Settling In

My first day at Hogwarts started well. I'd been in my mind all night reading through my mental library as usual and left my room at a healthy 6.30am. Surprisingly, quite a few of the older students were already up and milling about. I waited in the common room for Daphne to join me which she did only a few minutes later.

"Ready to explore?" I asked her.

She nodded enthusiastically with an excited smile. "Of course!"

Before we could leave however, Penelope, who was already here and reading over what looked like her summer homework spoke up before we could leave. "I'll have to stop you two there." She said, looking over to us. "You'll have to wait for the other first years and then I'll be showing you all where all your classes will be, along with other important areas." She said.

Daphne and I both frowned.

"You will have the afternoon free to explore." She continued commiseratingly. "Just make sure you're back in the great hall for dinner so I can bring you back to Ravenclaw Tower." She finished. I nodded to her.

Unfortunate. I don't trust the other first years to get up anytime soon and I didn't want to have to wait for them either. Then I smiled. Simple problems require simple solutions.

"Be right back." I whispered to Daphne quickly.

She nodded and I left back to my room. Obviously, I can't go into the other first year's rooms, there are protections against that. But that protection is done by the castle, not the students themselves. It's not foolproof. That gives me a little leeway in what I can do. See, I can cast spells anywhere my soul can reach. It's harder to do, but not a difficult feat after practice.

I walked down the first year's hallway and spreading my soul sense to all the first years, cast overpowered reviving charms on them all. Funnily enough, a few of them were already awake and dozing off again. I placed the spells on them slowly so that they were brought to wakefulness gradually, not being suddenly jolted awake. The amount of strength I put in the charms, however, ensured they wouldn't be able to go back to sleep anytime soon.

I smiled to myself at the success. Then, a combination of the compulsion charm to hurry them along and the confounding charm to mask the former, I could reasonably expect everyone in my year to be up and ready within half an hour.

Downstairs again, I sat with Daphne to chat while we waited. Soon enough all the first years were down in the common room and we all left, following Penelope like little ducklings. With my prodigious mind, I had already constructed a model of Hogwarts in my mindscape that I would expand as I explored, as had Daphne, but I can't reasonably expect the others in our year to do the same, hence Penelope guiding us.

Our first destination was breakfast. Sitting at the Ravenclaw table in the great hall, we ate as the hall gradually filled with students. Small talk was made and we received our timetable from Flitwick towards the end. Looking through it, I couldn't help but smile.

We barely have any classes. 4 classes a day for an hour each, a few double classes scattered throughout the week. 20 hours a week of actual classes is nothing. Sure there will be homework, but I've already prepared for that having anticipated stupid amounts of it. The only annoying part of the schedule is astronomy which is at midnight on Wednesdays. Not a problem with my need to sleep, or lack thereof, but for everyone else it will suck.

"Good schedule." I commented idly.

Daphne agreed with me judging by her relieved expression. "Indeed. There's plenty of time for whatever we wish outside of classes." She said, anticipating a full workload and full of relief to have her expectations dashed.

"Are you sure you're reading the same thing as me?" Michael butted in, looking mildly horrified as he read over his copy of the schedule.

I looked at him weirdly, as did several others. Padma scoffed disapprovingly at him. "You're just lazy Michael." She said, the rest of us nodding along with her.

Michael looked around and deflated slightly, finding no one siding with him. I chuckled, joined by everyone else as he curled in on himself in embarrassment. The rest of breakfast continued placidly, nothing of note happening. I did finally get to see Hedwig from across the hall. She joined Harry to ransack his bacon. She's very noticable as the only snowy owl at Hogwarts.

"Ready to go?" Questioned Penelope once we'd finished, receiving a round of nods before beginning to lead us around the castle. The tour of the castle was uneventful and time consuming. The castle is conscious, liking to play with the students. It hindered us a few times with the moving staircases, changing corridors and the worst offender, Peeves! That little shit pelted us with coloured water balloons and dung bombs at one point. 

The even more annoying point about Peeves is he can't be banished. I scanned him with soul sense and I could tell exactly what he was. He's a part of Hogwarts itself. There's no way to get rid of him short of destroying Hogwarts entirely. There's no way to even cut him off from Hogwarts either. His existence doesn't just depend on Hogwarts, he is a part of it on a fundamental level.

