Chapter 1
Mysterious Circumstances
Harry was in his History of Magic class along with Hermione and Ron, being bored to death by their only ghostly teacher Professor Binns. They had only ten minutes left of the dull lesson when Professor McGonagall knocked on the door. She spoke to Professor Binns in a whisper only teachers seemed to be able to hear. After only a few minutes she turned on her heels, hitched up her robes and hurriedly left the classroom.
Professor Binns shuffled through an old wooden cabinet in the corner of the room and pulled out a few pieces of very old and tattered parchment. He then returned to the front of the class and cleared his throat:
"Okay class!" He said in a dull and lifeless tone.
The whole of the class looked up at their teacher except Ron. He had fallen asleep with his arms folded and was dribbling onto the table. Harry nudged him roughly in the ribs and he woke with a deep grunt. They all looked at Professor Binns as though he was about to deliver some very important information:
"I am going to set you a very, VERY important task which must be completed by tomorrow's lesson."
Ron moaned in disagreement, "You only gave us homework on Monday! This isn't fair!"
"As unfair as it may seem Mr Weasley, you along with your fellow classmates will write a brief description on the life, and indeed death of either Dusty the House Elf OR Colin the Clean!"
Ron who was fairly annoyed by the sudden homework remained in a bad mood and spent the last five minutes of the lesson throwing neatly crafted paper aeroplanes out of the open window. Harry and Hermione however, quickly scribbled down the details of the Homework and book references suggested by Professor Binns to use in the Library.
The Class was dismissed and Harry, Ron and Hermione slowly made their way to their next lessons. Harry and Ron headed for the North Tower for Divination whilst Hermione had Muggle Studies.
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More on the way!!!
