Chapter 9: The Sorting Ceremony
"I don't want your father to come to me for trouble." Iger looked into Malfoy's eyes and whispered, "You know, you're going to Hogwarts sooner or later, which means you'll fall into my hands sooner or later, you know what I mean?" β
Malfoy nodded quickly, Egger was satisfied with his reaction, compared to Malfoy's childish behavior of Malfoy and Harry, Egger felt that the powerful impact could cause a critical blow to Malfoy's young mind, if Malfoy was not stupid, he should know that he was not something he could provoke.
"My name is Egger Morissus, remember my name, and one day it will make you look up to me." Egg looked at Malfoy with a smile, "If you're willing to change your nasty personality, I don't think I mind being friends with you." β
Malfoy looked at Egger in a daze, and nodded apprehensively, his brain was still blank, and Egger's slap just now really frightened him.
Egg looked at Malfoy, "Are you waiting for me to send you?" β
Malfoy woke up from a dream and left the tavern in a panic, feeling much safer in Diagon Alley and elsewhere than staying with Egger.
"Mr. Tom, a glass of Butterbeer." Iger looked at the rickety old Tom behind the bar and smiled.
"I don't recommend drinking under minors, Mr. Morissusβ" Tom spoke like a broken old bellows, especially when he laughed, and Iger couldn't help but wonder if he had been poked in the lung.
"Azkaban won't lock up a curious kid for stealing beer, and he won't arrest you for selling alcohol." Iger grinned.
"That makes sense," Tom looked at Egger flatteringly, bringing a glass of butterbeer with thick foam, and Egger looked a little funny with a large oak beer glass in his young hand.
Egger squeaked and drank his beer, and a large group of wizards unconsciously surrounded him, and from time to time someone talked to Egg, and Egger chatted with them with a match.
Soon, Hagrid's tall figure appeared in the store.
"I just heard that there's a little wizard in the Leaky Cauldron who used a beautiful crush to blow up an entire wall, and honestly Egger, it's dangerous." Hagrid looked at Egg and said seriously.
Egg looked at Hagrid and opened his mouth, he wanted to tell Hagrid that someone had just said something bad about him, but after thinking about it, he nodded: "I'll pay attention next time." β
"But I heard that the boy was defending his friend, Egger, and I was impressed." Hagrid's rough voice laughed, and he couldn't help but hug Egger gently: "The Malfoy family is very annoying, I don't want you to have any conflict with them because of me, after all, they are still powerful..."
Egg looked at Hagrid and laughed, feeling itchy in his heart.
"The price of spider venom is higher than I thought, and a sneaky old lady bought it from me for sixty Galleons." Hagrid looked at Egg and whispered, "It's been a good harvest, isn't it?" β
Egg nodded and followed Hagrid into Diagon Alley, where Hagrid said he was going to pick an owl for Egger, which made Egg a little excited.
"Let's take a walk in the Forbidden Forest in two days, and then we should be able to buy you a good flying broomstick, in fact, you can buy it now, but a broom of a few dozen Galleons is obviously not worthy of our future great magician, is it?" Hagrid walked with great strides, and Egg trotted after Hagrid.
Hagrid turned his head to look at Egger as he scrambled and laughed, reaching out to lift Egger and let him sit on his shoulder.
"I think you'll have an easier time that way." Hagrid said.
Egg sat on Hagrid's broad shoulders and looked around, and the people around him looked at Egger, who was particularly striking by his outstanding height.
Hagrid led Iger to the door of a shop, and Iger looked at the sign on the store:
Ella Owl Store...
"This family has the most complete pets, and most of the students at Hogwarts have found their Couriers here." Hagrid put Egg down and led Egg through the door.
"Welcome." The shopkeeper said with a smile.
"Which one you like, choose for yourself." Hagrid patted Egger on the head.
There were a lot of owls in the house, and Iger wanted a snowy owl like Harry Potter, and he looked around, hoping to find a good match.
Soon, in a corner of the shop, Iger saw a little guy with big eyes looking him up and down, this owl with black and white feathers, a small beak, and big eyes looked cute.
"I want this!" Egg grinned.
"Fifty Galleons!" The landlady looked at Iger and rubbed her hands.
"How much?" Egger and Hagrid stared at each other, looking at the female boss in panic and asked in unison.
"Fifty." The landlady shrugged: "That's the laughing owl, a species that is said to have been extinct decades ago, rarer than dragons, fifty Galleons is already cheap." β
In the corner, the big-eyed owl jumped in the cage and looked at Egg expectantly.
