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As the 2 September was a Monday this year, the school would start this same day. After having Bilby woke his at six, he takes his time and slowly woken up under the warm water of his shower. Once done, he takes his expanded bag with him and exits the chamber.
Peeking rapidly in the only room of the floor, he sees all of the boy still asleep while it was already six past half. While breakfast wasn"t served until seven, they don"t know the way down. Shrugging his shoulder, he made his way to the common room. Once they"re he crosses the path with very few already ready older students. Without a word he follows the group down to the hall, trying to remember the most of the way there.
Making his way to the mostly empty table, he sees that he was the sole first year already there from the four houses. Since the professor table was facing the entry of the hall, McGonagall raises and go to her first cub to make the way down.
"How are you feeling m.Evans?"
"Better, thank you, professor, do you have my timetable? I didn"t know what to take so I bring everything with me." Say him while patting the bag on his side.
Nodding at him, she takes out a small piece of parchment and gives it to him.
"How did you found the hall? The perfect should be gathering your lot and guide you here."
"I wasn"t aware, I just followed older students, the great hall could be the only place to go at this time and day, it not against them, but I don"t think they would have headed toward the library."
"True, you will have potion first this morning with Professor Snape in the dungeon." She curtly says, but he could see that she wanted to ask something else but didn"t seem to know how to approach the subject. Unwilling to keep it going, he directly asks.
"Ask, professor, worse of it I won"t answer." His directness and straight forward way take her a little taken aback but rapidly gather her spirit rapidly.
"I won"t hide to you that quite a number of us professor couldn"t help but ask, do you have any relation with ..."
"The redhead professor? No, I could see from where one could think that but I"m not native of England and it wasn"t long since I moved here. In fact, It hasn"t been more than a month since we had taken residence on the island. I received the letter the same day and gone directly to the Alley to buy off my supplies. While it"s only for me, I am what you call a pureblood here. I have already a step in the magical world but raised until the last month in the mundane one. Will that be all professor?" Letting take her own conclusion, he turned to the table seeing her nod once again and made her way to the table where the majority of the professors present have their gaze on them.
She didn"t have the time to sit properly that she was a.s.saulted by the same redhead.
"What did he say, Minerva?" Shaking her head at the woman"s antics, she takes a look and sees that all of them were waiting for her.
"Well, he seems to have greatly calmed down, his words yesterday seems mostly due to a rather stressful situation than anything else." Of all, only Snape scoff at this completely ignored by the other, taking it as is a habitual behavior, completely obvious that him taking notice of the conversation was already out of his character.
"On the other hand, he has clearly said that he didn"t bore any link with you Lily, first his that he didn"t seem to know you."
"But that impossible, I"m the mother of the Boy-Who-Lived, he should have heard of me!"
"If you have let me finish," Adminoish her" You would know that the boy family isn"t British, my guess on an American one. The similarity in the name and physical appearance seems nothing more than a concurrence."
"What makes you say this Minerva?" Ask Dumble, intricate by the boy"s origin.
"First he says that he had made his way on the island not longer than a month ago. Seeing the time, I think that once of the parent must be British or European. But more than everything else is vocabulary. He seems stranger to the use of " blood purity", as all the old family has been whipped theirs. It isn"t far fetched to think that his parents are second generations of muggle-born or more. He says that he is the only "Pureblood" from his family. It"s also is the use of a word such as "Mundane" that made me believe he is from there. He has been raised with the knowledge of the magical world but raised as a muggle, we all know that they don"t are under the ICW and the statue of secrecy act."
While they all nod at her logical conclusion, two of them were rather displeased with the result, Lily because he wasn"t a long lost relative and thus not his guardian. With him not from her family, he was untouchable for her thus she couldn"t punish him from hitting her baby, as for Dumble, he was disappointed because the boy could not be sway easily, messing with an American family isn"t wise. Since he didn"t have good relationships with the MACUSA, any abuse of power could go wrong very quickly and blow into an international incident with a single snap of a finger.
For Snape, it was a completely different story, seeing that the boy didn"t have any relation with the Potter was a great thing, that the Boy could be actually considerate as a pureblood would go far with his house. While he usually encourages his Snakes to belittle the lion, he had warned them to hold on for the boy until he has a clearer picture of his background. The older ones didn"t mind it as it was good in their book to know before striking, the younger on the other side need to explain that an ally in the direct pride could go far.
But as Head of House, none of them had made things difficult for him and they have abid to his words, now that he has a much clearer view on the child"s background, he made his choice and would pa.s.s the word to observe the boy before they act. If he continues the way he had acted the previous day, he would allow them to act on the breach he has to create on the Potter side. Even if they would have to ignore the muggle-born, being able to bring down House Potter was a must more important task and a price that was easy to pay.
While they were conversing, the student has slowly made their way in, filling gradually the great hall. The arrival of a certain rotund boy was rapidly known as he immediately screeches to the great displeasure of everybody in the hall when he sees a crimson head peacefully eating at the Gryffindor table.
"What are you doing here ?!" Wincing a high pitched voice, Alex turned his head toward the door, deadpan at the stupid boy.
"Eat? Isn"t that what this hall is for?"
The surrounding of the Potter boy immediately vacate as no one wanted to a.s.sociate with him, well other than the carrot head, even Longbottom have vacated the premise. The Hall has become silent once again has everyone was waiting to see what would surely become rapidly a common occurrence in the following days. James was completely obvious of the blatant sarcasm in Alex"s answer until he hears the sneakers of the utmost table on his left.
"We don"t want slimy snakes here!" Sighting at the evident loss of his peaceful breakfast, he turns toward the boy.
"Tell me, are you colorblind?" Hearing his patient t voice the boy lost it means at that, responding truthfully.
"How could color be blind? They don"t have eyes!" Hearing the honest response of the boy, he facepalms while the snickers morph in laugher at the stupidity of the boy. At the professor"s table, Lily shrinks a little, ashamed of her son making a fool of himself once again in front of everyone.
"Nevermind that, are those colors green and silver to you? If I were a Slytherin like you say, I would be on the other side of the Hall, eating with educated children who know how to behave in public. Now that I think of it, you seem to be the only one that seems to have a problem with me. Are you not ashamed that you bring attention to yourself this way? I don"t know if you lack confidence in you or are simply a rotten, spoiled child but you are of an old house, right? Shouldn"t you show better upbringing and at least be an example for mundane children to better integrate into that completely unknown world for them?"