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This chapter is the end of the first year. Enjoy!

CHAPTER 10

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Severus was eating a delicious pumpkin pastry when he distractedly looked at the Gryffindor's table and saw the moment that Lily got up from her spot and stood at the table doing Merlin knows what. At first he didn't think nothing about it, continuing to eat and listen to his own house whispered discussion, then Lily's voice started raise until it reached his ears and everyone else's inside the Great Hall, making they look at her with open curiosity. The silence that had installed in the hall, broken by her soft and childlike voice, but her words were firm as she spoke them.

"- are upset and you are totally right, your culture should not be adapted by one person's wish or in favor of a small group! But we want follow wizarding traditions too! As a muggleborn, I want to learn about it and I want to be a part of the wizarding world not as a muggle who doesn't understand it, but as a wizard and a witch like any other! I'll celebrate the Samhain and I'll honor my family on this special day instead of just letting it pass like you all are assuming and talking behind our backs. So I'm letting everyone know it that I'm speaking on behalf of the other muggleborns, that we want to celebrate Samhain too!"

Shouts of "Yes!" and "Me too!" were heard from all of the other house's tables. "We want our Samhain decoration back!" was shouted at the staff table, where every professor was shocked at the student's behavior, especially Dumbledore, whose face showed a deep concern directed to Lily… Severus couldn't tell if he was approving or disapproving Lily's stunt, but he did have an idea if Dumbledore's speech was anything to go by.

Severus, for his part, couldn't close his mouth after hearing Lily's speech and the effect it had caused. He couldn't have predicted that she would do a speech like that! Everything started only as prank, even if it did escalate to something else, but it was just a prank…

"She's definitely a lion," Sirius said chuckling beside him. Severus turned his head to look at his friend and saw his devilish smirk. Everything had been Sirius' idea. It was supposed to be an innocent prank, after Severus had unknowingly given ideas to Sirius some days ago, when he had shared with Sirius his doubts about wizarding traditions. Because even though he spent days reading dozens of books about magic before Hogwarts, he wasn't interested much in reading about wizarding etiquette and traditions, a flaw that he went to Sirius for help.

Well, a person can always learn with their mistakes.

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"Good morning, sleepy Snapey," Sirius singsong as he sat on Severus' bed, at the sleeping boy's feet, who was now stirring from his sleep.

Severus woke up feeling confused. Something woke him up, but he couldn't remember what. He wasn't hearing his wand alarm nor his mother calling him... But most of the time he wakes up by himself, never his mother had to-

"Severus!" Sirius shouted as he poked Severus stomach.

"What?!" Severus shouted in surprise, jumping from his bed, but falling on the floor with a loud thump. His sheets all wrapped on his legs and his arms hugging his pillow tightly against his body.

Sirius cackled seeing Severus looking sleepy, confused and miserable on the floor. Severus, seeing the situation he was in, tried to glare angrily at Sirius, but all Sirius saw was a big pout on his friend's face, making him laugh even louder.

"Shut up you two!" Mulciber shouted from his bed, making Severus glare more fiercely at Sirius for his loudness and lousiness, making Black chuckle as he apologized to their roommate, he knew well that Mulciber treasured his sleep time like nothing else. Sirius tried to cover a smile when he saw that Severus was still glaring at him, but failed ridiculously and it made Severus more exasperate.

Of course, my glare makes Sirius laugh! I have no respect, Severus thought bitterly as he tried to disentangle himself from the stupid sheets.

"Here, let me help you," Sirius said offering his hand to Severus, who accepted a bit reluctantly. When Sirius looked up to a standing Severus and saw the fire in his eyes, he was quick to apologize to Severus in order to calm the little beast before he'd suffer with its revenge. In the three months of get to know each other, he had never suffered one in their ever growing friendship, but he could only imagine what Severus could do when he was seeking revenge.

Sirius apology, though, fell on deaf ears.

