Hunter sits at a table alone with a butterbeer sipping it slowly as he hears the students around him whispering to each other. He eyes them all grouped together around him and shifts as he keeps sipping his butterbeer enjoying his time alone. A Ravenclaw student steps up to him waving his hand in Hunter's face as Hunter glances up at the boy and the boy asks.

"so, ugh are the rumors true than?"

Hunter ignores the boy and the boy sits down firmly next to him and continues speaking.

"well I mean I heard rumors and all that someone said you had a death eater mark..."

The boy glances to Hunter's covered forearm and the place goes silent as everyone stares at the two boys. The Ravenclaw kid pushes forward grabbing at Hunter forearm and pushes up his sleeve and whispers.

"there, there is no mark?"

Hunter shoves the boy off his arm and covers his sleeve as he comments staring the boy next to him over.

"of course, there isn't"

The boy gets up angry and yells.

"this is some stupid trick! This is rubbish I know there is a mark, everyone knows what you are, death eater!"

The place goes silent again and all the people in the room look at Hunter ad his shrugs his shoulders commenting at he looks to the boy a bit younger than him.

"are you sore boy? You made a bet, didn't you?"

The boy's face drops and Hunter winks to him as he comments.

"I'm sorry you lost your odds were good, but I am no death eater..."

Hunter slams down the empty glass and gets to his feet and the whole place stares him down and Hunter comments.

"I mean do you think I would have saved Harry Potter of all people?"

The other kids in the room all look around to each other and Hunter rolls his eyes bursting out of the door annoyed with everyone around him. He begins walking through the cold snow but stops hearing a voice taunting.

"Patty bottom, patty bottm..."

He hears a girls voice yell out.

"just shut up!"

He turns towards the scene and walks slowly shoving his gloved hands into his pocket. Hunter eyes Patty surrounded by some girls who are making jokes at her but they quiet down as Hunter steps forward and Patricia looks back at him. He steps closer to the girls who all stand still in fear of the boy before them. Patricia smiles and stares down the girls commenting.

"aren't so tough now, are you?"

Hunter steps up next to his friend and stares over the girl as he slowly takes out his wand commenting.

"so, what did I miss?"

Patricia eyes his wand and comments.

"you, you can't use magic outside of school?"

Hunter raises an eyebrow as he comments.

"I'm not a Gryffindor and..."

He yells out a spell and small snakes shoot out from his wand terrorizing the girls as he whispers.

"they can't prove I did that one..."

Patricia smiles to hunter as the girls run away in terror and she asks.

"would you, would you teach me that?"

Hunter turns to Patricia and stares her over commenting.

"it is just a joke the snakes can't hurt anyone, they just slither..."

Patricia nods her head agreeing and Hunter grins as he stares the girl over in her still tattered robes, messy hair and big glasses.

"I do know a spell that you may like, if you want to learn it?"

Patricia eyes over the good-looking boy next to her and feels her heart flutter with envy to how gifted he is. She feels herself in a daze as his eyes flicker and he asks her again.

"do you want to learn it?"

Hunter stares her over and the girl shakes her head tryin to get out of her daze as she comments.

"yes, yes I want to learn everything..."

Patricia stares at the boy lost in her mind thinking of him in ways she knows she shouldn't think of a friend and her face goes hot. Hunter raises an eyebrow at the girl and shrugs his shoulders.

"then meet me here after hours and ill show you a spell, a real spell..."

Patricia pushes up her glasses worried as she repeats.

"after, after hours? But we aren't allowed out of our common rooms after hours?"

Hunter grins wide as he nods his head.

"yes, well this spell isn't exactly in the spell curriculum, so it has to be done after hours..."

Patricia looks over Hunter and he does the same to her as she asks.

"is there another way without breaking the rules. I don't want to lose my house points with the end of the year Gryffindor is set to win..."

Hunter scoffs at his friend making a face as he stares her over.

"why bother with them they make fun of you Patricia maybe it would be good if you got caught at least you can have some type of revenge..."

Patricia glances around the snow filled lawn and Hunter questions.

"are you afraid?"

She turns her head eyeing her crush over and looks up into his green eyes as she feels her face grow hot with envy.

"no, well..."

Hunter laughs at the girl and she grows angry staring him down as she yells loudly taking out her wand and pointing at Hunter as he smiles, and she yells.

"I am not a coward! Ill see you tonight Viper"

She stands holding her wand facing him and his smirk grows as she stares up to him commenting.

"and stop smirking!"

Patricia turns angry and storms off and Hunter smiles to himself but winches in pain feeling his arm pulsate and slowly lifts his sleeve winching in pain as a word writes out in on his arm marking it in blood. He looks down reading it and eyes the words as he whispers.

"floo powder?"

Hunter winches eyeing the numbers carve deeper into his arm and quickly closes his sleeve staring around him as he walks in the direction of Hogwarts. He slowly walks down into the dungeon and stares over the entrance to the Slytherin common room and whispers the phrase. He eyes the common room open and walks in staring around him and takes out a small pouch from his robe and stares around him at the scene of the few Slytherin around him. he holds his wand up in the air and whispers something to himself and the people in the common room all faint around him. Hunter smiles and as he goes to turn back a hand comes out dragging him into the fireplace and he disappears in a cloud of smoke and ash.