Title: Slytherins we will be.

Author: Rayne-N-Blood

Rating: T (to be safe)

Pairing: none

Era: Harry's First Year

Disclaimer: I own nothing.

Summary: My take on if the trio had a more Slytherin side. I am not sure if I will cover all seven years. I may use lines directly from the book. No plagiarism intended.

Thanks to: My loyal readers and those who reviewed.

I am changing the birthdays of Hermione and Ron. Hermione's new birthday is July 15 and Ron's new birthday is July 23. This change is something important to the story later on.

Chapter 5

"Slytherin House is full of rich traditions, which is why all of you will be taking a etiquette lessons. And before you complain about the other houses not taking them, you are room as only the Gryffindors choose not to. This is for your benefit later on in life." said Snape. "After the first two week of lessons, if I find that any of you are struggling or falling behind, you will be assigned a study group or a tutor. I expect nothing less than Acceptable."

"I am not sure if Mister Flint mention but Slytherins are family and we will treat family with respect. If you must fight, then do it in the common room because if I hear of any one of you fighting outside these walls there will be hell to pay. We don't need anyone to see us fighting amongst each other. You will learn in time that your Slytherin housemates will be the only ones you can depended on because as soon as the hat place you here, everyone else believes you are evil dark beings. Remember if you do anything wrong don't get caught and if you do I will take your side but you will be punished. I will show favoritism to my house because others will treat you unfairly. Everyone outside this house will believe your misdeeds goes unpunished but I will punish you. For every detention you get with professors other than me is a detention with me. With any late assignment turned in, that is a detention with me and if you dare do it for Potion that is three detentions. There is a list of house rules and punishments for each infraction on the bulletin board in the common room and each dorm. So you can't say that you just didn't know"

"I believe that all good deeds should be awarded. In each dorm, you will have a chart with Snakes and Lions on it. Lets just say you were awarded 5 points for answering a question correct than you will get a snake but if you failed a test you will receive a Lion. After you earn a certain amount of snakes, you will be given a reward like getting to stay up an extra hour or extra points on homework. But if you get a certain amount of Lions, you will receive a detention and the punishment gets worst the more Lions you get. Remember that you can use your Snakes to cancel out your Lions such as you have 6 Lions than three Snakes will cancel out them"

"Know that you can come to me or any of the prefects with your problems be it a lost pet, a charms problem or you just are upset. We will do our best to fix your problems. Now I need all of you to follow me to the Hospital Wing" said Snape.

"Why" asked a girl.

"Well Miss Bulstrode, I like to make sure that each of my snakes are in the best condition before actively performing magic. When you begin performing magic on a regular basis, it will take a lot out of you at first and for example you have a light cold it could be a hinderance in how well you perform." The explaination seem to suit all the first years and they followed their Head of House to the Hospital Wing.

One-by-One each student allowed Madam Pomfrey to do her scans until it was only three left. For one reason or another, neither Harry, Ron or Hermione were eager to have Madame Pomfrey look over them.

They were made to go inside the hospital wing and Madam Pomfrey directed them to a bed. She noticed the three fidgeting and sighed. No matter what house a child is sorted into, there reaction to dealing with a healer was the same.

"Now I am just going to perform sensible diagnostic tests to make sure you are in the peak of health" said the healer.

"But I feel fine" said Ron.

"You might but sometimes you can be sick and have no symptoms at all" said Poppy. "How about I examine you three at once so it can be over quickly"

They nodded at that. She cast the spells on them and everything was fine until they began screaming and passed out.

"What happen" said Severus rushing in as the children convulsed in pain and passed out.

"They shouldn't have reacted that way. Can you help me more them to separate beds" said Poppy. After separating them, she began her diagnostic spells again but more advance more to see what caused that reaction."My...My"

"Did you figure out what caused them to react like that" said Severus.

"Well yes. They were so nervous about the tests that I allowed them to take them together unfortunately they had to deal with pain from their recent injuries along with each others" said Poppy.

"Are you saying they have suffered serious injuries recently" said Severus not wanting to allow that dark thought that was at the back of his mind to surface.

