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'Talking' Silent Communication

"Talking"

'Thinking' Sometimes individual monologue

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Year One pt8

"Harry, you better be up before I get out of the bathroom or else we will have a repeat of yesterday morning, with you on the cold, cold floor"

These has been the first words to be spouted out every morning since the first day, a month ago and yet has no meaning to Harry as he still slept, snuggling in his bed and pillow. Sighing, Roxanne got ready and in the time spent getting ready and out of the bathroom, Harry is still unmoving snuggling on his pillow and with a smile of contentment no less.

During the month long beginning of the school year, both Harry and Roxanne have establish a sort of routine every other day. Get up, Harry on the floor or not on the floor, they leave, check on the rest of the Slytherin's appearance, walk to the Great Hall, eat and then pair up with Hermione and Pansy to go to class, sometimes Draco joined in.

In between all those, they sometimes have to go on a hand's on approach to some of the students that didn't get the memo when they decided that bullying will be stopped and the pair takes care of the situation. After a while the students got it and keep their hands to themselves.

The Slytherins, after a month long familiar morning routine, have adapted the habit of checking their appearance before hand so time is not wasted in the morning checking them over again.

The month after our little speech about being a respectable house has spread around the school, though Gryffindor and some other house tries to get a rise out of us, most of the Slytherins did what the Duo recommended when they have no other choice: glue the offender's tongue on the top of their mouths and walk away.

It was brilliantly done so many times, Roxanne still laugh about it when the other houses are so quiet and their faces are red with embarrassment. However the prank percentage in the school's population has sparked a combat throughout the Slytherins, all pranks are harmless of course and the more adventurous students (brave or stupid, I don't know which) actually pull pranks on the Professors: From pop out can of nuts, spiders falling from the ceiling or other harmless yet funny pranks.

One of many favorites is that one time where the pumpkin juice was spiked and everyone in the entire school had their hair colors changed to a more radical color and it freaked out the girls of the school who are still hunting down the person that has done it. Not only was it Roxanne's favorite pranks but proud of it too because Harry is the one who pulled it off. He slipped out early in the morning before Roxanne got up, went to the kitchen and poured a special potion; he invented himself, in the pumpkin juice before the house elves could see him. At first, she didn't know it was him; just praised the prankster who did it, until Harry cracked, well burst with excitement of wanting to tell someone and Roxanne just laughed at his enthusiasm.

After that when the school's student population found out it was the Slytherins pulling the funny pranks, they actually got admired for it and that sort of made a good impact for the house. A pair of twins, redheads and Gryffindors, congratulated the Duo in a well establish prank-a-thon and even gave ideas. A pair Roxanne knew they would like to hang out with in the near future, if they like hanging out with a year younger than them but we'll see.

The percentage of those that opposed the Duo earlier in the term, are dwindling down to a small one as they rather have fun then be a complete ass to everyone else when everyone else is being nice and helping or pulling pranks. Roxanne knew at first it was just a small group, mainly them, that started on helping and being respectful to others but when it resulted in being respected and polite back, well let's just say it worked out. It's slow but its progress.

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Back to our room and back to a still sleeping Harry, I just shook my head and got ready in a stance. With a war cry, I ran and jumped on the bed on top of Harry who sprang up from his bed but I pushed him down when I landed. We wrestled until I am just about to push him out of bed when he said the safety word: Fine!

So I stopped what I was doing and got up off the bed, to let Harry get up while I went to the closet to fetch his uniform and get our ties ready. Stumbling out of bed, Harry grabbed his small bag of toiletries and went for it to the bathroom while I laid out his uniform on his bed and continued on our ties.

During this quiet time before heading out, I wondered what Severus' thought on all the new things happening to his Slytherins and whether or not he's going to do something. And about how our little group is getting along, with sarcastic and witty remarks. The twins, Fred and George Weasley, have increased their pranks on everyone, including their house and their brother whose face matches his hair whenever he is tricked. Surprisingly enough, the twins do sometimes fall into step with us whenever we walk the halls and once in a good while, when Harry and I tend to sneak out to explore, we find them out and about too. The twins have showed us some secret passage ways or short cuts around the castle that will benefit us in time and we thank them every time they show us something new.

Hearing the door open, I smiled at Harry who smiled a big enough grin and threw him his tie.

"You know what today is, don't you?" Adjusting my tie on my shirt collar and let Harry have the mirror so he may as well adjust his.

"Today is the day I've been waiting for since we got here but I do wish it came sooner, why didn't it come sooner?"

"Because they like the excitement that come with it when everyone else is as giddy as you, Harry, Plus it is mandatory to wait a full month before introducing this class to the first years of half-bloods and muggle born's" He signed and walked over to Hedwig's open cage to pet her. Searching my bed, Harry had his face look in confusion and looked around our room.

"Where is Collar these days?" Collar is my cat: black with white fur around its neck hence why he's called Collar.

"I don't rightly know these days; he'll turn up at some point in time"

Petting Hedwig and feeding her owl treats, Harry looked out the make shift window and sighed.

"You think mom and dad will send my broom soon?"

"I think they are waiting for a letter to say we screwed up and punish us by NOT sending our brooms BUT we have been good so far, so I expect them to send it soon or for us to come home for the holidays and you can bring it yourself" That made him smile more as I handed him his bag and shouldered mine.

