Age of Magic 999, September 1.

It's a day of love and hate, both in the wizarding and non-magical worlds.

The long summer vacation has finally passed, and a new semester has begun.

Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry is no exception, with the only difference being that compared to two months ago, "Hogwarts" now refers to more than just a campus area of castles, lakes, woodyards, vegetable fields, and Quidditch pitches.

In the clearing between the school gate and the village of Hogsmeade, there is now a row of low-slung houses.

It's just that the young wizards who have just arrived at the school at night don't have the energy to pay attention to these subtle changes for the time being.

After a whole day on the train, the vast majority of them were already exhausted.

The Hogwarts Express doesn't serve lunch, and even the older students have a deep sense of fatigue on their faces due to hunger, cold, and exhaustion - when the train has come to a standstill, the students push and shove out of the door and head for the carriage stop outside the dark platform, hoping to get back to the warmth and comfort of Hogwarts Castle.

"Well, let's separate here and see ...... at school later."

Elena stepped off the platform and drew her wand and tapped it on Hermione, Hannah, and Luna in turn, and an invisible stream of warmth flowed down their heads like a waterfall, driving away the cold of the Scottish Highlands at night.

I have to admit that the Scamanders are indeed quite amazing wizards.

During the previous month's summer vacation, Elena had learned a lot of magic from Tina Scamander, most of which was the daily magic that adult wizards had summarized in their daily lives that were not in the textbooks.

As for the Ministry of Magic's detection of traces of underage wizards' spellcasting......

As early as the first day of the summer vacation, Gellert Grindelwald helped her get rid of it - in exchange for a steaming, not-so-authentic "Newmengard version" of spicy soup, which was too good for the old devil.

"Huh?!Separate??Why?"

Hannah asked with a confused expression on her frown.

"Elena, shouldn't you come with us in a carriage to the castle?"

"Did you cross the lake as a freshman, so you said-"

Hermione glanced at Elena's plain wizard robes, her gaze slowly slicing over the hands of Elena and Luna, and nodded thoughtfully, a curious look on her face.

"Are you really okay alone? you know what I mean......

"Don't look at me like that! I've said it many times, I'm not a road idiot!"

Elena glared at the little beaver who seemed to be smiling, and her tone couldn't help but weaken a little, "I just don't have a good sense of direction, and besides, Luna is here - no way, Hagrid can't take a boat this year, you know." ”

As she spoke, Elena pouted not far away.

In the crowd of thousands of people, a figure more than three meters tall looks particularly conspicuous among them.

As the news that Tom Riddle was Voldemort spread, and the dossier about the Hogwarts "Murder in the Secret Room" spread fifty years ago, it was only natural that there were many sympathetic and praising voices in the wizarding world - in an exclusive interview with the Daily Prophet, Hagrid was named "the first warrior to rebel against the mystery man".

Naturally, the Ministry of Magic and Hogwarts revoked all punishments for Hagrid, and after consulting with Dumbledore and Hagrid himself, they approved the decision that Hagrid could continue his studies at Hogwarts.

So, at least for today, Hagrid is not a Hogwarts Hunting Ground Warden, a Freshman Usher, or a Keykeeper.

According to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Hagrid was supposed to join the other seniors at the station in the school's carriage through the Hogwarts gates, which were lined with winged boar sculptures, and along School Avenue into Hogwarts Castle - like all fourth-year Gryffindor House students, without any special treatment.

And the opposite ......

Elena raised her wand and pointed gracefully at the sky.

“Explosion Maximum!”

Rumble!

With a thunderous roar, a brilliant firework suddenly burst into the sky above the station.

Immediately afterward, the huge Hogwarts crest appeared above the students' heads, and in the brightly colored four-color school crest, the animals symbolizing their respective houses moved their bodies as if they had just woken up from a big dream, emitting a series of imposing sounds.

"First-year freshmen! First-year freshmen are coming here!"

Elena waved her wand, and a pillar of light fell from the light of the school emblem in the sky, marking her location.

Compared to Hagrid's previous way of gathering new students, Elena's way was obviously much easier to distinguish, and it only took about a third of the time before all the new students at Hogwarts this year gathered in front of Elena.

"Good! I'll take a look...... Well, everyone should have arrived. ”

Elena struggled to resist the urge to stand on tiptoe and tap the numbers, and quietly turned her head to the side of the house-elf on the right by the Hogwarts Express, waiting until it held up a lantern and shook it three times in a row before continuing.

"Now, first-year students, draw your wands!"

Not far away, Luna Lovegood was already standing on the steep and narrow downhill intersection.

As one of Elena's most relied on wings, although Luna is occasionally a little confused, at least her ability to find her way is quite good, and after a school year together, she has also grown a lot in acting.

Luna turned her head and asked softly with a serious expression.

"Professor Kaslana, what should we do next?"

"Relax, try to remember what you tried on the train, and recite the ...... with me"

Elena replied very naturally, looking around at the little wizards who were staring at her, her gaze lingering on the little witch in the crowd who was about her own size, and quietly gave a gentle look.

Immediately afterward, Elena drew her wand, shook her wrist nimbly, and read clearly.

"Lumos!

Countless white lights flickered around the girl, flying around her like fireflies, dispelling the darkness in the station in a matter of seconds, and it seemed to have a dreamlike beauty.

And as Elena cast the spell, the surrounding little wizards chanted spells one after another.

Unlike the sporadic light of a year ago, this time almost all of the newborn wand tips flickered, and countless bright and dark white lights gradually lit up, and everyone gathered together to form a realm as bright as moonlight.