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Our own little world
Alison had once had an older brother, Jason.
A beautiful older brother with round chubby cheeks and big brown eyes that sparkled in the light.
Alison doesn't remember much about him,she could barely remember his face,sometimes it felt like he was never even there. Sometimes it felt like she'd only dreamed him.
Like in her childhood loneliness she'd dreamed up this kind little boy that would look at her with all the love in the world.
It was only when she looked at the little scorch mark on her family tapestry that she would remember that he was real and then she would feel a blinding rage in her.
A squib!
Her older brother was squib, an embarrassment to their family!
If he had been magical she would have been free.
She wouldn't have had to lose him to the muggle world.
She wouldn't have to grow up so fast.
"...And now I pass you on to our fellow Head boy and dear house prefect. "
Alison far as head of houses go Slughorn seemed to be perfect for Slytherin. The man was an obvious social climber willing to look over a lot of things in the name of house was the kind of man with friends in very high places, friends that made it easy for a fellow Slytherin to succeed.
Slughorn bid them farewell after introducing them to their house prefects.
"Congratulations! You lot have made it into Slytherin. I am Ian Thomas your fellow Head boy."He gave charming smile. "Standing beside me is my fellow prefect Melissa Hastings."
"Yes my younger sister did just get sorted into Ravenclaw but that does not mean I will be going easy on her. "Melissa smirked "We are the house of the ambitious and the cunning and we have won the house Cub for the past five years now and this year will be no different. "
Her comment gave her a round of cheers from her fellow house mates.
For the past few years there had been a change in Slytherin house, it took a whole lot more than being a pure blood with a large vault to earn respect in the snake pit, you had to prove you belonged there and making stupid public displays of how powerful you thought you were without being able to back it up didn't just embarrass you it also isolated you from the rest of the snakes.
"This house has only two rules. " Ian began. His voice firm and leaving no room for disagreement. " Before you do any rule breaking think it through. Decide if it's worth the punishment and if it is than you do your damn hardest to cover your tracks. "
"Which brings us to rule number 2."Melissa stated without a hint of her previous smile. "Slytherin's stick together. The other houses don't trust us and with good reason. The houses may not always get along but they are more than united when it comes dislike for our house. So I don't care if the person standing next to you is a halfblood or your worst enemy when you step out of this common room they become your family. Slytherin's protect their own."
Yes Alison knew now more than ever that she belonged in Slytherin. ..and to think that damn hat wanted to place her in Ravenclaw.
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"Now I present to you my favourite part of Hufflepuff . The family room." June Anderson a fellow Hufflepuff prefect had big brown eyes and curly blond hair that seemed to be radiating small sparks.
"June your hair!" Sebastian a tall plain looking boy with frizzy red hair spoke in annoyance at his fellow prefect.
"Sorry I sparkle when I'm excited. I just can't help it!"
Emily and Aria didn't really pay attention to the bickering prefects, they like the rest of the first years were too memorised by the room.
It had a huge window with sunlight streaming in and flowers and plants coming in from the balcony. There were paper birds and butterflies flapping sparkling wings that reflected off the light in the most beautiful chairs seemed to have been hit with an animation charm and walked around the place happily. Making everyone especially the muggleborns awe in amazement.
"I find it just so magical!"
"June this is Hogwarts. Everything is magical." Sebastian rolled his brown eyes at her over enthusiastic behaviour .
"That is the elder siblings board."He pointed lazily to the colourful board on the wall. "All first years are assigned big brother's or big sisters to help you all adjust and when you reach seventh year you will become a mentor as well to help your fellow firsties. "
"The board will be updated tomorrow afternoon so be sure to check for your new sibling."June said with enthusiasm.
June was a muggleborn who had also once been apart of the sibling program that had led to her falling in love with the magical world.
Stepping into Hogwarts was like stepping into a dream world, a dream where she never wanted to wake up from.
"Now for sleeping arrangements. Girls follow me ,boys your with Bas."
Lets face facts here, as much as people liked to preach about how all the houses were equal and how your house didnt matter that just wasn't true.
Everyone wanted to be known as brave or smart even cunning and ambitious, not many people wanted to be known for being loyal. To most people Hufflepuff was the house for those that didnt really have any useful qualities.
Thus they were very few Hufflepuffs but that just meant more perks for them.
While other houses had to share rooms with 3 sometimes 6 people in Hufflepuff they didn't have that problem, less people meant more space.
First years got their own rooms and after that they could choose to room with a friend or stick with a single room.
While other houses just had their common room Hufflepuff had an added "Family room" where they could just hang out and play games or practice spells while their house mates studied in the common room.
