A/N: This chapter last version is on 07/10/2016

Of Sortings and Friends

While entering the place I felt nervous like never before in my life. I heard the professor speech and the sorting hat music in a astonished state that stopped me from absorbing anything from it. When I finally got my attention back the sorting had already started. Soon the hat called Sirius and I stared at it with expectancy.

"Black, Sirius." They boy went ahead full of confidence and pride and the hat didn't took long before announcing. "GRYFFINDOR!" I decided to only take notice of people that was on Harry's memories as we were a huge amount of first years. Oh! Narcissa Ma-Black looks terrified. Maybe she is concerned about Sirius being in Gryffindor? I guess she does have a heart. Oh that seventh year girl by her side must be Andromeda. It's funny to think that Remus's mother in law is sitting over there while he is behind me befriending the marauders...

"Evans, Lily." I smile and give the red haired girl a quick hug before wishing her luck. "GRYFFINDOR!" Severus growled at it and I gave him an apologetic smile before clapping my hands hard cheering for her. Severus even clapped a little and Lily send us a smile. Maybe I should let myself be placed in Slytherin, I don't know if Severus really will try to get into Ravenclaw after all...

"Lupin, Remus." Gryffindor, he deserves to be one just for being brave enough to be here. "GRYFFINDOR!" Knew it!

"McKinnon, Marlene." I gulp clearing my throat terrified about it, I go to the bench feeling like I'm walking to my death.

'Let's see what we got here…'

'Ravenclaw or Slytherin. And if you put me in Ravenclaw make me a favour and put Severus with me.'

'I don't do this type of deal miss McKinnon but I can see that you have knowledge that are rare to come by.'

'Yeah yeah, future sight and all. I want to change things so could you make my life easy? Last time I assume I was in Gryffindor and I died. Let's shake things a bit…'

'You are not worried about me telling Dumbledore about your memories from the future?'

'Not at all. He kind of is responsible for them and anyone that sees what I saw can understand the importance of what I will do. If you try to stop me you would be a stupid hat and I know you are not.'

'You have a good point. But there is some very stupid people in this world. I hope you take this in consideration in the future if it ever comes a time where you see fit to tell anyone…'

'I will, pinky promise!'

'I have no fingers for this…'

'Oops!'

'Should put you in Hufflepuff for mocking me but you better be…'

"RAVENCLAW!" The Ravenclaw table applauded as I went to it while sending a smile at Severus that rolled his eyes. His attitude is not looking good.

After a few names it called Peter. "Pettigrew, Peter." I looked at this sorting anxiously. Maybe something would change and he would be in another house... "GRYFFINDOR!" I'm clearly getting my hopes up way too high.

"Potter, James." He went to the bench faking confidence that only a few could notice. This one I didn't even blink, it was a easy one. "GRYFFINDOR!" Only one more person left… Please Severus, come to the eagle side…

"Snape, Severus." The boy look worried and before sitting sent me a smile that made me relax a little. "RAVENCLAW!" MERLIN PANTS! IT WORKED! I could run with excitement right now but I manage to only celebrate a little along with the Ravenclaw table.

The boy was received with applause and a hug from me and I couldn't help myself but to smile at him. We waved to Lily at the neighbour table and she waved back. Me and Severus tried to talk to the other first years but we didn't clicked with anyone else so we sticked together. I took advantage that people were too busy with the feast to look around and see who I was able to recognized from Harry's memories. I notice two older students from my house that where on the Order of The Phoenix picture even if their names were not mentioned. Also recognized a fifth year Xenophilius Lovegood with a Prefect Badge. In Hufflepuff was Edgar Bones and one person did grasp my attention even if he wasn't in the Order, Ted Tonks.

