Hogwarts House Exchange Program

The First Morning

Ethan McClain woke up and looked around, "Why is everything silver and green?" he wondered, at first he thought it was a prank then he remembered last night and groaned. He sat up and opened the curtains around his bed and sure enough he was still in the Slytherin dorm. He lay back down on his bed and buried his face in his pillow "Just kill me now before the Slytherins get to me," he says, but it was muffled by the pillow. Suddenly he hears the swishing of curtains being pushed aside so he knows the other boys are awake. He gets out of bed and gets changed into his robes. The first thing Ethan notices is everyone is talking with themselves and when they look in Ethan's direction their eyes gloss over him, they are trying to pretend he's not there. Now Ethan did not like to be ignored, "Oi, you stupid Slytherins if you think I want to be in a stupid dungeon with you gits think again," he said crossly. The Slytherin boys still ignored him and walked out, but he could tell they were angry. He put on a smirk and walked out of the dorm, but as soon as he did he felt all eyes on him. In a second a 3rd year boy pulled out his wand and shot a jinx at me that made me fly up into the air and be suspended upside down. The room roared with laughter "Get me down!" Ethan yelled not amused by the joke. The noise got so loud Professor Slughorn had to come down and tell them to get to class. That's when he realised Ethan suspended in the air. "Ethan what are you doing up there?" Slughorn asks. "You think I want to be up here?" Ethan snaps making everyone laugh harder. "Ok calm down everyone it's not that funny," Slughorn says, "Now who jinxed him?" Everyone looked at the 3rd year boy, //These guys would throw their own house members under the bus\\ Ethan thinks in disgust. "Ok now let's get him down," Slughorn says. The boy mutters something under his breath, but Professor Slughorn doesn't seem to notice and lowers Ethan. "Thank you" Ethan says ticked off and walked off to class with what was left of his dignity. He knew about Professor Slughorn and he knew his methods, he would try to make friends with all the families with good connections. Now he was stuck with a bunch of people who hated him and Slugbreath. "Might as well get used to this" he mutters and walks to Transfiguration, his first class.

When Ethan walked in he sat himself next to his Gryffindor friends. "How has Slytherin been?" asks one of them. "Unbearable" he complains and explains what happened, careful to leave out his insult making it seem like the Slytherins were acting of their own accord. "They're bloody gits the lot of them" one of his friends shakes his head. When the Slytherins come in the group of boys glare at them. The Slytherins take one look at Ethan a burst out laughing, //Great now I'm the laughing stock of the whole house\\ he thinks miserably. Though Ethan doesn't show it, he continues to glare and holds his head up high and acts like he did nothing wrong. This is what Ethan did when he had to face any problem, just pretend it wasn't his fault.