"Mail is here" Daphne said as she looked up, Harry followed her line of sight as he munched on more bacon, then there was a rushing sound overhead, a hundred or so owls flew in from the top most windows. They swooped down circling the students before dropping letters and packages to their owners, Hedwig and Aristotle landed in front of Harry and Hermione and happily ate some of Harry’s bacon. Aristotle only had a letter to Hermione from their parents wishing her luck on her first day back, plus a new homework planner that they had forgotten to get on their trip to Diagon Alley. Hedwig had two letters which Harry ignored for now, instead grabbing the package that had his Charms holiday essay and two of the Lockhart books he had left on his bed by mistake. "You are hopeless Harry" Hermione said giggling lightly. Suddenly the Gryffindor table went quiet, they looked up to see Ron looking at a red envelope, his face white and mouth slightly open. "She’s... She’s sent me a Howler" Ron said faintly, but even as quiet as he was, the entire school heard as they watched on. "You’d better open it Ron" Henry said shaking in his seat. "It’ll be worse if you don’t, my Gran sent me one once, I ignored it, it was horrible" Neville said from opposite the redhead. "What’s a Howler?" Harry heard Dean ask, he was the only Muggle-born in their group, Ron and Neville being purebloods and Henry and Seamus being half-bloods. Seamus broke down into laughter as he tried to explain it to his best friend, Neville took over rolling his eyes, and before long the red envelope had started to smoke at the corners. "Open it" Neville urged. "It will all be over in a few minutes" Seamus chuckled as he, Neville, Seamus and everyone else close to them stuffed their fingers in their ears.