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AN: Misspelling or some wrong info or OOC or other stuff but Let's try this again :D
'Talking' – Parseltongue
'Thinking' – Telepath Communication
"Talking"
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Year 1: Pt2
(AN: explanation of a friendship)
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I remember a time when I came to this school, then again I remember every single thing I have ever did in the many lives I've lived but I do cherish the time I came to Hogwarts and the various people I've met along the way.
When I met Severus, he was a dark child with no friends, well the students say he was dark but that was only assumed because he's in Slytherin, which is stupid by the way, and mostly kept to himself, if he could that is. The Gryffindor of this school like to pick on him and his attire that is all black. Never mind that he is excellent at potions. I was in the same year as him, along with Lucius Malfoy, Sirius and Narcissa Black, Remus Lupin, James Potter, and Lily Evans and many more.
Oh dear, sweet Lily. She is the only one who grew up with Severus and they were buddies, even when she went to the House of Godric.
I kept to myself mostly, sometimes chatting up with other houses in which cause an eyebrow or two raised at my complete disregard of house loyalty or rivalries.
I was wondering around alone, until I saw James Potter and his crew playfully torturing Severus, with Lily yelling at the boys to leave him alone and being a Slytherin myself, I had to intervene. By that I mean I had to let those idiots feel what Severus felt when they were 'playfully' harassing him.
At first, Severus was embarrassed to be saved by a girl, especially a-nobody girl with glasses and didn't speak to me, not even to thank me. Lily however did thank me for 'saving' Severus and told me to 'look' after him. I didn't really get that notion as I am an only child and the concept of looking after someone who is in fact a bit older than me by maybe a couple months, rather humorous.
Then out of nowhere while I was in the library, laughing at the history in their wrong assumptions, Severus sat down on my table and didn't speak or look my way. It was amusing that the quiet, lonely half-blood prince and his kind of uptight ways, is sitting at a table with me: his complete opposite. I was the more outgoing and blunt speaking, with no disregard for anything 'pureblood' ways or house unity.
This, however, went on for a while every time I went to the library and really didn't mind.
Then one day when I came to the library, Severus is already there waiting and he looked really nervous. I sat down and smile in his direction then open my potions book to make sure I did my homework right. A few minutes ticked by and I could literally feel the nervousness that Severus was emitting from his aura, so I looked up and saw him looking at me, like studying me as if I am one of his brewing potions or like it's the first time he's seeing me and so I waved at him.
"And" I asked, as if he had asked a question and he ducked his head down.
I shrugged it away and continued on my work. That is until a beautiful purple rose came into my view of the books and I was stunned to say the least because I didn't expect this, at all.
I picked it up and looked it over, then at Severus whom had this cute blush tainting his cheeks but still with his head down.
I watched him.
Watched him until he finally looked up at me and with a crooked smile He spoke: "Thank you"
Let's just say that, that day always made me smile.
The next day, he walked me to classes, never saying a word to each other and just enjoying the company we have, this kept on every day. Lily was ecstatic to learn that Severus has some one within his house that he can hang out with, without being under constant surveillance by anybody who thinks I am not a pureblood.
I never corrected her but I did mention to Severus that I am indeed a pureblood; I just didn't like parading it like most would. After this display of companionship, I started talking, never mind that Severus never replied I just pretended that he did.
Then one day as we were walking out of the Great Hall after lunch to go for a walk before classes started for the afternoon, who but a bunch idiots decided it was a good time to taunt us: James and his cronies. They actually started to follow us and make lewd remarks about us being 'friends'.
It was annoying to a point I might snap and do something. That flew out the window when Sirius made a snide remark saying that Severus is the bottom and like it up somewhere I will not mention here.
Man, did he fly far!
And with the rest of them in shock gave me the opportunity to sock them one too, except Remus who is the referee of the cronies. I let him scatter away, while the rest are groaning of hurt on the ground and looked around to make sure that there is no adult supervision, I pulled out my wand.
It must have been fate who planted a tree nearby hundreds of years ago because I am thankful and grateful if they did. With a swish and flick and another flick, the branches of said tree came alive, grabbed the ones on the ground by their underwear that is showing and hauled them up high.
The muggles call this a wedgie.
Screams, girlish scream that don't benefit a girl, attract the attention of most of the student bodies as they came rushing over and laughed to their hearts content at what they saw. Before any teachers could show up though, I pulled a laughing Severus by the arm and ran for cover, so we won't get caught but not enough cover as to keep watching the hilarious scene.
That incident didn't get us in trouble, oh no, the victims didn't speak of any names for fear of retribution and that kept them from further harassing Severus and I.
I guess what I did finally got Severus to open up to me, well started talking to me, and made me all the grateful, thinking I should of did what I did from the beginning.
When Severus first opened up to me, I let him in on a secret about me but also made him swear an oath. At first he didn't believe but I told him to wait a few years and he will see: Hence where the oath came into form.
