"The train will arrive at Hogwarts in five minutes, please leave your luggage on the train and we will take you to the school. ”

The sound echoed through the train, and Neville looked at the suitcase he was already carrying, and then at the fading night outside the window, unable to imagine how the students' luggage would get to Hogwarts.

Still, magic should be possible, the kind of magical power he will learn in the future.

"Thank God I don't have to carry that much weight on the road. ”

Hermione seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, she really didn't want to go through that kind of experience earlier today.

"Who is God?" Neville's eyes filled with curiosity, "why thank him?"

“...... I don't know how to answer this question. Just as Neville had a hard time explaining to Hermione what the mudbloods meant, Hermione had a hard time explaining to Neville what God meant, "God is the object of many people's faith, and legend has it that he spent six days creating a qiē...... In short, he is a very powerful god. ”

After a hasty explanation, glancing at Neville like a curious baby, Hermione pretended not to see it, pulled the door open and walked out, and then said to Neville, "Don't you want to see Hogwarts earlier?"

"Oh. ”

Nodding, Neville followed Hermione slowly down the somewhat crowded aisle. The train hadn't stopped, but it was already slowing down, and it finally stopped after all the students had stepped out of their cars.

The students shoved and shoved and rushed to the car door, Neville was like a dam splitting the flow of people in front of him and behind him, and Hermione walked in front of him with no feeling of crowding at all, and it was extremely relaxed.

Descending to a small, dark platform, shivering from the night's cold, Neville tidied up his somewhat messy clothes, and followed Hermione towards a giant holding a lantern aloft.

It was indeed a giant, more than three meters tall, with unkempt fur that had a primal wildness and a very kind expression. The giant held a lantern in one hand and shouted, "First-year freshmen!

Neville was already one of the strongest of his age, but he wasn't quite short of the giant. And even if Neville is an adult, his height will not be as exaggerated as more than three meters.

Even without the spell of "Loud Voice", this person's voice was enough for everyone on the platform to hear, and soon all the first-year freshmen gathered together, and the second-year and above students left in groups.

"Come on, come with me, are there any first-year freshmen? Watch out for the soles of your feet, all right! First-year freshmen come with me!"

The road after that was not easy to walk, because it was night, and although the moonlight was still bright, it was still difficult to walk on the stumbling and bumpy path. Neville felt like he was going downhill, looking left and right, it was pitch black on both sides of the path, and he didn't know what was there.

"It's not the path that those students have taken before. ”

Hermione frowned, looking down at the ground carefully, she had almost tripped over a rock, but Neville had helped her.

"Oh. ”

With a casual reply, Neville kicked a potentially tripping rock to the side of the road, and since what had happened, he had walked ahead of Hermione, like a scavenger removing all obstacles that might hinder the progress of those behind him.

Neville didn't care how his path was different from that of other grade students, and he looked up into the distance from time to time, but the mountains twisted and turned, and he could only roughly see a lake in the distance, and on the other side of the lake was a castle-like building that shimmered with light.

"Turn this corner, and you'll soon see Hogwarts for the first time. ”

The giant shouted back, and the freshmen who followed him suddenly lost their voices in surprise, causing the students behind them to quicken their pace, trying to turn the corner as best they could to see what Hogwarts was like.

At the end of the narrow path suddenly opened a black lake, and on the high hillside on the opposite shore stood a majestic castle with spires and windows twinkling under the stars.

Even many years later, Hermione could not forget that night, walking on the rugged mountain road, which was laborious and difficult, but after turning that corner, the sight she saw made her efforts meaningful.

Neville glanced at it and looked down again, what he saw was exactly what the other students saw, but not as sentimental as the others. He just thought the castle was beautiful, and it was nice to be able to live there for seven years in the future.

On the edge of the lake was a small dock, moored with small boats, small, with no sails or oars, and it was probably magic that drove them forward.

"No more than four people per boat!"

The giant pointed to a group of boats moored to the shore and exclaimed, Neville and Hermione were closer to the giant. Two boys were the first to board, one skinny with glasses, and the other with Neville's familiar red hair.

"Let's go up too. ”

Hermione said, Neville nodded, and followed Hermione to the boat. After he got on the boat, the other three could clearly feel that the front of the boat was a little upturned and the draft was much deeper.

"Hey, you're so heavy. The red-haired boy grabbed the edge of the boat and paddled across the water with his hands, "My name is Ron Weasley, and this is the famous Harry Potter. ”

"Harry Potter?"

