APOLOGY: For everyone who was waiting for me to upload I am sorry for the delay, I have been in exam season so I haven't had the chance to write more in any of my stories this chapter was mostly written beforehand and I still didn't have the time to finish it. I hope you like it, please review.

A.N: This is also only the first part of Hogwarts description it became too long so it decided to shorten it for an easier read.


Chapter 6

"Tell us about the Education in this world of your we don't have time all day," said Vernon Dursley he was getting annoyed with all this talk. He didn't want a granddaughter who was a witch but he did want to have his family there for him and if he had to live with a witch so be it but he wouldn't be hearing a wizard speak as he was better than him, he didn't like it not one bit.

This outburst earned him a glare from everyone present they were enjoying learning and they could have allowed their children to jump blind into a new world but they didn't that earned their respect beside the boy was nice and everyone liked him.

The young wizard again gave him a very fake smile he didn't seem to like them making everyone wonder why that was but no one wanted to question it" Well an untrained wizard child may perform random bursts of magic intuitively when distressed or excited like one time like I accidentally exploded my birthday cake because I got a present I liked and was super excited." everyone chuckled ant the children looked at each other all of they had done something like that at one point or another in their life so that's what had been" Honing and controlling this into a usable skill like every other skill takes years of education. In Britain, there is no official primary school so parents either home-school their children or send them to Muggle schools until they are of age to move on to formal wizarding education."

"What did you do?" asked one of the children

"I, my siblings and cousins went to a muggle school because our parents wanted us to learn more about that world and believed it would be a little more normal." he then chuckled and said," They forgot to not put all of us in the same school, we caused a lot of trouble."

"So, you are a bad boy." said one of the girls looking at him up and down he had everything from what they were hearing

He pretended not to notice the looks she gave him but did answer" No, but I am a troublemaker and proud of it." he said smirking

The girls giggled at the smirk on his face making him sighed inside it happened all the time girls attraction to him it was usually because of the money, fame, and recognition that came with the last name but he had no interest in either magical or muggle girls and neither of them seemed to be able to understand that.

"Anyway the British school is Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and to get accepted you have to be eleven years on or before 1 September of that year after that, you have to wait for the next year." everyone nodded they all were eleven that is great they wouldn't have to wait another year it wouldn't have been fun they wondered how the others who were witches and wizards did it waiting a year" In Britain, the ability to use magic is automatic grounds for admittance to wizarding school."

"How do they know someone is a Muggleborn it is impossible to see every child under the age of elven right," said Charlotte

"No, it isn't even for us because there are more Muggles than Witches and Wizards to discover if someone is accepted at Hogwarts there is a magical quill. This quill writes down the name of those that are born with magical capabilities. Eleven years after a child's name is entered into the book, a letter is sent to the child's home to explain that they have been accepted into Hogwarts. The homes of Muggle-born wizards used to receive an envoy to explain the situation jaw a teacher goes to tell them and explain the situation as they did with you. Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, located in Scotland, provides education only to students in Britain but like you can decide to go to another country for your studies other people can come to Hogwarts through the cases are very rare most Wizarding communities are very proud about their own school to go somewhere else."

"But there still is an opportunity?" asked one of the mothers

"Yes, there is, for example, three of my cousins whose mother is from France was offered the opportunity to study in France but they refused because despite the French connections they are British witches and are proud of it."

Students may enroll at age eleven and undertake seven years of training in a wide variety of subjects. When education is complete, graduates are considered mature and capable members of the wizarding society. Some subsequent professions, such as Auror, require additional education and training."

"Tell us something about this school." said one of the parents

"Well Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry is the British wizarding school, and its located in the Scottish Highlands. It takes students from Great Britain and Ireland. The precise location of the school can never be uncovered because it was rendered Unplottable. To Muggles, the school looks like an old abandoned castle. Similarly, most wizarding schools locations are protected in order to prevent their ways of teaching being revealed, as well as protect the students and schools themselves from any harm." everyone nodded that made sense and it was a good way to protect the younger generation" The school was established around the 10th century and Hogwarts is considered to be one of the finest magical institutions in the Wizarding World, though other notable schools included Beauxbatons Academy of Magic in France, the Durmstrang Institute in Scandinavia, and Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in the United States, there are more this is just the most famous ones. Children with magical abilities are enrolled at birth and the acceptance is confirmed by owl post at age eleven. However, if the child in question is a Muggle-born, a staff member from the school visits with the child and his or her family in order to inform them of their magical heritage and the existence of the Wizarding World like it has been discussed before. Hogwarts School consists of the large Hogwarts Castle and extensive school grounds surrounding it, which include sloping lawns, flowerbeds, vegetable patches, as well as a lock which is called the Black Lake, a large dense forest which is called the Forbidden Forest and as the name suggested it's forbidden for students to enter, several greenhouses and other outbuildings, and a full-size Quidditch Pitch the most famous sport in our world. One of the castle's towers holds an owlery, which houses all the owls owned by the school and by students."

