AN: So last chapter everyone got their letters, and they went to the school. Dumbledore is now giving them all a tour. I'd love to thank my reviewers! You guys are the best/ I'm open to any constructive criticism + ideas.

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1412 karasu: Thank toy so much for reviewing my story! And yes there are othe kids. I'm sorry it took so long to update, I've had a lot going on. Update will be longer and quicker next time, mI promise. I have a lot planned for the next chapter!

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Dumbledore smiled at the lot. "Now, today is specifically dedicated you to the fifth years, but you might see the younger years running around. They've already been brought in. I'd like you all to introduce yourselves to each other, but we can conduct the tour first-oh, and your schedules will be given to you in a few days."

Alice glanced around. Lily was next her, and so was Frank. Then Remus Lupin, James Potter, and Sirius Black, three of the infamous marauders, were behind her. The Snape twins were to the side by themselves, as always. Then the short blond girl was kept glancing at them, like she wanted to go talk to them but wasn't sure if she should. Then the girl with the messy brown hair and the tan boy she didn't know were side by side. Dumbledore just smiled at them all, like nothing pleased him than to see them all together. She looked at the twins, and then back at the marauders. A fight was going to break-out sometime day. She was sure of it.

"This is your dorm rooms, and your common room. You've already been shown how to work the elevator, so we can skip that." He said this all while leading them out of the common room and into the short hallway. It led to the elevator, a muggle device to take you between floors in a tall building. As far as elevators go, this was normal sized. It could comfortably fit five people, so he sent us down in groups of two groups of four and one group of four. First he sent down the marauders and Frank. He put the tan boy and the messy haired girl in the elevator with Alice and Lily, and they went down next. It was a long and silent ride to the basement, none of them wanted to say anything.

The elevator opened up to reveal a large martial arts studio. It had a concrete wall of the side with a wooden door labeled "potions lab". Alice knew she would spend good deal of her time here, since she had agreed to go into training with the odada. The elevator went back up to get the rest of the group, and the four that had gone down later were silent. The marauders had no trouble talking, of course.

Messy-haired plucked up the courage to introduce herself to Lily and Alice. She told them her name was Ivvy, and that her friends name was Travis. They passed around introductions, and then fell into silence again.

"So, what school did you go to before Silverlight?" Ivvy asked.

"Hogwarts," Lily replied. "What about you."

Ivvy shifted. "I was homeschooled by my Grandfather."

The elevator doors opened and out stepped the Snape twins, that blond girl, and Dumbledore. He smiled at them all. "This is the martial arts studio. Over there is the potions lab," Severus was the only one who glanced at it, "and over there," Dumbledore pointed to the other side of the studio, where padded wall was lined, "are the research labs. Almost all of you have allotted time on you schedule for that."

Dumbledore had them take the stairs up to the next floor. It was the entrance hall, with tiny café's scattered around. "This is the cafeteria. All the cafés are free, since your scholarships cover the cost of the food here too."

"Is that all this is?" Macaria asked. "Do you really need an entire floor solely dedicated to food?"

"Well maybe if you weren't so poor you were starving half the time, you might understand." Alice sighed, knowing her intuition was right. There was a fight breaking out already.

Macaria whirled around and angrily faced Black, her fists clenched. "Why do you shut your big fat mouth for once and think-that is if you actually have a brain?"

Dumbledore stepped in before Sirius could respond. "None of that. We are taking a tour, not having petty arguments with each other." Sirius and Macaria glared at each other, but said nothing. "To answer your question, Ms. Snape, yes, this floor is dedicated to food. I'd imagine you'd be pretty hungry after your martial arts session." Macaria unclenched her fists but didn't relax.

"This floor is the library, and it has both muggle and wizarding, all genres here." Dumbledore said as they reached the next floor. The next floor was indoor games, muggle and wizarding, so that they could come here if they ever got bored, with a dance studio next to it. When asked why that was there, Dumbledore just smiled and said he thought someone might enjoy it. The next was a bunch of classrooms, and then eight floors after another to serve as dorms for all the years. They had all been informed that the eighth year was optional, but strongly recommended. Dumbledore took them past all dorms to the magical defense room, which was right next to divination. Above that was the astronomy room. He then took them all the way back down to the cafeteria, and led them out the back door and into the brilliant sunshine.

The grounds had all sorts of sports, a Quidditch pitch, a basketball court, a tennis court, a football (or soccer, as the Americans called it) field, a lake, a field for what the Americans called football, and more. They just stood and gaped at for a while, before Lily darted out to the tennis court to check it out. Soon, almost everyone was looking at something, and everyone went to the Quidditch pitch for a least a minute.

Dumbledore rounded them all back in their common room so they can "introduce" themselves, like they were still in kindergarten. He even made them sit in circle. He made Alice go first.

