posted this, but deleted since I believe I made an error at the end. In the books, Slughorn mentioned that he would have liked to have Sirius in his house since he's had all the Blacks in his house. So, I'm implying that he liked Sirius so I went to edit that.

For the anonymous reviewer: Yes, Harry does get sorted into Slytherin. Three actually got sorted into different houses, but Harry being sorted into Slytherin isn't much of surprise unlike the other two.

On a somewhat related note, has anyone else ever taken a sorting hat quiz? I was taking quite a few today and I was enraged I tell you to find out that I kept getting sorted into Gryffindor and Hufflepuff. I should be put into Slytherin I look like one of the "bad guys, I'm evil! I mean, Gryffindors are such reckless and so "good". And Hufflepuffs—what the heck is a Hufflepuff?

I'm just kidding, don't kill me! I've just been watching A very Potter musical. I love my Gryfindors! And Hufflepuffs are particularly good finders, Tonks found Remus!

Now moving on the actually story! This chapter is on Harry's point of view.

Warning: FILLER Chapter!

Before the Worst

Chapter 4: The Slytherins

Harry had been twisting and turning, muttering things about the Department of Mysteries all night. After trying many different sleeping positions and waking up twice in the night due to not being able to sleep because of the memories of the Battle of the Department of Mysteries. He finally accepted the fact that his efforts on trying to get some sleep was a lost cost, he wiped the sweat of his forehead and headed to the Slytherin common room.

The Slytherin Dungeon had a low-ceiling; it was filled with low backed black and dark green leather sofas with buttons, skulls, and dark wood cupboards. It has quite a grand atmosphere, but also quite a cold one. Harry still hadn't managed to adapt to the new temperature, but he had founded it rather conferrable and relaxing to hear the sound of swishing water in the night-time. Perhaps that was what he needed to hear to get a good two or three hours of sleep. Harry green eyes traveled to the windows hoping to see if an interesting creature would pop its head to distract his mind. Muliciber—who in the future would be a future death eater, had claimed that he had seen the giant squid appear at one of the windows earlier today.

"Can't sleep?" Harry looked away from the window and turned around to the face a man with haughty good looks. He looked quite similar to Sirius, but his hair was shorter than Sirius and his eyes were black not gray.

"Sirius, what the heck are you doing here?" Harry questioned the man with chiseled features. Sirius face seemed to darken. The man looked away, his jaw clenched. Harry didn't understand why Sirius was acting like this, he seemed rather offend. Harry's eyes traveled to the man again, he noticed that the man had Slytherin robes. How the hell did Sirius get his hands on a pair of Slytherin robes?

Harry heard a scoff, his eyes narrowed to the person next to Sirius who had provided the unpleasant noise. He was a pallid wiry looking boy with a rather large hooked nose, black penetrating eyes, and oily black hair that jumped to about his face. The man glared at Harry before burying his face back to his copy of Advance Potion-Making.

"I'm not Sirius," Harry heard the other man say rather nastily. "I'm Regulus, six year" he said a beat later in a nicer tone and he extended his hand to Harry.

Harry hesitated at first, but regardless shook the hand. "Harry, seventh year" he said and Regulus acknowledge by nodding. "Sorry about that, it's just you and Sirius look very similar."

"That's reasonable, we're brothers." The man said no louder than a murmur. Regulus cleared his throat interrupting Harry's thoughts "This is Severus Snape," Regulus said pointing to the man buried into his potion book.

Snape acknowledge by a "mph" without looking up from his book. Figures, Harry thought. The younger Snape was just as unpleasant as the one he knew. "What's your blood status?" asked Snape. Harry tried to control the strong urge he had to roll his eyes; he had been asked this question by every Slytherin.

"Half-blood," Harry said, and Snape acknowledge by another "mph" still not taking his eyes out of the book.

"Can't sleep?" asked Regulus trying to make conversation.

"Correct, you too?"

"No, doing last minute homework,"

Snape scoff again, this time taking his eyes out of his book to glare at Regulus. "You are doing your own homework?"

Regulus rolled his eyes, "Correction Harry, dear ol' Severus here is helping me do my homework." Regulus said, a beat later he added mockingly "Better?"

