Izzy and the headmaster spent about 2 hours walking the hallways, visiting other professors as they arrived from their summer travels, and chatting about the responsibilities of being a Hogwarts professor. The headmaster suddenly stopped in his tracks, and announced it was time for tea, and he would see Izzy at the sorting ceremony tonight. He walked down the corridor and around a corner. "Oh! Professor! I had one more question to ask you." Izzy yelled, chasing after him. She rounded the corner but he was nowhere in sight. "Oh well. I can ask him later" Izzy thought.
She headed down to the kitchen where the house elves were going about their duties in preparing for the welcoming feast. One elf, a female who she knew as Blinky ran over with a cup of tea and handed it to Izzy, then ran back to a table where a knife was chopping vegetables all by itself. Izzy loved coming down to the kitchen to watch the elves work. She used to sneak down here all the time when she was a student. With tea in hand, Izzy made her way to her favorite place in the whole castle, the Ravenclaw common room. Once there, she knocked and waited to hear the question from the eagle door knocker, that she would have to get right in order to enter.
"A vessel without hinges, key, or lid,
Yet golden treasure inside is hid."
"Well, that's easy! You asked me this on my first day of first year! Only then I didn't know the answer and had to wait for a prefect to let me in. The answer is EGG!" Izzy stated confidently as the door swung open. Izzy looked around the room and walked to the window seat where she spent so much of her time while being a student. The view was spectacular. You could see the forbidden forest, the mountains around the black lake, the herbology greenhouses, and the quidditch pitch. Izzy sat and drank her tea. She pulled out her wand and pointed it at the dark fireplace. "Incendio" Izzy said almost lazily as a jet of orange left the tip of her wand, producing a crackling fire. She looked around the room and sighed as she saw the sun setting over the black lake. It wouldn't be long now and the students would be arriving. She took her empty cup back down to the kitchen and headed for her office to do some last minute preparations for tomorrow.
She headed down to the kitchen where the house elves were going about their duties in preparing for the welcoming feast. One elf, a female who she knew as Blinky ran over with a cup of tea and handed it to Izzy, then ran back to a table where a knife was chopping vegetables all by itself. Izzy loved coming down to the kitchen to watch the elves work. She used to sneak down here all the time when she was a student. With tea in hand, Izzy made her way to her favorite place in the whole castle, the Ravenclaw common room. Once there, she knocked and waited to hear the question from the eagle door knocker, that she would have to get right in order to enter.
"A vessel without hinges, key, or lid,
Yet golden treasure inside is hid."
"Well, that's easy! You asked me this on my first day of first year! Only then I didn't know the answer and had to wait for a prefect to let me in. The answer is EGG!" Izzy stated confidently as the door swung open. Izzy looked around the room and walked to the window seat where she spent so much of her time while being a student. The view was spectacular. You could see the forbidden forest, the mountains around the black lake, the herbology greenhouses, and the quidditch pitch. Izzy sat and drank her tea. She pulled out her wand and pointed it at the dark fireplace. "Incendio" Izzy said almost lazily as a jet of orange left the tip of her wand, producing a crackling fire. She looked around the room and sighed as she saw the sun setting over the black lake. It wouldn't be long now and the students would be arriving. She took her empty cup back down to the kitchen and headed for her office to do some last minute preparations for tomorrow.