Chapter 60: New Professors and Newspaper

Ravenclaw's Nest, The Nexus

December 25th, 1992, 10:08 AM (English Time)

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Erik woke up to a beam of sunlight hitting his face. He slowly opened one eye to see where the thing that dared to wake him up was coming from, and saw that it was from his room window. He looked better at it and saw that the sun was already high in the sky.Erik then took a deep breath and tried to sit on the bed just to find that he couldn't. Around him were the naked bodies of all his wives and some lovers too. He just chuckled at it. Erik knew that there was no way that he could get out of that bed. They would not let him go scotch free.

Erik looked at the busty dark-purple haired beauty by his side and then to the busty black haired one to his other side. Musashi and Serafal. His two pregnant wives. Erik smiled at the thought and hugged them closely to him.

'Yeah, I could take some extra sleep.'

Erik thought and willed the heavy curtains to close on the offending window and beam of sunlight. Even if that meant meeting a pouting Sona later.

'Well, I'm sure that she will forgive-me after she sees her gifts.'

Erik thought and then closed his eyes, quickly going back to sleep.

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Hogwarts Castle, Somewhere in the Scottish Highlands

January 5th, 1993, 07:00 PM - Tuesday

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It was the day before the first day of the new semester. All students were back from home with the Hogwarts Express having arrived two hours before. Erik and Selena had made this feast an obligatory one because they had some new staff to present to the students. And as all students and staff were present, Erik got up from his seat at Ravenclaw's table and went up to the middle of the elevated platform. The students that saw Erik going to the elevated platform stopped talking with their neighbors. That caused a chain reaction and soon all students were in silence looking at Erik.

"Welcome back to Hogwarts! I hope you all had an amazing break and managed to rest well."

Erik said loudly with a jovial tone to the population of the Great Hall.

"Before we start this feast, I have some new people to present to you all. First is the addition of three new Professors. Please, welcome them together with me."

Erik announced and three of the five new faces on the staff table got up. He started to clap for them and the students and the rest of the staff followed him. Soon the clapping diminished and ended.

"The three new Professors will be teaching History of Magic, a subject that Professor Binns was teaching by forcing himself to linger in the living realm, waiting for his substitute to arrive and this way not to impact too much the students' learning. Unfortunately, the past members of the now defunct Board of Governors saw that as an opportunity to rob even more money and decided not to hire a new Professor."

Erik said to the population of the Great Hall. That for sure would stop people from talking too bad about Professor Binns. Cuthbert had passed to the next realm this afternoon after a last talk with Erik, who had presented the ghost with the title of Professor Emeritus of Hogwarts.

"Now let me introduce them better. Teaching the first, second and third year students, I present to you Professor Alina Moor."

Erik said and a young woman of brown hair and brown eyes gave the students a jovial smile and waved at them.

"Teaching the fourth and fifth year students, I present to you Professor Robert Stern."

Erik said and a young man of black hair peppered with gray and gray eyes gave the students a little bow with a small smile on his face.

"And teaching the sixth and seventh year students, I present to you Professor Laura Holmes."

Erik said and a woman of about thirty years, red hair and blue eyes smiled to all students and gave them a little bow.

"These are your new teachers for History of Magic. Now, you will find that, during the holidays, they took the chance and revised and renewed the History section of the library. That means new books for the Library. Notice that I said 'History', and not only History of Magic. You all will find that our three new professors are well versed in non-magical history too, and will be teaching the effects that important events in the Magical Community had in the non-Magical one, and how important events in the non-Magical Community affected the Magical one."

Erik announced to the Great Hall.

"While we are still on the topic of education and library, I would like to announce that all Professors too had asked for new books to be added to the library, and their request was attended by the school. In total, two thousand three hundred and twenty four new books were added to the library. All of them have already been added to the Index, of course."

Erik announced again. The news of even more books seemed to make the students of Ravenclaw happy.

"Continuing with the presentation of the new staff, I would like to present Healer Armando Watson. He will be dividing the Infirmary hours with Healer Pomfrey."