"Not quite," Snape said trying to hide his smile with his potion book. "I just wanted to say—"

"Severus, I'm warning you if you say 'I told you so' again this time I will hex you to oblivious!" said Regulus glaring at the greasy hair boy.

Snape let out a chuckle. Disbelieve ran through Harry, did Snape just laugh? "Now, Black I wasn't going to say that!" Snape exclaimed and Regulus mumbled to himself "I thought so". A beat later Snape continued, "But, now that you mentioned that I did tell you to do— "began the drawling voice of Snape, but he caught himself off when not noticed the glare that Regulus was sending him. Snape let out a smirk and then once again buried his face to his copy of Advance Potion-Making; Regulus followed his league and did the same.

"So you like Potions?" Harry asked after a while, desperate to make a conversation.

Snape briefly nodded still not looking away from the book, "It's a very important subject," he said, "You can do so many things with potions like—"

"Yes...you can bottle fame, brew glory, even stopper death," Harry murmured remembering what Snape had said in his in his first potion class.

Snape looked up directly at Harry for the first time with approval. I'm having an almost-civil conversation with Professor Snape, Harry mused.

"Correct,"

Harry hadn't even bothered to get an hour or two of sleep and just stayed talking to Regulus and Snape. Harry had taken a quite liking to Regulus. Although Regulus was definitely much more stern then Sirius, he couldn't think of a reasonable reason why the two wouldn't have a good relationship with each other.

He still didn't like Snape, but he didn't hate him anymore. Snape was a much more pleasant person without having the advantage of deducting points from him. Harry still couldn't believe he had a civil conversation with Snape without the casual point deduction.

The three talked about school, and they all seemed to share the same favorite class, DADA. After hearing the two share their love for the dark arts realization flushed to Harry. Although he seemed friendly, Regulus would grow up and join the Death Eaters at age 16. He would join the Death Eaters this year that is, if he hadn't already. This made feel Harry rather sick, so he excused himself and headed to the boy dormitory to change into a fresh pair of Slytherin robes.

Fifteen minutes later, he met Hermione at common room. She was accompanied by two other women. The two had confused him with James Potter at first. The first and older one to Harry's horror resembled Bellatrix greatly. Her looks made it clear that she was a Black; the only thing saying otherwise was that she had brown hair and was relieved to hear that she was Andromeda, who Sirius mentioned to him before as his favorite cousin. The other woman was a very pale woman with pale blond hair (almost white) and cyan eyes. Hermione introduced her as Narcissa Black. Harry hadn't even realized it was Narcissa Black; she didn't have that donning expression that suggested that she was sniffing dung nor did she speak in a cold voice. Andromeda linked arms with her younger sister and excused herself saying that she was headed to the great hall for breakfast.

Once they left, Hermione gave her opinion on Narcissa saying that although she didn't have a cold voice nor had that donning expression she was very snobby. She also voiced out saying that she did like Andromeda. Harry told her about Regulus and Snape, and a look of concern was evident in Hermione's features. She warned him to stay away from them. The two were forced to sit in the Slytherin table, and they were accompanied with Andromeda, Narcissa, and Lucius Malfoy. Andromeda and Narcissa seemed to be close, which made Harry feel disgusted at how later on Narcissa would later cut of contact with her only because of the fact that she would married Ted Tonks.

They finished rather quickly purposely, not wanting to be around to much with the Slytherins. He had made the conclusion that he felt the same way about as Narcissa as Hermione did, she was snobby. He didn't like younger Lucius either since it was evident that he believed he was better than anyone.

As they stood up, a redhead walked up to them. Lily Evans, his mom. He knew that the fiery red head and his father didn't like each other during school, but he was stunned to see her attitude towards the Marauders yesterday. It made him wonder how he ended up being born in the first place. She informed them that Dumbledore had asked her to show them around. And that Dumbledore had asked the "prat" to show Ron and Malfoy around the school.

She showed them to the first period, Advance potion. And to his luck introduce them to a younger looking Professor Slughorn. Hermione informed Harry that he might still be able to get that memory.