There was usually no more then 10 first years sorted into Hufflepuff which led to there being the big brother and big sister programme which would allow the seventh years to mentor the first years helping with anything from homework to wizarding culture,some even offered to take muggleborns home with them over the summer so they could experience more then just Hogsmeade and Diagon alley during their magical education.
Gryffindor may be well known for the acceptance of muggle borns but most muggle borns sorted into other houses tended to go back to the muggle world after Hogwarts and the few that did stay often stayed only because of emotional attachments. Hufflepuff was proud to say that since the sibling programme had been put in place most muggle borns in their house had chosen to stay in the magical world.
Hufflepuff may not win the house cup every year or dominate in quiddish and academics but they definitely were the house with the most heart.
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After reciving her timetable Hanna marched her way over to the Hufflepuff table squeezing herself in between Emily and Aria.
"Ugh! I hate Gryffindor! "
"Hanna we just got sorted, what could you possibly hate about it." Emily put down her timetable to pay attention to her bestfriend.
"Well for starters, I hate him!"
Hanna dramatically pointed at the Gryffindor table where a dark haired boy was laughing opposite a light skinned girl with frizzy curly black hair.
They watched as he grabbed some food off his plate and threw it at the girl who tried to catch it in her mouth. The girl missed and instead found her noise covered in food which she promptly wiped off and ate.
"Caleb Rivers? " Aria remembered him from when he helped her with her trunk at the station. .
"Yes the big idiot! He asked me if I was old enough to be here because I look like I'm eight."
Aria and Emily nearly chocked on their food trying to contain their laughter. He was right though, Hanna certainly didn't look old enough to be here.
"Hey! it is not my fault the veela mature differently! "
Aria and Emily just continued to laugh especially when Hanna began to pout in her seat making her look even more like a little kid.
"You know I shouldn't even be sitting here . In fact I'm moving to Ravenclaw where their smart enough to appreciate my veela heritage! "Hanna announced before marching away from the Hufflepuff table where she had gained an audience.
" Hanna we're sorry! " Emily yelled after her still giggling.
"We love the veela!" Aria added playfully trying to hold back her laughter.
"I love the veela too!"
"Shut it Sebastian! "June scolded causing her fellow housemates to laugh at how quickly Sebastian could rile up the ever bubbly June.
Aria and Emily watched amused as Hanna took a seat next to a brown haired Ravenclaw who seemed to be already concentrating on the scroll in front of her. The poor girl looked up startled at Hanna popping up next to her and starting a random conversation.
After getting themselves under control Aria and Emily made their way over to the Ravenclaw table trying to look as apologetic as possible.
"Hanna. .."Emily sang sweety with a smile as she took a seat next to Hanna.
"Not now. My new best friend Spencer is telling me all about the veela because she's smart!"
"Hanna we're sorry. We were just playing, we don't think your eight. "
Aria said from the seat beside Spencer. "Yeah, you're perfect hight for a veela. "
"Actually she's taller than the average veela. "Spencer corrected Emily absentmindedly looking down at her scroll.
All three girls looked at her as if just only just realising she was still there.
"Told you she was smart."Hanna said smugly.
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Their first class for the day happened to be Transfiguration with professor McGonagall.
Alison hated it.
It was one of those classes were all houses had to attend together.
It once again gave her another reason to hate Emily Fields. If it wasn't for them being betrothed Alison would have been going to Drumstrung.
Drumstrung was like a pure blood paradise.
No half bloods,no half breeds and thank Merlin no mudbloods!
In transfiguration Slytherin as usual sat together on one side of the room as far away from Gryffindor as possible.
Everyone loves Gryffindors and Gryffindors loved to provoke Slytherin's and with McGonagall as their head of house it was obvious which side she would always pick.
McGonagall walked into class looking even more stern then ever, she passed her desk where for reasons unknown there seemed to be a large cat which she kissed softly on the head before passing by.
"Miss Marine, Miss Montgomery and Miss Fields!
All three girls felt their breath hitch at McGonagall's McGonagall ' s stern tone.
"For today's display of musical chairs at breakfast 20 points each from Gryffindor and Hufflepuff. "
The other houses gasped. It was the first day and they had already lost points. It was their first class!
"And 30 points from Ravenclaw to Miss Hastings for entertaining this behaviour! "
"But I -I didn't -"
"Shall we make it 50 Miss Hastings! "
"10 points to Gryffindor for an expressive display Miss Summers. " Called a voice from the table where the cat had seemed to have transformed into a second McGonagall.
"And 20 points from Gryffindor for disrespect of a teacher."
The class watched in awe as the first McGonagall now red faced with embarrassment seemed to shrink down and turn into a cute short brown haired little girl who had light brown eyes and a deep set of dimples.