He's a poltergeist as we all know, but poltergeists are usually malicious whereas Peeves is merely mischievous and likes to cause chaos. After scanning him, I figured out why that is. He's a chaos spirit born from the chaotic emotions of all the residents of the castle since its creation. Regular poltergeists are usually born from excess emotions and magic that linger in an area, passively radiated by magicals. They're usually malicious in nature due to the darker and heavier emotions that create them.

Not sure what happens to the darker emotions here though, they're not part of Peeves. Maybe the castle filters them out somehow, or they're simply drowned out by the difference in scale between the darker emotions and the chaotic mass of regular childish emotions. Childish jealousy has nothing on real deep seated jealousy after all. Maybe this is already taken into account and they get channelled somewhere like the Chamber of Secrets. I can't wait to find out!

When the tour we received finally ended just before lunch, I was feeling especially antsy to go explore on my own and get away from these children. I already expected that we wouldn't mesh well simply due to the difference in maturity and experience, but it seems I overestimated my tolerance. I'll need to build my tolerance to immaturity it seems. I need some time to myself. I'm just lucky that Daphne is very mature. I know I wasn't at her age in my previous life. I was actually a bit of a prick back then.

Lunch in the great hall was delicious and we all had the afternoon free to do whatever we wanted. I would be exploring Hogwarts. I don't know what the others are planning and I'm not interested in finding out either.

When I was finished eating, I turned to Daphne. "I'm going to explore Hogwarts. Are you coming with me or do you have other plans?" I asked.

She pondered for a moment. "I want to go with you Draco, but I also want to catch up with Susan, Hannah and Tracey." She said, feeling torn.

I smiled at her. "Go join them," I said immediately.

"Are you sure?" She asked, uncertain.

"Hahaha." I chuckled. "Daphne, it's fine. It's one afternoon there's plenty of time. I would like some time to myself anyway, so this is perfect. Go hang out with them and I'll see you at dinner." I said reassuringly.

She smiled at me and did just that, going over to the Hufflepuff table and joining up with her friends as they were about to leave. I watched her group leave the hall and looked around the table. No one was paying close attention to me, so I took this as my time to leave. I didn't want to be swept up into whatever they were planning after this.

I left the hall by myself and tapped a rune on my stealth ring, disappearing from the world. I didn't feel like being bothered in case I ran into teachers, Peeves or the Weasley twins. I also don't know how close a watch Dumbledore keeps on the students. Better to take precautions just in case.

I wandered the corridors by my lonesome and the thing that stood out most starkly as I was scanning and mapping everything I could was just how massive Hogwarts is. The castle was already big from the outside, but with magic involved? Well, I've seen Newt Scamander's trunk in the movies.

Hogwarts is jam-packed with spatial magical effects from spells, wards, enchantments and even the castle itself which bends and twists space however it pleases. Just from walking through the many side halls, my repertoire of space related magic and comprehension of space is increasing at a phenomenal rate. 

Thankfully, the main areas are rather static and don't move around. The main hallways of the different floors, the great hall, the hospital wing etcetera, all the important places essentially. My soul sense has told me that much. As long as you stick to those areas, getting lost is difficult. Of course, unless Hogwarts itself is playing tricks.

But everything outside the main areas? The side paths, the many secret passages I'm feeling, the countless unused rooms? I can feel Hogwarts shifting and changing them around. It's almost like watching a timelapse of tree roots growing with many branches and limbs. If the tree was some kind of strange primordial entity at any rate.

Hogwarts shifts itself through different dimensions as well. there can be one broom closet and three broom closets in the same physical position at the same time, only in different spatial dimensions. It's fascinating to observe.

My soul sense has a radius of a few hundred metres at this point, plenty large enough to cover the mansion at home. Hogwarts though? Not a chance. It's just too big. Luckily, soul sense is only affected by 'real' space so if I come across a hallway that's longer than it has any right to be, my soul sense isn't hindered by its warped nature. The same with expanded spaces. Artificially created dimensions like Newt's trunk still count as real space, so Hogwarts still has a much larger 'real' area than from the outside.

My grin never left me as I wandered through the side paths, documenting everything in my mind's model of Hogwarts. The more I see, the more I realise this will be a time consuming project. Is Hogwarts shifting randomly or are there patterns to it? I just don't know, but I'm determined to find out.

