Chapter 50: Prophet!
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"It was a word play riddle, words that sound the same but have different meanings. "
"Clever, Black," Penelope said looking at me with an impressed look before looking to the others, "alright this way, up we go," she said before leading us up the staircase.
It was only about two or three turns before we were filing out of the rather narrow stairway through another door that led out into a large dome-shaped common room.
With four grand archers widows on the walls with two doorways leading to further stairs on the left and right of the room.
The walls were painted a pale white, and the dome ceiling had the night sky painted on it with a decorative bronze lining separating the ceiling from the walls.
A midnight blue carpet covered the main floor which had a number of tables and chairs and comfortable sofa set out with bookcases filled with a number of books on different subjects.
And on the far side of the room was an archer inset with shelves of books inside and a statue of a woman upon it who looked rather beautiful and regal who I suspect was Rowena Ravenclaw.
a number of the older students were still up and about in the common room chatting as we entered and Penelope led us to the centre of the common room as we looked around.
Penelope turned to us all as we gathered before speaking, "This is the Ravenclaw common room, we are the only house to have our own library in our common room that is open to all for research purposes and classwork."
"A handy thing so you don't have to risk missing curfew at night, though please keep the books from here and the library separate, Madam Prince keeps the school library in order and she does not need extra work in bringing books back here that was put there by mistake, she gave quite the lecture on the fact last year when she had to do so on five separate occasions." she explained as we listened.
"The left passageway leads up to the dormitories for the boys and down for the lavatories, girl its the same on your right, unlike some of the other dormitories."
"You will each have separate rooms, your belongings have already been brought up from the train, so when you are heading to bed simply look to find the room with your trunk in it, the doors will all be open so if a door is closed it means the room is taken."
She continued, "bed time is in half an hour for first years so I suggest you go looking for your rooms shortly, Professor Flitwick will be along to address you all shortly." She finished before turning and walking off to join the other older students leaving us to our thing.
As soon as she had stepped away the other first years all turned to me with inquisitive looks and I blinked before Daphne nudged me, "Remember you said you'd take any questions about your family after the feast?" She reminded me and I inwardly sighed.
"Alright everyone, I'll take questions now, but only three, I have my law-wizard set to make a statement to the daily prophet this evening so tomorrow's prophet will have everything I'm willing to disclose about myself in it, so ask what you will now and read the rest tomorrow," I stated plainly.
"How can you be heir Black, isn't the last one locked up in Azkaban?" Asked of the first year boys.
"And you are?" I asked.
"Terry Boot" the brunet boy replied
"Well mister Boot, I was born out of wedlock, my father was Regulus Black, but he died before I got to meet him, same as my mother who died giving birth to me."
"I was raised in a muggle orphanage, and my house was only discovered when I took my inherency test at Gringotts and as per law took up my heir ring." I explained.
"How come we're only just hearing about you now then, wouldn't the prophet have reported that an heir had been found?" asked a girl this time.
"My discovery was kept a secret on the recommendation of my account manager for both political and financial reasons, given the amount of interest my sudden appearance would bring, steps needed to be taken to secure mine and house Blacks well-being and they have been, Miss?" I answered and asked.
"Lisa Turpin," the girl replied to my question.
I nodded back, "okay final question?" I asked looking around.
"what side do you fall?" asked Anthony, "The Blacks were notorious for supporting he-who-must-not-be-named in the war, but you said earlier you weren't raised a Black so you're views are different, are you for the light?"
You could practically hear a pin drop after he finished and I could feel all eyes were on me for my answer and I thought for a moment how to properly word my response before shrugging.
"While it's true that my family has been known to support the dark in the past, as I've already said I was not raised a Black, and while I am receiving lessons from my grandparents portraits on traditions and the wizarding world in general."
"I am keeping an open mind to all views at this moment in time, I'm still new to all of this and so I'm looking at everything with a more rational mind."
I stated as I looked at each of them.
"As of this moment I'm still taking in all the facts, so as far as I can say I am neither light nor dark, given that I've only been in the wizarding world for a month it's too early to tell, I need more information before...."
"....I can decide. So, for now, I'm neutral, grey if you will. Until I have all the facts and I can make an informed decision on that fact." I finished as I could see some nodding in understanding to my reasoning.
A couple of seconds after I finished talking there was clapping coming from behind us and we all turned to see Professor Flitwick in the doorway looking cheerful.
"Well said, just what I'd expect from a true Ravenclaw, gathering all the facts before you pick a side, knowledge is after all very important when making a decision such as that, very well said mister Black." The small professor said to me.
I smiled back and nodded my head, "Thank you, Professor."
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