Disclaimer: Once again...I do NOT own anything from the wonderful world of Harry Potter. The OC (Serefina) is completely mine.

The curly haired girl was the one to speak up. She smiled up at me. "Sure. You can have a seat next to me." She patted a spot next to her.

"Thanks" I smiled.

"Haven't seen you before. Are you new?"

"Don't be so rude, Ronald!" The girl shouted at the red-headed boy. "Sorry about him"

"It's fine." I laughed "But yes, I am new. This is my first year at Hogwarts, but I'm a 4th year." I looked towards the red head about to speak. "I've been home-schooled and went to Beauxbatons for a year."

"Well, welcome." The girl smiled. "Let me introduce myself. I am Her-"

"I know who you are" I laughed. "Hermione Granger, Ronald Weasley, and Harry Potter" I smiled looking at the boy with glasses.

"How did you-" Harry began to ask.

"So he speaks," I laughed. "Sorry I keep interrupting. It's a bad habit." I looked down blushing furiously. My blush deepened as I noticed them looking at me strangely. "Oh! You probably want to know how I know that...Well my name is Serefina Oriana Snape" I heard them all gasp.

"As in Severus Snape?" Harry asked. I nodded.

"You're Snape's-" Ron began.

"Niece. He's my uncle."

"So you're a Slytherin?" Hermione asked slowly.

"Yes. But, the Slytherins I have met so far seem like real gits."

"Who have you met so far?"

I rolled my eyes. "Draco Malfoy..."

Hermione chuckled. "Well no wonder. He's the worst."

"Great. I'm stuck with him. He's good looking and all, but he's just so..." I shook my head. "Sev has him showing me around Hogwarts and making sure that I'm 'comfortable' here." I said air-quoting my words.

"We can show you around if you want."

I looked from Hermione to Harry. "Really? That would be marvelous!"

"Yes, but you should probably find out the password to your common room first. That way you'll be able to get in" Hermione suggested.

I chuckled, "I guess you're probably right. Where-"

"I still can't believe you're a bloody Slytherin!" We all looked at Ron. "I mean I get that you're a Snape, but you're so gorgeous and...nice."

"Thanks." I smiled. "Are the Slytherin really that bad?"

They all sighed in unison. Are Slytherin that horrible? I figured that Malfoy was just that way but I guess they were all like that by the way these three were acting.

A couple of hours passed as Hermione, Harry, Ron, and I chatted and got to know each other. I found it interesting that Hermione was muggle-born. Some people would call her a mud-blood because of that, but I would never! That's a horrible thing to call someone, plus I'm no pure-blood myself. Ron told me about his familly and that he had his twin older brothers and little sister going to Hogwarts too. And for Harry, I basically knew all about him. I mean who didn't? But, he told me about their adventures they've had at Hogwarts so far. I figured that they told me enough that I could call them my friends, so I told them a little about myself, but not too much. I am a Slytherin and have my own secrets after all.

"Time to change into our robes." Hermione announced after looking at the time. "We're nearly there."

"Really?" I shouted. I've never been to the infamous Hogwarts, so I was bound to be a little excited.

The boys left then a little red-headed girl walked in. She introduced herself as Ron's sister, Ginny. So, we all changed into our robes and the boys came back in. When we were nearing Hogwarts, Hermione suggested that I should go find Malfoy and find the way to our common room.

"Meet us in the courtyard afterwards. We'll be there. " She said as I was walking out.

"Sure thing." I smiled the closed the compartment door.

As I walked around, I realized that I had no idea were Malfoy was. Which meant I had to look in each of the compartments and risk the fact that people would think I was some sort of nutter.

"Brilliant" I sighed.

While looking around, I decided to go into another car. All of a sudden, the train jerked and came to a complete stop and I was thrown forward. I tried to grab onto something to keep me from falling, but ended up landing in someone's arms. I opened my eyes and looked up into two lovely gray eyes.

I jumped out of his arms and moved away from him. "Oh...sorry."

The boy smiled. "Not a problem. I'm just glad you didn't get hurt."

I looked down to hide my blush. "I-I mean thank you very much."

"You're very welcome. The name's Cedric. Cedric Diggory." The boy held out his hand.

I put my hand in his. "Serefina."

Cedric squeezed my hand and I looked up at him. He was very good looking and by the robes he was wearing I guessed he was in Hufflepuff.

I heard compartment doors open, so I looked around. I looked back at Cedric and he was still watching me.

"Umm, I think it's time to get off." I said stupidly. Ugh! How dumb was that? It was the first thing that popped in my head and I didn't know what else to say. Great first impression...

Cedric looked surprised when he heard my voice. He looked around as if he didn't know where he was. "Oh, right. Umm...I guess I'll see you later?"

"Sure" I smiled. I watched as he turned around and walked away.

I felt two arms grab me as I hopped off the train.

"What the-"

"Be quiet will you!"

