Sadie woke up early the next day and looked out of the curtains surrounding her bed. She saw that the other three girls were still sleeping and quietly gathered her things for a shower. Before Hogwarts she hadnt known much about regular bathing. The house she shared with her parents didnt have indoor plumbing so she grew up making midnight runs to the outhouse in the bath yard and doing bimonthly scrubs in the washbin they washed laundry in. This summer they had finally scrapped enough money to build an outdoor shower with a complicated method she knew nothing about but her da understood just fine.

To celebrate, he mam had taken her to the market and let her pick out a soap all her own instead of the rough lye soap she had used before. She smiled in her dorm as she smelled the lemon soap she had picked. Her mam had even said if she ran out during the year to owl and she'd send a new bar.

She quickly and quietly showered and changed into her new uniform and sat back on her bed, combing her wet collarbone length hair. She was mindlessly combing, hair half dry, when a girl to her left woke up and peeked out at her. The girl blinked and rubbed sleep out of her eyes before focusing.

She got out and gathered her things, looking around at the other beds with shut curtains. She sighed and went around and woke the other girls with brisk shakes on the shoulder or foot in the case of the black haired girl who had looked at sadie with an unpleasant look.

Soon the dorm was filled with motion and noise as the four girls moved around getting ready for the day. Sadie tried to focus on gathering her materials for lessons but looked wistfully at the other girls braiding their hair or tying it up with beautifully silky looking ribbons.

Taking a deep breath, she got the girls attention.

"Um Hello i just wanted to introduce or well reintroduce myself and get your names as well. I dont think we necessarily need to be friends but I'd like to be friendly with you all since we'll be dormmates for the next while. So Im Sadie Snape and I wanna be a potions mistress.

A girl with her hair in a high blonde pony tail tied with a purple ribbon smiled at her kindly. "Im Florence Selwyn and I want to be a Enchanter.

The girl next to her was plump with curly brown hair slowly escaping a braid held out a hand to shake, "I'm Gertrude Flint and i dont know what i want to do after school."

The black haired girl adjusted her pigtail braids and sniffed in a holier-than-thou manner." Im Primrose Parkinson and Im going to help run my parents Herbology business. If I dont marry higher up. That's the true goal."

Florence's mouth quirked and the other girls looked at each other and started giggling. Primrose sounded so grown up talking about marriage. They were all twelve; they would have ample time for boys and studying.

After wiping their eyes and straightening their uniforms, the girls smiled and headed to the Great Hall for breakfast. Sadie could see herself making friends out of these girls. And what a thrill that was, to have more friends, female friends outside of the close best friendship she shared with Lily. But she noticed that Lily had friends in Gryffindor so why not make friends with her dorm mates?

She looked over to see if Lily was there but only saw the frowning faces of the four Gryffindor boys. Great. They were probably figuring out a way to make this new school year horrible for her.

She frowned and looked down at her plate, eating a few bites of egg and fruit. While her family tried to keep kosher at home, it was harder at school with a lot of pork options on the tables. She thought about talking to a professor to see if something could be arranged with whoever made the food, but decided she'd try it on her own first.

Professor Slughorn made his way down the table and handed out their schedules. He stopped and nodded approvingly, seeing the second year girls sitting together.

Sadie looked over the parchment. They had Herbology and double Potions twice a week with Hufflepuff this year. And Transfiguration and Defense with Gryffindor. Charms and HIstory with Ravenclaw. That didnt sound too bad. She could sit with Lily in Defense.

She went to stand so she could get the proper books when the second year Slytherins surrounded her.

"Snape, what's with the new look?" Said Flint, a big, broody looking boy.

"Im gender betwixt. Getting treatment from Pomphrey." She said bruskly.

Being mostly purebloods and wizard raised halfbloods, they all understood what she meant and backed off. Muliber shook her hand and said quietly, "my brother's betwixt. Anybody bothers you let me know."

She smiled at him. "Thanks Mulciber."

He nodded back and led the group of all the second year snakes to the dungeons.