_While Draco was packing his possessions, the seventh year Slytherin prefects gathered all the members of the house, except for the 3rd year boys, and told them what happened. One of the Prefects explained the Ritual that would happen as the disgraced student left the school for the last time. He also said that this was the first time the Ritual had to be performed in almost 40 years; and he didn't want to have to see another one in his lifetime, because the student brought shame onto their entire house and all its members._