Hogwarts: Dumbledore reigned over the wizarding world

Chapter 27 Flying Lesson (Part )
Vaughan had a comfortable last day of the weekend.

Having successfully gotten close to Snape, he is about to learn the long-desired Scarpin Apparition Charm, as well as many more advanced potions and magic.

Finally, all his hard work and dedication to research over the past few years were worth it.

But for other little wizards, the happy weekend was too short. It slipped away before they could even savor it. From the second week on, the first-grade courses became increasingly demanding.

Professors explain more and more things and assign more and more homework.

More importantly, as a week into school, the interpersonal relationships of the first-year students began to develop clear boundaries.

Gryffindor and Slytherin, who had overlapping courses, disliked each other. Every time the two houses had a class together, they sighed and tried to trip each other up in class.

Among them, the trio of Harry, Ron and Malfoy is the most classic combination.

Although Malfoy was afraid of Vaughn, he didn't dare to go too far.

But gradually he discovered that as long as he didn't provoke Vaughan or Granger, the other party would not do anything to him.

Especially when Harry and Ron made mistakes.

Then Harry and Ron's nightmare began.

Think about it… In any class, there are people watching your every move, and if you make the slightest mistake, they will ridicule you in all kinds of ways. You can’t refute it, and you will even be in the wrong if you argue.

"I never thought there was anyone in this world more hateful than Dudley!"

Harry complained to Ron after a Transfiguration class.

Ron sympathized: "I never thought there could be someone more hateful than Fred, George, and Vaughn combined!"

Hermione was unhappy with his slander: "They are your brothers, Ronald Weasley."

She also hated Malfoy. Although that guy didn't dare to provoke her because he was afraid of Vaughn, he would deliberately raise his head every time he saw her, as if he was afraid of dirtying his eyes.

A few days passed and the relationship between the trio returned to its original state.

There is no overnight hatred between children.

Especially one day when Ron was forced by Harry to apologize to Hermione, the small conflict naturally dissipated.

But there was still an impact, Hermione no longer called Ron by his nickname.

Ron always felt weird being called "Ronald".

In response, Ron explained to Harry that he was traumatized by Vaughn, who would always call him by his full name whenever he teased him.

So he always suspected that Hermione had reconciled with them, perhaps with ulterior motives.

In any case, because of Malfoy's arrogance and foul mouth, the relationship between Gryffindor and Slytherin, represented by Harry, reached a freezing point.

In the entire first grade, Vaughn was the only exception.

As time went by, Vaughan's figure wandering around various colleges was gradually accepted by everyone, and then everyone found that this Slytherin who was a good student and liked to take his cat for a walk was actually not difficult to get along with.

It would be better if he had a more normal personality——

Vaughn doesn't like playing with boys, but he welcomes all pretty girls.

As a Slytherin, it is said that he returned to the Slytherin common room from Ravenclaw last weekend because he was dissatisfied with the word "dungeon" written on the door of the common room, which was too gloomy and affected his image in Ravenclaw.

So he cast a spell and changed the "dungeon" into a "sea view room"!
This was reported to Filch by Peeves, and then spread quickly throughout Hogwarts.

No one knew why Professor Snape didn't punish Vaughan. Given that the prefect, who was still hospitalized by Madam Pomfrey in the past week, had set an example, no senior student dared to change Vaughan's spell without permission.

Squib Filch tried to wipe off the words created by the spell for several days but failed, so he gave up completely.

From then on, Slytherin's dungeons became like ocean-view rooms... Every little snake that passed under those glittering letters felt strange, as if the Black Lake outside the window had suddenly become sunny.

Not to mention, Fred and George, the well-known troublemakers in Gryffindor, often ran to the door of the Slytherin common room, holding two posters of bikinis on the sunny beach, which they had borrowed from some Muggle wizard.

He shouted to every little snake that came in and out:

"Dear customer, welcome to Weasley Real Estate Company."

"Lake bottom beaches, beautiful mermaids, everything!"

There would always be a commotion every time.

On Thursday, there was another round of wailing in the Gryffindor and Slytherin common rooms because the first graders were going to officially start their flying lessons today. The class schedule was determined on Monday.

At first everyone was very excited, and Seamus Finnigan boasted loudly about his flying history, as if he had never gotten off a flying broom since he was born.

Ron also told Harry about the dangerous experience he had when he stole Charlie's broom and almost hit a Muggle plane.

"...it was so exciting, so close, I even shook hands with a Muggle!"

He said.

This boast was ruthlessly exposed by Hermione: "Muggle planes are not open-top. You can't shake a Muggle's hand, Ronald Weasley."

Ron blushed and stammered, "What do you know? How do you know there isn't one?"

Hermione sneered: "Yes, of course there are, but that was decades ago. Unless you are 80 years old now, you have never seen such a classic plane in the sky!"

By the end, Harry was quite distraught by what they said; having never been on a plane, he had no idea who was real and who was not.

But compared to myself who grew up in Muggle society, my classmates who came from wizarding families must have come into contact with flying brooms a long time ago.

For example, Malfoy!
Harry didn't want to lose to Malfoy, so before class, he found Vaughan and asked him what precautions he should take when riding a broom.

Vaughn rolled his eyes at him and said, "I've never ridden one before."

Harry stammered, pointing at Ron. "But Ron said he..."

"Yeah, he almost hit a Muggle plane, right? That was a dream he had when I took him to see a Muggle movie." Vaughn laughed. "Don't worry, Harry, they're all bragging. Even among wizarding families, few parents would let their pre-school children touch a flying broom."

Fearing that Vaughan was comforting himself, Harry was skeptical until the afternoon class.

The young wizards from Gryffindor and Slytherin all stood in front of their brooms. Madam Hooch, the flying professor and the Hogwarts Quidditch referee, urged them:
"I've explained the precautions. What are you still standing there for? Stretch out your right hand, place it above the broom, and say 'stand up.'"

"stand up!"

Harry succeeded on his first try, and looked around in amazement.

It turned out that none of the people who had boasted before had succeeded, and only Hermione's broom moved on the Gryffindor side.

Among Slytherin, only Vaughn succeeded.

A bunch of big talkers!

Vaughn was also quite surprised. He didn't have any special obsession with riding a broom, and the system didn't list any special talents for flying.

Before, he thought he would have to try a few more times before he would succeed.

However, it’s good to have talent!
When Madam Hooch gave the order for everyone to try to fly, it was also Vaughan and Harry who soared into the sky.

The little wizards below were so envious!

(End of this chapter)