Raina Rogue

1 » Beginnings

In Raina Oreloko's first year at Hogwarts, she was sorted into Slytherin and she was horrified. She'd grown up in a muggle setting and gone to a muggle school, although she'd known she was a witch all along. There she had gotten on well. Her town was small and her school was closely knit. She'd been the queen there – the popular girl, and it had come from being well liked. She didn't think that would happen in Slytherin.

She could feel the suspicions of the others students threatening to drown her, and for a while it almost had.

Then she met Feron, another Slytherin. He was shy – she'd had to follow him around for days before he really spoke to her. There was a kind of hardness in his gaze, that left her in no doubt that when he wanted something he would work for it; now they were friends, they would stay that way.

Although she talked to the other Slytherins, and occasionally people from other houses, it was the twins who really changed her way of thinking. The Weasley twins of course.

They expected her to be evil, although they were nice to her on the train. The day they pranked her 'because she was a Slytherin' she decided she wouldn't let stereotypes stop her from being friends with everyone.

Some she met in the library and tentatively helped study should they need it. Some she sat beside in class, dragging Feron behind her all the way.

She had a kind of charisma to her. One that she didn't know at the time was supernatural. Later she would look at her first year self and wonder how genuine her popularity had really been.

At the time, she was well liked and confident, but almost wouldn't have minded if she wasn't; she had Feron and she knew that he and Catrina would stand by her no matter what. It was a nice feeling, and even nicer to have someone know all of her.

(She'd had to pretend more than once during her muggle schooling that she had no idea why things blew up or floated randomly)

YEAR TWO

In her second year Raina helped the new first years to the dorm. She knew the whole place looked creepy, so she and Fente, another Slytherin in her year, charmed bright yellowy orbs of light to float around the ceiling and the fire in the fire places to crackle a warm, glowy, orange rather than their previous green.

One of the newly sorted first years was freaking out about being in Slytherin. Their brother was a Hufflepuff, they said, why were they the bad one?

Raina softly explained the stigma surrounding the houses and to finally calm them down, she led them to one of the wide windows looking out into the lake. There she showed them the grindylows and occasional merfolk and taught them just how beautiful the common room was.

She was surprised when one of them came to her for help - surprised and flattered. Some of the first years from other houses even approached her, despite the green tie, and she showed them to classes and helped them with homework.

When Feron was not burying himself in his 'schoolwork' or hiding on the roof, Raina dragged him in. Out of their year group, he was the best at transfiguration.

YEAR THREE

This was the year Harry Potter came to Hogwarts, and the normalcy between houses slowly began to dissipate.

Raina tended to sit with a mix of Ravenclaws and Hufflepuffs then, although she was often joined by mutual friends and Maia Flitwick and Alicia Spinnet from Gryffindor.

Raina chose Study of Ancient Runes and Care of Magical Creatures as her other subjects. She also skipped a year in history of magic because her muggle schooling had made essay writing easy, and despite Professor Binns droning voice, the content of the subject wasn't difficult.