First Day of Class

Chris and the rest of the first year Ravenclaw students followed Penelope Clearwater, their Prefect. Even though Chris was a bit sleepy, he was still extremely excited to see the insides of Hogwarts as it felt like a maze.. It was truly different from the movies. While the movies' special effects were really good, it could not hold a candle to real magic.

'I suppose even if Rowling wrote the book, imagination has its limits,' Chris thought as he was amazed at different parts of the hallway.

Soon they reached the fifth floor of Ravenclaw Tower where the entrance to the dormitories were. The door only had an eagle-shaped knocker on it.

"So this is the entrance to the dormitories," Penelope said. "To get inside, you must answer the riddle that the knocker has for you once you knock on the door. If you cannot get in, you have to wait for someone to answer the question for you so I would suggest that when you leave, you take out everything you need for the day just in case,"

After the brief explanation, she knocked on the door.

"Where does an object go when it's vanished?" The eagle knocker asked.

"Into non-being," Penelope answered.

"Not the best answer, but also correct," The door-knocker said as the door opened.

Everyone entered the Common Room and it was one of the most beautiful room Chris has ever seen with a blue carpet that had stars on it which was reflected on the ceiling. There were chairs, tables, and bookcases everywhere making it seem like a small library. Next to the doors leading up to the dormitories was the statue of Rowena Ravenclaw made out of marble. It was marvelously made and everything from her to the diadem seemed extremely realistic as if it was a photo made out of stone.

'This is much better than I thought it would be!' Chris thought.

"Well it is getting late," Penelope said while yawning. "Do you know what the smartest thing to do is when you are tired? It is to sleep. There's no thinking without sleeping so when you're up studying for the exams and you're tired, let your body rest because if you don't all the studying you did will be for naught. Anyways, the boys' dormitory is on the left while the girls' is on the right. There's one more rule. A guy is able to go to the girls' dorm and the girls to the guys' as long as the intent is pure. If there are any signs of evil intent, they will not be allowed to go in and will be punished by the magic inside this Dormitory. That is all. Good night,"

Penelope then left to go to the girls' dormitory.

'Well this wasn't the same as the movie, but I suppose it's a good change. It makes things a lot simpler,' Chris thought.

Kristine and Hermione bid Chris good night and also went up to the girls' dorm.

After a bit of looking around, Chris went up to the boys' dorm. His room only had 4 people including himself in it so the big room had only 4 beds. His bed sheet and bed curtain were blue like the carpet outside. The other three were already sleeping from their exhausting trip so Chris was the only one awake.

'Well, it'll take a bit till I get completely sleepy. I haven't used my hour yet so let's do that,' Chris thought. He went inside the Practice Room and immediately started practicing all his spells. When his hour was up, he achieved quite a bit, using the new Finding Spell 100 out of the 800 times, he needed to level it up. Of course, he practiced his other spells as well. Now he was truly exhausted and immediately fell asleep.

...

It was the next morning and the Ravenclaw students after eating breakfast all went to their first class, Transfiguration with the Hufflepuff students. Hermione and Kristine were visibly excited for going to their first class.

"Oh I'm so excited. I read some of A Beginner's Guide to Transfiguration and I'm so excited!" Hermione said.

"Yeah! I'm so excited to see what we'll learn this year. Hopefully, we'll do transfiguration on animals very soon! When I read that in the books, I was just so excited at home," Kristine said with a huge smile on her face.

In the classroom, which looked at least a century old, was Professor McGonagall who was waiting for everyone to be seated and quiet.

Once everyone was quiet, she started the lesson.

"Hello students. In case you have forgotten me, my name is Professor McGonagall. I will be your Transfiguration professor throughout your entire time at Hogwarts. Transfiguration is quite complex and even dangerous. In this class, there will be practical lessons, but there will also be a lot of note-taking and homework so do know that this will not be an easy class. However, if you truly do learn how to use Transfiguration properly, you can learn something like this," Professor McGonagall said as she turned a desk into a pig.

"OOOO," Everyone looked at Professor McGonagall and was enthralled.

After about a couple of seconds, Professor McGonagall turned the pig back to a desk.

"You will know how to do this later, but for now, we will work on this," She said taking out a match. "You will turn this match into a needle. However, we are not going to do this now, but instead take some valuable notes. Get out your parchment and quills please," Professor McGonagall said as she started the lecture while everyone was frantically trying to write everything down. After around 40 minutes, she finally stopped her lecture.

"The rest of the period will be spent on trying to apply the spell," She said while handing everyone in the room a match.

As Chris didn't learn this from the Wizarding Book, learning this spell was a bit difficult. As he never actually taught himself magic without the System, it was difficult trying to get the hang of it. However, gradually after many tries, he started to get the feel for it.

"Acus Verto," He chanted as the match slowly started to turn into a needle. The new "needle" was still quite thick and blunt, but the change made Chris extremely happy. Hermione and Kristine were both also starting to get the hang of it as well as they were at the same level as Chris.

The remaining 20 minutes were finally up and Chris was able to create a satisfactory needle. Professor McGonagall praised him for his good work and even awarded 5 points for Ravenclaw for the good work. Even the System rewarded him.

-You have learned Acus Verto and have earned 50 EXP. You now need 211 EXP to level up. Acus Verto need to be cast a 1000 times in order to level it up. You have earned 1 Sickle. You now have 1 G 0 S and 18 K.-