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Ron's pov.
Ron sat at the table holding hands with Katie while eating or rather stuffing some pie into his mouth. It was a delightful chocolate pie that was very rich and decadent. He loved it. Katie had opted to have the lemon tart and although he wanted that as well he knew he'd like too much of a savage if he had two pies so he settled for asking her for a taste of her pie while giving her a taste of his. He was surprised by the amount of old Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw and Slytherin members at the table. Theodore Nott was working out to be a good friend having been one of Malfoy's cronies but a quiet boy none the less. He'd never had a bad word to say about Hermione and so he was instant friend material at least in Ron's eyes. He was all excited about finding out about how he'd be accessing his new home. What the hell would be happening with Quidditch? Surely they'd still be playing. He suddenly jumped at their schedule appeared before all of them. He saw he'd be sharing classes mainly with Pantera house which suited him fine as it meant he'd always be seeing Harry and Hermione his best friends in class. He looked over at their table to see Harry having an animated conversation with Blaise Zabini and Hermione beside him reading a letter which was clearly troubling her. He was very worried and even more so when he looked over at Malfoy who was glaring daggers at Blaise and mouthing you didn't do it! He didn't know what Blaise was supposed to have done only that it pissed Malfoy off something rotten that he hadn't done whatever it was.
Looking over his timetable he saw that three times a week there were two new classes called Quidditch History and Dance History which it appeared would be mandatory for all first years. Then he noticed a class called options. He then saw that in this new options level you had a choice to either take divination or not. What surprised him is that for this class which was on his timetable and oddly labelled for first years had no teachers name there. Looking up at the staff table he saw his eldest brother and smiled brightly. He was so proud of Charlie. He was also delighted to learn that the curse charming the teaching position had been lifted upon Voldermort's death. He looked impatiently at McGonagall who unfortunately was otherwise engaged in talking to Hagrid. He so desperately wanted to know how he could enter his house but knew he'd just have to be a bit more patient with her. Eventually as he talked with Katie about how excited he was to have her in his house the letter appeared there. He jumped as it appeared on a small silver platter before him. On the front of the letter was the Lobo crest with a black wolf. He opened the letter and began reading it. It read:
Dear Lobo House,
We are delighted to welcome you to the first year of our new wondrous and honest school Merlin's Academy. I will now start by telling you the location of your house and how to gain entrance. I should say that the entrance and exit to your house involves a degree of flying but this flying will not be done with brooms as you will realise as soon as you go to enter it. Now if you go outside to the Herbology area as you know you will see about twenty or so greenhouses. Each of the greenhouses has many different plant types inside it. The green house you will be looking for is in the middle of all of them. It is the only green house to have a dark green roof and just roses inside it. Everyone will know the location of this greenhouse as it will be charmed to sound an alarm if someone tries to break in as appose to knocking on the door. Now the password is forest. To gain entrance to your house you must tap the door once with your wand and after you do so piece of blank parchment will appear there. Next using your wand you must write the word forest on the piece of parchment and the doors will open for you.
Now this is the fun part once you enter you will walk onto what looks like a docking station for a boat. Soon after you are there a gigantic floating spruges flower petal will stop before you. Eight of you are to climb on board this flower petal and wait as it will fly you down towards the common room. I should tell you that once down there if you wish to come back up you just wait by the side of the entrance to the common room for another petal to appear which shouldn't take a moment as there are plenty of them. It will take exactly two minutes to fly down and two minutes to fly back up again. The common room may confuse you so I will now go into why it looks so different. As we all know the wolf loves the outdoors so your common room though complete with the usual fireplace and furniture is outside.
You will notice that your common room is round in shape with an enormous tree trunk covering most of the middle of it. You will also notice that its light source sparkles from the tree as the tree will give off a golden glow and some light music which will sound like angels are singing. This sound however may only be heard from the hallways outside the dorms and the common room itself. Around the base of the tree's trunk you will see many various platforms. The male platforms will be green in colour and the female platforms will be burnt orange in colour. These will levitate and take you to your new dormitories that are located high up in the glowing tree. From your dorms however you will have a view of the quidditch pitch grounds for girls and herbology area for boys. You should also note that should you get onto the wrong platform accidentally it will either not move at all or just take you to your own right dorms. The dorms are in groups of four consisting of floating beds with the persons name above each section. There is also a walk in wardrobe which is shared and labelled like the bed area. The en suite bathroom is very large and will be divided evenly into four sections with the persons name on each one. Each dorm is equipped with an alarm system that is programmed to go off one hour before breakfast and classes begin which should leave you plenty of time to prepare.
