A/N: Whats this? An update? COULD IT BE! Ok I bet nobody even remembers this story! Hehe *guiltily checks when last update was* SEPTEMBER? WHAT? Wow...that took me a while...But hey! What can I say! High school is hard! So yeah i would suggest rereading the other chaps first in case you have no idea what is going on...Please review and I hopefully won't take nearly as long to update...I might try over spring break. Definitely not this coming weekend because THE HUNGER GAMES IS COMING OUT! SO EXCITED! And I haven't even finished the book! haha Ok well SUPER SUPER SORRY for the freakishly long wait!

Disclaimer: I'm not even going to do this again...


Severus awoke the next morning. His eyes, still blurred with sleep, squinted at the ceiling. It appeared to be made of blue velvet. Blue, blue, blue, with a flash of bronze, was all his sleepy eyes could make out. Just one very blue blur. He shut his eyes and sank back down onto his pillow. Then he felt a slight weight on his head and something pointy digging into his scalp. Huh?

Hoo...The weight vibrated ever so slightly at the sound. Hoooo...It was louder that time. He felt something hovering over his face. HOOOOOOO...Severus's eyes popped open. There, hovering right over his face was a pair of large yellowish eyes. "Gah!" he gasped in surprise. Well, what do you know, there is a bird on my head. That's a first... He was indeed staring into the eyes of a rather large, scruffy brown owl. The creature hooted again loudly. HOOOOOO!

Then Sev heard a swooshing sound and what was just a dark, blue cave was flooded with brilliant, blinding sunlight. "Archimedes!" a loud voice exclaimed. Severus blinked in the dazzling morning sunlight at the figure beside his bed. The owl gave a little hoot and flapped off of Sev and onto the boy's shoulder. "Bad owl!" he scolded the bird. He was roughly Sev's height, with light brown hair and deep sapphire eyes. "So sorry about that...crazy bird! I'm used to him being my alarm clock but I would imagine that probably freaked you out a bit. I'm Taran, by the way. I'm in this dorm too." Despite the rude awakening, Sev put on a slight smile so the boy wouldn't feel bad. "Don't worry about it! No harm done. I'm Severus Snape. You can call me Sev if you want to," he said. "Pleasure to meet you Sev! This goofball here is Archimedes," he said gesturing to the bird on his shoulder, which was hooting softly and staring at Sev.

Severus took the opportunity to take in the dorm room. It had been too dark the night before to see what it looked like and he had been too tired to look anyway. The beds were deep blue trimmed in bronze. They all had velvety drapes and a small side table beside them. In the center of the room was what appeared to be a larger heater. At the foot of each bed was a trunk containing each boy's belongings. Severus stretched and scratched his head, wincing slightly when his nail met the place when Archimedes talons had poked him. He rubbed the spot gingerly. "Seems that Archie the alarm clock has claimed another victim," a voice said. Sev turned to see a boy with honey blond hair and twinkling brown eyes smirking. "Bloody bird nearly pecked my eyes out this morning. Talk about a rude awakening," he said. Taran rolled his eyes but smiled, "Nearly pecked your eyes out? Good, that means I'm training him well." The blond boy chuckled and walked up to Sev. "I'm Logan," he said, extending his hand to Sev. Sev shook it and smiled, "I'm Severus Snape, you can call me Sev." "Good to meet you Sev. I'm glad I have someone else who'll support my idea of serving Taran's bloody chicken in the Great Hall for dinner," he grinned and winked at Sev. "Hey!" Taran yelped indignantly, making all three boys laugh.

After Sev showered and dressed in his brand new robes, he grabbed his bag and headed down the stairs to the common room. He took a quick sweep of the room with his eyes. He noted the soft, blue chairs by the fireplace that he sat in last night to read. The atmosphere was cozy, quiet and would probably be good for studying. He noted the book-laden shelves and study tables around the walls. He was going to feel quite at home here.

"Hey Sev, come on, we're heading to breakfast!" Taran called from the other side of the common room. "Coming!" he called back, and hurried after them.

Sev ate quickly, eager to start his first day. "Slow down mate!" Taran exclaimed, as Sev choked slightly on a bit of the toast he had practically inhaled. Logan snickered, "yeah Sev, what's the big hurry?" "Nothing," he stuttered, "just excited for classes, that's all." Lie. He knew exactly what he wanted to see and it wasn't his classes...Lily.


After breakfast, the three boys headed out into the hall. Lucky for them, they had nearly all of their classes together. They began threading themselves through the crowded hallways, jam packed with confused students. Suddenly, Sev saw a flash of red hair near the end of the hall. Lily. He sped up, forcing Logan and Taran to jog to keep up. Finally catching up to her, he caught her arm. "Lily!"

She whirled around to face him. "SEV!" she cried happily. "I've been looking everywhere for you!" She hugged him quickly.

She had? Of course she had silly! She's your best friend for Merlin's sake!

Standing a few feet away, Taran and Logan wore slight smirks as they watched their new friend blush when the red haired girl hugged him. "Dang he's fast..." Logan muttered quietly. "We've been at this school for what...like less than twenty four hours and he's already got a girl!" "And you thought you were the charming one..." Taran smirked. "I'll bet you a sickle that he'll walk back over here and have completely forgotten that we exist," Logan said, grinning. "You're on," said Taran and they shook on it.

Sev, completely unaware that his new friends were already placing bets on him and Lily, had been comparing his schedule to Lily's. They had Potion's, Charms, History of Magic and Herbology together. He silently cheered that they had so many classes together. What luck! A girl with jet black hair came up and tugged on Lily's sleeve. "Come on Lily! We don't want to be late!" She gave me an apologetic look and turned to leave. Sev watched her go and about halfway down the hall she turned and waved back at him. He sighed softly to himself, but the sound was lost in a bout of loud snickering coming from behind him. He jumped at the noise and turned around to see Taran and Logan doubled over from laughter. He glared at the pair until Taran regained enough composure to choke out, "So who's your little friend there Sev?" Logan waggled his eyebrows, "Yeah Sev, you'll have to introduce us later." Severus grimaced slightly. Oh great, Lily will introduce me to her lovely, well mannered new friends and all I'll have to show for myself is a babbling, bumbling band of baboons! Spectacular...just spectacular. He rolled his eyes at the pair of them, but his expression softened. "It's too hard to stay mad at such complete, utter idiots so you two are saved from my wrath...but just this once!" He laughed even as he was saying it and the other two joined in. "We best calm down and head to class. With all our laughing, these people must think we're drunk..." Taran said. "Yeah!" Logan chimed in, "Wouldn't want them to be after my firewhiskey stash already!" The group laughed as they headed down the hall to begin their first day at Hogwarts.


A/N:

So who enjoyed my sad attempts at humor! Anyone? Anyone? Yeah I didn't think so... I hope y'all liked the new characters! They will obviously be recurring characters now! YAY! PLOT DEVELOPMENT!

So leave reviews so I'll be happy! and so I won't take 6 months to update again! :) Love y'all! And thanks to those who actually do remember and stick with this story! Bear with me! I'm working on it!