Chapter 2
Hogwarts, A Home
Lenny loved coming to hogwarts, now more than ever. Here he didn't have to worry about setting his mom off by asking where stuff was or just saying something she didn't like. Overall he had just learned to just stay in his room and not talk to her. Of course, this didn't help their relationship, but at least he wouldn't have to deal with her everytime he corrected her. Here, the adults at least earned their respect. Lenny never really had a problem with most of the teachers. Some people found it confusing how he was a pupil of the headmistress, who has been commented on being way to stern, but not get along with the arithmancy teacher, professor Vector. Lenny had found professor Mcgonagall to be stern, and had rules against childish behavior, but seemed to know how natural it was and didn't hold it against people. While on the other hand, professor Vector just had rules for every little thing you could do and it seemed didn't approve of kids acting like kids. Once she made him write lines for overhearing him saying that exact thing. That was on the first day. Every now and then, when it wouldn't seem suspicious, he and Jared would separately ask to leave for the bathroom and just explore the castle.
Once they were all heading back inside, Jared had seen the girl who had stolen their compartment. "HOPE NOBODY ELSE HAD THERE COMPARTMENT STOLEN BY SOMEONE WHO WAS TO LAZY TO FIND THEIR OWN!" He yelled passive aggressively, to everybody near him to be annoyed. But the girl, without even turning around to acknowledge him, yelled back," NO ONE WAS PROBABLY THAT SLOW!" And at this no was annoyed, but instead laughed. Well everyone but the three of them. But then Jared replied, WELL NOBODY WANTS TO CRASH INTO A STADIUM AND INJURE PEOPLE!" Apparently, Jared had expected people to laugh, but was surprised when people oohed and awed. At this she stopped walking for a moment tilted her head down, but then continued walking. "What?" Replied Jared to Jeriahs shocked face. "Nothing."he said as he shrugged.
Once they were in the great hall they split up to go to their house tables and once the sorting of the new students, the headmistress stood up to the podium. "To students both new and old, it has come to our attention that last year there have been students up and walking about at night, against curfew. Let it be known that any student or students will be punished severely. I do have more to say but the greatest headmaster liked to keep the beginning speech
short so i shall do the same. Let the feast begin!" Now came lenny's favorite part - the food.
He filled his plate with some ham, mashed potatoes and some soup that he couldn't tell what the hell it was but it was amazing. Then came the deserts. He got any of the puddings he could see, treacle tarts, cake and pie (most of which were chocolate), and some ice-cream (neapolitan). On his way out of the great hall he waved goodbye to Jeriah and Jared, then headed to his common room. Lenny could hardly sleep. Even though he was only friends with two other people, he felt more at home here than anywhere else. It wasn't that everyone hated him, it was just since most o the students outside Slytherin house were always jerks to Jared he never saw a reason to befriend them. Some didn't care about Jared's house but Lenny didn't really try to be friends with anyone else. Apparently, the Slytherin house was supposed to be all evil cheaters. Even though all of the houses have people who cheat, it's just people seem to notice more when its a Slytherin. He didn't see anything wrong with Jared...morally. He did antagonize people just a little bit, but most of the time it was when he was competing against them in exploding snap, a game where the cards spontaneously explode (something nobody had thought to tell Lenny in his first year), which usually helped him win.
Jared never seemed spoiled or snotty even though he was pretty loaded. Then he wondered why Jared had even made money off of gambling to pay for the food from the trolley witch, when he had only ever gambled for sport.