Erik said and a middle aged blonde man with green eyes stood from his seat and gave the students a little bow. The addition of a male Healer was to cater mainly to the sensitive stuff that male students would be uncomfortable to talk about with a female Healer. The girls had Healer Pomfrey to cater to their more 'sensitive' stuff, and now, the male students would have Healer Watson.

"The last, but not least, addition to the Hogwarts staff is Professor Arthur Horus. He, together with Professor Rolanda Hooch, will be setting up an indoor gym for everyone's use. The gym will have some special equipment to help people train their bodies. Be that for the sake of Quidditch, or just for the sake of getting fit. Professor Hooch was permanently added to the Hogwarts' staff team too. She, together with Professor Horus, have some plans for the Quidditch season of next year that I was asked not to divulge anything about."

Erik said addressing the Great Hall. Professor Horus, a well-built man with dark brown hair and green eyes, stood up from his seat during his presentation, and gave the students a little bow.

"And now, have a good meal, everyone."

Erik said again before the students could start to talk, and the house-elves served the feast. With the feast started, Erik returned to his seat at Ravenclaw's table, beside his beautiful wives.

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Hogwarts Castle, Somewhere in the Scottish Highlands

January 6th, 1993, 07:45 AM - Wednesday

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Erik was sitting in his usual place at Ravenclaw's table and having his breakfast when a house-elf popped the today's edition of the Daily Prophet. Erik took another sip of his coffee while the newspaper started to float and unfold itself in the air by Erik's side.

As it finished, Erik read the first page news, and deciding that it was nothing important, he started to pass through the next pages, until it arrived in the one that he desired to read. Erik had bought an entire week of a full page for advertisement in the newspaper. The advertisement that he needed such exposure, was, of course, the list of new positions for teaching at Hogwarts. There were more than thirty new positions, or if one would prefer, old positions being reinstated. Each position was listed with the requisisted desires for it, salary that would be paid, and benefits that the possible employee would receive if hired (private chambers, meals, etc.).

Happy with what he had found, Erik continued to read the other news on the paper until he was done with his breakfast. As usual, he gave the newspaper to the little blonde that was sitting very near to him today. And as usual too, he received a big smile from her. But he had not yet got up from his seat.

"You really like to read the newspaper heim, Luna."

Erik said to the little blonde that was devouring a structure that she had built of breakfast food.

"Oh, yes. I love reading the news. Daddy is the owner of a small publication named The Quibbler, and I grew up around him printing his news."

Luna said to Erik animatedly.

"Then I think you would like to know that Hogwarts used to have its own newspaper."

Erik said to her. He had found some files that dated from a hundred and fifty years ago about a Newspaper that was printed here on Hogwarts for the students. Of course it didn't have the format of today's newspaper. It was more like a booklet of four to sixteen pages that was copied after written and distributed to the students free of charge.

"Really?"

Luna said while looking at Erik with her big eyes. Her face was full of happiness.

"Really, Luna. It was more like a booklet that was written, duplicated and given to the students free of charge every second week. It was later prohibited to circulate by the Board of Governors when they started to write stories about the strange firing of some teachers."

Erik said to the little girl. Apparently, the school's newspaper was the first one to notice that something was off, and when they talked about it, they were shut down.

"And can we bring it back now that the greedy guys are out?"

Luna asked Erik, full of hope.

"Tell you what. Get the support of another six students and talk to your head of house. I will look for some small scale newspaper printers in the meantime. Let me give you a hint of a good photographer. Colin Crevey's first reaction when he saw the Slytherin's monster was to take a picture of it."

Erik said to the little blonde while winking at her. Luna was almost jumping out of her bench to search for Colin Creevey and other supporters for the newspaper.

"I will talk to daddy to send you some names. He has some contacts with people who sell the printers."

Luna said to Erik, who smiled back at her.

"Thank you, Luna."

Erik said to the little blonde, who jumped at him, surprising him a little and gave him a kiss on the cheek. She then ran out in the direction of the Gryffindor table, with the Daily Prophet in hands, and started to talk with a little red haired girl that Erik recognized as being Ginevra Weasley. Erik chuckled at the behavior of the little blond, it was such a breath of fresh air. He then got up from his chair and walked out of the Great Hall to do his job for the day.

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