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"Okay, now that we're here. Where will we be staying?" Pitch asked, very aware that this was the morning that the first day started. When everyone would dismount the train, ride thestral drawn carriages, and watch the hat sing a song.

"Slytherin dorms. There are two connected rooms locked by passwords for you two. Severus has he sleeping quarters on the other side of Pitchiner's." Dumbledore spoke, "You may go unpack. I believe the students should be arriving soon."

Slytherin's Trio | Chapter Two

The room almost exploded with excitement; the boy with brown eyes instantly jumped up and grabbed Pitchiner's hand as he dragged the stalling teen outside into the corridors. Severus huffed audibly as he turned to follow them, picking up their bags along the way. The trio headed down several cases of stairs until they made their way to the door that would lead them into their rooms.

"Forgetting something?" Severus drawled as he arrived to find Jackson bagging on the door very loudly and Pitchiner leaning against the other wall. His face was smirking, mirth scrawled across his face.

"Yes. What's the password?" Jack yelled at Severus as he put the suitcases down. Dark black eyes rolled and the owner of the eyes muttered about Jack always being the impatient one and said loud enough for the two others to hear, "Slytherin's trio."

The door slid open and soon Pitchiner and Jackson were greeted with an amazing sight. Emerald green wallpaper with silver trimmings lined the walls. A dark wooded four poster bed was against the far wall, with a matching desk, chairs, table, and other pieces of furniture. A window was open with silver silk curtains, showing the underwater scene of the great lake. The brown plush carpet complemented the whole thing.

"This is amazing!" Jack shouted, once again nearly causing the other two to go deaf, as he looked around at his other room.

His room was apparently no different, except for the lighter birch wood. Severus smiled at this saying he had blackwood for his. Soon the trio settled down at Pitch's tables and began asking each other about lesson plans.

Of course, Jack had no idea what they were and ended up shouting, "What the hell is a lesson plan?" he shouted. Pitch sighed remembering his friend's reluctance to do any school work.

"You need to plan lessons for all your classes." Severus tried to explain. Jackson then proceeded to flip out and they ended up saying that Pitch and Severus had to help with his lesson plans since the latter said he'd finish his yesterday. Soon the trio decided to head up to the head table right before the feast.

As all the students, minus first years, entered the great hall. Pitchiner looked over at Severus as his face tensed at another boy. "He's Harry right?" the black haired teen asked his friend, who nodded his head. "What's wrong?"

"He acts like his father…" Severus trailed off as Harry turned to looked at them.

"Severus, that's Harry Potter!" Jackson muttered under his breath, "I don't see what's wrong with him."

Onyx eyes closed and Severus took a deep breath and rolled his eyes at his friend. "Wait until he gets to your class. Maybe you'll see.

Jackson shook his head and looked at the plate as first years walked into the room, "Severus, we'll talk about this later." Suddenly, the trio was startled as the hat began to sing.

In times of old when I was new

And Hogwarts barely started

The founders of our noble school

Thought never to be parted:

United by a common goal,

They had the selfsame yearning,

To make the world's best magic school

And pass along their learning.

"Together we will build and teach!"

The four good friends decided

And never did they dream that they

Might someday be divided,

For were there such friends anywhere

As Slytherin and Gryffindor?

Unless it was the second pair

Of Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw?

So how could it have gone so wrong?

How could such friendships fail?

Why, I was there and so can tell

The whole sad, sorry tale.

Said Slytherin, "We'll teach just those

Whose ancestry is purest."

Said Ravenclaw, "We'll teach those whose

Intelligence is surest."

Said Gryffindor, "We'll teach all those

With brave deeds to their name,"

Said Hufflepuff, "I'll teach the lot,

And treat them just the same."

These differences caused little strife

When first they came to light,

For each of the four founders had

A House in which they might

Take only those they wanted, so,

For instance, Slytherin

Took only pure-blood wizards

Of great cunning, just like him,

And those of sharpest mind

Were taught by Ravenclaw

While the bravest and the boldest

Went to daring Gryffindor.

Good Hufflepuff, she took the rest,

And taught them all she knew,

Thus the Houses and their founders

Retained friendships firm and true.

So Hogwarts worked in harmony

For several happy years,

But then discord crept among us

Feeding on our faults and fears.

The Houses that, like pillars four,

Had once held up our school,

Now turned upon each other and,

Divided, sought to rule.

And for a while it seemed the school

Must meet an early end,

What with dueling and with fighting

And the clash of friend on friend

And at last there came a morning

When old Slytherin departed

And though the fighting then died out

He left us quite downhearted.

And never since the founders four

Were whittled down to three

Have the Houses been united

As they once were meant to be.

And now the Sorting Hat is here

And you all know the score:

I sort you into Houses

Because that is what I'm for,

But this year I'll go further,

Listen closely to my song:

Though condemned I am to split you

Still I worry that it's wrong,

Though I must fulfill my duty

And must quarter every year

Still I wonder whether sorting

May not bring the end I fear.