"Wow." said everyone that school was enormous and they couldn't wait to see it for themselves

"The castle is also set upon huge rocks above a magnificent lake, known as the Great Lake. It's three highest towers are the Astronomy, Ravenclaw, and Gryffindor Towers and they all have magnificent views especially the Astronomy Tower. The castle's 142 staircases are known to change position every so often don't try to memorize because it doesn't work. The castle is known for its many updates and changes in layout throughout the years but it's basically the same as it had been when it was first created many, many centuries ago. It should also be noted that some rooms in the school tend to "move around," as do the steps on the Grand Staircase. The castle has been around for centuries and consequently has a long history of ancient magic.

"So, we won't be finding all its secrets any time soon." said one of the boys, and James Sirius could tell he was a troublemaker in the making him smirk.

"Yes, it's impossible. The school has had numerous charms and spells on and around it that make it impossible for a Muggle to see it as the school rather than what they see only ruins and several warnings of danger. Electricity and electronic devices are also not found at Hogwarts. Due to the high levels of magic, Muggle substitutes for magic, such as computers, radar, and electricity, "go haywire" around Hogwarts. Radios, however, are an exception as they are not powered by electricity, but by magic."

"Well at least we know our children won't be obsessed with technology." said a mother making everyone laugh

"Hogwarts was founded as I said around the tenth century or more precisely around 990 A.D. by four of the greatest wizards and witches of the age or of history for that matter their names were: Godric Gryffindor who created the Gryffindor House which emphasizes the traits of courage as well as daring, nerve, and chivalry, and thus its members are generally regarded as brave, though sometimes to the point of recklessness sometimes Gryffindors have also been said to be short-tempered something I don't agree with it." he said pouting "the other was Helga Hufflepuff who created the Hufflepuff House which values hard work, dedication, patience, loyalty, and fair play rather than a particular aptitude in its members, the third was Rowena Ravenclaw created the Ravenclaw House which prizes learning, wisdom, wit, and intellect in its members. Thus, many Ravenclaws tend to be academically motivated and very talented students through that doesn't mean that they are the only good students in school. They also pride themselves on being original in their ideas, and methods and the last one was Salazar Slytherin created the Slytherin House and they tend to be ambitious, shrewd, cunning, strong leaders, and achievement-oriented. They also have highly developed senses of self-preservation. This means that Slytherins tend to hesitate before acting, so as to weigh all possible outcomes before deciding exactly what should be done. They are usually considered to be the opposite of the Gryffindors making them rivals most of the time in almost everything. Each House has a teacher who themselves had been students of that particular House as their Head of the House and it's the person who you talk to before going to the Headmaster and also, the person who usually gives detentions and punishments to their students through, they do much more. Each House represented an aspect of personality that their founders valued and wanted in their students and traits; they would help them to bring out in their new students. However, shortly after founding the school, Slytherin had a falling out with the other founders about blood purity and wanted to admit only pure-blood students. He felt pure-blooded students deserved to learn magic and those of other ancestries such as Muggle-borns and Half-bloods were unworthy." everyone frowned at that" The other three founders all strongly disagreed, especially Gryffindor."

"I don't think I want to be in Slytherin." said one of the girls shuddering slightly

"Times have changed now you have to remember that that was a time were witches and wizards were being hunted and Hogwarts was more than a school it was also a safe haven for everyone with magic. I am not saying me agree with him, I same a very proud Gryffindor but at the time he did have a point."

'All right saying it like that it made sense.' everyone though

"So, you are brave, courageous, daring, nerve and chivalry." said one of the girls as she and the others had hearts in their eyes

Her father answer she didn't like the look his daughter was going the long man, after all, he was basically engaged from what he had said and he did believe him every girl here had basically thrown themselves at him and he hadn't so much as blinked" He also said they are recklessness and short-tempered."

"Well," he said sheepishly" The first part is correct for every Gryffindor while the second part is more genetic in my case than anything."

"About three hundred years after the school was founded, the Triwizard Tournament was established as an interscholastic competition between three of the most prestigious magical schools in Europe: Hogwarts, Beauxbatons which is in France), and Durmstrang A which no one knows where it is but it is somewhere in the Northern European country. This tournament was considered the best way for wizards and witches of different nationalities to meet and socialize. The tournament continued for six centuries as was discontinued until 1994 to be again disconnected the same year. In the 1920s when there was a Global War going on Hogwarts was one of the safest places in the entire world."

"You said there was a war what happened during that?" asked a parent

"Yes, it lasted for about twenty-five years from 1920 to 1945. But in 1970 until 1981 there was another war that is called The First Wizarding War. During the entirety of the First Wizarding War which caused much distress among the students, Hogwarts Castle was perhaps the only safe haven in wizarding Britain, due to the presence of Albus Dumbledore. Dumbledore had risen to the post of Headmaster and was the only one whom The Dark Wizard was ever afraid of which in my humble opinion is a very reasonable fear."

"Why is that?" asked again the same parent

"Because Albus Dumbledore is to this day the greatest wizard to have ever lived compared only to wizards like Merlin himself."

"Merlin was real?" asked a girl

"Yes, he was but he lived many, many years ago."

