Chapter 2 Getting on at Hogwarts
Harry looked around in awe. There were dark green leather sofas and armchairs. There was a huge roaring fireplace in the corner making the dark shadows in the corners dance. He looked at the darkly robed figure standing in the middle of the room it was as if he was omnipotent. The whispers immediately shut down as they all gave the man their undivided attention. " My name is Severus Snape and I am the potions master and head of Slytherin house. Welcome" said the soft hypnotizing baritone voice of the pale potions master. "Look to the person on your right now look to the person on your left. These people are now your family. They are your house mates as well as year mates. You will share classes with them as well as rooms and meals. You will give a united front to the rest of the school. Suffice to say you will be persecuted by the other houses while here but as long as we stand together they won't be able to get to us. Slytherin is a proud and noble house. You will all study hard and diligently and most important I will hear no complaints about you from the other heads of house. You will pass every class and hopefully learn something as well. For the first couple of weeks you will be escorted to your every class by a prefect realize that this prefect is giving up their valuable time to escort you so be grateful. The other houses do not do this so they get lost very easily. However you will not and so will have no excuse for being late and or lost to your classes. You will also have a medical check up with Madam Pomfrey this week, you will know when tomorrow when I hand you your schedule in the morning. Also you will all have meetings with me. One on one so I'll always be available to you for any concerns you might have or may want to discuss. Curfew is at ten you must be inside no later than 9:30 in bed by ten. There are study groups here where the upper years will help you with any material also I will usually be here as well unless I am in a meeting so you can ask me as well. Go to the upper years first. You can't be out of bed before six as I want all of you to get at least eight hours of sleep if you wake up before that time lay in bed and rest. I will know if you do not. Now girls take the stairs to the right you will find your dormitory boys same to your left. You will all have a wardrobe and nightstand or" and he said this with an ugly sneer making his feelings quite clear "you can live out of your trunks." Now go it is almost ten the prefects will be checking in on you to make sure you are all in bed on time." Harry looked as the girls went to the right and he followed the other boys as they went to left. He felt the man's eyes follow him as he climbed up the stairs to the dormitories.
"Well well well Harry Potter has finally come to Hogwarts eh?" Harry looked up from his bed which was the very last one inside at a blonde sharp nosed boy. "I saw you and Chandra together she is my god sister as her dad Professor Snape is my godfather." "Oh well hi" Harry walked up to the boy and held out his hand to the boy. "The name is Draco Malfoy pleased to meet you. I hope that having you here means you are smart and know how to make advantageous friends." 'What does this guy mean with that' thought Harry but he simply pushed the thought away for later after all Chandra did say the Slytherin house was cunning and ambitious. Maybe he meant as in making good connections for later after all his Uncle Vernon also talked about the great connections he made when he went away at those conferences. he would always say that they really helped a lot. Draco pointed out two big burly guys "That's Crabbe and that's Goyle." "Hi Crabbe hi Goyle," said Harry shyly. The other boys quickly introduced themselves as well. "I'm Blaise Zabini" said a chocolate skinned tall boy. "And I'm Theodore Nott." Harry nodded and shook hands with them all. "Yeah but everyone calls him Teddy cause he acts more Hufflepuff than Slytherin" laughed Draco. The other boys laughed while Teddy turned red and glowered at them. Harry looked at him and feeling bad for the boy spoke up "Well then you have the best qualities of both houses." Teddy looked at him for a moment then laughed "yeah you're absolutely right Harry." Sticking his tongue out at the others Teddy walked with his chin high into the adjoining bathroom to take care of his night time routine before curfew. The other boys except Harry snickered. But they all quickly joined Teddy in the adjoining bathroom to also finish their night routine before curfew. Soon all the young wizards were in their beds.
A few minutes later the door creaked open and a tall dark figure looked in on them approvingly. The potion master's eyes rested a bit longer on the boy in the farthest bed. "So Chandra you really like the boy huh?" "Yes daddy he's really nice he's also very polite. Though he seemed to hesitate too long to touch the food at dinner. I actually had to fill up his plate for him. Daddy I think he might be abused he is so small and skinny and he flinched a lot when Marcus would suddenly get too close to reach for a plate or bowl of food." "Hmm well don't worry too much princess I'm sure he is spoiled as he is the bloody boy who lived." Seeing his daughter scowl at him he sighed and promised that if she was indeed right he would personally take care of it though not because he liked Potter but because he was still her brother. Chandra beamed at her father sure he was a real right bastard to some people okay to almost everyone but to her he was the best daddy in the whole wide world. Plus Severus Snape was a family man. Though she knew he resented Lily leaving him to be with James Potter who was rich and actually tried to abort her so as to not have to deal with an illegitimate child that was actually Snape's he still wouldn't hold that against Harry. After all Lily tried to hold her Chandra responsible and her father hadn't allowed that and had even forced Lily Evans to carry her to term under a powerful concealment charm and no one knew she was her mother but hey at least she was alive. Slowly the two left with Severus gently closing the door. "Now baby girl it is time you also go up to your bed curfew for you will be in a few minutes." Yeah daddy I know. Goodnight." Chandra gave her dad a hug and a kiss on the cheek before turning to climb the opposite staircase to her dormitory. "Goodnight baby girl sleep tight don't let the bed bugs bite." Chandra turned and smiled at him before disappearing at the rise of the stairs.