Once and only once did we have a dark day in our friendship, unless you count what happen to me by the end but we won't and this darkness lasted a good while was when Severus's and Lily's friendship ended, badly. James was ecstatic so now he had Lily all to himself but with one glare from me, he kept it quiet.
When the ending happened, I was on my way to meeting Severus outside for a walk and saw what had happen in the end. It was after Lily sort of saved Severus and he ended with putting his anger and embarrassment out on the poor girl. He called her the 'M' word and I was struck as much as Lily was because that is the most disgusting word anyone could say to a friend. She ran off in tears and they never spoke to each other after that, even though all it would have taken would have been an apology but life happen and so nobody apologized.
I helped Severus in his grieving of the loss of a friendship, even though he too tried to banish me with words that had no meaning to me whatsoever.
Something about my parents, who have been dead a long time and I have accepted it, or my attire, which is the same as him even though I wear a skirt, or my accent as he calls it, do I have an accent?, or my stature in blood, for fucks sakes, I'm a carefree pureblood, or the lamest one: I'm a loner. Of course I'm a loner, I've been hanging with him this whole entire time, Where the hell as he been all that time?
Anyways nothing he said will make me not want to talk to him and so we went back to what we had in the beginning: Me talking and him just being there. I didn't mind as long as he knew I was there for him even if he thought otherwise and was being stubborn about it.
After a while, him and his so called uptightness came to a halt, he apologized for his childish behavior and thanked me for being there.
If you asked him nowadays, he'll deny everything and anything in regards to me. Ha!
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My internal alarm clock told me it's time to get up and get ready. Stretching the sleepiness out of me, I pulled back the covers and sat up, looking around our little suite.
It had its own bathroom and a gigantic walk-in closet that is to die for. Getting up and slipping into my slipper, I walked over to the enchanted window, as we are in the dungeon so there are no real windows, and changed the setting to a bright sun shining into our room. Harry then groaned and pulled his covers over his head to block out the light.
"Time to get up, Harry old mate or we'll be late for a grand entrance to the Great Hall for breakfast" Walking to the closet, opening it, I heard Harry mumble something incoherent but just ignored it in favor of looking for a suitable uniform for Harry and I.
I sighed in sweet happiness at the scene before me: Harry's clothes are on one side of the closet and mine are on the other side. The length of it reaches from one end to the closet door entrance and it splits down in the middle to separate our casual clothing from formal and school uniforms. I sometimes forget that our uniforms are uniforms and only during the weekends do we get to wear regular clothes and so wonder why do I even bother 'looking' for something to wear during the school days. Sigh.
Picking one of each out, his a pants uniform and mine a skirt uniform, I laid each on the foot of our respectable beds and picked up my bag of toiletries from desk on my side of the suite before turning to Harry slumped form underneath the covers and pillow.
"I swear to goddess Harry, IF you don't get up by the time I come out the bathroom, I will personally throw you out of bed and onto the cold, cold floor. Am I understood?" A grunt is my response. Sighing loudly, I made my way to the bathroom for my morning ritual and closed the door to tune out the snoring from Harry's bed.
15 minutes later with my hair done in spikes, I have short hair, and freshly washed, ready to meet the day…that is until I saw Harry still in bed and it looks like he hasn't moved an inch.
I growled in annoyance and dropped my small bag by the door of the bathroom. With a war cry I ran to Harry's bed and jumped on it just about the same time he stuck his head up but 'oomph' was all I heard, then I started pushing Harry off the bed. He really couldn't do anything about this as the covers tangled up his limbs but he did try though. Laughing out loud, I gave one swift kick to his back and now Harry is a bundle of mess on the cold, cold floor.
"What did I say I was going to do if you didn't get up, huh Harry?" laughing at his misfortune and his entanglement, I got off his bed and went to mine, to pick up my wand where it laid under my pillow.
"Wingardium Leviosa" with a swish and flick, now Harry is being levitated to the bathroom by the bed sheets and soon enough he stuck his head out of his covers.
"I'm up; I'm up already, Geez" I cancelled out the spell and Harry is once again a pile of mess on the floor, well, the bathroom floor.
"Then get ready" Finally untangling himself, Harry glared at me while coming out of the bathroom to grab his bag of toiletries and went back.
You see ladies and gentlemen, this is our normal routine since we could walk: me jumping on his bed to wake him and him either falling off or lunging at me for waking him up. It's completely different when it comes to Christmas time: he's the one to jump on my bed to wake me but I have the decency to NOT fall off the bed.
"You got 15 minutes, Harry" Hearing the click of the door being locked, I flicked my wand to lock our main door as to not be surprised by anyone while I get dressed.
Standing in the closet where a full length mirror is, I am now fixing mine's and Harry's tie, when the door to the bathroom open and Harry rushed out and back in again while grabbing his clothes. Smiling, I tied the knot and slipped the tie over my head and threw it on Harry's bed.
Adjusting my clothes, straighten the top and my hair is when Harry finally came out and fully dressed.
"So what do you think?" He twirled around for me to see his uniform of green and silver.
