Take that bloody hood down
A/N Ummmmm, just realized I never said which house George Goyle was put in, so… opsies. Sorry lovies, but I proper messed that one up, it was supposed to be GeorgINA Goyle in Hufflepuff but, like the smart person that I am, I forgot to change that before I posted it, so *hides face in embarrassment*
Chapter 1: 5 years later
All on their way to Potions, Scorpius and Victoria walked slightly ahead Beth, who was trying to fend off the advances of both Luke and Jace. The two had bonded over a mutual need to be apart from their male house-mates attempts to woo Beth.
Even though Jace and Luke were both good friends of his, Scorpius couldn't be with them when they competed for Beth's affections, especially as he got frustrated when Jace wouldn't see that Luke was really making fun him, and that Luke only liked Beth as a friend.
Luke and Scorpius had decided that the only way to make Jace see that he liked Beth was to make him jealous, and it had worked, but the look on Jace's face when he had seen Luke flirting with Beth had been so priceless that Luke couldn't give it up.
"Ugh, that essay Slughorn set was the worst, who cares about wit-sharpening potions, anyway? My wit is perfectly sharp, thank you very much," Victoria complained, but Scorpius just smirked at her.
"I don't see why you bother to do the homework, Slughorn wants to collect you so bad he would give you an O on your OWL if you said you go to one of his dumb parties,"
"Eugh, please don't call it 'collecting', it sounds so creepy,"
"What sounds creepy?" Beth asked, catching up with them.
"Oh, Salazar, listen Beth, I love you, and all, but if you bring your lovesick puppies with you I will be forced to run away,"
"Don't worry about it, they went back for my Potions book," She grinned. "I'm a free woman,"
"When you say, Potions book, would you not be referring to the one in your hand?" Scorpius asked.
"Yes," she said simply, like it was the most obvious thing in the world, but then she broke down laughing. "I know they're you're friends, Scorp, but they really aren't that bright,"
"You realize they will both spend the whole lesson looking for your book?" Victoria asked.
"I'm not that evil to my friends, there is a note on my bed saying I've got it,"
"And by note, you do mean…"
"A howler that will yell at them to leave me alone,"
"You know, on the outside you look like this sweet girl, so much so that I forget you're in Slytherin," Victoria grinned at her friend.
Beth grinned at her house-mate/best friend, then turned to the blonde to complain.
"Scorp, can't you talk some sense into them?" she whined. "It's been going on for weeks,"
"Maybe your mothers natural charm is affecting their brains," he commented, earning himself a slap on the arm and a quick stinging hex only meant to cause him a small amount of pain.
All Slytherins like to believe they are invincible, but in fact they all have one Achilles Heel. A few are lucky enough to never come across it, but Beth had always know what hers was, her mum. As legendary at Hogwarts as the Golden Trio, but for very different reasons, Romilda Vane had a worse reputation with men than the Potters did with being the superheroes.
Not that Beth was anything like her mum, sure she had her dark hair, but Beth's was straight and down to her shoulders, and her eyes were acid green rather than murky brown. But Beth was incredibly sensitive when it came to her mum, because she despised her, and yet she had come to the school already labelled, something that she and Scorpius had bonded over.
"I'll try and talk some sense into them," Victoria offered, her fair curly hair bouncing down to her mid-back, while her side fringe shadowed chocolaty eyes. Eyes that had the same look as many Slytherins, windows that usually looked into the soul, but now someone had shut the blinds, and only when her guard was down could you tell what she was really thinking.
"Thanks, Vic,"
Just as they ended their conversation, they arrived at Potions, meeting the other Ravenclaws of their year outside. Jessica, Madeline and Lorcan barely acknowledged their presence, but Alexander smiled at them and struck up a small conversation with Scorpius.
Alexander was the only member of his house that didn't believe in the old Hogwarts prejudices, not having been raised to hate Slytherins, he had no problems with them.
