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Chapter Two: The Queen Bee

The time before the youths arrived Snape had just the right amount of time to unpack and change into some more casual attire. Not distancing himself too much from his colour, he wore a pair of casual black pin striped pants and smart black shirt (top three buttons undone), with his regular black leather boots and to finish his attire a less strict fro coat to what he wore at Hogwarts, and unusually, tied his hair back into a mid way ponytail. He had concluded he was sufficiently drudged down for today’s events, as the activities and skills did not begin till tomorrow; today was simply a mixer so to speak, for seniors to meet their new house members and the new members to mix in their own houses.
Hearing the carriages from a bit away he looked out of one of his windows to see Alexandra quickly leave her cabin and trot down the stairs, however when reaching the ground refuse to run. She wearing a very flattering short black gypsy dress, which highlighted her curves beautifully, not tacky by any means but just nicely, her bouncy brown curled hair was tied back loosely with a black and green ribbon and she wore some flip flop like shoes with a ‘W’ on the corner of them. Strange attire in his view but she looked nice all the same. He gave her a few moments to distance them, as though he weren’t by any means following her, however he saw the continuous flow of carriages and flew out the door, one thing he hated most was if anything being late!
He strode back along the camp line which he had obviously discovered to be the wasps, their house colours to his mere delight and slight amusement was similar to that of Slytherin, green, yellow, gold, white and black. Soon Snape had managed to catch up with the other Seniors the other men a little under his age were wearing similar clothes to his, and he took his seat by Alexandra on a high stage almost platform like flooring. The new arrivals began to gather around the stage like area as red got to a podium like stand and bellowed, for he was loud enough he didn’t need a microphone or spell to make him more clearly heard,
“Alright y’all listen up! Welcome! The rumours are true, you here at Bloodstream! You’re here to get a toughen’ up, your weak and you need a bloody good kick up the arse by a cave troll!” The new arrival began to pale under the bellowing large introduction, Snape admired Red, and he himself never had an impact such as this even on one to one with students, even with Longbottom. As Red continued on through his speech an older aged witch side from the other side of him
“He goes through the same bloomed speech each year he does.” He grunted a laugh and gave a slight grin from the corner of his mouth, she offered her hand, and they shook,
“Abigail Merrywheather, deputy of the eagles…” Replying quietly back,
“Severus Snape deputy of the wasps…” She pushed a grin and returned her attention to the long introduction Red was still giving, to Snape’s conclusion, the wasps were as popular as the Slytherin’s, he was going to enjoy this.


As Red finished to Snape’s little surprise Alexandra got to her feet and headed for the podium position Red had been in, however she took with her a microphone, it was clearly obvious no witch or wizard could match Red’s booming voice without aid,
“After that warm welcome, you will be most likely eager to know your houses…” The new arrivals began to mutter amongst themselves as Alexandra presented a large diamond cut orb, the muttering silenced as she went to proceed,
“Some of you may indeed become Wasps; however some of you might not. Your house is for over the summer you family, silly antics and bad behaviour will loose you points and triumph in games and tasks will earn you points, so one by one I will call you up and you will be placed…”

(For your sake Stone indications in italic below)
The wasps-green
The Tigers-orange
The eagles-red
The dogs- purple/blue
The hares- brown

One by one the youths approached the stone, all with a wide range in age difference, ranging from early 15 to late 18; however the late eighteens would most likely by now training for their senior ship and dieing to get into the senior good books. There was a larger group than to what Snape was used to so naturally the sorting took longer, however it was interesting to see how they each reacted to their new house. It would be a fair estimate in his opinion to say that each house gained around twenty strong minimum, so as a matter of fact the placing had passed quite quickly, but that was most likely due to the lack of applauding that each new pupil got from their new house back at Hogwarts. Alexandra looked slightly impressed with her given selection for the summer, most she was glad to see were some of her older members from the previous year. Handing the stack of papers to one of the older members, who immediately began distributing them amongst the others, enabled her to began a more personal welcome speech to her own house members,
“Alright you select few, you have been given the honour to represent the wasps…” The group muttered praises of excitement, and glee
“Yes, yes well done for passing the first test, yet, to up hold the reputation of the house you must work doubly as hard, and show a class act while your doing it…” She smiled sly, brining out some more sly faces in her group, she then began her introduction on Snape’s behalf,
“This is Senior Snape, also a new member to the wasps this year-“ Two girls from the back said disappointedly,
“Where’s JJ this summer?” Alexandra rolled her eyes in disgust,
“Miss Diggs and also this year Miss Smith, JJ has his own house …” The girls gave a slight moan, which made her quite irritated,
“If the pair of you have a problem with representing the wasps this year, in JJs absence I’m sure we can find you some work with the house elves?” The girls gasped and shook their heads violently, clearly boys weren’t everything here at bloodstream. After showing the new wasp members their rooms and dishing out the additional wasp outfits for special events such as duels, midi-battles, rarely though Quiddtich and other Bloodstream events the heads returned to their cabins.


It was clear the elder boys in the wasps favoured him over the previous deputy, as Alexandra returned to her cabin dismissing them, the boys turned to him and began asking questions about random things and seeking his approval in trivial matters, clearly the previous deputy head had no time for such matters whilst mooning over girls. As Snape had given up in any attempt to return to his cabin he began fully listening to the elder boys and began learning as much as he could about the Head of house.
“Sir, Senior Snape, I was wondering, we never really duelled last year would it be possible for this year through that’s what we all come for?”
“Senior Snape, will there be Sire riding again this year my brother spoke highly of it?” After all the shoot fire questions had died down and it was simply normal conversation going on he was intrigued to here the oddest name thrown into one of the conversations by one of the elder girls close by
“Sir, by any chance has the Queen Bee chosen her perfect wasps yet?” Taking on a more blunt and the more real professor Snape attitude he said sarcastically,
“I doubt it, you’ve all only just arrived, and there is no such thing as perfect. Who is the Queen Bee?” Some of the girls gave a polite quiet giggle as one of the boys informed the deputy of his misunderstanding
“Sir, Senior Courtensia, built up the post over the years receiving it from the previous head, simply attending each year, as many say perfecting the way of the wasp, that’s how she got the name Queen Bee. Each year she picks a small select few and trains them in a prefect manner however addresses them as her perfect wasps, each year when an older member is still selected they have a bigger chance to claim her Head position when she leaves.”
“I see…Though I don’t think she is retiring any time soon.” The boy nodded,
“However that doesn’t go without the training.”
“Training?”
“Yes, others who have studied under her claimed she had unique abilities, unlike any other witch or wizard, sworn in oath and freely I may add, to only be used in the protection of others…”
“How noble.”
“Yes Sir quite and many still remain in coming here this summer in hope of witnessing such power…” Snape waved his hand dismissed the remaining few, to their cabins and began to proceed back to his own, it had been a long day already and it had barely just begun. His gut instincts knew there was a hell of a lot more to this Queen Bee business that met the eye and he was going to find out.