"You'll be sorry", it was all Severus said to him, before heading to the bathroom to do his morning routine. Severus didn't know the hour, but if Sirius was waking him up, he probably overslept for about half an hour… But he wasn't too concerned though, they had a good hour to have breakfast and go to the Herbology class.

"Oh, come on, Severus!" Sirius whined as followed Severus to the bathroom. "I was just trying to wake you up..."

"You could have done it without me being thrown on the floor!" Severus replied drily.

"Well, I didn't throw you on the floor! It was an accident!" Sirius said, trying to defend himself. "Come on, let's not fight! I woke you up because I have an idea for a prank and I need your help!"

"You what?" Severus shouted from the shower stall.

"We are going to replace the Halloween decorations for Samhain's! No one is going to suspect us! But we need to start making them now, we have two hours and half before classes starts!" Sirius explained excitedly at the other side of the stall. He was already dressed and ready to go around Hogwarts doing his biggest prank ever. He had trained a lot to be able to transfigure objects without a specific spell, using the most generic one, but making it powerful with Severus and he wanted to use his new knowledge with his friends today.

Severus apparently wasn't sharing his excitement, because when he next spoke, his voice was as cold as the weather outside. "What I want to know is if you woke me up to just help you if your prank…" Severus asked slowly after shutting off the shower. "What time is it, Sirius?"

Sirius winced instead of replying and tried to leave the bathroom silently.

"Sirius!"

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Severus ended up promising to not plan revenge on Sirius after the boy explained to him in details why he thought of doing the prank. Saying he was just too excited about presenting the wizarding traditions to Severus and his poor self couldn't have much imagination beyond what his brain used for pranks. Severus obviously didn't believe in a single word, but his curiosity was just too great to ignore. For a week he had seen a note on the common room announcing the Samhain celebration for the slytherins, but he didn't have an idea what was going to happen and hated when people talked about and he couldn't understand half of it. He knew the basics, obviously, but not enough to really understand it and that's why he bribed Sirius into explaining everything to him, because if Sirius wanted to change the Halloween decorations for Samhain ones, Severus wanted to know everything.

Secretly, Severus would have participated in the pranks without Sirius explanation as a payback, because they were going to cast tons of transfiguration spells and all of them were going to be tricky and difficult. Severus just couldn't pass the opportunity to train his magic. James, Remus and Sirius were also doing a really good progress in transfiguration and charms with Severus help and Professor McGonagall and Flitwick guidance. So all of them were going to test now their transfiguration abilities with this prank.

Please, take a minute to digest the information that Severus Snape does pranks now. They are usually to help practice his DADA skills with his friends, but they are still pranks. What a strange to world to live, isn't it?

Anyway, today's Halloween, or Samhain, has been the most different Severus has ever had. From the moment he truly woke up, after some relaxing time in the shower, he started to feel the magic around him as he had never felt before. An old sort of magic, surrounding him and the entire castle like a whisper. The curious thing about it though, is that he could really feel like the magic was whispering to him, carrying a secret that held all of the answers of the universe, but never speaking loud enough to be understandable. It annoyed him greatly, but as he was getting used to Sirius and James childish behavior, he could say that there are annoyer things in the universe... And the magic was really powerful and it felt brilliant, leaving him energized and ready to thrown Hogwarts into chaos along with James, Sirius and Remus.

When Severus and Sirius arrived at the Great Hall, James, Remus and surprisingly Lily, were already there waiting for them by the Ravenclaw's table. Apparently, Sirius had told them about the prank, but had forgotten to tell Severus.

"What are you two up to?" Lily asked with suspicious on her eyes after hearing Sirius and James giggling like two mad children.

Severus turned to look at her with a raised eyebrow. "Don't you know their plans for today?"

"No," Lily answered shaking her head, before asking with a disapproving tone. "Are they going to prank someone?"

