WHAT!? I ripped the hat off of my head and gave Professor Dumbledore a panicked look.

"Oh dear." He said mildly concerned. "Well that was a surprise..."

"You weren't expecting that?" I practically yelled.

"Keep your voice down Ms. Knight." Professor McGonagall said sternly.

"Sorry." I said. "I just wasn't expecting this..."

"Unfortunately, Dumbledore said. "you can't be put into a different House so you might as well make the best of it."

"How?" I asked. "Nothing good has ever come out of Slytherin House."

"Perhaps you will change that." Dumbledore replied. "It's never too late for change."

"Change..." I mused. "That'd be nice . Show people that Slytherin isn't as bad as people think it is."

"Excellent idea!" Dumbledore said. "Now that we got this finished, how about we go back down to the feast before it ends? I'm particularly looking forward to the pudding."

Dumbledore swept past me and headed towards the door where I noticed a medium sized bird with golden plumage.

"You have a Phoenix!?" I asked in awe.

"Yes." Dumbledore said. "Fawkes is a rather magnificent creature, is he not?"

I followed Dumbledore out of his office and back down towards the Dining Hall with Professor McGonagall following from behind. The Dining Hall quieted slightly as we entered and I suddenly felt quite self conscious. I felt several pairs of eyes on me as I moved towards the table that Dumbledore had indicated, that had several students wearing the same robes that I was no wearing; black with silver and green trim."

I sat down in the only available seat with was at the very end of the table. I was relieved when people stopped staring at me and started to pay attention to Dumbledore. Scanning the room I spotted Alex sitting at what must've been the Gryffindor table across the room. As f he sensed my gaze he looked up at me. He gave me a look that I couldn't quite identify before turning to a brown haired girl that was sitting next to him. She leaned forward slightly as he whispered something in her ear and my heart sank. I turned my attention back toward the feast in front of me and spooned some peas and carrots onto my plate; I wasn't that hungry anymore.

"I can't believe it." A voice said across from me. I looked up to see Draco. Why hadn't I payed more attention to where I was sitting?

Draco smirked at me before continuing.

"I'm surprised that the Sorting Hat allowed a Mudblood into our Pureblood House."

"I told you before." I said putting down my fork with a little to much force. "I'm not a Mudblood. I happen to be from a very well known and respected family."

"Respected by who?" Draco sneered. Half of the table was now listening to our conversation. I was pretty sure that kids from the table next to ours was doing the same. The rest of the occupants in the room where listening half heartedly to a woman wearing pink in the front.

"I'm sorry to disappoint you," Draco said, drawing my attention back to him. "but you're a nobody here. What ever respect your family had back in what ever place you came from won't be delivered here."

"If you knew who my ancestors were then you might think differently." I snapped. Oops. I shouldn't have said that. Draco was acting like a prick but I still shouldn't have said anything about who my ancestors were. I had promised my parents that I wouldn't tell anyone. With You-Know-Who back, we had to be really careful and telling the son of a well known Death Eater was not careful.

"Oh yeah?" Draco said. "And who might your ancestors be?"

To late to back out now.

"I'm related to Isolt Sayre." I said. "She was the founder and first Headmistress of Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry."

"So?" Draco said with a snort. "I don't care if your ancestor created Hogwarts. It means nothing."

"But it does." I snapped. What and arrogant piece of shit! "It most certainly matters. What if I told you that Isolt Sayre's Aunt was Gormlaith Gaunt? And the Gaunts are related to Salazar Slytherin himself!"

The Slytherin table literally fell silent and I glanced around uncertainty.

Draco laughed. "Even if that's true, which it's not, it's be ridiculous."

"About as ridiculous as the Malfoys being related to the Weaslys?" I shot back.

"Careful what you say Knight." Draco hissed. "You forgot that I'm a Perfect."

"So what?" I responded. "You can't take House Points away from me because we're in the same House."

"That doesn't matter." Draco said. "I can still put you in detention."

"For what?" I asked. "Getting on your nerves?"

Draco opened his mouth about to make some rhetorical remark but he was interrupted by Dumbledore announcing the end of the feast. Draco gave me a glare before getting up and yelling at the first years to follow him. I honestly felt bad for them because they looked kind of scared.

Getting up I followed the rest of the House out of the Dining Hall and towards wherever the Slytherin Common Room was. I rolled my eyes when I saw where we were heading. Why was I surprised that the Slytherin common room was in the dungeons? Draco elbowed his way through the crowd, snapping as some poor first year, before stopping before a wall.

"This is the entrance to the common room." He announced. "Obviously you'll learn what the password is, and if any of you are stupid enough to tell anyone else that is not apart of Slytherin House, you'll be sorry."

"It's not like it's hard to guess what it is." One boy said. He looked around the same age as Draco so I assumed that he was in the same year.

"That true, Zabini." Draco said. "But it would still be a good idea not to tell anyone."

"So what's the password then?" Some first year asked.

"Can't you guess?" Draco snapped. "It's easy enough."

"Hippogriff?"

"No."

"What about Acid Pops?"

"No. Are you really that stupid?"

"Pureblood." I said, speaking up.