I started on the ground floor as I'd just left the great hall and moved down through the dungeons first. I was hoping to find something interesting. And I did. The dungeons are only minimally inhabited by the Slytherins, Hufflepuffs and the kitchens, the rest being disused rooms that were caked in dust, getting worse the deeper I went.

At one point, I found a spiral staircase that went downwards behind a wall. I had to press a specific brick to open it and wouldn't have found it without my bullshit advantages. I thought the dungeons were the lowest floor, but apparently not. The floor below was just another extension of them. At this point, the braziers and torches that illuinated the castle were no longer lit and I had to rely on myself to see.

It wasn't a problem for me, I lit each hallway in its entirety as I went through with little balls of light. It was pretty creepy down here, though there wasn't much to see. The entire floor was caked in centuries old grime and dust and I eventually returned to the staircase. This wasn't the final floor.

Curious at what I would find, I descended again. Yet another empty floor greeted me, just like the one above. I explored it briefly but thoroughly before I descended another time, only to find more of the same. At this point, I had toured 3 separate floors in about an hour and a half and didn't want to waste more time here, but I did finally discover what I was missing before.

The many floors under the dungeon proper were not considered main areas by the castle, and so shifted and changed to its whims. The whole area was seemingly infinite with that spiral staircase as the focal point. It was hard to deduce simply due to the scale of it. I had to scan 3 floors thoroughly before figuring it out, and there were many, many more.

I'm not sure if it really does go down infinitely, but it's not something that can be explored in one afternoon. I'll have to revisit this place at some point, I'm sure I'll find some interesting things if I keep looking.

During this exploration, I figured out the mystery of Peeves' missing dark emotions. All of the darker and heavier emotions are funnelled down into the dungeons. These dark hallways are oppressive and give off low levels of heavy emotions that try to stick to you. Not in an active way but simply from proximity. This area is heavily saturated. I did find a few dark creatures like boggarts, but they were staying where they were, loving their current habitats.

I guess that's one mystery solved, although I was a little disappointed. I wanted it to be harder to figure out. I paused and snorted to myself. If it was anyone but me, it wouldn't have been so easy.

I threw that thought from my mind as I ascended back up. The second to the sixth floors didn't have anything like the dungeon's mysterious infinite floors, but they were plenty interesting by themselves. I found plenty of things: The entrance to the chamber of secrets, unused rooms, secret passages etc. I even found an honest to Merlin tree on an island surrounded by water in a secret passage. Hogwarts is wacky I tell you!

These floors all had the same general outline with the main areas in the castle being static, but all the side paths and lesser used areas were shifting around to a rhythm only Hogwarts knew. It was fascinating. 'I think I'm in love with the castle,' I thought, the glint of obsession entering my eyes.

The seventh floor was next. I looked around the main areas thoroughly during my exploration and found more fixed places than on the previous floors. It's to be expected though. The headmaster's office was on this floor along with the entrances to the three tallest towers: Ravenclaw Tower, Gryffindor Tower and the Astronomy Tower.

Their being on this floor necessitated ease of access, and I think the castle knew that as it kept those areas as they were. I did find the Room of Requirement next to the tapestry of Barnabas the Barmy. I didn't enter, but I did walk past three times requesting the room of hidden things and watched as a door just suddenly appeared on the wall.

Fascinating. This is an entrance to a completely independent space, a kind of portal physically anchored to this wall. Marvellous! I only took a quick peek and left it for another time. This is my preliminary exploration. I'll have time later.

I finally ended my tour at the top of the astronomy tower. I couldn't get into Gryffindor Tower just yet and I already had access to Ravenclaw Tower, so that left the Astronomy Tower. There wasn't much of note in the tower itself though. It's used too frequently for Hogwarts to play around with its internal structure, so it's left as a regular tower.

I found myself leaning against the railings, smiling as I admired the view. Despite this tower's relatively mundane nature, the view more than makes up for it. The sun was setting on the horizon, bathing the scenery in an orange glow. The lake, the distant mountains, the forbidden forest. All could be seen from here and it was beautiful. I could feel any lingering tension from the past couple of days leaving as I took it all in.

I stayed there for a while just admiring the view before checking the time and heading down to dinner. Now that I know Hogwarts better, I wouldn't need a guide to escort me. I'll still follow Penelope back for this first week to keep up appearances, but after that, I'll have free reign.