"No, we are planning to prank the entire castle!" Sirius whispered excitedly, smirking at her. "Do you want to join us? I promise it's not something bad… For some people at least."

Lily didn't immediately refuse, as Severus thought she would, she slowly narrowed her eyes at Sirius, but be before she could talk, Sirius continued. "We are going to replace every single Halloween decoration for Samhain ones, at least the ones that we can find, because they are hidden until the dinner starts, so we are going to hunt them!"

"But why you don't want the Halloween ones? I'm sure that the dinner will be much better with them... "Lily said frowning.

"We don't have Halloween in our world, we have Samhain so we-" Sirius started saying, but Lily interrupted him.

"Wait, you don't have Halloween? So why are we going to celebrate it tonight? And what about Samhain? I have never heard about it!"

"My mother said that it's for the muggleborn to feel more at home," James answered. "As Samhain and Halloween are similar, but definitely not the same, Hogwarts prefers to celebrate Halloween."

"The purebloods and most of the half-bloods don't like it, so they have their own Samhain celebrations in their common room…" Sirius explained shrugging. "I personally don't care which one, I was going to participate in both parties anyway, but I want to change because I know it's going to be fun to do it…"

"But it doesn't make sense," Lily protested. "We muggleborn should be learning more about the wizarding world! I want to know what Samhain is!"

Severus eyed Lily for the minute of silence that followed before saying, "Well, Sirius and James are going to explain to me about Samhain before breakfast, "Severus said informing her, not ashamed to say that he didn't know something. "If you want to join you are welcome."

James eyes brightened at Severus suggestion. "Join us, Lily! After we explain to the two of you, we are going to try to see the best decoration we can use and turn them into games like pin the snitch on the seeker's hand or the pin the hippogriffs tail and if you can control your magic well, you can play the unlit torch bowling... We can do a lot of things!"

Lily looked interested and soon she was agreeing to join them in their mad plan. However, not even half an hour later, she got really upset after hearing from James that she and the other muggleborns were excluded from the private Samhain celebrations. Because like the other houses, Gryffindor also has their own celebration, except they don't invite muggleborn and most of the half-bloods to join them.

Severus wasn't obvious like Sirius, James and Remus, though. He saw right through why Lily was so upset… She wasn't thinking about the other muggleborns or half-bloods, she was upset because she wasn't invited even being friends with all of the pureblood girls. Well, to be fair, Severus would have been upset too if he discovered that Sirius was planning to join Slytherins secret party and didn't even tell him about it. Still, he wasn't going to admit that he would be too upset about it, he was happy to just call bullshit on Lily's concern for the other muggleborns.

Remus showed them the main places that they would focus and put games and other fun stuff like hair coloring pranks and places to put the transfigured decoration. And only after a small lecture from him, Sirius and James agreed to do some more serious transfigurations and really make symbolic objects of the celebration like placing four Feast of the Dead tables on the end of each house table, some blessed torches and bonfires and some more significant stuff. By the time they ended, breakfast was halfway through, so they rushed back to the Grand Hall to eat a good meal because they would have a long day ahead.

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Unfortunately, Severus doesn't share classes with the Gryffindors on Fridays, but they share the same free period at the afternoon so he'll have to wait to start the pranks. After breakfast, his first class was a relatively slow-paced Herbology class, he chatted with Lucinda, Sirius and some Hufflepuff boys while learning the correct way to harvest the most common potion ingredients. The weird thing though, was that Davey Gudgeon wasn't being his usual cheerful self. Why pray tell, Severus had paid attention to this detail? Well, firstly, the boy is always too happy and cheerful, annoyingly so sometimes. Secondly, because the boy would turn his head away too quickly when their eyes met or when Severus caught him looking at him. If this wasn't a suspicious behavior… He tried to talk with Davey when they were cleaning themselves after class, everyone still using the spell that Severus hat taught them, but even them the boy escaped before Severus could finish greeting him. Definitely something's wrong, he needs to talk with the boy on their charms class for sure.

