Holly Potter and the useless haircut

Summary: Severus tryes to cut Holly's hair and the results are...?

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10year old Holly Potter rolled out of bed, her mass of black curls sticking up every which way. She groaned, a bedhead was hell on earth for her. Now she had to put a brush through it! With a sigh of resignation, she put a comb through it.

"Ah!"

Severus Snape, bat of the dungeons, and all around a greasy git was waiting calmly for his ward, Holly Potter to show up for breakfast. But a scream from upstairs replaced his calmness with concern. He ran upstairs, thinking that Holly was endanger or hurt. Only to sea Holly, standing in the middle of her bedroom, with a piece of plastic that once was a comb in her hand while another hand pulled the many teeth of the comb out of her unruly curls. He took the disassembled comb from her hands and repaired it.

"You really need to get that birds nest cut very soon."

"Yeah, I think so." Replied Holly tiredly.

"Come on now, let's have breakfast." Severus as he walked with Holly downstairs.

All through breakfast, Holly had to use up one of her hands to stop her hair from getting in the way. So she ate with one hand which was quite hardand annoying.

"Can't we cut it and just get it over with?" Holly whined.

"No, unless you are fine with me cutting your hair." Severus answered

"Yeah! I just wanna get rid of it!" She said desperately. She didn't care who cut her hair.

Severus sighed.

"all right , I will do it after I finish grading the dunderheads' essays."

Holly nodded, smiling in gratitude.

"Thanks."

"Your welcome." Severus was scared of how it would turn out; cutting girls' hair wasn't his strong suit, nor was he good with these things.

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3 hours of grading essays full of mistakes that made him cringe later, and Severus wasn't ready for Holly and her gravity defying mess of hair. As if his thoughts had summoned her, Holly barged into his study, in fact, she was the only one aloud to do that, with an impatient look on her face.

"When can we cut my hair, I can't wait!"

"Right now you needy child." He sighed. He thought that girls didn't like to have their haircut from what he saw; Lily had cried to him because her "precious" hair was going to be cut. But was anything normal with Holly Violet Potter? He sat her on a chare in the living room and began to cut her hair. It was hard, but in the end he managed it. A cool breeze cooled the back of her neck. Severus trance figured a scrap of parchment into a hand mirror and gave it to her. Holly looked into the mirror, a black haired girl with a horrible haircut was staring back at her.

"Ew! Dad, Merlin's beard, what is that!"

"I've tried my best, but judging by your reaction, you don't like it." Severus said. He knew it! It was not going to look good at all.

Holly wore a hat on her head to cover the awful haircut for the rest of the day. She felt as if it didn't suit her and even when she got into bed at the end of the day she wore a hat.

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Holly woke up feeling miserable, her hair was poorly cut and it looked bad. She sighed and got dressed, she just had to deal with it. Checking herself in the mirror, she found a pleasant surprise waiting for her. Tada! She had a head of long curly hair again.!