The Start of the Year Feast was fun, the far end of the Hufflepuff and Slytherin tables got in a bit of a food fight, until Detentions started getting handed out. Seth was getting along well with the Ravenclaws. Once the feast was over they all walked up to Ravenclaw tower.
"You have to ask for a riddle in order to enter," the head boy, Hiroshi Tanahashi explained.
"You obviously have to get the riddle correct though," the other head boy, Kazuchika Okada added.
"That's an unnecessary comment, Okada," Hiroshi replied, "may I have the riddle?" He asked the golden eagle knocker in the center of the archway.
"I speak without a mouth and hear without ears. I have nobody, but come alive with wind. What am I?" The knocker asked with a smooth voice.
"An Echo," Okada said. The archway moved backwards smoothly, and with a thunk moved to the side. The Ravenclaw common room sat behind it. It was a elegant spralling circular room with elegant blue furniture and silk tapestries with bronze eagles moving over them, flying across blue skies, over rolling fields and crashing waves, flopping fish clutched in some talons, others dove into the field to catch mice. "Welcome to the Ravenclaw common room," Okada smiled. Tanahashi climbed the stairs to his room.
"What's his problem?" Seth asked one of the upperclassmen milling about.
"They're the two smartest kids in school, but Kazu tied Tana's record score on the O.W.L.s last year. As you might imagine, they've got quite a rivalry."
"Thanks," Seth said, "I'm Seth Rollins by the way."
"The name's Yoshi Hashi, feel free to ask me anything, I may not be Tana or Kazu levels of smart, but that at least means I won't laugh at your question," He winked.
"Anyway, you can all head up to the dorm rooms, your bags should already be there," Okada said.
Seth waved goodbye to Yoshi Hashi and headed upstairs to his room. There were five beds, and now, as Pete and Tyler walked in, five kids.
"Hey there guys," AJ said sitting down on one of the beds.
Seth walked to his bags and started unpacking his books onto the bookshelf at the head of his bed, followed by his clothes into the trunk at the other end of the bed. An upperclassman walked in the room after a little bit.
"Triple H wants to talk to all the first years," Trent Seven said.
"Thanks Seven," Pete said, throwing a shirt at his bed and heading downstairs.
Triple H was sat in the common room drinking coffee.
"Good evening students, I hope you've all settled in to your rooms," he said.
The kids murmured in confirmation.
"I wanted to talk to you all about our great house, Ravenclaw," Triple H stood up and set the coffee down on a coaster on the coffee table.
The kids all got seated around the common room.
"Students in Ravenclaw, like all the houses have some great positives to their personalities, they tend to be very intelligent, wise, have a fantastic amount of acceptance, and originality, though we are very competitive in and out of school. I've experienced the down sides to this first hand," he said, "I'm sure you know the Sweetwater All Star's Head Chaser Shawn Michaels."
The kids nodded.
"Well, he was my best friend when we were at Hogwarts," he said, "He was a Gryffindor, I, a Ravenclaw. I was, of course, far smarter, as a Ravenclaw, but there was one thing he always beat me in; Quidditch. I couldn't stand to lose to him, So, I cursed a bludgeon to hit him off his broom. He nearly lost his life. What I'm saying is we have a tendency to get so competitive we become jealous often to our detriment. Don't let your personality lead you to betray your friends, not test, game, job, or grade is worth losing a friend," he said.
The class nodded.
"Alright, that's all, I have a good night, here are your schedules, classes start tomorrow at 9, go get on to bed."
That night AJ and Shinsuke were arguing about nearly everything, to the point Pete got up, threw his night mouthguard into a glass of water, walked over to the two and hit them both with a pillow telling them to, "bloody go to sleep already." With that, the arguments died down and they were able to sleep. Unfortunately, they slept in too late for breakfast since they were up so late.
"Jeez you guys only just woke up?" Trent Seven said, noticing them come down stairs around 8:40, while he was reading a book.
"Is Breakfast over?" Seth asked.
The upperclassman nodded.
"But I can get you into the kitchens if you want to eat," Trent said.
"That'd be great," Seth said.
So he, Pete, Tyler, and Trent all headed down to the kitchens. It was a long walk since they were on opposite sides of the castle, so the boys brought their books for Herbology.
"Not sure if we've properly met," Trent said, "I'm Trent Seven."
"Seth Rollins," Seth said, he hardly remembered ever meeting so many people so close together, "Do you guys know each other already?" He asked.
"We're neighbors," Tyler replied, "from the Midlands."
"Must be nice knowing people already, especially since you're in the same house."
"Yeah, did you see that Jackson kid? Their whole family are Gryffindors except him," Trent said, lowering his voice, now that they were downstairs there were far more Slytherins and Hufflepuffs.
"My friend is a Slytherin," Seth said, "are we allowed to sit with them at lunch or dinner?"
"Not supper, but probably at breakfast and dinner."
They stopped in front of a giant still life of a fruit bowl. Trent reached up and tickled the pear, which giggled and became a door knob.
"C'mon."
The kitchen was huge, five large tables in the same formation as the ones upstairs sat in the center of the room, though they were shorter and had no chairs. That was because the cooks were all about 3 feet tall, strange looking creatures, with huge eyes and little pointy ears at the sides of their heads.
"What are those?" Seth whispered to Tyler.
"House Elves," He told him.
Trent sat down on the nearest table.
"Hey, guys can we get some eggs and toast?" Trent asked the house elves.
"Certainly!" A squeaky voice said, running off to whip some up.
"I thought House Elves couldn't have clothes." Seth said.
"That's only if they're servants, all the Hogwarts House Elves are technically free," Trent told them, "Believe it or not, they aren't all happy about that."
Herbology was Seth's first class, he, Tyler, and Pete all headed out to the greenhouse. Most of the other students were already there. It was Ravenclaw and Gryffindor, so Seth said goodbye to Tyler and Pete and sat with Roman, who'd been saving a seat for him.
"How'd you sleep?" Roman asked when Seth sat down.
"See those two idiots?" He said, gesturing to AJ and Shinsuke who were currently arguing about what they'd be doing in class today, "They will literally argue about anything… until 2 in the morning."
Roman laughed,
"How about you?" Seth asked his friend.
"Not bad, the Gryffindor common room is so cool!" Roman said.
"Did you meet your head of house?" Seth asked.
"Yeah, Professor Angle, he's really nice," Roman said, "we have him this time Monday."
Seth went to ask what class, but Professor Shane McMahon walked out of the back.
"Good morning Gryffindor, good morning Ravenclaw," he said, he was sweating profusely, but his face didn't look particularly nervous.