Chapter 3

"And here is the Slytherin Common Room…"

Severus hastily climbed out of the boat when it came to a stop. He looked back behind him, and that's when he saw HER.

She had red hair, gorgeous green eyes, and the most perfect face. Severus stared for a moment, then turned his head back to Hagrid. He could hear her and her couple of her friends giggling behind him. Severus smirked and turned around to introduce himself, only to find they were giggling at that James Potter he had met earlier. Severus fumed, but kept it bottled up inside (as he usually did) and turned to face Hagrid again.

"Les' go," said Hagrid, and ushered them inside.

"Wow," breathed Dan. Severus decided that Dan and Bob were OK. He didn't really mind hanging around them. But Bill, Dave, and Esquire, he needed to work out a few…ah…problems.

They climbed up the marble staircase to the door that Severus assumed was the entrance to the dining…place.

 "Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah." Was all Severus heard from the weird strict-looking old witch that blocked his pathway to education. Severus grinned to himself. Pathway to education. Ha.

"Excuse me, young man," said the woman sharply to him. "Is there something funny you would like to share with us?"

"No, ma'am," said Severus innocently. Sirius gave him an evil grin. Severus gave him a similar one.

"Yada, yada, yada," continued the aged witch. Suddenly, while Severus was about to fall asleep, the witch went through the double doors. Severus looked at his pals. Esquire appeared already to be asleep. Bob suddenly snapped out of the trance he seemed to be in and slapped Esquire.

"WAKE UP!" he shouted. Everyone turned to look at him. Bob blushed.

Esquire's eyes abruptly shot open and he jumped about ten feet into the air. "EVIL BUNNIES!!!!!!" he yelled and started to run back downstairs, but Bill caught him before he could.

Severus gave Dan a look. Dan rolled his eyes and said "they always do this."

"I see," nodded Severus. "So you've known each other long?" 

 "Yep," Dan nodded back. "Since we were two."

"That's a long time," said Severus "Your parents all know each other?"

"No," replied Dan. "We all met on this weird little playground in Scotland, and we all just bonded instantly. Our parents didn't like each other all that much at first, but now they can at least stand each other. Luckily enough, we all lived in London, so we could visit each other whenever we wanted to."

"Cool," grinned Severus. "Much better than me, I'm afraid. I've known this one kid, Sirius Black, since I was born. I hate him, and he hates me."

"I'm assuming your parents are friends?"

"Yeah," sighed Severus. "Hey, look, that weird lady's back."

"We're ready for you now. Follow me," said the witch, and gestured them to tag along. When they entered the Great Hall, Severus saw candles floating in mid-air…just like his dad had told him.

"When I call your name…blah blah blah" said the witch, who Severus supposed was a professor.

After the A's and B's, Dan's name was called. "Caldwell, Dan!" shouted the woman. Dan stepped nervously up to the stool where the Sorting Hat sat. After a minute or so, the hat shouted out "SLYTHERIN!" Dan smiled and walked on over to the table that was applauding. After the rest of the C's, and the D's, Esquire was called.

"Esquire, Bill Bob!" yelled the professor.

So that's why they call him Esquire, thought Severus. What a dumb first name!

"SLYTHERIN!" shouted the hat after about three minutes. Dave was placed in Slytherin, so were Bill and Bob. Finally, it was Severus' turn. "SLYTHERIN!" shouted the hat instantly. Severus smirked and strutted over to the Slytherin table and slapped Dan's hand.

"Hey, Severus!" said Bill, and shook his hand. Severus sat down next to Dave.

"Hey, man," whispered Dave "I saw you looking at that cute Gryffindor chick earlier. You like her or something?"

"Yeah," whispered back Severus. He had been most disappointed when her name was called ("Evans, Lily!") and she had been sorted into Gryffindor.

"Yeah, she's hot," murmured Dave.

"Er…" replied Severus in an undertone. He wouldn't exactly call her hot…yet.

After Dumbledore had spoken, and after they sang the retarded school song that Esquire liked so much he sang it in such a high voice that practically shattered everyone's eardrums, their prefect led them to the dungeons. Everyone else was freezing and shivering, but Severus felt right at home. After all, he lived in a castle and his room was in the dungeons.

"And here is the Slytherin Common Room," said their prefect smugly (who's name happened to be Lucius Malfoy) "Boys dorms are on the right, girls, same on your left…wait no, it was boy on the left and girls on the right…no wait…" While their prefect puzzled his perplexing problem of where the dorms were for the first years, they all went and explored the common room.

"Look at this!" shouted Dan in excitement. "Severus! C'mere and look at this!" Severus hurried on over to Dan.

"Wow…" he gasped. "It's a genuine Merlin lamp! This baby would fetch about 1256 Galleons in Diagon Alley!"

"I know!" cried Dan. "And look! A 1894 genuine one of a kind crystal sickle is under this chair!" Dan reached under a chair nearby and pulled out a see through crystal sickle. "I need this to buy more Dungbombs!" Dan pocketed it.

"Do you really think you should waste something that valuable on Dungbombs?" said Severus logically. "Why not spend it on something more useful, like a gold cauldron, or more books, or Hogwarts, A History?"

Dan thought it over for a moment, then said "Yeah, you're right. I think I'll get The Prankster's Guide to Pranks by order form. Great idea, Sev!"

Severus slapped his forehead. "Baka!" he shouted.

"Say, what does 'Baka!' mean anyways?" asked Bill, who had suddenly appeared behind them.

"Get a Japanese-To-English dictionary, genius," said Severus, and went upstairs to go to bed.

*     *      *    *

Upstairs, Severus met a boy in his dormitory. He looked Hispanic.

"Mi nombre es Snape, Severus Snape. ¿Y usted*?" said Severus.

"Me llamo Julio. Pero hablo inglés, así que a menos que usted quisiera hablarme español, usted puede hablar en ingles **," replied Julio coolly.

"That's a relief," sighed Severus. "I don't know that much Spanish…" Suddenly, Esquire came bouncing into the room. Since Severus didn't want him to overhear their conversation, he started to speak in Spanish again.

"De donde eres? ***" asked Severus.

"Soy de la República Dominican. ¿Y usted ****? " said Julio.

"Soy de England, *****" said Severus.

"Buenos noches ******," yawned Julio, and went to sleep.

"Buenos noches," murmured Severus, and put on his pajamas.

"Dude," asked Esquire "Why were talking to that guy in Spanish?"

"Because I felt like it," said Severus coldy, and climbed into bed and fell asleep.

*Mi nombre es Snape, Severus Snape. ¿Y usted?-My name is Snape, Severus Snape. And you?

** I am called Julio. But I speak English, so unless you wanted to speak to me Spanish, you can speak in English.

*** Where are you from?

****I'm from the Dominican Republic.

***** I'm from England.

****** Good night.