He's blatantly staring at Andromeda! How doesn't anyone notice this? It's so shamelessly that an 11 year old can see. WOW! Now she's staring back. Okey, at the Slytherin table there's not a single Order member, I'm not surprised at that… For Morgana I can't let Harry's prejudice with the house to rub on me...WAIT! I squint my eyes at a seven year Slytherin. Quite handsome, a little on the muscular side, dark eyes and a dark blond hair that was untamed. Strangely familiar...MERLIN! That is Alastor Moody! A train of death eaters did run him over in the old timeline! I'm a little sorry for him now... And over there is Lucius Malfoy. Urgh! A sixth year prefect with sixth years Amycus and Alecto Carrow by his sides. Morgana may protect me from ever running in these people in a dark alley.

I then turned to the Gryffindor table and ran my eyes through it. Oh, There's Frank Longbottom, he's a third year and Alice 'no last name yet' a third year too. And there is Dedalus Diggle a fifth year together with Emmeline Vance. In seventh year there is Dorcas Meadowes... Not bad.

"What you looking at?" Severus asked frowning at me.

"Oh, sorry. I was looking at the other houses. Ours is clearly so much better. I knew you would be in Ravenclaw with me!"

"Really? You looked quite relieved when I got here."

"Well, you could always surprise me." He scuffed at my attitude.

"This better be the best house otherwise I will blame it on you for ever."

"How so? Only the hat can choose so I have nothing to do with you being in here. But relax, we will make this the best house." I smile at him playfully.

"He said I could go either Slytherin or Ravenclaw and I asked to be placed here." I gave a huge teeth smile at his response.

"OWN! You really are my friend! We are going to be top of the class and we will conquer this school! Mark my words!" I said in a melodramatic way while putting my arm around him making Severus roll his eyes."

"I'm already regretting being placed here."

"Too late for it! YAY ICE CREAM!" I said as the desserts arrived. Severus pulled a face but had a little shy smile in his lips like he was trying to pretend he wasn't enjoying my act.

Not long after Dumbledore gave a final speech with some rules that I'm already ignoring and we were directed to our dorms by Xenophilius that was eccentric but not even close to how he looked in the future. The Ravenclaw common room is on a tower and it's absolutely beautiful, I end spending a little time in there talking to Severus and making arrangements to create a study group with Lily since we won't be sharing too many classes. Severus looked happy about the prospect and we were complemented by the older students for our 'Ravenclaw attitude'.

"Only true eagles decided to create a study group even before the first class." One older boy said making us embarrassed. More than anything we were just finding excuses to meet with a friend.

We changed the subject to muggle music and I started to ramble about The Beatles, The Who, The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin and the kind when I notice that Severus hadn't a clue about what I was talking, even being a half-blood like me. He told me that he actually didn't knew a thing about music as his father seemed to hate it. His father seemed to hate a lot of things in reality. I stated that it was an absurd and we would have to include time to muggle music education in our study group. He didn't sound very excited about it but agreed. Soon we said our goodnights and went to the dormitories.

As soon as I got to my bed I was welcomed by Lightning purring. I smiled at the cat and petted him before getting ready for bed. I wrote a letter to my parents but set it aside to send it the next day before breakfast. Soon enough I was caught in a well deserved deep sleep. I woke up sooner than I expected and fed Lightning before getting read to the school day. It was a thursday so we would already have classes, I went to the Owlery to send my letters then I headed to the Great Hall, because of Harry's memories I could easily find both, it was with this knowledge that I understood that I will have more than a few advantages during the year because of the extra information I have. I started to eat a toast with marmalade and drink pumpkin juice, also served myself eggs, bacon and some cereal. While I bickered with my food waiting for Severus, Lily came and we started chatting. It was quite unusual to have anyone sitting in a different house table but the place was empty enough and we manage to talk without anyone being rude to us.

"Hi Lils!"

"Hi Marlene."

"Call me Marls. Marlene is a huge name. I usually call people by nicknames and I'm sorry but are already Lil in my head." I smirk at her in a sweet way.

