Chapter 71 School starts

The three people were sitting in the cubicle chatting. After a while, the door was opened directly from the outside, and Lee Jordan walked in carelessly. He said, "I have been looking for you for a long time."

Angelina and Aaliyah also walked in, and Aaliyah said: "You only walked one and a half cars, while Angelina and I walked for more than two cars without talking!"

Ada reached out and hugged Garen on the seat, making room for Angelina and Alia.

"Is this the pet you bought?" Angelina sat down next to Ada and teased the Galleon in her arms.

"We originally wanted her to buy an owl, but instead we bought this puppy," Fred said.

"This is called fate. I picked Gallon at a glance from so many pets in the pet shop." Ada put Gallon in Angelina's arms. Gallon left Ada and was very happy. Na's arms were extremely obedient.

George looked at Galen who was having fun and teased: "Are we not close to you at all? This is the first time Galen has met Angelina and Alia, but they seem more like Galen's masters. "

"If you can speak, you can say a few more words." Lee Jordan said, he smiled happily, and he criticized Galen for not giving Ada face. This dog, Lee Jordan, covered up.

This small blow is nothing. Anyway, Ada has already made a decision. Gallon’s snacks will be halved next week to see the effects. She is so willful. Anyway, the dog is hers.

It started to rain outside the car window, and the dense raindrops crackled against the glass window. They could no longer see clearly the scenery passing by outside the window. They only knew that the train kept traveling north and that they would arrive at school at night.

Click, click, the cart serving lunch was pushed along the aisle, and the seller was the same smiling witch I saw last year. Ada and the others pooled some money and bought a stack of cauldron-shaped cakes and drinks. Together with the sandwiches and pies prepared by Mrs. Weasley, the six of them had a delicious meal.

The rain outside the window continued unabated, and rumbles of thunder were heard in the air. The startled Garen jumped directly onto Ada, and stuffed his entire head into her arms.

It was getting darker and darker, and we were getting closer to Hogwarts.

When the Hogwarts Express finally slowed down and stopped at the dark Hogsmeade Station, the heavy rain outside the window gradually stopped. Ada and the others moved little by little with the crowd and walked across the dark platform. There were a hundred carriages waiting for them outside the station.

The first-grade students have to go to the castle by boating, while other students take the carriages in front of them. It is precisely because of this rule that second-grade Ada and the others do not have to ferry across the lake after a heavy rain.

Strange-looking animals stood between the shaft poles of the carriage. These animals, thought to be horses, stood motionless in the night, looking strange and unlucky.

There was no flesh on them at all, the black fur clung tightly to the skeleton, and every bone was clearly visible. Their heads resemble those of fire dragons, and their pupil-less eyes are white and stare intently. Wings sprouted from the ridge between the shoulder bones.

The name of this animal is the Thestral. Ada once read about it in a book about magical animals, and she recognized them at first sight.

Only those who have seen death can only see the Thestrals. Ada has not only seen death with her own eyes, she has even experienced it herself. She can naturally see these Thestrals.

It is this weird quality combined with their weird appearance that makes people regard them as an unlucky symbol, and they are believed to bring all kinds of terrible disasters to those who see them.

Six friends were crowded in the carriage carriage, which was somewhat moldy and smelled of musty and straw. George, who was the last one to get on the bus, slammed the door shut with his backhand.

A moment later, with a violent jolt, the long carriage team set off along the path leading to Hogwarts Castle, splashing water all the way.

Their carriage finally stopped at the foot of the stone steps in front of the two oak doors. Ada jumped off the carriage, walked up the stone steps, and entered the cave-like deep foyer.

Walking through the foyer, through a double door on the right, you enter the splendid auditorium. Hundreds of candles float above the tables, illuminating the entire auditorium very brightly.

Ada and the twins walked to the long Gryffindor table at the end of the auditorium and sat down. The students who had not seen each other during the summer vacation greeted each other and shared interesting stories from the vacation.

The atmosphere at the other three long tables was the same as Gryffindor's. The auditorium was filled with buzzing voices and chaos.

Ada looked towards the teacher's seat. Dumbledore was chatting with Flitwick, Professor Sprout was also talking to the people around him, and Snape was still the same, with a sallow face and greasy hair.

There were only two empty seats on the teacher's bench, and those two seats belonged to Professor McGonagall and Hagrid. Hagrid should be struggling to cross the lake with the first-year children at this moment, and Professor McGonagall should be waiting for them.

A gray-haired professor caught Ada's eye because Ada had never seen him before. The professor looked a bit older, dressed simply, with thick eyes, and looked very knowledgeable.

"Do you think that old-looking stranger could be the new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor?" Ada asked the twins beside her.

Fred looked at the professor and said, "It should be, we are short of this professor."

"He is indeed an old man. I hope he will not let us read textbooks in class." George also said.

"I hope she's okay!" Angelina and Aaliyah said together. They didn't want this kind-looking old man to have an unfortunate accident.

The other senior students didn't make as much of a fuss as the second years. They were used to having a different Defense Against the Dark Arts professor every school year.

Ada and her friends discussed for a while, then the door of the auditorium opened and everyone immediately became quiet. Professor McGonagall led a long row of first-year students to the top of the auditorium, and the sorting ceremony began.

Ada didn't pay attention to what the Sorting Hat sang. It was just about how the school was established, and there were also some lyrics that advised everyone to study hard and unite. Ada didn't even pay much attention to the subsequent sorting. She only knew that a boy named Cormac McLaggen and a girl named Katie Bell were sorted into Gryffindor because they sat far away from each other. Ada was very close.

As the triangular stool and the sorting hat were taken away by Professor McGonagall, Professor Dumbledore stood up. He looked at all the students with a smile and opened his arms in a welcoming gesture.

"Awake, it's hunting time!" Ada grabbed the knife and fork in her hands and looked at the golden dinner plate in front of her.

"Welcome!" said Dumbledore, the candlelight shining on his beard. "Welcome back to Hogwarts! First of all, we welcome Professor Grover Cecil, who will be the Black Master for this academic year. Professor of Defense Against Magic!"

The unfamiliar-looking professor stood up, said hello to everyone, and then sat down. The applause in the auditorium was not very warm.

"Attention first-year students, no students are allowed to enter the forest area on the school grounds. Some of our classmates from the old class should also remember this. Furthermore, the administrator, Mr. Filch, also asked me to remind everyone that during recess Don’t cast spells in the hallways, especially on someone from the old class.”

When he said these two sentences, Dumbledore's shining eyes kept looking in the direction of Ada and the twins. It was self-evident who this old classmate was referring to.

Ada lowered her head consciously and did not look at Professor McGonagall. The twins didn't think it was anything. They thought it was Dumbledore's affirmation of them.

"The last thing, there are only two words," Professor Dumbledore paused slightly, "Eat!"

Gold plates and goblets were suddenly filled with food and drinks. The sound of knives and forks clashing with plates soon began, and laughter began to reverberate in the auditorium.

After the opening party, Ada and the twins came to the hidden entrance of the common room with other Gryffindor classmates. The Fat Lady, whom they had not seen for a long time, was waiting for their return.

The familiar common room, the familiar dormitory, the familiar four-poster bed, everything was the same as when they left.