Hailey Potter couldn't have been angrier with the pinheaded Draco Malfoy. His boasts could be heard from her seat at least ten down from him, where she sat alone, eating her sensible salad.
Hailey was in fact, a vegetarian, which had made it much easier to survive with her horrid excuse for a family, and easier to explain her thin, wiry body to those who asked.
So far, Hailey visited the Birds for at least half the mealtime, chatting and laughing with them, before Day had shooed her back towards the Slytherin table, with instructions to 'Make more friends, you sneaky little Snake!'
The words had been said in the kindest way, accompanied by giggles, and a hair ruffle.
No one at the table had noticed her silent approach, and no one had extended an invitation to sit with them.
"Hiya!"
A voice from behind Hailey, and slightly to the left startles her.
Turning in the direction of the voice Hailey sees, a girl with purple and blonde hair standing with a broad smile.
"I'm Harmony. It's really nice to meet you."
Hailey stares in shock, at the girl. She saw her being sorted into Griffindor. Of all the people to seek her out, a Griffindor?
"Hailey. I suppose it's nice to meet you as well. Why are you even talking to me?"
The girl took no time to respond.
"Because, silly, house prejudices are the dumbest things ever! Why can't we all just get along? It would make everything so much easier, don't you think?"
A smile creeps onto Hailey's face.
"Yes, actually, I agree one hundred percent."
Maybe Hogwarts won't be so bad after all.
Severus Snape watched Hailey Potter with confusion.
She had been talking to a clique of fourth years Ravenclaws for quite sometime the same ones that had begun the chant after her sorting.
A Potter in Slytherin. He could barely fathom it.
Yet, from what her had seen of her so far, he was in no place to judge.
Hailey Potter had shrouded herself a mask of mystery. He had tried to probe her mind thrice in the course of the evening, but it had been heavily guarded. on his final attempt, he had, quite literally been thrown from her mind.
A voice that resonated had hissed in his mind:
'Try a stunt like that on my champion again Severus Snape, and it will be the last thing you ever do.'
He wasn't about to mess with that voice, not with the amount of sheer magic energy he had been able to feel in it.
Perhaps he had better find out more about his new snake from different sources.
Yes, he decided, smiling ever so slightly, that was his best option.
Two of Hailey's dorm mates, a pug faced girl named Pansy Parkinson, and an enormous girl, who could pass as a daughter of the war god, Ares, called Millicent Bulstrode, fell asleep the moment they entered the room, and sat on their beds.
The other girl, who had yet to say a word, took a bit longer, but she fell asleep as well.
Hailey, however, sat in wait.
"Hey you. How was the first day?"
Luke. His IM was expected, she knew he would call, in fact, she would have worried if she didn't.
"Well, it went okay I guess. I threatened a kid, made friends who are in fourth year, and a different house, that's how you know who you sleep with, go to class with, and eat with, by the way, and, I may have made another friend in the house that my house hates."
She finished with a sigh. It had been an exhausting day.
"What house are you?"
Luke was wide awake, of course, and curious.
"I'm a Slytherin. Mascot is the snake, character traits are slyness, cunning, and sneakyness."
He grinned at her, cocky smirk firmly planted on his lips.
"Sounds like you. Guess I'm gonna have to start calling you snake?"
She gave him a glare.
"You are horrid. Don't call me snake, or I'll start making dumb blonde jokes."
His face transformed into one of mock horror.
"You wouldn't!"
"I would!"
"Oh, your high and mighty snakeness, please grant me a pardon!"
"Luke!"
He laughed.
Hailey joined in, their laughter mixing together,until Hailey finally ended it.
"Luke, my roommates are going to wake up!"
He stopped laughing. Suddenly his face was all seriousness, and Hailey became worried.
"Hailes, I've got something I have to tell you."
Her heart plummeted. Something was wrong.
"I'm going on a quest."
Hailey sucked in a breath. He had told her all about quests, and how dangerous they were. She knew it was pointless to beg him not to go, so she didn't.
"Be careful, I don't want never see you again!"
Her voice rose unintentionally.
"I swear on the river Styx, I will come back alive. That good enough for you?"
"I suppose it will have to do."
Sh gives him a small sad smile, which he returns.
"Hey, you have class tomorrow! Go to sleep little snake. I'll come home, don't worry."
"G'night Mr. Lemon Head."
She is asleep before her head hits the pillow.
Luke looks at her, and smiles.
A/N: Damn. I wrote so much in one night, I can't even understand it.
Sorry for the shorter chapter, that's the way I function. Short, but often chapters.
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Harmony is my friend, Maggie's, OC. She will make cameo appearances throughout the book, and Maggie herself may make a cameo or two.
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