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Marie walked up to the great hall silently, watching for her brother or twin. 'Where could they be?' she thought. 'In there? No, Rose isn't an early riser.' As she entered, she spotted her little brother. She was about to go sit with him when she realized she would be bombarded by questions from her own housemates.

"Marie!" cried Claire.

Marie realized she was standing right in the middle of the entrance way, and people were struggling to get past her through the doors. "Oops, sorry, I really need to work on that."

Claire nodded in agreement.

Marie noticed trouble at the Hufflepuff table. 'Already? It's only the first day!' she thought to herself when she noticed a poor little Hufflepuff first year was being poked with a spoon by a Slytherin. Marie got close enough to hear what the Slytherin boy was saying.

"Are you covered in bees? 'Cause it sure does look like it!" he taunted, pulling at the black and yellow tie hanging from the Hufflepuff's neck.

"Hey, kid, quit it." Said Marie, snatching the spoon and placing it back on the table. The Slytherin glared at her until Marie realized who it was. "Malfoy." She sneered.

"Yep, that's me." He growled as he turned away from her to walk back to his own table. Marie walked to the other end of the Slytherin table and sat next to Alie.

"Morning, Alie."

"Morning, Mars. How was your morning?"

"Good." Marie looked over her schedule that was handed to her by Snape. "Ugh, I have potions first with the Gryffindors." Alie raised an eyebrow at Marie. "Oh, wait! Yay! Rose is in that class! Sweet!"

"Yeah, I guess you could say that, but the rest of us Slytherins would say 'Ew, Gryffindorks.'" Alie looked back at her schedule and attempted to memorize it.

"Yeah, I guess."

"Why is Snape staring at you?" Alie asked, looking confused. Marie looked up slowly, then away too quickly, pulling a muscle in her neck.

"I have no idea, but you know he's been nicer to me lately…" Marie massaged her neck.

"Okay, he looked away." Alie said, poking Marie in the side.

"Good, that was awkward." Replied Marie, shivering at the idea that her least favourite teacher was staring at her. 'Was it because I helped him in the dungeons?' she wondered, absentmindedly poking at her eggs. 'Or because I hugged him in front of people?' she was still poking at her eggs when she noticed a shadow over her plate. She looked up slowly and nearly fell off the bench. The potions master was the one creating the shadow.

"Miss Doué, please find your sister and follow me. I would like to speak to the both of you before classes begins."

Marie nodded and headed to the Gryffindor table. "Hey, Rose, professor Snape wants to talk to us before class." She plopped herself on the bench between her twin and brother. "Wotcher, Harry." Marie greeted.

"Why?" Rosemary asked, mouth full of egg.

"I have no idea, but he wants us to talk to him now." Marie was growing impatient.

"But I told Harry I would walk him to his first class." Protested Rosemary.

"Well, he can go early! I'm positive professor McGonagall wouldn't mind that." Marie pulled Rosemary's arm. "Snape wants us now!"

Rosemary finally dropped her fork to her plate with a clatter and allowed Marie to drag her and Harry to the entrance hall.

"Harry, the transfiguration room is right there, see you at lunch!" Rosemary said quickly, pointing at a large green door. Marie was already pulling her to the dungeons.

A/N – Mary: ok, the part where Malfoy is taunting the poor Hufflepuff, saying he's covered in bees is from a list of Hogwarts Student Rules on the web. This list is by Nerdfighters, we do not own the list… Victoria will include a link.

Victoria: I don't wanna….

Mary: fine… there...

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