"Did you complete your essay?" he asked Scorpius, ignoring the looks some of his house-mates were giving him.
"Wit-Sharpening potion? Yeah, there was a whole chapter on it in Advanced Potion Making,"
"That does make th-" he broke off, sighing and looking up in frustration. "I'm sorry I can't concentrate on this when it feels like someone is burning two holes in the back of my head," he said, his raised enough to be heard by the other Ravenclaws, who promptly stopped staring at him meaningfully.
"Nicely done," Scorpius commented, nodding his head slightly in Alexander's direction.
"Right, ladies and gents, come in, come in, time to start the day, nice double potions period on a Monday morning, you should all be thrilled,"
Rose sat at the Gryffindor table with Olivia, Cho, Kyle and Fred, all five of them joking around.
Olivia and Fred had got into an argument that had swiftly become a competition on who was more stubborn. While Olivia's argument was more logically based, Fred had found every possible way to attack once he had come to the conclusion that he was wrong, but being stubborn he wasn't able to admit it.
"You know I'm right,"
"Please Olivia, stop embarrassing yourself, but it's your lucky day, I'm feeling especially kind I am willing to meet you halfway,"
"I'm willing to meet halfway too, I will admit you were wrong if you admit that I am right,"
"How stupid do you think I am?"
"I didn't think you at all stupid before you said-"
"Oh, Godric, you too just give it a rest. The sexual tension in the air is tinting my pumpkin juice," Kyle broke in, finally tiring of the argument that had started out funny.
At the end of their day, the Slytherins were sat in their common room underground. It was really quite warm down there, contrary to popular belief, as many thought the common room was in the actual dungeons, they didn't realise (as no one but other Slytherins did) that there was a passageway down to their common room from the dungeons.
It was always warm because the common room bordered onto the lake, and the whole of one side of common room was a huge window giving the common room a spectacular view of the creatures within the depths, but the windows had a simple 'æstus' spell that kept the Slytherin common room warmer than any other all year.
The whole place had two levels, the second only going around the outside of the common room, so it acted as more of a balcony. It was on this level that the four sat, each engrossed in their own homework.
"This is ridiculous, who bloody cares if Ulrich the Unclean was actually interested in personal hygiene? That only makes things more confusing," Beth complained, thrusting her History of Magic essay away from her. "I give up, I'm not gonna be able to do this if I get too tired, I'll see you guys tomorrow," She got up and began to pack her things away.
"I'm with you, Beth, if muggles can't survive without electricity then good for them," Victoria joined her, folding up her Muggle Studies homework.
"See you ladies tomorrow," Scorpius called to the retreating figures.
"Man, I love watching Beth walk away," Luke commented offhandedly, earning himself a strangled sort of groan from Jace. "Something to add?" he asked his fair headed friend.
"Nope," Jace popped the p and stared determinedly at his work, Scorpius just rolled his eyes at his friend's stubbornness.
"How about you, Scorp? Anything exciting going on in the romance department? Perhaps with a red-headed Gryffindor?" Luke turned to Scorpius, his jet black eyebrows raised.
"Don't know what you're talking about," Scorpius offered a small prayer to anyone that his friend wouldn't push the topic.
Ever since he had been caught staring at Rose during lessons and meals, even though he was using every trick in his book to get his friends off the scent, Luke had always picked at him about her.
Luckily, Luke had let him off this evening with a 'sure you don't' and a promise that if the Potions homework wasn't due for tomorrow he would, in his words 'be so on it'.
A/N so this chapter is mainly focused on the Slytherins we are getting to know, i think the next chapter will definitely look more at the Gryffindors and their pasts.
you guys may have also noticed something i hide very well. i don't really like Romilda Vane, i know i know, you couldn't tell but... yeah, i do like Beth, i didn't at first but i do now.
another thing is that the description for the Slytherin common room is not my own, its from a picture by Whisperwings in deviantART
here's the link art/Slytherin-House-277894923