The next morning Chandra was waiting in the common room for Harry. Finally she saw him coming down the stairs. "Hey Harry what are you doing with all your books already?" "Well I don't know what class will be first so I thought" trailed off Harry. Chandra smiled and shook her head don't worry about that at breakfast Professor Snape will hand out the schedules and we'll all have enough time to come back and get the appropriate books." Blushing slightly Harry said he'd be right back and he rushed up to his dormitory to leave his book bag. Finally they were both ready and followed the last group of students to the Great Hall for breakfast. As they were sitting down a lot of older teenagers waved and said hello to Chandra. Harry could tell that she was popular as everyone seemed to smile at her. "Hey Chandra are you going to try out this year for the quidditch team?" Chandra laughed "you bet I am. I am going to beat the pants off the boys." "Well Chandra you don't have to beat them off me I'll gladly take them off for you" said Graham Montague with a wicked smirk waggling his eyebrows at her. Harry couldn't help but laugh at the affronted and disgusted look Chandra had. "Eww Montague you are vile and gross honestly as if." The rest of the quidditch team laughed as well as a few of the other students. "Too bad so sad Montague. She'll never like you have a little bit of pride and stop begging man" said an upper year. More people laughed at this. Chandra just shook her head and then looked at Harry's still empty plate. "Harry you have to eat you are much too skinny and small for a boy your age. Now come on fill up that plate you can't honestly say that none of this food is tempting. Nor that you are not hungry." Harry looked at her sheepishly and started to fill his plate with eggs, hash browns, bangers and buttered toast. Chandra smiled at him approvingly and then frowned. "It's not just about filling up your plate Harry it's also about eating what's on it. Come on now Eat." After that they both ate in companionable silence. Professor Snape came down from the staff table along with the other heads of staff and headed for his own house students. He began passing out schedules. "Oh yay potions is first and with the Ravenclaws oh that is a relief it would be too early to have to deal with the beastly Gryfindors so soon" said Chandra the relief evident in her voice for all to hear. "Mmm I have transfiguration first and with the Gryfindors too" Harry said. Chandra looked at him with pity "don't worry just be polite to the point of being icy if need be." She grinned "really Harry don't worry you'll be fine. Besides you won't be the only Slytherin you all will look out for one another." Harry became a little worried the way Chandra talked it almost sounded as it there was going to be a fight or something. "Come on Harry time to get our books. I hope you read the first chapters of every class you might have to answer some questions. Oh and seriously whatever you do always read ahead in potions. Professor Snape likes to give pop quizzes and well you don't want to embarrass your head of house by not know the material of their class." Harry nodded having a sinking feeling in the pit of his stomach the Dursley's hadn't allowed hime to read any of his new books. But he looked at his schedule and saw he had a twenty minute break before his potion's class and he swore he would use that time to read his book.
The two collected their book bags and necessary books and Harry went to follow the prefect who would be taking the first years to their first class. When the they got to the transfiguration class room they all thanked the prefect who nodded and told them another prefect would take them to their next class which would be charms. As soon as they entered they notice a pretty little tabby cat sitting on the teacher's desk. Silently they walked in and sat on the right side of the room leaving the left side for the Gryfindors whom still haven't shown up. Pansy Parkinson after setting down her bag walked up to the tabby and stroked her head telling it what a pretty kitty it was. The cat purred. Suddenly the transfiguration classroom door banged open hitting the wall behind and a group of sweaty Gryfindor boys entered. A couple minutes later the Gyrfindor girls came in and settled down. Professor McGonagal suddenly jumped from her desk and transformed back into human form earning gasps and applause from the students. She smiled and began her lecture. Being that it was a first year class for the first time ever she gave them a quick breakdown of what an animagus was. She eventually moved from lecture mode to practical mode. Teaching them how to transfigure a needle into a matchstick. The bushy haired girl was the first to be able to transfigure her needle. Then Draco with some success followed by the other Slytherin students minus Crabbe and Goyle though they did try and got points for trying. The other Gyfindors couldn't do it and the red head Ronald Weasley became mad. He started shooting dirty looks at the Slytherins and while Professor McGonagal was busy helping Neville accused the Slyterhins of cheating. Harry spoke up and said how was that they were able to cheat after all it was their first lesson too. Besides Hermione was the very first who was able to change the needle into a matchstick and she was a Gryfindor. Weasley had no answer for this and Draco sneered at him. Before any more conflict could come up the bell rang and Professor McGonagal dismissed them with the homework assignment of three feet of parchment detailing what transfiguration was in their own words. Stepping out there was a prefect waiting for the Slytherins to take them to their charms class with Professor Flitwick. The