These alarms have another function as well as they will also go off with a different sounding tone if someone is trying to enter the house who is not a house member while also projecting onto a screen in the common room above the fireplace who the intruder is. If someone wishes to see you and you are in your house they need only knock on the greenhouse doors and they will appear on the screen in the common room whereby they can ask for whoever it is they wish to see. If the person they wish to see wants some privacy they need only press a button at the side of the screen and no one else will be able to see who they are talking to or hear what they are saying. If the person they wish to see is not there they can just leave and return later. Because Lobo house has its own security system in place there is no problem with everyone knowing where its entrance is.
As you will have received your timetables by now I should inform you that the following students will be teaching quidditch, history of quidditch, broom care and quality to first year students. It is seen as a way of bringing fun into the curriculum for all involved. This class will obviously deal with the history of quidditch and so all first year students will have to complete assignments set forth by the particular students teaching them. In class these students are to be referred to as professor and these professors will be teaching flying to them also. These teachers as such are to be Ronald Weasley, Harry Potter, Draco Malfoy and Terry Boot. Now how this will work is that Ron will teach all pupils from Pantera, Draco the pupils from Lobo house, Harry the Zorro students and Terry the Lapin students. In each class there should be fifteen or twenty students. The reason we say fifteen or twenty students is that we are opening our doors to all students of magical ability both in the UK and foreign as well. As you may or may not have noticed this year there are different ethnicities here as well as the English ones of course. To the teachers you can set an assignment of any type you wish but you must correct these in your spare time.
As it is your subject to teach we encourage things such as multiple choice questions, questionnaires and the like. Being professors and such these students and only these students can take away house points and or give detention determining what type of detention as well. It should be known that no member of other staff can intervene in these classes as the teachers can teach them any way they see fit. Having said that these classes are for first years if I feel they are successful I will extend them to all years including your own. Also if you four students do as well as I am thinking you will do there will be a job here for you after you leave school if you want it. We believe here in MA in supporting our own above all else. You should know as you read this that the other three teachers will have received a notification of this.
I do have one other staffing announcement. Four girls from the houses above which I will list shortly will teach dancing and the history of dance to first years starting this year obviously. The two students from each house will teach first years in the same house. You should note that if you are one of the students teaching you will have a less packed schedule having only to take the subjects Charms, Transfigurations, DADA and Potions. All the other students who are not teaching will have to take Care of Magical Creatures, Muggle Studies, History and Astrology on top of these. You should all note that Divination is an elective and can be taken by anyone who wishes to take it but you are not obliged to take it if you do not want to. The dance studio here will used by the Pantera professor as it nearest to her dorms. The other three students will be given an empty classroom to decorate with it's own office. The same in fact goes for the boys except of course when the quidditch pitch is being used. Just because the subject is dance does not mean there are no assignments and or exams because there are. As with the boys if I feel your job is adequate I shall be employing you here with your own staff quarters after school this year. In your dance or quidditch classes you are to either tell the students what uniforms they will require, provide them or order them from Hogsmeade (with everyone's measurements) and have them pay you once they arrive. Note these uniforms may not be house colour coordinated. These four new dance teachers are Katie Bell, Marianna Alvarado, Luna Lovegood and Tracey Davis. On each of the beds in your dorm you can find directions to your new rooms and offices. You will be permitted to do your homework and all study in your office if it is your wish. Scholl uniforms should not be worn when you are teaching here as it will confuse the staff and teachers alike. I welcome you to Merlin's Academy and I'm excited to be working with you this year, Professor McGonagall, Headmistress, Merlin's Academy MA.
