8 8 - House and Classes
After the sorting hat called out Ravenclaw, I walked towards the Ravenclaw table and sat down next to the other first years who seem to have grouped together.
"Hello" I said politely.
"H-hi"
"Yo"
"I'm Leo by the way, Leo Ignis."
"I'm Penelope Clearwater"
"Ryan.."
..
"So, what do you think of Hogwarts so far" I asked making sure there's no awkward silence or something.
"U-uh it's very pretty, I can't wait to start classes and see the library"
Yep, this is definitely Ravenclaw
"It's pretty cool" was the other boy's intelligent response, what was his name again? Ah right Ryan Goldstein.
"What about you, what's your name?" I asked turning to the other first year who hasn't said anything yet.
"It's Kevin." He said briefly.
"I see".
"So have you read any of your Hogwarts books yet?" What, I've gotta act like a Ravenclaw, right?
Penelope looked almost affronted at that, "Of course I have! I've read all of them twice."
She said before returning back to her shy and hesitant demeanour.
"I've read a few" Ryan said after I turned to him.
"Some" said Kevin. Wow, he likes to speak less than me.
And after eating and a bit of talking for an hour, Dumbledore did his whole crazy, eccentric grandfather persona speech the whole 'forbidden forest is forbidden'. Not forbidden enough for you to bring some first years there for breaking curfew apparently.
After a complicated walk that I could only memorise due to my perfect memory, we reached a door with an eagle knocker, one of the prefects said "Our Common Room doesn't have a password, to enter you must answer a riddle, if you are unable to answer then you must wait for a student who can" said the Prefect who said her name was Tulip Karasu.
"My life can be measured in hours,
I serve by being devoured.
Thin, I am quick
Fat, I am slow
Wind is my foe.
What am I?"
"A candle" said Kevin.
"Acceptable." The eagle said as the door swung open.
I turned to Kevin in surprise, 'he actually spoke without being asked to, good on you Kevin!'
If the prefect was surprised she didn't show it she just said "follow me" and walked into the dorm.
Walking into the Common Room I see a huge collection of books in a Blue and Bronze colour scheme
There were a few chairs along with a large couch near a fireplace and a large bookshelf in another corner, there were also 2 windows on either side making it not too bright and not too dark.
'I prefer this to Gryffindor Common Room if it's anything like the movies, too much red for my tastes.'
As you can see there are two entrances here, the one on the left is the boys Dorm while on the right is the girls, you're expected to be in the Common Room by 9:00pm and in bed by 10:00pm, you may read books in bed but lights must be off by 11.
'It's around 7:30pm so I'll probably be tired in an hour.'
I came up with a super awesome ultra genius way to gain all the knowledge in Hogwarts as fast as possible.
The system says I can absorb the information in books using it, but it will be very painful and the pain will depend on the size of the book. As a master occlumens I can make sure that I cut off my feeling of pain and boom, genius OP way to get tons of knowledge as fast as possible.
Most of the students were feeling tired after their long day and I'm the only first year still here so I walked up to a book on the bookshelf, let's see here... 'Introduction to the Latin Language' ooh this seems fine, let's do it.
[Would you like to absorb this Book?]
Wait.. absorb? Does this mean the book will disappear? I hope not.
I mentally thought '[Yes]'
[Absorbing] and unfortunately, confirming my worst fears, the book turned into particles of light, looking around, it seems nobody noticed me disintegrating a book into thin air, luckily.
I suddenly felt a very uncomfortable itch in my head that would have been painful had I not been prepared.
The itch continued to stay for around 30 seconds and when it was done I found that I could recite any part of that book almost instantly.
'What the fuck! You never told me the book would disappear!' I mentally shouted.
[You never asked]
'YOU FUCKIN-' *sigh* well I guess I have to do it the boring way.. with my eyes.
[You are able to memorise books in minutes using occlumency, I don't understand why you are complaining.]
'Oh yea yea I have to do it the boring and normal way, sheesh you're really useless you know'
[I have many uses]
'Oh yea, like what? Not including your stupid book absorbing ability'
[Insufficient Power Level]
'You motherfucker!'
Feeling tired after the book absorption and not having anything better to do I reluctantly made my way to bed and meditated for a bit before falling asleep.
* The Next Day *.