"You're going to say your name and one interesting fact about yourself."

Alice took a breath. "I'm Alice Macmillan and I was chaser for the Gryffindor Quidditch team."

"I'm Lily Evans and I was in the national youth theater last year."

"I'm Carolyn Winters and I won a triathlon."

"I'm Macaria Snape and I-" Macaria paused, and then said, "am fluently in twenty different languages."

"I'm Severus Snape and I am fluent in twenty-one different languages."

"Screw you," said Macaria.

"I'm Travis Ashbel and I have a miniature pet dragon."

"That's awesome," said Sirius.

"I'm Ivvy Richards and I make animation movies."

"I'm Sirius Black and I was beater for the Gryffindor Quidditch team."

"I'm James Potter and I am just plain awesome."

"James, a real fact please," Dumbledore sighed.

"I was a chaser for the Gryffindor Quidditch team."

"I'm Remus Lupin and I did the Quidditch comments for the school."

"I'm Frank Longbottom-" Carolyn giggled at his name, "and I don't like it when people laugh at my name." He glared at Carolyn. Her smile dropped and she sank back into the cushions of the couch.

Dumbledore just kept smiling. "Why don't you all take your things into the dorms and set up. Girls over there," he pointed to right of the room, "boys over there," he pointed to the left of the room.

The girls' dorm was separated into five sections with five beds. Each section had a dresser and a desk. It looked warm and inviting, instead of the usual cold and barren dorm rooms students usually start out with. Alice smiled to herself, thinking that someone must have put a lot of work in to make these girls feel like they were home. She put her stuff down on a bed, which happened to be in between Carolyn and Lily.

"So," Carolyn said to Macaria, "is that boy you were next to your brother?"

Macaria didn't respond, although Alice wasn't sure if it was because she didn't hear her or some other reason. Macaria was busy putting her clothes in her new dresser-a lot of black outfits.

"They're twins," Lily answered for her. "He doesn't talk much though, so Macaria just does the talking for him,"

"Okay," said Carolyn. It was obvious she was trying to make get a conversation going. "What do you guys do for fun?"

"I draw," said Ivvy.

Lily shrugged. "I'm into theater-and soccer. I play some tennis too,"

Alice grinned. "I do a bunch of stuff, but I mostly just hang out with my friends."

Carolyn nodded. "What about you, Macaria?"

"I read." Macaria didn't have much to say. "And sometimes I write."

"Well do you like roller-coasters?" Carolyn asked, trying to squeeze something out of the girl.

Macaria shrugged, and sat down on her bed. "I wouldn't know. I've never been on one."

"Oh," said Carolyn. Alice pitied the girl. She was trying to get know them and nobody helping her out.

"Maybe the five of us should all do something together, before classes start," Carolyn suggested. "Lynch told me that we could leave to go into the town every weekend if we wanted to. We should all go do-something."

"That'd be fun, Carolyn." Alice told her sincerely. They fell into a lapsed silence as they all put their stuff away. Except for Macaria, that is. Macaria read a book.

"Hey, does anyone want to go to the game room with me?" Carolyn asked a few minutes later. Macaria put her book down and said she would. The others said they would meet up with later.

"So," Carolyn said. "There's got to be other stuff you do for fun other than just reading."

Macaria shrugged. "Not really. Lily taught me how to play tennis though."

The girls took the elevator down to the game room. Carolyn kept asking questions, but also kept getting mediocre responses. Macaria Snape didn't seem to do anything.

"I didn't notice they had carpet ball here!" Carolyn squealed when they got off the elevator. "Want to play?" Naturally, Macaria didn't know how, so Carolyn taught her.

It was funny how close two girls could get in a few games, laughter, and misaimed throws. By the time the other girls showed up, Carolyn and Macaria had somehow become best friends, and they were epically failing at air-hockey.

"No way! I accidently knocked into my own goal. That doesn't count!"

"It does too!" Macaria laughed. "What game have you been playing?"

"The 'do everything to beat the pompous twit across from me' game." Carolyn retorted.

"Oh, it's on now!"

"Who was that boy that was staring at me when you walked in?" Ivvy asked Macaria.

"Oh, you mean Black? I don't know that much about him."

"But you must know something," Ivvy pressed, "like why the heck was he staring at me?"

"'Cause he's annoying creep that's why."

"Don't listen to her," Lily called over her shoulder looking interestedly at gobstones. "The twins and the marauders don't really get along."

The elevator doors opened to reveal Remus, James, Frank and Sirius Black-or the annoying creep, as Macaria and dubbed him.

"Hello, ladies," Sirius said, flashing them a smile. Ivvy folded her arms over her chest and glared at him. He just grinned at her and turned to his friends.

