Reinsdyr House

**Reinsdyr** is one of the five wizarding houses at Beaversdam Wizarding University. Its was named Reinsdyr after its founder Loxias Klos's favorite animal, the flying reindeer. Members of this house are characterised by their wanderlust and love of exploration. The emblematic animal symbol is a flying reindeer, and Red and Green are the house colors.

The flying reindeer symbolizes world travel as it is the only creature capable of making it around the world in a single night.

#### Entrance

The entrance to Reinsdyr House is through the fireplace and chimney of the Tommerhuger House common room. This entrance has a no-maj repelling charm to keep no-maj students out of the Reinsdyr house. Otherwise this is the only house at Beaversdam that is not protected by a password or other lock.

The entrance is symbolic of the Klos tradition of regularly using the Floo Network to enter and leave homes in the bringing of gifts.

### Common Room

The Reinsdyr house and common room is in the castle's northernmost tower and is wide and circular. One has to climb a tight spiral staircase behind the Tommerhuger Fireplace to get there.

It has graceful arched windows, and the walls are hung with red and green silks. The domed ceiling is painted with the night sky, which is echoed in the midnight-blue carpet. Tables, chairs, and bookcases cover the expanse of the floor, and a white marble statue of Loxias Klos sits next to the door that leads to the dormitories above.

### Tower Terrace Lounge

Above the Reinsdyr dormitories is the tower terrace lounge. This area is roughly halfway to the top of Reinsdyr Tower and is located where the square lower tower narrows into the octagonal upper tower. This lounge area features windows that face in all directions allowing spectacular views of the campus, lake and town.

The Tower Terrace Lounge is reserved for quiet study, while the lower common room is typically a more social space.

The exterior terrace is a place from which students can launch and land their reindeer drawn sleighs, and or broomsticks when they go traveling.

### Reindeer Stables

The uppermost portions of Reinsdyr tower are used for the stabling of student's flying reindeer. Many students who are avid travelers have a team of flying reindeer and routinely travel by sleigh. This is the preferred method of international and long distance travel by American, Canadian, Scandinavian, and some Russian wizards.

These stables provide ample space for students to keep their reindeer, and there are 4 stalls provided for every student such that each student may keep a team of four reindeer. The stables also provide garage space for students to store a sleigh.

### House Relic

The Reinsdyr House Relic is the Sleigh of Klos.

This sleigh is an ancient Klos family heirloom, and has thousands of enchantments upon it. This sleigh is the fastest vehicle in existence, and can enable one to instantaneously travel anywhere. The sleigh is kept at the north pole and is used annually to bring Christmas to the world.

Members of the Klos family are always sorted into the Reinsdyr House and the previous three appointed to the title of Santa Claus have been alumni of the Reinsdyr House. Loxias Klos belived that all should benefit from the sleigh, but he also believed in family legacy traditions and has such the sleigh has remained in the Klos family.