Noticeable Changes 1

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"Talking"

'Thinking'

"Familiar/ Ghosts /Goblins" talking.

'Familiar/ Ghosts/ Goblins' thinking.

'Parseltongue, will/memories'

"Spell" is being used.

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Enjoy.

Broken Shackles

Chapter 8

Noticeable Changes

Harry followed Ravenclaw first year's behind their Prefect, Penelope Clearwater. She is a seventh-year student. Though he knew the entrance for the Ravenclaw Common Room he had to see it officially to know about it.

They came face to face with a Bronze eagle. Harry heard how to open the door by answering a riddle, but for some odd reason, the door swung open, not asking any Riddle.

"Lady Rowena Ravenclaw heartily welcomes Lord Slytherin to her House." Heard Harry in his mind, but others didn't hear it. Harry knew that voice. It was Hogwarts, as it is the same voice that congratulated him when he became the Lord of Slytherin.

With a confused expression, all the first-year students and a lost Prefect walked into the Ravenclaw Common Room.

"Once again, well done on becoming a member of the cleverest, quirkiest and most interesting house at Hogwarts," welcomed the students of Ravenclaw who are in the Common Room and all students applauded welcoming the newcomers.

"All students will have their rooms in Ravenclaw and boys are to the right while girls' dorms are to the left of the stairs. Each floor in the Castle has 1 year in them.

If you are in first year, your room will be on the first floor while the 3rd year will have theirs on the 3rd floor. It increases like that.

We have our Library here as Rowena Ravenclaw is well known for her wisdom. You are allowed to take books to your rooms but not outside the common room." Clearwater said in a stern tone. Every first-year nodded at that.

Harry stayed silent. He is mulling over the voice he had heard. From the moment he stepped into Hogwarts, he felt a small nagging at the back of his mind as if he got connected to something long lost.

He was trying to figure out what it was and decided to go into his Mindscape to investigate tonight. As he was in deep thought, Clearwater completed what she was saying.

"That's it. You can relax now and hope you have a great year at Hogwarts," concluded Clearwater and dispersed everyone. Harry went to his room. As he followed the instructions, there are 10 rooms on each floor, but as students rarely come to Ravenclaw, each student was given their room while in Gryffindor, 4 students use the room.

Harry remembered all the Ravenclaw's in his year. Terry Boot, Michael Corner, Anthony Goldstein, Sue Li, Padma Patil, Lisa Turpin were the names he could remember. With a shrug, he walked up to the door with his name on it in blue letters in a bronze plaque.

He walked into a large room with a four-poster bed in blue and bronze. The four-poster bed was covered in sky blue silk wider downs with navy blue curtains, a wooden nightstand next to it and his trunk at the foot of the bed.

A wooden board was situated on either side of the bed. The sound of wind whistling around the windows was very relaxing to Harry. A wall was decorated with the Ravenclaw crest and the windows had blue curtains can be seen.

The four-poster bed had two shelves at the back of the bed, an owl perch on one side, a small carpet next to the bed and a wooden nightstand at the end of the bed on one side. There was a wooden table with Parchments and quill. Everything expected from a Ravenclaw student was in his room.