I woke up at 7:00am and after getting changed, went for a morning run around the Lake. Getting back 30 minutes later, after putting on my school robes I went to the Great Hall, surprisingly, Ryan was the only other first year at the Ravenclaw table, Gryffindor had barely any people there, while Ravenclaw had the most.
"Hello Ryan, I didn't think you were a morning person."
"I'm not, but it's hard to sleep when you grow up having ice-water being thrown on you for sleeping in." He grumbled in a bitter tone.
"Huh?"
"It's nothing."
"Ok, I guess, so what do you plan to do today?"
"Go to classes"
"Well yea, but in your free time?"
"Write a letter home and go to the library or something."
I just shrugged "Makes sense".
I'm not very good at talking to people am I.
While eating breakfast with Ryan, Kevin and Penelope we were given our timetables by Professor Flitwick.
T = Transfiguration, C = Charms, MT = Magical Theory, A = Astronomy, HoM = History of Magic, P = Potions, H = Herbology, DADA = Defence against Dark Arts. F = Flying
(S) = Slytherin, (H) = Hufflepuff, (G) = Gryffindor
Monday------Tuesday----Wednesday----Thursday------Friday-----------------------------------------
L 1 - T (S) - C (G) - DADA (G) - P (H) - MT (H)
L 2 - A (H) - T (S) - H (S) - P (H) - A (H)
-----------------------------------------------Break--------------------------------------------------------
L 3 - MT (H) - T (S) - HoM (G) - H (S) - H (S)
L 4 - HoM(G) - P (H) - C (G) - HoM (G) - C (G)
-----------------------------------------------Lunch--------------------------------------------------------
L 5 - P (H) - DADA (G) - Flying (H) - T (S) - Free lesson.
L 6 - H (S) - DADA (G) - A (H) - C (G) - DADA (G)
-----------------------------------------------Dinner-------------------------------------------------------
As for the times of these lessons they go like this:
Breakfast: 7.00-8.30
Lesson 1: 8.30-9.30
lesson 2: 9.30-10.30
break: 10.30-11.00
lesson 3: 11.00-12.00
lesson 4: 12.00-1.00
lunch:1.00-2.00
lesson 5: 2.00-3.00
lesson 6: 3.00-4.00
Dinner is between 6:00-8:00
'Hmm, so Monday, Lesson 1 is Transfiguration with Slytherin, huh?'
'Why is this castle so hard to navigate?! I took like 6 wrong turns just getting here, luckily I'm still not late, i'm 5 minutes early but who would've known i'm so bad at navigating.'
There were only 2 people in the class before me, Myra and Kevin, not that surprising. As for Professor McGonagall? She was nowhere to be found.. but there was a cat on the desk looking at us.
I decided I'm gonna have a bit of fun and walked up to the cat, I then pat the cat on the head and, ignoring the cats death glare at me, sat down next to Myra.
"I hope Professor McGonagall won't be too mad at me" I whispered.
"What did you do?" She asked with her usual emotionless face.
"Did you know Professor McGonagall is an animagus? It's mentioned in Hogwarts: Modern History and the public registered animagus record. If I'm not wrong, she's a cat animagus."
She looked at me with slightly widened eyes but otherwise no emotion on her face "You mean you just..?"
"yep".
5 minutes later the rest of the class was here and seated, where McGonagall turned back into a human giving me a stern look, I just looked away with my hand discreetly covering my mouth to hide a smile.
"Good Morning class, today we will be learning about Transfiguration."
"Transfiguration is some of the most complex and dangerous magic you will learn at Hogwarts and anyone caught messing around in my class will leave and not come back. You have been warned."
"In today's lesson we will be turning a matchstick into a needle, like so." She then pulled out her wand and turned a matchstick in to a finely decorated needle.
Now this spell requires firm wand movements and concentration, follow my wand now.
She then did the wand movements and handed all of us a matchstick, and so we all started trying to turn our matchsticks into needles.
By the end of the class There were surprisingly 3 of us who managed to turn it into a needle. Me and Ryan managed it on our first try while Myra managed it a few tries later after I told her it was about visualising the result in detail and making your magic do the work.
I knew there was more to Ryan than meets the eye, He's related to a Goldstein who is in their second magic core transformation, he must have been taught the basic spells by now at the least.
