6. Potions

Prof. Dumbledore said his beginning of term speech, but then he also introduced a new D.A.D.A teacher. Her name was Prof. Mary Lynch. She looked rather young, and hair long red hair and green eyes. Soon after, to soon the feast had ended, and all the houses were leaving to back to their common rooms. Dylan stayed behind, and waited for Harry, Ron and Hermione.

"Hey Dylan, sorry you got sorted into Slytherin. "said Harry with a look of disappointment on his face.

"Look Harry, what can you expect, I am the heir to Slytherin. Though I did BEG the hat not to put me there! Now I have to deal with Malfoy, and his bodyguards. He'll need 'em." Said Dylan beaming thinking of all the good pranks she could pull on the Slytherins.

"I can bet on that" smirked Ron, after they had all finish snickering.

"Well, better go, Bye guys see you tomorrow!" waved Dylan running for the dungeons.

"Bye!" all three called watching her descends down the dark stairs.

Dylan finally reached the seemingly normal stonewall, that was also was the entrance to the common room, she only new this because of Dan telling her the password, and where it was hidden.

Dylan knew where most things were in the school, seeing how on weekends the pervious she would explore the castle.

"Pureblood" she sneered at the wall. 'What an awful, and predictable password' she thought to herself. She walked into the common room and looked around. It was cold, and had a distant feeling to it. Yes, it did have a fireplace but it was small. There highly polished silver tables, and uncomfortable looking green chairs. The only chairs that looked remotely comfortable were the 4 in front of the fireplace. There were only a few small windows, making the room look quite.... was it.... frigid, and uptight? (a/n: Umm, I'm going to assume that Slytherin colors are silver and green, if there not review me! Thanks!)

"Hey! Dylan!" she was drawn out of her world by a familiar voice. She looked over and saw Mandy and Dan playing wizards' Chess. Dylan walked over to where they were sitting in a corner.

"Hey guys!" she smiled her trademark false grin. Actually she was less then happy about this, common room, and house. She could only imagine what the people will be like.

"What time is it?" asked Mandy, obviously not having a watch.

"Err," Dylan glanced at her watch, "'bout 10:00, why?"

"We ought to get to bed! First day of classes tomorrow!" smiled Mandy brightly.

"You're the peppy one, isn't ya?" Dylan asked getting up along with Mandy and Dan

"Oh God! You haven't seen the worse of it!" said Dan as we each parted our separate ways to go up to our rooms.

"I prefer Dylan, but thanks for the warning" Smirked Dylan, then she ascended the staircase with Mandy. They soon found themselves in a circular room with 10 beds. This room was also cold, and frigid. It had dark wood. Each bed had a silver canopy and dark green comforter, and silver sheets. In the middle of the cold wood floor was a Slytherin crest carpet. That was the only thing in the room that was remotely fuzzy, and soft. The bathroom wasn't much different, it was mostly hard, cold marble and silver faucets.

"Find your trunk, that's where you sleep" said Mandy already spotting her trunk and walking over to it. Dylan didn't have time to because there was shrieking coming from the other side of the room.

"OH MY FRICKEN' GOD! CALL PROFESSER SNAPE! OH MY FRICKEN GOD! THERES A GOD DAMN SNAKE!" called a girl with a pug-ish face. Dylan knew exactly what snake she was talking about. She coolly walked over to the girl.

"Chill! It's mine." She said, rubbing her temples from the sudden outburst.

'THAT THING IS YOURS!" she yelled.

"That THING is a snake, and yes, did I St-stutter before!" asked Dylan getting annoyed.

"Your not allowed to have that!" she protested.

"I asked, dumb ass!" snapped Dylan, then lying on her bed, which meant the discussion was over.

"I do NOT want that THING by my bed!" she yelled.

Now Dylan was pissed, no one ever got the last word when dealing with Dylan, "Are you a SLYTHERIN, or what!? Our symbol is a SNAKE" she yelled fiercely, she muttered 'bitch' under her breathe. The girl threw her hands in the air, and walked out muttering something about Malfoy.

"I can't believe you stood up to Pansy!" squealed Mandy running over to Dylan's bed and sitting down.

"I can" smirked Dylan, picking up Dr. Evil.

"Wow! Cool snake, what's her name? If it is a her?" asked Mandy.

"Dr. Evil, and she is a girl. She's a boa." Smiled Dylan happily thinking that she had the coolest pet in the world!

"Aw. Can I hold her?" asked Mandy excitedly.

"Yea sure. hold on." Mandy nodded.

(In parsel mouth)

"This is Mandy, she is a friend" said Dylan slowly.

"I'm not an idiot, you don't have to talk so slow" hissed Dr. Evil.

"Fine, fine! She wants to hold you ok? And if she ever again wants to hold you will obey , Got that?" She asked raising an eyebrow.

"Ok, what about other people?" she asked.

"Bite them, but not hard" an evil grin spread across the snakes face.

"yes Dylan" she answered.

(Normal, human lang.)

"BLOODY HELL! You're a Parsel Mouth!" bellowed Mandy.

"Dur!" she smirked, 'dur', she thought something she picked up from Billy, " I am heir to Slytherin!"

"Oh yea!" Smiled Mandy thinking, 'Wow! I'll never get used to that!'. Dylan handed over Dr. Evil, and Mandy and Dylan bonded why Dylan put away her things into a side dresser. She also set up Dr. Evil's cage under her bed so it would be warmer under there along with the light. Finally, the two girls went to bed, along with the other Slytherin 5th years.

