Chapter 028 Opening Banquet

The Sorting Hat decides that each new student has a different amount of time, sometimes for a long time, like the light-brown Seamus Finigan who sits for almost a full minute, and sometimes for a short time, like Hermione who was sorted into Gryffindor after a while.

Basically, the time it took for the hat to be decided was about a dozen seconds to a minute, and there were exceptions, Neville sat for several minutes before he was finally assigned to Gryffindor, and Draco was assigned to Slytherin as soon as he touched the brim of his hat.

"Catherine, which house do you think I'll be sorted into?" Harry couldn't help but get nervous as there were ten new students left waiting for the Sorting House.

"Your parents are Gryffindors, so you should be sorted there too." Ron leaned over and interjected, "For example, there are nine people in my family, and there are already seven Gryffindors, and if nothing else, I will be assigned there." ”

"Although blood has a certain influence, it is the personality of each person that plays a decisive role, and there are no fewer cases where they are not in the same academy as their families, such as the twin sisters who were separated just now." Brace also came over, although he still had the same lazy expression, but his voice was also a little nervous.

"What then?" Harry asked anxiously.

"Where do you most want to go?" Catherine asked softly as she clapped her hands to congratulate Sally Anne Pocks on her placement in Hufflepuff.

"Gryffindor!" Harry replied, "I want to see what my parents' academy is like." ”

“Potter,Harry!” Professor McGonagall suddenly called out the black-haired boy's name, and there was an uproar in the auditorium, just as the other freshmen had ever known him.

"That hat will respect the student's choice." Catherine whispered in Harry's ear, pushing him towards Professor McGonagall.

"How do you know?" Zabi Rice Smith asked.

"Look at his mouth." Catherine gestured to Harry, who had already put on his hat, and the freshman next to her looked over to see the brunette boy muttering something very silently.

"Gryffindor, it seems?" Dean Thomas said, and the hat then confirmed his suspicions.

“Gryffindor!” There was a loud cheer in the auditorium, and as Harry trembled as he walked to the Gryffindor table, Percy even stood up and shook hands with him, with George and Fred shouting, "We've got Potter!" We've got Potter! ”

It seemed that everyone in the auditorium was happy about this, but Catherine looked very ugly at Snape, and even the Slytherin students became strange.

As everyone was excited, Professor McGonagall waited for a while before picking up the parchment again, and since all the freshmen had introduced themselves, and the order of the list was according to the spelling of the family name, Catherine found herself right behind Harry, who knew that Professor McGonagall had pronounced the name - "Smith, Zacharias!"

Catherine couldn't help but be stunned, not understanding what was going on, and when Zabi Rice was assigned to Hufflepuff, the next person to be read by name was Dean Thomas, followed by Lisa Dupin.

“Weasley,Ronald!” The red-haired boy was the third-to-last freshman to be called by his name, and when he put on his hat, Blaise noticed something was wrong.

"What's your family name?" Brace asked.

"Have you forgotten?" Catherine smiled coldly, "I'm an orphan, I don't have a family name. ”

Brace wanted to ask, but the hat had already called out the house Ron had been sorted to.

“Gryffindor!” Ron walked up to Harry with his feet limp, slumped straight into his seat, and his brother, Percy, congratulated him in a very exaggerated tone, "Good, Ron, great! ”

“Zabini,Blaise!”“ Slytherin!”

After Brace made her way to the Slytherin table, Professor McGonagall discovered that the person Dumbledore had mentioned last night was actually the girl who had been "isolated" just now, and that the reason why tonight's sorting ceremony had become so strange seemed to have originated from her.

"Is this a coincidence?" Professor McGonagall thought to herself, looking at the last freshman with curiosity and doubt.

Professor McGonagall's attitude drew the attention of others to Catherine, and many of the students immediately recognized her as the girl Snape was holding on that day at the end of July, and a buzzing whisper began to ring in the auditorium.

"Ahem!" Dumbledore coughed, waking Professor McGonagall from her deep thought, and she pushed her glasses to hide her embarrassment, calling out the name of the last freshman.

“Catherine－Princess!”

"Oh my God! She turned out to be Catherine Prince! ”

There was another commotion in the auditorium.

"Is she famous?" Someone asked.

Those students who knew something about the British Muggle world immediately raised their voices.

"She's been super famous in the Muggle world in the last year!"

"She almost completed her entire course from elementary school to master's degree in the shape of a triple jump."

