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Chapter 3:
After the feast was over, Harry, Ron and Hermione came to Serena.
"Hello, my name is Hermione Granger, this is Ron Weasley and this is Harry Potter. But I suppose that you know everything about him, don't you?"
"Uhh, I really don't want to disappoint you, but I don't know who he is. By the way, I'm Serena Tsu- Snape, Serena Snape from Tokyo."
"That reminds me. Are you a relative of Snape's?" Ron asked pointing at the Potion's teacher.
"Oh, yes, I'm his sister."
"You've got to be kidding!" Ron said looking at Serena.
"Nope, I'm telling the truth. He found me this summer and took me to England."
"What do you mean 'found you'?" Harry asked curiously.
"It's a long story, believe me. Some other time. Now, where are the Gryffindor Dormitories?"
"We'll arrive there soon. Come on, let's go." Hermione called and they proceeded walking towards their Dormitories.
~*With the Slytherins*~
Hotaru was looking for the familiar face of Severus Snape.
'Where is he? Ah ha! There! Wait 'til I get there!' Hotaru saw Snape talking to a blonde boy.
"Sevvie!" She called out, making people's heads turn.
Hotaru blushed and ran to Severus.
"Hotaru! You must call me Prof. Snape not 'Sevvie'!" Snape reminded her, forgetting the blonde boy.
"Professor?" The boy asked, making Hotaru and Severus look up.
"Oh, I almost forgot you. This is my sister's friend and now a student of Hogwarts, Hotaru Tomoe."
"Hello, Hotaru. My name is Draco Malfoy," He said to the pale girl with weirdly dark purple eyes and the same colored highlights in her black hair.
"Hello," They shook each others hands.
"Too bad, I have to go. Goodbye, Hotaru and Mr. Malfoy." Snape rushed away, leaving the two standing there.
"Is the girl, Serena Snape, his sister?" Draco asked.
"Yup. Both of them found it out this summer."
"What do you mean?"
"I don't think I should tell you the story. Ask Serena." Hotaru said, following the other Slytherins to the dungeons.
'Ask Serena. Ask Serena! How can a 1st year tell me what to do!? Ask Serena, gee, like she'd even tell me!'
Draco left in the direction of the dungeons, mumbling to himself.
~*At Night, Gryffindor 5th Year Girls' Dorm*~
Serena couldn't sleep.
She closed her eyes, letting the tears wet her cheeks.
She couldn't stop thinking of the little pink-haired girl from future.
Even if they hated each other sometimes, she had started to love the little brat.
"Chibi-Usa," Serena whispered the girl's name and more tears fell.
Hermione heard the new girl sobbing and saying someone's name and became worried. Why would the cheerful girl cry?
Hermione couldn't find an answer, maybe she even didn't want to know it.
She had stuck her nose into other people's problems too many times now and didn't want Serena to dislike her.
Hermione fell asleep, forgetting all her troubles.
~*Slytherin Common Room*~
Hotaru could feel her Princess' worry and had come out of the 1st Year Girls' Dorm and was sitting on a windowsill in the Common Room now.
She could feel that something was going to happen, yet she didn't know that was it good or bad.
Hotaru looked at the starry sky, trying to find her planet, Saturn.
As she found it, Hotaru's planet mark started to glow on her forehead.
She felt herself grow and cursed the day she was born.
Hotaru didn't know that a blonde boy was looking at her from a dark corner, his eyes wide in surprise.
'What is going on?! Something is glowing on her forehead. Some mark, it seems so familiar. The mark of Saturn! She's growing? Is she some kind of weirdo? I think I *really* have to sleep.'
Draco quietly went to his dorm and fell in his bed.
'This is getting really weird,' was his last thought and then Draco was taken to the Dreamland.
In his dreams, there was a weird mix of everything he had seen and found out, that Serena smiling and holding Snape's hand, a figure of a girl with black hair and a staff in her hand.
He wasn't meant to understand the meaning of his dreams yet, he'd forget it in the morning, but when the time has come, he'd remember everything.
~*Early, Very Early The Next Morning*~
Hotaru ran out of the Slytherin Common Room with her black robe beating against her thin legs.
She had to find Setsuna, Michiru, Haruka or even Severus.
