After the brief welcome ceremony, Harry, looking both nervous and expectant, said, "Uh... this is actually my first time joining a club, so I don't really know... What are the rules of SSC? Is there anything I need to do?"
Everyone looked at one another.
"...A club?" Theo asked blankly. "Are we considered a club already?"
Neville looked surprised. "Isn't SSC a club? I thought it had been one all along!"
"If students want to form a club, don't they have to report it to a professor?" Ryan asked uncertainly.
Michael said, "I thought we were more like a club?"
"Clubs have membership fees, don't they? We've never paid anything." Based on the little he had learned from his muggle relatives, Ryan said.
Neville was somewhat confused. "I mean... what's the difference between a club and a society?"
Everyone fell silent at once—yes... other than the name, what was the difference?
For a moment, none of them could say.
Harry had never expected this sort of scene. He seriously thought back over how things had somehow turned out this way, then silently looked at Hermione beside him.
Wade looked at Hermione, who was struggling not to laugh, and asked helplessly, "Hermione, what exactly did you tell Harry?"
Hermione immediately burst out laughing. She waved a hand at Harry and said, "I didn't say anything. You and Ron came up with all of that yourselves, right?"
Harry: "..."
That was right... she had said nothing. She had only repeatedly stressed that it was important, that he needed to take it seriously and be prepared, and reminded him to bring his Wand... then watched as they anxiously guessed what trials joining a club might involve.
Ron had even suggested one particularly ridiculous possibility—
"Maybe they'll make you sneak into Snape's office and