Leona: Being Housewarden

Leona is asked directly why it is that he became Housewarden and he responds that it was because he “got tired of answering to small fry.” Leona explains,

“When I first enrolled, I had no interest in the job. I figured it was just a bunch of extra work with no upside. But sharing a dorm room with other students was worse than l’d imagined. It got on my nerves when things didn’t go the way I wanted, and the other guys were all jumpy around me. I was miserable. Eventually, enough was enough, and even my dormmates begged me with tears in their eyes: ‘Please, you’ve gotta become housewarden!’”

Leona says that he challenged the former housewarden at the start of his second year and the only real chore is the housewarden meetings, as he does not have a vice housewarden to send to them in his place.

Leona says that he figured anyone in a support role would just create more work so he has never appointed one, but it seems it has been taken up by a few people in the past, except they would then challenge him, lose, and quit.

We know from Idia that Leona and Malleus have been housewardens longer than Riddle, and it has possibly been three years for them both (Malleus is still unconfirmed), and there is always a rough patch after a new housewarden takes over, before the other students accept them.