What would she say to her classmates, that she had aged during the night?
No-one would even believe her!
She looked like a fifteen-year-old now, instead of looking like an eleven- year-old!
Her feet took Hotaru to a gargoyle.
She didn't understand why, until a man with white hair and a long beard came out.
'Professor Dumbledore! The Head Master!' Hotaru thought and tried to hide somewhere, but it was too late.
He had already seen her.
"And you must be. Ms. Tomoe, the new student for the 1st Year." Dumbledore looked at the girl in front of him.
"Are you sure you weren't meant to be in the 5th Year, Ms. Tomoe?"
"Yes, I am sure, Prof. Dumbledore. Could you tell me where I could find the new Divinations teacher, Ms. Meioh?"
"Oh, Setsuna? She's right there," Dumbledore pointed at a serious Setsuna coming their way.
"Hotaru, it happened again? Can't you stop it? You'll look like a teacher in a few days, if you don't stop growing like that!"
"I've told you this more than once, I can't stop it!"
"Alright, let's make something up. Albus, could you transfer her to the 5th Year?"
"I suppose I can, but a lot of people will be curious or even angered because of this change."
"I do understand that, but I am willing to do it for Hotaru."
"If you are so sure, then I'll do what I can, Guardian of the Time Gates."
A mischievous sparkle appeared in Dumbledore's eyes as Setsuna nodded, trying not to grin.
"Come on, Firefly; let's get you back to the Common Room." Setsuna said and placed her hand on Hotaru's shoulder.
"Ok."
~* A Few Hours Later*~
Serena woke up and looked around.
Slowly she started to remember where she was.
"Hogwarts," She whispered and smiled.
Serena stood up and went to Hermione's bed.
"Hermione, wake up!" She said quietly as Hermione opened her eyes.
"Good morning, Serena."
"Good morning, Hermione. When does the breakfast begin?"
"I don't know. We'll just go to the Great Hall with the others."
"Oh."
"I'll go and take a shower. Will you come too?"
"No, not now. I have to find someone," Serena answered, seemingly looking through Hermione.
"Ok. See you later then."
Serena nodded and left the room.
As she stepped out of the Common Room, she bumped into a ghost, if it's possible to bump into a ghost.
"Oh, hello, Princess Serenity." The ghost, who Serena recognized as the Nearly Headless Nick, said.
"How do you know my name?!" Serena was startled.
"It's not hard, Princess. You look too much like your mother; I would have to be really dumb if I wouldn't recognize the youngest heir to the Lunarians."
'Youngest heir to the Lunarians? Small Lady. Maybe he doesn't know of her, she did come from the future.'
"I must say that I didn't recognize your brother until yesterday, Your Highness. He isn't like a Lunarian at all," The ghost continued.
"I'm sorry, Nearly Headless Nick, but I have to go. Please don't tell anyone anything, not even a hint of my real identity!"
"Don't worry, Princess, I won't."
"Thank you."
Students started to come out of the Common Room and Serena joined them, heading to the Great Hall.
~* Slytherin House Table*~
Draco looked eyes wide, at the weird girl from yesterday.
He thought that what he had seen in the Slytherin Common Room was just a dream.
But no, right there in front of him, sat a fifteen-year-old Hotaru.
Some other people seemed to notice the change too, but most of them didn't.
He just sat there, staring at the girl like a lunatic.
"Draco? Would you *please* stop staring at me? It really gets annoying," Hotaru said, making Draco blush a bit.
"I was just thinking, not staring at you."
"I must say that I have never seen a person thinking like that," Hotaru snapped and left the table.
Serena in the Gryffindor House Table seemed to notice that and made her way to Hotaru.
"Taru-chan, did you grow again?" Serena asked worriedly.
"Gee, isn't it obvious? If I won't be able to stop this, then I'll look like a teacher or an infant soon! Oh, Serena, what should I do?"
Hotaru threw her arms around her Princess' neck and started to sob.
"Don't worry, Taru-chan. We'll do everything to stop this."
Serena put her finger on Hotaru's forehead and as Saturn's planet mark appeared there, Hotaru felt peace come over her.
"Thank you, Serena," She said and smiled.
