Chapter 210: Sorting Ceremony

Hello, are you the new professor in the Conservation Magical Creatures class? Taking advantage of the fact that the new students had not yet come in and the banquet had not yet begun, Irma quietly asked, "Which school did you graduate from?" ”

"Protecting Magical Creatures?" Li Huan was stunned when he heard this question, and subconsciously looked at the original position of Professor Kettle Byrne, which was empty and no one was sitting.

"No, I'm not a professor, I'm a friend of Dumbledore." He told the truth.

"Oh, I see. Professor Byrne must have been scratched by Grindy Lowe again. Irma reached out and fiddled with the top hat on her head.

It was a hat that matched her dress, rented from Madame Morkin's store, and she had to return it when she was finished.

"Maybe, your hat is beautiful." Li Huan said casually.

Grindy Low is a water monster, and Professor Bourne has an unusual passion for magical creatures, but he always underestimates those dangers, and is often punished by the school for studying and caring for dangerous creatures during his teaching.

He is said to have been placed on probation 43 times, just five times from the first record in Hogwarts history. There were many students who bet on which year he would break this record, and last year was clearly not.

"Well, thank you. If you're not an employee at school, you're ...... I'm talking about wizards who live on their own? Irma obviously wanted to say something that wasn't very polite, but she held back.

"Yes. I was honored to be invited by Dumbledore. Li Huan said nonsense, he saw that the high door of the auditorium had been opened, and a group of young wizards with childish faces walked in.

Several young wizards wore long wizard robes for the first time, and they writhed around as if they were uncomfortable, and they grabbed the robes with their hands so that they would not fall behind their butts.

"Oh, the banquet is about to begin, let's talk about it later." Irma whispered.

The young wizards walked in a long line between Gryffindor House and Slytherin House to the Sorting Hat.

However, their attention was drawn to Dumbledore behind the Sorting Hat, and none of them cared about a dirty, tattered old felt fur hat.

"Wait a minute, Headmaster Dumbledore has a few words to say before we get started." Professor McGonagall, who was leading the young wizard, said, and she stepped aside.

Dumbledore stood up, his hair and beard were black today, probably from the black hair dye from the Muggle Grocery Store.

"Students, before the start of the new semester, I would like to explain the situation of Professor Kettle Byrne." Dumbledore said unceremoniously, "During the summer holidays, your Professor Bourne smuggled to Ethiopia and bought a bird snake egg from a black market merchant there.

"Apparently, he forgot to close the cage of the bird snake, so much so that four ribs were broken by the greatly enlarged body and hard walls of the bird snake."

"Poof!" Some of the senior students couldn't help but burst out laughing.

"So he was absent from today's opening ceremony. I hope that in the new semester, every student can pay attention to their own safety and not be hurt by blind confidence. ”

Dumbledore sat down.

A few bold little wizards whispered.

"Cool, this professor is so powerful, he dares to smuggle in."

"That's right, it seems that Hogwarts is not as stern as I thought. Hello, my name is James, James Potter. ”

"Oh, hello, my name is Cialis Black."

Li Huan noticed the two little wizards, and in English, the literal translation of Sirius is Sirius.

"Now begin the sorting ceremony." Professor McGonagall said, "Lucis Gendry, please sit here. ”

The sorting ceremony was carried out in an orderly manner, and Li Huan heard several familiar names.

James Potter, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, Lily Evans, Severus Snape......

After the Sorting House ended, Dumbledore raised his golden glass and called the feast to begin.

"It's finally started, and I'm a little hungry." Irma next to her muttered.

She is a new teacher, and she can't talk to the old professors, so she has to chat with Li Huan next to her.

"Do you like to read? Do you wandering wizards rarely have access to advanced magical spells? Irma asked curiously.

"Uh...... Hogwarts textbooks are for public sale. Li Huan said.

He was a little skeptical if the little girl was stupid to read books all day at school, or if she had a considerable amount of over-guessing about the wizards outside.

"yes, so do you know which textbooks have outdated spells?" Irma raised her glass, shielded her face, and whispered.

Then she added, "At least most of them are outdated, except for those that have stood the test of time." ”

Li Huan turned her head to look at her, the little girl looked okay, but she was a little thin and looked malnourished.

He asked, "What does it mean to be obsolete?" ”

Irma borrowed the strength of the wine and said slightly proudly: "Of course it is outdated, the spells in the textbooks are all open and harmless spells, they were invented by wizards hundreds of years ago, and after so many years, there have long been more concise spells to replace them."

"However, every wizard's habits are different, and their adaptation to spells is also different, and some simple spells are difficult for other wizards to control, and will always cause a lot of trouble, so the Ministry of Magic requires that only those spells that have been used for hundreds of years can be recorded.

"The so-called test of time is to leave those spells that have no problems, are very concise in themselves, and have no room for improvement. ...... such as disarming charms and regeneration charms"

It seemed like Irma hadn't talked to anyone like this in a long time, and she kept talking.

What she said wasn't particularly secretive, more efficient spells were already being generated, and many talented wizards would improve those ancient spells themselves to suit their own rhythm of spell casting.

In pure-blood families, these are not secret conversations, and even in some Muggle families, there are wizards who know about this. Only wizards with few resources and connections, who can only live under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Magic, do not know these things.

Therefore, the wizarding world has never been a peaceful place, and there are always contradictions and antagonisms between various classes, otherwise Voldemort would have ascended to the heights, how could so many people join him incognito and become Death Eaters.

Voldemort couldn't have cast the Imperius Curse on every Death Eater.

But considering that the Harry Potter series was originally a children's book, there would be no in-depth dissection of these things.

Li Huan listened to Irma's chatter and started to think carefully.

Whether it's improving or inventing spells, it takes a lot of magical knowledge to base it up.