Draco narrowed his eyes at me. "Unfortunately, Knight is correct." He said after a while. "Pureblood is indeed our password."

"Hasn't changed in several years." Zabini muttered.

"Get a move on!" Draco yelled as the bricks in the wall disappeared. "We don't have all day. Don't want to get eaten by the troll in the dungeon do ya?"

He had all of the first years scramble into the common room when he said that and the rest of the House followed behind.

"Is there really a troll in the dungeons?" I asked the girl next to me.

"No, of course not." The girl said. "All though I heard that during the fifth years first year there actually was one at one point."

"Really?" I asked in surprise.

"Yep." the girl said entering the common room.

"Wasn't it dangerous?" I asked following her.

"Oh yeah," The girl said. "Caused quite the damage I heard."

"What year are you?" I asked.

"Fourth." The girl said pushing her black hair out of her face. "What about you?"

"Fourth." I said. "But I'm new."

"That's interesting." The girl remarked. "We don't normally get new people. What's your name?'

"Emmalyn Knight." I said. "But you can just call me Emma."

"Nice to meet you, Emma." The girl said. " My name's Zoe, Zoe Spencer."

"Nice to meet you Zoe." I said.

"Yeah, pleasure." Zoe said heading for the stairs. "Might want to head up to bed before Malfoy yells at us."

"He doesn't seem like a nice person." I said following her up the stairs.

"Yeah, well most Slytherins aren't supposed to be nice, right?" Zoe asked.

"I don't know." I said with a shrug. "You seem pretty nice to me."

"I pretend to be nice." Zoe said with a teeth filled grin. "But in reality I'm waiting for the right moment to sabotage you."

I blinked at her and she let out a laugh.

"Don't you go worrying." Zoe said still laughing. "I won't do that to ya, there are others that will though. Especially Parkinson, stay away from her if you know what's good for you. Here." Zoe said pointing to a bed as we entered the dormitory. "You're bed's there, so's your stuff. You have an Owl?"

"No." I said walking over to my things. "I don't but I do have a pet." I rummaged through my things before coming up with a small cage. Opening it I coated out the medium sized animal sleeping with in.

"He's a bit grumpy when you wake him up, but he's generally sweet."

I turned around to see Zoe staring a the thing in my arms. She busted out laughing.

"What?" I asked confused.

"It-it's a ferret!" She exclaimed. "And a white one to boot!"

"Yeah, so?" I asked, still not getting it. "I don't get what's so funny about it?"

"Oh man," Zoe said slapping her leg. "Don't let Malfoy catch you with him, he'll blow a top."

"Care to explain?" I asked.

"Ok ok." Zoe wiped tears from her eyes. "Last year Malfoy and Potter got into a fight and the Defense Against Dark Arts teacher at the time go so mad that he turned Malfoy into a white ferret."

"Really?" I said in surprise.

"Yep!" Zoe said. "It was hilarious to see, but like I said, don't go parading around with it when Malfoy's near. He'll have your head."

"I'd like to see him try." I said with a snort.

"What's it's name anyways?" Zoe asked curiously.

"Wilson." I said. "My parents got him for me when I first started going to Ilvermorny. That's the wizarding school in North America." I added when I saw Zoe's confused face.

"Never heard of it." Zoe said.

"They don't teach you about the other wizarding schools?" I asked in surprise.

"Well I know of some." Zoe said. " but that's because of the triwizard tournament that happened last year."

"I heard about that." I said with a nod. "You-Know-Who's back, right?"

"You honestly believe that crap?" Zoe asked with a roll of her eyes.

"Well, I don't know, I guess." I said, surprised by her reaction.

"Mum and dad say that it's nonsense and that I shouldn't believe anything that Potter says. He's a compulsive liar they say." Zoe said.

"Well I mean everybody lies but-" I was cut off by two other girls entering the dormitory. They where identical down to the scowls on their faces.

"Oh hello, Vanessa, Jessica." Zoe said with a slight nod. "Have you met Emma yet?"

"I don't think so." One twin said, twirling her long brown hair around a finger.

"Definitely not." The other said with a sneer.

I automatically disliked both.

"Well," Zoe said. "Emma, this is Vanessa and Jessica Griffiths. You guys, this is Emmalyn Knight."

"The one that claimed to be a descendant of the great Salazar Slytherin?" One twin asked with a sniff. I couldn't tell if it was Vanessa or Jessica that said it.

"That's me." I said with an uncomfortable look.

"Well let me tell you this descendant of Slytherin." One twin said stepping forward. "I don't believe you. You're probably just as bad as Potter in Gyffindor house. And I for one won't take any of this nonsense at all."

"Neither will I." The other twin said.

"Don't you think it's time that we all get to bed now?" Zoe asked uncertaintly. "I mean tomorrow is our first day..."

"Fine." One of the twins said.

"Whatever." The other said.

Zoe gave me an apologetic smile before heading over to her own bed. After I changed into my pajamas and put Wilson safely into his cage, I crawled under the covers of my new bed and fell asleep.

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Sorry that I haven't updated in a while! I had a lot of things going on and I know that I said that I'd update every Friday and/or Saturday but like I said, I had a lot of things going on.