"No problem, Taru-chan. Come on, you don't want to miss our first class with Sevvie, do you?" Serena grinned and the girls started to walk towards the dungeons.
~* The Potions Class*~
Snape dashed in as dramatically as always, but this time there were two girls desperately trying to hold their laughter in the class.
Weird enough, Snape only threw a playful look on the two and started to check the list of students.
Serena and Hotaru were the last ones on the list.
"Hotaru Tomoe," Snape called out and a female voice answered him.
"Here, Se-Prof. Snape!"
"Alright, Ms. Tomoe. Serena Snape!"
Severus just had to smile at this, even the name meant so much to him now.
"Here, Professor!"
"Fine. Today, class, we are going to brew a potion that can make you invisible for 30 minutes."
Draco smirked.
This was going to be easy for him.
If only that Mudblood Granger wouldn't be better than he this time.
'Snape definitely seems very nice for his standards today. Must be because of this sister of his, Serena or whatever her name was,' Draco thought bitterly.
He wanted to be Snape's favorite student, that Serena was a great rival now, even if she was a Gryffindor.
Draco spat in his cauldron, making a small explosion inside it.
"Mr. Malfoy, please don't try to blow us up," Snape coldly said looking at something on his desk.
Draco pressed his lips in a thin line and started making a new potion.
~* In The Library, After The Classes *~
"Did you like your first day in Hogwarts, Taru-chan?" Serena asked, looking at her homework.
"I loved it! Did you see the look on Draco's face, when Sevvie said something about blowing us up to him? I wanted to laugh so badly!" Hotaru grinned, but suddenly fell serious.
"Taru-chan, is something wrong?" Serena took her eyes off her book and looked at Hotaru.
"Serena, I have never, ever seen you like this. Studying hard and liking school."
Hotaru turned her head away.
"You're finally growing up, Sere. You really aren't that bubbly blonde anymore. You are acting like a true future Queen more every day."
Serena's head fell.
Was she really acting more mature?
"Taru-chan, I won't be like my future self in a while, you even don't have to worry," Serena said, smiling at the girl next to her.
"We'll see," Hotaru smiled and closed her book.
"Let's go to the Great Hall, the dinner is about to start."
"Ok, let's go," Serena answered, putting her books to her sub-space pocket.
~* In The Great Hall *~
"Hey, Serena!" Harry waved and Serena walked to the trio.
"The dinner is starting. Sit down or you won't get a seat at all."
"Thanks."
"So what have you been doing today, Serena? We haven't seen you at all!" Harry said, putting some potatoes on his plate.
"Oh, I was just with Hotaru, she is quite bored."
"Hotaru? Oh, you mean that weird Slytherin, who was transferred to the 5th Year? She seems quite nosey to me, she doesn't have any friends, like, who'd even want to be her friend?" Ron said, not understanding that Serena was a friend of Hotaru's.
Serena just looked at Ron furiously, before opening her mouth.
"Well, if she seems so nosey and weird to you, maybe you shouldn't be friends with me either? You definitely can't say just *how* weird she is, she is rather lonely, no-one of you has gone through all the things she has! One day you'll find out *everything* about her and you'll feel terrible for all the things you said!"
Serena had stood up and walked out of the Great Hall angrily.
Hermione looked accusingly at Ron.
"Ron! Didn't you know that they're friends?"
"No!"
"What do you think she was talking about? What has that Hotaru gone through?" Harry asked.
"Don't know and don't care either! Right after you have finished your dinner, Ron, you'll go and apologize for what you said!"
"Yeah, yeah, 'Mione, for sure."
"Ron!" Harry and Hermione said in unison.
"Alright, I'll go!"
"Good." Harry said and went back to eating.
~* Somewhere In Hogwarts *~
Serena was angry. How could someone who didn't know anything about Hotaru, someone who Serena considered as a friend, say something like that about Hotaru?
She just couldn't understand it!
Serena's feet took her forward; she wasn't paying attention to where she was going.
She wanted to be a little child again; she wanted that anything bad she'd hear would mean nothing to her.
Serena wanted to run to her mother, she wanted to cry, she wanted to laugh with her.
Once again she remembered Chibi-Usa.
Serena started to run, she felt the air round her turn colder and finally she bumped into someone, falling on her knees.
