How was I supposed to survive? This house only accepts purebloods, if that stupid hat's song was right. "You're Davis Smith?" I looked at the dark-haired boy. He wore second-hand robes and dark eyes. The rest of the first-year boys were asleep and I nodded. "You're a Muggleborn right?" I gulped, is he going to spill it to everyone else? "Say your father works at Misuse of muggle artifacts and your mother stays at home." I gulped and nodded.
I lied, Of Course I did! I wanted to survive this school year. I made a few friends and I honestly found they were alright, most of them were half-bloods and said they had a nan or pop who were muggles. Crawford's mother worked as a shoemaker and Oliver's father worked in the ministry for magical creature capture.
I met with Cassius before the break. "Wait, Snape!" He turned he was going to the second-floor girls' bathroom. "Why are you going there?"
"Because I can brew a few potions here, the ghost that haunts it, makes sure no one goes here." We went in and there was the ghost but she looked disinterested in us. Cassius had made a miniature potions lab here.
I was impressed "How did you set up a lab here?" Looking at the equipment, they were mostly self-made. I looked at me with disinterest. "Sorry, I wanted to ask how you figured out I was a muggle-born?"
He nodded. "A Wham bar fell out of your robes, I ate it not sorry, finders keepers after all." I facepalmed. Was it that easy?
"Yea thanks by the way, for telling me how to hide myself."
"All are liars." He said stirring the potion.
"What?" I was confused.
"Slytherins, There's at least one Muggleborn in every year. Andrew McDougal, Fred Jameson, and Alexander Schmid. One trait of Slytherins is self-preservation and the muggle-borns in this house present that the most"
I was shocked, were there other Slytherin muggle-born? "How didn't they get caught yet?" He added something to the potion.
"Simple, staying close to the half-bloods with one muggle parent, if they're like me they have as much knowledge of the wizarding world as a Muggleborn, maybe a few Diagon Alley trips." He spoke, adding a spoonful of something.
"Where do you get all of this?" I asked, picking up a vial of Octopus tentacles and putting it back.
He ignored my question. "Magic Dye, my mother's invention. I use it to make my robes black as the night sky." It explained why his one robe never had stains, even though it was his only robe. "Or make my enemy's clothes look like their rival house or just pink. Or for that umbridge toad, I can make her look like manure and smell like it too." Now I was afraid, never cross snape. I watched him add a gold ring and Paprika.
On the last meal, before Christmas break Bellatrix the C-word ran screaming as her skin had turned gold and her hair red, she smelled like paprika!
After that, I convinced my friends to sit with him. "Are the seats free?" I asked and Snape gave a nod and we sat down.
Crow decided to start the introduction. "I'm Crawford Weston, but call me Ford." Snape for once showed courtesy and shacked back.
"Tobias," He said, filled with disgust. "Cassius Snape. Just Call me Cassius." He turned to Oliver. "And you?"
He gulped. "I-I'm Oliver Doolam, but just call me Olley if you like." Snape then closed the door with his wand and spoke a charm I didn't understand.
"So are you here about the prank I pulled on Bellatrix?" Olley's eyes almost popped out of his skull.
"You're the one who pulled one that streetwalker Bellatrix!" Ford was shaking with excitement and I worried that the other Slytherins heard us.
But Cassius laughed wholeheartedly. "Hahaha! I like you Ford let me bet she called you three blood mudblood?" Olley nodded. I didn't get the word neither did Ford.
"Sorry my dad died, I was still young and I don't have much contact with the wizarding side of my family." Ford explained.
Snape looked at Olley as if he was ordering him. "It's like calling someone Trash but it goes with anyone with muggle ancestry." Ford was furious.
"That's horrible! No wonder you did that to that c-word, but I think her hair should have been gold and her skin red with how furious she was!" Ford said merrily not to worry anyone else hearing us and Bellatrix skinning us alive!
He looked at me and Oliver. "Calm down, Davis, Olley. I placed a silencing charm on the compartment, an imperturbable charm, Tacer Locus. It creates a shield of soundlessness in a room or area. It works best in a room like this." Oliver was impressed, and Ford was grinning.
"How long does it last?" I asked, paranoid, of it breaking.
Snape shrugged. "An hour tops." I let out a sigh of relief.
We continued talking, and Olley brought out his exploding snaps
After the break, we formed a study group around Cassius mostly because he was getting the best marks in the first years and kept Umbridge away.
