#20 - Slytherin?

Anduin walked to the front desk, sat on the chair, and allowed Professor McGonagall to put the hat on his head, but Anduin's mind was filled with curiosity about the Sorting Hat.

"Hmm, serious and meticulous, full of a sense of honor, and filled with almost infinite thirst for knowledge, firm will and strong determination, simply a born Ravenclaw, but also pay attention to discipline, despise some unreasonable rules, why are your thoughts so mature, you don't seem like a young child at all, it's really difficult, I've only encountered your situation once in the distant past." The Sorting Hat said softly on Anduin's head.

"Can it actually see through people's thoughts? I wonder what this hat is made of, and what principle it operates on. I haven't seen such a strong anthropomorphic alchemy item before. I really want to take it apart and see." Anduin looked at the hat on his head with great curiosity, his mind filled with academic questions about the hat.

"Hey, kid, put away your dirty thoughts." Anduin was still thinking wildly when the Sorting Hat on his head began to warn him.

Unfortunately, when you tell someone not to think about an elephant, that person will think of the elephant first. So the Sorting Hat's warning to Anduin made Anduin's imagination run wild.

"Oh, can it actually react to my thoughts? Are you a soul that has been placed in the hat? Or can someone really make such a rich personality prop?" Anduin became even more excited when he discovered that the Sorting Hat was talking to him. He couldn't help but touch the Sorting Hat with his hand, curious about what material the hat was made of.

"Good heavens, quickly put down your disgusting hand, and the dirty thoughts in your head." The Sorting Hat felt that the thoughts in Anduin's mind were very dangerous, and after understanding the little wizard's thoughts and potential, it felt that this guy might really threaten his safety one day.

"SLYTHERIN!" The Sorting Hat obviously didn't like Anduin and quickly shouted out Anduin's house name.

Professor McGonagall on the stage was obviously stunned for a moment, and Charles and Vivian in the audience were also surprised when they heard Anduin's sorting.

Although they hadn't known him for a long time, based on their understanding of Anduin, they never thought that Anduin might be sorted into Slytherin.

But everything was a foregone conclusion. Anduin's wizard robe began to change directly after the Sorting Hat shouted the house name. The edges of the robe changed into emerald green and silver patterns, and the Slytherin badge also appeared on his chest.

Anduin was also slightly stunned after hearing the Sorting Hat's sorting, but his expression quickly returned to calm. "Tch, does this broken hat still hold grudges? Interesting." Anduin curled his lips and glanced back at the Sorting Hat as he walked down the steps, and the Sorting Hat's anthropomorphic expression also glared fiercely at Anduin.

As for which house he was sorted into, Anduin didn't really care, but subconsciously he didn't want to be sorted into Slytherin the most, because before entering school, he had heard from Sirius that many Death Eaters came from Slytherin, and the idea of pure-blood supremacy was also very popular in Slytherin.

"Could it be that my subconscious thoughts were also captured by the Sorting Hat, so that broken hat retaliated by sorting me into Slytherin? How childish." Anduin thought as he walked towards the Slytherin table, and the students at the table stood up to welcome the new student, wondering what they would do after they learned that the new student came from a Muggle family.

"Welcome Anduin Wilson, I am the Slytherin prefect, Vanessa Greengrass." Vanessa Greengrass is a girl with long dark brown hair and brown eyes, currently in the 6th grade, and the overall feeling is polite and well-mannered.

"Hello, Prefect Greengrass, you can just call me Anduin." Anduin smiled slightly, shook hands with the female prefect in front of him, and then sat down next to Vivian.

"Good heavens, I didn't expect you to be sorted into Slytherin, I thought you would go to Ravenclaw." Vivian couldn't wait to exclaim to Anduin when she saw him sit down.

"I don't care which house I'm sorted into, but I didn't expect to be hated by a broken hat as soon as I started school." Anduin replied indifferently.

"What broken hat, what do you mean, are you talking about the Sorting Hat?" Vivian asked puzzled.

"It's nothing, don't worry about it, let's wait for the sorting to end." Anduin didn't continue chatting, but stopped directly.

However, while Anduin and Vivian were chatting, Travers not far away on the same table glanced at Anduin with a sneer, and then turned his head to chat with the people around him.

What Travers didn't notice was that Anduin, not far away, also noticed him. Anduin narrowed his eyes as he looked at Travers, and then began to observe the other students in the same house. When entering a new environment, the first thing to do is to have a preliminary understanding, not only to know the names, but more importantly, the positions of these people. After all, the magical world is now in a time of war.

Anduin then asked Vanessa, who was sitting across from him, "Prefect Greengrass, do you know if there are any Averys or Snapes in our house?"

"There are no current students, but I have some impression of the two you mentioned, but they seem to be graduates who have graduated for several years. Why did you ask about these two?" Vanessa looked at Anduin suspiciously and asked puzzled.

"Oh, it's nothing, I just heard of their names before and asked casually." It seems that the two Death Eaters he had fought with before did not have any relatives attending school, and Anduin couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

At this time, the sorting ceremony finally came to an end. After removing the Sorting Hat and the chair, an old man with a white beard walked out of the teacher's seat in the front row of the hall.

"Look, that's Dumbledore, known as the greatest wizard in the magical world today." Vivian excitedly introduced to Anduin.

At this time, Anduin also finally had time to seriously examine this old man, the great wizard who had been leading the British magical world against Voldemort.

But Anduin observed for a long time, but he didn't feel that he was anything special, but rather like an ordinary old man next door. Dumbledore's speech on the stage was very fast, and he only said a few words in total. After a simple greeting, he returned to his seat.

"Okay, let the feast begin." Dumbledore returned to his seat, tapped the cup lightly with a spoon, and food suddenly appeared out of thin air in the plates on the table, piled up to the brim.

All the little wizards cheered, grabbing the food in front of them and eating it in big gulps, regardless of etiquette.

The Slytherin freshmen were amazed by this magical magic, and also excitedly grabbed the food directly, but Anduin found that the older students around him were much more reserved, using cutlery to fork the food down and taste it slowly.