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Harry was ecstatic to be sorted into Slytherin, his house mates on the other hand ,weren’t to pleased. On his first night, he was sure that he was hexed in his sleep. The green light was awfully bright, and it disturbed his sleep! He already struggled with the change in his sleep schedule! Going from being awake at six PM and going to sleep at five AM, would do that to a person. However, after a few moments of silence, he was thankfully able to go back to sleep.
To say the next morning was peculiar, was an understatement. “You- how, how are you alive!” One of his upper classmates screeched.
Harry rubbed his eyes, the common room was far too well lit for his liking. “Excuse me?” He yawned. “Y-you should be dead!” Oh shit, did he know? How did he find out.
“I’m perfectly alive thank you very much.” He said wearing his best ‘I am not lying smile.’ A crowed of tired children were quick to gather in the common room, for the chance to see the first slytherin squabble of the year.
The student who was previously shouting, was sweating profusely. “I checked your pulse, you should be dead.” Is that what touched my neck last night? Ew.
“Now, what is going on here?” Professor Snape entered the room, his robes billowing behind him. “Oh of course it has something to do with you Potter.” He snarled.
“Now mister Thornwick, why are you causing such a commotion this early in the morning? It is very unbecoming of a slytherin student.” The boy began to mumble.
“What was that?” The mumbling grew louder. Luckily, or unluckily, depending on how you looked at it. Because the boy was stood close to Harry (plus the fact that Harry had above average hearing), Harry could hear Thornwick‘s insane rambling.
“I can’t go back to father like this.”
“I’ve failed the dark lord.”
“My father won’t be pleased.”
“How is this possible?”
“I need to finish the job.” That last part concerned Harry. Scratch that, every single word that just came out of that boy’s mouth concerned him.
“Can you repeat yourself mister Thornwick, I’m becoming rather impatient with your puerile mumbling.” All the students turned their eyes towards Thornwick.
Students, who Harry could only assume were the boy’s friends, started to speak. “Come on Aceson.”
“Are you alright?”
“You’re going to lose us points on the first day.” His friends spoke in hushed voices.
However, Harry did not care for the boys faceless friends, no, something else had caught his attention.
Harry’s eyes widened as he saw the boy reach for his wand, no one else even noticed! And once they did, it was already too late. Snape pulled out his wand.”Expeli-“
“Avada Kedavra!”
A green light shot towards Harry, the impact of the spell knocked him to the floor. He laid there on the ground. The students gasped, some covered their eyes, while some covered their mouths in shock. Some of the older student looked down impassively, while a few smirked.
Snape’s eyes widened in shock, too think a student would be so brazen to kill another student in front of witnesses, and on the first day of school, no less. Snape shook himself out of the daze. “Expelliarmus!” The student was propelled backwards into the wall, making a loud thud.
students formed a circle around Harry’s corpse. “Let me through.” The professor growled, pushing students aside. He knelt down and check Harry’s pulse... nothing. His lips thinned, as he looked down at the dead body.
Suddenly his hand was swatted away from Harry’s neck. Harry’s eyebrows knitted together, as he put his head against his palms. “I have a banging headache, does anyone have any tablets?” The students jumped back. A boy close to Harry let out a screech.
Snape only looked down at him ,with widened eyes. Before, his face returned to a neutral frown.
”what’s the matter?”