A/N: Here we go!

Disclaimer: I still don't own all that much…

The rest of the train to the castle went smoothly, the Marauders didn't bother us and I was thankful for that. Severus and I sat in comfortable silence, that's how our time was often spent, it was how I liked it though. It was like with Sev I didn't need to talk he understood me, and I understood him.

Once I and Sev had gotten off of the train I spotted Lily but I really wanted to soak up the time I had with Sev, once school started our time wouldn't be so frequent. It wasn't that I let the differences of Slytherin and Gryffindor come between us, it was just that it really wasn't very practical, our classes usually were the same but other than that it really was hard to do anything fun with each other. Especially when I was on the Quidditch team, which took most of my free time.

"Aren't you going to go and sit with Lily?" Sev asked as we climbed aboard the carriages, I shook my head lightly before replying.

"Nope, Sev do you realize that we don't have very many years of school left? I mean I am not trying to be all sentimental on you but think about it! And then what Sev? What are you going to do? I think I'll be an Auror but who knows!" I was talking very animatedly by now and my arms were flailing about. Sev looked at me with a smile and shook his head playfully.

"I don't know Theo but we still have now" he said smiling lightly at my antics. I had always been a little bit off, but luckily my friends didn't mind, so I never bothered to change. I smiled thankful that he was trying to calm me down. But it wouldn't work, I had been thinking for some time what we all would be doing after school. I most certainly would be fighting against this Pure-blood campaign that loomed but what of Sev? All the Slytherin's were for it, I had heard that some had even aligned themselves with some radical who called himself Lord Voldemort… would Sev be with them? He had always tried to find a way to fit in with the others, but would he go so far? I suppose it didn't matter because I didn't care… I didn't care if he made mistakes, or did terrible things, he was Sev first, and he was my best friend.

"You're right Sev, I suppose that's all that matter huh?" I smiled genuinely this time.

"Look there's the castle, I guess this is where we part ways, huh?" he said is bitterly and I couldn't help but envelope him in a tight hug, he hesitantly returned it.

"We never will part Sev" I said laughing when he made a face.

"Why do you always sound so poetic and cryptic?" he asked shrugging me off, I frowned and shrugged before I walked into the crowd of students. Once in the Great Hall Sev and I separated, him to the Slytherin table and I to the Gryffindor. I plopped next to Lily with a loud thump and a sigh.

"Where did you go for the WHOLE ride here?" she whispered as the first years came through the doors. I looked at them with disinterest and they openly gawked at the ceiling.

"Oh you know I have tons of friends and I just couldn't shake them" I replied sarcastically as I noticed the Marauders sitting only a seat from us. Lily didn't reply, she probably was mad but it didn't matter she would get over it. Dumbledore's speech was the same as it is every year and I was thankful for the food to appear and the ceremony to be over, we got a handful of new students who all sat in a huddle together.

"Why are the Marauders sitting so close?" I asked peering past Lily to see the Marauders who were sitting in a semi-circle and whispering. Lily glanced over at them and shrugged.

"I don't know, they always sit that close don't they?" she asked and I shook my head, this year had already began to be strange.

"No they don't usually sit this close" I said in a whisper, James must really be trying to get Lily to accept him.

"Oi! King come over here why don't ya?" Black called over the rest of the hall, I rolled my eyes before I replied.

"Why don't you just go and drown Black" I yelled which earned laughs among his friends and a stony expression from him.

"Those pricks" I mumbled to Lily who looked at me reproachfully for the language but didn't say that they weren't.

"Remus isn't that bad…" Lily said thoughtfully and she was right Remus Lupin was the only Marauder that I could even hold a conversation with. But he still hung around the rest of them so he couldn't be that good of a person…

"Yah well it doesn't matter in any case…" it wasn't that the Marauders did anything to me but they were always picking on Sev and it just wasn't right, how could you act like you were something so good and like to tare others down? If I would have only known then that in a couple of months I would feel completely different.