"It would be nice to be back in the air again"

"Patience, brother, we just have to wait until after breakfast to go greet the missed skies"

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The chatter of our year's students is very loud at the moment as they are admiring the brooms out here in the open area by the castle, well the half-bloods and muggle-born are, and Harry is as excited as Draco is, who is bragging about being able to fly since he was like 5. I stifled a giggle as Harry gave me a 'keep quiet' look and tried to keep a straight face.

Harry has been able to fly since we got him and that was when he was more than a year old, Draco has no idea and so I wanted to laugh at that.

Hermione, who is standing next to me, quirked an eyebrow at me questionably and that almost, set me off because I could actually see her eyebrows being raised underneath the wad of hair she has but I waved her off for later.

Looking over, I see a white haired lady, Madam Hooch coming our way as she puts on a pair of gloves and she addresses the crowd.

"Morning class"

"Good Morning Madam Hooch" everyone greets her when she walks down the middle of our parted group of first years and stops to turn around right at the end.

"Welcome to your first flying lesson" I snort quietly but go unnoticed

"Step up to the left side of your assign broom, bring your arm over it and say Up, loudly and clearly" I watched everyone give it a try and stifle another set of giggles when I see the twins' little brother, Ron, get smacked in the face with the wooden handle of the broom.

"With feeling" really, Madam Hooch and then most of the people give it with feeling.

"Up" one word and Harry's broom is in his hand already and Draco looks to him in surprise but as he tried his broom again, it came up also.

"Up" not looking, the broom is in my hand and I watch Hermione try a good 3 times before hers is also up in her hand.

"Good, now then, mount your broom, lightly kick off the ground, and hover for a bit and then lean forward to come back to earth" I just stood to watch, but a wobbly figure caught my eye as did everybody else's.

The round fellow, Neville Longbottom I think, is going up in the air more and more as Madam Hooch is telling him to come down. Neville is wobbling on his broom before he shoots in the air and the air get caught in my lungs at how fast he is going, like holy crap!

Everyone is yelling for him to get down, watch it or slow down and by the looks of things, Neville has no control over his broom whatsoever.

Then he fell off. Gasps and silence filled the air as Neville fell.

By some miracle from above, his robes got caught by a nearby statue on the roof of the castle and then that ripped. Got caught again by some piece of metal sticking out from the side wall, then that ripped but good thing I guess because it wasn't that far from the ground.

Madam Hooch ran over to see if he's alright and helped him up but a cry from Neville told the rest of us that he is injured.

"Well, looks like a broken arm" She help him up while cradling Neville's arm and walked briskly through our group.

"I'm taking Mister Longbottom to the medical wing and you are to keep your feet planted firmly on the ground. And If I see anyone in the air, you'll be on the next train out of Hogwarts faster than you can say Quidditch" With that last comment in the air, she and Neville are out of sight.

Harry and I look to where they have gone but a quiet commotion made us turn around to see Draco holding up a sphere and taunting Neville about his accident.

"If only his fat ass had a squeeze of this then he could of remembered to land on his fat ass instead" Laughter from some of the Slytherins got Ron all fired up and he came up to Draco to defend one of his housemates.

"Give it here, Malfoy" Ron demanded and Draco turned to him.

"No, I think I'll leave it somewhere for him to find" Harry and I then walked up to Draco just as he is about to mount his broom and I held a hand out.

"Draco, give it up" Draco stared at me and at Harry before shaking his head.

"Draco" Singing his name in a sort of taunt and he still shook his head.

"Malfoy!" We yelled at him as he flinched at his surname and he finally relented as he handed over the sphere, with 5% for embarrassing him.

"Good, you're learning. Hermione" She by my side in a split second and I handed her the sphere.

"Would you be a dear and bring this back to Mister Longbottom in the Medical wing, Thank you"

Heading to the entrance, Hermione almost bumped into someone who just happens to be Professor Snape and he glared at her.

"And where do you think you're going, Miss Granger" Crossing his arms over his chest to try and look intimidating to Hermione BUT she is unfazed as she shows the sphere to him.

"I am to return this to Neville Longbottom who was admitted to the Medical wing for breaking his arm from his free fall" Snape looked at the sphere for a good second and then nodded curtly. Hermione then nodded in thanks and left, just as Snape addressed our group.

"It would seem that Madam Hooch will be a while and so asked me to dismissed you all, would you Please head inside, put the brooms where they belong and you may have the rest of the period to yourselves" Filing in, we are just heading inside when the same voice stopped us.

"However, would Miss Roxanne and Mister Potter please stay behind" At that Draco looked back and smirked at us in a sort of triumph as the rest of them left, leaving us behind. Harry then squeezed my hand and spoke telepathically.

'We didn't do anything, what does he want?' I just squeeze his hand back and we turned around to face the Professor.

A long staring contest later, Severus cleared his throat and stood sideways with his hands clasped behind him, looking out to the field.

"I would like to congratulate you both on a well thought out plan to minimize the school's thoughts on how a Slytherin should be. I see less hostile towards our house and more chit chatter among everyone. However, I will look the other way for the treatment of your own housemates for it is part of the plan, I presume?" we nodded

"Well then, continue on the good work and if I hear anything about this conversation from anyone, I will deny it, are we clear"

"Crystal" said in unison and Severus walked away.

"Holy crap, for a minute there it thought we did something severe and was about to get detention, which will tarnish our good record so far" I laughed and lead Harry to put our brooms away to look for our girls.

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