hogwartshouses2020

[hogwartshouses2020]

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(Ravenclaw walks into a psychologist's office and sits down on a comfortable couch.)

Psychologist: Good morning Raven I -

(Raven raises their hand - silencing the shrink. They reach into their bag and pull out their laptop.)

Ravenclaw: I have prepared a presentation to update you on the trauma, pain and psychological distress that I have experienced over the course of my life - just so we can save time and get straight to the solutions part.

(Ravenclaw begins the presentation.)

Ravenclaw: Slide one of three-hundred and eighty, 'The Day I Was Born.'

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Ravenclaw : I did somthing stupid

Slytherin : *walks in*

Griffindor : Hi stupid!

Slytherin : ......I will kill you with a rock.

Ravenclaw : Can I help?

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Ravenclaw : Nothing is free

Griffindor : Love is free

Hufflepuff : And friendship!!

Slytherin : Everything is free if you don’t pay for it.

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The Slytherin misfit

Chapter 4

Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4

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6 years ago

The next morning, Caterina got up and got dressed in a whirlwind of nervous excitement, it was going to be her first day at Hogwarts! Learning new spells, potions and just being here with her brother, the two of them laughing and— her brother. The thought was sobering and suddenly, she felt nothing but anticipation. Would he care that she was in slytherin? Would he still love her? He had to, right? They were twins, they’d shared everything before, surely a bond that strong couldn’t be broken so easily.......Could it? She hoped not. Maybe he would be fine. Maybe he would be upset, but he’d get over it when he realized that she was still the same person. Maybe he’d realize that slytherin wasn’t so bad after all, in fact, everyone that she’d met had seemed perfectly nice and not at all like the cold heartless monsters she’d been told about growing up. Her parents would talk some sense into him if he didn’t see reason, surely. But—but they didn’t know. They were both in griffindor, and they’d beeen the ones to tell them stories about the slytherins who hexed and teased them when they went to Hogwarts. Suddenly, she felt an overwhelming anxiety. What if they hated her too? What if they no longer loved her? What if—

“Mmmm....Would you stop being so loud? I’m trying to sleep.....” Lithia said from where she snuggled further under the covers, interupting her panicky thoughts.

Caterina raised an eyebrow. “Well, it’s nearly time for breakfast, so if you don’t want to be late on your first day of school, you should get up now.”

Lithia rose groggily and relplied sleepily “ Alright, mum. No need to nag.”

Caterina just snorted. “Not a morning person, are you?”

“No, I’m not. I’d much rather stay up all night than wake up so early every morning.”

They got ready and were just about to walk up to the great hall when they met Jane on the way up, and invited her to come with them. They talked about quidditch—Lithia had never heard much about it, to Caterina and Janes’s astonishment— and they were in the middle of discussing how to scoring system worked when James walked by, not so much as glancing at Caterina. “James! Wait!” Stomach sinking, Caterina called after him, hoping that he maybe just hadn’t seen her, although she knew that this was very unlikely as they were the only ones in the corridor.

James turned around. “What do you want?” He said disinterestedly, but his cold stare said otherwise. Her heart sunk. So this was.....this was the extreme prejudice Jane has tried to tell her about. The prejudice that could drive apart the closest of siblings.

“I—I just wanted to apologize, I’m so sorry for whatever I did wrong, I didn’t mean to get sorted into Slytherin, James, please forgive me!” She said without taking a breath, staring at James desperately. But it seemed like the ingrained prejudice was too much for him to overcome, and he just turned around and walked away without a word. She stared after him, trying to reconcile him to the boy who had teased her and called her ‘Cat’ on the platform, but she couldn’t. It was as if her brother had become a completely different person, or as if—as if being sorted into Slytherin had made her a completely different person in his eyes. But he had to know that she was the same girl he’d loved and had fun with.......right?

“So that was interesting. Is he your brother?” Jane asked, sounding slightly concerned.

“Yes. He’s my twin, actually. We did everything together....” Caterina trailed off, still staring at where her brother had been mere moments ago.

“I’m sorry. But you should have to feel bad for being who you are.” Jane said, and after a short pause, Lithia said, “Well, we should start going into the great hall. After all, we wouldn’t want to be late on our fist day of school, would we?” She chirped slightly nervously, with a tentitive smile at Caterina. Caterina smiled back, and they headed towards the great hall without a word.

