Chapter Seventy-Four: The Beginning of a New School Year
After saying goodbye to Professor McGonagall, the three of them walked up the stairs towards the Gryffindor Tower. A few minutes later, they came to the portrait of the fat lady.
"Oh, you're so early, it's not normal. The fat lady looked at the three of them and said.
"Honeyeaters, honeyeaters. After a long day in the fireplace and a long time on the carriage, Ryan, who felt a little dizzy, really didn't want to speak, and it seemed that Harry and Ron thought the same way.
The portrait of the fat lady unscrewed, and the three of them crawled into the hole and threw themselves on the nearest couch.
Lane sat for a while before he breathed his breath, and then saw a plate on the coffee table in front of him, with Yorkshire pudding and roast beef, and roasted potatoes and pea sprouts next to it. Beef and vegetables are topped with a layer of brown gravy. There was also a jug of pumpkin juice and three cups on the side of the plate.
It seems that if you are not punished for doing trouble, this kind of light meal is also very rich at Hogwarts. Ryan and the others poured the gravy on the pudding and ate it with beef, after all, they were already hungry after a morning of tossing.
After lunch, the utensils disappeared, just like when eating in the auditorium. The house-elves at Hogwarts are really good, serving every wizard without being detected by them.
After sitting for a while, Ryan asked Harry and Ron, "Why can't we cross that wall, is it because it's malfunctioning?"
Harry continued, "Perhaps, after all, the Hogwarts Express has been running for more than a century, and considering that the gate at the subway entrance is broken twice in three days, then it is normal for this kind of entrance to break once in a while." ”
"No, things in the wizarding world don't break easily. Especially the important partition wall is inspected every year. Ron retorted, and then he turned to Ryan and said, "Thank you this time, now I think that if I did drive my dad's car away, my mom would kill me." Not to mention that if we actually drove, we would still be sitting in a cramped car and basking in the sun. ”
"No thanks, I just think about others more occasionally. Ryan said. "I'm going to take a nap, it's so tiring to toss around all morning. ”
After saying that, Ryan went up the escalator to his room to take a nap, and when he got up at three o'clock, he washed up and put on his robe and went downstairs, and saw Harry and Ron playing crackling and exploding cards, and with a shake of Harry's hand, the cards exploded, as if burning his eyebrows.
Seeing Ryan coming down from the stairs, Harry seemed to think of something and said to Ryan, "That's right, Ryan." Thank you for the letter and postcard you gave me during the holidays. ”
Later, Ryan joined their game as well. Relying on the legacy of the Assassins, Ryan has a strong hand and is able to build a very tall castle with crackling and exploding cards. It's a pity that he is not Ron's opponent at all in wizarding chess, and he was beaten to the ground.
Finally, when all three of them were feeling a little tired, it was time for dinner. They quickly packed themselves up and went downstairs to the auditorium for the opening ceremony.
When they arrived at the auditorium, everyone hadn't come, so Ryan and the three of them waited in the hall at the entrance of the auditorium. After a while, there was a chatter from the hallway, and the students had arrived.
Ryan followed the flow of people to the Gryffindor table and sat down. As in last year, the ceiling with a view of the sky was filled with candles, and the auditorium became a sea of pointed black hats. The only difference is that this year Ryan is no longer a freshman staying at the door. Instead, he sat at the table in his own college like other students, waiting for the new students' branch.
Ryan had just sat down. I heard hurried footsteps in front of me, and then a figure sat across from Ryan. It turned out to be Hermione. There was a little anxious look on his face.
"What the hell is going on with you? I haven't seen you and Harry on the train. I thought you were all missing. ”
"My father had a small car accident on the road this morning and arrived at the station a little late. Then I don't know what happened, there was a problem with the partition wall of the platform. Trapped me and Harry outside. We went to the Cauldron and wrote a letter asking for help, and Professor McGonagall helped deliver it to the school using Floo.com. ”
After hearing this, Hermione patted her chest with her hand, "It's okay for you guys, you don't know how worried I was when I found out that there were no of you in the car." ”
Ryan wanted to say something, but Dumbledore stood up and spoke, and he shut his mouth.
The Rector announced the beginning of the sorting ceremony, the doors of the auditorium were pushed open, and the new students trembled like quails. Sure enough, not telling the freshmen the details of the sorting ceremony was a Hogwarts ancestral prank.
But look at these freshmen, and think about the seventh graders who have graduated. Ryan then discovered that the true power of the British wizarding world had always been at Hogwarts.
If nothing else, at least the vast majority of the British Ministry of Magic employees graduated from here. There will be another one like Fudge's bureaucracy, but since 1956, the headmaster of Hogwarts has been Dumbledore, and it can be said that almost all of the current Ministry of Magic employees are Dumbledore's students.
Ryan was thinking about the feud between the Ministry of Magic and Hogwarts in the original books, when the Sorting Hat's singing pulled him back to reality. I have to say, even after a year of gestation, the singing of the Sorting Hat is still so ugly.
Then came the sorting ceremony, and Ginny Weasley was unsurprisingly sorted into Gryffindor. In addition to this, there is also the famous Harry Potter fan Colin Creevey. Ryan felt that the two of them should form a Harry Potter fan support club together, and there should be a lot of common language.
After the regular principal's speech (as brief as last year's), a sumptuous dinner began. The auditorium reverberated with laughter and the clashing of knives and forks.
When the last piece of dessert is gone, Dumbledore tells everyone that it's time to go back to bed. Hermione finally found an opportunity to ask Ryan carefully how he ended up at school. After listening to Ryan's account, Hermione said to Ryan:
"It's a good thing you didn't listen to Ron's bad idea, otherwise you would definitely deduct a lot of points from the academy today, and maybe even get expelled. ”
After returning to the common room, the students showed interest in the unusual way Ryan and the three of them arrived at school. Ron seemed to enjoy the feeling of being in the limelight, constantly describing the situation to those who would listen to him.
Ryan shrugged his shoulders at the scene and went upstairs to his dorm room after exchanging goodnight with Hermione. Taking advantage of the fact that his roommates had not yet returned to the dormitory, Ryan practiced the spell for a while. Then I went to the bathroom, washed up, and went to bed. It was a thrilling first day of school.