Episode 1

Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry boasts three millennia of tutelage, producing numerous great witches and wizards including…

Hogwarts as known today has been formally established by the Four Founders…

The famed school has been turned into a ruin right after the fall of Voldemort the Soulless…

The school has gained further prestige due to the new addition of powerful witches and wizards who have survived the War of Death, one of whom is Harry Potter the Survivor…

Despite the sheer number of professors that have passed through Hogwarts, there are still those who stayed for several decades including the school's current headmistress, the Senior Council members, and…

~Hogwarts: History XVIII ed.

Hogwarts.

Although the word may sound like hogwash, it carries a great respect and reverence among the European magical community as the Las Fortress, where the Battle of Death took place. Once a magnificent architecture has suffered many detrimental blows from the Battle and even as of now, it is still recuperating. The antique stained glasses and marble floorings have been restored to its former glory, but the magical reserve of the School still lacks magic – the energy that sustains and protects the establishment – since the core has been altered after the War to be more liberal and independent. In order to compensate for the deficient energy, the Senior Council of Hogwarts was appointed after the War to lend their powers; one of whom is a frustrated gentleman with messy onyx hair and Avada Kedavra eyes, who was currently and undoubtedly lost.

"Damn it, not now!"

At his cry, the floor beneath him shone iridescently and emitted a 'growl'.

"I told you countless times: you're not ready to be 'named*'!"

Harry Potter was bickering with Hogwarts – well, the sentient projection of Hogwarts – which was a common occurrence.

The new sentient being of Hogwarts viewed Harry as its 'mother' because it was born from Harry's burst of energy after the Final Battle. Although Harry loved Hogwarts and its spirit, he refused to name it for a reason: 'naming' required the stability of being, which Hogwarts lacked. Hogwarts understood the reason behind Harry's refusal and accepted it, but that did not mean it couldn't have a little fun during the wait. This resulted in a lost Harry Potter.

"I swear, if you don't put me back to where I was, you'll have a head of a pig for your body, instead of –"

Before Harry could finish the sentence, he was lurched from the ground, swallowed by the air itself, and spat back out onto the soft carpet of the Senior Council Chamber.

"Always so graceful, brat."

Harry's brows furrowed deeper as he was greeted by the sniding remark of his former Potions Professor.

"Shouldn't you be intimidating professor Harbona now?"

"Ah, professor Harbona's currently being tended to in the Hospital Wing. The poor lad suffered quite a pain."

Albus Dumbledore interjected, smiling, as he handed Harry a cup of tea with some decorated sugar cubes on the side – his newest fascination.

"No, don't tell me. His ulcer came back?"

Harry tried his hardest to stifle his building laughter tickling his throat.

"That incompetent moron fainted when he saw me at the door."

Snape ground his teeth at Harry's reaction, and his eyes glinted with malice, promising further misfortune for professor Harbona.

"Severus, I know that professor Harbona isn't as skilled as you are – heck, hardly anyone is – but do you really have to make the poor man's health miserable? After all, you're the one who resigned."

"It passes time."

Severus commented nonchalantly, ignoring Harry's rolling eyes.

Soon after the War, Severus Snape resigned from his position as the Potions Professor and became a member of the Senior Council, travelling the world and inventing new potions to his heart's content, using the freedom the new position allows to his advantage. However, when he would encounter a 'potions block' during his invention, he'd visit Hogwarts to terrorize the newest Potions Professor, the latest victim being Professor Henry Harbona, a young wizard of 29 with ulcers.

"I think that's quite enough on our dear prof. Harbona's failing health. I'd like to move onto why we called you, Harry." Dumbledore looked at Harry in the eyes through his lowered half-moon spectacles.

"How come the damn thing listens to you to grant your beck and call, but ignores my every scream and frustration, even though I'm the one that created it?"

"Because I'm the grandfather." Dumbledore answered, as though it was the only natural thing in the world.

'Potter 0 : Dumbledore 1'

Snape snickered into his teacup, "You lack age and wit to win Albus, brat."

Harry slumped in the chair, defeated.

"So, you called."

"Yes. We have both good and bad news to deliver."

Harry eyed Dumbledore and Snape to gauge the gravity of the situation, but being the masters of the art, they betrayed nothing. Sighing, Harry folded.

"Good, then bad."

"Well, the good news is, according to the new law the ministry passed this year, you have to take a vacation."

"But Albus, I have to be here to ground Hogwarts' core, and – "

"The bad news." Dumbledore cut off Harry's ranting.

"The bad news is that Hogwarts is going with you."

"Oh, merlin's balls."

Snape sneered at Harry's remark. You can trust a Potter to be creative with profanity.

* naming: a ritual when a powerful witch or wizard officially acknowledges and welcomes his/her creation into the world, thus grounding its existence and granting it magical power - usually done with chimera, Homunculus, and familiars. Without the ritual, the creation would never have a physical form and simply remain a sheer mass of magical energy.