Walking over, I grabbed the tie that I threw on the bed and slipped it over Harry's head, to adjust it neatly. Having a short raven's nest head of hair does have its advantages if you know how to style it with the right amount of gel, which Harry did spectacularly, especially when he covers his scar. Stepping back to double check, I smiled and clapped him on his shoulders.
"Perfect as always, Harry, now shall we go meet our housemates or do you just want to walk right out?" Picking up our wands and sliding them in our forearm holster for easy access. Slipping on our robes and picking up our school bags, that I have already prepared, we walked to the door, hand in hand.
"Let's see what everyone else is up to"
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The common room is in a commotion of talks and noise that stopped the second the duo stepped in view of everyone else. They all stared in awe and the duo looked at them with a bored expression. A clearing of a throat showed a tall gangly guy with a short hair and he stepped forward.
"Good Morning, my name is Marcus Flint, 5th year and I would like to welcome you two to Slytherin house. I hope you slept well?" Manners, this could do thought Roxanne.
"Quite" They spoke in unison.
"So um, we were just discussing how to go about heading out to the Great Hall for breakfast and we would like your opinion on the matter" Hands behind his back, Marcus Flint waited as Harry and Roxanne looked over all the students of Slytherin. Waving him away in dismissal and he walked back to the spot he occupied before he stepped forward, the duo walked in front of the group and spoke to each other telepathically.
'Shirts unkempt, hair in disarray and don't get me started on the pores of that one girl. These are supposed to be Slytherins and yet have the fashion sense of a dog' Roxanne shook her head at the people in front of them.
'Yes I can see, so what do you want to do?' They stopped right in the middle of the group.
'Do what we do best: fix it' Smiling Roxanne cleared her throat for everyone to hear.
"This will not do, everyone, so would you please step up on these steps. The older ones, 4th year to 7th, on the top step with the younger ones, first years to 3rd, a step down from them, in a row and hurry it up, please" They all scurried quickly as they can and even splitting in the middle where the girls are on the right and the boys on the left.
"Good, when we point to you, you will come forward and we'll see what we can do" A flick of their wrist, their wands are in hand and the first years gasped in fear as they stepped back a bit.
"No worries little ones, these are for helping you with your wardrobe, your hair or makeup. So please do not be frightened. We will start with the older ones then make our way to the younger one so you may see what we are doing and need not be afraid" Harry and Roxanne turned to each other and split up so Harry took the boys and Roxanne took the girls. Overlooking every girl and if anything that is not right or well-kept then Roxanne waved them over and fixed it. Harry is doing the same with the boys, until a shout of displeasure came:
"What the HELL are you doing to my hair? Do you have any IDEA how long it took me to get his look!" Roxanne tsk at the noise and looked over to see Malfoy trying to redeem what was left of his gelled hair back. Roxanne stopped what she is doing and walked over.
"Draco, no offense BUT the way your hair was is an abomination to all hair care. You will look extravagant if it is NOT gelled back. With just a touch of this (Roxanne waved her wand) and shorted this part (He looked murderous when she said that) and Voila! Success and you do look much cuter now with this then that" Conjuring up a mirror, it showed Malfoy the finish touches to his hair.
What used to be gelled back would have made him have a mushroom sort of cut if it flowed freely and so Roxanne trimmed it just a bit. (AN: think John Connor's hair cut from Terminator 2 but blonder) The expression on his face almost had her laughing, but stifled it. The girls, however, started whispering to each other in approval of Malfoy's hair and so Roxanne smiled in pride, knowing they are the cause of that.
"So what do you think?" Harry asked while he is working on another boy.
"It is acceptable" Handing the mirror back to Roxanne; Malfoy briskly went back to his spot in line and a smirk on his features at the giggling girls. Roxanne rolled her eyes just as she thought one word to describe this; 'Boys'
As quickly as they can, they fixed what is need to be fixed: hair straighten and styled, top and bottoms magically pressed, blemishes covered, make up fixed, shoes tied and then showed them a mirror. The girls gushed with excitement and the boys smirk in their approval as Harry and Roxanne put their wands away, clasping their hands together again.
"Now that is done and you are finally ready, we will walk out of here with our head held high to the great hall and we will show this school we have class, not just because we are purebloods but because we take good care in our appearance, even though most of you don't. This little ritual will be happening every morning during the school days until every single one of you got it in your heads that we will not allow you to leave this room until you are proper dressed during school days. Am I clear?" Looking at every single one as they all nodded and said their 'Yes', the duo smiled and Roxanne was about to speak until she saw a hand in the air for a question, which was nodded for him to go on.
"Could you possibly lead us out there?" Draco Malfoy.
"We will" with that Harry and Roxanne walked up the stairs, in between the 2 rows and out the portrait hole, with 2 rows of Slytherin following right behind them.
'Can't wait to see Snape's face when he sees us' Squeezing Roxanne's hand as she felt the giddiness coming from Harry 'It will be a sight to see' Roxanne squeezed back.
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