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The next morning if anyone noticed Millicent tripping over the various pillows scattered over the stairs leading up to the girls rooms, no one mentioned that the twins had been the last ones down there last night. The court was slightly worried when they saw the looks the twins were sending in their direction, but they tried their best to pass it off as nothing. But when the Draco threw his arm around his sister's shoulder, an obvious sign to stay away, and they started whispering, sending conspiratorial looks back to the court every so often, they really started to worry.

Gryffindor Tower

It was a very quiet walk down to breakfast for Harry. Ron wasn't talking to him after he had spent the train ride in with Slytherins; Hermione was being loyal to her boyfriend, and he hadn't had a chance to talk to any of the other boys at all. Ron had monopolized them at the feast the night before, and when they got to the common room. Eventually Harry had just grown tired of it and gone to bed earlier than anyone else. But it looked as though the same thing was going to happen today as well.

Breakfast.

At breakfast Drey noticed that Harry seemed to be ostracized from the rest of his house. Pointing it out to her brother they observed the table and realised that the Weasel seemed to be the focus of the table, not allowing anyone near his supposed best friend. As soon as they started speaking to him he drew them into another conversation.

Speaking as Slytherins they were disgusted by that. The Gryffindors were supposed to be loyal and they were deserting him! Slytherins might be thought of as evil, but they looked after their own, and if they had their way, Harry would become and honorary Slytherin. As soon as they came up with a plan they shared it with their court ad it was spread down the Slytherin table, seeing everyone nod in agreement they smiled.

The first lesson was double potions. In Harry's opinion that was another curse, same as the one on the Defence Against the Dark Arts job. Gryffindors were cursed to have double potions with the Slytherins every year. Although reflecting back on the train ride yesterday it might not be that bad.

He arrived a bit later than everyone else, Ron had tripped him over and everything had gone flying out of his bag. The only one who had stopped to help him had been Neville, and he had a sneaking feeling that he was just putting off potions for as long as possible. Getting all of his books back together hadn't been difficult but his wand had gone rolling somewhere and it had taken them about five minutes to find it.

By the time they arrived every seat on the Gryffindor side of the room had been taken except for the back row where Ron, Hermione and Dean had spread out all their stuff and taken over the last two places. Harry was about to go over there and throw all of Ron's stuff on the floor and jump on it repeatedly to show that he'd had enough of the way his best friend was acting when Draco and Drey came up to him and Neville. "Potter, Longbottom."

"Harry, come and sit with us will you, I hate being his partner in potions, he always tries to show off."

"So do you."

"Shh, and can you come and be my partner, uh..."

"N..Neville L..Longbottom. But you don't want to be my partner Miss Malfoy, I'm really bad at potions."

"Call me Drey, and you're probably not bad at potions. But Snape yelled at you once and just kept going and you could never do them after that. Right?"

He nodded, but before he could speak again another Slytherin spoke up, expecting insults Harry and Neville stiffened slightly, (to the twins amusement) and were surprised when Theodore Nott just agreed with Drey, telling her that that was exactly what had happened, and saying that Snape was going to be there in a few minutes and they should sit down.

The rest of the class had been silent during the whole exchange and they stared in astonishment as Drey and Draco sat down on the bench and sat Neville and Harry on either side of them.

About two seconds later Snape stalked through the door to the front of the classroom, named a potion, put the instructions on the board and told them to get on with it. If he was surprised at the two Gryffindors sitting in Slytherin territory he didn't show it.

Harry and Neville went to get the potion ingredients while the twins set up the equipment they needed. When they returned with the ingredients and began making the potion the two Gryffindors were amazed at how easy they made it seem, the whole court in fact. This was supposed to be a complicated potion for sixth years, but it seemed as though they could have done it in their sleep. They involved Harry and Neville, the whole court did in fact, they were all laughing and joking, and by the end of the lesson even Neville had lost his stutter and was joking up a storm with Blaise. That had to have been the first potions lesson where Neville hadn't blown something up, unlike Ron who had destroyed his potion. At the end of the lesson when they took their vials to Professor Snape and Ron started to say something to Harry and Neville he was interrupted by the threatening figures of the Slytherin court.

For that whole day Neville and Harry were treated with the same courtesy from the Slytherins, from the first years to the seventh years. Draco and Drey had taken Harry into their protection at breakfast, that meant that he was to be treated as any other Slytherin, and after Potions the same went for Neville, when they saw how he was a forgotten casualty of Ron's campaign against Harry.

But the real test would be charms the next day, when Bill had to try and teach his girlfriend and her family, and Ron would be expecting him to be biased towards Gryffindors. Merlin knows that would end.