Breakfast also passed unremarkably, except when Caterina has noticed her brother joking and laughing with his new friends, and has stared at them, wishing she could be among them until Jane has tapped her on the shoulder and nodded towards her half eaten breakfast. Their first class was potions, and, with her luck, it was with the Griffindors. She was very excited about potions though, it seemed fun, and from what she read was also highly practical and hands on, which she liked. When she entered the classroom with Lithia, she realized that there was a very clear dividing line between the slytherins and griffindors, the only exception being some girl with red hair, who she would later know to be Lily, and a boy with short, greasy black hair, who she would later know to be Severus. James has sat down next to an aristocratic looking boy and in front of them sat the two they’d been laughing with at breakfast, a timid, mousy looking boy and a quiet boy with short brown hair. She tried to get James’s attention, but it seemed that he was hell bent on ignoring her, continuing to stare straight ahead even when she poked him in the back. Then Slughorn came in, and for the rest of potions, she tried to drown out her worried by focusing on slughorns speech about potion making. It almost worked. Her friends seemed to sense her agitation, and suggested a walk around the grounds during their 30 minute break, which certainly helped. That, and the fact that she didn’t see her brother any more that day.

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Present day

“Hey, Caterina. Wake up. It’s time for class.” Emilia said farm where she sat on their foot of her bed. Wait....when had she gotten into bed? The last thing she remembered was crying and staring at the ceiling thinking about her and James.....She must fallen asleep at some point, and Emilia had probably put the covers over her. She looked down. Yep, she was still in the same clothes she had worn the day before.

“Thanks for waking me up, I don’t even remember falling asleep.” Caterina said, getting out of bed.

“It’s a bit early, but I thought you might want to fly around the grounds to clear your head before class.” Emilia replied, already going back to her book.

Caterina smiled. Flying sounded splendid right now, to be able to get away, if only for a short while...that would indeed be lovely. Her friends knew her so well, she thought with a smile. “Thanks. That does sound perfect.” Emilia only hmmed, already caught up in her book. Yes, she thought as she thought back to yesterday’s rant. Flying sounded perfect today.

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I wish for a Nintendo switch

reblog and make a wish! this was removed from tumbrl due to “violating one or more of Tumblr’s Community Guidelines”, but since my wish came true the first time, I’m putting it back. :)

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Griffindor *Texing* : Where are you guys?

Slytherin : WE’VE ONLY BEEN GONE FIVE MINUTES

Griffindor : But where are you guys?

Slytherin : WE’RE

Slytherin : FUCKING

Slytherin : GETTING (Undelivered)

Slytherin : TICKETS (Undelivered)

Griffindor : WHaT??!?

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Hufflepuff : Do we have any magazines? I really want one right now.

Slytherin : *Gasps* I thought you’d never ask!

Slytherin : *Opens cupboard*

Slytherin : Alright, this is 20 fast rounds, this is 50 rounds, this is 10 but very high speed, this—

Hufflepuff : WHy On EArth Do wE haVe ThaT in THe HouSE?!?

Slytherin :

Slytherin : ....Oh, you meant the readable magazines. No, sorry, I don’t have any.

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*During training*

Instructor : Alright, so now we’ll move on to the weapons! *Gestures to table of weapons besides him* Now, does anyone know how to use any of these?

Slytherin : *Hand goes up*

Instructor : Alright, which techniques did you learn before?

Slytherin : Stab, chop and cut.

Instructor : That—that’s not a technique....

Slytherin : Yes it is. I can stab very well. In fact, I’ve never failed at stabbing people.

Instructor: Alright....But...

Slytherin : Woudl you like to see?

Instructor : No, no that’s fi—Please put those knives down!

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James : I’m leaving!

Lily : Okay.

James : Wait, that’s it?

Lily : ......Yeah, what did you expect?!

James : I don’t know, more upset?!

Lily : ......

Lily : You’re going to the store to buy milk.

James : Well, I could die on the way!

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Sirius : Lily, will you do me the honour of becoming my sister in law?

Lily : WhAT.

Sirius : Come on lily! I know he can be annoying, but he’s a really good person!

Lily : I DON’T WANT TO MARRY REGULUS!

Sirius : What?!? He PROPOSED to you?!? I’m going to KILL him!! What did he do to you?!?

(Storms off to hit a very confused regulus)

Lily : Why on earth was he trying to set me up with regulus then get upset and go to hit him?!?? I thought they hated each other!

Remus : (Faceplam)

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James : Lily is so impossible!

Sirius : Really? How so?

James : I brought her breakfast in bed and she didn’t even thank me!

James : Instead she just yelled ‘How did you get up here, you creep?!’ and chucked a book at my head.

Remus : .......Yes. How unreasonable of her.

James : See? Moony gets it!

