Chapter 533: Freshman Enrollment
While everyone was talking and complaining, the hall opened, and the people immediately fell silent, and Professor McGonagall led a long line of first-year freshmen into the hall.
If Harry, Ron, Van Lin, and Hermione were wet, they were nothing compared to the freshmen, who looked like they had swam across the lake rather than crossed by boat, all shivering from the cold and nervousness.
They stood in a line, facing the other teachers and students, and then stopped.
All the freshmen were like that, except for the youngest boy among them, who had mouse-like hair wrapped in what Harry thought was Hagrid's moleskin coat, which was too large for him, and looked like he was in a shaggy black tent.
His little face protruded from his collar and seemed to tremble with excitement, and when he stood in line with his frightened companions, he gave Colin a thumbs up and mouth-to-mouth, "I fell into the lake." β
He was happy about it.
In front of the first-year students, Professor McConaughey now placed a four-legged bench on the floor, and on top of the stool was a very shabby, dirty patched wizard's hat, and the freshmen stared at the hat, and the others stared at the hat.
For a moment, there was silence.
Immediately, a crack in the brim of the hat opened like a mouth, and the hat began to sing: "At least a thousand years ago, when I first knitted, there were four famous magicians, whose names were still widely known.
Brave Gryffindor,
From the just Ravenclaw of the moors,
From the sweet Hufflepuff of the Canyon,
From: The valley stretches savvy Slytherin.
Coming out of the swamp, they share common wishes, hopes, and dreams.
They come up with bold programs to educate the younger generation.
Hogwarts School was founded.
Now, each of these four seniors has separated their bloodlines.
Each college has a different collection of moral values.
For Gryffindors, the most courageous commendations always precede the rest.
When it comes to Ravenclaw, the smartest is always the best.
For Hufflepuff, the hard-working workers are the most to be admired.
The power-hungry Slytherins favored those with high aspirations.
They can pick Tomary when they are alive when they are dead for many years.
Gryffindor found a way.
He took me off his head,
The pioneers gave me some mana,
So I was able to choose for them, as a substitute to slip me comfortably past you.
Never have I ever gone wrong.
I can read your mind and tell you where you stand. β
After the Sorting Hat finished singing, the hall burst into deafening applause.
"It's not the song it sings when it classifies us. Harry joined the others in clapping.
"Sing a different song every year. "It's always annoying to live a hat life, right? I think it takes a whole year to make up the next song." β
Professor McGonagall now unfolded a large roll of parchment.
"When I call your name, you put on your hat and sit on a stool. β
She instructed the freshmen, "After the hat announces your house, go and sit at the appropriate table." β
"Ackley. Sdwart!"
A boy stepped forward, visibly shaking from head to toe, and he lifted his sorting hat, put it on, and sat down on a stool.
"Ravenclaw. Hat exclaimed.
He took off his hat and hurried to his seat at the Ravenclaw table, where everyone around him applauded and welcomed him.
Harry glanced at Ravenclaw Raider Cho Zhang, a beautiful Chinese girl.
She was heading towards Akeley, who had just sat down. Stwarter cheered, Harry wanted to join Ravenclaw too, the strange thought flashed through his mind.
"Bardeck. Michaem!"
"Slytherinban!"
The table at the other end of the hall erupted in cheers, and Harry saw Malfoy clapping his hands when Bardek joined Slytherin, and Harry wondered if Bardek knew that Slytherin House had created more evil magic than any other house.
Fred and George booed Baddeck, who was about to take his seat.
"Sillens Field. Aina!"
"Huffpuff!"
"Kedwell. Owen!"
"Huffpuff!"
"Clevey. Dennis!"'
Little Dennis staggered forward, nearly tripping into Hagrid's mole coat as he slipped sideways into the hall through a door behind the faculty desk. Hagrid was twice the height of the average man and at least twice as large as the others, and he had long, knotted black hair and a beard that looked a little alarming.
It was a misguided impression, and everyone knew that Hagrid had a good heart, and he sat down at the end of the professor's desk, winked at them, and watched Dennis put on the Sorting Hat, the brim of which was wide openβ
"Greenfington!" the hat shouted.
Hagrid and the Greenington class applauded, and Dennis smiled brightly, took off his hat, put it back on the stool, and ran to his brother.
"Colin, I've fallen into the lake!" he screamed as he sat down on an empty seat, "that's amazing!
Something in the water grabbed me and pushed me back into the boat!"
"It's so cool!"
Colin was just as excited, "Probably a big octopus, Dennis!"
"Wow!" Dennis cried, as if no one in the most bizarre fantasies could have imagined falling into a stormy, foaming lake and then being pushed out of the water by a giant sea monster.
"Dennis, Dennis, do you see the boy over there? The dark-haired man with glasses, do you see it? Do you know who it is? Dennis!"
"I know, you've told me countless times, and besides, I've come to Gryffindor, and I'm ...... Van ."
Van Lin seemed to hear his name, he didn't pay much attention to it, the two brothers' fantasies were always very ......
Van Lin looked up into the distance and watched intently at the Sorting Hat sorting out Arm.
Shifts are being carried out. The boys and girls, each with varying degrees of fear, walked towards the three-legged stool one by one, and the queue slowly shortened.
Professor McGonagall read the students whose last names began with "L".
"Oh, hurry. Ron rubbed his stomach and grunted.
"Hey, Ron, it's so much more important than eating. Hermione said.
One is called Madeley. Lola's girl was split to Huffpuff.
"Hell, why are there so many people this year......" Ron said casually.
"I hope this year's batch of people is standard enough. Headless Nick applauded Michaton and Natri at the Gryffindor table, "We don't want to interrupt our success." β
Greenffindor has won the House Cup in a row for almost three years.
"Purin Jegra!"
"Slytherin!"
"Kyle. Euler!"
"Ravenclaw!"
Finally, "Kevin," he was assigned to Hufflepuff, and when the assignment was over, Professor McGonagall picked up his hat and stool and removed them.