Authors note: Emily: woot! I'm on a roll baby, two updates in two days! Eva: Get on with the disclaimer moron! Emily: go away, here are the answers to my reviews on the last chapter:
Leelo77: You are far too nice to me; I wish my friends at school liked my stories as much as you! Thanks for the comment!
BookWormqwerty1: Why thank you!
AddictiontotheBlade: I'm really flattered by that, and I guess she is Mary-Sue in a way, but she's not like the normal Mary-Sue's because she's flawed just like everyone else, I despise when people make their original characters absolutely perfect, it just destroys the whole point of writing fanfiction in the first place.
Emily: anyway, enough of my ranting, on with the story!
Eva: Disclaimer first!
Emily: go to hell Eva! Sighs I own nothing here that you recognize, don't sue me!
Emily sat there for the rest of the feast hardly eating anything, she had thought that being in Ravenclaw would have made her able to be friends with both Lily and Severus, but now she thinking that maybe those ignorant prats on the boat were partly right, maybe the Slytherins only mixed with those that were the same as them…
She was beginning to get a head ache, she didn't understand why there was so much conflict between the two houses, at Beaxbatons there had been no houses, so they were all equal, this was all so new to her…
When the feast ended she saw a tall golden blond girl leading away the first years, she jumped out of her seat and began to follow them. She made her way through the group of Ravenclaw first years until she was walking beside the blond girl. She spotted a Prefect badge on the front of her robes and guessed that it was the job of the prefects to show the first years to their houses.
As they made their way up the moving staircases she noticed that several people sniggered behind their hands and whispered to their friends when she and the blond girl walked past.
She took a proper look at her prefect companion; she was very pretty, in a strange, elven sort of way. Her long hair reached her waist and was braided with blue and purple ribbon, she wore a strange set of earrings that looked a lot like miniature dream-catchers with pink feathers dangling from the bottom.
They reached a portrait of beautiful galloping unicorn on their left side and the girl stopped and turned to the first years, "This is the entrance to the Ravenclaw tower, the password for the time being is Cordial, the passwords change every three weeks so be sure to ask me or Jason Mathews, your male Ravenclaw prefect if you are unsure of the current password." She had a smooth, dreamy voice and Emily stared in awe of her, was this the girl that the others had been laughing at? Surely not…then maybe, it had been her that they had been laughing at…
The first years filed past her and into the common room, Emily mad to follow them but the blond girl held out her arm to stop her. "Hi," she said with a friendly smile, "I'm Lunesia Lovegood, you'll be in my year, if you want someone to show you around I could help you."
Emily stuttered, "um, well, thanks sure!" she smiled at Lunesia.
"Great, shall is how you the dorm? You can choose which bed you want." she whirled around and led Emily up to the dorm they would be sharing.
The next morning she walked down to breakfast with Lunesia, casually chatting about what optional subjects she had chosen. Lunesia had been doing Divination and Ancient Runes the past year and was pleasantly surprised when she found out that Emily had chosen the same.
"I could help you if you get stuck with Ancient Runes, it's a bit tricky when you first start by you get the hang of it eventually-"
"Hey! Loony!" shouted a male voice behind them, "Make sure you don't sacrifice the new girl to Satan!"
"Or worse, turn her into another freak just like you!" shouted another.
Emily turned to see the boy she had seen sitting next to Lily at the feast and another with long black hair tied back in a ponytail.
Lunesia however kept on walking, acting as if she hadn't heard a thing. Emily scowled at the bay and hurried to catch up with Lunesia.
"Who the hell are those gits?" she asked.
"James Potter and Sirius Black, they call themselves The Marauders." Lunesia replied smoothly.
'Ah,' thought Emily, 'so these are the guys Severus was telling me about, I must say, he was right…"
They entered the Great Hall and sat down at the Ravenclaw table, Professor Dawson –who she had discovered was the Ravenclaw house master- handed out their timetables.
Emily scanned hers and then Lunesia's, "Hah! We're absolutely identical!" she said happily.
"Yes, we've got Potions with the Slytherins first thing with Professor Slughorn, we better hurry."
They quickly finished their food and Lunesia showed her the way down to the dungeons.
They lined up on one side of the corridor with the other Ravenclaws, while the Slytherins lined up the opposite side.
"I don't particularly like Professor Slughorn," Lunesia said quietly, "he's such a bias."
"Bias?" asked Emily.
"Yeah, he only pays attention to those who are best in the class, and he ignores the rest of us like we're not even there!"
Emily was unable to reply because at that moment Professor Slughorn emerged from the classroom and ushered them inside.
"Right, welcome back everyone, if you would all kindly find your partners and sit down!" said Professor Slughorn.
Lunesia went off to join a similar looking Slytherin boy at the front of the class, and as luck would have it, Severus was left standing alone at the back, Emily went to join him.
Slughorn tapped the blackboard and instructions appeared on it, they all began opening their books and starting to prepare the ingredients in their pairs. Severus on the other hand was making a show of ignoring the fact that she was even there.
"Can I help?" she asked, opening her new potions book at the right page. She leaned over to see that the pages of Severus's book were covered in a large amount of scribbled notes, the original instructions for the potion completely illegible. She also saw that Severus was doing something quite different to what it said in her book…
"Are you sure that's right?" she asked, raising an eyebrow as he added three spoons of powdered beetles instead of just one.
"I am quite sure thank you very much," he said coldly, stirring his cauldron twice clockwise then thrice anti-clockwise.
She frowned and stared at him intently as he went about making the potion, not once asking her for help.
"Are you pissed that I wasn't sorted into Slytherin?" she asked suddenly.
"I'm not 'Pissed' about anything," he said, turning the page of his book.
"Then why are you ignoring me then?"
"I'm not, pass me that silver knife." Se passed him the knife and he began slicing up dragon liver.
She decided to change the subject, this wasn't going anywhere fast. "Who's that guy sitting at the front?" she asked, pointing to the boy Lunsia was working with.
"Luca Lovegood." He said without looking up.
"Luca Lovegood? Is that Lunsia's brother?" she asked, surprised.
"Yeah, he's the saner of the two." He finished slicing the dragon liver and added it to the cauldron, wiping he forehead with his sleeve in the process; the heat from the cauldron was making him sweat.
Emily frowned, "I like Lunesia, she's funny, and different."
"It's a free country, you can like whoever you want, I'm not stopping you." He laid down the knife and closed his book. The potion was now indigo.
Professor Slughorn came over and inspected their cauldron, "That's great work you two! Ten pints to Slytherin and Ravenclaw!"
Severus smirked and began to clear away the equipment he had been using, he handed her a pair of brass scales, "could you put those back in the cupboard?"
"Sure," she walked over and put them back where they belonged, on her way back to her seat she saw Slughorn shaking his head at Luca and Lunesia's work, they had failed to manage anything more than a thick, bright pink mess.
She sat back down and Severus leaned over to talk to her, "Hey, I'm sorry, I was a jerk ok?"
"You got that right," she said crossing her arms, but smiling at him still.
"You wanna come into town with me this weekend? We can get ice-cream if you want…"
Emily saw that he was blushing slightly, she grinned, "Sure, can Lunesia come too?"
Severus frowned slightly, but it passed as quickly as it had formed, "Ok, sure."
"Cool, what time?"
"10:00?"
"We'll be there."
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Next chapter, Emily confronts the Marauders and Lily's a bit of a bitch….