Spellbound ~ clemmings (hogwarts au) {semi hiatus}

~ chapter one ~

It's the first day back, Luke's sat at the Hufflepuff table, his best friend Ashton sat next to him, talking his ear off about his summer. Ashton Irwin has been Luke's best friend since their first day at Hogwarts, they met on the train to the castle, and they both found it rather unfortunate when Ashton was sorted into Gryffindor after Luke himself was sorted into Hufflepuff.

"It was so cool, I was going to invite you over but you'd gone away" Ashton finishes his sentence, and continues eating his toast.

Luke hadn't been paying much attention to what his friend had said, too busy reading through his schedule, trying to figure out when he can do homework without it interrupting his time with Ashton.

"Luke?" Ashton elbows his blonde friend, watching as the blonde startles and spills his drink all over his robes. The hazel eyed boy watches as his friend shrieks, and then moans, uttering something about it being only the first day.

Laughing, Ashton pulls his wand out and with a flick, the robes are good as new and he nods his head at Luke's thanks.

"Let me see your schedule" Luke holds a hand out, waiting for the shorter boy to reach into his bag for the paper.

Examining both papers, Luke sees that they both have potions together with the Slytherins, along with a few other classes. It's rare that they both have classes together, and the three subjects he has with Ashton will be brilliant compared to his others which are shared with the Slytherins.

"Come on or we'll be late, don't want detention with Snape on the first day" Ashton swings his leg over the bench and stands, hoisting his bag over his shoulder waiting for Luke to do the same.

Both boys exit the Great Hall and make their way down to the dungeons.

"Look who it is, little Hufflepuff Hemmings and his dweeb of a friend" a low voice drawls from behind the boys as they reach the bottom of the staircase and turn down the corridor to the potions classroom.

"Ha, how long till he trips I wonder" another voice pipes up, this one not as taunting as the previous one, but definitely not friendly.

Arriving at the door to the room Luke's shoulder is pulled and he is spun around to face the one and only Michael Clifford. The blonde boy looks up at the much taller Slytherin, whose smirk is ever present. For a moment, Luke thinks that maybe if this boy wasn't so cruel to people and didn't always have either a murderous look or evil smirk on his face, he might be rather attractive. His bleached hair, that somehow doesn't fade (probably a spell of some sort), that matches his pale skin well (it surprisingly doesn't wash him out like it would others), and his pale grey - green eyes to match. Everything about the taller boy is pale but it suits him.

"What are you staring at, dinkleberry?" At the mention of the stupid nickname, the Ravenclaw boy beside Michael sniggers.

The boy, whose hair is black (rather suiting since he's in Ravenclaw), and eyes are deep brown, is best friends with the cruel older boy. Calum Hood is his name, and apparently, him and the bleached boy have been friends since they were toddlers, having both grown up in rich pure blood families. That's the thing with pure bloods, they all stick together and although they have a history of hatred for muggleborns, it seems as if that hatred has now been transferred to half bloods, or just one specific one, like Luke.

Entering the classroom, Ashton pulls his friend to a desk in the middle. "Ignore him Luke, he's just some arrogant dick" the sandy haired boy pulls Luke down to his seat, before Michael has the chance to knock him over.

"Mr Irwin, language like that is very inappropriate at the best of times, much less in a classroom" professor Snape's voice drawls from the back of the room as he makes his way up to the front, "ten points from Gryffindor".