"Sere, what's wrong?" Serena heard Severus' voice flow in her ears.
"Everything," She whispered, no louder voice came over her lips as tears fell on the cold floor and on her robe.
Severus looked at his only remaining family and kneeled down.
"My daughter," Serena whispered.
"You have a daughter?" Severus asked, surprised.
"My future daughter, Chibi-Usa or Small Lady or the future Princess Serenity," Severus heard his sister whisper.
"What is wrong with her?" He asked.
"She'll probably never be born, that's the only thing!" Serena looked Severus in the eye, with tears glittering in her eyes.
"Sere, I'm so sorry," Severus said and hugged the crying royalty.
As they hugged, the Slytherins, who were on their way to the Slytherin Dormitories, came in the corridor and saw the two.
Severus quickly stood up, helped Serena up and looked at the students.
"What do you think you are doing?! Can't a person comfort his sister without having everyone look at them?! Fifty points from Slytherin and go to you Dormitories NOW!" Snape yelled.
After about five minutes all the Slytherins had ran to the Common Room to hide from Snape's fury.
"That was easy. Can you find your way to the Gryffindor Dormitories on your own?" Severus asked Serena.
"I guess I can. Good night, Sevvie."
Serena gave a small kiss on her brothers cheek.
"Good night, Sere."
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Sorry again for not updating for a while.
I just didn't have any ideas! I was at a sleep-over at a friend's house on Saturday and there was one other girl besides me. We slept in a quite small bed, all three of us, and when it was 9.45 am, I finally had it. To be honest, I fell out of the bed and started to pack my things. It was 10.15 am, when I finished, and both of my friends were still sleeping, so I left and went home.
I just found out that I'm going to Austria in the summer and maybe even to a international camp in England! Can't wait to practice my English!
.:maarja:.
NB! Review!
Sir/Lady Lupin: You mean I didn't mention you the last time? Really? Oh my god, I'm such a bastard! Sorry, sorry, sorry!!! -_-'
Serena Black
Water Angel
Asellus Night
Empress
Kiwi
Nova
De-chan
Elizabeth the ultimate Harry/Usagi fan
Kimeno-pebols
Voting:
Serena/Draco:3 Serena/Harry: 4 Serena/Ron: 1 Hotaru/Draco: 2
So these are the votes so far!
Keep it up!
Now, on with the story.
Chapter 3:
After the feast was over, Harry, Ron and Hermione came to Serena.
"Hello, my name is Hermione Granger, this is Ron Weasley and this is Harry Potter. But I suppose that you know everything about him, don't you?"
"Uhh, I really don't want to disappoint you, but I don't know who he is. By the way, I'm Serena Tsu- Snape, Serena Snape from Tokyo."
"That reminds me. Are you a relative of Snape's?" Ron asked pointing at the Potion's teacher.
"Oh, yes, I'm his sister."
"You've got to be kidding!" Ron said looking at Serena.
"Nope, I'm telling the truth. He found me this summer and took me to England."
"What do you mean 'found you'?" Harry asked curiously.
"It's a long story, believe me. Some other time. Now, where are the Gryffindor Dormitories?"
"We'll arrive there soon. Come on, let's go." Hermione called and they proceeded walking towards their Dormitories.
~*With the Slytherins*~
Hotaru was looking for the familiar face of Severus Snape.
'Where is he? Ah ha! There! Wait 'til I get there!' Hotaru saw Snape talking to a blonde boy.
"Sevvie!" She called out, making people's heads turn.
Hotaru blushed and ran to Severus.
"Hotaru! You must call me Prof. Snape not 'Sevvie'!" Snape reminded her, forgetting the blonde boy.
"Professor?" The boy asked, making Hotaru and Severus look up.
"Oh, I almost forgot you. This is my sister's friend and now a student of Hogwarts, Hotaru Tomoe."
"Hello, Hotaru. My name is Draco Malfoy," He said to the pale girl with weirdly dark purple eyes and the same colored highlights in her black hair.
"Hello," They shook each others hands.
"Too bad, I have to go. Goodbye, Hotaru and Mr. Malfoy." Snape rushed away, leaving the two standing there.
