Challenge: random word generator (gallows)
Word Count: 100
Controlling Teddy's abilities should have yielded some insight into restoring Severus. Both Remus and his former wife had plenty of experience with keeping their son's hair brown instead of turquoise, thanks to Remus unearthing an old spell designed to keep metamorphmagi from ending on the gallows during the Bad Old Days.
The same spell should have worked on Severus, or any other animagus. So the arithmancer had promised, and so Minerva confirmed when Remus tried it on her. There was no reason for it to fail with Severus.
That was cold comfort to the angry black kitten on the floor.