Year One
Chapter 5: Ravenclaw Revolution
Violet Hayden had always been a bit of a bookworm. So when she learned that she would be spending a full nine months away from the muggle world and all of the books in it, she had to pack a few to bring with. Yeah, she was probably going to be busy with school work, but there was always downtime for reading, right?
Upon being sorted into Ravenclaw, Vi discovered a whole world of people like her. Everyone was excited to learn! Everyone loved to read! Everyone wanted to share their knowledge! It was all very inspiring. So when Violet brought out her books a few weeks into the semester, all of her dorm mates were curious. There were a couple of other muggleborns who may have heard of the books, but none of the purebloods had.
Eventually it got to the point where everyone was reading the Mercy Thompson Series. Duplicating charms had been done so that everyone had a copy. However, everyone read at a different speeds and it wasn't uncommon for someone to start chatting to their friend about the part they were on, and for someone nearby to shout, "NO SPOILERS!"
Violet had immense fun with the whole ordeal. She was happy to have others reading the books, so that they could discuss them later and try to figure out what was going to happen in the next one. Several Ravenclaws bemoaned the fact that it was an as of yet unfinished series, but Violet assured them that the next book would be coming out soon. They just had to wait a bit. And really, that was the part that many Ravenclaws had trouble with… waiting. Most of the house were impatient and did not like to wait for others to finish something for them.
And that was how fanfiction was introduced into the Ravenclaw house. Violet mentioned to one of the other first years in her dorm that there were places in the muggle world to read what others thought might happen. Sometimes it was legitimate guessing, and sometimes it was wishes. Either way, that first year went out and told another, who told another, who told their older sibling, who told their friends, and soon the idea of creating fanfiction was rampant in the Ravenclaw Tower.
While some students were still reading the books, some were busy scribbling away ideas for what they thought would happen next. A few of them grouped up to create a mass collaborative effort, and soon other Ravenclaws were greedily reading the fanfiction as though it were the author's actual next part of the story. Pieces of parchment with short excerpts of fanfiction were floating around the tower and it became quite difficult to remember whose fanfiction it went with. That was until a fifth year came up with the idea for a system to label and number every single one. Every piece had to have a title, the author, and a number. There was a rotation circle for who got the parchment when the previous person was finished.
The professors, observant as usual, noticed a lack of quality in the Ravenclaws' work as this was going on. Though, since they were still completing the assignments on time (only writing the assigned twelve centimeters of parchment instead of the usual twenty), no one complained. At the very least, it was less work for them!
However it all came to a head one morning in the Great Hall when two Ravenclaw fourth years were having a shipping war. One said that Mercy and Samuel was better while the other insisted that Mercy and Adam was more logical, because that was the way the story was going. It escalated from simple argument to shouting to standing up and shoving each other to throwing food at each other. While this was happening, other Ravenclaws were joining in on both sides of the debate and soon there was an all out food fight at the Ravenclaw table! Violet, having only just walked in with Madeline stared at the spectacle her housemates were making.
Professors Bedivere, Madhur, Longbottom, and Ciprian were all trying to regain order. Finally, Professor Ciprian cast an Immobulus charm over all of the debators and the staff went about undoing the charm on students one at a time in order to take them from the hall and clean them up. Each student who participated in the food fight lost five points from Ravenclaw resulting in a crushing one hundred and sixty sapphires being taken from the Ravenclaw point counter in the front hall. Each student also had two nights worth of detention cleaning the Great Hall by hand.
Needless to say, the Great Hall received quite a scrubbing, and the Ravenclaws fell to last in the race for the House Cup. Violet, ashamed of her house, took to sitting with the Slytherins for the next week. It was during this time that she made good friends with Allison Longbottom, and the three girls decided to study together for the upcoming Charms exam. Maddy, Vi, and Allison became fast friends over that week, and all three of them passed the Charms exam with extra points on the side. The house of Ravenclaw however, would take a bit longer to regain its dignity.
Authors' Notes: Hey, Ismira here! Sorry about how long this took to upload! Honestly it's been done for a while. I just forgot about it. Hopefully I'll be able to get on a more regular weekly schedule with updating now that summer is here!
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