"You were the cat weren't you." She asked shyly her face still burning from embarrassment.
" Yes I was, now if you're done displaying your Metamorphosis abilities I shall begin my lesson . "
" Yes Miss. "
Alison watched in amusement as the girl made her way over to Gryffindor.
The girl was obviously a mudblood or a halfblood.
Being a metamorphosis was a very rare talent even in the magical world, so rare that they had to get registered.
It used to be that a Metamorph would pop up every few years but then people started kidnapping them at birth to use them for their "gifts". The girl had just painted a huge target on herself.
"Now we are going to turn this matchstick into a needle."
Ugh! Alison silently groaned in annoyance. This was baby stuff! They were just doing this for the mudbloods who were clueless and thus needed to be separated from the rest of them.
Alison locked eyes with Ameara who seemed to feel the same way.
For Alison class seemed to just drag on, what was worse was that her arm had been irritating her even if it wasn't really painful...yet.
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At the end of class Alison could be found standing outside the door waiting for Ameara who McGonagall had asked to stay behind probably to sort out the details of her up coming detention for her and Noel trying to stab at the Gryffindors with their newly transformed needles.
"Dude you kissed McGonagall! " A curly haired light skinned girl yelled while trying to hold back her laughter as the Gryffindors began to make their way out at the end of class.
"Maya how do you think Lex feels, that was probably her first kiss!" The dark haired boy burst into laughter making no attempt to hold back.
"It was your dumb idea Caleb!" The tiny girl lifted up her bag and started to repeatedly hit him on the shoulder as they past Alison on their way out.
Idiots
"Alison. "
Alison inwardly groaned as she was faced with a nervous looking Emily Fields who smiled at her shyly.
" Emily how are you? How's being in Hufflepuff? " Alison had to try very hard to keep the mocking tone from her voice.
Everyone knew you only got sorted into Hufflepuff if you didn't have any worthy qualities.
"Hufflepuff is great. "Emily blushed and tucked a loose strand of dark hair behind her ear.
Sure Alison and her had spoken before but that was always at stuffy social gatherings but this ...this was Hogwarts, this was different, here they were away from their families and would have all the time in the world to get to know eachother.
" I'm really getting the whole "your house is your family thing "they told us about."Emily smiled softy at Alison who smiled back at her politly making Emily blush harder.
"Do you..."Emily tried to keep the conversation going. "Do you like Slytherin, not that theirs any reason why you shouldn't like Slytherin. It's not like Slytherin is a dark house or anything. Not! that anyone thinks that." She chuckled awkwardly feeling like complete idiot.
Get it together Emily!
Just breath, in and out, you've been doing it your whole life.
"Alison" Emily started more confidently then she felt. "Would you mind if I walked -"
" Ready to go Ali." Ameara interrupted confidently stealing away Alison's attention. "Heir Fields." She greeted coldly before linked her fingers with Alison. "Sorry I didn't notice you there but you Hufflepuffs must be used to being ignored huh?"
Emily felt her face flush , she wasn't sure if it was from rage or embarrassed but she knew that it definitely had something to do with Ameara Black being the spawn of Satan.
"Ali let's go we're gonna be late for charms." Ameara insisted trying to pull Alison away.
" Meara don't be rude."Alison scolded without any real malice. She liked it when Ameara got jealous. She turned to Emily with her first real smile of the day which had more to do with Ameara ' s behaviour then Emily's friendliness towards her. "It was nice talking with you Emily, feel free to visit me in Slytherin sometime. "
When hell freezes over!
Alison thought amused.
Alison just loved playing with people.
Yeah Emily was her betrothed but they were still first years so the way Alison saw it she could mess with Emily's emotions until at least sixth year before her mother would force her to start taking the hufflepuff seriously but until then the girl could go jump off the astronomy tower for all she cared.
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Emily was feeling light headed she was getting that fluttering feeling in her stomach.
Alison was nice to her for the first time!
It didn't seem forced or faked,it felt like she was seeing the real Alison.
Like for the first time Alison saw her like as an actual person not just something that was forced on her because no matter how much nice or kind Emily was it would never change the fact that if Alison's brother had been magical Emily would be marrying him instead.
Speaking to Alison like an equal had unknowingly gave Emily spark of hope.
Hope that Alison and her could somehow be friends.
It gave her hope that some day they would to care for eachother.
It gave her hope that one the time came for them to be married it might even be bearable.
AN : Hello kitten's! ? So that was my second chapter I had to make it a little shorter than I'd planned but after the next chapter there will be a huge time jump?
This is my first fanfiction so don't be shy and let me know what you think! ?
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