A Year in the Life of the Ravenclaw House

Introduction: "The First School Night Back"

'If you don't eat your food you'll become anorexic you know,' warned Thom with a seemingly sincere tone.
'And what's that, a muggle disease?' defied Sarah bluntly.
'Don't blame me if you start vomiting every time you eat...' mumbled Thom to himself in a spiteful way and Sarah didn't even hear him as the Great Hall was generally loud with chatter.
Sarah Kaparnos-Lightbody is a girl with long dark hair and freckle inhabited cheeks, she also had this charactering small nose and equally small red lips.
Thom Greenwood's physical appearance resembled what a fit quidditch chaser might be ideally like and the only thing that takes away from that is his granddaddy glasses (medium, rectangular frames) and his light brown messy hair.
After eating, Thom and Sarah walked to their common room with the other students from their house, Ravenclaw.
'Do you know I'm gonna try out for the Quidditch team next week?' said Sarah enthusiastically.
'Like you did last year and the year before, please...' replied Thom cynically, '...the odds for you actually making the Quiddich team is as the same as me jumping from the astronomy tower.'
'Would you like to be pushed or would you like to volunteer?' retorted Sarah the best way she could but she knew it was weak so she resorted to a pout afterwards.
'Whatever, Sarah. Whatever,' said Thom jokingly as the two of them wait for their staircase to change to their common room painting.

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Inside the blue themed common room of the Ravenclaw house lots of students we're busy doing their Potions homework and making up dreams to put in their Divination dream journal while others we're just chattering in attempt to catch up with one another, they have been separated for a whole summer.
Sarah was in a 3-way conversation with Chrysant Cavanaugh and Emily Waltham; the two girls could be classified as Sarah's inner circle.
Chrysant has flawless, light brown skin for a girl her age (an age which you're supposed to be ravaged by acne) and a small but tall figure. But there is a sense that she would be better off with long hair than the short and perky do she has right now (she has dark, dark hair).
Emily on the other hand has pale skin and fiery red long hair. Her features almost disappear in her paleness. Her figure is relatively boyish but she makes that fact up in her feminine, reserved personality.
'...so then we visited my aunt –she's a squib by the way- in Bali and did some muggle stuff like surfing and sunbathing, it was to die for! Had so much fun...' raved Chrysant while standing up and using the occasional hand gesture. Sarah's looking up in wonder while Emily reserved herself from any public displays of awe but amused nonetheless. After Chrysant raved some more she ended almost inappropriately with a, '...and that's it,' she crashed to the couch Sarah and Emily was sitting on, 'What about you, Em?'
'Nothing interesting. Just went to my grandmamma's house in the country for a month; practiced some new spells, charms, jinxes. No big deal' said Emily.
'Wow, I didn't do any thing school related during the summer outside the assignments, you really wanna be an Auror huh?' asked Chrysant.
'Yeah, never really considered other career paths. I mean mum was one, dad was one, both sets of grandparents...even tho they all died in the line of duty, it's like a family business sort of thing. Your bound to continue your family legacy if you have one, right?' reasoned Emily.
'Guess you are,' concurred Sarah
'Oh excuse me, I need to review my studies,' said Emily excusing herself.
'Ok, happy studies, Em,' said Sarah.
'You too.'
'So what's your summer like, Sarah?' asked Chrysant.
'Umm, nothing unusual. Well except for following my dad around England for his band's UK tour, which was fun.'
'Must be hard not being able to Accio anything during all that time, being around muggles and all,' said Chrysant with a sympathetic tone.
'No, surprisingly it's not as terrible as I thought it would be. My mom always kept magic to a minimum in the household. I think the last time I Accioed something in the house was two years ago and mom only allowed it because I broke my leg,' Sarah lifted her robe a bit to show a scar on her left leg, 'Mom won't even let me go to St. Mungo's, she persisted to treat it the muggle way.'
'If you went to St. Mungo's, you won't have that scar,' Chrysant pointed out.
'Yeah, guess you're right. But it's all OK, don't mind the scar. At least it's not on my forehead,' compromised Sarah.
'What? Like that Harry Potter bloke?'
'Yeah, he's dreamy ain't he?' said Sarah in a fluttering kinda tone.
'Please, girl. Potter's lost it since he won the Triwizard competition when he said that You-Know-Who's back. I'm surprised it didn't make The Quibbler yet.'
'What magazine's that?' said an unaware Sarah.
'A magazine that prints quintessential utter rubbish!' said Chrysant mercilessly.
'What did you say!?'
A voice suddenly became more audible than the rest of the chatter like it emerged out of nowhere from the sea of murmur. When Chrysant and Sarah looked to see who said that, they saw a girl with dirty blonde hair and had her wand in her right ear. 'What brings you here...Loony Lovegood?' said Chrysant emphasizing the word "Loony".
'The name is Luna and I heard what you said, Cavanaugh!!!'
'What exactly did I say, Lovegood? Huh?!' Chrysant stood up and towers over Luna by inches but the height difference does not faze Luna a bit and it is notable that Chrysant has a one year seniority over Luna. 'You know very well what you said, Cavanaugh!' Luna squints her eyes in attempt to form the evil eye and by this time almost everybody was looking at the shouting match ...