The next morning Dylan was being pulled out of bed.

"DYLAN!" yelled a voice. Dylan looked up to see Mandy dragging her by her feet out of the bed, "Were ...LATE ...for... breakfast! I ...told Dan... to go ...ahead, BUT.... I'm ....STARVING ...SO ...GET.........UP" Finally on up Dylan came off the bed with an audible 'thump'.

"Gees! I'm up, I'm up!" smirked Dylan standing up and rubbing her bum, "That hurt"

"Sorry," smirked Mandy sheepishly, "now get dressed!"

Dylan grabbed her clothes and walked to the bathroom. She brushed her hair and teeth, and put on a little eyeliner. She also put her contacts in. Then Dylan got dressed in a white button down shirt with a loose fitting dark green and light green tie. Then she put on her green and silver skirt, with her knee-highs. Lastly she put on green converse. She had to say it, she looked good.

"Okay! I'm ready!" she smiled walking out of the bathroom, then grabbing her over cloak.

"Okay, let's go there's only 10 minutes left!" said Mandy as we swiftly walked to the Great Hall, "I got our schedules! We only have one class apart, same with Dan!"

"Nice! What class" asked Dylan.

"You have Divination, and we have Ancient Ruins." Said Mandy, handing Dylan her schedule. Dylan, and the others had, Potions, Divination, Care of magical creatures, and Defense against the Dark Arts with the Gryffindors. Then she had Transfiguration, History of Magic, and Charms with the Ravenclaws. Then she had Astrology, and Herbology, Muggle studies with the Hufflepuffs.

"Yea! We have four classes with the Gryffindors!" Said Dylan.

They both pulled back on the Great hall doors, and it opened with out a sound. But when they looked inside everyone was staring at them. They both headed quickly for the Slytherin table.

"Guess we always make an entrance!" smirked Dylan, as they both sat down, and the Great Hall went back to its regular noise level.

"Guess so!" said a voice that belonged to Dan, as he slid into the seat next to Dylan.

"Hey Dan!" smiled the girls in unison.

"'Ello Ladies" he grinned. Dan grins were contagious, the two girls automatically broke out into wide grins, as they both started to eat a bagel. Very soon Breakfast and they were on their way to potions. 'Yuck!' thought Dylan, 'Potions first!'

When they arrived there was one seat next to Harry, "Hey guys I'm going to sit with Harry ok?" said Dylan to her friends.

"Ok!" they said sitting down next to each other in the middle of the classroom. Dylan on the other hand went back onto the left side of the room, the last desk.

"This seat taken?" she asked Harry.

"Nope" Harry said with a glint in his eye. Dylan swore she heard Ron snicker, who was is the desk in front of them with Hermione.

The whole class waited a long time for Snape to arrive, but when he did, he pulled of a dramatic performance.

The door flew open, hitting the wall, then swinging back into its place, but not before being slammed by Snape. In his drone of a voice he said "Directions are on the bored, DON'T SCREW UP!" Immediately on the bored, the directions for a boil-removing potion were on the bored. Everyone snapped to work with little to no talking.

Halfway through the period Snape did his rounds to check out each of the potions. On all of the Slytherins, who were on the right side, he gave Good comments. Like: Sue, nice job. Goyle fabulous. Draco perfect 7 points to Slytherin. On the other hand to the Gryffindors comments like these were given out : Thomas, Did you FOLLOW the instructions? Weasley, Mandrake root into SMALL pieces! Granger, to lumpy! The worse comment given out was to poor Neville.

"LONGBOTTOM! Your potion is supposed to be PURPLE NOT YELLOW!" bellowed Snape.

"S-Sorry sir." Mumbled Neville. But in the process of trying to clean up his mess her dumped it all upon a Slytherin girl named Heather. "S-s-sorry"

" You Mindless Twit!" she yelled.

"NEVILLE! DETENTION! ALL WEEK! Heather please go see the nurse!" But the worst part was Neville didn't deserve detention, Malfoy tripped him! Dylan decided to do something about it!

"Professor!" she said standing up.

"Yes, Miss. Riddle" he scoffed.

"Neville, didn't spill the potion on purpose! Malfoy tripped him!" she said stepping into the aisle.

"Sit DOWN, Miss. Riddle" he said with a hit of malice in his voice.

" NO sir! Malfoy tripped him! I saw Him!" She pressed.

"Sit DOWN, Miss. Riddle" he stated again, just as before.

"NO! NEV-"she started.

"DETENTION! And go see the headmaster!" he said, now his voice filled with malice. And he stood up. Looking around, Dylan could tell all the Gryffindors were surprised but the Slytherins were fuming.

"Afraid To Take POINTS AWAY FROM YOUR PERSIOUS HOUSE! ANYTHINGS BETTER THEN BEING BETTEN BY GRYFFINDOR RIGHT?! BECAUSE GOD FORBBIED A HOUSE THAT DOESN'T TREAT WI-"but Dylan was cut off.

" THAT IS ENOUGH! 20 POINTS AWAY FROM SLYTHERIN!" he bellowed, probably just to prove her point wrong. Dylan bowed.

" Thank you Snape, that's all I wanted, I will go to the head master now. Should I report to Filch?" she asked innocently.

Snape was completely taken aback, but just nodded him head, "Leave".