Half-Blood Princess

Chapter Three

Kely walked up to the leggedstool and sat down as professor McGonagall proceeded to put the tattered hat on her head. She squirmed as everyone looked at her. Silence filled the room as the hat talked in her head.

Ah I see, another Snape. You are a half-blood, but you are not proud of it. But not in the way most would think.

"Would you be proud of your family if they yelled at you on a regular basis?"
Kely thought to the hat.

True. The hat agreed.

Your brother was different. You are cunning yet brave, you are also smart beyond your years. You are loyal to all of your friends. I could easily place you in any house, but which one would you prosper in the most?

"Well just pick one and I'll be fine." She told the hat not truly caring which house she got into.

You are very witty and I see potential in you, but you do not really want Slytherin. Yet your brother was put there. Hufflepuff would be good, but you are not so kind on the inside are you?

She snickered a little at the hat.

I would put you in Ravenclaw, but you would not prosper there much. How about....

"GRYFFINDOR!"

Kelly smiled as she stood up and went to the table with a red and gold flag above it. She looked over to the Slytherin table as she sat beside Lily, who had moved over for her, Severus looked disappointed, but happy for her.

Severus was Kely's twin brother, also her best friend. And she knew that even her being in Gryffindor and him in Slytherin, that they would never break apart, not anything in the world could tear them apart.

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After professor McGonagall was finished calling out the first year names, professor Dumbledore stood up to speak.

"I know you are all very hungry and most of you are probably starving. So I will let you eat before I bore you with the rules and other things. Now eat up!" As he finished talking, Dumbledore snapped his fingers and food appeared on all five tables.

There was food everywhere in sight on the five tables. Foods ranging from mashed potatoes to shepherds pie were all over the place. Kelly didn't eat a lot, but that night she didn't care so she ate a little bit of everything she liked.

"Hi I'm Marlene McKinnon!" The other girl beside Kely said. She recognized the name as Lily had talked about her some.

"Hi I'm Kely Snape, a transfer from Beauxbatons." Kely told her shyly.

"Woah. You must know a lot of French and stuff then." She said with a look of incredibility on her face. Kely actually didn't know a lot of French as she wasn't the type to pick up on French easily, even after three years she only knew basic French and a few other words that she probably shouldn't say.
The only language she fluently knew,
besides English, was Greek.

"Well not a lot, even after three years I only know some basic stuff along with some words I probably shouldn't say." Kely told her.

"Ooh! Can you please tell me one sentence of French?" She asked with puppy dog eyes. Her eyes looked weird when she did it, but her face was strangely making Kely want to do it.

"Yeah Kely, tell her our sentence." Lily said, picking up on my conversation with Marlene.

"Okay, but I warn you I am not going to tell you what it means so you'll have to figure it out later." Kely told Marlene as she didn't want Marlene to know what she was going to say.

"That's fine. I'll look it up in a book in the library somewhere." Marlene told her. She and Lily shared a look then they burst out laughing. Kely was utterly confused.

"What? What am I not getting?" Kely asked them while they laughed. They're laughter caused a few heads to turn, but they went back to eating when they noticed Marlene.

"Well you see Kel, Marls here doesn't go to the library and she doesn't even pay attention to class. I don't think she has even opened her textbooks yet." Lily told me with tears of laughter in her eyes.

"Oh, okay. Well do you want to hear my bad French Marlene?" Kely asked her, chuckling a bit.

"Sure go ahead." She said as she laughed to herself.

"I'd like to hear some French." The girls heard a voice behind them. Kely turned around and sure enough Sirius Black stood there looking at her expectantly.

"Go away Black." She told him with an annoyed expression.

"Ooh feisty one. But I'm not going anywhere until you say some French." He told her defiantly.

Kely rolled my eyes and said,"Alez-vous en."

After Kely was done she saw Lily look dumbfound as she realized it wasn't our sentence and she realized that it wasn't very nice either, but then she sniggered a little so Sirius couldn't see her.

"What does that mean?" Sirius asked Kely, intrigued.

Kely looked at him and said,"That's for me to know and for you to find out." She told him with a smirk.

Sirius went to sit back with his friends with some other girls drooling over him. Seriously, he isn't even that cute. Kely thought to myself.

Suddenly the main course disappeared and dessert popped up. Kely looked around and then she saw it; peanut butter brownies. Peanut butter brownies were Kelly's all-time favorite dessert. Kely had a weird addiction to peanut butter and Lily knew it.

"Oh no, they have peanut butter brownies." Lily groaned. She knew that when there was peanut butter involved, there Kely was, eating the peanut butter. One time she had caught her eating a jar of peanut butter with a spoon.

"What's wrong with peanut butter brownies?" Marlene asked looking very confused.

"Marlene my dear friend! There is nothing wrong with peanut butter brownies. I should warn you that, in my presence, you never say a word against peanut butter or you will face the consequences." Kelly said this with a serious look on her face. Once, Lily had said that peanut butter smelled weird and the next day her diary had suddenly 'disappeared'.

"Ooh I see now." Marlene looked at Lily with wide eyes as if to say 'is she mental?'. Lily shook her head yes, Kely was then satisfied as she took a load of peanut butter brownies and put them on her plate.

People gave Kely weird looks when she only ate peanut butter brownies for dessert. She glared at them and said, "What? I like peanut butter brownies. Is that a crime?"

Suddenly everything on the table disappeared, along with the brownies. Kely groaned,"Aww, my brownies."

Dumbledore stood up and walked to the podium."To new students, welcome. To older students, welcome back!" He started."As you may have guessed, miss Snape is a transfer from Beuxbatons school. She is going into fourth year so do please make her feel welcome." Dumbledore looked towards Kely and smiled.

"I must go through a few things with everyone. I must remind you all that the Forbidden Forest is well...forbidden." He chuckled slightly.

"Mr. Filch has also told me to tell you all that flying frisbees and fanged cups are banned along with a list of three hundred and fifty other things. If you would like to see the list, it will be posted on mr Filch's office door." Dumbledore looked directly at the Marauders as he said this.

"Now I know you are all stuffed and tired so I will let you go to sleep. Pip pip. Goodnight everyone." Dumbledore finished his speech, and we all stood up and filed out of the great hall following the prefects towards their respective common rooms.