Chapter 572 - Gathering the Snakeling’s (2/2)
A warm fire crackles under an elaborately carved mantelpiece as an elegant area filled with luxury leather chairs and sofas, and luxury carved tables with marble gob stone boards for playing or simply for studying are skillfully placed throughout the common area. Stylish cupboards hold items for common use such as quills and so forth, while grand tapestries hang as decorations demonstrating valiant Medieval Slytherins. Strangely enough there are window-like areas that reveal the outside lake as the occasional fish darts past.
Seeing that most of the first years and transfer students are finally paying attention to her again, Rowan says, ”Now, I'm sure that all of you will encounter Peeves, the Poltergeist sooner or later. But he largely leaves us alone as he is terrified of the Bloody Baron. But just in case, I'll teach you a handy spell later on to get rid of him.”
Seeing them rather sleepy, Rowan eyes Severus who is standing by the Slytherin staircase. ”Now the one standing over there is my twin brother, and he'll show the boys to your dorms.”
”Yes, Prefect Prince,” the boys said, before neatly filing away towards Severus in a line.
Severus just stares at Rowan as if silently asking, ”Just what did you do to them? I was only gone fifteen minutes at most!”
Rowan ignores Severus's accusing glare and motions for the girls to follow her up the stairs. ”All the first-year dorms are on the lower flight levels. Your names will be written on a sliver plaque. Please carefully read the plaque to find your dorm.”
”The first years may go, first,” Rowan sternly said. ”And I know you're all excited but tomorrow will be a long day. Make sure to get some rest. We will be waiting for you in the common room area no later than seven. I would like to have all of you eat breakfast on time, have time to study your school schedule, and if you forgot anything there is still time to come back to the Slytherin quarters.” The girls hastily do as they are told as the last of the dorm room doors close.
Seeing the puzzled expressions of the second- and third-year girls, Rowan slowly said, ”As for the second and third years, the same rules are applicable except that you will be sharing with dormmates already settled in. I think you all know exactly what I mean by that. As such, I expect all of you to properly behave. If there is a problem with your new dorm mates please come to me first and I will do my best to offer a solution, before resorting to transferring said individual to another dorm room.
And especially as some of you girls are older than your same year compatriots, I expect you all to properly behave yourselves.” The older fourteen-year-old and fifteen-year-old girls blush knowing exactly what she was referring too.
Seeing that the girls knew what she meant, Rowan said, ”The second-year dorms are on the lower first levels like the first years, while the third-year dorms are on the next higher floors. I do not mind you chatting for a bit to get to know your new dorm mates, but I expect all of you to be sound asleep within an hour from now. Now off you go.” The girls quickly rush off and soon vanish into their dorms.
Glancing at her watch Rowan sees that it is ten till ten. She still had two more hours to go that she still had to stay up for. Yawning, she pulls out a book from her pocket and leans against the wall to read. She would check up on them again in thirty minutes.
The first years were sound asleep passed out in their beds. Slytherins were a lot tougher in that way. However, according to rumors, Hufflepuff tended to have the highest amount of first years feeling homesick. But who knew if that was true?
Rowan paused once or twice to tuck in a foot or an arm, before moving to check on the second year and third year girls. The girls were quietly chatting with their new roommates, the old getting to know the new and vice-a-versa.
The Slytherin, both male and female dorms for the second and third years had been moved around. There was an old pair of roommates in each dorm, but the other pair had been transferred to another dorm room to allow for a pair of new students to be transferred. It was to ensure friendsh.i.p.s between the transferring students and the already attending students. There were bound to be problems, but hopefully time would resolve most of them.
Thankfully, when Rowan went to check on the girls again half an hour later, all the younger years were sound asleep. Yawning, she dozed against the wall until the other hour was up. Stumbling she somehow makes it to bed and half-asleep undressed. Tiffany, Silvia, and Bethanie were sound asleep in their beds with the bed curtains pulled all around them that they did not even sense her come in.
Too tired to even think about the events earlier in the day, Rowan falls sound asleep into bed and begins to snore. She had had a long day and was just pooped. She would be lucky if she got any real rest the rest of the week with everything that was going on. And if she ever managed to get her hands on and around Slughorn's neck, she would wring his thick neck until he chocked!