"Is the girl, Serena Snape, his sister?" Draco asked.
"Yup. Both of them found it out this summer."
"What do you mean?"
"I don't think I should tell you the story. Ask Serena." Hotaru said, following the other Slytherins to the dungeons.
'Ask Serena. Ask Serena! How can a 1st year tell me what to do!? Ask Serena, gee, like she'd even tell me!'
Draco left in the direction of the dungeons, mumbling to himself.
~*At Night, Gryffindor 5th Year Girls' Dorm*~
Serena couldn't sleep.
She closed her eyes, letting the tears wet her cheeks.
She couldn't stop thinking of the little pink-haired girl from future.
Even if they hated each other sometimes, she had started to love the little brat.
"Chibi-Usa," Serena whispered the girl's name and more tears fell.
Hermione heard the new girl sobbing and saying someone's name and became worried. Why would the cheerful girl cry?
Hermione couldn't find an answer, maybe she even didn't want to know it.
She had stuck her nose into other people's problems too many times now and didn't want Serena to dislike her.
Hermione fell asleep, forgetting all her troubles.
~*Slytherin Common Room*~
Hotaru could feel her Princess' worry and had come out of the 1st Year Girls' Dorm and was sitting on a windowsill in the Common Room now.
She could feel that something was going to happen, yet she didn't know that was it good or bad.
Hotaru looked at the starry sky, trying to find her planet, Saturn.
As she found it, Hotaru's planet mark started to glow on her forehead.
She felt herself grow and cursed the day she was born.
Hotaru didn't know that a blonde boy was looking at her from a dark corner, his eyes wide in surprise.
'What is going on?! Something is glowing on her forehead. Some mark, it seems so familiar. The mark of Saturn! She's growing? Is she some kind of weirdo? I think I *really* have to sleep.'
Draco quietly went to his dorm and fell in his bed.
'This is getting really weird,' was his last thought and then Draco was taken to the Dreamland.
In his dreams, there was a weird mix of everything he had seen and found out, that Serena smiling and holding Snape's hand, a figure of a girl with black hair and a staff in her hand.
He wasn't meant to understand the meaning of his dreams yet, he'd forget it in the morning, but when the time has come, he'd remember everything.
~*Early, Very Early The Next Morning*~
Hotaru ran out of the Slytherin Common Room with her black robe beating against her thin legs.
She had to find Setsuna, Michiru, Haruka or even Severus.
What would she say to her classmates, that she had aged during the night?
No-one would even believe her!
She looked like a fifteen-year-old now, instead of looking like an eleven- year-old!
Her feet took Hotaru to a gargoyle.
She didn't understand why, until a man with white hair and a long beard came out.
'Professor Dumbledore! The Head Master!' Hotaru thought and tried to hide somewhere, but it was too late.
He had already seen her.
"And you must be. Ms. Tomoe, the new student for the 1st Year." Dumbledore looked at the girl in front of him.
"Are you sure you weren't meant to be in the 5th Year, Ms. Tomoe?"
"Yes, I am sure, Prof. Dumbledore. Could you tell me where I could find the new Divinations teacher, Ms. Meioh?"
"Oh, Setsuna? She's right there," Dumbledore pointed at a serious Setsuna coming their way.
"Hotaru, it happened again? Can't you stop it? You'll look like a teacher in a few days, if you don't stop growing like that!"
"I've told you this more than once, I can't stop it!"
"Alright, let's make something up. Albus, could you transfer her to the 5th Year?"
"I suppose I can, but a lot of people will be curious or even angered because of this change."
"I do understand that, but I am willing to do it for Hotaru."
"If you are so sure, then I'll do what I can, Guardian of the Time Gates."
A mischievous sparkle appeared in Dumbledore's eyes as Setsuna nodded, trying not to grin.
"Come on, Firefly; let's get you back to the Common Room." Setsuna said and placed her hand on Hotaru's shoulder.
"Ok."
~* A Few Hours Later*~
Serena woke up and looked around.
Slowly she started to remember where she was.
"Hogwarts," She whispered and smiled.
Serena stood up and went to Hermione's bed.
"Hermione, wake up!" She said quietly as Hermione opened her eyes.
"Good morning, Serena."