"You know, you have to make the average Muggle go from seven years old to twenty-four or five years old, and it may not be able to do it!"

"She is the adopted daughter of the Princes family, but she is already the 'master' of the Princes family's power only in the patriarch."

"The most amazing thing is that in the past year, she alone has beaten the top ten most famous lawyers in the British Muggle world and obtained the inheritance of all the Princes family's property."

"And this month, she actually decided to auction off all this huge property."

The discussion grew so loud that Professor McGonagall had to turn around and glare before she could lower the volume, but the conversation didn't stop immediately.

"I didn't expect her to be a new Hogwarts student too."

"I wonder what house she'll be assigned to?"

Catherine put on her Sorting Hat, and the Great Hall finally fell silent, and she heard a small voice ringing in her ears.

"Hey, it's the first time I've met two students who are so similar in one after another."

"Who's the other one?" Catherine asked in a low voice.

"Harry Potter."

"Harry!" Catherine wondered if it was another coincidence.

"Yes, the two of you are strikingly similar in some ways - it's an indisputable fact that going to Slytherin will definitely lead you to glory - but Harry Potter decided to go to his parents' house, Gryffindor. What about you, aren't you going to Slytherin either? Hat said.

"No," said Catherine firmly, "I want to go to Slytherin." ”

"Hmm, has it been decided? Doesn't it change? You know, Slytherin's reputation isn't very good, no, it's terrible. The hat in turn persuades.

"Yes, I don't change." Catherine chuckled.

"Alright! Good luck! Young－Fairy!” The hat said, and then it loudly announced, "Slytherin!"

All the first graders cheered and congratulated Catherine on her wish. The faculty and staff who had attended last night's impromptu meeting, including Professor McGonagall, also warmly congratulated him, and Snape, who had been straining his face, even showed a rare smile.

Seeing this, everyone else applauded enthusiastically, and Catherine received a round of applause louder than Harry's. But she didn't rush to her house's long table like the first-year freshmen before her.

Instead, she calmly got out of her chair, calmly handed the Sorting Hat to Professor McGonagall, and then bowed straight to Professor McGonagall and the other professors in the professorship, before turning around, scanning the four house tables with a calm look, and finally, with her gentle smile that seemed to never change, towards the Slytherin table.

This elegant demeanor made the eyes of everyone present light up.

Ixissi was the first to stand up, and stepped over the bench to stand in the middle of the aisle, and the other Slytherins quickly stood up and welcomed the new student with more enthusiastic applause mixed with various inquisitive eyes, and Draco made no secret of his envy and jealousy.

By the time Catherine walked up to Ixissi, the auditorium fell silent.

"Welcome to Slytherin, Miss-Princess." Ixissi solemnly held out his hand to her.

Catherine took his hand lightly and said with a smile, "Mr. Excessive, Princess-doesn't-my-family, so-call-me-Catherine, (Mr. Ixissi, Princes is not my family, just call me Catherine.) ）”

Her words were silent, but they were heard by the entire auditorium.

The auditorium became quieter, and this time even the sound of breathing seemed to disappear.

Ikosesi was slightly stunned, but immediately came back to his senses: "Miss Catherine, please be seated." ”

Catherine took Ecosisi's hand and stepped over the bench, but instead of sitting down, she looked diagonally across from a girl with a silver badge with the letter "P" pinned to her chest, representing her prefect.

"This is Prefect Tibert Kenschant." Ixissi spoke up to introduce her.

"Nice to meet you!" Catherine smiled and held out her left hand.

Kenshart took her hand stiffly and did not speak, but his grim face softened a little.

"Ahem!" With a cough, Dumbledore stood up from the center of the professorship, and the Slytherin students sat down.

When all eyes were on him, the Headmaster of Hogwarts opened his arms and smiled:

"Welcome! Welcome to Hogwarts to start the school year! Before the banquet begins, I would like to say a few words. That's it: Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak! ”

The corners of Catherine's mouth twitched and she applauded along with the others, the old headmaster played word games with his students and actually used ancient magic scripts, just ask the Hogwarts students who didn't start to have ancient magic language classes until the third year, and how many of them could understand that he was actually saying "bless you all good health"!

Sure enough, when Dumbledore sat down again, Catherine Draco said coldly, "No wonder my father said he was crazy. ”

Catherine looked at him and then at the two prefects, Kensaut clearly agreed with Draco's words, and she looked at her with the same disdain, and as for Ixasi, he smiled meaningfully at the girl who was looking at him.