Chapter IX Reporting
Zhang Feng and Hermione returned to their box with nothing, and Zhang Qiu and Neville had been back for a while. The two of them had already found Lev, who was crouching in the snack cart and following along.
After about half an hour of sitting in the box, it was getting dark and the train arrived. A gruff voice shouted outside the car window: "Kids, leave your luggage in the car, first-graders are lining up at my place." ”
Zhang Feng got out of the car and saw a tall man standing more than two meters and nearly three meters next to the front of the car, with a beard on his face, wearing a wizard's robe that was obviously made of sheets, and holding a lantern in his right hand. If he hadn't seen him here but met him in the jungle, it is estimated that Zhang Feng would have regarded him as a legendary giant.
Harry seemed to know the man and happily greeted him. Zhang Feng heard him call him "Hagrid", and sure enough, he smelled of giants.
"Children, my name is Hagrid, and I'm the key keeper at Hogwarts, so you're lining up and coming with me. Seeing that all the first-year students had arrived, Hagrid led the freshmen into the distance. The older students boarded a four-wheeled vehicle parked next to it, and the four-wheeled vehicle drove forward automatically when it was full of four people.
It may have just rained, the roads are muddy and slippery, and Hagrid keeps telling everyone to stay safe.
"My grandmother said that because when Hogwarts was founded, the first students entered Hogwarts on this road under the leadership of the four headmasters, and through this road, the students would be marked with Hogwarts magic, so that Hogwarts' defensive magic would not be accidentally injured. Neville whispered to the Zhang Feng siblings and Hermione on the road, you know, this knowledge is not in those books on the market, and it can only be passed down from generation to generation in a pure-blood family like Longbottom.
Soon the first-year students came to a large lake, and there were many small boats parked on the lake, and Hagrid asked the four of them to sit on the boat, and he got on the boat alone with a lamp. The flotilla, led by Hagrid's boat, drove automatically towards the lake.
After rounding a cliff covered with ivy, the view suddenly widened. A huge lake opens up to everyone, with a mountain on its edge and a majestic castle built on the top of the mountain. The castle is lined with towers and the windows are lit up, making it a spectacular sight to watch at night. A round moon next to the castle sprinkled silver-white light on the surface of the lake, and Zhang Feng could see all kinds of magical creatures in the lake through the moonlight.
"Listen to Uncle Algie, there is a huge squid in this lake, and when a student accidentally falls into the lake, it will send the student back to shore with its tentacles. Neville explained to his three new friends.
When Zhang Qiu heard this, he didn't know what he thought, so he put his finger to his mouth and kept smacking his mouth. Zhang Feng looked at her speechlessly, didn't he make her an iron plate squid during the summer vacation?
The freshman fleet soon docked, and everyone disembarked and lined up towards the castle, stopping at the castle gate.
At this time, several ghosts were standing in front of the castle gate and kept discussing something, and when they saw the freshmen coming, they stopped discussing and introduced themselves to the freshmen.
They are the ghosts of the four Hogwarts houses, waiting at the door to solicit votes from the new students to join their houses.
After the ghost introduces himself and the future of the house, the first-year freshmen begin a big discussion. The children of the wizarding family said that this was a variety of sorting methods from other people, and Ron even said that his twin brother said that he would fight trolls.
"I don't know how to divide the house in a while, but it's definitely not a fight, and the wishes of the students themselves should be considered, otherwise these ghosts won't be allowed to come out to canvass for votes. In addition, judging by the performance of the children of these wizard families, this sorting ceremony should have been kept secret from the elders or seniors to the freshmen. Seeing that Zhang Qiu, Hermione, and Neville were about to cry at what they said, Zhang Feng analyzed it to the three of them.
Then the castle gate opened, and out of it came an old woman of very good temperament, with a serious face, who walked up to the freshmen, with her wand to her throat, and said, "Quiet! the freshmen are lined up, we are going into the hall!"
The freshmen followed her into the hall, where candles floated over the hall, illuminating the entire hall, and the dome was enchanted to see the starry sky. The hall was filled with four large long tables, decorated in red, blue, gold and green, and the tables were already filled with senior students. At the end of the hall is a row of tables with professors seated at the tables. In front of the professor's desk is a podium, which seems to be the place where the leader speaks for a while. In the center of the hall, there was a chair with a worn wizard's hat on it.
It seems that it may have been sorted with this hat for a while.