I turned my head only to be face-to-face with Malfoy, our faces only inches apart. This was a little too close for my comfort, especially after the little incident earlier.

"Are you mad? You can't just grab someone like that!" I scowled. I squirmed out of his grasp and glared at him.

"Oh, come off it. C'mon, I have someone holding a carriage for us." He smirked, grabbing my arm.

What does he think he's getting at! I'm not some rag doll he can just drag around. Just wait until Sev hears about this. Oh, he's going to get an earful. I grinned evilly at my thoughts. I hadn't even noticed that we were already in the carriage until I felt a jab on my side. I looked and saw Malfoy poking me with his wand.

"What Malfoy? I shouted.

"Nothing" He smirked.

I turned my head away from him and the others. "Frickin prat."

A couple of moments later, I heard a random monotone voice. "Well, here comes another year in hell."

I looked where everyone else was looking and saw the most magnificent sight I had ever seen. Although it was almost invisible, I could see the darkened silhouette. It was a humongous castle surrounded by the night sky. It had towers and everything! There were torches illuminating the inside making it look like something from a movie. Honestly, there were no words to describe it. As we got closer, the castle looked way bigger than I thought it was, kind of intimidating too.

I followed Malfoy through the huge double doors entering Hogwarts. It was…wow. Just the thought of getting lost gave me the chills. I felt like a first year not knowing my way through Hogwarts. I'll have to change that as soon as possible. As I stumbled out of my thoughts, I realized that Malfoy was not in my sight of vision. I looked around frantically through the sea of student until I saw a head of platinum blonde hair.

"Please, move! I'm trying to get through." I said, trying to make my way through to Malfoy but failing completely. I sighed. "No more miss proper." I mumbled to myself then began pushing my way through forcefully. "Get out of my way!" What? I can't always be nice.

As I reached Malfoy, I grabbed a hold of his hand. Only to make sure I didn't lose him again, of course. Draco looked down at our hands and smirked at me.

I rolled my eyes. "Don't get ahead of yourself. It's only so I don't get lost."

"Sure." He replied.

"If you hadn't noticed, I had almost gotten lost back there. I wonder what Sev would think if he heard about this." I said glancing at him from the corner of my eye. I saw him tense up and he squeezed my hand.

As we entered what I'd presumed was the Great Hall, I let go of Malfoy's hand and followed him to the Slytherin table. Malfoy sat down next to some guy named Blaise Zambini and I sat next to Malfoy. As I sat down, I noticed a girl behind me look at Malfoy then look at me. I guess I had taken her spot or something. She huffed and went around to sit across from Malfoy. She glared at me and I snickered quietly.

"Parkinson, what are you going on about?" Malfoy asked, slightly annoyed.

"I wanted to sit next to you" she pouted.

Malfoy looked at me and I looked around as if I weren't paying attention. I glanced at him quickly and saw that he was still watching me then looked away once more.

I looked to the front of the Great Hall to where all of the professors were sitting to look for Sev, but he wasn't there. I furrowed my brows wondering where he could be. My attention was caught by a female professor walking through the doors with a group of first years trailing behind her. She stood at a podium and grabbed the attention of the whole student body. Minerva McGonagall, I knew because Sev told me about every professor at Hogwarts beforehand. She made a quick introduction and began the sorting of the first years. During that time, my mind began to wander. A movement in my peripheral vision caught my attention. I looked and saw Sev settling down in his seat. When I caught his eye, he winked at me and smiled. I smiled back then noticed his expression change. His small smile turned into a glare. I gasped thinking that I did something wrong then looked behind me and saw Malfoy peering over, his eyes widened. I chuckled and turned back to Sev. I caught his gaze again then rolled my eyes motioning to Malfoy. Sev's expression softened and he gave me a small smile. All of a sudden, he perked up and settled in with a snare. I tilted my head and he used his eyes to motion that I pay attention to McGonagall. I looked over and saw that she had finished with the sorting. She took her seat and Albus Dumbledore stepped up to the podium.

"I would like to start off by saying welcome to our first years, and welcome back to all of our returning students to Hogwarts." He began. "This year ahead of you all will be one like no other for this year we will be hosting the Triwizard Tournament. It is a great honor to be able to host this legendary tournament for we get to be hosts to two other wizarding schools. Let us start out by welcoming Madame Olympe Maxime and her girls from Beauxbatons Academy of Magic."

As soon as Dumbledore said Beauxbatons, my eyes practically popped out of my head and I choked on the amount of air I quickly inhaled. Why Beauxbatons? Are they trying to ruin my first year? This is basically a slap in my face after they just kicked me out because they felt I wasn't "graceful" enough. Graceful? Psh, they just thought I wasn't good enough to go to that bloody stuck up school. Every one of those girls think they're better than everyone. Especially HER. I wonder...No. I know she's here.

