Chapter 2

Severus got up at 5:30am which had become his new routine. He would get up, get dressed, and go out to the quidditch stadium. He would retrieve a broom from the closet and fly for the next hour and a half. This morning it was very dark and and somewhat misty. Severus pulled a large gray woolen sweater over his head along with a pair of pants and his cloak. As usual he performed disillusionment charms so others would not see him and headed off to the broom closet near the stadium. He pulled open the large oak door and sorted through the used brooms for a decent one. Ahh. A Cleansweep 32. Very nice for turns. And its branches are a lot less scruffy than the Nimbus 80 I had ridden yesterday. Yes, this is perfect.

Severus eliminated the charms that had been protecting him, hopped on the broom, and practiced. The past week had made him a rather fair flyer. After one hour and twenty minutes he returned the broom and headed inside.

"Where have you been?" Asked Theodore Carrow as Severus headed to the showers.

"I went to give a few first-years a piece of my mind." Snape easily lied. He had to at least attempt to have the Slytherin bad boy reputation.

"Nice work Severus. They had it coming." Theodore replied with a smirk and walked to his dorm.

Severus hurried to the prefect's bathroom to wash up before breakfast. Good thing blokes like the Carrows never repeated what he said. He just knew he would hear about it from Lily. Twenty minutes later Severus was walking into the Great Hall to eat breakfast. He took a seat at the table next to the more brainy Slytherins farther down the table. He had just started a banana nut muffin as Dumbledore approached the podium, raised his want to his throat and started talking. Immediately everyone turned their heads to look at him, even the slackers. Dumbledore never addressed them in the mornings.

"Attention all students and teachers. I am sorry to disturb you during your important morning meal but I come bearing important news about our visiting schools. They will be arriving later this afternoon at three. For that matter, I am relinquishing you of all your classes today. With it being a Friday I doubt that you would have accomplished much anyways. Yes first years, that means you have no classes today." The younger students cheered as well as the older. Dumbledore smiled and continued.

"I expect all of you to be on your best behavior and to not be late to dinner. Be kind to the other students that will be joining you. I will now leave you to your breakfast." Dumbledore stepped down and the Great Hall erupted with noise. Excitement was in the air the whole day.

After breakfast Severus went back to the Slytherin common room and hung around playing wizard chess and exploding snap with his few actual real friends, Trevor and Curtis. Three-o-clock soon rolled around and the three friends talked on the way to the main entrance of the school.

"I hope someone we know gets to be the Hogwarts champion. We clearly don't need another "brave" Gryffindor attempt." Chuckled Curtis.

"Hey as long as I get some hot foreign chick I don't care if Dumbledore himself is our champion!" replied Trevor. Did he ever think of anything else?

"Hey, what do you want Sev?" asked Curtis.

"I wouldn't really mind being a champion myself actually." Said Severus as they rounded a corner. His friends raised their eyebrows but once they heard the commotion hurried up and ran to greet the schools.

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