To everyone's annoyance Slughorn separated them into pairs which purposely involved most Slytherins being paired with the Gryffindors. Harry noticed that Andromeda was paired with a Hufflepuff, Ted Tonks who she would later grow up to marry, but she didn't look to happy about it. He guessed that maybe this would be the first time the two would interact with each other.

Hermione had been paired up with Sirius. And Harry had been more then glad to be paired up with his mother; finally he would have a moment to finally talk to her. But as soon as the fiery red head sat down, she didn't bother to look at him in the eye. She quickly began to work at the task at hand; they had to create an antidote following the Golpalott's Third Law. Harry was just about to suggest to his mother to use a bezoar, but he heard the soft voice of Hermione from in back of him whisper to Sirius. "What if I told you we could get full-credit without doing any work?"He heard Hermione say to Sirius, Harry caught a glimpse of Hermione with the bezoar resting in her palm.

"Well, my love I'll say that your amazing and ask for your hand in marriage," Harry couldn't help but roll his eyes. Bloody hypocrite, he thought bitterly. Hermione had been scolding him since he got the Half Blood Prince copy of Advance Potion-Making in his hands for not following the 'official instructions'. Yet here she was using the bezoar as an antidote.

"Creevey, are you planning on doing anything?" said his mother in a non-polite tone from besides him interrupting his thoughts. "Creevey, hello?"

Harry spun his head to face his mother. He had forgotten he had token the surname of the Creeveys. "Oh, um, right sorry"

Lily blinked, she looked at Harry was a puzzled expression. "What?" answered Harry rather defensively.

Slowly, a rosy scarlet color spread over Lily's cheeks, making her face take on an almost childlike appearance. She quickly turned her head away, embarrassed by her reaction. A beat later Lily turned back to face Harry, the red in her cheeks faded a bit. She offered him an embarrass smile before speaking, "Sorry for staring, it's just you look so much like that prat," she said pointing her head towards the direction James was sitting. "So I thought wrongly that you were as obnoxious as he was, I'm sorry." She said offering him a sympathetic smile.

Harry nodded, not sure on how to reply.

"I'm sorry for being rude to you," Lily began, when she notice Harry didn't reply she continued with a warm smile. "Why don't we start over? I'm Lily Evans, your Harry right?" she said extending her hand to Harry.

Harry shook it, a smile curved on his lips and he opened his mouth to say something, but stopped when Professor Slughorn that they were out of time. Harry heard Lily curse to the air.

"Ah, very good Severus!" at the mention of Snape, Lily body stiffen as she let out a scoff. When Slughorn looked at Snape's partner the broad smile in his face disappeared. "I-I guess you also did a good job, Mr. L-lupin" Harry heard Slughorn say through stuttering lips. Harry guessed that Slughorn was aware that Remus was a werewolf.

No one besides Remus and Snape finished their potion. Slughorn showed a bit of disappointment to find out two of their top students, Lucius and Lily haven't finished. Lucius countered this by blaming it on James. When Slughorn got to Hermione and Sirius, he let out a gasp before roaring with laughter. Hermione responded by offering him a cheeky grin.

"Ah, you have nerve Mrs…"

"Mrs. Granger,"

"Mrs. Granger very clever indeed!10 points to Slytherin for sheer cheek!" Slughorn boomed with a broad smile. "Mrs. Granger, sorry I don't recognize your surname did your mother happen to be—"

"What about Gryffindor?" Sirius called out, interrupting Slughorn. Slughorn faced Sirius with evident puzzlement.

"What about Gryffindor?"

"Shouldn't I get points for Gryffindor, since I kinda helped Hermione?"

Slughorn let out a laugh and then walked away leaving a very confused and annoyed Sirius Black behind. "Alright, class dismiss! Mrs. Granger please stay I would like to speak to you."

Sorry for the abrupt ending! I didn't know how to ended, and I didn't want to make it that big.

Anyways, I wanted to put a little in there about the Slytherins. I always was intrigued by Regulus, so I would like to put his relationship with Sirius in the story.

Next chapter would most likely be from Ron's point of view. I've been leaving him out of the story, SMH.

Please review. Promise next chapter will be better!