Harry Potter: Raised By Roses

Chapter Nineteen: A Very Odd Elf

Summer was one of the best times for mystic souls. Between hunting demons, inventing potions, creating spells, and playing with their powers, it was pure heaven to them. Other than keeping the Statute of Secrecy, they had the complete freedom to use their powers as freely as they could.

They didn't have the same restrictions as wand-user places like France and Britain. Freely using magic, at any age, was just the way of life for mystic souls. They use their magic whenever they want, but all mystic soul children are taught from a young age to use their powers responsibly. Being reckless with their abilities would only cause unnecessary issues for their kind. They had enough problems with discriminating countries like Britain and paranoid wand-users and did not need to add trigger happy mundanes to that list. The Statute of Secrecy was there for a reason.

But the Gardna trio had a little bit of work to do before their holiday truly started. While they may be attending Hogwarts, that did not mean that they were going to abandon their mystic soul education. With their upbringing giving them advanced knowledge than the teachings for first years, they had a lot of time on their hands with homework and tests being a breeze. But they used the time responsibly instead of goofing off as most others did.

They used an abandoned dueling classroom that Flitwick provided them with. They used it to keep up their power practice for their Power Control and Growth classes, as well as for their dueling class and their experimental spells for Charms & Spells. Potions was easier with Krinos growing the plants and herbs for them to use. For their class on creatures, they just had talks with Hagrid. The British purebloods can insult him all they want, but the guy knows his creatures.

Crystal Rose had twelve main classes, seven electives, and five after-school activities. All of them, but the activities, with their own teacher. Andy Lectic taught Dueling. Nyx Nightingale taught Light & Dark. Harmony Lance was the International Magic teacher. Titos Web's the Close Combat professor. Lavender Aura taught Magical Music. Crystal Gold, Abby's big sister, was the Potions professor. Miron Thorn teaches Charms & Spells. Sky Lion is the teacher of the Taming class, taming creatures that is. Marina Breeze teaches Magical Creatures. Ava Lovelace is the Non-Violent Magic professor. Aichi Hero is the Power Growth teacher. Adrien Agreste taught Power Control.

The seven electives were available to be chosen from when they turned thirteen. Mystic Gardening, Mystical Cultures, Magical Law & Politics, Mythology & History, Alchemy, Healing, and Gemology & Magic Crystals. Lena Ambrosia for Healing, Siren Hart for Gemology, Victor Milki for Mythology & History, Kurt Aaron for Cultures, Arigor Queen for Law & Politics, Lilian Jordan for Mystic Gardening, and Jellal Royal for Alchemy.

The range was probably what the three missed most about their school. When they read up on the classes for Hogwarts, they were disappointed that there were only seven core classes. Potions, Transfiguration, History of Magic, Herbology, Charms, Defense Against the Dark Arts, and Astronomy. And for electives in third year onwards, it was just Divination, Care of Magical Creatures, Ancient Runes, Muggle Studies, and Arithmancy.

Twelve classes was all they had. That was why they preferred the wide range from the nineteen potential classes of Crystal Rose. Hogwarts was looking like it needed a meager overhaul. More classes, more teachers, bigger consequences for bullying, sack teachers like Snape and Binns, don't have teachers overworked like McGonagall. Not to mention that first year, there should be a mandatory class for first and third-generation wizards. First-generation would have a class on magical laws, customs, and traditions to get them more integrated into their new world. Third-generation would learn about modern mundanes and how the non-magical world had advanced over the decades.

As for the reason why Hogwarts even needed an overhaul in the first place. It can all be summed up in one word. Politics. Such an ugly word.

It started with Headmasters Dippet and Scamander and Ministers Bagnold and Westley. Scamander had been easily manipulated by Westley, who had already used his seat on the board of education to siphon money from the school, to remove some of the harder classes when money was getting tight. Scamander just wanted to keep the school open for a place for magical children to learn, so he did as suggested.