15
Picked for Lionpaw
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Lionpaw, Lionpaw please let it be Lionpaw! you say to yourself over and over again.

Coo coo are you sure it's Lionpaw? asks Percy the pigeon, speaking directly into your mind now.

Yes yes, I'm sure. Not a Snakefang bully, not a brainbox Ravenwing, not a boring old Hedgehog. Lionpaw please, please!

Coo coo as you wish young Arthur, speaks Percy into your brain.

Slowly the great yellow eyes shrink to normal size and you are just staring at a regular giant talking pigeon again.

Percy waddles over to the centre of the hole where the light from the hall shines down. He looks old and you wonder how long he has been doing this. For decades, centuries even?

He settles down on the floor, coos once or twice and then waddles back into the darkness at the edge of the hole that is his home, leaving right in the centre a beautiful egg.

The egg is covered in red and gold stripes. The colours of Lionpaw House!

Your heart pounding with excitement you pick up the egg and slowly walk back up the wooden stairs to the noise and light of the Hogsnorts Great Hall.

As you emerge out of the pigeon hole, Slumblebore sees your egg and shouts: "Arthur Otley, Lionpaw House!"