I settled onto the bench in the great hall with Anthony on one side and Daphne on the other as we dug into our food. It wasn't as extravagant as yesterday's feast, but it could still be called a feast in the literal sense.

"So where were you today Draco? You left before we could catch you." Anthony asked me, Michael and Terry nodding in agreement.

"Exploring the castle, obviously." I said. "Hogwarts is fascinating! There are so many places to explore!" I said excitedly.

He nodded. "I'll have to see it later. We didn't want to get lost on our first day." He said, seeming disinterested. I paid his baffling lack of enthusiasm no mind, already expecting similar.

"Yes, it's very easy to get lost in this place." I said. "But if you stick to the main areas, you should be fine." I added, giving them a little advice. Terry and Michael who were listening in thanked me before going back to their conversation.

"What about you Daphne? What did you do today?" I asked.

She smiled brightly. "The girls and I toured the grounds outside. It was a lovely day and we didn't want to waste it, not to mention the grounds are beautiful." She said.

"Sounds nice, I'll have to have a look myself some time." I said idly.

She nodded enthusiastically. "You should. I know you enjoy nature." She said. I nodded in agreement. I do find walking through natural environments relaxing.

"I also introduced the girls to eachother. Padma, Lisa and Mandy get along well with the Hufflepuff group. I'm glad I introduced them. I think we'll have study sessions together once school starts." She said, happy all her friends get along.

I smiled. "Good. That's good. Make sure you enjoy yourself." I said, lowering my voice a little. "I'll resume your training after the first week, but don't jeopardise your time with friends. I want you to enjoy yourself, there's no rush." I said.

Daphne's soft smile warmed my heart. "Thank you." She whispered.

I chuckled. "It's fine. Your obsession with magic rivals my own, so I understand where you're coming from, but don't let it get in the way of living your life." I said, imparting some words of wisdom.

She nodded in agreement and no more was said on the topic. "So what did you find?" She asked, her voice low.

She doesn't know about my soul cultivation technique obviously, but I know she suspects something strange. She at least knows that I see far more than others from our lessons. Plus, I've been instructing her in the usage of her newfound soul related abilities. Her progress has been faster than I expected, but she's not naturally attuned to the soul like I am.

This doesn't matter overmuch. She's a hard worker. Plus, the more she practises, the more attuned she becomes, building up an affinity where there previously was none. It's akin to someone with no affinity for ice magic spending years in the Arctic practising ice spells. They're bound to develop a closeness with the element eventually.

I turned serious for a moment, replying whisperdly. "Many things. Hogwarts is alive." I said, stressing the word. "I'll give you a full rundown later, but the crux is that outside the main areas of the castle, Hogwarts' structure is fluid and constantly changing, the space constantly shifting. Wait till we have more privacy back in the common room and I'll explain more." I said.

The look she gave me was hungry, her obsession with magic making itself known. It's only gotten worse since I started teaching her. I'm not any better myself. I know I get the same expression or worse whenever I come across new magic. Hogwarts is the perfect place to fuel and sate it. I'm glad I chose to come here.

She took a deep breath and nodded, visibly restraining herself from bombarding me with questions. Then Padma pulled her into a conversation happening and we left all magic related conversations for later as we ate dinner.

Back in the common room, Daphne and I sat together off to one side as I shared with her what I found. She wouldn't be able to understand everything I could see without seeing it for herself, but I did my best to relay it all. She's such a good student, instantly understanding complex concepts that others would have difficulty with. I find it a joy to teach her. I'm glad I chose to take her under my wing.

A lot of fanfictions have the MC go at it alone. I don't want to be like that. Sharing a passion with someone is a wonderful experience, and I don't need to worry about her spilling secrets everywhere or someone getting into her head. Who wants to be alone all the time anyway? I was alone in my previous life, and I don't want to go back to how I was. So I tried my best with Daphne, elevating her far beyond what she would have achieved otherwise, simply to have someone who understood me.

The way her eyes lit up in fascination as I described the things I found told me I made the right decision. Eventually, though, it was time to retire for the night. Classes start tomorrow and everyone needed a good night's sleep.

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The next day was a Monday, the beginning of the week and our new life as students began. Our first class was charms with the Hufflepuffs. Professor Flitwick stood on stacks of books for elevation and began enthusiastically.

