Disclaimer: I dont own Harry Potter..
A/n: After this prolouge, the rest of the story will be in Charlotte's point of view.
Prologue
"WHAT?" yelled the entire 7th year student population as they stood essembled in the great hall. It was the start of a new year at Hogwarts and after the welcome feast, the headmaster had asked the 7th years to stay behind. He had just informed them of some shocking news.
"Thats right, this year for the first time ever, you all will be taking part in a trial parenting class." their headmaster Albus Dumbledore told them for the second time. "Now, as I was saying, the Ministry of Magic have decided that the students who are about to go and start new lifes in the outside world, bringing up familys and whatnot, need to be educated on how to be good parents. Now im sure your wondering why they have only decided to start this class now, well you see, recently, there has been a higher number of infant deaths in the Wizarding world. These deaths and injurys have been caused by parent neglection or from their parents not knowing how to look after them properly. So to fix this problem, the ministry have decided to hold an experimental course before it is introduced as a proper class. Hogwarts has been chosen to hold this experement course." by the time the headmaster had finished explaining, there was silence in the hall.
"Just wait till I tell my father about this!" An angry Slytherin yelled out, followed by a round of chorused of agreements.
"Oh that wont be neccisary. Owls have already been sent out with permission slips to all your parents and guardians." Albus assured them.
"Sir, what if our parents dont sign it?" asked a Hufflepuff girl, which started a whole round of questions from various people. "Will we be working by ourselves?" "Who will be teaching the class?" "Will there be acctual real children?" "When do we start?" "What about our other classes?" "What about N.E.W.T's?"
Dumbledore raised his hands to silence their questions. "One question at a time, please! Firstly, if your parents do not wish for you to take part in this course, then the student will simply not do the course, they will continue with their other studies as per normal. As for who will be teaching the class, a ministry official who has been specially trained for this course will instruct you all. No you will not be working by yourself, you will be in partners assigned by myself and your heads of house. You will most probably be working with students from your own house and we will try to assign you with someone who is in most of your classes. Each pair will consist of one boy and one girl. We will not start the acctual course untill next week. Untill then I advise you not to unpack your things as you will be moving to a separate living space with your 'family'. As for the acctual children part of the class, that will be explained next week by the ministry official. Now, your other classes will continue as they would every other year. This course will last 5 months, leaving you with plenty of time to study for your NEWTs. Are there any other questions?" there wernt. "Excellent. Now I would like everyone to return to their dormitarys. Goodnight." Dumbledore exclaimed before sweeping out of the great hall, leaving the students standing rooted to the spot. This sure was going to turn out to be an interesting year.
What do you think? R.E.V.E.I.W pleaasee. **sarah is magic**