or three words and they sounded like a person's name."

"Of course, of course. But don't believe, huh? Many brands have long names, that doesn't have to be an obstacle," said his mother.

"Also, it was Lauren who gave me the idea, I have also done it because she will be very excited about it. If I don't decide on any of these, I will keep trying with both of their names or also with my own."

"Great. Come on, come on."

"Luerna," he said.

"I don't like it."

"I had not selected that one. Urlane."

"Yes, that one," Eileen approved.

"For me too. Lunare."

"Precious. Furthermore, it has meaning, moon, in Spanish, it is lu… na…"

"Wow… how nice… Asterisk," said Sev.

"Asterisk for me too. But make it pronounced like in Spanish."

"What would it be like?"

"Lu… na… re…" she responded.

"Indeed it sounds much better even."

"Of course yes, it's perfect."

"Lenarú," he said.

"Exotic, pretty, mark it for me too."

"I had marked it too. Laneur."

"Not that one," his mother ruled out.

"Not for me either. I see we have the same tastes."

"True."

"Luaren," said Sev.

"Not that one."

"I had marked it because it only alters two letters of her name."

"True," Eileen said.

"Urelan."

"Neither."

"Arelún," he said.

"No."

"Urenal."

"No," she ruled out.

"Neural."

"That one has meaning but it doesn't suit, eliminate it."

"What does it mean?" Sev asked.

"Related to nerves."

"Oh... Then I cross it out, of course, I had it selected. Arunel."

"Yes, and also with meaning," his mother approved. "There is a castle in the south of England called Arundel."

"Oh…"

"Give me an asterisk."

"I continue. Arenul," he said.

"Don't mark it for me, it doesn't sound right to me, but just know that it also means something. Sand, in Spanish, is a… re… na…"

"Well, I'll put an asterisk on it for my part, I didn't have it marked. Mum, you know a lot of Spanish."

"A little, a little, single words," Eileen played down the importance. "Also French and Italian."

"Wow... And it sounds very good to me as a language."

"Of course, Latin languages are beautiful, all of them, but we Anglo-Saxons find them difficult, because of the pronunciation and the verbs."

"And so?" Sev asked.

"Because they have many verbal forms, we only change the form of the verb in the different tenses and in the third person, but they do it in each person, six in total, and they have many more verbal tenses than us, simple and compound."

"What a story…"

"It is much easier for a Latin person to learn English than for an English one to learn Spanish or Italian," she explained. "But the worst of all is French, it is the most complicated to pronounce."

"Remus learns French in the summer, and I want to learn Spanish and travel to Spain, not just to the Way of the Stars, to all of Spain."

"You will achieve it, with the Ancestral Magics. And a very good choice, as I understand it, the Spanish natural landscape is spectacular, full of contrasts. The north and the south are very different, it has a coastline on two seas and it is the most mountainous country in Europe after Switzerland."

"Oh…"

"It is worth making the effort," his mother opined. "In addition, Spanish is a very important language in the world, much more than French or Italian. Knowing Spanish you can also travel throughout Latin America, except Brazil."

"Brilliant."

"And Latin America is truly spectacular."

"Great," he was happy.

"Last night I stayed reading your book on the 'Way of the Stars'."

"Then I'll let you finish it before passing it to Valerie, who also has it halfway and wants to finish it. Lauren got it, she wants all of us warriors to take that trip when the war is over."

"Oh…"

"I continue. Anerul," said Sev.

"No."

"Nareúl."

"Neither," Eileen ruled out.

"That's it."

"Have I made it easy for you? I have only chosen four."

"Of course, Mum, and all four of them coincide with four of mine."

"Brilliant. And about the two stage names, I think the Italian one is much better than the Russian one to camouflage yourself, huh? You pass for Italian easily, much better than for Russian. You know, Mediterranean, with dark hair and eyes. Slavs, light ones."

"Sure…"

"When I finish breakfast I'm going to go shopping for milk and perishable products that I can preserve with that spell," she announced. "What an advantage, I won't have to buy more than bread every day. Do you want to come with me?"

"Of course, I really want to get out of the house for a while."

"This way you also buy things you need. Do you have any shampoo left?"

"Yes, I have a lot left," he replied. "I didn't tell you, but at Easter I bought two bottles apart from the one you bought me."

"How exaggerated, with one bottle you could get enough for two months."

"Yes, now I know, but I didn't know how to calculate those things, Mum."

"You have shaving foam left, and also razors, you didn't take that to Hogwarts," said his mother.

"Of course, not that."

"If you want we can buy an electric shaver, I was looking at them, they are not very expensive. You would save time, they are much more comfortable and you do not run the risk of cutting yourself."

"Bah... there's no problem about that, I like to shave and you know I'm very skilled, I never cut myself," Sev declined.

