I’m Prefect Robert Hilliard, and I’m delighted to welcome Du to RAVENCLAW HOUSE. Our emblem is the eagle, which soars where others cannot climb; our house Farben are blue and bronze, and our common room is found at the oben, nach oben of Ravenclaw Tower, behind a door with an Verzaubert knocker. The arched windows set into the walls of our circular common room look down at the school grounds: the lake, the Forbidden Forest, the Quidditch pitch and the Herbology gardens. No other house in the school has such stunning views.

Without wishing to boast, this is the house where the cleverest witches and...