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

[alt_padma]

I mean not that all Gryffindors are bad (you, for example), but they're not really much for staking out a place for revising, are they?

Anyway, I wonder what He was looking for. I'm sure it was something really incredible and advanced. Maybe it was a way to keep anyone from ever getting sick again, like with Black's Paralysis?

Of course, that would mean St Mungo's could basically close, which would be bad for Haruman. But good for everyone else!

[alt_seamus]

Gryffindor House is not known for being where the swots go. I'll give you that!

I'm sure whatever the Lord Protector was looking for was really important. Maybe its a kind of magic that will find Black once and for all? And everyone who sympathises with him?

[alt_padma]

Well, we don't all have castles and servants, you know! Some of us have to work hard to get ahead.

But yeah, you're probably right! Did you see what Mr Crouch told Mr Malfoy? Oh, that would be wonderful, if they could catch him! We'd all sleep a little safer, I expect.

But we probably shouldn't talk about it in case he sees and takes measures to get away. You wouldn't want to be responsible for that!

[alt_seamus]

You don't really think

I reckon your right, we shouldn't say anything else.