Chapter 22

Hogwarts

Great Hall

After lunch

Headmaster Arthur Weasley sat in his chair at the head table with the biggest and brightest smile on his face.

His life turned from mediocre to brilliant in the space of a few hours and he couldn't be happier about it.

He was close to the matter close to his heart, his children and their futures.

He was also in the position to see that future bloom into something to be proud of.

AND THEN IT CAME TO A BRILIANT HIGH POINT.

Oliver Wood was a good kid. He was shy but brave and he portrayed his role as spokesperson perfectly.

All the point the students raised was valid to the point of being painfully brutal and honest.

They had clearly thought their questions and suggestions through and planned the execution of their speech out to the last word.

Flawless simplicity and efficiency.

ARTHUR JUST HAD TO SMILE AND BE PROUD.

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

These were not just empty words, they had meaning to the family man and he would be damned if ANYBODY tried to take it away from them now.

He stood at the forefront of a new era and he would fight tooth and nail to see it through to the end of his days.

The Weasley kids stood to the side and watched as their father addressed the crowd in the Main Hall.

Persey Weasley was a stout student and believed in rules. He stood proud and looked his fellow students in the eye, almost challenging them to say something about his father.

Fred and George Weasley were naughty little shits, but they also stood proud and beamed 100Kw smiles at everybody who looked their way.

Ronald Weasley… now here was your perfect example of a science experiment gone wrong OR being switched at birth.

He stood with his hands on his hips and declaring that he was now somehow more special than the rest of the school seeing as though his FATHER IS NOW THE HEADMASTER.

The pompous prick had the bad end of over a hundred wands pointed at him in a matter of a second and sadly was not clever enough to shut up at that moment.

He was however spared the trip to the infirmary when his father stopped the assault on him and assigned him to a whole years' worth of detentions which included a night with every professor available and every after school class on offer after that.

The great hall soon cleared after that as it was decided to have a semi break for the teachers and students to get a hang of the new system. Students were to write essays about how they would make their year group better and how they saw the experience to better their time in school.

Older year students were assigned PREP TESTS from previous years to study and keep their minds on graduating or be prepared for their OWL's and NEWT's.

Arthur Weasley ordered his youngest son to follow him to his new office which sat to the left of the Grand staircase.

Arthur Weasley: I have never been this disappointed in ANY person in my whole life!

You stand there as if everybody owes you something.

Your punishment fits the crime and I for one will be the first person you will have a detention with.

You might be my son Ronald, but that gives you NO RIGHT to act like a pompous arse towards your fellow students.

I did not raise you to be like this and I will not stand for it.

You will have detentions until you learn your mistake and come to me with a proper excuse, not a simple "I'm sorry dad".

Mippy, please escort my son to his new rooms with his fellow students.

Mippy: Yes sir.

A smaller than usual House Elf appeared at the call of her name and escorted Ron to the 1st year boys rooms on the 1st floor.

The rooms were situated in the bottom part of the West tower.

Magic was an awesome aid when rooms had to be made in a matter of a few hours.

The setup was simple and worked out even better when the students actually entered their rooms.

Boys to the left and girls to the right, meaning the girls were in the East tower.

The Castle simply moved all their belongings into the already existing rooms there and assigned TWO students to a room. (Very much like the old Ravenclaw room system)

The Castle also kept the Ravenclaw system and put up a board at the top of the Grand stair case to show which team had the best score to their names in regards to their progress in school and extra activities.

Harry Potter and Terry Boot currently held the top spots for all years… current and past up to the year 1590, where a student by the name of Andre Kokker took the lead from them. He invented the spell for curing the common hick up.

Ron was not a happy camper and made it known by being very hard handed with the little House Elf as he pushed past her to get to his room.

Mippy fell backwards and hit her head hard against the wall, causing her to shout out in pain and grab hold of her head.

Harry was there in the blink of an eye and held the little Elf close to him, pouring his magic into her to make her feel better.

