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Prank (featuring the Bad Touch Trio and, soon enough, Umbridge)

After the mess that was potions, Prussia ran over to Antonio and Francis, who were on their way to Defense Against the Dark Arts with the other Hufflepuffs and Ravenclaws.

"Hola!" Antonio grinned. "Was Señor Snape as bad as they say?"

Prussia grinned back, falling into step with his friends. "Of course! Mein bruder kept order like usual, though."

"We just came from Transfiguration!" Antonio exclaimed.

Francis smirked. "Honhonhon, you should have seen the Ravenclaw girls working with us!"

Prussia pointed at Francis' face. "Are they the reason your face is bruised?"

Antonio chuckled, nodding.

Francis touched the bruise on his cheek fondly. "Zhe girls did not quite appreciate my charms."

"Speaking of charms," Prussia pulled out his schedule. "That's what I have next."

"We have Defense Against the Dark Arts," Antonio supplied.

Prussia groaned. "I have to have class with Slytherins again! So not awesome!" A mischievous look overtook his face. "What if I just went with you guys?"

Francis bit his lip. "Mon amis, are you sure? I do not want you making a bad impression on the first day here."

"But I heard from two redheaded twins earlier that the Defense teacher is easily irritated!" Antonio laughed, the glint in his eye reminding the other two of his pirate days.

"Kesesesese! Forget charms class! Are you guys thinking what I'm thinking?"

The other two responded in perfect unison. "Time for a prank!"

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Alone (Featuring the Baltics and Snape)

Raivis sat in the dungeon corridor shivering and attempting to bite back tears. When he'd been sorted away from Russia, he had been hopeful for the first time in years. Maybe he and his brothers would no longer be controlled.

But then Toris had been sorted into the same house as Russia, and Eduard had been sorted into another house altogether.

Raivis had no one to protect him.

When Ivan had cornered Raivis after class, Eduard wasn't there to shield him from the threats. Toris wasn't there to pull Raivis out of the painful grip Ivan had on his arm.

And when Ivan told Raivis to meet him near the Slytherin dorm after class, neither Estonia nor Lithuania was there to agree to accompany him.

Raivis shook as he waited for Ivan in the corridor, his tears finally spilling over. He had no idea what Ivan wanted him for, but he knew it wouldn't be good.

He stared at his hands, trying with all his might to quiet his sobs.

Footsteps began approaching, and Raivis could not stop his gasp.

When he knew Ivan was right in front of him, Raivis had to speak. "прости," he gasped, knowing Ivan liked it when he pleaded in Russian. "I didn't m-mean to get sorted in a d-different house, I swear! E-eduard told me to l-let the hat decide! P-please don't hurt me!" His hands shook even more as he waited for a response.

"Mr. Galante?" the person in front of him spoke. "Are you alright?"

Raivis gasped. The voice did not belong to Ivan Braginsky.

Slowly lifting his eyes, Raivis saw that the person in front of him was his potions professor. The man had been intimidating when he gave people detention, but now Raivis could detect concern in his face.

Relief flooded through Raivis. Ivan hadn't come for him yet.

"S-sorry Professor Snape," he gasped, tears leaking out of his eyes. "I thought you w-were someone else."

Snape lifted an eyebrow. "Are you expecting someone?"

Raivis nodded but couldn't find it in him to say Russia's name.

To his surprise, Snape didn't leave. Instead, he sat next to Raivis, looking incredibly uncomfortable. "It seems to me that the person you are waiting for is somewhat of a bully."

Raivis didn't respond.

"Bullying is not tolerated at Hogwarts. I will need to have a chat with this person. Judging by where we are, I assume they are a Slytherin?"

Raivis nodded, breathing in shakily. "He is a S-slytherin. Don't p-punish him th-though, he's just s-still used to the S-soviet era."

Snape squinted at Raivis in curiosity before giving up and leaving.

None of the foreign kids ever said anything normal.

Potter's antics were starting to seem tame.

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Cheerful (featuring Veneziano and Snape)

After attempting to help the foreign kid Raivis who seemed out of his mind, Snape was in no mood to deal with Feliciano's antics. He'd specifically given the Slytherin separate detention from the rest of the students, guessing that Feliciano would be too unintelligent to learn his lesson from scrubbing cauldrons.

So now, Snape was stuck trying to give a lecture as detention. He began to wonder whether he should just have taken away points, even if it was from his own house.

A knock at his door broke Snape out of his thoughts. "Come in, Mister Vargas."

Feliciano bounded in cheerfully, not at all like Snape would have expected. "Ve~Ciao, Professor!" he chirped.

Snape was taken aback. No tears? "Do you know why you're here?" Snape would be lying if he said he wasn't trying to frighten the annoying Slytherin with his dark tone.

Taking the seat in front of Snape's desk, Feliciano nodded. "I asked Ger—Ludwig, and he said that it was because I made pasta and interrupted your lesson! I really didn't mean to, it's just, pasta is so much more tasty than potions are, and I saw the cauldron right there…I couldn't help myself, I'm sorry, I'll try harder to make a potion next time and—"

"That is enough, Mr. Vargas." One thing Snape despised more than bright cheer was rambling. "I would like to ask you a few questions." Snape was very curious about the Italian's childhood: why was he so brainless and happy? And why in Merlin's name had he been sorted into Slytherin?

Feliciano nodded. "Ve~okay!"

"Do you have any family?"

"Yes! There's my older brother Lovino, who's very grumpy, but I can still tell he likes Antonio a lot ve~! Then there's Nonno, but I don't know what happened to him…" Feliciano frowned.

Snape blinked at the lack of parents mentioned. "May I ask who your guardian was growing up?"

Feliciano bit his lip. "I lived with Mr. Roderich for a long time, and Miss Elizabeta!"

Snape thought of the Gryffindor and Slytherin who had argued against Gilbert Beilschmidt's point in class. Maybe their families had taken Feliciano in?

On his side, Veneziano froze, realizing that Snape had no idea he was a nation. His careless words could have exposed them all. So Veneziano did what he did best-he brought up his favorite food. "Ve~never mind! Do you like pasta? I can make more pasta!" Without waiting for a response, he fled.

Snape slowly walked over to the door and peered out. Somehow, Feliciano had managed to retreat surprisingly quickly.

A laugh reached his ears, and Snape turned to see a Slytherin—Sadik Adnan, if Snape was correct in assuming—leaning against the corridor wall, a mask covering his face.

Snape raised an eyebrow.

"It's hilarious to see Feliciano like that," Sadik explained, "when I think we both know what he's really like."

"Enlighten me," Snape drawled.

Sadik blinked. "So he wasn't torturing you in there? Sheesh, my bad! Feliciano is terrifying, though. You better watch out for him!"

And if that wasn't weird enough, a Hufflepuff with a cat in his arms slouched around the corner. Hufflepuffs were usually way too intimidated to even come near the dungeons without at least two friends, but this one just seemed tired.

"Come…on," the Hufflepuff said to Sadik. "I want to…contemplate morality…near the lake. The…Slytherin dorm…is the best place for it…"

"But you don't have the password," Sadik grumbled, "so you need a Slytherin."

Snape could only stare.

"Well, come on then," Sadik finally agreed. "But I'll fight you if you're too slow."

"And…you'll lose…again." The Hufflepuff followed Sadik around the corner.

Now, Snape usually didn't go to bed early.

That night though, he felt he had no choice.

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I had to add Raivis whump, sorry guys :)

Coming up: Prank Part 2, Canada's discovery that he is not entirely invisible, and Umbridge's attempt to deal with the strangeness that is the Asian family!

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