"They have been abused. Harry has had several of his bones broken over the years and they have only been healed by his magic. I noticed that some have been rebroken when they weren't growing back correctly which I believe he did himself. The worst is the malnutriention as it his stunted his growth and missed with his vision. He has many scars. I am hoping it can be a reversed with the right treatment over time. Ron's condition is similar to Harry's as he is a bit malnourished but his injuries are mainly caused by magical means. Hermione's case is a bit different. She appears to have been treated quite well until she was five when she was attacked at some point by a vampire. She wasn't fully turned and I note that she hasn't had any symptoms but she will need to feed soon. The scan shows that she had been starved on regular basis and burnt severely on several occassions. Thankfully, the accerlated healing she received from being partially turned has combated the worst of her injuries but she will still need treatment"

"What about my other snakes" asked Severus trying to keep himself calm. "Well Miss Parkinson and Miss Ashford are suffering from the earlies signs of bulima. I believe if we intervene now they will make a full recover. Mr. Goyle, Mr. Crabbe and Miss Bulstrode needs to losse a stone or two,..."

Severus was relieved that beside the three misfit Slytherins that all his other snakes were relatively okay. Some needed a few potions, a diet or someone to talk to but Severus was happy. Many of his students from previous years had suffered many forms of abuse. He did his best to help each and everyone of them because he wasn't going to allow his snakes to suffer when he could help. He knew what it was like to suffer from abuse and not receive any help. He didn't just help out his snakes but any child in need. It would surprise many if they knew how many students came to him needing help coping with abuse.

"I will start brewing the potion you need and contact me when they wake." said Severus.

After Severus left, she looked at the three occupants. She couldn't understand how people could harm any child but over the years she had seen many cruelties that families dealt out to there own flesh and blood. With a sigh, she knew before the week was over she would be treating more abused students and prayed for the day when the abuse stopped.

Looking at Ron, Poppy felt her blood boiling. She had known Molly and Arthur as students. She had delievered their first two children and visited on different occassions. She knew that Molly took it hard when her first daughter Victoria died because they couldn't find a match. Ron most likely would have been a match but he was thought to be a squib and not a candidate for the procedure. Victoria had an illness that attacked your magical core and only a magical transplant from a family member could cure it. She remember that one of the older boys was a possible match but was attending Hogwarts at the time. Also with his age there was a chance he could be turned into a squib. With no match Victoria grew sicker and sicker until she died.

Turning to Harry, Poppy assumed like everyone else that Harry was being spoiled and pampered by his relatives. She thought that being who the child was that Albus would be watching him more closely but at last that didn't seem the case.

After making sure the children were comfortable, she went into her office.

Down in the Dungeons, Severus was in his lab brewing the potions Poppy would need and during this time he could think. He found it hard to wrap his mind around the son of James and Lily Potter being abused but he should have known that Petunia couldn't get over her petty jealousy to treat her nephew like family. Looking over the results, he was surprised that the boy made it to eleven. He had endured several injuries along with untreated illnesses as bad as pneumia and survived. If the boy's magic wasn't so strong he would be dead by now.

Then the Weasley boy, really shocked him as all the other children appeared to be well-fed and cared for but the boy's sorting told wonders. Most people didn't realize that many abused children were placed into Slytherin for a reason. You had to learn life lessons early. People didn't realized that you had to be cunning and resourceful to survive another day with a drunk father. They didn't realize that having ambition was a bad thing. For an abuse child, ambition to find a way to escape kept you alive.

Severus knew from personal experiences how people misinterpet a kid with a tough and cold demeanour as someone who things they are better than you. If they bothered to look deeper, they would have seen a scared kid who just wanted to feel safe.

Now Severus needed to think of a solution for this. He didn't believe he would have too much trouble with Hermione's family, he would probably have some difficult with the Weasleys but Potter was the one to worry about and his major problem was Albus Dumbledore.

He knew Poppy would help him and when Minevra sees the evidence than she was in and he hoped that would be enough but he did have other ways of succeeding because one thing a Slytherin knows is to have several backup plans and always plan for the worst.

As a side note, I am not going to have Severus, Harry, Ron and Hermione all instantly bonding and Severus a sweet angel. Severus still has a lot of issues that will not disappear overnight. He wants to help Harry, Ron and Hermione because he was once an abused child that no one ever helped.

I am new to writing and especially this type of writing style. I have noticed that in many stories that only Harry is abused and Severus helps him but I wanted to have Harry, Ron and Hermione abused as well. I know it sounds a bit sketchy at the moment but I will improve on it. Also, I have a few surprising twists.

Also, if you have any ideas then I would love to hear them and I might use them and will give credit to you.

Tell me what you think so far.