Chapter 38: Secondary and Apprentice
Every now and again, sometimes a student's head of house is not the best of choice for them. There maybe family feuds about or personality clashes. There could be thousands of problems because people are complex. Though the house may be right, their head of house is not. The head of house is supposed to guide the children in their house as well as discipline and encourage. A sort of parent away from home. A person to talk too about their future, careers, and problems. But what happens when the head of house hates the child or if the child hates the head of house.
Once there was head of Slytherin house by the name of Amour Odium, a noble transfiguration professor and metamorphamigus. His family and another, by the name of Row, had been feuding for years to the point of thirteen dead wizards, 710 curses, and at least three missing limbs. Then one day a boy by the name of Marcus Row was sorted into his house. At first there was a great shock for everyone knew all Rows were generally sorted into Ravenclaw and this was the first one to ever been sorted into Slytherin. Amour Odium was delighted and used his stature to torture him and pursue his other Slytherin to do the same. That was when the headmaster at the time created the rule of Secondary.
Secondary means that that a child can have another head of house instead of the one given but still be in the same house. It is means of protection for either the child or the head of house. There are many reasons for the rule of Secondary but for the most part not generally used unless it was an emergency. The second head of house may change punishments, rewards, and even housing of the sake of protection.
It has not been used in two hundred years.
It has been three hundred years since a master has taken on an apprentice either.
Back in the days of the founders, a witch or wizard took in a child and taught them everything they knew in exchange for services like a parent would have a child, basically chores. Over the years, it changed. It became more specialized. A charms master would take in a student who seemed to excel in charms. A vampire hunter would take in a child interested in hunting vampires. So on and so forth.
Even at Hogwarts, the rule of Apprentice was still in affect but never used. For three hundred years ago, the great potion master Nigel Platter, who invented several potions used in herbology, took a witch by name of Selene Spin as his apprentice. By the age of thirteen, she invented the first shrinking solution and Platter knew she would go far so he took her under his wing. At first there was some angry cries for the wizarding world thought this were old fashion but when she was fifteen and they created the four greatest invisible and visible potions, they quickly quieted. They continued working together until he died. Some say they were lovers.
Every now and again, sometimes a student's head of house is not the best of choice for them. There maybe family feuds about or personality clashes. There could be thousands of problems because people are complex. Though the house may be right, their head of house is not. The head of house is supposed to guide the children in their house as well as discipline and encourage. A sort of parent away from home. A person to talk too about their future, careers, and problems. But what happens when the head of house hates the child or if the child hates the head of house.
Once there was head of Slytherin house by the name of Amour Odium, a noble transfiguration professor and metamorphamigus. His family and another, by the name of Row, had been feuding for years to the point of thirteen dead wizards, 710 curses, and at least three missing limbs. Then one day a boy by the name of Marcus Row was sorted into his house. At first there was a great shock for everyone knew all Rows were generally sorted into Ravenclaw and this was the first one to ever been sorted into Slytherin. Amour Odium was delighted and used his stature to torture him and pursue his other Slytherin to do the same. That was when the headmaster at the time created the rule of Secondary.
Secondary means that that a child can have another head of house instead of the one given but still be in the same house. It is means of protection for either the child or the head of house. There are many reasons for the rule of Secondary but for the most part not generally used unless it was an emergency. The second head of house may change punishments, rewards, and even housing of the sake of protection.
It has not been used in two hundred years.
It has been three hundred years since a master has taken on an apprentice either.
Back in the days of the founders, a witch or wizard took in a child and taught them everything they knew in exchange for services like a parent would have a child, basically chores. Over the years, it changed. It became more specialized. A charms master would take in a student who seemed to excel in charms. A vampire hunter would take in a child interested in hunting vampires. So on and so forth.
Even at Hogwarts, the rule of Apprentice was still in affect but never used. For three hundred years ago, the great potion master Nigel Platter, who invented several potions used in herbology, took a witch by name of Selene Spin as his apprentice. By the age of thirteen, she invented the first shrinking solution and Platter knew she would go far so he took her under his wing. At first there was some angry cries for the wizarding world thought this were old fashion but when she was fifteen and they created the four greatest invisible and visible potions, they quickly quieted. They continued working together until he died. Some say they were lovers.