Chapter 490 - Haircut…. (2/2)
Seeing his granddaughter's skeptical expression, Reginald rolls his eyes in exasperation and says, ”I will write to this Mr. Abbot as soon as I am finished, Rowan. Now run along!”
”Yes, grandfather,” Rowan cheekily murmured, before departing from the study with a satisfied expression. She had gotten what she wanted and happily had something to look forward to. With a skip in her step, she returned to her bedroom to write a letter of her own to Petunia. Jaws had come out during the month of June and she was excited to finally see it again.
It was a rather interesting subject to be frank; when she recalled a fair number of things of the future when it came to entertainment, science, and technological advances. But when it came time to remembering world events, she could not.
Take for example she knew that something terrible would occur in September of 2001, but she did not know where in the world said event would take place nor just what said tragic event would be or the exact date. But it must be fate or destiny's way of preventing her from changing the rest of the world's general timeline.
After Rowan finished sealing the letter shut, she crossed the hall and entered Severus's bedroom. Severus was presently scratching some notes in the margins of his potions book, a terrible habit of his. Glancing up, Severus grumbles, ”Well, what do you want?”
”I'm just going to borrow Owny,” Rowan replied as she woke the sleeping bird, who was napping in the corner.
Owny sleepily blinks his eyes and hoots at her as if to say, ”It's much too early to be doing this.”
”I know,” Rowan murmured as she gently stroked his feathers and held out the letter for him to take.
With a resigned hoot, Owny sticks out his leg and clamps his claws around it. Opening Severus window, she moves aside as Owny lets out a loud hoot at seeing it was barely sundown. Fluttering his large powerful wings, Owny takes off into the orange sky and soon disappears into the distance.
Rowan enjoys the warm orange glow for a moment, before closing the window shut. Turning back, she says, ”Well, how has it been going with Lily?”
”What about Lily?” Severus snapped as he gave her the stink eye.
Trying not to sigh, Rowan drily says, ”Well, we'll be starting our fifth year come September and I thought after last year's Yule fiasco, you would finally invite her on a date or confess your feelings towards her.”
Severus's cheeks turn splotchy red as he sputters, ”I've gone on plenty of dates with Lily before!”
Resisting the urge to smack herself on the face, Rowan flatly counters, ”You do realize that those counted as friendship outings, don't you? Those are not considered romantic dates in any sense of the word for Lily. And if Lily does not see you as anything more than a friend after all these years, Severus, then we have a very serious problem.”
There is a pause until Rowan snickers, ”Get that? A SEVERUS PROBLEM.”
”Ha, ha, ha, very funny!” Severus rolled his eyes and snarled. Siblings, they always thought they were so very funny! Well, he most certainly was not laughing!