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Hogwarts Love

Chapter 1

It was my first day at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. I had just transferred from a small private school in Whales called Ms. 'Nirma's School for the Highly Intelligent Witches'. I was entering Hogwarts in my sixth year and I was well excited.

"Well, well, well... Who do we have here?" a silky voice hissed from behind me. I spun around to the sight of a group of boys wearing robes that had a serpent badge on them. I smiled weakly.

"I'm... I'm Serena... Serena Night," I said as bravely as I could, but these boys intimidated me. The one in front was a boy of average height with short brown hair. His eyes were brown and cold and his face was somewhat attractive. Behind him were three other boys. Two, I guessed, were brothers. The other one hand long greasy black hair and had a smug smirk on his face.

"Avery, Jonas Avery. And they are Rodolphus and Rabastan Lestrange," he said pointing to the two brothers. "And he's-"

"Severus Snape," the one with black hair hissed. I looked at the ground not able to face them. I heard them snigger and turned red in embarrassment.

"Hey! Leave her alone!" a female voice called. I looked up and saw a beautiful red haired girl making her way towards us. The boy named Severus turned around followed by all the others.

"Back off Evans!" one of the Lestrange brothers snapped. The red haired girl glared harshly at him.

"Leave her alone," she hissed threateningly.

"Severus, control your girlfriend!" Avery hissed at him. Severus sneered at Avery and clenched his fist.

"She's NOT my girlfriend. She's a filthy, disgusting mudblood." I gasped at the rudeness of that boy. With that the red haired girl growled and took my arm.

"C'mon," she said pulling me away from them. I looked at her and saw that she was somewhat hurt.

"Are you okay?" I asked cautiously. She nodded and held out her hand.

"Yeah, I'm fine. I'm Lily Evans! What's your name?" she smiled brightly. I took her outstretched hand and smiled back.

"Serena Night. Nice to meet you. Sorry about what the black haired boy said..." She smiled and shrugged.

"Who Severus? I know he doesn't mean it most of the time. He just has to be cool around his little clique," she said looking at him. I looked at him too and watched him argue with Avery. He was kind of cute.

"He's okay," she continued. "He's great at Occlumency and Defense Against the Dark Arts."

"Occlumency? At his age?" I asked quite surprised. She nodded then looked at me.

"Well, let's go get a seat!" I nodded still looking at Severus then turned to her with a smile. She bean walking towards the train and stopped in front of another group of boys. Two were handsome. One had round glasses and a proud smile on his face. He seemed a little sure of himself. The other one had long black hair and was smiling. The third boy seemed tired and out of it and the fourth was a plump annoying looking boy.

"Hey Evans," the boy with the glasses said trying to impress her. I looked at the long haired boy who was smiling at me. I smiled back and looked at the floor.

"What do you want, James?" she snapped. She then looked at the other three. "Sirius, this is Serena, Serena, Sirius." The long haired boy waved somewhat shyly. I waved back smiling weakly.

"Remus, Serena, Serena, Remus." The tired boy smiled and waved. "Peter, Serena, Serena, Peter." I looked at the plump boy quickly then at Lily. The boy known as James glared at the train. Sirius walked up to me and smiled.

"Hey, wanna go find a seat with me?" he asked taking my hand. I blushed furiously and looked at Lily who was smirking at us. She nodded.

"I... er... I guess we could." I smiled bashfully and we walked inside the train.

We walked to the back of the train and we entered an empty compartment. I looked at him. He was smiling at me and he kissed the back of my hand.

"I'd like to get to know you," he said sitting close to me. I looked at the floor and blushed more.

"My... My name is Serena Night. I transferred from a school in Whales-"

"No... I want to..." He leaned in just about to kiss me, but I pushed him away. I couldn't do it. We didn't even know each other.

"Wait! No! What are you doing?" I asked moving away from him. The next thing I knew, a familiar snigger was coming from the now open door of the compartment. I turned around and looked at the group of rude boys, my face bright red. I looked at Severus who was staring at me, but soon turned away as our eyes met.

Sirius and Avery started fighting and I sunk in the seat. Severus must've seen me because he stood in between Avery and Sirius.

"Why waste your words on Black? Come on Avery." He stormed out of the compartment and down the hall of the train followed by his friends. I looked at Sirius who was fuming then looked out the window not wanting to get yelled at.

Lily and the others soon came and sat down. Sirius was calm, but I still didn't want to deal with him. I couldn't help but think about Severus.

- - - - - - - - A/N: This is my first Harry Potter fic. Please review!