Everyone nodded who knows who else did really exist that they thought it was fiction.

"But despite the fact that it was safe is not to say the school was entirely secure after all in a time of war nothing was one-hundred percent secure." the parents nodded it was true that's what happened in a time of war nothing was secure but to be as much safe as possible was the best anyone could do" While the war waged outside the ancient walls of the school and it remained safe from Dark Forces outside the castle. By the end of the 1970s, Lord Voldemort's ascendancy was almost complete. While the Ministry of Magic did their best to both put up a fight as well and keep wizard-kind, safe but they weren't doing much the true resistance to him was being concentrated in the underground organization and only by them. They were the ones that protected muggles and witches and wizards who couldn't do it themselves opposed the Dark Lord and fought him all of that they did it from the shadows instead of wanting praises from it."

"So, what about a typical school year one without a war going on?" asked Natalie Dursley

"A typical school year Term begins on 1 September. Students usually reach Hogwarts via the Hogwarts Express, which leaves from Platform 9¾ of London's King's Cross Station."

"But there isn't a Platform 9¾ there. How could that be?" asked a mother more curious than anything

The wizard just said one word" Magic."

The looks on their faces were totally funny' Duh.'

"The wall between the Platforms 9 and 10 is a barrier with the magic you walk through it to go to the Platform 9¾."

"Oh." said the kids they were all very excited to see it

"The train leaves at 11 a.m. sharp not a second later if you lose it, you lose your chance to go to Hogwarts." every one of the younger gulped making mental notes to go there really, really early something like five or six in the morning or they would just sleep at the train station yes that was a good idea" There are other ways of entering the school, but because of the fact all of you are muggle-borns it would be hard for you to do any of them. Missing the Hogwarts Express for any reason is a very serious problem, it will not cost the student points as long as they get there before the term has officially started. The Hogwarts Express brings the students to Hogsmeade station. First years traditionally cross the Black Lake in boats with the gamekeeper, traveling under an opening in the rocks upon which Hogwarts is built, through a curtain of ivy, and finally into an underground harbor."

"Wow." said the kids it looked beautiful

"Yes, it a very beautiful view." said James Sirius" Older students travel on the road in carriages pulled by Thestrals (invisible to any that haven't witnessed death) to the castle. The Welcoming Feast takes place in the Great Hall. This feast includes the Sorting ceremony where you are put into one of the houses I mentioned earlier, followed by a few words from the current Headmaster or Headmistress at the time. The banquet starts after this, including large quantities of food and drink. The feast is closed with a few more words from the Headmaster or headmistress, including the usual start-of-term notices. And just so you know the food is great and has a lot of diversions so you will have a lot to choose from."

"That's good." said a mother and the others nodded they were worried their children would be eating only junk food well wizard junk food because they were sure there weren't any fast foods there.

"After dinner, like they will do every night after that the students are led to their house common room by a prefect through after that, they have to do it by themselves though that doesn't mean the older student of your house won't help you if you ever need help just ask ok." the others nodded

"What's a prefect?" asked Lola Miller

"A prefect is a title at Hogwarts. The person with this Title is a student who has been given extra authority and responsibilities by their Head of House and Headmaster. One male and one female student is chosen from each house in their fifth year to act as prefects. They would continue to be prefects in their sixth and seventh years until they leave school. There are six prefects per house and twenty-four prefects in the whole school at one time."

"So, the prefects are the best students of their year," asked Charlotte

"Yes, they are those who have the highest grades are well-liked and can control the other students."

"So, are you a prefect?" asked Victoria

"Yes, I am. That's one of the reasons I was asked to do this introduction."

"Is the perfect the highest title you can get as a student?" asked Erin Perry

"No, you can also become a Head Boy or Head Girl, they came in their seventh year they have authority over prefects. Each year, both a Head Boy and a Head Girl are selected by the current Headmaster of Hogwarts. The pair of students are instructed to do duties to assist the school. They lead both the prefects and (in many cases) the entire student body. Through a prefect can become a Head boy/girl but that's not a requirement you can become a Head Boy/Girl even if you hadn't been a perfect before." said the black-haired boy

"Really." said one of the kids so they had a chance even if they didn't become Perfects

"Yes." he said smiling" The walk towards the Common Room is a special time for new students to get comfortable with their surroundings because the next day classes begin right away but for about a week the Professors would forgive you if you are late. The class schedules are handed out during breakfast by the Heads of House. After two weeks of classes, the Quidditch team trials and flying lessons for the first years usually occur. As for Home works, they are is usually assigned to students at the end of classes or at the end of the school term. It is usually completed by students in the: Study Hall, Study Area, Library, their common room I don't advise the last one too much noise on a good day especially if you are a Gryffindor. A homework planner can be used to help students to keep track of all their homework assignments. The planner also tells the students to complete the homework when it is opened. If a student fails to complete the homework or is late in handing it in, he/she could be given detention as a punishment."

The kids groaned great homework again they were hoping they wouldn't have to do them but apparently, school was school no matter where you were.

'Damn it.'