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The Slytherin Misfit

Chapter 3

Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4

What Remus didn’t seem to realize was that she’d let her brother go in the beginning of fifth year. She’d grown tired of hoping and getting her hopes crushed again. She didn’t want to keep trying and hanging on to a slim hope. So she’d let that hope go, and accepted the facts with a good grace. That was also the year she stopped caring what people said about her. They could spread what ever rumors they wanted, she was indifferent. As long as those she cared about knew the truth, she simply didn’t care. She’d accepted that he wasn’t really her brother anymore, and let go of the regret, sadness and anger that she used to feel when she looked at him. He simply did not matter anymore to her than an aquaintence did to her now. There was a change in her behavior, it was as if a huge weight had been lifted off of her, the weight of other’s opinions and her brothers opinions. She seemed more free and less restrained. Her manner also changed towards her brother. She wasn’t afraid of being hurt by him anymore, and she stopped avoiding him, if she did encounter him, she treated him with the snake charming, graceful politeness she’d treat any stranger. She’d closed herself off to him and presented herself to him like he was a stranger. From fifth year onward, there ongoing ‘prank’ war as more of an amusing hobby to her, there were no emotional attachments involved anymore. Fifth year was also the year she got a boyfriend, it was by no means her first, but it was her first serious boyfriend. She started dating him in the middle-end of that year. Her brother and there friends didn’t know, mainly because she’d studied their map over the summers and knew how to deceive it. That was what Remus didn’t seem to understand. He didn’t understand that she didn’t want to open that door anymore. With it closed, she was happier, but if it opened, she’d be opening herself to an endless stream of worrying and misery. Even if her brother didn’t hate her, she couldn’t just forget four years worth of pain by his hand. If only Remus could understand that. She didn’t want to tell him any of that thought. She’d never told anyone except her best friends that.

“Do you guys want to play a guessing game about ourselves?” Emilia broke the silence yet again.” “Where I say something like guess my favorite color and people who don’t know me guess and whoever guesss right gets a point. Then we go the next person Ect. Everyone else buys the person with the most points a drink. Alright?” They nodded their consent. “I’ll start. Guess my favorite color, and Caterina, you can’t answer.”

“That’s easy, green.” James stated.

She nodded tightly. “As it happens, you’re right. But most slytherins’ favorite colors aren’t green. James-1. Caterina, would you like to go next?”

“Sure! Guess my favorite color!” Caterina asked

“Um.....Purple?” Remus tried

“Red?” James tried

“Nope! Try again!” Caterina said cheerfully

“Pink?” Remus tried again

“Turquoise?” James tried again

“Wow, you guys are terrible at this!” Caterina responded still cheerfully.

“Cream?” Remus tried yet again.

“Yellow?” James tried yet again.

“No and no. Try again.” She said with a smile.

“Blue?” Remus tried with a hint of desperation.

“Yes! My favorite color is blue. Or more precisely, crystal blue or dark blue. Although I do like all shades. Remus 1, James 1. Your turn Remus!” Caterina chirped.

“Alright........What is my favorite hobby?”

“Reading” Emilia and Caterina said at once. Remus looked slightly surprised “It’s that obvious? Oh well, Everyone has one point. James?”

“What do I like doing in my spare time?” He asked with a slightly smug expression.

“Hexing and bullying innocent slytherins” replied Emilia immediately, at the same time as Caterina said “ Sneaking to hogsmead and getting drunk.”

Then Emilia followed with “Pranking and preparing pranks”

“Going to the kitchens” Caterina said

“In detention and earning detentions” Emilia said

“Chasing Lily Evens” Caterina followed

“Participating in illegal activities” Emilia added

“Obsessing about Quidditch” Caterina added.

James just stared at them and nodded meekly. “How do you know that much? Nevermind, don’t answer. So you two are winning with 2 points, whilst we have 1 each. Emilia?”

She smirked and said “What add on classes am I taking? Name two.”

“Um, Divination and Muggle studies?” James guessed

“Arithmancy and Ancient runes.” Remus said with confidence.

Emilia nodded. “Yes, we share those classes, I didn’t overestimate your observational skills after all. So we all have two and James has one. Caterina?”

“What quidditch position do I play?”

“Seeker?” James guessed yet again.

“Beater, I think...” Remus said, thinking hard.

“Yep! I play beater. I played seeker second year, then I decided to play beater instead. Remus has three points, we girls have 2 and poor James has one. Remus?” Caterina chirped. Leaving a slightly lost looking James.

“What is my favorite subject?”

“Charms?” Emilia inquired

“Arithmancy?” Caterina asked

“It’s Arithmancy. But charms is my second favorite. So Caterina and I have three, Emilia has 2 and James, you really need to get better at this. Speaking of which, it’s your turn.” They’d finished supper now and were still playing this game after they put their dishes into the sink. James continued after they all sat down in the living room.

“What is my quidditch position?” He asked

“Chaser” Emilia and Caterina answered at once.

He looked slightly taken aback but still nodded and looked at Emilia to continue the game.

“Alright, so Caterina -4 Remus and I—3 and James -1. What is my favourite breakfast food which I have every day at breakfast?”