"Welcome to charms class students! I'm Professor Flitwick. Now, one of the most rudimentary skills for a wizard is levitation. The ability to make objects fly..." He began, launching into a lecture on charm. He kept it fun, throwing funny little anecdotes in and laughing with the students as he explained its mechanics. He really knew how to keep a class engaged.

When it came time to attempt the spell, there were a lot of flailing wands and butchered words. The incantations are already butchered Latin, but some of these kids' pronunciations...

I've never used incations before and I don't plan to start now. When the first two people succeeded, I followed, keeping a low profile but still being seen as talented. I don't want to be viewed as average, that would just suck.

I actually paid attention to the class. The first day at magic school is an experience I won't repeat. Even if it's stuff I mastered years ago, I still want the full immersive experience. The class ended with no homework. Well, we were told to practise, so no homework for me at any rate.

The next class was transfiguration. The class stuck together as we moved through the halls, no one needing to run off between classes. The two groups of girls Daphne befriended mingled together, talking about the previous class and giggling occasionally. I stayed out of that for my own sanity.

I stood to the side of the enlarged group, only minimally part of it. I didn't really fit in with the boys my age in the group. They were making small talk that I chimed in on here and there when brought into the conversation, but was content to be left out. They were still in the phase of girls being icky and farts are the funniest thing to grace the earth. To be fair to them, farts are funny, but not to that extent.

The class settled in and McGonagall leapt off the table as a cat, transforming in a whirl of magic into a person before our eyes. I have to admit, that was skilful. There was no 'landing', she transformed at exactly the perfect height to continue her momentum in stride. The class was transfixed by her entrance.

"Transfiguration is some of the most dangerous magic you will learn at Hogwarts. If I catch anyone messing around, you will leave and not come back. You have been warned." She said her opening, warning us with a severe countenance. "Transfiguration is a difficult branch of magic. Perhaps the most exacting discipline some of you will learn. It is rule heavy and precise..." She launched into her lecture, flicking her wand to the blackboard, diagrams of pseudo-math appearing as she spoke.

Like the last class, I paid attention, although I was much more frowny during this. It's a good thing I already started teaching Harry and Daphne, otherwise they'd have notions put in their minds about limits and rules. Magic doesn't have limits. It doesn't have rules. It does have ways it prefers to work, but they're not so much rules as guidelines. Unwise to go against them, but it can be done.

For instance: the impossibility of conjuring food. Speaking plainly, this is bullshit. The way transfiguration works is that the more knowledge you have about what you're transfiguring, the less energy you need to expend to do so. That's why changing the shape of something is the easiest form of transfiguration. It's barely transfiguration, more a shape changing charm, but it does fall into the transfiguration branch of magic.

Changing a stone cube to a stone sphere of the same mass requires very little magical energy. You don't have to understand anything at all to do it. Changing a match to a needle, our first lesson, requires greater knowledge. The knowledge here doesn't mean atomic theory. Of course, that helps in bringing down the energy requirements, but not as much as you would think.

Part of the knowledge here is the familiarity with the object being transfigured, before and after. Jimmy Hendrix could probably conjure a perfectly working guitar on his first try if he was a wizard. A seamstress would have little trouble with a needle as well.

It goes further than just that however. While knowing atomic theory helps and familiarity with the objects or material helps even further, those things are minor. The main part of the knowledge needed is much more esoteric. The Identity of the object. Its Purpose.

For instance: A gramophone's Purpose is to play music. Its Identity is a music player. Of course, the more you know about how it works, what it's made of and how familiar you are with it all contribute to lessening the difficulty. But it's impossible to conjure one if you don't know what a gramophone is to begin with.

It's all very complicated and metaphysical in nature, but that's magic for you. These silly equations McGonagall is writing on the board with variables like viciousness (resistance to change), wand power, unknown variable X, etcetera make it easier for beginners to learn, but it's also restrictive and misleading.

I found it all very silly. All you need to perform transfiguration is to keep the imagery of the start and end product firmly in mind along with associated meanings and information. The more the better.

Just about the only thing I agree with her on would be that different sizes are more energy intensive to make work. Transfiguring a match into a dragon requires a ludicrous cost as opposed to using a boulder. The same goes for the opposite. Of course, the bigger something is, the more magic it uses as well just from the sheer mass being changed.

Anyway, that's why rules are mere guidelines. It IS possible to conjure food, but it depends a lot more on the knowledge of atomic theory than most other works of magic. I can't do it either. Food is very, very complex concerning its chemical makeup. Not to mention things like bacteria and whatnot. I'm not an organic chemist.

