I didn't even know what I was doing as I walked over to the Slytherin table. It was then that I realised something...nobody has ever been a muggleborn in Slytherin-ever. I got quite a few odd looks and glares as I sat down. As I eagerly awaited my only possible hope, my new Malfoy allay to be sorted I looked down and tried to avoid all eye contact. My dad had given both me and James special mirrors so we could talk to each other whilst we were at school. This was last year when me and Lilly Luna really missed him. My dad has a third and Lilly has a fourth. They all link up. I was going to have a long talk with James tonight!
Finally they got down to Malfoy, my heart was hammering in my throat as I pictured him maybe going into Griffindor- how ironic would that be? Thank merlin he got sorted into Slytherin also and immediately sat by me. He got a couple of sneers for sitting by the mudblood, but I guessed that anything that he got would be a lot worse if anyone knew who I really was. I just couldn't reveal mysely to anybody on earth without the very real risk of being thrown out of Hogwarts, not by the teachers, but by the other students. He turned his head and smiled at me and that was when I truly relaxed and allowed myself to be carried away by the joys of the feast and the happiness that having a house... a family can bring you.
After the feast the first year Slytherins were all led down. I knew exactly where the Griffindor common room was, the Hufflepuffs were somewhere near the kitchens and the Ravenclaws were somewhere in a tower. The Slytherin common room was one of the only rooms that I knew nothing about. I guessed that it had changed a lot since my father's time. It seemed to be under the lake and an entire wall was made of glass and I could see the giant squid! I was still pretty upset over being put in the house of the man who killed my grandparents, one of my uncles and tried to kill my father- twice! I could see exactly how amazing my life as a Slytherin could be. There was a large ornate fire place in one of the corners and there seemed to be driftwood in it rather than normal wood because the smoke was all green. My face was starting to hurt from being transfigured for so long but I knew that I would be able to last for at least another hour without it. There were some large chintz armchairs directly around the fire and there even seemed to be a big bookshelf. There were a couple of books on subject like 'the noble bloodlines' but there were also some wizarding fiction books. A couple of the older ones were looking at me, the first muggle born ever to set foot in this place and I didn't even need to pretend to be in awe. It was incredible!
We got led into our dormitories. There were only two for the first year Slytherins this year, one for the boys and one for the girls. There was a boys' bathroom just down the hall and the dorm was pretty spacious for five boys. There was me, Malfoy, a boy named Nott, who Malfoy seemed to know and be scared of, a boy named Goyle who also seemed to hate Malfoy and a boy who seemed to be the smallest out of all of us. With a jolt I realised that I knew this boy. He was adopted from one of the wizarding orphanages by my dad's two friends, Dean and Seamus. I knew that Oliver was a bit strange, but I never knew that he was just like me. I hoped that he could become friends with Malfoy too and then we could be as close as dad, Uncle Ron and Aunt Hermione. I wished that I could break cover and tell Oliver who I was, but then I decided not to because we are not the closest of friends and he may decide to blab and that may just be the end of any life that I will ever have at Hogwarts.
That night, once everyone in our dormitory ad gone to sleep, me and Scorpios got up out of bed and sat by a small conjured fire with blue flames. I knew that James would probably still be awake and comforting Rose by the roaring fire in the Griffindor common room as we had promised to speak tonight, no matter what. I hastily untransfigured my face and sighed in relies as I felt my body going back to normal, as the mirrors were contacting each other I explained to Malfoy that I had both a magic tutor and a muggle tutor who taught me like I was in a primary school.
Rose's worried face suddenly swam into view. "Albus, are you okay, please tell me that you are okay. What are you going to do? How are you going to tell your mum and dad? Oh and Lilly! Lilly will be heart broken!" I heard James in the background before my brother's face swam into view also.
"It will be okay little bro. I shouldn't have teased you. Are you okay and have you made any friends?"
"James, Rose," I was stalling for time as I didn't know what to say without crying. "The transfiguration held up and nobody knows who I am, except for one person who is currently sat here beside me," I glanced at Malfoy and he nodded, "His name is Scorpius Malfoy. I know you are shocked but he was kind of about to get beaten up on the train so I may have dissolusioned myself, snuck out of the Muggle born's carriage and went and beat up his attackers."
"That was really brave little bro. Well done." I could hear the shock in his voice so I decided to drop another bombshell.
"You know Oliver? Dean and Seamus' son, well he is here in our dorm. I don't know whether to trust him or not yet. I still don't know how I will tell mum and dad. They were fine with me transfiguring my identity for a few months so that I wouldn't get mobbed because I really can't deal with it as well as you two do. They will just have to deal with this. I mean, dad was almost in Slytherin himself, and that was when it was a lot worse than it is now."
We talked in this fashion for about twenty more minutes, before James finally ended the conversation by saying that it was really late and they had to get up to their respective dorms now or else professor Longbottom would get mad at them. He also got me to remember that although Teddy Lupin isn't really our brother, he was still raised as one and he turned out to be a Hufflepuff, but he was still a keeper on the team and he was head boy. That made me smile before I bade them goodnight, re transfigured myself and climbed into bed.
