A/N Second chapter! thankyou to all the views and my follower! Also wanted to clear it up, in the epilogue, Teddy obviously isn't of school age, so i've put him in his last year and James two years older than Albus so they are at Hogwarts together, important for the plot! It sort of works, because Teddy would be 19 in the epilogue. [updated version]

For the first time in her life, Pyxis had no idea what she should do. Ez was sorted into Slytherin, of course. The same was true with all the people she had ever spoken to in her entire life. She didn't know a single person on this entire table apart from James bloody Potter.

"I am a Gryffindor," she repeated in her mind. It honestly was taking a while to sink in. She looked around at the other Gryffindors, who were either paying no attention to her whatsoever or giving her dirty looks.

Great. This was going to be just great.

Not only would her very pureblood Slytherin family hate her for being sorted into Gryffindor, so would the other Gryffindors. It was the same everywhere, as soon as people heard her last name, that was it. She was branded a pureblood maniac death eater like her ridiculous grandparents. Yes, her grandmother had tried to drum into her that being a Malfoy and pureblood was the greatest thing you could ever be, but she didn't believe that. Harry Potter wasn't either and he managed to defeat the Dark Lord. No, she was a firm believer that anyone could do anything if they had enough determination, but as soon as someone saw her bright blonde hair, none of that mattered.

She began to eat the food that had magically appeared on the table in front of her, when out of the corner of her eye she saw an older student, around seventeen by the looks of him. He was neither giving her a dirty look nor ignoring her. He had bright blue hair and a piercing in his ear. The boy smiled and nodded reassuringly at her, then turned to talk to a beautiful girl with long blonde hair sat next to him. Pyxis was curious why a Gryffindor in his last year would even glance politely in her direction. Maybe he was just curious about her being a Malfoy in Gryffindor? She looked across the hall at Ezra, who gave her a sad smile.

After dinner had finished, she was led up a very large staircase by a fifth year prefect named Molly. Molly introduced them to a portrait of a rather large woman who was singing to herself at the time. The woman stopped abruptly as we climbed the staircase.

"First years?" she inquired to Molly

"Yep, the password is Mandrake."

"Correct," the woman replied, and the portrait swung forward to reveal the Gryffindor common room. There were portraits and landscapes framed around the room, armchairs by a roaring fire and red and gold banners everywhere. Pyxis thought that this room seemed much more cosy and inviting than the Slytherin common room her father had described.

"Girls dorm is up the stairs to the left, boys to the right," Molly stated and with that, off she went.

At the top of the left staircase, Pyxis found a set of five four-poster beds, hung with a deep red velvet curtain . Pyxis found her trunk already set on the bed at the back of the room, next to the window, she opened it and changed into her pajamas. She looked around at the girls in the room. There was a girl who's hair colour she couldn't decide on. Sometimes it looked blonde, sometimes with a hint of red. She was pretty. She didn't seem to openly dislike her like the others did. Maybe they would have been good friends if Pyxis wasn't a Malfoy. But she was a Malfoy, and Pyxis couldn't imagine having anyone in Gryffindor wanting to be her friend

The next morning, Pyxis got up and dressed early and then tied her hair down into a perfect plait that came round the side of her neck and down her shoulder. Happy that there was no hair sticking out she went down to the great hall for breakfast. As Pyxis entered the Great hall, she looked for Ez and found no sign of him. Sighing to herself she crossed the hall and sat at the Gryffindor table. She noticed the boy with blue hair from yesterday, chattering away to James Potter nonetheless. She sat down at the end of a table and eat her breakfast.

"Shouldn't you be in Slytherin?"

A stumpy looking girl with dark curly hair was looking right at her. Pyxis blinked at her.

"I mean, you're from a family of snakes, shouldn't you be with the other death eater children?" the girl said harshly.

"Enough."

The boy with the blue hair walked over to Pyxis and the girl.

"Teddy, are you really defending this snake?"

"I said enough Olivia, leave her alone, don't you have nails to paint or something?" mocked Teddy.

She narrowed her eyes and stomped out of the great hall.

"Thanks," muttered Pyxis. Teddy sat down opposite her, which caused a few people to stare at him incredulously.

"No problem. That was Olivia Wood by the way, good at Quidditch, bad with manners," he grinned. "I'm Teddy, Teddy Lupin, at your service"

"Pyxis Malfoy, at yours."

"So, addressing the elephant in the room, you're the first Malfoy to ever be sorted in to Gryffindor, must be pretty overwhelming?"

Pyxis liked that Teddy was direct, he seemed sincere about it too.

"Yeah, well, I guess so, but I'm fine."

"Of course you are."

At this point we were interrupted by Professor Longbottom handing out timetables.

"Morning Teddy, Miss Malfoy."

"Morning Neville," responded Teddy.

"Teddy, I have said this to you since your first year, I am Professor Longbottom at school," chided the Professor, though he had an exasperated kind of grin on his face. "Now I know you have Herbology with me first so don't be late." He continued down the table handing out timetables.

"Well looks like I better be off before Professor Longbottom has me in detention."

"Would he really?"

"Nah, but he threatens to, so I better not bruise his ego." Teddy winked. "And if you get trouble off anyone, direct them to me, and try talking to Dominique, she'll be in your classes."

"Okay, see you," called Pyxis as Teddy was off after Professor Longbottom.

"See ya kiddo!" shouted Teddy as he retreated out of the hall and off to his lessons.

Maybe Gryffindor wasn't going to be so bad after all.