"Good morning, Hermione. When does the breakfast begin?"
"I don't know. We'll just go to the Great Hall with the others."
"Oh."
"I'll go and take a shower. Will you come too?"
"No, not now. I have to find someone," Serena answered, seemingly looking through Hermione.
"Ok. See you later then."
Serena nodded and left the room.
As she stepped out of the Common Room, she bumped into a ghost, if it's possible to bump into a ghost.
"Oh, hello, Princess Serenity." The ghost, who Serena recognized as the Nearly Headless Nick, said.
"How do you know my name?!" Serena was startled.
"It's not hard, Princess. You look too much like your mother; I would have to be really dumb if I wouldn't recognize the youngest heir to the Lunarians."
'Youngest heir to the Lunarians? Small Lady. Maybe he doesn't know of her, she did come from the future.'
"I must say that I didn't recognize your brother until yesterday, Your Highness. He isn't like a Lunarian at all," The ghost continued.
"I'm sorry, Nearly Headless Nick, but I have to go. Please don't tell anyone anything, not even a hint of my real identity!"
"Don't worry, Princess, I won't."
"Thank you."
Students started to come out of the Common Room and Serena joined them, heading to the Great Hall.
~* Slytherin House Table*~
Draco looked eyes wide, at the weird girl from yesterday.
He thought that what he had seen in the Slytherin Common Room was just a dream.
But no, right there in front of him, sat a fifteen-year-old Hotaru.
Some other people seemed to notice the change too, but most of them didn't.
He just sat there, staring at the girl like a lunatic.
"Draco? Would you *please* stop staring at me? It really gets annoying," Hotaru said, making Draco blush a bit.
"I was just thinking, not staring at you."
"I must say that I have never seen a person thinking like that," Hotaru snapped and left the table.
Serena in the Gryffindor House Table seemed to notice that and made her way to Hotaru.
"Taru-chan, did you grow again?" Serena asked worriedly.
"Gee, isn't it obvious? If I won't be able to stop this, then I'll look like a teacher or an infant soon! Oh, Serena, what should I do?"
Hotaru threw her arms around her Princess' neck and started to sob.
"Don't worry, Taru-chan. We'll do everything to stop this."
Serena put her finger on Hotaru's forehead and as Saturn's planet mark appeared there, Hotaru felt peace come over her.
"Thank you, Serena," She said and smiled.
"No problem, Taru-chan. Come on, you don't want to miss our first class with Sevvie, do you?" Serena grinned and the girls started to walk towards the dungeons.
~* The Potions Class*~
Snape dashed in as dramatically as always, but this time there were two girls desperately trying to hold their laughter in the class.
Weird enough, Snape only threw a playful look on the two and started to check the list of students.
Serena and Hotaru were the last ones on the list.
"Hotaru Tomoe," Snape called out and a female voice answered him.
"Here, Se-Prof. Snape!"
"Alright, Ms. Tomoe. Serena Snape!"
Severus just had to smile at this, even the name meant so much to him now.
"Here, Professor!"
"Fine. Today, class, we are going to brew a potion that can make you invisible for 30 minutes."
Draco smirked.
This was going to be easy for him.
If only that Mudblood Granger wouldn't be better than he this time.
'Snape definitely seems very nice for his standards today. Must be because of this sister of his, Serena or whatever her name was,' Draco thought bitterly.
He wanted to be Snape's favorite student, that Serena was a great rival now, even if she was a Gryffindor.
Draco spat in his cauldron, making a small explosion inside it.
"Mr. Malfoy, please don't try to blow us up," Snape coldly said looking at something on his desk.
Draco pressed his lips in a thin line and started making a new potion.
~* In The Library, After The Classes *~
"Did you like your first day in Hogwarts, Taru-chan?" Serena asked, looking at her homework.
"I loved it! Did you see the look on Draco's face, when Sevvie said something about blowing us up to him? I wanted to laugh so badly!" Hotaru grinned, but suddenly fell serious.
"Taru-chan, is something wrong?" Serena took her eyes off her book and looked at Hotaru.
"Serena, I have never, ever seen you like this. Studying hard and liking school."
Hotaru turned her head away.
