Sirius Crush or its 5.30am
“I swear to all the Gods above James, that I will personally kill Sirius one of these mornings!” Stated a very grumpy and annoyed Severus “IT IS BLOODY 5.30AM IN THE MORNING AND TO ADD INSULT TO INJURY IT’S THE WEEKEND!”
James just rolled his eyes at his friend and replied “You know Sirius has this huge crush on our deputy head of house and DADA professor (this accompanied by wheezing and heavy breathing) who happens to be your Uncle…..”
“And when your Uncle invited his ‘Badgers’ to do daily cross country runs and boot camps on the weekends, to improve our abysmal fitness.” Martin Johnson (another first year badger who was a werewolf) continued from where James had stopped
“Sirius signed all us first year boys up, so he could spend extra time with his bloody crush” Remus stated
“And Lilly just had to sign up all the first year girls and her friends as well…because of course women can do anything a man can do better!” Bellatrix Black added to the conversation “Thank the Gods above I can see the school main doors…” James gladly whispered to his friends
The rag and tag group of friends came to a halt beside their friend Sirius who was happily talking to Professor Snape, the group of friends were just about to go into the school unobserved so they thought by their Professor, when he turned to them and stated that they had obviously ‘forgot’ the weekend bootcamps. Half an hour later the group of friend made it inside the castle and upstairs to their new dormitories, with Sirius beaming happily at the ‘extra time’ he had to chat with his crush and Severus moaning about how unfair it was that his weekend lie in to noon each Saturday and Sunday had been stopped.
Before they all went their separate ways to get ready for breakfast Bellatrix reminded them in her sing song voice “Remember today is our house inspection day by Snape and that includes our dormitories” Everybody groaned at the reminder, having Professor Snape as the Deputy head of the house was great, but he had brought and introduced to the house a number of new rules which were posted on the house board and read as follows.
‘Hufflepuff house traits include hard work, loyalty and integrity. As I am now the Deputy Head of house there will be a few rules to reinforce and assist all house members to fulfil their potential’
1) The Badger house always kept a united front outside the house’s door, all disagreements were to be conducted in the house
2) Weekly house and dormitory inspections
3) No house elves were allowed in the Badger House, the house occupants had to keep the house in perfect condition
4) All course and homework had to be completed and handed in on time
5) Professor Snape would be in the house Study room between 4 and 6 each evening and Saturday morning to assist in any body having difficulties with their course work, also to randomly inspect other members course and homework to see if they needed assistance
6) Members were only allowed to work on their homework and course work between 4pm and 6pm every evening and for only two hours during the weekend (this was to ensure that house members were not swamped with work).
7) There were face to face meetings with every member of the house at least once a month with Professor Snape
8) Professor Snape would accompany any member of the house when they had to visit either the Headmaster, Deputy Headmistress or the School Matron
The Badgers had soon found that having Professor Snape as the deputy head of their house was both a blessing and a curse, he had ensured as his first job as deputy head to move the Snake and Badger house from the dungeons to the two other towers that Hogwarts had and wasn’t using. He had warded the house dormitories so that neither sex could gain entrance to other sex dormitories. He had facilitated the move of a number of first year pupils from other houses to the Badger house, this had included Bellatrix Black and Sirius cousin and Barty Crouch Junior. The pupils that had been transferred to the Badger house had been bullied in their old houses or needed the guidance of a parental figure in their lives.
It was after breakfast and the house inspection by Professor Snape, where once again Sirius and his friends room had been declared the best kept room, this was due to the fact that Sirius had ensured that the room was always kept spotlessly clean and tidy. That the group of friends were gossiping and discussing school matters, that Bellatrix asked Severus “So any idea who your uncle has to bump off then?” Severus shook his head no and replied “according to the email from da, Uncle Walter has decided to try his hand at teaching and has semi-retired”
“Has he broken the curse of the Dada position” Bellatrix asked excitedly “First thing he did apparently, he had one of his Indian friends come and break the curse” Sirius proudly answered Bellatrix about his crush “And then went and had a meeting with Dumbledore, which apparently left Dumbledore shaken and very pale when it finished “ Lilly answered. Everybody looked dumbfounded and proud at that statement of Lilly’s, after all to be able to scare witless the apparent greatest wizard since Merlin was no easy feat, and the fact that their deputy head of house had done it would give their house extra kudos with the other houses.
“What are your parents reaction Bella to you transferring to our house?” asked Lilly “Well I and my sisters are now wards of Sirius Parents! For all their faults Uncle Orion and Aunty Walburga care about all the children in our family, and they took us in when my parents disinherited me for being transferred”
“Don’t mention my parents’ reactions please” Sirius asked and then continued “Ever since I was sorted into this house, my parents have supported and been proud of me! How I am growing up and working hard at my studies for once………mother even stated that she was glad I had been sorted into the Badger house as it had made me grow up…….erhh the shame of it”
“What the shame of your parents being proud of you?” Severus asked and Sirius just nodded at him, it was then that another first year came up to the group and gave James a letter, which asked him to see him after the evening meal that day. The group of friends crowded around James, and when James commented that Professor Snape was away for the weekend and could not accompany him to the meeting. Severus just rolled his eyes and said that he could get his da here in time for the meeting and act as James guardian, as he did not have time to contact his parents. It was with a lighter heart that James entered the school with his friends, knowing he was not going to meet the headmaster alone that evening
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Albus Dumbledore looked down from his office onto the Hogwarts school grounds. The start of the year had not gone well, his plans had been severely curtailed by the reckless sorting of the first-year pupils into their different houses. He had several pupils that needed to be put into certain houses, he had needed James Potter and Sirius Black to be put into Gryffindor house. Of course, joining them would have been the coward werewolf Remus Lupin and his Godson Peter Pettigrew, and with the right guidance from his deputy McGonagall and other Gryffindor pupils would be moulded into what he wanted and needed. Severus Snape should have gone to Slytherin house, ensuring that he was despised inside and outside the house. Ensuring that Severus would join Voldemort’s organisation at the right time.
He had thought that Potter being sorted into the pathetic Hufflepuff house, would have meant that he could still have the Potter and his friends following him, of course the group would now include that half-breed Snape boy! But he could have worked around that. Things had seriously gone south as the pathetic muggles animals say when the new Dada professor joined the school, the Professor had managed to break the curse on the Dada position that he had placed on it and was now the Hufflepuff house deputy head. The Professor was a lot more trouble than he was worth, not only was the idiot actually teaching the pupils the subject Dada competently. He was ensuring that a number of improvements were happening, he had the board of governors backing him. It seemed he was now trying to get his biggest supporter and confident sacked, his deputy headmistress McGonagall. Well starting form to night he would have James Potter in his hands, he would give the simpleton a drink that contained his potion to control a person totally, and then he could mould the boy to what he and the magical world needed. After all the magical world and his desires were one and the same!