The Slytherin dungeons were almost always occupied with students. First through Fourth Years plotting pranks against the Gryffindors, Fifth Years brooding because seemingly no one understood how much they hated the Gryffindors, Sixth Year Death Eaters in training ready to murder the Gryffindors.

Pretty much everyone in Slytherin hated the Gryffindors. That would of course be with the exception of the Seventh Years, who were too worried about marrying and producing the next generation of Gryffindor haters, and Tina, Robert, and Ashlee, a meek First Year.

Early that morning, however, the dungeons were occupied by five teenagers and an eleven year old. Two of the five had no idea what they were getting themselves into. Every year since Andromeda's first year, Lucius had insisted upon converting her way of thinking about Muggles, Muggle-borns, and Half-Bloods. It had turned into an annual discussion of how they were each upholding Slytherins' honor. Lucius Malfoy was a very cruel, conniving, cunning kitsune of a person (A/N: 10 pts to the reader that can tell me what a kitsune is.) but that didn't mean that he was unreasonable.

He always argued that Andromeda's tolerance of Muggles, Mudbloods and Half-Breeds made her weaker than the rest of the Slytherins and defaced the image the rest of the house tried so hard to earn.

It was at that point that Andromeda would roll her eyes and cut him off. If he wanted to talk about defacing Slytherin, she'd show him who was defacing Slytherin. She simply stated that he was giving off the stereotypical image of Slytherin; therefore everyone in the school hated them.

After Tina and Severus had joined Slytherin, Andromeda and Lucius agreed upon one thing: they were to be invited to the 'discussions'. Each sided as expected, and the bickering continued.

Tina took the liberty of inviting Ashlee and Robert to that year's discussion. Seeing as it was Lucius's last year, he really wanted to implement something into the girls' heads. Not that that was actually going to happen.

There was so much tension in the Slytherin dungeons that Robert and Ashlee couldn't bring themselves to sit with the older students. The opted for spots in the corner, watching carefully.

Tina glanced over at the contemplating pair as she entered the room. She was almost positive that both would side with her and Andromeda, but she was wrong in a way that completely screwed up her opinion of one of the newcomers.

She and Andromeda took their seats across from Lucius and Severus, the two groups glaring mavolently at each other. "Black, Thomas, you both know why we're here. I'd like to spend as little time as possible trying to get my point across. Severus and I remain exactly where we stood last year. You two are muddle-minded imbeciles with no particular regard for the responsibility that came with you being sorted into this house. Every year you two make it a point to stand out by supporting those less than worthy, and thanks to you, the respect Slytherin once had is rapidly disintegrating."

Tina and Andromeda exchanged glances, thinking the same thing. Lucius Malfoy was the most repetitive moron on earth.

"Lucius, Severus, however thick you two may be, you should be able to comprehend this little fact. Tina and I are never converting to your limited way of thinking." Andromeda sat back elegantly, a smirk marring her innocent features.

"I still believe it's a miracle that you two have a way of thinking, let alone a limited one," muttered Tina darkly.

"What was that?" barked Lucius, as Tina, Andromeda, and Ashlee dissolved into giggles.

"You might want to keep a tighter leash on your friends," Severus directed at Andromeda.

"You might want to keep a tighter leash on your nose," said Ashlee boldly, crossing the room to sit between Tina and Andromeda.

"You insolent little-" cried Snape, pulling out his wand.

"I don't think that's fair Sev, turning your wand on a First Year," said Andromeda as Tina lazily pulled out her wand and pointed it at Snape.

Lucius stood up and crossed over to where the girls were sitting. He grabbed Andromeda's hair and titled her head back, none too gently. Jabbing her throat with his wand, he hissed "Tell me that I won't do it."

"We all know you're not man enough to do it Malfoy," Tina challenged, not really aware of whether he was or not.

Lucius let out an angry sound, somewhere between a growl and a hiss then looked down at Andromeda again. His eyes widened. Andromeda smiled as her eyes took on a deep red color and her hair began moving from the gust of wind that suddenly swept through the room.

Lucius loosened his hold on her. Severus took advantage of Tina and Ashlee watching Andromeda and Lucius. "Rictushempra!" he cried. Ashley let out a scream as Tina went flying and hit the stone wall on the opposite side of the room. Severus walked over and kicked her. She made no sound. Satisfied, he turned around, looking for Ashlee.

She was nowhere in sight. "Probably ran off to her room. Pathetic little twit," he muttered distastefully. He didn't see Tina slowly rise to her feet behind him.

Andromeda and Lucius were locked in a battle of the wills. As Andromeda morphed her appearance, Lucius fought not to loose his hold on her or look away. She kept morphing until she looked positively snakelike. It was then that Lucius looked away. Andromeda laughed, it was a cold laugh, a dangerous one: one that had sent Sirius running in the other direction since the age of six. It was a laugh that meant that Andromeda was angry.

"Come now Lucius, where's your Slytherin sprit?" She pulled out her wand. "Serpensortia!" she cried. Multiple snakes appeared around them, hissing and spitting and snapping at their heels. Lucius looked around fearfully, all plans of dominance over Andromeda and Tina gone horribly awry.

"Don't tell me that you're afraid of our house mascot?" Andromeda picked up a snake and cuddled it lovingly as the others began to close in around Lucius, fangs barred.

Severus felt an arm close around his neck. Tina pulled him down, straddled his stomach, and began choking him. Severus used his only weapon, his legs, and flipped backwards so that he and Tina switched places. She lost her hold on his neck.

He backhanded her and rolled off of her when she spat at him, missing by mere inches. He straightened up and Tina thought she saw something in his dark eyes. A flash of fear, pain? He glared at her and turned on his heel, taking the path to his quarters. She clutched her cheek and looked over at Ashlee, who was controlling the snake Andromeda had conjured. Lucius gave up and fled to his dorm.

"Good to have you on our side Ashlee," said Andromeda, guiding Ashlee down the steps to her dorm. It was only then that Tina noticed that Robert was missing. She shrugged it off and bid goodnight to her friends.

Lying in her bed that night, thoughts of one person plagued her mind. She thought of Severus. And not in a loathing way either. "Oh hell," she muttered, rolling over. "No, no, no, no, no! I do NOT have a crush on Severus Snape. I do NOT!"

A/N: I know! The update was supposed to be on Friday! Well, guess what! I live in Florida! Miami, to be exact. We got hit by Hurricane Katrina and, unfortunately, I lost power. I just got it back last night, but we decided to let the computer alone for the night and watched the VMAs. Who else thinks that My Chemical Romance, Green Day and Coldplay were the best bands there?

As for Tina, denial is not good! I think I'll make her fall in love with Sev.

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Fairy-GYAKUTENNO-MEGAMI it may have took ages but it was great! same as this chappie! i love the pink bunnies!

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believe-in-yourself4ever I am a little behind on your story. Sorry. I have been kind of busy and then school starts up again next week so yeah...
But it is very good...I like iot a lot. But remember, if you don't update (after chapter 13, which by they way I still have to read) then my mutated paperclip will come and eat all of your socks! I dont' know how he will but he will!
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hpluvas im behind! i shouldve been reading ages ago (apperantly) og well. ON TO THE NEXT CHAPTER!

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