XXIV.

[alt_lana]

I'm sure each of you joins me in expressing what a deep honour it was today to welcome Our Lord to Hogwarts. It is a testament to the unparalleled quality of our library that He should require its resources. We have materials available nowhere else in the world, and our library is undeniably the finest and most ancient collection of its kind.

I for one will never enter the library again without thinking what a privilege it is to attend this school which Our Lord Himself attended, an institution unrivaled anywhere.

Comments

I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good

[alt_ron]

Oi!

What does Finnigan even see in her? I mean, she's always on about how Gryffindor's a nothing House, and yet here he is, always answering everything she says.

D'you think she Confunded him? I dunno, back before Christmas hols, maybe.

Re: I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good

[alt_sally_anne]

Well, there's a lot of different ways to be a halfblood.

One of them is to pretend really hard that you're not.

There are some advantages to that approach but the problem is, you have to twist yourself in knots to live that way. He can't stick up for his House because his housemates would accept him for who he really is, and that's not alright because HE doesn't accept himself for who he really is.

Re: I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good

[alt_ron]

Huh?

That doesn't even make sense.

Re: I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good

[alt_sally_anne]

You're a pureblood. I don't expect you'd understand.

Re: I Solemnly Swear That I Am Up To No Good

[alt_neville]

Well, I understand it. And I'm a pureblood.

(Not that I think it makes any difference, really.)