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'You know very well what you said, Cavanaugh!' ... 'Great, just great. Cavanaugh and Lovegood having a row again...' complained Thom who was just about to write the last paragraph of his Potions homework which read so far...

"So in conclusion, moonstone's properties are (incoherent drivel)"

Apparently Thom had smudged his ink when he was startled by Luna's shout.
'Don't they ever get tired of shouting?' mumbled Thom to himself.
'Well as long as Chrysant stays an extreme skeptic and Luna stays an extreme believer and they continue to wear their ideals on their blue sleeves, -cause their Ravenclaws-, they'll never, never stop,' pops an enlightening voice
'I was wondering when I'll see you around, Chandler!' said Thom in a friendly tone.
Chandler Cavanaugh is the twin brother of Chrysant Cavanaugh. He is an equal genius-slacker as his sister but more mischievous. Chandler has lighter skin than Chrysant and ironically he has longer hair then her!
'I didn't see you at all in the Great Hall, where the hell were you? I got stuck eating with Sarah!' queried Thom.
'I was eating with my beautiful Irish preoccupation that is Athena Corr,' then suddenly Chandler lowered his voice to a whisper and said, 'Don't you secretly like that –eating with Sarah-? I saw you walking to this common room and I seemed like Sarah didn't mind your company either he he'
'Shut up!' shrieked Thom in reflex. The voice was so loud that even Chrysant and Luna stopped bickering...yes, it was that loud.

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'When Thom shrieks, he shrieks.'
'He acts a girl sometimes, totally undeserving of his physique...and what a good physique that is...'
'Is that a crack?'
Stephen and Hannah...status? Dating. That's why they are in one of the common rooms 4 corners by their lonesome holding quills to write in their Divination Dream Journal, they hate the subject so much they make it their pleasure in coming up with the sickest "dream" they can come up with...

While Stephen has...

"...I entered the room the started hacking away at the first thing I see and as it turns out it was my girlfriend Hannah that I have brutally decapitated to her gruesome demise..."

Hannah has...

"...As I plunge my sword into Stephen's navel, I suddenly feel great surge of pleasure quivering through my body as his blood was spattered to my face and..."

And this is something they discuss! Although they know this would do nothing to faze Professor Trelawney there's no harm in trying. Stephen James is tall, light, and handsome; that is what most girls would describe him. Chaser and vice-captain of the Quidditch team, Stephen is the closest thing to a "stereotypical jock" in the Ravenclaw house (but unlike a "stereotypical jock" he achieves an average of "exceeds expectation" on his OWLs two years ago). Beside Stephen is Hannah Abbott, a platinum blonde with legs that go on forever (for a girl aged 15 btw). She is by no means a "dumb blonde" as she ranks in the top 20 of the house in grades and doing that in a house like Ravenclaw is saying something!H
Stephen James and Hannah Abbott make the Ravenclaw power-couple (or as some might say "it" couple). Poster children for what the ideal Ravenclaw -or even Hogwarts- student might be...although Draco Malfoy might have a different take on what the ideal Hogwarts student should be since neither Stephen or Hannah are purebloods (to use the crude but painfully effective term...mudbloods, but they take the Slytherin jeers in stride even more establishing them as examples).
'So we're basically done here right?' asked Stephen.
'Right you are,' concurred Hannah.
'That's it I'm going to bed...bye, Hannah!'
'Bye, sweetie...'
And almost if by example, consciously or unconsciously, all students cleared the common room gradually in the next 2 hours leaving the blue themed room empty anticipating another hectic Ravenclaw day the next...

To be continued...

If anybody has crucial Ravenclaw or Hogwarts facts and anecdotes to tell, please send them to , I really don't wanna forget to include a big, obvious bit about the world that J.K. built, your help would really be appreciated!