"What's the difference?" Iger looked at the female boss.
"It's just like people laughing, it's weird, isn't it?" The female boss spreads her hands.
Egger was a little speechless: "No matter how weird it is, it's just an owl." β
The female boss looked obviously impatient: "Do you understand that scarcity is expensive?" Do you buy it or not? β
Hagrid opened his mouth to buy it, and he could tell that Egg really liked the owl.
"Thirty Galleons!" Egger frowned and looked at the female boss: "This is the limit of what we can bear." β
Saying that, Egger made a regretful expression and was about to leave, but the female boss hurriedly stopped and stuffed the cage to Egg: "Thirty is thirty, you must know that thirty I have already earned a lot, although it is an extinct species, but you are right, this is just an owl, the poor little guy has been staying for a long time, and others will not buy it as soon as they hear the price..."
The female boss chattered, looking at the thirty Galleons that Iger handed her, obviously very happy.
"Black shop!"
The two walked in Diagon Alley, and Hagrid was still indignant: "A toad is only a few silver sico!" The most expensive owl is only eight or nine Galleons! What did she think she was selling? Dragons? β
In contrast, Egger was in a noticeably better mood, and he kept comforting Hagrid, reaching out to tease the laughing owl in the cage.
In his arms, Guoba timidly poked his head out to look at the laughing owl in the cage, and slowly moved to the edge of the cage.
The laughing owl looked at the tree guard in front of him and probed suddenly, so frightened that the pot ran back to Egg's arms with a scream, and in the cage, the black and white owl suddenly burst out laughing, and the two big eyes were also squinted mischievously.
The peculiar laughter immediately attracted the attention of the people around him, and Egger was also amused by it: "You didn't spend thirty Galleons in vain, did you?" The laughter sounded happy. β
"The man just said you might be the last laughing owl, so why don't you call you Lac? Fortunate? Egg poked Rak's beak with his finger, and Lark glanced at Egger and pecked lightly at Egg's hand, looking more than happy with the name.
A few minutes later, Egg and Hagrid arrived at Gringotts and deposited fifty Galleons, and Hagrid helped Egg buy a purse with the Traceless Stretching Charm and asked Egg to carry the rest of the money with him.
The two then rode back to Hogwarts on their motorbikes, where they saw a train heading for Hogwarts.
"Want to see the entrance ceremony?" Hagrid asked.
"Is that okay?" Iger was curious.
"Of course, you're part of Hogwarts now, there's no reason why you can't." Hagrid smiled.
The rumbling motorcycle fell into the Forbidden Forest, and Hagrid motioned for Iger to return to the castle first.
"I'm going to pick up the freshmen who are entering the first year, Egger, you go and get ready for the dinner, the dinner is very rich." Hagrid patted Egger on the head.
Egg nodded, and walked towards the castle with Rak's cage.
After a while, Egger walked out of the Gryffindor common room, and the house-elf Kaka led him to the college auditorium.
"I haven't remembered the location of the auditorium for two days, and I really doubt what Egger has in your head." A greasy voice came, and Egg turned his head to look, and a red light shot towards him.
Egger suddenly became a spirit, and the red light was blocked by an invisible barrier more than a meter in front of him.
"Nice silent spellcasting, looks like you don't even need a wand now." Snape's grim gaze flashed at Egg, a flash of surprise in his eyes, but it was fleeting, and then he looked at Kaka, "Go back, I'll take him to the Great Hall." β
Kaka bowed to Snape in some panic, and then the figure slowly disappeared.
Iger couldn't help but be glad that he had kept his armor as Snape had said, otherwise it would have been unpleasant to come like that just now.
Egger followed Snape with small steps, and the two walked into the Great Hall, where the four long tables were already filled with groups of black-robed wizards.
Seeing Snape and Iger walk in, all eyes of curiosity fell on Egger.
"He looks like he's not even ten years old? Freshmen? β
"Could it be some relative of Snape? Otherwise, that old bat wouldn't be in the mood to take care of the child..."
There were all kinds of voices around, and Iger felt a little embarrassed, obviously a little stressed by being stared at by so many people.
"Little egg!" A crisp female voice sounded, Iger turned his head to look at the Gryffindor long table, Aisha was looking at herself excitedly: "Sit here, here!" β
Egg looked at Aisha and smiled, it was a good thing to have a familiar person in an unfamiliar environment.