History class with its glacial pace, did nothing to help Sirius excitement and anxiety. Severus successfully distracted Sirius for the entire class studying with him a silencing bubble charm that you could cast on someone and they wouldn't hear or produce any sound until countered or fade on its own after a day. They only had some minutes left before class finishing when Sirius cast the charm on the professor's head, silencing him completely, making everyone around them gasp and Sirius laugh maniacally.

"He's going to notice, Sirius! Finite the charm!" Bertram Aubrey yelled at Sirius furiously. "He's going to blame the entire class if-"

"Spoilsport," Sirius sneered before casting a Finite Incantatem, he looked at Severus with a big pouting face.

"Well, you can cast on him outside of the class…" Severus suggested not bothering to be on the correct side this time. The entire class studied with the textbook while trying to ignore Professor Bing's voice, during the classes anyway. Silencing his voice would only help them keep studying with more concentration… Fortunately, the ghost didn't notice anything, he just kept talking like nothing happened.

When Severus went to Charms class, he saw Davey already sitting on his usual place, right beside Professor Flitwick feet, and he went to talk with the boy. Who, as expected from his late behavior, turned his blushing face quickly when he saw Severus approaching him.

"Hi, Davey, everything's alright?" Severus asked not beating around the bush.

Davey blushed like a bright beetroot, before nodding his head and finally looking, although sheepishly, at Severus. But he still didn't say a word to him, making Severus frown at the boy.

"Are you sure, Davey?" Severus asked. "You are kind of acting weird… So I got… You know, concerned about you…"

Davey's eyes widened, his face becoming even redder. "Are you concerned about me? Truly?"

Severus bit his lip, not wanting to admit such a thing again, already regretting having said it once... He couldn't believe he was in this kind of situation! Still, if he was already there, he might as well finish the conversation. "It doesn't matter, Davey," he said softly. "Are you well or not? You are not acting like yourself."

Before Davey could answer his question though, Lucinda appeared by his side and dragged him top the other side of the classroom ignoring when he tried to go back to the Hufflepuff.

"Why did you do that?" Severus hissed at the girl as he sat between her and Sirius, who was looking at him curiously, but Severus ignored him.

"It's me who should be asking question! The poor boy was going to explode if he turned a shade darker!" Lucinda whispered with a strange tone on her voice. Severus had to look at her to realize she was just amused by all this. He looked back at Gudgeon and had to admit that the kid looked a little purple. Severus was definitely sure that something was going on with the boy.

"I was just trying to be a decent person," Severus said annoyed, looking back at his cousin, just in time to see her and Sirius snickering at him, making Severus want to hex their faces off!

It took time to concentrate on the Professor Flitwick's lecture, but by the half of the charms class, Severus had already forgotten about the embarrassing situation and was concentrating on his charms practice. They had started to study the Incendio charm last class, so today everyone would get to practice. Flitwick informed them that the classroom was heavily warded against fire and any furniture would not burn or explode, they only need to pay attention and not point their wand to each other. Severus, already having all the first year charms perfected, got a different assignment than the others. Instead of only lightning a candle, he was given a bubble glass bottle with three candles inside of it and he would need to find a way to lit of the three candles at the same time with only one Incendio being cast. On top of that, he would use a cutting charm to carve a restorative rune that Flitwick had copied for him on the three candles without cutting the glass around them.

Severus eyes were glowing when Flitwick gave him the special challenge. He was so excited to try to complete his challenge. He had an idea what to do already, but he would need to practice to perfect the cutting charm. Thinking about that, he copied five times his glass with the candles for trial and test, making Sirius look at him with envy. Because he was required to first finish the practice with the rest of the class before attempting to join Severus. Of course, he wasn't as interested as Severus in doing that just for purpose of research or because it would useful for him, but it was interesting enough to keep him busy and improving his magic instead of just wasting time.

