An extra long chapta!

Snapes POV

I watched Potter walk over to my snakes, and hesitantly sit beside Blaise Zabini. Immediately Blaise turned towards him and held out his hand. I couldn't tell what he said but it must have been at least semi-friendly because Potter reached out and accepted the handshake.

I couldn't believe my eyes. Harry Potter was shaking hands with a Slytherin? I thought I'd seen it all. Perhaps all their unfriendliness towards him had been simply because he was a Gryffindor.

My beliefs of superior knowledge were once again shattered when another bunch of newly resorted children came out and once again we had a new Slytherin.

My eyes nearly popped out of my head when Ginny Weasley sat down beside Potter. I could tell the others were surprised too, because I saw Draco- who was sitting a couple seats down from Zabini- choke on his pumpkin juice and splutter all over the tablecloth. I rolled my eyes, and shook my head. A Weasley in Slytherin sure was shocking, but did he really feel the need for such dramatics?

Draco's eyes nearly bulged out of his head when Ginny sneered at him, and made a snide remark. Blaise tried not to snicker, and I saw Pansy Parkinson staring at our new arrivals with wide eyes. Honestly, you'd think my Slytherins where Hufflepuffs by the job they did controlling their emotions.

This was going to be an interesting year.

"To my old snakes, you know how it goes. Regardless of how things are at home , Hogwarts shall be safe. That means no casting long term and excruciating curses on any of you or your fellow Slytherins nor any other Hogwarts student or faculty INCLUDING the Gryffindors and Mr Filch."

A sigh echoed around the common room full of my precious snakes. Year after year without fail they continue to be disappointed when I tell them that they cannot use Gryffindors as guinea pigs to test dark magic. It was as if they thought that that rule would change over the summer.

"What about Mrs. Norris? Or the Hufflepuff's?" asked a particularly troll brained 3rd year named Wally.

"Did I say that Hogwarts students may not be cursed?" I spat at him cruelly.

"Y-yes" he stammered back.

"Are the Hufflepuffs Hogwarts students?"

"I-I guess so, sir."

" Then NO!" I snarled.

He looked appropriately cowed and was about to stop talking when he decided to display his low IQ once again.

"But what about Mrs. Nor-"

"NO! Shut up you insolent dung brain! It's no wondering why your parents beat you, you disgrace your house and your family!"

"Lay off Snape!" shouted a voice at the back of the crowd and everybody gasped because Miss Weasley had dared to confront me.

"What did you say?" I snarled.

"That's not fair to him!" she shouted "No one deserves to be beaten, even if they are blatantly stupid."

"Hey!" shouted Wally "I don't need a filthy blood traitor like you standing up for me.

"Fine" she said cooly, next time I won't bother then."

I glared at them both and they both stopped fighting. "As I was saying, no cursing other students, no failing tests because you're too lazy to study, and remember Slytherins. Stick. Together,"

There were a few curt nods, a few glowers and a few snickers but everybody accepted my words. They knew that none of the other houses would stick up for them, so they had to stick up for themselves.

"Oh and before you go, i would like to inform everybody that all Slytherins will be attending their mandatory medical check-ups before going to class."

"What!" cried Potter "We never had to do that in Gryffindor!"

"You will find that you are not in Gryffindor anymore Mr. Potter. In Slytherin, we come from rather different... Backgrounds than our red and gold counterparts. Meeting dismissed! Off to bed!"

Harry's P.O.V.

I started to panic when i heard Snape talking about medical examinations. if I went to Madam Pomfrey, she'd find out about my injuries. A few sixth-year glammours weren't against her and when she saw them, she'd know what happened. i couldn't let the teachers figure it out, it would ruin everything!

I was too busy drowning in grief to notice that everybody had left and I had been deserted with Ginny, Draco and Snape.

"Do we really have to do this?" i asked "what are you looking for anyway?"

"Well, abuse" Snape said bluntly.

"What!" i interrupted, "do you honestly think that we're abused?" even I could hear my voice shaking.

"No." sneered Snape "I think that the two of you are spoiled little Gryffindor who have never seen a hungry day in your life, but unfortunately the checks are mandatory."

"They're not mandatory for any other houses!" retorted Ginny.

"Miss Weasley," he snarled back "Did you know that 1 in 4 children in the wizarding world are abused in some way?"