“Fresh fruit juice?” Remus tried

“No, I have that a lot, but not the same juice and not every day.”

“Coffee?” James tried

She snorted. “No. Most of us are caffeine addicted, but I meant a food.”

“Toast?” Remus tried again

“Porridge?” James tried

“Cereal?” Remus tried

“Apples?” James asked again

“Cheese?” Remus asked

“Grilled tomatoes?”

“Hash Browns?”

“Baked beans?”

“Croissants?”

“Eggs?”

“Cucumber?”

“Bacon?”

“Oh wait....you were eating this on the way to class! Pain au chocolate!” Remus finished triumphantly.

“Yes! Finally! So Remus and Caterina are tied for first. Caterina?”

“Who did I get into a duel with and win in fifth year?” She asked with a smirk.

“Um.......James?” Remus asked

“No, that was third year.” She replied with an even larger smirk and her eyes dancing with amusement as her brother looked away and blushed slightly. Remus just raised a surprised and amused eyebrow at him.

“Peter?” James guessed incorrectly.

“Anton?” Remus guessed. She’d dated him in forth year for two months and a half before she’d found him cheating on her with Veronica. Veronica was a very attractive but also very loose and free with her favors. She was almost likely the femal version of Sirius. She’d win a guy over then be their girlfriend for a few weeks before she’d get bored and dump them. Everyone knew it, but everyone still thought that she could settle down if she found the right guy. Of course, sensible guys avoided her to avoid the wrath of their girlfriends, but u fortunately, Anton wasn’t one of them. She’d caught him cheating on her when she’d entered an empty classroom looking for her missing text book. She’d dumped him two days later when it be some obvious that he cheated of his own free will and that it’d been going on for a week or so. She’d hexed and pranked him mercilessly for the next week. Torture him for as long as he’d been cheating on her. But she’d never dueled him.She shook her head no.

“Uh.....Lily?” James guessed wildly.

“Veronica?” Remus guessed again.

“She shook her head no. After guessing the names of half their year, they gave up.

“Who was it?!?” James asked inn bewilderment.

“Your own friend, Sirius Black.” She said with a smirk and and expectant expression. She was not disappointed. James jumped up in fury and yelled “YOU DID WHAT?!!” Before Remus dragged him back down.

“I think you need to explain, Caterina.” Remus said in a clam, but slightly hard voice.

“ He was insulting regulus, I stepped in and then we got into a very heated argument, he tried to punch me in the face, I use protege then we started dueling. I beat his ass then levitated him to the hospital wing. He didn’t tell anyone because his reputation would be ruined if he did.” She explained, shrugging it off like it was nothing. Remus has relaxed and James looked tense but didn’t say anything. After a few more rounds, the score was Caterina-16 Remus- 16 Emilia-16 and James - 5

Emilia clapped her hands and said “Alrighty! The last round of questions. The tie breaker, or the chance for James to earn some more points! The question : What is my least favorite subject?”

“Astrology!” Remus practically yelled in his hurry to say it first.

“Correct! Caterina, your question?”

“What is my favorite type of jewelry?”

“Uh......Bracelets?” James took a stab in the dark yet again.

“No. I almost never wear them.” Caterina said with slight exasperation.

“Necklaces?” Remus tried.

“Nope.”

“Earings?” Jane guessed again.

“Yes! Well done James!” She said cheerfully but slightly condescendingly.

“What is my favorite drink?” Remus asked

“Hot chocolate” Both Emilia and Caterina replies at once. Remus raised his eyebrows again, clearly surprised.

“I guess I’m the tie breaker then!” James said with a smirk. He’d been quiet all evening, probably due to Emilia’s speech earlier. “Remus, I guess we’ll be buying on of them a drink. Now, answer this : When was the first time I had fire whiskey?”

“Third year, on Christmas Eve.” Caterina answered confidently and quickly.

“I—How did you know that??” Stumbled James, surprised. “Were you spying on me?” He asked with a tremendous attempt at civility.

She snorted. “No. You stumbled in front of the slytherin common room completely wasted. I levitated your ass to the hospital wing.”

“.......Oh.” James said sheepishly rubbing his neck.

“Anyways, Caterina wins! Next hogsmead trip we’ll all buy her drinks!” Emilia declared.

“Next hogsmead trip isn’t great for me, could we do it the one after that?” Caterina asked slightly awkwardly.

“Oh, are you seeing your boyfriend?” Emilia replied with a look that said ‘they were going to find out anyways, as long as they don’t know who it is it’ll be fine.’

“You have a boyfriend?! Since when?” James asked looking slightly angry and possessive.

Caterina rolled her eyes. “Since fifth year. And you’re not to meddle, alright?” Jane didn’t move. He merely said “When were you going to tell me?”