"Okay, Marls, so I'm quite pleased that you and Sev are not in Slytherin because the Gryffindors hate them and it would be awful for us."

"Well, true. But I don't doubt we would still manage to be friends. I think it would be good for your house, and mine too... Hell! It would be awesome if the school stopped this stupid division based on something so silly as a house that we don't even choose ourselves… Well, Severus and I were talking about starting a study group to spend some time together with you. What do you think? Did you know he doesn't know a thing about music? Blimey! He doesn't even know the beatles!" Lily chuckled at my blabbing.

"I knew he didn't. I just never taught it was that bad!"

"Right?! I think he needs to be educated in the marvelous of the muggle music and I will not rest until he at least can say he has a favourite song. So you are in? It wouldn't be about music, more about study and about music when we finished our homeworks."

"Absolutely. Do you mind if I bring a Gryffindor friend?"

"Not at all. But I wouldn't mind if you brought a Slytherin friend." Lily laughed at that.

Then we entered a heated discussion to determine if we would call Severus 'Sev' or 'Sevs'. Lily made a point in stating that she already been calling him Sev but I state how it was sad that he would be the only without an 'S' at the end. We didn't actually got to a conclusion and we are probably going to refer to him differently, she did point out that she would prefer if I called her Lil instead. I don't know, maybe I should drop the 'S'. We were still at it when we heard screaming from outside the Hall and went to take a look. Severus was grabbing his things from the ground as James and Sirius laughed, Peter was just by James side laughing in a more discreet way and Remus wasn't there yet, good for him as if he was I'm not the one to differentiate between the bullies and their audience.

"How dare you?" Lily said while helping Severus with his things, her face was red and I could sense that if she knew a spell already she would have hexed the boys.

"Look James, he needs to be rescued by girls." Sirius said mocking Severus that was red with shame, I lost my patience at that.

"Oh! Really? It's still a lot better than to need to be rescued from a girl." As I said that I launched myself towards Sirius and knocked him down easily. Immediately after I turned myself to James that looked surprised and a little scared at me. I was already holding James collar and preparing to hit him straight in the face when Xenophilius appeared and put himself in between us.

"What's going on?" He asked with cold and a aloof expression.

"They were bullying Sev and mocked him for being rescued by us. Because we are girls. So I decided to show to then what girls can do." I practically spit this words as I'm still staring with squint eyes at James. He does look frightened now.

"Well, I think they learned their lesson…" He took my hand out of the boy and I let him but kept my murderous face. "I do hope I will not have to ask the Gryffindor prefects to control his first years." Xenophilius said looking aloof as always but more intimidating. "Let's give this a rest since we haven't even started classes. You are all luck that it wasn't a teacher, afteral Professor McGonagall would take points and probably would be even harder on those on her house. People that lose too many points usually are not very appreciated." Sirius and James gasped in horror at this. Peter were nowhere to be seen since the prefect had showed up and I held a devilish smile.

We all went to the Great Hall without looking at each other, Severus and I sat together at the same spot on Ravenclaw table but now accompanied by Xenophilius. Sirius and James sat together with Peter and Remus that had just arrived. Lily went to sit on the furthest part of the table from the group but closer to other first year girls.

"Xenophilius, I'm sorry for creating problem." I expressed after an awkward silence. I should not have lost my control. But even if I know that they will turn out to be very decent people I understand that I can't control but be angry at the gits that they currently are.

"Call me Xeno and don't worry, I was kind of impressed with your attitude Marlene and not in a bad way. And you, Severus right? Are you okay?"

"Well, I'm not very happy considering." They boy answered in a touch of disdain and sadness. It is bad that classes have not even started and he is already being picked on.

"Don't let them get to you. Usually Gryffindor don't give us a hard time unless is before a Quidditch match." He said not even flinching about Severus tone.

"Well, don't worry Sev. If anything they will be mocked about almost being kicked in the arse by a girl." I say playful and Severus rolled his eyes and regained a little of a good mood.

