Prologue
Hogwarts Academy for the Arts is a small specialist high school situated god only knows where in Scotland. Britain's finest art students come here to study Music, Dance, Acting and Visual Arts. Four Houses provide living facilities and a means of close friendships and alliances – Slytherin, Griffindor, Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff.
Ordinary classes are taught every day, but so are all artistic disciplines – every student participates in basic lessons for each, as well as extensive specialist classes for their individual specialties.
A student studying violin at Hogwarts is expected to not only take ordinary lessons, but also basic acting, dancing, painting and sculpture, as well as several violin lessons and tutorials and musical theory workshops.
Funnily enough Hogwarts students are very busy.
Especially since they like to party – hard.
Last year Seamus Finnegan got so drunk he ended up comatose in the back of Headmaster Dumbledore's car: no-one knows how he got there.
Last year Sirius Black won a drinking competition against Lucius Malfoy: and promptly spilled his guts into the swimming pool.
Last year a lot of people did things that they later regretted but the whole school already knew all about.
Last year was one drama after another.
This year shouldn't be all that different.
Welcome to Hogwarts Academy.