Caterina swallowed an incredulous laugh. “Why on earth would I feel the need to tell you?”

“Because I’m your brother!”

“James, you are a fool. You think after the way you treated me for four years I was going to keep trying to be your sister? You became a mere aquaintence to me in fifth year. I have no need to parade my relationships for all to see. No one knows except my friends. Not even his friends know.” James looked tacked aback and slightly angry.

“After the way I treated you? You’ve been peaking us since second year, and all we did was retaliate! And why should I want to keep being your brother when you treated me with coldness, insults and horrible pranks all the time?!” James stood up, almost yelling.

Caterina stood up too. “The way I treated you?! How about how you treated me the minute I was sorted into slytherin? How about the countless times you insulted and brushed me aside when I was just trying to talk to you? Do you know what that do to me?! To have my best friend in the world turn on me like that? Just because I wore a different color?” James looked slightly ashamed at that. “And you’re saying how much I insulted you? Might I remind you that you’re the one who pranked the entire of slytherin house every other week? After first year, I just decided to fight back. I admit that I perhaps shouldn’t have risen to the challenge, but it was good stress relief and I wasn’t going to keep taking those insults lying down. But th it’s nothing compared to your sheer hypocrisy! I tried to reach out to you so many times! And every time you pushed me aside, I died a little inside. I decide to end the cycle and suddenly, I’m the bad one! What possible reason would I have for wanting to stay your sister?”

James said nothing. It seemed that he was speechless at last. Remus and Emilia just watched warily , understanding that they’d have to hash it out before they could really get along.

Caterina stared at him with an unreadable expression, then she turned on her heel and stalked to her bedroom and the door loses with a soft click. They heard her noise proof the room and lock the door. After a few minutes, James spoke in quiet realization. “I screwed up bad, didn’t I moony?” Refuses wince and barely perceptible nod seemed to provide the answer he needed as he buried his face in his hands. Emilia quietly left the room and went to do the dishes, knowing her friend needed to e left alone right now. Remus joins her a few minutes later.

Caterina has barely locked the door behind her before the tears came. She didn’t even know why she was crying. Perhaps it was because after four years of quiet enduring and two years of not caring, she’d finally confronted him. Finally told him what she’d wanted to say since second year but never did, for lack of opportunity and for fear of being heard then rejected and spat upon. She lay down on the bed, crying quietly as she thought about that first encounter with James after her sorting.

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The Slytherin Misfit

Chapter 2

Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4

A/N : I’m bad at discribing things, so feel free to use your own imagination for details, clothing and room appearances. Also please excuse any spelling or grammar mistakes, this is my first time trying to write something.

You entered your new quarters. They had a kitchen, living room, four bedrooms and two bathrooms. They were all bedecked in neutral cream and light violet. There was a note on the kitchen table telling you that you can choose what your bedroom looked like and that it will adjust itself based on how you imagine it. There was also a pot by the door that it said you could put your wands in and which would only let you take them out again. It suggested that you use this pot to avoid losing your wand. After inspecting your new living quarters in silence, you all headed back to the living room.

The living room was furnished quite tastefully with a sofa and two arm chairs, a TV (Since you could not use magic on this floor, there was no interference) a lush ornate carpet and a fire place over which hung a lovely painting of a cottage in the forest. This time Remus broke the silence.

“Since we’ll be having our meals here and there’s a kitchen, I assume we’ll have to cook for ourselves?” Remus inquired.

“Probably, by the way, who can cook?” Emilia asked

“I can.” Replied Caterina and Remus at the same time as James said “I can’t”

Remus and James looked at her with surprise. “How do you know how to cook?” James asked with suspicion.

Caterina only rolled her eyes. “I actually like having a variety of skills, and I also like cooking.”

James only looked more surprised at her statement. “You like cooking? I thought you slytherins we’re above that kind of muggle thing.” He states in a very matter of fact and slightly incredulous voice.

“Okay. Let’s be this straight right now.” Emilia started, standing up from her stop on the couch and practically shooting steam out of her ears. Caterina tried to pull her back down, but to no avail. She continued, ‘We slytherins’ are still students and human beings like you. We are not evil cold hearted monsters. Neither is your sister. We have feelings and emotions just like the rest of you. Even if we don’t wear our hearts on our sleeves, we still have them. Do you even realize what you’re saying?! Do realize how prejudiced you are? Did you know how many times you made Caterina cry her first year? If anyone’s going to be labeled a cold hearted monster, I’m afraid it’s you and Sirius, James. You were her brother, and you hated and turned your back on her the minute she started wearing a sliver of green on her robes. Do you even realize how ridiculous that sounds? That’s like being prejudiced and hating someone because they like grapes, or because they have blue eyes! It’s completely unfounded and stupid! For the rest of this class, you WILL be civil and you WILL at least pretend not to be prejudiced, or so help me, I will drag you into the forbidden forest, hex you within an inch of your life then leave you there for the creatures to decide what to do with you. Got it?” And with this, she glared at him so intently and ferociously that he could nothing else except stumble out a “y-yes”

She sat back down, satisfied, whilst James seemed to be shocked into silence, Caterina was staring awkwardly around the room, desperately trying to find a topic to lighten the mood, and Remus was staring at Emilia, lost in thought. James broke the silence this time.

