Chapter 21

HOGWARTS

GREAT HALL

AFTER LUNCH

During lunch the students all basically bunched up into a corner of the Great Hall and had a student meeting.

Simple questions like "Is it worth it to cancel all houses?" and statements like "Things will be much simpler if you logically think about it".

Right down to accusations like "I bet everything would still be the same if it was not for the know it all who started it all." (That student met the bad end of about 100 stinging hexes).

It all boiled down to the student deciding that the new student year option was indeed the best way to go and they decided to let their voices be heard right after lunch was finished.

Madam Bones: Well now that we are all fed and watered, I think it is time for our first student to please come forward and be resorted.

Oliver Wood: Excuse me Madam Bones, but we the student body have decided to forgo the resorting and accept the new BY YEAR option available to us.

We feel it brings us closer together as a school and promotes friendships between people who would never be friends otherwise due to the IDIOCY of simply being in a different HOUSE.

We also agree with the point system and the individual merit accumulation.

Furthermore we have decided AS A TEAM that the School prefects must be chosen by their individual merits as a student, NOT their popularity.

We also believe that the new subjects offered to us will be much better for our futures and will be essential in our searches for job opportunities in the normal AND magical worlds.

We also agree with the amendment to the Professors to only be allowed TWO subjects.

On the subject of having devoted House Guardians, we submit the following suggestion.

Parents or guardians who do not have work at the moment due to the war are to be employed on a ROTATING basis between the years.

We also submit the New Year system to be allowed according to accessibility to the students.

The higher years are to be placed in the towers and higher levels where we can be closer to our main subjects.

The lower years are to be placed in the lower levels to be closer to the subject that apply to them more.

We have also decided to have a Spokesperson for the boys and the girls, a "in between man" if you would.

We also suggest that regular study sessions be held in the Great Hall by EVERYBODY as an incentive for the lower years to actually see what awaits them in the years to come.

The higher years feel that it will help in the growth of the student IQ and will boost our current standing in the rating of schools.

We have also planned a get together between us and the Professors to design a MAP of the school and the surrounding area to make it easier for new student to get around.

Lastly, WE have decided to petition the removal of all HARMFUL CREATURES from the Forbidden Forest AND The Black Lake. It is a critical part of our environment BUT we are not allowed to take full advantage of it.

Oliver Wood finished his assigned speech and sat down. It was up to the adults now to decide if the students had valid points or not.

The Press loved every moment of it and all you could hear from their side was scribbling and soft whispers.

The Wizarding Wireless was commenting every other sentence and recording every word spoken.

The attending adults just sat back and thought everything through. This was a huge decision to make and it had to be perfect to even consider it.

At the Head table Arthur Weasley could not be prouder to be the new Headmaster. HIS students were showing their true colours in stepping up to the plate and accepting change as a means to a brighter future.

Arthur Weasley: You have my full support in every point you just made.

I will go above and beyond to see that it works.

I will stand with you until it work if need be and pull just as hard as everybody here to DRAG this school into the future.

BRAVO to you the Student Body for your TEAMWORK in deciding what you all believe to be the best option for YOURSELVES and those to yet follow in your footsteps.

Hogwarts is now indeed a School to be proud of and to fight for to be the best it can be.