Chapter 1: to trust or not to trust…
Rowena Ravenclaw was helping her friends, Godric Gryffindor, Helga Hufflepuff and Salazar Slytherin, try to figure out a way to help younger generations of wizards learn magic.
"I know!" Gryffindor suddenly exclaimed, his green eyes lit excitedly.
"You know you're so immature, Godric." Rowena said in a bored voice. "What's your idea?"
"We can build a school! And we'll be the founders." He said loudly.
"Shut up Gryffindor." Slytherin said, however, Rowena looked thoughtful.
"Hmmm…he has got a point there, Salazar." She said.
"Yes Rowena, but he should know by now that building schools isn't as easy as it looks or sounds. You can't say you want a school built and whallah! There it is!" Slytherin said and Hufflepuff began to giggle softly.
"He knows, but we are wizards, you know. We use magic to make things, not muggle tools!" she said and Gryffindor nodded in agreement.
"Helga's right. We don't use muggle tools."
Slytherin groaned.
"This is way too boring. If we're going to build the so-called 'school', then don't you think we'd better get started in designing it?" he asked.
"Salazar's got a point." Rowena said and the four all put their heads together in designing what the school should look like, on the inside and out.
"Done!" said Hufflepuff excitedly an hour later and Rowena and Slytherin all looked over to the image she and Gryffindor had drawn.
"Hmmm…looks more like a scrawl to me." Said Slytherin, sounding more and more bored as the day went on.
"Shut up Slytherin." Hufflepuff said, sounding slightly pissed off. "It was only meant to be a rough sketch."
"Helga's right, Slytherin. Why are you so bad-tempered, anyway?" Gryffindor asked Slytherin curiously.
"Because it's just the way he is." Rowena said and Slytherin nodded in agreement.
"Well, at least someone knows me…in a way." He said, grinning slyly.
"Whatever." Hufflepuff said, bored. Gryffindor, however, looked curious.
"We've seen you two look and talk to each other." He said curiously. "Do you two have feelings for each other or something?"
"What!?" Slytherin exclaimed suddenly. "No! What gives you that idea?"
"You being that defensive all of a sudden, for starters." Hufflepuff giggled. "And we can see it in your eyes when you two look at each other."
"Nonsense!" Rowena said, shocked. "I don't have any feelings for Salazar! And I don't think he has any feelings for me!"
"You're both blushing." Gryffindor pointed out.
"I'm only blushing because of the absolute nonsense in your accusation. You have no proof." Rowena said hotly.
"Well, it's obvious that Slytherin likes you. You can see it in his expression." Hufflepuff said.
"If you two don't stop saying absolutely crazy accusations about whether Rowena and I like each other or not, I'm not going to help you build this school." Slytherin said, seeming to wake Gryffindor and Hufflepuff to the still unfinished school plan.
Once the school had been built, the four friends had been trying to figure out which students to allow into the school.
"Why can't we just accept all young wizards, including muggle-borns?" Gryffindor asked the other three, but Slytherin looked disagreeable.
"I don't think any muggle-borns should be allowed here, it just taints our wizard blood here." He said.
"Well, I don't think we should entirely throw out all muggle-borns." Rowena said softly. "I think we should allow the smarter ones into the school. The ones with the will to learn." She added.
"Fine. But I also think the ones with a fair amount of wit should be allowed. I also support the ability to allow muggle-borns into the school. I think they have the ability to learn, but they need a fair amount of wit to get into the school." Hufflepuff said.
A large argument over the types of students to be allowed into the school followed, containing many words that cannot be repeated here and going on for three whole hours.
"Wait a second!" Gryffindor yelled suddenly. "Why don't we make four separate houses within the school, named after ourselves, each allowing our particular student preferences?" he suggested.
"I agree with that Godric." Hufflepuff said and it seemed Rowena and Slytherin had no choice but to agree.