Rafe’s office is not in the dungeons, but still on the ground floor. Instead it is near the kitchens and Hufflepuff common room. It’s a rather large room, by office standards, though there isn’t much to it. There’s a large fireplace in the center of the back wall, with a small table next to it with a large pitcher of floo powder on top. On top of the fireplace rests his old Beater’s bat from his school days. In the middle of the room sits his desk, which is made of a rich red wood with intricate carving. On top of it usually are a handsome eagle quill and some rolls of fresh parchment, though occasionally his desktop may be found in disarray. Things he brought back during his curse-breaking days and got to keep sit on his desk or mantle, such as broken pottery and leering jewel-encrusted skulls that may or may not be real.

Moderator: Professor Rafe Cardozo

The silver and green of Slytherin decorates the common room. It is a beautiful but dark area to be in, even if you are a Slytherin.

Maeva’s office is down in the dungeons close to the Potions classroom. Her office is a much smaller room, quite more cozy and enclosed than the classroom. There is only one window, though it is a very large one good for gazing out of when tired of grading and there is a cage right by it that is usually empty due to her owl’s tendency to wander. She has a second desk, just as carefully maintained and organized as the one in the classroom, and in front of it sits a small wooden chair with a plush cushion that usually changes to match the curtains. Behind the desk is a large mural she painted shortly after her fiancé left and it takes up the entire wall. The other walls are mostly bare other than a cabinet and some small pictures of the Kelloggs and Maeva’s older brothers.

Moderator: Professor Maeva McDemiguise

Rafe’s class is held in the dungeons, in one of the largest rooms down there. His desk, unlike in most classrooms, is in the front but off to the side, and really rather unprepossessing. Instead the centerpoint of the room is a large wooden table sitting on intricately carved legs. It is usually covered with potion-making equipment, whatever is needed for the class that day. Behind it sits a sizeable blackboard with a set of instructions clearly laid out in plain white text, sometimes accompanied by small drawings or diagrams. The walls are lined with many shelves full of ingredients for students to use, not to mention things Rafe decided to pickle and put in a jar just to make students squirm. There’s a few short footstolls near the wall so that students can reach things on the higher shelves. The room is otherwise somewhat plain, other than the floating lanterns situated around to both illuminate the dark room and to keep students warmer during the winter months when it can get very chilly in the dungeons.

Moderator: Professor Rafe Cardozo