Hey guys and girls just wanted to say sorry for the late update just a lot of things have happened since my last post and has kept me away from the keyboard . Anywho on to the story. Also I don't own Harry Potter.
Finally the time had come for the students to get off of the train and get to the carriages. As they departed the train they heard the booming voice of Hagrid.
"First years, first years over hear! First years follow me!"
They made their way to the horseless carriages. Harry stopped and stared at them when he saw something he hadn't before. The creature he saw was skeletal looking with leathery looking skin that looked as if it was pulled taut across the bones it a set of wings folded up on their backs, long spindly tails reminiscent of a had reddish eyes and you could see a beak like mouth on them.
" What are those things?" Harry asked completely shocked that the carriages were actually drawn by something and not enchanted by magic.
" Oh! You can see them too Harry Potter?" asked Luna in a very dreamy like tone.
"There is nothing there you two. I don't see how you think that there is something there so don't try to pull this prank on us is it isn't going to work you two know who by older brothers are."said Ginny in a no nonsense fashion.
"Actually there is they are called thestrals and only people who have seen someone die can see them it is a defense mechanism to protect them from being hunted."Replied Luna as she got in too one of the carriages.
"But I don't remember seeing anyone die. And it couldn't have been me seeing my mother die because then i would have been able to see the first time we came to Hogwarts in them."Said Harry as he was still trying to wrap his head around the fact that such creatures exist in the world.
They all got in to the carriages and when the got settled in they felt it lurch as it started to move.
About 15 minutes later they arrived at the front of Hogwarts just before the hall leading to the Great Hall that the meals are used for. The all headed for their House tables, Harry, Hermione, And the Weasleys to Gryffindor. Luna To Ravenclaw. And Nevile To Huffelpuff.
Once all the students were all seated at their tables Professor McGonagall came in with the first years. She had them line up against the head table as she went to get the sorting hat and stool for it to sit on.
Once it was all situated correctly she stepped back and the old tattered sorting hat started to sing(A/N not going to put any song here because I'm not good at those).the song was about relying on friends and to beware of wolves in sheep's clothes, as well as to have fun, remember that houses aren't everything.
After the Sorting Hat was done with its song Professor McGonagall unrolled a sheet of parchment and started going down the list of names till she got to the end. She collected the Sorting hat and stool and took them back to where she got them from. After that was done, she sat down and Headmaster Dumbledore stood up and walked to the podium he started his start of term speech.
" Good evening to you all and welcome to another year here at the wonderful institution we call Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. I have a few announcements to make before we eat. The first is that this year Hogwarts will be host to an ancient tournament called the Triwizard Tournament." at this the hall exploded into conversations and exclamations of excitement.
Bang! Bang! Went the headmasters wand as he shot off a couple of attention grabber spells.
"Now that we are all paying attention now how about i continue with my announcements? As I was saying the school will be host to this competition, but it will be only for those seventeen years of age and older for the rest you get to cheer the Hogwarts Champion onto victory. This is to ensure that no one not old enough from entering and getting severely injured or get killed. Now my second announcement is that we will be host to two other schools from other countries. The first school will be Beauxbatons Academy of Magic. The second School will be Ilvermorny School of magic. I expect that there might be some excitement about other schools being here but you must remember that these schools are on par with Hogwarts please when they get here to be on your best behavior. That means no house rivalries will be tolerated, no blatant disdain for certain students and most importantly no pranking other schools." This last one all heads in the hall turned to the Weasley twins and stared at them.
"Hey my slightly better looking twin." said Gred
"Yes my slightly smarter twin."said Forge
"You think they were talking about us?"Said Gred
"Nah i think they were talking about someone else."said Forge
This caused a few laughs to happen around them as they were overheard. The twins then looked at the Headmaster and saw that his eyes were twinkling like crazy.
"Yes I mean you Fred And George and if i find out that you didn't listen i will have you in detention for the rest of the year if you go against what I have said." Said the Headmaster
"But what if they deserve it will we still be in detention?" Asked one of the twins.
"If that is the case then before you prank them come to me or your head of house and we will discuss it together. Does that sound reasonable to you?" Said Dumbledore
"Yes it does Headmaster and thank you for the consideration for allowing us to continue bringing joy to this school."Said both twins at the same time.
"Now that is over on to my third announcement I was originally going to cancel quidditch But it was brought to my attention that seventh years who want to go into quidditch as a pro and get scouted would have been upset due to the fact that they couldn't have been able to play or even be scouted because of not playing. So we have decided that it will continue as normal except that the third task of the tournament will be held in the pitch so the games will be held in the new pitch that was created near the old one. This new pitch is up to date with the newest regulations in size and safety. Now on to my final announcement, this years professor for Defense Against the Dark Arts is a Team of Aurors. There will be a total of 12 Aurors here teaching you all. The reason there are so many is because they still have to patrol the school and grounds. Prefects you will be doing the same as normal just with Aurors with you to keep the school and its students safe. The Aurors will be introduced to you during your first class of DA DA.I don't think that I need to remind you that all rules are to be followed. Now that the announcements are done it is time to eat. Dig in and enjoy it.
"Finally i thought that he was going to go on forever and that we would starve." Said Ron
"Honestly Ron You know that he wouldn't do that all you have to do is be patient and then you could eat all you want. Plus it was a lot of announcements tonight." Said Hermione
"That's true normally he wouldn't say so much but with how important it all was im glad he started it before we ate because if he waited till after then we would have been full and tired and not very attentive." said Harry
"I'm just shocked that he's going so far to make sure that we are at our best behavior for before the other schools get here. I'm just curious about whether or not he will actually make Professor Snape not have any public disdain for me this the fact that he is willing to work with the twins on the pranking of other schools just sends a shiver down my back just thinking about it." Replied Harry with a little apprehension in his voice.
They continued talking and eating now that all of the exciting things were already were covered in the conversation so far. After about half an hour the food and dessert for the night was cleared off the table. The prefects gathered all the first years for each house and started to take them to the dormitories to get settled in for the night. The rest of the years after having been at the school for at least one year knew that the prefects took them in a longer path so that the upper years could get there first and start to relax for the night.
The group decided to leave the Great Hall just after the first years left so that they could get up to the dormitories to clean get changed and relax for the night before their classes started the next day.
Once all the students left the Great Hall the Professors left and went to the conference room to have a late meeting for them to discuss a few things about any of the announcements from that night.
"Okay now that we are all here does anyone have anything they want to start off with tonight?" Asked Dumbledore.
"I do Headmaster." stated Professor Sprout "Will the students who participate in the tournament be able to have anyone that could help them as an adviser or tutor to help in the case of them needing it?"
"Well that is an excellent question and the answer to it is yes the students who are competing will be able to choose an adviser from any of the staff barring the Headmasters of course. They will also be given unrestricted access to the restricted section of the library." replied the Headmaster. "Anyone else have anything?"
"I do." said Professor Snape "What if a student asks an older student to put their name in to the tournament?"
"The Aurors that i mentioned tonight have already agreed to watch the goblet and to check each slip of paper to make sure that doesn't happen. Also i will be putting down an age line so any potions won't work and no one under the age of seventeen can get passed it."Said Dumbledore. 'I will also be going back over this once the other schools get here."
" What about students using a levitation charm on the slip of paper would that work?"Asked Professor Snape.
" No it wouldn't work, I will also be putting a nullification ward down so that if a student does try once the slip hits the ward it will cancel the spell so that they can't enter that way." Explained Dumbledore.