"With our alma mater we will grow. Hail to thee, O stars of pride. Hail to thee, Hogwarts," the students recited. They were all gathered in the Great Hall for the orientation speech.

"Be seated," Headmaster Lovegood said commandingly. "We will now hear from your new student body president, Ophelia Yates."

The entire room applauded joyously as Ophelia stood from her seat and made her way to the podium.

"Fellow students, faculty, administrators and custodians, I would personally like to welcome each and every one of you to what I think will be Hogwarts' proudest year. I consider each and every one of you members of my Hogwarts family. With that said, I feel it is our responsibility…"

Just then, a loud hiccup echoed throughout the hall.

"… to reach out and accept all new students…" hiccup "as members of..." hiccup "And accept all new students as..." hiccup

Everyone in the hall began to look around for the culprit. Hiccup! They all laughed. It was a small redheaded girl with a ponytail and shy-looking eyes.

"Settle down, people," Headmaster Lovegood said, silencing the giggles of the student body.

"As I was saying," Ophelia continued, "I consider each and every one of you..." hiccup "members of my Hogwarts..." hiccup "Are you all right?" she finally asked, staring the younger girl down.

"Sorry," she said, shyly, but clueless. "It happens when I get nervous. I guess I just need a bubble gum fix. Keep going, you're doing great!" With that she gave Ophelia a thumbs up.

"Thanks," Ophelia said with disgust apparent in her voice. "Once again, as I was saying I consider each and every one of you members of my Hogwarts family. With that said, I feel that it is our responsibility to reach out and accept all new students…" Ophelia trailed off, because at that moment, the small hiccupping redhead collapsed on the floor gasping for air. She had begun to choke on her bubble gum.

"Somebody! Somebody do something!" screamed the girl who had been sitting next to her.

Without a moment to waste, Luna Lovegood stood from her chair, only three seats away, and pointed her wand at the writhing girl.

"PatetArterias!" she shouted, causing the gum to fly out of the girl's mouth.

The hall erupted in thunderous applause.

"Good going, Luna," said the boy next to her, patting her on the shoulder. He picked up the girl off the floor and carried here off to the infirmary.

Ophelia glared out over the crowd. She was not one to be upstaged, even in emergency situations. She ran her left hand through her hair, only to find that the gum that launched out of the girl's mouth had landed in her hair. "Terrific," she said to herself, crunching the parchment that her speech notes were written on in one hand.

"Right," said Professor Vector, Draco's Muggle Literature teacher. "Sparing me the Ledge Notes synopsis, who can tell me what this means?" He gestured to the blackboard where the words "Jekyll and Hyde" appeared. "Mr. Thomas?"

"Jekyll was a doctor," Dean Thomas, a young man sitting in the back of the room in attempt to hide his obvious intoxication, began. "And he developed this potion that transformed into Edward Hyde, his evil side."

"My gosh," said the professor, "did that answer suck. Now come on, I know you've got it in you. What themes can be discussed here?"

Luna raised her hand.

"Miss Lovegood."

"I think Stevenson is talking about the duality of man," she began. "Man has both good and evil in him. If man cannot suppress his evil instincts, he is inevitably doomed."

"Wrong," Draco said from behind her.

"Care to elaborate on that?" Professor Vector asked,

"Nowhere in the novel does Stevenson mention good over evil," Draco stated as Luna glared at him. "In fact, it's just the opposite. Jekyll loved Hyde so much that he protected him from the world."

"He protected Hyde so he wouldn't hurt people," Luna interjected, defending her case.

"Please," Draco laughed. "He loved hurting people."

"Then why does Jekyll kill himself?" she snapped back/

"Where does it say that in the book?" he asked sharply.

"The end!" she yelled exasperatedly. "Mr. Utterson found his body."

"Utterson was idiotic," Draco said as if that proved his point.

"Your point is idiotic," Luna shouted, slamming her hands down on her desk.

"All right, all right, break it up, you two," Vector cut in. "Wow! Am I losing my mind or did we just witness an intellectual debate in this classroom? Although I disagree with your conclusions, Mr. Malfoy, I do appreciate your warped point of view. As for you, Miss Lovegood, I think you could be a little more tolerant of other people's opinions."

With that said, the end of class bell rang and the students vacated the classroom.