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Ch. 3 - The First Day

A/N: I don't own the prefect speech, I basically just copy pasted the one from Pottermore and made a few changes, don't come after me please.

"Hey Potter, wake up."

Harrison groaned, turning over in his bed. 

"Potter," the voice repeated

"Shut up," Harrison grumbled, burying himself under his blankets. 

"Seriously Potter, you have to wake up."

He squeezed his eyes tighter and shoved his head underneath, "Don't care."

The person took a deep breath, "POTTER, GET THE BLOODY HELL OUT OF THAT BED!" he yelled

"Holy Merlin! What was that for, Malfoy?!" Another voice said

"He wasn't waking up."

"Well you didn't need to shout so loud, the whole bloody school could hear that, I swear."

"Circe, Potter, you look like an inferi. You'd better get cleaned up before we have to report down common room," the person, now identified as Malfoy, said

Harrison rolled out of his bed, wrapping the sheets tightly around himself as he walked to the washroom.

After a hot shower and a brushing of teeth he was finally fully awake. He quickly changed into his green and silver robes and, with Theodore, Malfoy and another boy called Blaise Zabini, ran down to the common room.

Thank the gods no one had actually heard Malfoy shouting, otherwise he might've died on the spot from embarrassment. Most of the first years were already there, the other years seemed to have already gone for breakfast aside from one of their prefects.

"Congratulations! I'm Prefect Gemma Farley, and I'm delighted to welcome you to Slytherin House. Our emblem is the serpent, the wisest of creatures; our house colours are emerald green and silver, and as you know, our common room lies behind a concealed entrance down in the dungeons. Now, there are a few things you should know about Slytherin – and a few you should forget.

Firstly, let's dispel a few myths. You might have heard rumours about Slytherin house – that we're all into the Dark Arts, and will only talk to you if your great-grandfather was a famous wizard, and rubbish like that. Well, you don't want to believe everything you hear from competing houses. I'm not denying that we've produced our share of Dark wizards, but so have the other three houses – they just don't like admitting it. And yes, we have traditionally tended to take students who come from long lines of witches and wizards, but you'll find plenty of people in Slytherin house who have at least one Muggle parent. We don't really care whether or not you are a half blood or even muggleborn, if you're in this house you are destined for greatness. We play to win, because we care about the honor and traditions of Slytherin.

In Slytherin we are all brothers and sisters, we will always look after each other. The corridors of Hogwarts can throw up surprises for the unwary, and you'll be glad you've got the Serpents on your side as you move around the school. As far as we're concerned, once you've become a snake, you're one of ours – one of the elite.Because you know what Salazar Slytherin looked for in his chosen students? The seeds of greatness.

You've been chosen by this house because you've got the potential to be great, in the true sense of the word. All right, you might see a couple of people hanging around the common room whom you might not think are destined for anything special. Well, keep that to yourself. If the Sorting Hat put them in here, there's something great about them.

A few more things you might need to know: our house ghost is the Bloody Baron. If you get on the right side of him he'll sometimes agree to frighten people for you. Just don't ask him how he got bloodstained; he doesn't like it. The password to the common room changes every fortnight. Keep an eye on the noticeboard. Never bring anyone from another house into our common room or tell them our password. No outsider has entered it for more than seven centuries and we want to keep it that way.