"Whatever you want. Ask your friends if they have them and let you try it, maybe you prefer it. And don't do it for the money, in the long run you'll save on foam and razors."

"Okay, I'll do it. But it's not worth it either, I'm only going to need it this summer and next Christmas."

"True."

"By the way, thank you for buying the hairdryer," he said.

"Of course, Severus, but don't thank me, I did it for me too. It's a pain to dry with the wand, and I have much longer hair than you."

"Sure."

"By the way, have you noticed that I dyed it? I don't have gray hair anymore."

"Of course I had noticed, Mum."

"I did it alone, huh? I didn't go to the hair salon, I bought the product and did it at home. It came out for a pittance, now I just have to touch up the roots as it grows."

"Great."

"Not so great, I make a mess in the bathroom when I do it," she objected.

"Oh…"

"Of course, the dye is very cumbersome."

"Then go to the hair salon, Mum."

"No way, I do everything I am capable of doing alone."

"How similar we are."

"I touched it up the day before yesterday, do it look good?" Eileen asked.

"Yes, very good, I can't see your gray roots."

"Great, I'm already getting the hang of it."

"Why don't you dye it a different color?" Sev asked.

"For three very important reasons. First, I love my raven black hair."

"Oh... Hippolyta also said that about my hair the other day, I had never heard that expression."

"It's fantastic, right?" his mother opined.

"Of course it is."

"The second reason, another color would look terrible on me with thick black eyebrows, which I don't want to pluck more than I already do. I don't like how most women wear them, who barely have eyebrows, and my eyes are also black."

"Maybe because of the eyebrows, but not because of the eyes. Light hair with black eyes is also very special," he said.

"Yes, of course it is. In any case, if I dyed myself, I wouldn't do it a light color, I would do it a dark red."

"Wow, beautiful…"

"But here is the third reason," she continued. "To dye any other color, no matter how dark, I would have to bleach my hair, which ruins it a lot, and I am lucky to have magnificent hair at my age, precisely because I never had dyed it. It's my physical trait that I'm most proud of, so I'm not going to ruin it."

"You are doing very well then, Mum."

"I'll take this to the kitchen and we'll get ready, okay? I'll scrub later. Think about what you need to buy."

Eileen got up to go to the kitchen, Sev put everything he had used in the drawer. They continued talking from room to room.

"I'm ready, I just have to get money," he said.

"Yes, take, take, because if you want some clothes or shoes, I can't get them."

Sev went up to his room for the Muggle money he had, the proceeds from the sale of the jewels that he had already sent to Violet from Hogwarts and had been left over from his transaction with Hippolyta's parents. He went down again. "Well, I do have a few things to buy as soon as possible," he said. "First of all, a wallet to keep the money, I have to carry it in my pocket."

"Booff… wallets are dangerous, huh? Very easy to lose and have them stolen, especially in summer with light clothing, when you often go without a jacket and men without bags. They usually put it in the back pocket of their trousers and they quickly steal it."

"Oh…"

"So buy it small, and even if it is more uncomfortable, carry it in the front ones," his mother advised.

"Sure. Also, these trousers I'm wearing now don't have back pockets."

"Have you counted the money you have taken?"

"Yes, fifty pounds," Sev answered.

"Where are you going with so much, man? You wouldn't be able to carry everything you can buy with fifty pounds. Let's see, what do you want to buy?"

"Some sports shoes, so as not to wear boots everywhere, they are very heavy in the heat. A swimsuit, flip flops and sunscreen to go to the beach with Hippolyta."

"Nothing else?" she asked.

"I'm going to buy more clothes in London on Saturday."

"If you want to go to the beach you also need a beach towel or a mat to lie on the sand when you get out of the water."

"Sure…"

"But maybe Valerie can Summon that for you," Eileen suggested. "When are you planning to go to the beach?"

"Some day next week, depending on the calendar with Damocles. If it cannot be a daily day, Saturday."

"Then there is more than enough time to come back for it if Valerie can't Summon it for you, the beach towels are not going to run out no matter how many sales they are, and the size doesn't matter."

"Sure…"

"Buy two swimsuits, so you can have them when we go on holidays with Violet, Peter and Tuney," his mother advised. "I'm going to buy for myself too."

"Sure. And do you get the money for your things, Mum? You will also need flip flops."

"The flip flops are very cheap, I have enough. Take only twenty pounds for yours, you'll have more than enough, but just in case, we can think of more things to buy when we're in the stores. And in any case, we'll leave the sunscreen for last, they don't make sales on that and I can buy it for you any day."

"Brilliant." Sev went up to his room to leave thirty pounds.

"Give me your money so I can put it in my purse, then we'll do the math and I'll give you back what's left over," she proposed.

"I also want to contribute to the food."

"You are going to contribute by helping me load everything. I take care of the food and the house."

"Alright…"