The Legacies Only They Knew

Chapter 7 - Little Mooncalf

Coraline stepped through the wooden door into the Ravenclaw common room, immediately noting how different the architecture was outside the Ravenclaw Doorknocker and in the small entryway inside the door. A large magnificent stone eagle statue embedded into the stone of the wall in front of her took her breath away. The large stones in the wall nearest the eagle had been angled to look like the eagle's feathers. She took a few steps into the entryway, allowing the Doorknocker to close behind her with a soft click. As the stones portraying the eagle's feathers got farther out from the eagle's body, the stone blocks returned to the typically horizontal pattern.

Looking up, she was absolutely enthralled by the entryway ceiling, with the dark blue paint and the gold astronomy designs. She tore her eyes away from the ceiling and slowly walked up the winding staircase on the eagle's right to a large open circular room she assumed to be the main section of the common room. The common room was dazzling, using the perfect mixture of the dark blue, gold, and white color scheme of the Ravenclaw house. All of the architecture was a subtle blend of white stone, marble, and wood planks giving the common room an almost ethereal feeling, which was only amplified by the accents of gold filtered about.

"Coraline!"A small feminine voice called out from across the common room, breaking Coraline from her trance of staring at all the architecture and designs.

Coraline shook her head lightly to clear the thoughts from her head temporarily and looked around the common room for whoever called out for her. She finally spotted Devin waving her over to the couch on the far right side of the room that Robin and Sammie were resting on with her. Coraline smiled lightly and walked over to them, still gazing at the sights around her.

"Hello again. The common room is stunning!" Coraline happily stated, causing them to beam brightly.

Devin gave a small chuckle as she stood up to move to Coraline's side, "We had a feeling you would absolutely love the common room, and this isn't even the entire common room!" Coraline's jaw dropped in surprise and immediately looked around to see what the rest of the common room would look like.

"Don't worry, you'll have plenty of time to explore everything there is to the common rooms another time. But, for now, we'll take you down to our dorm and show you where the bathroom is," Devin smiled lightly, nodding her head for Coraline to follow her.

Sammie and Robin stood up from the couch to follow them as they walked under a white, tall wooden archway. Coraline openly gaped at the change in color scheme for the wide circular room in front of them. Unlike the first part of the common room, where the architecture was primarily different white materials, this new part of the common room featured warm brown wooden architecture with a slightly different design plan. Devin, Robin, and Sammie all chuckled lightly with wide smiles at Coraline's wonder of the common rooms.

"The boy's dormitories are down the staircase to the left, and the girl's dormitories are down the staircase on the right with the two knights standing guard," Robin said, pointing to the two sides.

Coraline partly knitted her brows together in confusion as she looked at the knights, "Why are there knights guarding the girl's side of the dormitories?"

Sammie briefly explained, "It's just an extra security measure preventing any boys from accessing the girl's dorms. All of the houses have slightly different versions of it; ours just happens to be knights."

Coraline nodded slowly, understanding, and followed Sammie and Robin down the brown wooden staircase. Devin walked beside Coraline, allowing them to move like a small pack.

"You kind of lucked out by starting at Hogwarts in your fifth year regarding dorm locations in Ravenclaw. We only have to go down one flight of stairs to reach our dorm and then only one more flight of stairs down to reach the shared bathroom."