When class was wrapped up, Severus and Sirius didn't waste a minute before heading to their designed area to start the hunt for the hidden decoration in the great hall to transfigure it into new ones. For that, they had spell a thick layer of Notice-Me-Not charm on them and had to work quickly because there are always dozens of students coming and going or just hanging in the Great Hall and they kept bumping into them even when they tried to dodge another student.

It was already dinner time when the two of them met with Lily, Remus and James. All of them were exhausted, both their magic and bodies were feeling the burden of spending hours using magic. But it was totally worth it, because their prank was a success.

Dozens of people had their hairs colored with the most bright and obnoxious colors. People with multi colored skins or hair were walking sputtering mad or laughing along their friends. The prank was really simple, they only needed to curse an object once and every time someone touched, or walked over it, they would be cursed, the spell was purely cosmetic and easy to cast.

There were also lots of people playing the games on the corridors leading to the Great Hall and near the common rooms. The young years loved simple games while the older enjoyed the pumpkin dummies, cursing them hell and back to only see them come back again. They were close at casting a Fiendfyre to destroy the pumpkins. Severus did know if the rune he had just learned with Flitwick would hold against the magical fire. But he certainly didn't want to stay there to verify.

What not everyone counted was the reaction of the professors. They all were a little stunned, except for Dumbledore. He didn't look amused or astonished at all.

When the clock finally hit six o'clock, Dumbledore raised from his seat and stood with a somber air that got most of the students confused. Those who didn't recognize the Samhain traditions, didn't think nothing out of the changes and the ones who recognized didn't think it was a prank, but Hogwarts really taking an interest on keeping the traditions, Severus guessed. He had observed the reaction from his house and all of them seemed pleased with the changes.

"If there is one thing that Hogwarts values most is unity," Dumbledore started his speech, apparently not caring about cordiality. "Unity can not be brought together by segregation nor by the imposition of one's belief. The responsible for this act against Hogwarts values will be severely punished, detention being just the smallest part of their punishment. I am sorry for not being happy at this moment that should be spent celebrating. But I must tell to whoever did this, please think about your muggleborn and half-blood colleagues before doing such an act."

It's pure non-sense, Severus thought, completely shocked.

Dumbledore paused his speech, scanning the Great Hall with his serious face, but still with his ever twinkling eyes. He raised his hands and clapped twice, instantaneously making all the Samhain decorations disappear. A second pair of clapping later, a new set of Halloween decorations appeared on its place and it was only then that Dumbledore smiled and went back at being his cheerful self. "Enjoy this Halloween celebration my dears, have a good dinner and happy and fun night!"

The deliciously smelling food appeared on the five tables of the Great Hall. But not a single one student ate from it, they were just baffled and shocked to react. But little by little, the students silently started to eat their dinner. Whispers traveled through the Hall, no one dared to raise their voice and breaking the horrible silence that settled.

Not five minutes later, Lily rose from her seat.

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Severus secretly smiled to himself as he watched Lily sit while the people around her congratulated and cheered at her. She was turning out a much intelligent person than he had giving her credit for. Gryffindors were known to have the courage of a lion, but courage did not give anyone wise words.

The Slytherin and Ravenclaw table was whispering to themselves while Hufflepuff was still cheering and talking loudly with the Gryffindors. The staff table it was the only table to remain in silence and Severus could bet that half of them would like to see the Samhain decorations back and the other half did not want to admit that themselves were not adapted to old wizarding traditions. Dumbledore also didn't react at the student's commotion and started eating his dinner and talking with the professor like every other day, making Severus become a little pissed at him and his attitude. But no matter, Severus will not concern himself over Dumbledore reasons to be a killjoy, Sirius would probably give him a dozen.