Transfiguration ended with no one changing the matchstick into a needle, and of course homework. Summarising the first chapter of the dense textbook into 10 inches of parchment. *Sigh...* good thing I already prepared for this.

We had lunch next and then met up in the dungeons for our first potions class. Now I wasn't expecting much, but it was still worse than all my expectations. We all sat inside, waiting for Snape to enter. Already, I noticed many things wrong. No ventilation, no windows, no safety gear around and above all, the place was filthy. Absolutely filthy.

Grime caked the floor, walls and ceilings. And the smell... Just about the only clean things were the desks and cauldrons. Even then, the desks were barely passable. Then Snape burst through the door, his cloak billowing behind him dramatically. I wasn't impressed.

"You are here to learn the subtle science and exact art of potion-making. As there is little foolish wand-waving here, many of you will hardly believe this is magic." Be began softly, the opening of his famous speech.

"I don't expect you will really understand the beauty of the softly simmering cauldron with its shimmering fumes, the delicate power of liquids that creep through the human veins, bewitching the minds, ensnaring the senses... I can teach you how to bottle fame, brew glory, and even stopper death - if you aren't as big a bunch of dunderheads as I usually have to teach." He finished. This proves it! He really does this speech with everyone! That's the exact same speech as in canon!

Thankfully, none of the class had anyone noteworthy enough for him to focus on, so the class started without interruptions. He flicked his wand and the recipe for a basic boil cure potion was written on the board. It was slightly different to the book as well, but I recognised some of them as improvements. I made sure to copy it down for myself seeing as he's handing out free improved potion recipes. I'll keep doing it in the future.

"Well? What are you waiting for?" He barked harshly. "The recipe is on the board. Get to it!" He almost snarled.

The class scrambled to get what they needed from the store cupboard as silence pervaded. Snape really knew how to run a class. Not. Honestly, this has got to be the worst class instruction I've ever experienced. I partnered with Daphne, which I was thankful for as she'd had instruction in the past, and the class passed in comfortable silence as we brewed our potion.

Well, comfortable for us, it was a simple potion we'd both brewed many times before. Snape prowled the classroom, giving out cutting remarks and insulting everyone he could. He passed by us a few times but only looked, not saying anything with his signature scowl on his face. How unprofessional. 

By the time we handed in our end product and were assigned homework, we were all completely fed up and ready to leave, wishing we never had to come here again. Even me.

"What a horrible man!" Daphne exclaimed once we were out of earshot. Everyone agreed.

"Not even my tutor was that bad." Said Padma. 

"What was he like?" Asked Lisa, intrigued.

Padma frowned. "Pavarti and I grew up in a traditional Indian household. Let's just say our tutors had some opinions and leave it at that. At least they taught well." She put it delicately. "We were lucky that schooling is a legal requirement and that it was a lot cheaper to send us to Hogwarts than hire qualified tutors for our entire schooling. Our father wasn't very happy about it, but it's the best thing to happen to us in my opinion." She finished.

"Was it really that bad?" Susan asked, the Hufflepuffs joining our walk as they did this morning after charms.

Padma nodded. "I'll give you an example..." The conversation continued until we reached the last class of the day and I learned just how lucky was to be born into my current family. Mother and Lucius were only strict on a few things, mainly etiquette and punctuality. From Padma's stories, she and her twin practically grew up in chains. It sounded suffocating and everyone sympathised.

The last lesson of the day was history of magic. I already knew what to expect and sure enough, the moment we sat down Binns floated through the wall. He took a roll call that I was sure was at least a hundred years old and began a lecture on a Goblin rebellion that was clearly a continuation from the previous class.

Almost immediately, I zoned out to continue reading books in my mindscape. The rest of the class didn't pay any attention either. Some took out their homework whilst others brought out a book. Only a few Hufflepuff boys fell asleep. I understood. Binns' voice had a strong soporific effect.

When the class ended, most were glad to leave whilst some already missed the nap time. I rolled my eyes at them. Just take a nap after classes end for the day in your actual bed if you really want one.

By the time I retired to my room that night, the novelty of magical school had already worn off. It was just school. Again. *Sigh...* I was ready to get back into the swing of things and speed my progress back up to normal levels.