Just as he was about to walk towards Aisha, Snape grabbed Egger's collar with some rough movements, and a sinister voice appeared in Egger's ears.
"I'm sorry, Miss Smith..."Snape's unchanging face looked at Aisha, "Egger is my protΓ©gΓ©, and I think he should sit in Slytherin instead... Gryffindor? β
The commotion suddenly became more enthusiastic, Snape was talking about disciples instead of students, when did this greasy old fellow start accepting disciples?
Aisha looked at Snape without flinching, "But I guess he's not yet in the sorting house, is he?" It should be his freedom to sit where he sits. β
"Miss Smith is right." Professor McGonagall appeared next to several people at some point: "It should be the child's freedom to sit where, we have no right to interfere, Severus. β
Snape looked at Professor McGonagall, then dropped Egger's collar and looked at Egg with a menacing look in his eyes.
Egg grinned, sat down happily beside Aisha, and then turned and waved at Snape.
Snape's face visibly became more ugly, and he snorted and strode to the teacher's seat.
Professor McGonagall looked at Egger and pursed her lips, a smile leaking from her serious face, and Egg grinned at her.
"What the hell is going on? How did you end up here? Aisha's pretty eyes looked Egger up and down, "I was stunned when I received Professor Dumbledore's letter, aren't you only eight years old?" β
Ai Ge was concise and said softly in Aisha's ear: "Silently erupted, come here to recuperate..."
"The Silent One?" Aisha looked at Iger in panic and looked him up and down, "Oh my God, doesn't that mean..."
"It's okay, I can control it roughly, Dumbledore said it's good to survive the age of ten." Egg hurriedly waved his hand.
Aisha was still not at ease, and checked Egger up and down.
Egg looked at Aisha, "I agree with you to adopt me, what do you think?" β
"Really?" Aisha's eyes lit up and she took Agra into her arms: "That's great, when I graduate this year, I'll find a job with a good salary, and then I can adopt you." β
"I have a way to make money." Iger laughed, "I still have fifty Galleons in Gringotts. β
Don't underestimate fifty Galleons, it will cost more than 2,000 yuan to convert into RMB! In this day and age, the monthly salary is much higher than that of many wizards. A Muggle worker's salary of more than a hundred pounds a month is converted to no more than twenty or thirty Galleons.
Miss Aisha has always been so gentle and beautiful, it would be better if she didn't always tease herself...
"And I'm probably going to live at Hogwarts for three more years, and I'm going to stay with Old Deng until I'm ten years old, anyway." Egg thought in pieces, and the little lions around him began to come up and talk to Egg curiously.
In the teacher's seat, Dumbledore looked at Egger on the Gryffindor table with a smile, "He's very relatable, isn't he?" β
"yes, but I still think he deserves to be our Ravenclaw." Professor Flitwick was clearly still struggling with Egger's belonging.
"But he couldn't answer the eagle's question." Dumbledore smiled.
"A lot of the students in Ravenclaw can't answer, that eagle has nothing to do every day, only thinks about problems, it has something wrong with it, it has nothing to do with him, and I always can't answer when I go to school." Professor Flitwick wasn't in a good mood, but Snape, who wasn't far away from him, was clearly in a worse mood than he was.
One of the two felt that the smart wizard who belonged to his own academy was abducted by Dumbledore, and the other felt that the disciples he had taught should sit in his own academy, so naturally he didn't have a good face for Dumbledore.
"I think if you had a little more laughter in your house, that kid would be happy to go to your house." Dumbledore took a sip of the golden cup in his hand, "The new students are almost coming in, let's start the sorting ceremony." β
The doors of the Great Hall opened, and Professor McGonagall walked in with a large group of timid young wizards.
Over the next few minutes, Egg saw the Sorting Hat singing, and to be honest, Egg felt that there was nothing interesting other than rhyme, but Egg thought of the dead raven at the door of the Ravenclaw common room, and he felt that the Sorting Hat was still a bit of a pursuit.
In the crowd, one by one the little wizards were read by Professor McGonagall's name, and then walked to the table belonging to his own academy with an excited and uneasy face, and Egger couldn't help but be a little envious when he saw it, but he was not in a hurry, he lived first...
The shortest imps of the freshmen all looked taller than Egger, which made Egger a little sluggish, and looked at Aisha beside him, Egger didn't know how long it would take to push this girl.