"We were thinking about playing Quidditch-but we don't have another people. Up for some boys against girls?" James asked.

Ivvy unfolded her arms and shook her head. "I'm not into Quidditch."

"I don't do heights," Carolyn said.

"I know you don't want me to come," muttered Macaria.

"Why don't we do three-on-three?" Alice asked. "Each team will have on two chasers and a keeper. We don't need to play with bludgers or the snitch-two boys and two girls on each team."

"You know here they play a different version of Quidditch," Lily said walking out with them. "It's called Quadpot."

"That's cool." James said, with a grin at her.

"Nobody cares," said Sirius at the same time.

Lily just glared at him and marched into the elevator.

"He's the one who was staring at me!" Ivvy exclaimed. "You're right, Ria. He is annoying."

Macaria blinked. "What did you just call me?"

"Umm, Ria. It's a nickname. Why, do you not like it?"

"No!" Macaria said quickly. "It's actually what my friends call me. I'm just surprised you said it."

The girls occupied their time until lunch by playing scrabble, and then headed down to the cafés, where they met up with Severus and Travis. They all got their lunch from the same place and sat down to eat together. Carolyn noticed Severus shift about half an inch closer to Macaria when Ivvy asked a question, and she realized he was probably shy.

"So what do you guys do for fun?" Ivvy had asked.

The twins looked at each other. "Umm," It was Macaria who was trying to answer. "There's not really much to do in our town. Every once in a while we'll get in on these races the kids have by the creek, but-" She paused again and looked at her brother. "We mostly just hang-out. Our little sister likes to go to the park a lot, so we take her there."

Ivvy frowned, like she was thinking about something really hard. "But, do you guys play any sports or anything?"

Macaria shook her head. "Not really. What about you, Carolyn?"

Carolyn blinked at the sudden change in topic. "I like to swim a lot. I do winter sports, mostly." Carolyn tried not to fidget too much. The awkwardness of meeting new people will blow over soon. In a week, I'll be totally fine with these guys.

Carolyn could feel the tips of her fingers getting frosty. Of course, she thought. It always has to happen when I'm nervous. She removed her hand from her drink and turned to Travis. Maybe he had something to say.

"Hey, Severus!" Carolyn darted after him in the hallway. It was September first and she still hadn't heard him say more than a few sentences. "Where are you going?"

"To the library." He said.

"Great," Carolyn beamed. "I'll go with you; I need to get a new book." She didn't really need to get a new book, but she wanted an excuse to talk him. She was friends with everybody in their already, but she had spent the least amount of time with him. "Did you get your schedule yet?"

He nodded, so Carolyn continued. 'Can you believe the A day B day C day thing they have? It looks so complicated!" he didn't respond, so she kept talking. "I have three hours in the research lab on an A day-Macaria showed me her schedule, do you research lab the same time as her. She has C day, from eight to twelve-wow, that's four hours! So anyway, do you have it then, too?"

He nodded, and Carolyn went on. "Do you have lunch a twelve every day? Everyone else I've talked to does, so maybe all the fifth years have lunch together. That'd be cool if we did; because my old school would give us all separate lunch times-it wasn't a boarding school like Silverlight is. My one friend had 4th period lunch-that was ten thirty! Can you believe it? I'm glad their more organized here. Anyway, I wonder if we have any classes together, oh look, we're here."

The library was an entire floor all to itself, with tables and chairs scattered around the room. "I've never seen so many books." Carolyn whispered, taking in the massive bookshelves filled with rows upon rows of book. Even the walls had bookshelves built into them, looking a bit like the library Belle got in the Disney classic, Beauty and the Beast.

Carolyn stood in awe for a few moments, before Severus quietly said, "Hogwarts has more."

Carolyn turned her head to look at him. He was quietly surveying the rows, and she could see a small glint in his eyes-the same one Macaria got whenever she saw something she liked. "I can't imagine any more books than this." He just shrugged and started walking off to one of the shelves. She followed him. "So, what book are you looking for? I'm looking one of those muggle fiction books-it's cool to see what they can come up with."

He pulled out a book and glanced at it. Carolyn tilted her head to see. "Why do you want a history book?"

"Because we made a bet," said Macaria's voice. Carolyn jumped and whirled around to see Macaria standing behind her.

"Ria!" Carolyn screeched. The librarian glared at her and she sheepishly lowered her voice. "You scared me."

Macaria just laughed. "I said that the American's declared their independence in 1775, but Severus thinks they did it in 1776. The answer should be in that history book."

"Oh, that's easy." Carolyn said. "We did it in 1776."

Macaria groaned and started rifling through her bag, before she finally came up with a galleon. She then proceeded to through it at her brother. He got it and slipped it in his pocket. "When will I learn to never make bets with you?" She muttered.

