ink - sirius black

flasks and strong feelings

September 1, 1976
9:18 pm
Gryffindor Common Room

"Black has been looking over here for like a solid five minutes," Alice whispered to Anneliese, barely audible over the loud clamors of the students and professors eating their first meal back at Hogwarts. "And it's not a nice stare."

"I don't really mind," Anneliese said back, not even bothering to glance in Grey Eye's direction and see if Alice was right. "A simple stare is as useless as a screen door on a submarine."

Marlene stared at her oddly for a few seconds before shrugging.

"It's the intention behind it that bothers me," Alice muttered. "You don't want to get on the wrong side of the Marauders, take Snape as an example."

"Who's Snape?" Anneliese asked curiously, already feeling sorry for the poor boy.

"It doesn't matter," Lily interrupted quickly, clearly not having a pleasant past with this boy. "And I didn't mean to offend you earlier when I asked about your blood status, I am muggleborn, you see. I just wanted to warn you that there are some people here that'll target you because of it."

"No, it's fine," Anneliese said with a shrug. "The Horned Serpents were full of those kinds of people."

"Horned Serpents?" Lily asked curiously as she finished off her dessert. "Like the animal?"

"Ilvermorny house," Anneliese explained. "Horned serpents were the so called home of the scholars even though I think they're a bunch of gits. Wampus were warriors, Pukwudgie healers, and Thunderbirds adventurers."

"I'm assuming you were a Thunderbird, then," Lily said thoughtfully. "If you got put in Gryffindor."

"You assume correctly," Anneliese said as the girls began to stand up, her blue eyes darting between them curiously. "Where are we going?"

"Dorms," Marlene said simply with a smile as she entwined hands with a brown skinned girl. "This is Dorcas, by the way."

"Pleasure," Anneliese said, inclining her head slightly. "All of you can call me A, by the way."

This was a silent signal that she had accepted these girls, and they all gratefully took it as a sign of friendship.

"You're going to have to explain all of your phrases," Marlene said with a giggle. "Especially the one where-"

"Especially the one where you just insult me, Callaway."

Remus sighed, having tried unsuccessfully to stop Sirius from going up to her. Sirius shoved his hands in his pockets as he walked next to Anneliese, looking at her with vague offense.

"All I said was an impression," she told him back with a glare at his aggression. "Nothin more."

"Well I clearly got a different first impression from you at the Leaky Cauldron," he said with a raised black eyebrow.

"There was some idiot bothering me and you seemed nice and like you would understand," Anneliese spat, not even noticing as she climbed through a portrait hole, her body on autopilot. "I wasn't expecting to ever see you again."

She paused for a second as she looked him up and down.

"And apparently I was wrong about the nice part."

James let out a low whistle, knowing that this new girl had just made an enemy that she didn't want.

"Listen, I don't know how things worked at your old school," Sirius said, glaring at her with his hands still in his pockets as they stopped in front of two sets of stairs. "But here, there are certain things you can't just do. Like insulting me behind my back."