“Did-did I really make you cry?”

When Caterina just looked at the floor, Emilia answered for her. “Yes, you did Potter. Numerous times. Everything time you dismissed her and gave her the cold shoulder when she tried to talk to you. Didn’t you notice how unhappy she was in first year?” She said this with a little more warmth but that warmth disappeared with that last sentence and got replaced with a cold hard edge instead.

Silence. Then “Well, I suppose I’ll cook dinner. Caterina? Want to join me?” She nodded and followe him. She was also most completely lost in thought about the day that everything changed.

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Six years ago

Caterina was with her twin on platform 9 3/4 for their first year at hogwarts. Their parent were also there and they had gotten them each an owl as a gift. She had picked a medium sized white owl and named it Marcie where her brother had picked a large brown owl and named it Hercules. They were both very excited for their first year at hogwarts, their parents had told them so much about hogwarts and it sounded aboolutely wonderful!

“But dad, what if no one likes me? What if they all hate me? What if-” James was worriedly asking, his father, Fleamont Potter. His father cut him off, reassuring him “Everything will be fine, son, you’ll be popular and have friends, I’m sure of it.”

“But what if I’m not a griffindor?”

“It’ll be alright if you’re not” he replied, “But you will be. All the potters have been grififndors for generations, you won’t be the exception, anyways, you’re so brave and courageous, you’re one of the most griffindor person I know!”

James smiles at this, and hugged him. “Thanks dad.”

“Now be sure to write to us every day, alright son?”

“I will!” He replied cheerfully then skipped off the where Caterina was saying her goodbyes to their mother and promising the same thing and grabbed her bye the hand. “Let’s go, Cat!”

Being dragged away, she waved goodbye to her parents, grabbed her trunk and disappeared into the crowd with her brother, yelling “ I told you not to call me that! It sounds like I’m your cat!”

His reply was muffled by the bustle of people hurrying to get on the train,but it sounded a lot like “But you are my Cat!”

They got on the train and waved goodbye to their parents as it departed. Then they set off to find a compartment. She had lost James by now as he’d rushed into a different compartment to wave goodbye to their parents and was now happily chatting with the boys in there. She doubted he wanted her butting in, so she sat down in her empty compartment and stared at the scenery going by outside the window. She had only been there for five minutes before a girl opened her apartment door and asked “Could I sit here?” The girl had dark brown hair swept into a ponytail and light, honey colored eyes.

Caterina nodded and she sat, saying “So, I’m Jane, who are you?”

“Caterina.” She replied with a slightly watered down smile. This was the first time she’d ever be away from her parents for months. Her companion carried on cheerfully. “Which house do you want to be sorted into? I think I’d like Ravenclaw, I like blue. I don’t want red though, imagine waking up every day to see blood red above you! I think that I’d panick that someone did every time I looked up. I wouldn’t mind green or yellow either, but red and gold is so bright, it’s like the want them to go blind. What about you? What color would you want?” She inquired curiously.

“ Well, I don’t know if I’ll have much of a choice, all the potters have been in griffindor. Although it does sound rather tiring. I heard that the griffidnor common room is always noisy and loud and full of fun. I think I’d rather have a not fun, but calm and quiet and peaceful common room for relaxing and doing my homework. I think slytherin or Ravenclaw might be best, I heard that hufflepuffs are really friendly and nice, but I think that I would get slightly tired of that much social interaction after a while. Although, like I said, I doubt I have a choice.”

Jane nodded. “I think they should just get rid of the houses altogether. I get that before it was becuase there were four founders and they each took an equal amount of students, but now it’s just the cause of rivalry and prejudice.”

“What preju—” She was cut off by the sound of the compartment door opening again.

“Hi, could I sit here?” The new girl with straight golden blonde hair half way down her back and dancing blue green eyes asked.

“Sure! Come on in!” Jane invited her in and she took a seat next to Caterina.

“Hi, I’m Jane and this is Caterina, and you you are...?”

“I’m Lithia, nice to meet you!” She said politely but enthusiastically.

