Hogwarts.

Gryffindor House's common room.

There is still a month before the start of school, and at this time, the room decorated in scarlet and gold is exceptionally quiet.

"Uh-huh......"

A girl's dream, like a kitten, suddenly came from the room.

A small figure sat up from the bed near the door, stretched lazily, her long silver hair like a waterfall hanging behind him, rubbed her eyes, and looked around sleepily.

"Huh...... Where is it?"

Elena yawned lightly, subconsciously held the soft velvet pillow in her arms and pinched it, looking around in confusion.

Beneath her was a large warm and comfortable bed, with four pillars on its side, and four or five other beds of the same shape around it, which looked like the dormitories of the legendary aristocratic school.

Staring blankly at the crimson flannel curtain hanging at the end of the bed, Elena's eyes slowly focused, and she finally remembered that she seemed to be grilling fish by the lake before, and then met Professor McGonagall, and the last conversation between the two -

Hogwarts?!

"It's not going to be ...... here"

Elena jumped up from the bed and rushed to the door of the room barefoot on the shaggy carpet.

She was greeted by a familiar rotunda filled with soft armchairs, and opposite the extinguished fireplace, two spiral staircases leading to each of the two rooms—and she was standing in the doorway to one of them.

On the walls of the hall, there were several paintings, and with Elena's sudden appearance, the figures in the paintings invariably looked up at her, whispering to each other.

“...... Gryffindor Lounge?" Elena let out a complicated moan of weakness as she leaned on the railing at the top of the spiral staircase.

Animated magical portraits, dormitory beds, and a palette of scarlet and gold...... And this lounge, which had appeared in her dreams countless times in her previous life, when this information was combined, it was enough for her to deduce where it was.

Crackling.

At the same time, there was a faint explosion in the air beside Elena.

A strange creature appeared beside her, small in size, with bat-sized ears, bulging green eyes the size of a tennis ball, and a long, flat nose.

"Miss Caslana, welcome to Hogwarts. ”

It touched its chest with one hand, like an old-fashioned gentleman's butler, and bowed deeply to Elena with graceful manners.

House-elves, a race conquered by wizards in ancient wars, each of them must be trained as serviles at birth, and must be slaves who have served their masters for generations.

Every house-elf has its own family, and generally speaking, the magic of the house-elf will be life magic, such as cleaning and cooking.

But in fact, the magic of the house-elves will be much more than that, and more house-elves are needed by the family, not because of their life skills, but because of their supernormal magic. In fact, most house-elves may have far more magical abilities than their owners.

"Just call me Elena. Who are you? Is there any particular reason you're here?"

Elena curiously glanced at the big ears of the elf in front of her. There are hundreds of house-elves like these at Hogwarts, and they do all the housework, cleaning, cooking, etc., in the school, but usually the students are unaware of their existence.

"Burleigh, Miss. I am Burleigh, the house-elf of Hogwarts. The elf raised her head and replied, "Professor Dumbledore has asked me to wait here for you to wake up and serve as your temporary guide in the school. ”

"Temporary guide?"

Elena snorted, raised her eyebrows, and repeated noncommittally.

The girl's blue eyes looked at Burleigh and suddenly asked, "What if I don't want to visit?"

"Professor Dumbledore has instructed you to leave freely at any time. He's in the headmaster's office next to him, Miss Elena wants to leave?" replied the elf without thinking.

"Hmm......"

Elena glanced thoughtfully at the house-elf in front of her, a little unsure of what Dumbledore was thinking, was it really just as Professor McGonagall said, inviting her to visit Hogwarts?

“...... Of course not. ”

The corners of her mouth curled slightly, and Elena's fingers lightly touched the wooden railing, and her eyes lit up.

"Maybe this is the only time I've ever entered Hogwarts, so I'm going to have to take a good stroll. ”

The girl turned around, put her hands behind her back, and bounced back to the dormitory with her bare feet and began to put on her shoes.

This is the place where all dreams and fantasies begin at Hogwarts, where all dreams and fantasies began, and when she was most obsessed with the Harry Potter series in her previous life, she dreamed of traveling through all corners of the castle almost every night.

............

The Gryffindor common room is located on the eighth floor of the main Hogwarts Tower, connecting the Gryffindor Tower to the main castle tower.

The girls' dormitory where Elena slept before was in the Gryffindor Tower, and from the window, you could see the sparkling lake and the corner of the Forbidden Forest in the distance.

Following Burleigh's guidance, Elena walked through the portrait of the Fat Lady out of the Gryffindor common room - unfortunately, the Fat Lady seemed to have gone to another portrait, so Elena did not have the chance to meet the most frequently seen character in the novel.

Not far from the Gryffindor common room is the Headmaster's Office.

"Miss Elena, this is Headmaster Dumbledore's office, and he's already waiting for you inside. ”

Burleigh stretched out his bony arm and pointed to a spiral staircase ahead.

Normally, there would be a huge stone monster guarding the door of the headmaster's office, and only after pronouncing the correct password would the stone beast jump to the side and give way to the automatic spiral staircase behind it.

At the end of the staircase is a gleaming oak door with a brass knocker in the shape of a sphin's eagle's head, and many people in previous lives have speculated that the current Headmaster's office may have been used by Godric Gryffindor, one of the four founders of Hogwarts.

However, at this time, the stone beast that was supposed to be squatting in front of the stairs had moved away and made way for the staircase behind it.

"Oh, I see. ”

Glancing in the direction of Burleigh's finger, Elena nodded politely. Without hesitation, she turned around and walked in the opposite direction, she didn't want to wake up and go into battle with the most elusive wizard in the entire wizarding world.

As for Dumbledore, just wait and wait until she's almost done shopping before going to him.

Standing in the middle of the hallway, the girl looked at the stairs in front of her, the characters hanging from the walls moving back and forth like GIFs, and her eyes were a little dazed—Elena suddenly realized that she might not be as determined as she thought.

When the wizarding world appeared in front of her eyes in such a palpable distance, there was a moment when she even began to fantasize about her future life in this castle.

Closing her eyes, the silver-haired little Lori took a deep breath and muttered silently in her heart.

"I'm just going to go shopping! Just this once! It's just to fulfill a dream that I couldn't achieve in my previous life. After today, absolutely, absolutely no more news from the wizarding world!"

Opening her eyes, Elena carefully stroked the wall in the hallway and whispered, "Hello, Hogwarts. ”

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