Chapter 014
The boat carried the freshmen through the ivy curtain covering the front of the cliff and arrived at a pier.
The students got off the boat one after another, and under the leadership of Hagrid, climbed the tall and winding steps.
After turning corners countless times, we finally came to a courtyard.
In the middle of the courtyard is a flat, moist grassland, and the surrounding corridors are covered with green creepers.
Directly in front of the courtyard is a huge oak door
“Are everyone here?”Hagrid asked loudly while standing in front of the oak door.
After receiving everyone’s approval, he raised a huge fist and knocked on the castle door three times.
The door immediately opened, and Professor McGonagall stood behind the door with a serious face. Hagrid also seemed a little afraid of Professor McGonagall. He bowed slightly and said in a respectful tone:”First-year students, Professor McGonagall.””
“Thank you, Hagrid. Leave it to me to pick you up when you get here.”
Professor McGonagall opened the door wide and led the little wizards to a small empty room in the hall.
“Welcome to Hogwarts,” Professor McGonagall smiled, and then she briefly introduced the four major colleges and the College Cup.
“In a little while, the sorting ceremony will be held in front of all the teachers and students of the school. I suggest you sort yourself out and be more energetic.”
Her eyes wandered over Neville’s crooked cloak and the dirty thing on Ron’s nose. Then she saw Ivis and Hermione, who were neatly dressed and smiling. A trace of satisfaction flashed in their eyes..Obviously
, Ivis and Hermione left a good impression on her.
After Professor McGonagall left the room, the little wizards all sighed
“God, I feel like she’s scarier than my grandma. Neville trembled.
Hermione said,”Professor McGonagall is just a little more serious, but she is a very nice person!” Neville didn’t refute, and Hannah stretched out her hand to help him straighten his cloak,”Your cloak is tied askew, Neville, don’t move it.” Neville blushed and accepted Hannah’s kindness.
Hermione noticed Hannah’s movements, turned her head and asked Avis nervously:”Please help me see if my robe is tied wrong.””
Elvis looked at Hermione carefully. The girl’s delicate cheeks were slightly red under the candlelight. There were no small freckles on her face that are unique to Caucasians. Her little baby face was very cute.
Under Elvis’ gaze , , Hermione’s face turned redder and redder.
Until Hermione couldn’t help but hit someone, Ives smiled and said:”Looks perfect, Hermione.””
Hermione breathed a sigh of relief.
“How can they accurately classify us into four colleges?”Harry’s voice asked Ron.
“Fred and George told me there was a test to pass. They said their test project that year was to defeat an adult fire dragon.”
“Fire dragon! Harry and the audience on the side exclaimed.
Their reaction made Ron even more excited,”Fred told me that they had more than a hundred freshmen enrolled that year. However, during the sorting ceremony, half of them were swallowed by a fire dragon.” Entered the stomach.”
Harry’s heart trembled. Is Hogwarts so scary? I would rather go back to the small storage room under the stairs of the Dursleys now.
Seeing the horrified expressions of everyone around him, Ron said sarcastically He smiled and said,”I don’t think it’s true.”
No matter how Ron explained it, the young wizards believed that the test during the sorting ceremony would be
dangerous.
Malfoy also heard what Ron said, and he sneered:”It’s just a fire dragon. I was in Romania when I was six years old. Ride the Hungarian Tree Peak Dragon at the Dragon Taming Arena.”
Malfoy’s words seemed to be true.
His two followers, Crabbe and Goyle, looked at him with admiration, hoping that he would tell more about what happened on the back of a dragon.
One of them looked like a poodle. The little witch was also attracted to Malfoy. She leaned close to him and kept saying coquettishly:”Brother Draco, you are so awesome~”
The little wizards discussed with each other how to pass the test, and even Hermione was reviewing in a low voice. Using the few magics she had mastered, suddenly, more than twenty ghosts jumped out from the wall behind them.
These pearly-white, translucent ghosts slid across the entire room while whispering to each other.
They did not pay attention to the new students at their feet. Occasionally, ghosts pass through the little wizard’s body, leaving him shivering with cold.
A ghost wearing a wheel-shaped ruffled tights discovered the first graders.
“New life! He smiled at the new students and said,”I hope you can be sorted into Hufflepuff. I was in that house before.””
The fat monk returned to the queue of ghosts, and a sharp voice came,”Now line up in single file, the sorting ceremony is about to begin.”
Professor McGonagall came back, and the ghosts immediately sped up and disappeared through the wall one after another. Under the watchful eye of Professor McGonagall, the first-year students walked forward in a single file.
They walked out of the small room, Go through the foyer and then through a double door into the luxurious auditorium.
In the auditorium, students from other grades are sitting around four long tables. Thousands of candles floating in the air above the tables illuminate the auditorium.. There were gleaming gold plates and goblets on the four tables. There was another long table on the upper stage of the auditorium, which was the seat of the teachers.
Ives followed the queue into the auditorium.
【Ding】
【The host’s arrival at Hogwarts Castle is detected and”General Talent Point*1″ is awarded.”】
【Post the next mission: Sorting. Reward: According to the academy]
The voice of the system rang in his mind. At this time, he heard Hermione whisper to him:”There has been magic here, and the ceiling looks like the sky outside. I was in”Hogwarts, Part 1″. I’ve read about it in History.”
Ives looked up following Hermione’s words and saw stars twinkling on the velvet-black ceiling, a dreamy atmosphere.
It was hard to believe that there really was a ceiling up there, and it was also hard to believe that the auditorium was not open-air.
Professor McGonagall led the freshmen lined up in a single row to the teacher’s desk, where a four-legged stool was placed. There was also a worn pointed wizard’s hat on the four-legged stool.
The hat was patched, worn, and covered in dust, making it look extremely dirty.
When the auditorium fell silent, the hat twisted, and a wide crack appeared on it, like a mouth!
It began to sing:
“You may think I’m not beautiful, but don’t judge a book by its appearance.
If you can find a more beautiful hat than me,
I can eat myself.
You can make your bowler hat black and shiny, and your top silk hat smooth and crisp.
I am the Sorting Hat of Hogwarts.
……
Don’t panic!
In my hands (even though I don’t have a hand) you are absolutely safe!”
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