Gryfindors followed after the Slytherins after all they didn't want to get lost again. The students both Slytherin and a few Gyfindors thanked the prefect for taking them to their class. The prefect smiled and nodded before telling them all that another prefect would escort them to the Great Hall for their break then to their potion's class. Entering the class they all saw a tiny wizard standing on top a huge stack of books, it was a wonder that they all just didn't spill and create a domino effect with all the other tall stacks. Only magic was keeping them all from toppling. The students went to sit down and again it was the same Slytherins on the right Gryfindors on the left. "Today class we will learn the levitation charm wingardium leviosa. But first you must learn how to swish and flick your wands." After the class practiced and perfected the swish and flick without saying the words to Professor Flitwick's satisfaction they tried the charm on the huge feathers in front of them. Ronald Weasley began first and was flailing his wand around like an out of control baton. He was also pronouncing the charm wrong. "Stop stop you're going to poke someone's eye out like that and besides it's pronounced wingardium leviosa not leviosar." "Well you do it then if you're so clever go on do it then" snapped Weasley in a petulant tone. Hermione took a deep breath and concentrated and voila she did do it and perfectly too. "See here class done it oh well done five points to Gryfindor." Hermione beamed in pleasure. Weasley sulking pulled his stack of second hand books and laid his chin on them clearly not pleased.
Finally arriving in the Great Hall Harry quickly got to work on reading as much of his potions text as he could. He was just about to close the text when a commotion at the doors grabbed his attention. Chandra came storming inside clearly angry about something. Closing his book he waited for her worryingly. "Hi Chandra." "Hi Harry how have your first classes gone?" "Okay Ron Weasley is a prat and I think Hermione Granger may be a bit of a know it all." Chandra snorted. "No worries Harry Professor Snape will straighten them all out." "So why are you so upset Chandra?" "Just the stupidity of some people has gotten to me. I guess while I didn't exactly forget the idiocy I did forget how pissed off I get at it all." "Why what happened?" "Ugh that damn Quirrell is a fucking dumb ass mother fucker son of a useless bitch. He is such a fucking moron it is amazing that he can actually wrap that fucking turban around his empty fucking head as you would think it would be too fucking difficult." She ended her potty mouth tirade with a wicked smile at Harry who looked at her it total shock. The other students who were also there looked at her in amused exasperation. "Well well well if it isn't the pretty little sailor mouth Snape" laughed Montague. "Whatever everything I said is the damn truth." The others just shook their heads. "You do know that if Professor Snape hears you talking like that he'll wash your mouth out with soap right? asked Montague rhetorically. She just stuck her tongue out at him not caring at all. "So you finished reading at least the first couple of chapters Harry?" "Yeah I think I'll be okay." "Good cause I think your break ended a few minutes ago and now you are most likely late for potions which drives Professor Snape up the wall" she laughed "better hurry firsties before you all get a pop quiz that will count for a quarter of your grade." Paling at this the firsties quickly grabbed their things and practically flew out the Great Hall before they came rushing back in and looking at the prefect still sitting at the table that was supposed to take them to their next class being potions. The older students burst out laughing and the prefect finally stood up still laughing "come on now." He got up and led the firsties out to the potions classroom.
Harry was thanking Chandra for giving him the heads up on studying as Professor Snape was grilling him on potions questions. Luckily the information was still fresh in his mind as he was able to answer them correctly. Professor Snape nodded approvingly at him "well at least you are not a complete dunderhead like your father was when it came to potions. Ten points to Slytherin for being able to answer them correctly. Put your hand down there are no questions for you to answer and in case you have selective hearing and did not hear me I was asking Mr. Potter not the entire class, you silly girl." Blushing hotly in embarrassment Hermione lowered her hand. Cruelly enough it was the Gryfindors who laughed the loudest and longest while the Slytherins just snickered a little softly. The only Gryfindor who didn't laugh at Hermione was Neville he looked at the others in confusion as to why they would laugh at one of their own. With tears streaming down her face Hermione ran out of the potions class the door banging loudly into the wall before slamming closed. Professor Snape just shook his head at the cruel behavior of the children truly children were the most cruelest of bullies.
a/n that's it for chapter 2 next chapter will be up soon so please review. i'm not sure if i overdid Chandra's potty mouth but i want to get across that she is fearless in expressing her opinion not very subtle for a slytherin but she can be when she wants to be case in point not telling Harry yet that they are siblings and in Qurrell's case using the shock value to truly get her point across. anyways thanks for reading and please review. oh and also i know some might say you didn't warn us about the swearing but i did. believe me it could have been a lot worse as i could make grown men and sailors blush and quite the devil too lol thanks a lot for reading