The older years were nodding in agreement and listening intently despite having heard it before. "Each first year will be paired up with an older Slytherin, at night before lights out you will sit down together, if you are struggling with anything they will try to help if they cannot, then they will bring you to me" he continued to explain. Although it sounded sort of like a lame buddy system, he had explained to Harry and Draco that it helped the united front but also sometimes a student would struggle with a subject because of how the professors taught it and a second person's way of teaching could help their understanding. Something that only Slytherin and Ravenclaw did, which Harry was shocked over.