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- Chronicles of Nick, Sherrilyn Kenyon

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House Rules and the Mad Hatter

Moring came and for a minute Leo was disoriented. Where was he? Why wasn't he in his room? He looked wildly around the room, a whimper of fear coming out unbidden. Before he could start screaming in terror, Zach came out of the door near him. Zach took one look at his cousin and ran to Leo's bed.

"Hey, hey it's okay, you're just in Hogwarts." Zach whispered reassuringly. He hated seeing the look of absolute distress on Leo's face. Zach also knew that if Leo went in a full panic attack, it would wake up the other boys and Mr. Pot-er, Professor Potter would have to be called in.

"Hogwarts?" Leo asked confused, still looking around in suspicion. Zach smiled soothingly.

"Yep Hogwarts, we're first years Leo." Leo blinked as the last grips of fear started to fade ad he realized that he wasn't in any danger. He smiled weakly at Zach to show the boy he wasn't scared anymore.

"Come on, we should probably get ready, then go down for breakfast. " Zach added. Leo nodded in agreement.

"I don't think we should eat breakfast though, Alex said not to last night." Leo replayed as yesterday came rushing back to his still exhausted brain. Zach just groaned, remembering as well.

"Ungh! I'm hungry though." Zach whined. Leo giggled as the last visages of fear finally left and a wary excitement crossed his mind.

Rolling his eyes he told his cousin, "You are aware that my cousins know this entire school right?" Zach look at him confused, "this includes knowing where the kitchens are." When Zach's eye lit up in hungry anticipation, Leo laughed again.

"Let me get ready and then we'll go to the great hall."

"But food, cousins?" Leo snorted," Yeah but my cousins will be in the great hall, as I don't know where their common rooms are at."

"Oh." Zach replied sadly at the thought of having to wait for his food.

"Yeah oh, so shoo." At Leo's shooing motion, Zach mock glared at him and went to get ready himself.

After they both got ready, they went to the common room and saw a sign on the wall. Leo remembered that -Mellie? - had said that any important messages would be on the wall.

'Warning do NOT eat breakfast'

-Prefect Thomson and A. Potter

Leo saw the older students reading this and groaning, the first years however either looked at each other confused and shrugged or snorted and ignored it all together. Leo shook his head at the last group. He didn't warn them though; if they had to be shown, then that was their problem. The two prefects were at the entrance already, dressed and chatting. They looked up at the two first years.

"Morning, midgets." Smirking at Thomson's 'Mellie!' she winked at the two boys.

"Morning," they both replied, stifling their laughter.

"So as told last night, we need to tell you the rules and expectations of our house." Leo blinked; shouldn't they wait for the other students? As if reading his mind, Thomson continued.

"We decided, we wouldn't wait for all the students to come down, as that would be unfair to those who got up at a reasonable hour," Mellie nodded. "Besides, most of you are already here, and those who aren't here could have their friends tell them." Le and Zach looked back to see that there really were most first years around.

"Okay so," Thomson started in a louder voice," So house rules first. No bullying each other no matter what. No referring to anyone by their blood status or use any slurs, and yes this includes 'mudbloods' and 'blood traitors'."

Mellie continued," no teasing or bullying anyone in other houses either," looking at Leo she smiled and added," Unless they're family or really close friends and it's only messing around."

"No getting your fellow house mates in trouble on purpose and for the love of Merlin"- both Mellie and Thomson said together-"Do not and I repeat do not start a prank war with the potters or Weasleys or their friends."

"We do not want to unhex, unprank, or uncolor anyone okay?" Leo was giggling softly at that, recalling all the tales of Slytherin vs. Wotter prank wars.

"Also, one more thing to this year that we want all Slytherins to take note of." Thomson looked at all the people there that now included most second to seventh year students.

"We have a new Wotter family member in our house this year." Leo could feel the stares on him and he fought to breath evenly. Feeling two hands on his shoulders, he turned to see Benjamin and Sebastian behind him. The two fifth year brothers were the only other Slytherins of their generations so far. Bas winked at him, while Ben gave him a slight smile.