Ron: Simple elf, can't look where its walking!

Harry's magic was swirling around him and he found it VERY hard not to lash out with it and smack the shit out of the prick Ronald Weasley.

As it stood Harry had to concentrate hard to heal Mippy from her head wound.

Harry: You utter moron!

Ron: Who are you calling a moron? It's not my fault that thing can't watch where it's going!

Harry: I find that statement highly questionable.

Ron: Are you calling me a liar?

Harry: Yes I am calling you a liar AND a moron! I'm also calling you a bloody bully!

Headmaster: What is going on here? Mr Potter why is your magic leaking out and what happened to our House Elf?

Ron: That thing didn't look where it was walking and bumped into me when I entered my room.

It then fell back and hit its head.

Potter here is only trying to play the bloody hero again and unsettle things.

Headmaster: Language Ronald, and that will be 5 points for every time you called Mippy an IT and 10 points for bad language. A further 10 points for actually down talking a fellow student and false accusations.

Ron: WHY? I did nothing wrong!

Headmaster: Harry? Would you mind retracting your magic please? It is scaring the rest of the attending students.

Harry: I am sorry everybody, I did not mean to scare anybody. Bullies tend to bring out the BEST in my temper.

Harry said this while he looked Ron straight in the eye. He slowly focused his magic to flow back into his core and settle down.

Headmaster: That is quite alright Mr Potter, now would you mind letting Mippy out from your arms so she can give her side of the story?

Harry looked down at the scared House Elf in his arms and raised an eyebrow, silently asking her if she wanted to do it.

Mippy nodded her head slowly moved out of the protective area in Harry's arms.

Mippy: I was bringing Mr Weasley to his room like the Headmaster asked me to, when he shoved me away from the door and into the wall behind us and simply entered without even looking to see what his action did. He simply blamed me for not looking where I was walking.

I took a bad knock to my head and could not stand anymore. My head was also bleeding from the force.

Mr Potter rushed to my aid and began to heal me with his very own magic.

An act which is considered a very high blessing to receive from a wizard by an Elf.

I belong to Mr Potter now and will follow him to the end of my days.

Thank you Master Potter.

There was a stunned silence for a few seconds as everybody considered the little House Elf's words and the situation which caused it.

Ron: Just bloody great! Now the bloody git gets to have his own bloody elf as well! When will you all stop and see that he is just a bloody fraud?

Headmaster: Ronald Bilius Weasley, you will remove yourself to my office this instant and wait for me there.

Mr Potter, as the Head of the Weasley Clan and the Headmaster of the school, I humbly apologize for the way my son has acted towards you in this matter.

I truly have no idea why he is acting in this manner and I will not rest until I find THAT reason.

Harry: Apology accepted Headfmaster, please keep me informed if you find THAT cause.

As for the slight against me, I demand that Ronald be kept apart from the current students until such time that he can be a productive student. SO MOTE IT BE.

Headmaster: (sigh) SO MOTE IT BE.

Please excuse me while I go and try to get to the bottom of this.

Harry simply nodded his head and took Mippy back into his arms.

Harry: How are you feeling Mippy?

Mippy: I am a little light headed Sir, but I will be better soon. Thank you for caring for me the way you did, it will honour my family to know that you adopted me into your House in this manner.

Harry: It will always be my pleasure to take care of you and all the other Elves here.

It is in fact my sworn duty to do so to you and all other Magic beings.

Mippy: We were told that Magic has chosen a new Champion.

I am truly blessed to be by your side now and my standing with my family will go down in history!

Harry: Please go to my personal Elf and have her look you over and fit you for a uniform for the Potter House.

Mippy: Yes Sir.

And with that Mippy "popped" out and right to where Sparky was waiting for her at Potter Manor.

It would be a while before she would be fit enough to return to work again.

She had almost as much damage done to her as what Sparky had when Harry called for her the first time and Sparky would be damned if she let the poor girl Elf return to work outside of being 100% healthy.