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Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry Challenge [Study of Ancient Runes] – scene; concept; death; discussion; housing; advice; blood
Misunderstood Importance
Hogwarts was old, older than anyone alive today. Her only constant companion through the years, the decades, had been the Sorting Hat and she had been around for longer than he had too.
The Founders and their immediate children and grandchildren had been the only ones that had conversed and discussed with her what went on within the school. As the years passed that ability had been lost to the many headmasters and headmistresses as they came and passed from her halls, they had all believed her unable to give advice on any situation that seemed to face them.
The concept of her being sentient was not something that surprised them, however, the concept of her being able to speak seemed unthinkable to them. She had seen everything that had passed through her walls and remembered everything, all the blood spilt, all the death meted out, all the laughter, all the joy, each and every little and seemingly insignificant scene that had ever taken place was known to her.
She wished that the headmasters and headmistresses realized at some point that she was not just another form of intelligent housing that had been spelled by magic to be able to only vaguely sense them and remain unable to think for herself like those other schools she had heard of in Europe.
There had been rumours of magic being collected every time those buildings had been built but it was never the right sort of magic or if it was, not powerful enough to create anything remotely as sentient as she was.