"So, all the rules are to be even more forcefully applied for him." Mellie continued," Unless you want to be bullied back by Leo's many cousins and their friends."

"So that's it for the house rules now on to the expectations." Thomson said cheerfully, as if the entire house hadn't just been threatened. "Okay, well one, you will do well on all your tests and lessons, if you have trouble ask, that's what we're here for. Two if you want to try out for quidditch, please be prepared to kiss ass or lose repeatedly to the Gryffindors, again." Grumbles came from the older students. But Leo laughed silently to himself and could feel Ben and Bas laughing too.

"Three, we will take points off our own house if we see any school or house rule breaking. Four, do not think that you can gain any brownie points with anyone if you get the Wotter clan in trouble, because A) you can't and B) that'll just get you in trouble m'kay? It's not because they're privileged, it's because they're bloody brilliant at what they do. Seriously the lot should be in Slytherin for their cunning." Leo smirked, 'more like their marauders' map' he thought. "Five, please don't let us lose the house cup again, it's really embarrassing." Mellie finished.

"Sooo, what? The house cup and quidditch rely solely on the first years even though we can play." Asked a student in the back, Leo had a sneaking suspicion it was Parkinson.

"No, but the house cup is a group participation thingy and it is useful to know for future reference not to mention that it'll prepare you for next year and the year after that and so on and so forth." Thomson retorted back.

"Oh! Also, even, if you're a first year, you can go to the try outs for quidditch. You can't get on the team but you can see how it's done, and we'll also tell you what to improve on for next year, okay? Okay."

With that Mellie left through the door despite Thomson's 'Mellie!' followed by many chuckles. Sighing, Thomson dismissed everyone and turned to follow his fellow prefect. Zach and Leo turned to each other and burst into laughter.

"Okay, so now that that's done, let's go get breakfast." Ben interjected before they started to giggle again.

"Or we can go to the great hall and we'll get you what you want." Bas gave his brother a look. Rolling his eyes at his cousins, Leo told them his requests and so did Zach.

After leading the boys to the great Hall, the brothers took off in the direction that Leo assumed were the kitchens. Before they could follow though, a voice behind them spoke.

"Morning Leo, Zach" Startled the boys turned to see an oddly dressed man with a cup of tea and smiling at them. He reminded Leo of the Mad Hatter, who was his favorite character from Alice in Wonderland.

"Um, hello professor..." Leo closed his mouth in embarrassment when he realized that he didn't know the teachers' name.

"Professor Heloise, but you can call me Professor Hatter." He winked at the boy. Leo giggled while Zach looked confused.

"How'd you know our names?" Leo asked when he recovered.

"Two ways I guess, one is that I pay attention to the sorting, and the other is that I'm the divination teacher and yes I am a full blown seer." Both boys nodded but didn't voice their thoughts, divination teachers were rubbish.

"Oh well, why are you out here?" Zach questioned.

"Hmm, well I could say that I'm enjoying the scenery or I could say that I'm warning students not to eat breakfast as Potter younger-that's Alex-put something in it."

Before anyone could say anything else, Professor Hatter yelled," Marcus! You'd better put that away before I confiscate it!" the boys jumped and looked around. There was no one there.

'Maybe he really is mad.' Thought Leo, not unkindly.

A student came around the corner looking guiltily at the professor. Professor Hatter just looked at him and sighed. "I'm letting it go this time, but if it happens again I'm going straight to Professor Silos okay?" the boy nodded and the professor let him go, after warning him about the food of course.

"How, how'd you know he was there?" Zach asked stunned.

Professor Hatter smiled mischievously. "I told you I'm a full blown seer." With that he left to go inside the great hall. The boys stayed there until Leo's stomach growled.

A/N: Welp that's it, if you see any mistakes feel free to tell me read and review bye!