Chapter 326: Dumbledore

"It is rumored that Thestrals represent ominous, but in fact, only those who have witnessed death can see them."

Su Zimo was not surprised at all that he was able to see Thestrals, since he obtained the thief system, it is estimated that there are hundreds of thousands of people who have died directly or indirectly at his hands!

"You can see them too?"

Suddenly, while he was pondering, a slightly ethereal voice sounded in his ears.

Su Zimo turned his head and saw a tall girl with unkempt, dirty, waist-length blond hair, and a pair of silver-gray eyes, as if she had a kind of power that could penetrate people's hearts.

"Luna Lovegood, Ravenclaw third-year, I know you, you're the Hufflepuff prefect, Cedric Diggory."

"Uh...... Just call me Cedric. ”

Facing Luna who did not play cards according to common sense, Su Zimo was also stunned, and immediately pointed to the carriage on the side, and said quietly: "I think, Luna, you don't want to stand in the rain and chat, right?" ”

Soon, the two of them got into a Thestrals.

After getting into the car, Luna did not continue to speak, but held a magazine called "Singing Contrarian" and flipped through it by herself.

The carriages lined up, creaking and staggering along the road.

It wasn't long before Hogwarts Castle loomed into view, towering towers darkened against the dark night sky, and the occasional window glowed brightly above them.

Finally, the carriage stopped at the stone steps leading to the oak gate.

And when Su Zimo turned around, Luna on the side got out of the carriage by herself, and only said "goodbye" softly.

"What a weird girl......"

In this regard, Su Zimo couldn't help but smile, immediately shook his head, and walked towards the castle with the flow of people.

Passing through the gate, you will be greeted by four long tables in the auditorium, which are full of hundreds of sets of tables and chairs, and the four colored markings of lions, eagles, badgers, and snakes flutter on the four long tables.

The long table was already full of seventy or eighty percent of the students, and there was a loud noise.

There are four tables with glittering gold plates and goblets, and on the top of the dining room is a long table where the teachers are seated, and the most striking thing is the transparent ceiling overhead, which looks directly out onto the outside.

It's hard to believe that there is a ceiling on it, and it's hard to believe that the roof of the restaurant isn't open-air.

With his memory, Su Zimo came to the table that belonged to Hufflepuff, and from time to time there were various students along the way, nodding and greeting him with reverence, most of them were some Hufflepuff students in the lower grades.

This is also because his current identity has a great status in Hufflepuff, almost equivalent to the existence of a student leader.

In this regard, Su Zimo naturally coped with it properly, and nodded and greeted everyone familiarly.

After all, he is also a person who has been an emperor, and it is too simple to deal with these students who are only ten years old.

Suddenly, Su Zimo noticed that in the middle of the teaching desk, there was an old man sitting.

Her flowing silver-white hair and beard glistened in the candlelight, and her sumptuous dark green robe was embroidered with stars and moons.

The fingertips of his two slender hands touched each other, his chin resting on top of them, and his eyes looked at the ceiling above through the half-moon lenses, as if in deep thought.

"Albus Dumbledore," Su Zimo muttered.

It is worth noting that on Dumbledore's waist, in an inconspicuous place, there is a dark wand that is slightly thicker than the usual wand, which looks unpretentious.

But Su Zimo knew that it was the result of the convergence of the power of this wand.

"Elder Wand ......"

Perhaps sensing someone watching, Dumbledore turned his head, and the half-moon-shaped lens flashed with a glimmer of brilliance, and he nodded slightly towards Hufflepuff.

In this regard, Su Zimo also smiled, picked up the goblet on the table, and toasted a glass of wine to the other party.

He knew that an being like Dumbledore would feel something even if he silently recited the other person's name, let alone an undisguised observation like his?

"Boom-"

The door to the auditorium opened, and everyone fell silent until the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Minerva McGonagall, led a long line of first-year students to the top of the auditorium.

The students stood in a row along the staff's desks, stopped, and looked very nervous in front of the whole school.

At this point, Professor McGonagall placed a three-legged stool on the ground in front of the freshmen, and placed a tattered, dirty, patched wizard's hat on top of the stool.

The first-year students stared at it stunned, and the others looked at it too.

For a moment, there was silence in the auditorium.

Then, a crack near the brim of the hat opened like a mouth, and the hat suddenly began to sing:

That was more than a thousand years ago.

I've just been knitted into shape.

There are four famous wizards.

Their names have survived to this day:

The brave Gryffindor, from a barren swamp;

Beautiful Ravenclaw, from the tranquil riverfront;

The benevolent Hufflepuff, from the open valley;

Shrewd Slytherin, from that quagmire.

They share a dream, a wish.

