"I said, no. As in we shouldn't." His decision was met by a smirk from his godly best friend and jaws dropped from the others.

"If we show them that we know, they will stop, they will change plans. So it's in our best interest to say nothing."

The boys carried on stared at the dark haired menace like he was an alien, they were wrong, the trickster god was.

The plan they made was perfect. They all made sure none other than those in the room at the time knew of their plan. It would be detrimental to have another who could warn Dumbledore of their plans.

Halloween came around and Harry was walking down the corridors with his best friends to breakfast. The great hall had been decorated to match the occasion. Jack-o'-lanterns were charmed to float with the magical candles and spiders were having down from big webs in archways. The parade of boys strutted into the hall wearing matching expressionless faces; the three snakes had varying emotions about the day ahead but they all refused to show it. They, as Slytherins, need not show emotion to others, everyone kept their distance from the whole house anyway; emotionlessness was just something that didn't betray weaknesses to the other houses.

The boy's sat down on the benches to eat their breakfast in companionable silence. When finished, the boys watched the owls fly in with the post and the morning papers. They all received the daily prophet but all packed the copies into their bags for later reading. Before leaving the group cast a look at Snape who nodded briefly. Loki had sent the potions master a quick letter this morning about what was going to happen that evening, they had thought the stern man would appreciate a little forewarning. The snakes left the hall and started back to the dorm. Passing the charms corridor, the boy's heard all too familiar chatter. When they saw the owners of the voices approach they hid to eavesdrop.

"Ron you really are useless." Came the snotty voice of a certain bushy haired witch.

"But 'Mione, I don't actually understand. We need to get close to that awful snake just so the 'Order' has more funding. Isn't that just Dumbledore? and can't we just say the hat made a mistake, imperius the hat, and sort him into Gryffindor? That would be easier." The small red head was really quite irritating sometimes.

"You can't use the imperius curse on a hat."

"Why not? It's alive right?"

The snob just rolled her eyes. "Because it was made my Godric Gryffindor himself. It would be like defiling the entire house. And anyway, Potter deserves to be in Slytherin. He would only bring our proud house to shame, or worse, he could drag others into becoming dark like him. We definitely do not need him in our house. What we need is a way to break his inner circle."

"We could talk to that Loki kid, he seems nice enough."

"But they never separate, we need to be able to talk to them all or none".

Just as they finished down the corridor, Loki slipped out from their hidden spot and strolled towards the two thieves.

"Psssst". Ron poked Hermione hard in the arm and pointed at Loki. They both just stared as he passed them, alone. This solved their problems. Yet, the two idiots just stood, watching their opportunities pass by.

"Hey, ummmm, Loki. We wanna talk to you". Surprisingly it was Ron who eventually stopped the god on his travels.

The hidden blond ponce had to suppress a giggle at the look of pure innocence on the mischievous god's face when he turned to answer the red-haired idiot. One thing Harry took note of was that Loki was a great actor, he could put the talent to use.

"Of course, you are the youngest Mr. Weasley, correct? Miss Granger? To what to I owe the pleasure?".

"Uhh…". The familiar mumblings of Ron trying, if you listened really hard you hear the dusty cogs in his head try and turn. Said cogs were abruptly shut down by the bushy haired beaver who looked distinctly unimpressed.

"We, Loki, were wondering whether we could hang out sometime?".

"Well", Loki tried his best not to show the sneer that wanted to appear on his face and wasn't entirely sure it worked, "perhaps you could meet me in the library after potions this afternoon, I'd be happy for the company. Harry and Draco are going to 'recruit' rather than study this evening, I opted out".

"Right, well we'll meet you in the library after potions. See you around".

When they were sure the sneaks were gone, Harry and Draco revealed themselves to a irritated Loki, who was sighing in deep relief. No wonder the witch had no real friends, only a limpet following her everywhere, she was atrocious company.

"Come on, we better get to charms". The boys proceeded to blaze through the day, showing their superiority at every possible chance, but in an elegant way, a way not to become snotty goody-goodies. They must keep their reputations intact. It was of utmost importance for them to be seen in a good light.

After potions in the afternoon Loki went to the library to go and meet the Gryffs. They were in his potions class but his group of snakes always stayed behind to talk to their potions master, the conversations were never boring.

Entering the room, Loki immediately spotted the fiery haired idiot and the bushy beaver. Breathing deeply he set off towards the table they were studying at with his set of books. Both Gryffs looked up when he 'accidently' slammed his pile of books into the table, Granger frowning because the godly snake had just made her spill ink on her essay.

Loki set down to his research without any interruption, which he was quite pleased about, but he knew questions would come eventually. He made quite a bit of progress on his spell research, he was in the process of making one that could show the bonds between people. The but he was really stumped on was the soulmate part, having never encountered his and without a soulpair to study from he had no idea how to go about finding the bond.

At 5:30 when he left to his dorm before the Halloween feast, Loki was followed by the sneaks, who bombarded him with questions that he ignored and gave vague answers to.

"So, hey, we were thinking we could be friends, you know? Hang out, have nice conversations? It'd be nice to have another friend". Finally, the 'friends?' question. Replying with a 'sure' Loki hurried off to go find Harry and Draco, he wondered if they had had any luck with finding anyone for the group.

Loki shrugged the thought off, he would find out soon anyway.