At that moment to doors burst open and doves flew everywhere. Everyone looked towards the back and a flock of girls came gliding across the hall. They sighed after every few steps and twitched their way to the front. As expected, SHE ended up in the front. Fleur Delacour, the pompous queen herself. That bitch. They would have her in front, along with her little sister who was almost as bad. I looked around and saw every guy gaping with their mouth wide and basically drooling over the girls. I looked at Malfoy and he was no different. I saw Pansy looking at him with the same disgusted face I had. We looked at each other and for a moment understood what the other was thinking. We both nodded our head, leaned back, put a hand in the air, and SMACK! That was the only sound anyone around us heard next.

"WHAT THE BLOODY HELL WAS THAT FOR?" Malfoy yelled at us as others around us were snickering.

"Get a hold of yourself you bloody prat! You were practically drooling on yourself!" I sneered.

"And what?" He yelled. His frown turned into a sly smirk. "Oh, I get it. You two were jealous."

I was taken aback by that. "I take offense to that. How dare you say that I was jealous?" I looked at Pansy, who was looking down ashamed. So much for understanding each other.

"Because you were."

"I was not! Why would I-" I began when I was interrupted by Dumbledore's booming voice.

"Igor Karkaroff and the boys of Durmstrang!"

Instead of a light sound like before, there was a thunderous boom that filled the whole hall. Once again the doors burst open, but instead of light, innocent (Ha!) girls, there were built, rugged-looking guys. The guys made their way in banging their staffs on the ground making sparks. I watched and tried to keep myself from looking like the guys with those Beauxbatons girls. It was truly difficult, for every guy was handsome in his own way. Even though there were like twelve of them.

"Merlin's beard! It's Viktor Krum!" I gasped and heard whispers erupt from everywhere.

As they made their way to the front, I couldn't help myself any longer. I leaned on my elbow and just gazed at those gorgeous hunks of men. I saw someone wave their hand in front of my face, but just looked passed it. I had a feeling that Malfoy was going to try something, so I put my other hand to his face.

"I wouldn't do that if I were you" I said dreamily.

"And why not?" He sneered.

I pointed towards Sev without looking at him. Nothing was able to tear my gaze away from those Durmstrang guys.

When they got to the front, Dumbledore nodded for them to be seated and I noticed that they were coming to our table! I started fixing myself up as well as every other Slytherin girl did. I stopped when I felt someone tap my shoulder. I looked up only to see the one and only, Viktor Krum, smiling down at me.

"Is this seat taken?" He asked in his sexy accent.

I smiled sweetly. "No, go right ahead." He sat down still smiling at me. "I'm Serefina."

Krum took my hand in his and kissed it. "Viktor."

I almost melted right there. That is, until I heard a scowl from next to me. I snapped my head towards Malfoy and glared daggers at him.

"Is this your boyfriend?"

I turned back to Viktor, who was still holding my hand. "NO!" I half shouted. I cleared my throat. "I mean, no, he isn't. I don't have one."

Viktor smiled and kissed my hand once again before turning his attention to Dumbledore, who was describing the tournament. I practically swooned and almost fell back until I remembered Malfoy was right there. So, I gave my attention back to Dumbledore.

"The Triwizard Tournament consists of three champions, one representing each school. Eternal glory awaits the student who wins The Triwizard Tournament, but to do this, that student must survive three tasks. Three extremely dangerous tasks that are designed to test magical ability, intelligence and courage. These tasks can turn deadly at any moment. The three champions will be competing for the Triwizard cup" He stopped while he and Barty Crouch Sr. revealed a glorious trophy that out shines any other. "Anyone eligible that wants a chance to participate in this event should write their names and the school they attend on a piece of parchment and enter it in the Goblet of Fire." Dumbledore then revealed a goblet with blue fire coming out of it. "The Goblet is what chooses the champions and we have no operation in these works whatsoever. On the night of the Halloween feast,we will see who our three champions will be." Dumbledore paused as students chattered for a bit. He came back up to the podium to end his "speech." "One last note before we feast. I'd like to welcome Professor Moody for he is taking over the position as our new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher."

Suddenly there was the sound of someone clearing their throat. You know, the kind that is meant that something else should be said.

Dumbledore looked back and I followed his gaze to Sev. Sev glanced at me and I glared at him. I looked over at Dumbledore and he was looking straight at me.

"Ah, yes! I had almost forgotten. I'd like to welcome Severus' niece to Hogwarts. I would like everyone to meet Serefina Snape." I heard whispers automatically come from everywhere as everyone followed Dumblodore's gaze to me. My face reddened as the whole school, along with Beauxbatons and Durmstrang, had their attention on me.

The only reason everyone stopped looking at me was because they heard Dumbledore's voice once more. "Therefore, I would like to conclude with welcoming everyone once more and wishing each and every one of you a magical year. I will end with this." He waved his hand and food appeared on every table. "Let our annual feast begin."