A.N. Unlike the official Harry Potter books, this story is set in 2013 and Harry has just started 4th year. This is chapter is just the introduction, the second one will be when they actually start using the computers.

I apologise if anyone has the same last name as any of my OCs. It was not intentional.

This is my first fanfic, so please be kind

I do not own Harry Potter.

It was a week into Harry Potter's 4th year at Hogwarts School of witchcraft and wizardry. Ever since Dumbledore announced the triwizard tournament, the school seemed to be a bit more "jumpy" than usual. The students were all especially excited when a rumour started that another important announcement would take place the next night. But much to everybody but Harry's disappointment, nothing of the sort took place.

Harry decided that he had had enough excitement for a lifetime after the previous three years of tackling tough situations, battling nasty creatures and even fighting Voldemort himself. But he knew that the battle was not over and wouldn't be for at least several more years. So Harry went on to try find as much peace and quiet as he could before his next big and dangerous adventure, which often meant hanging out with his two best friends Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley. But of course the only peace Harry had was in the Gryffindor common room and at the Dursley's.

It had been a week since the rumour that something else exciting was coming got out, but everybody still seemed convinced that it was true. And that night was where it all began...

Everybody began piling into the great hall, stomachs growling, eager for the delicious food they were about to be served. After everybody had found a seat and looked rather fidgety, Professor Dumbledore stepped up to the podium. Everyone was immediately silent, eager to hear what the great headmaster had to say. Dumbledore cleared his throat, beamed across the room, and began to speak;

"Greetings to you all on this fine Friday evening. I hope that everyone has had a wonderful start to the year, and that all this radiating enthusiasm continues to shine through each and every one of you. Now, it has come to my attention that a rumour has managed to make its way around the school. Yes, there shall be some exciting news announced tonight, but first, let the feast begin!"

And with a simple flourish of his hand, the feast began.

"Why te body 'ell does he do 'hat?!" Ron raged through his mouthful of steak.

Hermione sighed as she cut her steak into perfect squares next to him. "Do what, Ron?"

"Leaving us in 'suspense' all the time" Ron flung his hands up in the air as he said 'suspence', sending a potato flying off his fork and onto Hermione's lap. "Oops, sorry Hermione..."

Hermione carefully picked up the potato like she would a cockroach and quickly dropped it on Ron's plate.

"Oh, that's just great..." Ron began.

"What is it now, Ronald?" Hermione snapped back.

"Now I don't know which potato is the one that fell off!"

"Don't you mean the one that you flung?"

"Yes, but that doesn't matter. How am I supposed to eat my potatoes now if I don't know which one it is?!"

"Oh, for Merlin's sake Ronald! Just get yourself a new one"

"But then that's just a waste of four potatoes!"

"Why don't you give them to the house elf's then? I'm sure they would like some food being served to them for a change. In fact, maybe we should start up an organisation..."

Ron's face began to redden as Hermione began to rant on about her latest brainwave. "I don't care about the house elves!" Ron began raging again, "I just want a decent potato!"

Harry groaned as he watched his to friends argue opposite him. He knew how those kinds of arguments turned out... After another long and painful twenty minutes, their plates disappeared and everybody tucked in to their mouth-watering desserts. Harry felt rather uncomfortable as he, Hermione and Ron all sat there is silence. But thankfully another ten minutes later their plates disappeared and the school became silent once more.

"I hope that you are all well fed and watered" Dumbledore began. "Now, for the news that I feel all of you have been waiting a great deal of time for... Hogwarts will begin to become a bit more 'modern'. That is, the muggle kind of modern. This means that technology will be introduced in a way that means that magic will not interfere with it. This is due to popular request from our newer students, and we feel that this will also be useful for students to understand new muggle concepts. Now, some of you may be wondering how we managed to bring muggle technology into Hogwarts. Well, we have hired Professor Kirkwell, a squib, who is excellent with technology to become Hogwarts' first IT (computer science) professor.

Professor Kirkwell has helped us create special types or computers that are run almost entirely on magic, but function exactly like a regular muggle computer would. The only difference is that there will be no need to charge the laptops. Every student will be receiving one laptop tomorrow to last them for at least the next few years, so please treat them very carefully, as they can still break like a muggle laptop would, except there will be a few more sparks expelled. So please be careful with them as magical computer are very difficult to fix."

Dumbledore quickly looked at the Slytherin house and continued his speech. "There will be one computer lab in the school library consisting of ten desktop computers. But I urge you not to rely on it if your laptop breaks. Well, that's all I have to say for tonight apart from, 'pip-pip'. "

The entire school suddenly erupted into conversation. The muggle-born students couldn't wait to show their friends the technology they grew up with and many witches and wizards who had never even touched technology before were very intrigued by the new concept. But the rest, like Ron Weasley, were not at all looking forward to having to deal with an extra challenge that year.

Harry was pleasantly surprised with the announcement, as was Hermione, but Ron just grumbled as he trudged ahead of them into his dormitory and went straight to bed.

What did you think? I promise next chapter will be more entertaining. Sorry if any of the paragraphs looked too long or too short. I wasn't quite sure what it would look like once published online.

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