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Chapter 1: Rumors

Where Hogwarts defines rumors

Have you ever heard the muggle saying empty vessels make more noise…?

Now picture this, a castle (namely me!) with hundreds of empty heads,

Here to fill their said empty heads with knowledge, which these days seem to be too complicated for them.

Now these empty heads interact with each other

These interactions was some time later named as 'Gossip' by a intelligent mortal

I would have used the word "Discussed" but that would have been a major insult to the word

Because in my hundred years of experience and from what I have grasped of this language, is that Discussions are done with certain amount of "FACTS", which these empty heads seem to conveniently forget.

I guess that was the reason the really intelligent mortal came up with this name "Gossip" because it doesn't contain even a pinch of Fact

It contains what that intelligent mortal later named "Rumors" which these empty heads believe is a fact

And then they 'Discuss', which as I said earlier will be referred to as 'Gossip' from now on, for the sake of sanity of those few intelligent mortals and mine of course

Now why did the intelligent mortal felt there should be difference in rumors & facts?

Because rumor is exactly what the facts isn't

Let's see...

Here's how a rumor begins,

Empty head no. 1 listens in on Empty head no. 2 & Empty head no. 3,

Now an intelligent mortal will feel 'why should one listen in on others talk?'

Exactly, because the intelligent mortal believes that if he was supposed to listen to the 'Talks' he should have been invited either as active participant or a silent observer, but the main point is he should have been 'INVITED'

In case of a moderately intelligent mortal he would have feel 'now that I have listen to their talks I should just leave it at that, as its none of my business'

Exactly, and he would have a turned around and forgotten that such a talk had taken place.

So do you understand the importance of the existence of an Empty head in this scenario?

Because here the Empty head no. 1 not just listens to the talk (which the intelligent mortal would never do) but also passes this useless piece of knowledge (which the moderately intelligent mortal would never do) to Empty head no. 4 (please note the importance of Empty head again) who then takes the responsibility of passing this knowledge to some other Empty head or Empty heads

But this doesn't stop here,

Because the Empty head no. 4 not just takes the responsibility of passing the information bestowed on him by Empty head no. 1 but also goes a step further by inserting his own views of what he believes of the scenario

And so a slightly new version of the information floats in the minds of other Empty heads,

Seeing that their predecessor has taken such liberties of changing the information they take it as their responsibility to further this knowledge with their necessary corrections.

And so by the time this knowledge reaches Empty head no. 2 & Empty head no. 3 (the poor Empty heads who were spied by the other Empty head), they wonder as to when They were a part of This talk, seeing that the information reaching them hardly had anything which they discussed (here we can safely use the word discussed because this part of the information is the only part which actually holds facts)

So thus begins the great journey of Mr. Rumor

Housing a large amount of empty heads I can safely assure you that these rumors do nothing good... except maybe entertain us...

It can be on a small scale involving few nobodies, so that it may not interest many

But if it involves some not-so-nobodies (at least in the castle), it is destined to reach many ears and seeing that those ears are attached to mouths, it is bound to create new and more exciting and some time even hilarious versions

In my long existence I have resorted to different things for my entertainment

All forms of these entertainments tend to lose its charms after a while (for me after some fifty years maybe)

But since the last few decades the mortals in my castle have taken the meaning of what many muggles call it 'Freedom of speech' seriously

And since that fateful day (at least for me) I have been entertained without fail

And so till present day I have never been bored with its repetition because one thing which these empty heads are good at is creating something out of nothing and one should never forget about the lengths of their creativity

So as I said earlier empty vessel make more noise

But what I didn't add was that Empty Heads make worse noise,

Trust me I can attest to that