The rest of the dinner was uneventful, but the purebloods and some half-bloods were excited to start their own celebrations. To his surprise, Sirius, who didn't want to come to the Slytherin celebrations said that he was sorry again for not going to the celebrations with him, but he decided that he would instead join James and Remus at the Gryffindor's. Severus wasn't upset at all by the news, he wanted Sirius to keep participating in the traditions even if they weren't together.

To the surprise of no one, Evan Rosier was the one to literally hold his hand through the ritual like celebration. Of course he was grateful for this, but Merlin, he wished that Evan would just forget about him. After witnessing two other instances of bullying, Severus was convinced that Evan was just another bully out there preying on the weaker… But no matter how cold and venom-tongued Severus was at him, Evan never relented and often laughed at his attempts. However, Evan was never mean or bullied him in the dozens of times that Severus tested him, telling bits about his poor childhood or making fun of his appearance, going as far as contradict him saying that Severus has his qualities and a beauty of his own! To say that Severus was frustrated… So Severus just accepted his fate while it last, he did not want to make an enemy and would let Evan's friendly attitude die on its own.

On the next day, everyone was still talking about the prank and a lot of people were openly talking about their private Samhain celebrations. It was fun to see that a lot of girls kept their bright colored hairs, even Lucinda who cherished her dark curls, loved her purple curls even more. She said she would keep the color until she would have to go back home. After mentioning her house, the subject of Severus family was brought into discussion again. They argued for almost an entire month when finally, when December came, she had invited him to spend the Yule holidays with the family to meet them, but not necessarily telling them who his mother is. Too terrified to meet anyone, Severus refused on the spot, saying a dozen of benefits to him to spend his Yule in school.

Lucinda tried to convince him, but to no avail. She compromised to keep the secrete from their family, but they would to make a deal with her. He has one year to prepare and adapt, because then on the next Yule, he will go with her and tell their family the truth.

Reluctant, Severus agreed with Lucinda.

~o~

Being in the same house as Sirius, it made Severus study with him a lot more than with the Gryffindors in their group. But one thing that usually left uncomfortable was Sirius constant compliments. He is always impressed in the long list of spells that Severus knew already. Then he's saying how beautiful Severus handwriting is, and then how his hair was long and soft… Like what?! It really made Severus uncomfortable, but he guessed that it was what friends did with each other. Complimenting to cheer them up… Probably.

As Severus reviewed the spells he already knew, he started to concentrate back in his mind palace. He didn't have time to try to search for Occlumency as the sorting hat had suggested to him. But he kept himself in practice, always registering on his imaginary books entries for each spell and charm he encountered, listing the name, the correct pronunciation and the wands movements. So when he needs it he can practice and make it work like if practiced to get it right in the first place.

Uncomfortableness aside, Sirius and him had a good companionship. Aside from studying, they would band together with James and Remus and spend the day exploring the castle, reading near the lake, illegally flying with their broomsticks under heavy layers of notice-me-not charm when the weather let them.

It was the day before the Christmas Holidays that he realized that he had not sent a single letter to his mother not had she sent one. Around him, he could see the amount of letter that Sirius received from his presents as all the other boys from Slytherin.

Well, in his and his mother defense, neither had an owl to communicate. But differently from his mother, he could borrow one. Not wanting to lose his courage He promptly asked to Sirius if he could borrow his.

Sirius, as expected, agreed to lease his owl to him, but when he asked Severus if he knew he could use one of the school owls, Severus could only shake his head. He didn't know and nobody had said it to him…

Severus is not ready to forgive his mother for her neglect. But she's still his mother, so soon after breakfast, be wrote a simple letter to Eileen telling her about almost everything that has happened. And even put a sorry at the end of not knowing that he could get a school owl to send a letter, immediately giving his letter to one of the school owls to send.

~o~

After a lonely Christmas, not a single Slytherin and Gryffindor from the first year stayed, leaving him to his books, classes resumed and time kept moving fast.

