Easy To Hate (Rewrite)

Chapter 13: Always Find Your Way Back Home

I do not own Harry Potter, if I did then Snape would not have been redeemed

Second year, here we go! Newbies are Alexa and Liana Green, and Louis, Lucy, and Roxanne Weasley

So it is apparently unknown as to when the letters come in, so I'm gonna have it be anywhere between 8 and 3 weeks before the school year starts (why? because I like that idea)

I also forgot Albus had a ferret until I was rewatching the movies and was reminded so um...yeah that's now here!

Anyways, this is also posted onto my Tumblr account imnotobsessedwfictionalchracters and my Fanfiction.net account SomeKind0fMagic and my AO3 account s0m3kind0fmagic so you can check it out on there too!

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Albus looked up from his cereal as he heard the sound of an owl dropping in. He saw the two letters that were with the paper as his dad grabbed them. He looked back down and ate more of his breakfast before he heard his dad finally speak:

"Letters are here."

Albus took his from his dads hand gently as James harshly grabbed his. He stayed quiet as he read through the list, not many new books for this year. Just the second edition of Standard Book of Spells, a defense against the dark arts book, as well as a new potions book. He was thankful enough that he didn't have many books to buy, however he knew he would have more next year since he got to add two more classes onto his schedule.

"Bloody hell, I didn't get captain. I swore Elizabeth was gonna give me it!"

Albus spared a small glance to James before he put his letter down and went back to finishing his cereal.

"Well, it is only your fourth year, James. Not most fourth years become captain." Albus heard their dad reason.

"Yeah, but she did! And she acted like she was gonna put me up for it all year!"

Their mum hummed, "And most people don't switch positions after playing the same one for two years."

"Do you know who got it?"

"No Lily, I don't. I won't know who the bloody captain is until we get back to Hogwarts in three weeks!"

Albus sighed and pushed his spoon around in the bowl, trying to bring up the topic of him thinking about trying out for the Quidditch team. Or even how to interrupt James being well...James. He stared at his bowl of, now soggy, cereal as it minutely angered him. But not enough to actually make him react to it. It was more of an annoyance of everything going on and how he wished it could be different, in some way.

As James continued to speak, going through the different members of the Gryffindor team, trying to figure out who could have been made captain, Albus let out a breath before just speaking: "I'm thinking about trying out for Slytherin's Quidditch team." He heard everyone at the table go silent and he continued to stare at his bowl of cereal that wouldn't get eaten anymore. "I also only need three new books."

"You're trying out for the team?" He heard the sneer in James' voice, "Slytherin has a Seeker, a sloppy one, but they have one."

Slowly, Albus closed his eyes, wishing he could just disappear under the table before his mum spoke up: "I think that's good. Going for Seeker or another position?"

He reopened his eyes to look up at his mum, who had a small smile on her face. "Seeker. We have one, but Annie says that Matt wants to replace Dominick so he might do a full team tryout."

"How do you already know who's captain for Slytherin?!"

He sighed, "Previous Captain chooses the new one. Annie's brother Aiden was the old one and he said that he chose Matt. And apparently he's been speaking about it and said that was what he was planning on doing."