Hermione looked at the thin boy with glasses in surprise, "Is it really you? I know everything about you...... Of course, I bought a few more reference books, "A History of Modern Magic", "The Rise and Fall of the Black Arts", and "Important Magical Events of the Twentieth Century", all of which mention you. ”

"Mention me?"

Harry Potter's expression was no better than Hermione's, and he didn't seem to know how famous he was.

After Hermione's reminder, Neville finally remembered who Harry Potter was, a name that Grandma often mentioned and would say whenever he didn't get something right.

In other words, Harry Potter is often referred to as "someone else's child" in wizarding families.

"Oh my God, you wouldn't know. If it were me, I'd find a way to find all the books that mention me. ”

"Do you two know which house you're going to be sorted into?I've asked around, and I'm hoping to get a Gryffindor, and they say it's the best...... I've heard that Dumbledore himself graduated from there, but I don't think Ravenclaw is too bad......"

To be reasonable, it was the first time that Neville had discovered that Hermione could say so much in one breath, it seemed that on the train, Hermione didn't say so much at once, it seems that Harry Potter is really unusual.

"My name is Neville Longbottom. Neville waited until Hermione had stopped before introducing himself, and he reached out and shook Harry's hand, "Grandma often mentions you and says you're an example I need to follow. ”

"Well, fortunately. ”

Harry could only look confused and polite, the amount of information he received in a short period of time was too large, and he couldn't react a little. Ron sat with his hands folded and proud.

"Are you all on board?"

The giant shouted that he himself was in a boat, and that the boat that could carry four people was like a bathtub at this time.

"That's good...... Go ahead!"

A convoy of boats immediately rowed across the mirror-like lake, and many were silent, staring at the huge castle that rose high into the sky, and as they approached the cliff on which it stood, it seemed to rise above them.

"Keep your head down!"

As the first boats approached the cliffs, they all bowed their heads, and the boats carried them through the ivy veils that covered the cliff front to the secluded open entrance. They followed a pitch-black tunnel that seemed to lead to the castle underneath, and finally reached a place that resembled an underground pier, and then climbed up to the ground of gravel and small pebbles.

"Well, it's finally here. ”

Stamped his foot hard, Neville was satisfied with the down-to-earth feeling of his feet.

While on the boat, he learned from Harry that the giant's name was Rubeus Hagrid, and that he was also a friend of Harry's. Once everyone had disembarked, they climbed up a tunnel in the rock, illuminated by Hagrid's lantern, and finally reached a flat, damp meadow in the shadow of the castle.

They climbed a stone staircase and gathered in front of a large oak door.

"Are you all there?"

Hagrid raised a large fist and slammed it three times on the castle gate.

The gate immediately opened, and a tall black-haired witch in an emerald green robe stood in front of the gate, with a stern expression and no smile on her face.

"First-year freshman, Professor McGonagall. Hagrid said.

"Thank you, Hagrid, for leaving it to me to pick you up here. ”

The witch opened the door wide open, and the foyer was large, surrounded by stone walls with blazing torches, and the ceiling was so high that it was barely visible, and in front was a sumptuous marble staircase leading to the upper floor.

The freshmen followed Professor McGonagall down the stone floor, and could clearly hear the buzzing of hundreds of people coming from the door on the right, presumably from the rest of the school's classes. Professor McGonagall led the first-year students to a small, empty room at the other end of the hall, where everyone swarmed in, huddled together, and stared nervously at the surrounding Qiē.

"Welcome to Hogwarts ......"

Professor McGonagall gave Neville the same way he felt like his grandmother, even more harsh, or rather stern, than his grandmother. Although she only introduced the students to the sorting ceremony and its significance, and did not ask the students to be quiet, she would be honest when the mischievous students were targeted by her.

Professor McGonagall soon left, however, and though she told the freshmen to be more peaceful, she didn't.

While waiting, the freshmen watched the "Hundred Ghosts Night Walk" - a bunch of ghosts came out of the wall and passed by chatting as if no one was in front of them.

Professor McGonagall didn't keep the freshmen waiting long, and after guiding the students into the palatial hall, she gently placed a four-legged stool in front of the first-year freshmen, and then placed a top wizard hat on the stool.

The hat was patched, worn out, and dirty.

But everyone's expressions changed except for the freshmen, as the annual sorting ceremony was about to begin.

"God forbid, don't send me to Slytherin, or grandma will beat me to death. ”

Neville, who was standing in the queue of freshmen, prayed to the Muggle god who had known that it had not been long ago, but he didn't know how effective his temporary hugging of God's thigh was.