He grinned. "Bet you a galleon you can't beat me to the elevator," he taunted.

"Oh, it's on. I'm winning back my money."

"I bet I could beat both of you," Carolyn said. They turned to look at her.

"Okay then." Macaria said, the same glint in her eye Severus had had just a few moments ago. "We all start at the book shelf." Carolyn gulped, because the elevator suddenly seemed very far away. "First one to push the button to get us to the dorms wins."

Carolyn had to swerve to avoid quite a few tables and chairs, but so did both the twins. In the end it was nearly a tie, but Severus jabbed the button before the girls could reach it. He wound up two galleons richer, while Carolyn and Macaria were each a galleon shorter.

On September third, the girls stood on a street in the hidden, wizarding part of New York City. The five of them had agreed to spend the day with each other, by Carolyn's request. They tentatively moved forward looking at all the shops in awe. Not a single one of the girls had ever seen it, and they were curious.

Carolyn had convinced them all they needed a haircut, so they stepped into the barber shop first. Immediately, one girl pulled Ivvy away from the group and started showing her hair styles, while another sat Macaria down in a chair before she could react.

"You don't really need to have that much done to your hair," the girl said chewing gum obnoxiously. "You really just need a trim-your hair is kinda of greasy. You washed it today, right?"

"Yes," Macaria muttered though gritted teeth.

The girl seemed excited about this. "You know, I invented my own shampoo to help with this stuff, ya know, hair getting greasy just a couple of hours after you washed it. I had the same exact problem-but I can't get anyone to else to try it out, so I can be sure that it works on everyone the same way. Would you? You don't have any allergies, do you?"

"I'll try it,' Macaria said, "and I don't have any allergies."

Meanwhile, Ivvy was skeptically about all the hairstyles. "Isn't my hair a little too thick for that one?" she asked.

"No!" The girl said, looking distressed. "It's designed for hair like yours-plus you don't have to style it in the morning. You just brush it and go-it's cute and won't get in your way! You should really get this one-I can do it in ten minutes flat!"

Ivvy raised an eyebrow at her, but agreed.

"Why do we have four hours of martial arts?" Macaria groaned, eating breakfast with her twin. He rolled her eyes sat her.

"It's probably for that odada thing." He poked her with a straw. "And stop complaining or I won't let you read that letter from Skylar."

"Hey, withholding things that another person wants to see to get them to do what you want them to is my thing. Don't steal my thing, Sev."

"Don't call me Sev!" Macaria grabbed the letter from his hand when he said this. She ripped open the envelope and unfolded the envelope.

Hey guys!

How's your new school? Mom told me that classes start today, so good luck! And if they don't start today, sorry that you got this early/late. You were supposed to get it the fifth.

Things are going good here. One girl keeps asking for you, Severus, so what should I tell her? She says she's your girlfriend, but she looks annoying so I find that hard to believe. Anyway, when I went into my first day of classes, the school told me I wasn't going to be in fourth year and bumped me up a year, but I already skipped a year when I was younger, so now I'm an eight year old with a bunch of ten year olds. They don't like me very much. I can't wait until I'm old enough to go to a wizarding school. I hope I get accepted into Silverlight too.

Have you guys made any friends at Silverlight? I hope you did, because if what happened at Hogwarts happens again to you two, Mom will flip out. I made a new friend, his name is George. But he pulled a prank on the teacher and we both got detention. I don't think she likes me very much. Her name is Mrs. Kerr, and she's really nice to most kids. She keeps glaring at me, like Father does. I don't know what her problem is.

Anyways, I hope you're having fun!

Lots of Love,

Skylar Snape

Macaria smiled faintly and put the letter down. "I miss her,"

Severus rolled his eyes. "Of course you do."

Macaria took a bite if her eggs. "So, you needed me to save you from Carolyn," she smirked.

"She was asking me a ton of questions! I barely know her!"

"You should learn to talk to people," Macaria sighed. "What if I couldn't come to talk for you?"

Severus spotted Carolyn coming in and sent a message with their mind connection. Carolyn at your two o'clock, headed for you.

Good to know, she sent back and the connection was dropped. Carolyn showed up, eager and full of pep. "Happy first day of classes! I have research lab next-for like two whole hours. Can you believe it?"

"We can," Macaria muttered. Carolyn took no notice of her attitude.

"Wow, that shampoo the stylist gave you to try out really works!" Carolyn exclaimed. "You should let her know that. Anyway, I'll see you guys around." And with that5 she got up left, headed for her first class.


Well, that took way longer than it should've. Other chapies will be up quicker, I promise! Next chap. Is first day of classes. I might even have a fight scene, but I haven't decided yet. Since this chap was mostly about the girls,, the next chap will focus on the guys. Love you guys! -paigemeable