At the same time, there was a bold plan.

It is necessary to train young wizards to become talents.

Hogwarts School was founded in this way.

These four great wizards

Everybody builds his own college,

They are in the students they teach

There are different ideas about the talent valued.

Gryffindor believes that the bravest of the people.

deserves the highest reward;

Ravenclaw felt that the minds were the smartest.

Always the most promising;

Hufflepuff felt that the most diligent and hard-working.

to be the most qualified to enter the college;

And power-hungry Slytherins

I like ambitious teenagers the most.

The four great wizards in their living years.

Personally pick out the proud protégé.

But when they are buried in the Nine Springs.

How do you select the best in the student pool?

It was Gryffindor who came up with the idea.

He plucked me off his head.

The Big Four all injected me with ideas.

From now on, it is up to me to pick and evaluate!

Okay, put me on the head.

I've never looked at it.

I'm going to look at your head.

Determine which house you belong to!

After the Sorting Hat was finished, the auditorium burst into applause.

"Shhh...... This is a magic weapon with the existence of a machine spirit? ”

Hearing the words of the Sorting Hat, Su Zimo's expression changed slightly.

He found that this Harry Potter world was really more and more surprised, not only magical items such as Deathly Hallows, but also Sorting Hats, which can think independently......

Then, with a long roll of parchment in her hand, Professor McGonagall read out the names on it one by one, and the person whose name was read sat down in a chair and took the magic hat, which would then announce the house to which the child had been assigned, and there would be a cheer on the long table in the corresponding house.

Su Zimo noticed that the time it took to distinguish each child's house was different, and some of them took dozens of seconds to determine the incident.

When the sorting house was over, the empty plates on the table were suddenly magically filled with food.

"It should be some kind of teleportation magic, attach something like a magic array to the plate in advance, and when the time comes, you will use the house elves to teleport these prepared foods to the table......"

With just one glance, Su Zimo saw through this.

As for the house-elves, this is also a magical creature unique to the Harry Potter world, which can meet all the requirements of the owner, and is also magical, and can even do some things that wizards can't.

For example, apparitions appear in Hogwarts.

When Su Zimo felt that he was eight points full, the residues of the last dim sum on the dinner plate disappeared one after another, just like the previous food.

Dumbledore suddenly stood up, tapped his throat with his wand, and said, "Now that we've all eaten and drunk, I must ask for everyone's attention again, I have to announce a few notices." ”

"Mr. Fitch, the janitor, has asked me to tell you that there are several more items that are forbidden in the castle this year, and they are screaming balls, toothed saucers, and combo darts.

The whole list of about four hundred and thirty-seven items can be seen in Mr. Filch's office, and those interested can check it out. ”

"In addition, students are still not allowed to enter the Forbidden Forest without permission, and students below the third grade are not allowed to enter Hogsmeade Village.

Speaking of which, Dumbledore paused and continued.

"It is my regret to inform you that there will be no House Cup Quidditch this year.

That's because of an event that starts in October and will last throughout the school year, and it takes up a lot of time and energy from teachers – but I'm sure you'll all have a lot of fun with it. It is my great pleasure to announce that this year's ...... at Hogwarts

In the middle of his speech, the door of the castle was pushed open, and the cold wind from outside blew in at once, and everyone turned their heads to look at the intruder.

A man stood in the doorway, on a long cane, wrapped in a black traveling cloak......

It was a strange man, every inch of skin on his face seemed to be scarred, his mouth was like a deep slash, a large part of the bridge of his nose was missing, and there was something evidently wrong with his two eyes, one of which was like a bead, small and black, and the other like a coin, large and round, still blue.

This blue eye kept turning, not blinking, turning up and down, looking left and right, very unlike a normal eye, the blue eye turned to the right, towards the back of his head, so only the whites of his eyes could be seen.

The strange man's face clearly frightened most people, and almost all of them immediately looked away.

But Su Zimo looked at the visitor playfully, and said quietly: "Interesting...... Barty Crouch Jr., do you want to expose him now, but if it does, our savior, I'm afraid I won't be able to participate in the Triwizard Tournament, right? ”

At this moment, the strange man walked up to Dumbledore and held out a hand, which was also as scarred as his face.

Dumbledore shook his hand and whispered something.

The latter sat down, shook his head, shook his long gray hair from his face, and then pulled a plate of sausages over his mutilated nose and sniffed it. He took a knife from his pocket, poked it through one end of a sausage, and ate it.

His normal eyes were staring at the sausage, but the blue eye still kept rolling around in its sockets, looking at the auditorium and his classmates.

Su Zimo noticed that one of the stranger's legs was made of wood, and there were claws made of iron at the top.

(End of chapter)