Ravenclaw

[William pov]

I came out of my mindscape to the cry of "Ravenclaw" from above my head and couldn't help but smirk. That had gone far better than I had planned, and far easier. As the hat was lifted from my head I hopped off the stool and made my way to the Ravenclaw table who were applauding as I came to join them.

I could see many of them wanted to ask me questions, most likely to do with my name and my status, but at least I could see that they were going to hold their questions until the feast or until we were in the common room. One thing about being in the house that values intelligence, everyone is likely to ask questions.

I made sure to sit with my back facing away from the head table as best I could, didn't want to give the old man the chance to try some passive legitimacy on me, not that they would get past my shields but I didn't want to give them the opportunity and watched the rest of the sorting as best I could without letting my gaze drift up to the head table.

Ever since I had found the importance of the mind arts I had been very skeptical of the headmaster as I have read that many great wizards use it offhandedly and obviously someone as strong as dumbledore would make use of such skills to get an advantage over the children as many are uninterested in the mind arts at such tender age

Everything was running smoothly so far and nothing had fallen out of place as of yet as I watched each student go to the sorting hat and get sorted as they should.

"Evans,lily"

"Ravenclaw"

I was very surprised that lily was sorted in ravenclaw rather then griffindore for which she held great passion for.but maybe some of my talk finally convinced her otherwise.

She slowly came and sat beside be smiling brightly.thankfully she was happy with her decision.

"Let the feast, begin" Dumbledore's voice carried through the hall and just like that all the food appeared on the tables.

I could hear the shock from all those around me at the magic that was performed, making it look as though Dumbledore had conjured everything. I smirked, it was a good trick I'll give him that but it just takes a little bit of thinking to realize the number of ways it could be performed. And the easiest answer was simple, house elves,whose existence he had recently been introduced to while it made it look like the old man was using wandless magic when it was really slight of hand.

Eventually the feast wound down to a close and each of the groups of the first years were lead out of the great hall and started into the grand staircase, I followed along

Due to the recent war the hogwarts students were low in number counting the purebloods as many minor pureblood families went extinct yet considering that 80%of the hogwarts populace is made of muggleborns and halfblood it isn't saying much.

The chidren were amazed at the layout of hogwarts well it was justified as the castle consisted of at least a hundred moving stairs

As we all walked I did my best to memorise the path, it would definitely take some time to get used to the castles huge layout, and then the absolute insanity of the changing stairs in the grand staircase.

"Here we are, now unlike the other houses who use regular single word passwords as their security, in Ravenclaw we have to answer a riddle to enter, a way to prove our intelligence, if you get it wrong you will have to wait for another to come along before you can come in as the riddle will only be asked once to each person and only they may answer,"clearance,the current prefect explained

It was an easy riddle today so we quickly entered the hall. It was nothing special except for the huge library in the middle of the hall

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.

Clearance 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 Bell 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." he explained as we listened