Olley decided to ask one Cassius. "Why do you dislike Umbridge so much?" Cassius looked over away from Ford's transfiguration equation.
He turned to Olley "She stole my homework and claimed to have done it herself and she left her pathetic excuse of a transfiguration essay." I sucked through my teeth.
"A right tosser," Ford said, turning to his equations. "She's a bloody suck-up too, she acts like a lapdog to the prefects."
We laughed, I added. "More like a toad, because she is one." Cassius slapped my back. We were under the imperturbable charm so the librarian didn't care as we roared.
Ford finally finished his homework. "Good, Quidditch talk! Wood's a ratsack!" We all groaned. "What?"
Olley decided to show his spine. "Ford, my friend. You're either going senile at a remarkable young age or Cassius is slipping some forgetful potion in your drinks." Ford looked at Cass.
"I only do that to my father," Cassius said, not taking his eyes off the book.
I decided to explain. "You know first years can't bring their brooms, it's not Wood's fault that you can't use a school broom to tryouts!" Ford pouted.
Olley added. "Yeah, plus the old brooms are falling apart, they're worse than Cassius' robe." To our surprise, Cassius laughed.
"If you weren't my friend I would have turned your robes pink by now." Olley chuckled nervously, while I slapped him on the shoulder for that burn.
Ford continued. "I Wanna be a chaser next year, I want to punch wood in the face!" We could see why the hat put him in Slytherin.
"Getting hit by a bludger sounds kind of dangerous," Olley said. "Plus losing your last brain cell could get you kicked out of Hogwarts." We laughed at that except Cassius who chuckled.
"Be a beater, get one hit on Wood, and then change to chaser," Cassius said, which Ford was interested in. "That way you can get one goal and learn what your main enemy as a chaser will think."
"When did you become a Quidditch Profi?" I asked suprised.
He turned away from his notebook. "It's the first rule of dueling, know your opponent as written by French duelist Alban Leloup, thought it would work here too."
"Makes sense!" Ford accepted with a smile. "Any other tricks in that dueling book?" I just questioned why he was so gullible.
"How about we get out before the charm disappears?" Olley asked, he pointed at the librarian radiating a wish to destroy us.
I gulped. "Let's run!" We did with Ford pulling Cassius away from his notes.
"Nice getting out of the stuffy dungeon." Ford stretched his arms and legs.
Olley let out a satisfied breath. "No opposition here."
I sighed and turned to see the three snoring, I looked around and saw a few Gryffindor prowling. "Looks like I'm standing guard." I got my wand ready.
Went back to the dungeon after five Seventh Years tried to throw us the Black Lake. "I can't believe they did that!" Olley moaned about it the entire way back.
"I got a punch, I hope I broke that tosser's nose!" Ford said happy about committing violence.
"You also bit him, if what they think is true you poisoned him." I looked around. "Wait, where is Cassius?" He then came in wet and smiling.
"Oh, Merlin's beard We're so sorry!" Olley said worriedly.
"I got the jump on them and I cursed them and I can skip the bath today," He said with a smile combing his hair out of his eyes. "If anyone asks, I was here the entire time." He got his wand. "ferventis assay." He was dry and his skin was a little red.
"Whoa, what did you do?" Ford asked.
"It's a charm my mom made. It turns water into steam, and I should have taken my clothes off first. I'm going for a cold shower because I think I have a few first-degree burns." He ran to the showers.
"We need to learn that charm and give it as a present right?" Olley asked.
I nodded, though my Mum couldn't use it.
We asked Cassius he said he needed to ask his Mum first. The School year ended with Ravenclaw getting the house cup and during the train ride we talked about our summer plans.
Olley was the first "I'm going to Paris with my parents. Mom wants me to meet her side of the family."
Ford spoke next. "Going to my Nan and Pop's farm, my uncle likes to play football."
I was next. "Going to New York my father has business there and the trips are paid." We looked at severus.
He sighed. "Going to stay home, help my mother and watch siblings. I will write to you guys." When the train stopped both Ford and Olley's parents picked them up.
We walked to the muggle kings cross. "THERE YOU ARE!" Cassius got pulled. "Your mother woke me up, you better keep your mouth shut, ya brat." I watched as Cassius grinded his teeth and his father continued pulling him away from the station.