"Donovan, Felix!" The professor called who was holding the sorting hat. No one else could have been less interested than Orion and his nephew and niece, Alphard and Walburga. However they did make sure they heard in which house he was since he was a mudblood and there was no way in Merlin's name that they'd accept a mudblood in Slytherin, the most prestigious house of them all.

The hat didn't take long before deciding on Hufflepuff. The boy seemed happy with it too and he was so excited about it that he forgot how to walk it seemed as he tripped over his own feet. Which resulted in nearly everyone laughing at the boy, Orion included. Felix had already become the laughing stock of the school but the boy didn't seem to be hurt by it at all as he stood up quickly, smiled brightly and continued his way to the Hufflepuff table.

"What an idiot." Alphard said and Orion couldn't agree more.

"Maybe just all mudbloods are like that." Walburga said.

"Hmm, perhaps or he's the most idiotic amongst them." Alphard said and despite Orion agreeing with them, he tuned out of the conversation once the feast started and he focused on his meal instead. He hated to admit it but sitting at the table with mostly a bunch of strangers felt more of a family meal to him than him having a meal with his actual family.

He only got along with his parents because he always did what they asked him to do but that was it. Orion wasn't particularly close with his parents, neither with his sister. He didn't knew if it was a normal thing to be this distant with your own family but he assumed it was since his cousins weren't close with their parents either.

The next day their first classes started and as their first class was Potions and Orion had quickly noticed that Slytherin and Hufflepuff had this class together. He wasn't looking forward to this at all. At least this first Potions class was theory only so he didn't have to worry about working together with someone. Orion preferred doing most things by himself after all.

Orion listened to Professor Slughorn and eagerly made notes. For a moment though he did look up and noticed that Felix Donovan sat in the row in front of him. He saw him taking notes as well but Orion rolled his eyes and returned to his own notes as he was of the opinion that notes wouldn't really help the mudblood. There was no way that Donovan or any other mudblood could be better than real wizards, purebloods that is.

After class Orion got pretty much left behind by the other Slytherins but he didn't care. He collected his stuff and left the classroom after saying goodbye to the professor politely. However he bumped against Donovan just when he left the classroom and cursed when he fell on his butt and hurt himself.

He looked up and when he noticed it was Felix Donovan sitting in front of him he opened his mouth and yelled: "Watch out where you are going you stupid m—" but when Orion's dark brown eyes met with Felix' marine blue eyes, Orion seemed to be unable to call him a 'mudblood' out loud.

"I'm sorry, I didn't meant to." Felix said politely even though it was definitely Orion who bumped into him and not the other way around. Felix helped him collect his stuff though but in the process his wand fell out of his wand pocket.

Orion could have just stood up and 'accidently' stepped on it but instead he picked it up and handed it to him. "Don't just drop your wand, idiot. Unless you want a new one already." Orion had briefly looked at the wand and even though he wouldn't admit it, it was a very beautiful. It was a white, fairly long wand with swirls at the handle and a light blue floral pattern. He never had seen such a not only unique but genuinely beautiful looking wand before.

"Thank you so much and you're right about that. I should be more careful." Felix said and after handing Orion his stuff, he left off again.

"He's so weird. I insulted him and he didn't seem even the slightest bit offended." Orion muttered to himself and he watched the other boy run in the distance before he went onto his next class which was Charms.

This class was practical but there was no teamwork involved and this time Slytherin had classes together with Ravenclaw. As Orion sat down next to Alphard, the latter asked where he had been. "Like you care, Alphard." He said.

"If I didn't care, I wouldn't be asking now would I?" Alphard asked.

"You and the others were gone as soon as Professor Slughorn the lesson was over. I bet you didn't take any notes either during his class." Orion said.

"Notes? Maybe you should have been sorted into Ravenclaw instead." Alphard frowned and Orion felt insulted for a moment.

"Notes are a normal thing to take. Everyone knows that." Orion said but Alphard didn't listen so Orion decided to pay attention to the professor instead who just started explaining how the levitation charm was done and to Orion the charm seemed fairly easy to understand.

Orion did it correctly on his first try and it got the attention of the professor but also from the students. Alphard rolled his eyes though and called him a show off. "At least I'm able to cast the charm. I don't see your feather floating." Orion said back.

During the rest of class he couldn't help but look at his wand. His wand was from ebony wood and it was quite a bit shorter compared to Felix' wand. It was springy and had an unicorn hair core. Orion wondered for a moment what kind of core Felix' wand had but soon put the thought out of his head again. 'What do I care about his wand?' he thought to himself.

However, Orion couldn't help but notice that his and Felix' wand were quite the opposites. Felix' was long, white and had quite a bit of details and patterns while his wand was on the shorter side, black and quite simple in design.

"Class is over, Orion. Stop daydreaming already." Alphard pulled him back to reality. Orion muttered that he hadn't been daydreaming before he grabbed his books and followed Alphard out of the classroom.

"Say, do you know what we have after lunch?" Alphard asked him. "Flying…I think with Gryffindors but I'm not fully sure but we definitely have Flying class and then for our last class we have Astrology."

"So two useless classes after each other?" Alphard asked as they went on their way to the great hall.

"I don't see why both of them are useless…" Orion said. He wasn't very interested in Flying class but he was in Astrology, this however wasn't something he'd like to admit to anyone and especially not to Alphard.

"So you want to join the Quidditch team in maybe two years?" Alphard asked, assuming that Orion meant that Flying class wasn't the useless one.

"Sure…" Orion said even though that wasn't true at all.

"Well that's way better than wasting your time with looking at stars so I'm sure your parents would approve." Alphard said.

Once they sat down at the table, Orion could hear a group of students gossip behind him so he decided to listen in.

"I can't believe someone that moronic is actually in our house. Donovan is really…I mean, at least he seems to be able to understand the material but those Gryffindor's were totally bullying him and he didn't seem to care one bit!" One of the girls said.

'They're badmouthing Felix Donovan? Even though he's in their house?' Orion thought. 'I thought Hufflepuff's were supposed to be loyal but that doesn't seem to count for everyone' he thought.

Soon the conversation shifted though. "What classes do we have later?" one of the guys asked. "Herbology and then we finish with Astrology. Donovan seemed really excited about that last one during Flying class." The girl from before said again.

Orion frowned at hearing that. 'Why must we have the same interest?' he thought.