"I really was surprised. I never took you from the violent type being so delicate." Severus said.

"Violent? There's not a violent bone in me! And as Mols says, sometime boys need to see roses to stick their hands into torns." I say with my nose up in a very dramatic way then I turn to face them. "Not exactly sure what she means but I'm certain that it applies." I manage to make them both laugh at me and the good atmosphere is back and I can enjoy the rest of my oversized breakfast.

I admit to myself that it is kind of strange to see Severus smiling when I have so many memories of him as an bitter adult but I can easily get used to this. His laugh is still a little crooked like it's something new in his life and his smiles are always shy and hidden but we have to start somewhere.

"Did you manage to talk to Lily about the group?" He asked clearly remembering that I was with her when I got to him.

"Yes, of course I did. She is in but asked to bring another friend from Gryffindor."

"Guess that's okay." He said not very happy about it, he did have a bad dose of what Gryffindors are able to.

"Don't be like that. Not every lion is as stupid as them." He chuckles at me and resume to eat. I notice that he eats almost nothing, clearly very different of me. Even if I don't like to admit I eat with class and clearly a refined education. But the quantities are stupid, I even eaten more at breakfast than Xeno and he is a 15 year old teenage boy.

We eventually finish our food and went to class where something not even I could predicted happened. During the morning we had Herbology and Defense Against the Dark Arts with Hufflepuff and me and Severus answered as many questions as we could. Severus looked like he was trying to prove himself and I did it because I could, since I have memories of six years of Hogwarts and basically knew every answer. I Must note that the memories of Hermione Granger explanations were even better than some classes. Even if I may have some difficult time in the practical department I would hardly ever have a problem with theory until I'm much older. I've been lucky as hell, I don't think I will never have really to study in my life. Probably I'm being a little out of proportion, I will choose different electives than Harry so I'll have to study for those. And I shall have to study for history of magic as Harry slept through his six years of it.

As soon as we got into the Great Hall and sat on our house table we noticed that something was wrong. The other first year were staring at us with wonder and even the older students looked very astonished with us. What the hell is happening? I look to Xeno that soon comes and sit with us.

"You guys are celebrities." The prefect states like it's a fact.

"What?! WHY?" I certainly don't want the attention. I have year of memories showing how terrible fame is and if it did not help 'the boy who lived' it was hardly something that would help me.

"It's said that you guys together got Ravenclaw forty points just this morning. The other first year were blabbing about it to everyone in between classes. Some old years didn't believe but when they got to the Ravenclaw hourglass they saw that indeed it had the said points. Even the older years were commenting how if you guys keep this up we might as well as forget about Quidditch all together since we won't need it's points." Xeno state while serving himself some potatos.

"Merlin's pants! I don't want this. I know that we have a very terrible Quidditch team nowadays, my brother always complained that Ravenclaw always made the biggest pool of points but always lose the cup over Quidditch where the other houses made the most points." The girl hit her head against the table while complaining about it.

"Well, I don't mind." I turn with my forehead still glued to the table to stare murderous at Sev.

"Are you for real? They are going to make our lives miserable. I'm I have a temper, as soon as I start losing house points they will start to hate me." I pout.

"Yes, we are smart. You more than I thought and we might as well be recognized for it. I don't think you as capable of losing house point as you state." He said completely ignoring my protest.

"I don't like to people to have expectations towards me." Sev gives me a sympathetic smile that I didn't picture him capable of. He was certainly in a good mood, well I guess it's kind of selfish of me to be so dumped about it when he clearly happy that someone has some sort of expectation of him.

Blimey! He always wanted recognition and know he is a know it all in the house of the smart people. I created a monster! Well let's hope that this doesn't get out of control. A few weeks after that day we discovered that we got labeled the Brightest Duo, title that followed us through our entire time in Hogwarts.

Thanks for reading.