Ron read this letter and became very excited. Not only would he be teaching all about Quidditch and broom making or care etc Katie would be teaching dance here also. This meant she would be here with him in the future while he taught here. It wasn't necessarily something he ever thought he'd do but he was excited to do it none the less. He showed Katie the letter smiling brightly. "What are you so happy about Ron?" she asked him smiling herself as his smile was definitely contagious. "Just read the letter sweetie and then you'll see!" he said pecking her lips gently. As it so happened he was to read the letter and pass it on until every member of their table had read it individually. "Wow and I love dancing oh how exciting!" squealed Katie in delight. All the other girls in the other houses now knew as he saw Marianna's expression change from deep thought to delight. Getting up he held Katie's hand in his while Ginny walked with Theodore, Dean and Astoria. I was wary a bit of the way he looked at Ginny, Theo that is but really he's a sound guy whatever Malfoy might want us all to believe. We all found the greenhouse easily enough which was a relief to me as it was late and I was in mood to be roaming all over the bloody Herbology grounds looking for it.
We approached the doors and I entered the password as I was so excited to do it. I waited of course for Katie and everyone else to join me and soon we were on the huge petal which was covered in cushions floating towards the common room. It seemed to go on for a while as we weaved in and out quickly before landing in front of the doorway leading to our common room. We all got off and went inside. It was so beautiful and I've never seen anything this beautiful in my life. I nearly want to cry at it's beauty nearly but that's only because of where we live at home. I love our house don't get me wrong but this is every boys fantasy to live almost in the outdoors. There's a roaring fire and the usual couches, game tables, study tables and the like. Then I hear the music. It sounds so heavenly and out of place here but wonderful as well. As I look up into the tree I can see it's glowing bright golden as some golden sparkles fall off it occasionally floating downwards before disappearing before reaching the ground. It's so wonderful. I see the screen and it makes me smile. It's rather big but I do like the fact that it can be private if you want it to. I run over and kiss Katie goodnight. Man she's wearing that strawberry lip gloss that drives me mad. Mmm she's so sexy if you saw her you'd know why she excites me so much all the time. I want to leave so I can see my room but I choose to snog her some more before finally leaving her to see her room with Astoria and Ginny. I go up to the dorms in the platform with Theo and Dean in tow.
When we get out I look over the railing and just see golden dancing lights that are beautiful but it does momentarily distract me from moving. I eventually move of course and when we find the dorm with our number we enter. We expected to see the usual four poster beds but what we got was so much cooler then that. Inside the room were four tree trunks all the same height with a small stairs at the one end. Up the stairs was a huge sized deep hanging bed. It looked so lusciously stuffed with various different types of material and pillows. I could easily sleep in there. We all saw the alarm which was quite small but would go off for exactly one minute before shutting itself off once again. We all looked at the walk in wardrobe that had many shelves and loads of space for each us. What shocked me the most is that we'd all been supplied with four new luxury colognes and shower gels as a welcoming gift to the house. How exciting. The bathroom was beyond amazing. Yes we all had our own sections but they were all designed with an outdoor theme. My shower was massive and completely surrounded by plant life with a glass door to the front of it. My sink was made of a large enough rock and my toilet was designed to look wooden. My bath which amazed me just as much as my shower was made out of a large smooth kind of stone. Going back into the dorm Theo was already in his pyjamas a big bag of verity sweets in his hands. Verity sweets are expensive but so cool. They enable you to become anyone you want to for three minutes and they taste great.
As soon as I was in my pyjamas I took one from him. I instantly became Severus Snape swaying up and down the room looking down on them all. "Where is that assignment Nott? There will be no silly incantations in my class. I can teach you to unhinge the mind and even put a stopper in death. All hail me!" he said making all the boys laugh so much they all thought they'd wet themselves. Dean went next becoming Hagrid. "Hello and welcome to me class. I has a real treat for ya today. Look at him ain't he beautiful come on Harry and you can even ride him!" Ron really laughed at this one as Hagrid really was like that most of the time. Theo went last. He became Percy Weasley " Get out I'm studying. I'm head boy now listen to me! What are you doing wondering the corridors at this time of night? Isn't that right minister? I love my job!" he said causing everyone including Ron to laugh the most. Percy had always been as of recently a bit of an outcast in the family because his allegiances made him so. After trying out many various people and seeing Dean falling out of his bed once they all drifted off to sleep Ron dreaming of Quidditch!
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