Oh, know the perils, read the signs,

The warning history shows,

For our Hogwarts is in danger

From external, deadly foes

And we must unite inside her

Or we'll crumble from within

I have told you, I have warned you...

Let the Sorting now begin.

Harry Potter, the boy who lived, was startled by the warning coming from the sorting hat. He heeded it no attention at the moment as he looked up at the table. His most hated teacher was talking to two teens, one with pitch black hair and one with brown hair. The sorting went on as he watched them speak to each other.

He was absolutely befuddled.

The sorting came to an end with "Zeller, Rose" Dumbledore got up to make his usual speech. "We have two changings in the staff this year. We would like to welcome Professor Black, who will be taking over the Care of Magical Creatures lessons for the time being. We would also be delighted to introduce Professor Overland, who will be our new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher."

This was met with a slow started round of applause. Most of the students, especially the seventh years, were very confused by the events. The hat gave a speech that shook a lot of the students and now there were two new teachers, both whom looked just out of school. The Slytherin trio missed the worried glances a new trio, the Golden trio, shared.

"How do you think I should make the lesson plans?" Jackson groaned as he finished stuffing some turkey into his mouth and swallowing. The black haired teen sighed as he set his fork down, "Calm down Jack, we can work that out after dinner. Severus, you're helping right?"

Severus nodded, "And apparently Jack's going to corner me after dinner. Nothing new right?"

Pitch sighed at Jack's action, "Okay. So, how long does this start-of-term feast last?"

Severus almost snickered at Pitchiner's dislike of large crowds. Jackson started to chuckled at the statement and Pitch ended up shaking his head, "I'll be in the rooms." The teen proceeded to stand up and walk out of the great hall, shoes clicking on the stone floor. Jackson sighed and looked at Severus, "How long does this last?"

Severus looked around and stole a glance at the headmaster, "Ten minutes? I have to give the Slytherins the start of year speech. Slytherin style."

"I want to be there for that."

"Really…" Severus whispered with a sneaking suspicion that Jack wanted to play a prank. Start of the term pranks and end of the term ones were his best ones. "Pranks?" Severus asked raising his eyebrow.

"What?" Jackson said, putting his hand over his hear, faking hurt, "I would never." Severus huffed and looked at Jack, "Okay, I'm going to go. See you in the dorms."

"Fine, I'm coming. These childrens keep looking at me!" Jackson shouted as he followed Severus out of the busy room. The only ones who really did notice was the Golden trio.

When the Slytherin trio walked down the dungeons they found Pitchiner already working on lesson plans.

"You're crazy." Jackson shouted as he flopped down on the ground.

"That's what you said to both of use on our first week of fifth year." Severus stated simply as he pulled out another one of Pitchiner's chairs and sat in it. "What do you have for the first week?" He peaked at the parchment covered in ink.

"I've only got the first two days covered so far." Pitch muttered out loud as he tapped the empty quill tip on the wood table, "I've got a Thestral unit planned and I've gotten a few other animals in mind. And some hands on stuff. Written stuff."

"Bla, blaa, bla bla bla." Jackson interrupted, his golden eyed friend, "can we do this tomorrow?" the brown eyed teen smiled at his two friends that looked down on his face. "You know, you're going to have to teach class tomorrow." Severus decided to inject, just for the fun of it.

"Shite!" the teen sputtered and then scrambled up from his position on the floor. The other two in the room watched the teen in brown take out a quill and go to scribble on his piece of parchment. As the new Defense teacher freaked out over Severus sighed as he heard chatter on the other side of the walls, "I'll be back, gotta give the Slytherins their speech. Then you can quiz me about my personal life." Severus muttered sarcastically.

The man with black eyes walked out of the room and soon the original duo was left alone.

Moments later, the potions professor strode back into the and rubbed his temples as he flopped down into the poor chair; which creaked in response.

"I forgot how tiring that is." he said as he watched the brown teen scribble on some more parchment. "You better do good on those lesson plans. I heard Dolores Umbridge was not happy when you beat her to the job. She'll do anything to get you out of that position."

Jack's face visibly paled, "I- I beat that t-toad out of a job?"

"Of course. Or else I'd be here thinking over whether I should throttle her or Potter." the older man grinned his signature grin but just like that it faded when Jack looked at him. Pitchiner was on his bed, parchment covering the nightstand, reading a book. Severus was thoroughly surprised at how quickly Jack could go from being scared out of his mind to interrogation mode.

"Talk."

Author's Note: Wow! Thirty-seven views already! Because this isn't a highly written (or known for that matter) crossover universe I didn't really expect a lot. Thanks for those people for reading. I have a lot of the chapters prewritten since I can seem to only find time on the weekends to write. I hope you enjoyed this chapter, review if you found anything out of sorts (and to tell me what you think)!

Happy Forth of July!

~Aqua