Here is where the snakes come out to play and relax, away from the prying eyes of the rest of the student body. The common room is beautifully decorated to have a gothic sort of beauty. In the main room, there are several black and dark green leather couches. A chandelier hangs from the ceiling with white candles that burn green-white flames while the black fireplace burns with pale gold fire. To the right is the girls dormitories and to the left is the boys dormitories. Both have staircases that leads the students further underground , lit up by mysterious floating balls of pale green and white lights, until they are beneath the Black Lake, just deep enough to be beneath the water but shallow enough to still have light filtering through from the surface. There the students have a magnificent view of the underwater creatures that live in the lake from outside their windows.