Snape's Gaze

"You're telling me that you couldn't find a place in a train that can fit all of Hogwarts and has compartments that can fit an unlimited amount of people?" Harry raised his eyebrows, hoping this would be enough to get him to leave. Ron sadly didn't catch on to his meaning, or he purposely ignored it as he entered and sat down next to Harry.

"I'm Ron by the way, Ron Weasley" He extended a hand

"Whatever" Harry ignored it, Ron ignored it however and in his incredibly indiscreet way was staring at Harry's scar. "So Gin, what house do you think you'll be in?"

"Gin?" Ron asked before realising Ginny was in the compartment "what are you doing here?!"

"Nice job not noticing your sister was in the same compartment as you" Ginny rolled her eyes

"And she's here because I invited her into the compartment" Harry spoke next "I don't seem to remember inviting you however"

"Look mate" Ron ignored Harry's last comment "you don't want to hang out with her, she's annoying and…"

"And who I hang out with is none of your business! I think you're sister is smart and funny and I like her company, you on the other hand are rather annoying" Ginny sat with her arms crossed looking royally smug while Ron looked like he couldn't find any words to respond.

"But…she's just an ugly cry-baby!" Ron blurted out Ginny and Harry's eyes narrowed at exactly the same time. The two found themselves in the compartment by their selves when the twins entered.

"Hi guys" Fred and George greeted them as the sat down

"So Gin" Fred started

"Why did you?" George continued and the twin speak began

"Hex"

"Little Won-won"

"What did he do?"

"Make fun of Mr Potter over here?"

"I didn't do it" Gin smiled "Harry did it, Ron was annoying us both and Harry hexed him. I was going to do it but Harry beat me to it."

"He insulted you" Harry argued "I warned him, not my fault he didn't listen"

"You seem very protective"

"Of little Ginerva"

"You two know she doesn't like that" Harry tapped his wand,

"Harry was the one who helped me perfect my bat bogey curse" Ginny added. The twins seemed to have gotten the message as they beat a hasty retreat out of the carriage. They were soon approached by a blonde boy by the name of Draco Malfoy, who also had a similar fate to Ron after he insulted Ginny. Unlike Harry, Ginny had noticed the theme. She normally hated it when someone protected her, but with Harry she knew it was because he cared and not because he thought she was too weak to protect herself. Eventually the door and a bushy haired girl appeared with a nervous, round boy.

"Have either of you seen a toad?" She asked "Neville's lost one" Harry removed his wand

"Accio toad" he shouted and found a toad had flew to his hand

"Trevor!" Neville shouted as he took him from Harry's hand "thanks', Gran would kill me if I lost him. I'm going to go put him in my bag and make sure he doesn't escape again." Neville left the compartment, the girl however did not.

"How'd you do that?! That's a fourth year spell" Harry just shrugged "fine, don't tell me. I'm Hermione Granger. And you two are?"

"Ginny Weasley"

"Harry Potter"

"Harry Potter!" Hermione exclaimed "I've read all about you" She was going to go on when she saw Ginny cringe "What?!"

"Sorry, it's just Harry doesn't like those books" Ginny looked upset, in Harry's mind upsetting Ginny is social suicide.

"How could you hate those books?!" Hermione demanded

"First of all, don't take that tone with me. I'm not afraid to put a few silencing charms on you. Secondly, those books aren't accurate, I've never given an interview in all of my life and only three people besides Gringotts even had an idea of where I am. Now if you don't mind, me and my friend were talking!" Hermione huffed and walked out

"Thanks Harry but you know you don't need to defend me"

"Gin, you'd do the same thing for me and you know it, and I'm always here for you. Whether you need me or not."

.....

After a while the train stopped and Hagrid the half giant led them on boats to the castle. Where they were told to wait, Harry knew what to expect. He and Ginny decided to stay at the back so they could Harry silently changed the name order to random but made sure his name was right after Ginny's so he knew which house to go for. After Ginny was sorted into the lions, Harry's name was called, unfortunately the people in front of didn't want to move. Although being annoying, Harry decided to use it as an opportunity to show off. He took a few steps back, then he ran and jumped. The whole hall watched in amazement as Harry had jumped over all the first years and landed just in front of the stool.

He sat on the stool and it took a while for people's shock to go, Harry and Ginny decided that the best and most hilarious thing to do is act like nothing happened. Eventually Professor McGonagall recovered from her shock and placed the hat on his head.

'Hello Mr Potter' The hat greeted him

'Hello G' Harry responded with his mind 'I must say Godric could have chosen a more creative name, personally I think he was just being lazy when he named you after the first letter of his name'

'Too true, my young friend, now let's sort you. You don't seem to care do you? Ah, but it appears you have one reason to go for a specific house, I wanted to put you in Slytherin but who am I to stand in the way of love'

"Gryffindor!" The hat bellowed, Harry removed it and walked to his table, kissing Ginny on the head as he sat down. Harry looked around, most people bar the Slytherin's seemed pleased. Most of the teachers and Hagrid seemed over joyed, Dumbledore was clapping for him more than any other student. Harry's eyes then caught another person's, he was dressed in black and had greasy black hair. Harry felt his occlumency barriers tingling; this person was trying to get in his mind. Harry would let him off lightly this time, he gently pushed him out, not before getting into his mind and finding out a bit about him. He's names was Snape and he apparently held a grudge against him because of his father.

Snape didn't seem to notice Harry, but he decided to leave just in case. Snape however wasn't done, he had decided to try Ginny's mind. Her shields were stronger than expected but he could get past them. That was until he saw Potter standing in front of a dragon whilst holding a sword, he was looking at Snape like he was a guard dog. Snape exited her mind and found Potter looking at him, Potter was slowly shaking his head but he's eyes made the message perfectly clear, 'stay out'. Snape was furious, at least until he looked into his eyes once more. Lilly's eyes, he'd recognise them anywhere. Maybe he'd hold off of judging Potter, at least until the first potions class