A long, long time ago...


"What is there, in this castle?" asked Salazar, getting bored.

"Oh," Helga smiled widely. "Hundreds and hundreds of rooms! Me and Rowena went out to explore one day and we almost got lost! But all of them are really dark and gloomy. Do you want to go and see for yourself?"

The boy looked at each other and nodded. They brought heaps and heaps of wooden sticks to make torches and entered a vast space. It was a grand hall that was absolutely huge. A competition was suggested. It was who could lift their line of torches first is allowed to decide what to do with the abandoned castle. Rowena looked about her and thought, why is everyone lifting the torches up one by one? There are hundreds! So, she took out her wand, and raised her whole line of torches into the air. It was obvious who had won. But everyone just carried on lifting their torches, going out of neat rows. It wasn't to win, it was to light up the huge hall.

"Why don't we make this place into a pretend school?" suggested Rowena.

The others agreed that this was a good idea, good fun too. Years had passed since they had played any sort of game and they felt like it would be a good break from being grown up!

"Rowena," Godric said. "Will be the teacher. Call her...Professor Ravenclaw!"

They all laughed at the name. Such a young lady being called "professor" was almost unheard of! Nevertheless, Rowena taught them a lot of things, a lot of them, the other three did not actually know. But she acted like a good teacher. After all, her dream was to become a real teacher.

"Rowena's a really brilliant one!" laughed Salazar. "Let's make this into a real school!"

"Impossible!" snorted Godric, trying not to laugh. "But let's put up a sign outside the front door! What shall we call this school?"

"Hogwarts Wizarding School," Rowena said the first thing that came into her head.

The others laughed some more but used the name!