Caterina was relived to have found nice people on the train ride. If she was honest with herself, she’d been expecting to spend it reading alone. The rest of the journey was spent in merriment and laughter. They arrived, and disembarked. Harris shouted “First years over here!” (I can’t write accents please just imagine it) and she and her friends enters a boat together and she saw her brother enter a boat with his friends and what looked like Sirius Black. She was very surprised, as they were a family famous for being powerful, dark and prejudiced. However, she figured that she didn’t know him, and therefore couldn’t judge. She always tried to be fair and believed strongly in justice. She was also a very logical person, and rarely let her emotions get the better of her. So she resolved to treat him like she would treat any other person until she had more information. She was shaken out of her thoughts by the sound of rocking andraised boices, and she realized that her brother was rocking the boat. She watched as the Sirius hesitated, then joined in, and she watched how the rest of their party tried to stop them and fail. Their boat flipped over into the water. She heard James’s laughter bad heard him say “See? That was fun!”

And she heard Sirius laugh back and say“I agree, that was wicked!” If was then that she realized with a jolt that Remus hadn’t come up, and she looked around, realized no one else had noticed, and took off her watch, necklace and wand, shoving them into her friends hands and jumping into the water amidst her friends confused protests.

She swam and swam down toward where Remus was flailing and struggling. She grabbed him around the the waist and dragged him to the surface where she dumped on the floor if their boat.

“What—” Jane started, but didn’t finish, as Caterina started gibbing him emergency first aid until he choked up water and sat up.

“Thanks, um....” Remus said trying to think if he knew her.

“Caterina.” She supplied.

“Caterina, thank for saving me!”

She smile but only said “My brother almost drowned you, I was only cleaning up his mess.”

He looked slightly surprised. “James is your brother?”

Her friends looked equally surprised when this was revealed. Although it wasn’t surprising, when they had done introductions, they hadn’t mentioned last names.

“Yes, I am, Caterina Potter, at your service.” She replied with an amused expression and a mock bow. “Also, on a not related point, could someone give me back my wand so I can warm us up?” Her friends have her her things back and she cast a warming charm on her and Remus. Remus looked slightly surprised and asked “How do you know spells already?”

“Well, coming from a magical household, they can’t track underage magic, and my parents taught me some self defense spells. I also read my textbooks and practiced some spells. Figured it might come in handy.” She replied, shrugging.

Remus and Jane looked surprised, since Remus hadn’t expected ever to go to a magical school, he hadn’t learnt spells, and Jane has come from a muggle family. But Lithia simply said

“It certainly did come in handy!” And with that they arrived, with James and Sirius apologizeing profusely and James lierally begging for Remus’s forgiveness. Remus, very surprised and taken aback, turned red and nodded almost imperceptibly. And James proceeded to dramatically thank Merlin while Sirius, Remus and peter watched amused and slightly bewildered. McGonagal gave them the usall speech, the hosts showed up and surprised almost everyone. Then the sorting came. The part she and her friends were most worried about. People went before her slowly and then came Sirius’s turn.

“Black Sirius” McGonagall said, and teh slytherins has already started clapping, expecting that he’ll be in slytherin. The hat was placed on his head and as it deliberated for a good two minutes, the applause immediately died down. Then the hat yelled

“GRIFFINDOR!”

And silence fell. No one moved. Sirius numbly took the hat off and walked, as a sleepwalker would, over to the grofifndor table. No one clapped. Everyone was too shook that a black was not in slytherin to really do anything. The other names passed in a blur as that nice boy Remus was sorted into griffindor, so did peter. Then James’s turn cane, surprisingly before her own, but probably becuase they when last name alphabetically and didn’t look at first names.

The hat barely touched his head before it yelled “GRIFFINDOR!”

And soemthing in her sank. Now if she wasn’t in grififndor she won’t be with her brother. But she didn’t really want griffindor. At least she’ll have Sirius and Remus, they seemed decent. But all her new friends were put in slytherin. She sighed as McGonagall called her name.

“Potte Caterina”

The last thing shyenu saw before the hat landed over her head was James’s smiling face looking at her. Little did she know that was the last she’d see if that smile directed towards her.

“Well, well, well, what do we have here? You are a potter and you think you have no choice but griffindor. But that’s not what you want, is it? Your slow tendency to fully trust others and your ambition to be famous like your father and your cleverness would do well in Ravenclaw or slytherin. Your tendency to think for yourself and always think critically about facts you are presented with also point towards Ravenclaw or slytherin.....”

“No,”she thought. “I should be in griffindor like my brother.”

“Interesting, that you should say ‘should’ instead of ‘want’. Becuase you don’t want to do you? You want to your parent to be proud of your achievements don’t you? You are loyal to those close to you, and you are brave. But not brash, you think before you act and you think quick on your feet......better be..”

“SLYTHERIN!”