"You're finally growing up, Sere. You really aren't that bubbly blonde anymore. You are acting like a true future Queen more every day."
Serena's head fell.
Was she really acting more mature?
"Taru-chan, I won't be like my future self in a while, you even don't have to worry," Serena said, smiling at the girl next to her.
"We'll see," Hotaru smiled and closed her book.
"Let's go to the Great Hall, the dinner is about to start."
"Ok, let's go," Serena answered, putting her books to her sub-space pocket.
~* In The Great Hall *~
"Hey, Serena!" Harry waved and Serena walked to the trio.
"The dinner is starting. Sit down or you won't get a seat at all."
"Thanks."
"So what have you been doing today, Serena? We haven't seen you at all!" Harry said, putting some potatoes on his plate.
"Oh, I was just with Hotaru, she is quite bored."
"Hotaru? Oh, you mean that weird Slytherin, who was transferred to the 5th Year? She seems quite nosey to me, she doesn't have any friends, like, who'd even want to be her friend?" Ron said, not understanding that Serena was a friend of Hotaru's.
Serena just looked at Ron furiously, before opening her mouth.
"Well, if she seems so nosey and weird to you, maybe you shouldn't be friends with me either? You definitely can't say just *how* weird she is, she is rather lonely, no-one of you has gone through all the things she has! One day you'll find out *everything* about her and you'll feel terrible for all the things you said!"
Serena had stood up and walked out of the Great Hall angrily.
Hermione looked accusingly at Ron.
"Ron! Didn't you know that they're friends?"
"No!"
"What do you think she was talking about? What has that Hotaru gone through?" Harry asked.
"Don't know and don't care either! Right after you have finished your dinner, Ron, you'll go and apologize for what you said!"
"Yeah, yeah, 'Mione, for sure."
"Ron!" Harry and Hermione said in unison.
"Alright, I'll go!"
"Good." Harry said and went back to eating.
~* Somewhere In Hogwarts *~
Serena was angry. How could someone who didn't know anything about Hotaru, someone who Serena considered as a friend, say something like that about Hotaru?
She just couldn't understand it!
Serena's feet took her forward; she wasn't paying attention to where she was going.
She wanted to be a little child again; she wanted that anything bad she'd hear would mean nothing to her.
Serena wanted to run to her mother, she wanted to cry, she wanted to laugh with her.
Once again she remembered Chibi-Usa.
Serena started to run, she felt the air round her turn colder and finally she bumped into someone, falling on her knees.
"Sere, what's wrong?" Serena heard Severus' voice flow in her ears.
"Everything," She whispered, no louder voice came over her lips as tears fell on the cold floor and on her robe.
Severus looked at his only remaining family and kneeled down.
"My daughter," Serena whispered.
"You have a daughter?" Severus asked, surprised.
"My future daughter, Chibi-Usa or Small Lady or the future Princess Serenity," Severus heard his sister whisper.
"What is wrong with her?" He asked.
"She'll probably never be born, that's the only thing!" Serena looked Severus in the eye, with tears glittering in her eyes.
"Sere, I'm so sorry," Severus said and hugged the crying royalty.
As they hugged, the Slytherins, who were on their way to the Slytherin Dormitories, came in the corridor and saw the two.
Severus quickly stood up, helped Serena up and looked at the students.
"What do you think you are doing?! Can't a person comfort his sister without having everyone look at them?! Fifty points from Slytherin and go to you Dormitories NOW!" Snape yelled.
After about five minutes all the Slytherins had ran to the Common Room to hide from Snape's fury.
"That was easy. Can you find your way to the Gryffindor Dormitories on your own?" Severus asked Serena.
"I guess I can. Good night, Sevvie."
Serena gave a small kiss on her brothers cheek.
"Good night, Sere."
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Sorry again for not updating for a while.
I just didn't have any ideas! I was at a sleep-over at a friend's house on Saturday and there was one other girl besides me. We slept in a quite small bed, all three of us, and when it was 9.45 am, I finally had it. To be honest, I fell out of the bed and started to pack my things. It was 10.15 am, when I finished, and both of my friends were still sleeping, so I left and went home.
I just found out that I'm going to Austria in the summer and maybe even to a international camp in England! Can't wait to practice my English!
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NB! Review!