I felt my eyebrows rise in confusion. Uncle Vernon had told me that only freaks got hit and there couldn't be that many like me in Hogwarts.

"wouldn't it seem fit,' continued Snape "that one of the houses had mostly abused children or children with some other sort of... problem."

"I guess," she muttered.

"Well now that we've cleared up your idiocy, you should go to bed before I am forced to stun you."

Ginny snorted and stormed off and I turned towards Draco who had been oddly silent the whole time.

"Follow me... Potty"

"Sure thing ferret."

He scowled t me, and marched through the common room and up a flight of stairs that I assumed led to our dormitory.

i debated whether or not to follow him, and decided that if I was going to figure out how to avoid the medical exam, I should try not to get stupefied by Snape.

As I walked up the stairs, I heard the sound of laughter coming from ahead of me. I opened the door and saw a very ruffled looking Malfoy covered in feathers.

"What the hell!" he yelled 'What's wrong with you guys!"

"We wanted to hit someone with pillows" supplied Blaise causing Nott, Crabbe and Goyle to burst out laughing.

"I'm just glad that Malfoy walked in first." i smirked.

"What happened to your Gryffindor-hero-complex?" sneered Nott.

"It got put in Slytherin."

Everybody was quiet as they thought about what I just said and I took the chance to look around, The dormitory was a lot different than I thought it would be. I expected it to be cold damp and eerie like the common room, but it was surprisingly cozy.

The floors were black tile, and the walls were brick but there was a fire place on one wall, and a throw rug in front of it. There were six beds in the room and all of them had a trunk in front of them. My trunk was in front of a bed in between what I found out to be Blaise's and Malfoy's bed.

I walked across the room and sat down on my bed.

"So..." i stated awkwardly "Anybody know any good ways to skip the medical exam."

Immediately five heads snapped towards me.

"Why do you ask?" asked Blaise

"Yah," said Nott "You'd only want to avoid it f you had something to hide."

"Maybe I just don't want madam Pomfrey messing in my personal life." i protested but i could tell they weren't fooled.

"Finite Incantatum!" yelled Malfoy. And I automatically flinched backwards and covered my face with my hands. I was surprised when nobody approached me. Everybody was too busy yelling at Malfoy.

"What the hell!" yelled Blaise, and when I looked up, it was easy to see why.

Apparently I wasn't the only one who had been wearing glammours. Nott, who had take off his robes and was wearing short sleeves, had scars all up both arms. Blaise looked about fifty pounds lighter and was seriously underweight. i could've counted his ribs.

"Why'd yuo do that!" screamed Nott, but Malfoy was unfazed.

"Because I knew you guys would tell me what was wrong, but Potter," he said "would never admit something was wrong."

As soon as he said my name, they all looked towards me and saw my wounds with shocked eyes. I knew I wasn't a pretty site. My entire body was covered in bruises, and there was a gash on my cheek that hadn't healed.

'What happened to you?" asked Blaise sounding like he was going to be sick.

'I-I..." I stammered, debating whether or not to tell them my story. I was ashamed and embarrassed, but these guys looked like they'd understand. If they were going to be my roommates don't they deserve to know the truth?

I told them everything; from the way Vernon rented me out to how him and Dudley abused me themselves. When I was finished, the dormitory was dead silent.

"I'm sorry, isn't there anything you can do about it?" asked Blaise.

"Dumbledore wants me to stay with the Dursleys." I said.

"What!" yelled Nott "he makes you stay there even though you're being abused?"

"He doesn't know." I said sharply "Let's keep it that way."

"Why?" asked Malfoy.

"Because I deserved it."

What is up with the other boys in slytherin? does harry really belong there? you'll find out in the next chapter, it should be up in the next couple days... vote and comment...

why are wattpad pages soo long? it makes me feel inadequate.

here is a random questiono how old do you think we are? i'm not gonna tell you (cybersafety and stuff) but i just wanna know what you think. sometimes you think these people could be 15 and they turn out to be married and have 3 kids and you just go wtf?

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PS glammours are a fan fic turn for simple charms that can cover up things about your appearance.

PPS read Saved by Severus by fleurypower_029 its soooooooooo good and shes gonna update soon. to people who are reading that story, theres a really sweet chapter coming up