The slytherin table clapped, after a few initial seconds of shock. The rest of the tables just stared as she hesitatantly took the hat off and walked to the slytherin table, shooting a nervous look at the griffindor table. Her heart sank as she saw her brother’s shocked and slightly disgusted face, and his friend, Sirius’s expression of pure disgust, Remus merely looked slightly surprised and curious. He had likely not been subject to house prejudice before. She sat down next to her fiends and watched without really watching the rest of them be sorted. She didn’t really register the walk to their common room, but she did I realize that it was very gloomy and cold and dark. Until the prefects lead them up a some flights of stairs and lead them up to a much warmly lighted, wamer and more comfy looking and absolutely enormous. The prefect explained “The other room is a font we put up. It adds to the slytherin aesthetic. This room is the room most slytherins use, and which only slytherins can use, which is keyed to slytherins only. So even if someone were to poly juice into you, they still wouldn’t have access. You will be sharing your dorm with one other person.”

Caterina was sharing her room with Lithia, and Jane was sharing her room with Emilia. Little did they know, that soon they’d be jumping between their bedrooms to talk, do homework together and hang out. These two rooms merged in a way and it didn’t really matter which room they slept in anymore as long as it was a bed.(Don’t get me wrong, there was never anything between them except the best and closest of friendships. They trusted each other without a doubt and the closesness and rareness of such a pure friendship caused some people to be surprised, and there was even a rumor at one point that they were having a foursome!) It was like they were one soul in four different bodies. Of course, she didn’t know that any of that was going to happen, and she entered her room with Lithia.

The room was lovely and ornate. It was decorate with elegance and looked very inviting. Their beds had ornate round wooden posts with carvings, forest green curtains and cream colored quilts and pillows. There were also four white bookcases on each side of the beds, and they were both empty and were obviously for them to put their books on. Thee was a large round white fur carpet around the floor of every bed and on the the middle of the floor space. There were two sets of wooden draws with and a wardrobe each. The wardrobe must have had an undetectable extension charm put on it, as when you opened it it was an entire walk in closet, and there were shoe racks, clothes hangers and even a make up table with a mirror! Apparently getting sorted into slytherin had its perks. There also seems to be initiation gifts for new slytherins, as a note suddenly appeared along with a shelve of books each and some clothes, shoes, jewelry, hats and scarves and a lot of make up along with an elegant dagger on the bed. The note said:

“Welcome new slytherins! Here some initation gifts to help you enjoy being in slytherin, and to make up for the fact that you might be prejudiced against. The dagger is for self defense in the event that you don’t have your wand. We recommend you keep this on you at all times. There is a book self defense and how to use it in your gift book set which also has visual demonstrations. A quick tip, don’t let the other houses get you down, enjoy being a slytherin and be confident in being yourself! ~Evangeline, your Head Girl.

“Oh my gosh! These clothes and makeup are of such good quality! Oh—and look at these earings! It think those are real emeralds! Where do you think they got the money for all this stuff?” Lithia exclaimed from inside the ‘Wardrobe’

This was the start of your hogwarts years and the start of your new life in slytherin. You remembered when you were laughing with your brother earlier today and how much disgust and hatred he likely feels for you now. If only you’d asked that hat more vermently, you might have prevented this....But you couldn’t say you were completely unhappy. You had to admit, if not for your brother and your parents, you would have enjoyed being in slytherin very much. You fell asleep that day drowning in thought of your brother and your friends.

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“Caterina, that steak is burning!” Exclaimed Remus, aching a hand I front of her face to try and get her attention. She looked down and realized that indeed, the steak had almost burnt to a crisp. She hurriedly placed it on a plate and put another piece of steak on.

“Are you alright, Caterina?” Remus asked loooking slightly worried.

“Yeah, I’m fine. I was just thinking.” Caterina replied slightly vacantly.

“ About what?”

“Nothing. Nothing.” She seems to regain her composure and shook herself back to reality. It was no good dwelling on that, she thought. What’s done is done. They hated each other. They always will. This civility is just for a good grade, she thought. It was just because she couldn’t have this bring down her class average of 95%. Yes. That was it. No need for false hope.

“You know, James doesn’t hate you as much as you might think.” Remus said as they were piling the roast potatoes onto plates. She looked up in surprise.

“He absolutely hates me, Remus. I don’t know why you would think otherwise.” She states in a matter of fact and surprised voice.

“No—No entirely. He may act that way, but he doesn’t. He told us last year that he didn’t completely hate you. Also, please don’t tell him I said that.” Remus responded

“Really? He doesn’t even know anything about me anymore. He’s just remembering how we loved each other when we were little. He’s trying to hold on to a past when I wasn’t in slytherin.” She said as she left the kitchen holding a plate in each hand.

Remus, following her with two plates said nothing and followed her silently.