He didn't receive a letter from his mother, but he wasn't expecting one either. So forgetting about his family problems, he concentrated solely on his studies and friendships. Nothing too incredible or notice worth happened on the last months of his first year. Well, aside from the pranks that James and Sirius pulled, but compared to their Samhain prank, the rest was quite mild. Talking about that Samhain/Halloween prank, things were still turbulent between houses. After Lily speech, most of the Slytherins ignored her words, but the rest of the houses started to openly discuss more traditions and discuss them with the muggleborns and half-bloods who were just as clueless as them. The actual benefit of the prank came with the Muggle Studdies Professor wanting to change the History Class curriculum so that everyone could study in dephe the wizarding traditions. However, Profesor Binns being the prick stubborn person that he was, refused any talk about the subject. In the end, nothing changed in their curriculums.

Controversies aside, Severus had developed a good professor and student relationship with Flitwick and Minerva and they often listened to him made suggestions to them. More than once one of his challenges were given as the month's project for the rest of the class and they would always ask for him for help that he would give promptly. To be honest, it annoyed him sometimes to be interrupted when he was in the library, but them they would compensations for his troubles. Like their pocket money, homemade sweets, interesting books… He didn't ask for any of this, but if they would give them to appease him, who was he to refuse?

The time to go back to his home was getting closer and Severus was getting more sad with each passing day. But as the last week arrived, he started to make food provisions. Simple things like rice and bread that he could preserve for a long time.

After the exams, in his last day inside Hogwarts. He finally found courage and went to ask Flitwick about the trace in their wands. Ask knowledge he had was guessed and the lies from Olivander, so he needed to know the truth.

Flitwick looked at him with a little of suspiciousness in his eyes, but he soon entered on his professor mode and explained to him. "Each wand has a trace until your seventeenth birthday. If you perform with your wand you'll be punished by the ministry with only one warning, but by third you get your wand snapped." Flitwick said sternly. "Rather than have each child spelled with a trace, our ministry has detection zones in its territory, so this way if a child from another country come here they would also get detected... But why do you wish to know about this?"

"Just curious professor," Severus answered calmly and shrugged. He couldn't tell that he was a clueless as a muggleborn because he would get suspicious about his knowledge. "My mother didn't want to talk to about this because she said it could give ideas…"

The joke worked perfectly, Flitwick laughed heartedly. "She's a wise woman then! I only know you for a year and I know how creative and smart you can be!"

Severus smiled at the professor, his chest getting warn as he felt recognized and seen. "Thank you, professor. See you next year."

After Professor Flitwick saying his goodbyes, Severus headed to the Slytherin dorms to look at his bedroom one more time to see if he was forgetting something. Inside of the room, Sirius was still packing his clothes in the messiest way that Severus could ever think. So he went to help his friend finish it so they would not get late.

"Do you promisse that we are going to meet at the Diagon Alley?" Sirius asked for the fourth time just that morning. "I'll die if I stay alone the entire summer with my family!"

Severus rolled his eyes. "I already said that I would... But if you insiting in being a annoying bug I'll certainly reconsider. I have better thing to do."

"You wouldn't, Severus!" Sirius whined. "Ok, I get it. I'll not ask again. But I just need to reaffirm to you that you are needed to train quidditch with us. Me and James will train a lot harder this summer so we can get into the team next year!"

"I know," Severus smiling a little at his friend. "I'll help you your training and you guys will study with me. That's the deal."

Out of nowhere, Sirius was hugging him hard against his chest.

"I'll miss you!" Sirius said in a whisper.

Severus laughed at Sirius antics, not hugging back, but he let him have his chick moment. "I'll find a way to write to you."

"Do you promise?"

"Yes, Sirius. I promise," Severus said, feeling annoyed at Sirius again. "Story of my life," he thought, before smiling again.

Next chapter we will progress into Severus teenage years.

So did you like the chapter? I'm sorry for the wait! I hope that I can keep writing like I'm right now and don't get stressed again.

See you hopefully soon!