In the dark

One|Hogwarts

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Background information:
. Fred and George are 18 and in year 7
. Draco, Harry, Noah, Blaise, Jade and Pansy are 17 year 6
. The Yule ball is an annual event
. If you aren't comfortable with cursing then please don't read this or if your not comfortable with smut.
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Noah Snape

"I can really attend Hogwarts this year!"

I ran into my father's arms ecstatic that he changed his mind. He's always been a strong believer that Hogwarts was a dangerous place. Every year it'd been the same excuse "I'm perfectly capable of teaching you all you need to know about magic." I ran out of the teachers' lounge and headed straight into the great hall.

As I locked eyes with Fred Weasley, I quickly made my way to him. "Fred, I get to attend Hogwarts this year!" Fred looked as if he was more excited than me. "I knew you'd convince him one of these days!" He bent down to give me a quick kiss. "Just think about how much fun we're going to have once you officially become a Gryffindor!"

"How are you so sure I'll be in Gryffindor?" I gave a small smile.

"Are you kidding." He chuckled. "Why wouldn't you be, you're obviously not a snake." He hissed playfully.

Yet I can't help but feel this weight on my chest as McGonagall called the newcomers forward. What would happen if indeed I were a snake? Fred wouldn't look at me differently, I knew that for sure. It wasn't like I'd be behind any of the students in my grade. On my 10th birthday, Dumbledore gifted me this beautiful wand that had bumps going down it. I loved my wand, even though it caused arguments between my father and Dumbledore.

"Noah." I looked up to see Professor McGonagall calling me forward. "–Noah Snape." With only those two words every eye now appeared to be on me. "Did she just say Snape?" I heard a pig faced boy in Slytherin say as I walked up to the filthy hat. An eerie silence dropped across the large hall as the dirty hat was placed on my head.

"...Interesting," The foul hat muttered. I could swear this dirty thing had lice after all the heads it's touched.

You're wise and creative like Ravenclaw. Though you're confident and courageous like Gryffindor. However, you're cunning and ambitious like Slytherin. Just how unusual.

If I was quite honest with myself, I didn't care what house I was put in. I closed my eyes and wished for the sorting hat to decide already. "You and your father should be placed in the same house." The wretched thing growled.

I knew at that point what I'd be in as it roared, "Slytherin!"

The Slytherin table broke out in cheers and yells. As I made my way to the Slytherin table a curly headed girl waved me over. "Hey, I'm Jade and these two idiots sitting in front of me are Blaise and Draco." She jeered, "It's not my fault" the dark-skinned boy yelled to jade. "Can you honestly blame me; I mean look at her she's gorgeous." He winked at me.

"I don't understand why anyone would want to fuck a blood traitor," Draco muttered, which followed silence.

"You don't look so great yourself Draco." I calmly stated, "It seems like you already started aging seeing as your blond hair is nearly white." Blaise started to chuckle.

"Loosen up a little, Malfoy." I glance over to Blaise and smile causing Draco to scoff and roll his eyes.

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We got up and headed toward the Slytherin dormitories. Horace Slughorn stood before the entry of the common room. "Password" the painting demanded Draco suddenly spoke up "Pure-blood." This caused me to burst out in laughter.

"What." Draco snarled.

"You gotta be kidding right," I chuckled. "You can't be that full of yourself you literally made the password your blood status!" This caused me to burst out in even more laughter.

The irritation on Draco's face grew rapidly. "Don't think for one second, just because your father is a professor in this school that we will give you special treatment," He snapped.

"Do you ever stop complaining Malfoy," I asked. "Don't call me that," he snarled. "Don't call you what?" "You know what don't play stupid," he snarled.

"Whatever Malfoy now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to catch up with Fred." As I ran out of the common room and down the halls to get back to the great hall, I spotted Fred and a whole bunch of other Gryffindors. "Fred!" I called out to him but he just turned around and rubbed the back of his neck and went back to talking to his friends.

I grabbed his shoulder forcing him to turn in my direction. "Hey, talk to me, what's the matter why are you ignoring me?"

"Listen Noah. I'm busy now. I'll talk to you tomorrow." With that, he dashed off to catch up with his Gryffindor friends.

"That was weird..." I started to make my way back to the common room when Draco's voice stopped me "Aww what's the matter mudblood your little boyfriends ignoring you," he mocked. "Shut up Malfoy." With that I continued walking back to the dormitories not wanting to listen to anything else he had to say.

I went to the beautifully laid out room to find Jade already knocked out on her bed. I plopped myself on the bed face first and found myself dozing off within seconds.