"Hurry up, hurry up, a new classmate is coming today!" Barbara dragged her good friend, Susie Quill of Ravenclaw, and ran quickly into the Great Hall. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info It's been renovated, and the long tables in the four academies are filled with flowers, golden plates, and goblets. Now the cups and plates are empty, but at the beginning of the feast they are filled with food and drink with a pop.

Countless lit candles float above the hall, illuminating the place. The flags of the four houses are hung on the walls on both sides, and the champion house of last semester was Slytherin, so the Slytherin serpentine flag on a green background is adorned with a golden flower crown around the edge.

The upperclassmen sat near the gate and left the table at the other end close to the rostrum partially vacated. It will be a place for new students and will welcome new family members to each college. On the podium, the principal, professors, teachers and staff sat separately, smiling at the students. In front of them was a stilt with a greasy, tattered peaked hat on top. This is the famous Sorting Hat, a treasure left behind by Gryffindor, one of the founders of Hogwarts. It is a hat with wisdom that judges a person's character and potential and then assigns it to one of the four colleges.

The four houses are Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, and Slytherin.

Newly admitted students take a boat from the great lake outside Hogwarts Castle, climb the steps, enter the hall, put on the Sorting Hat, enter a house, receive a warm welcome, and then eat, as has been the case every year. However, this year is a little different, there are two more tables on either side of the podium, and the tutors who have passed the exam are seated. They also participate in the Sorting Ceremony, but without the need for a boat ride.

"Barbara, what are you doing running to the front? there's going to be a lot of noise next to the new students. Susie ran all the way out of breath, and her fair face climbed up to crimson, looking very playful and cute. She pulled Barbara to sit down and reached out to help her friend straighten the rolled-up collar. "Why don't you pay attention to your image, remember what happened when you were sorted?"

"Remember, remember, I spilled the syrup and turned your hair into a lump of sugar. Barbara smiled and said, "Hehe, I'm not here to see new students, I'm a cram student." Do you see that eastern face, right next to the big guy Addo?"

"Who doesn't know that it's Mike Dragon, a wizard who passed all his exams in less than four months, the first eighth grade in history. Susie stroked her chest and smoothed her breathing. "He's really the same as rumored, he looks so weird!"

"It's time for you to work out your body, just run so little and catch up like this, what if you're in danger?" Barbara looked at her good friend and thought that there was nothing wrong with Mike's words, most wizards were too poor in physical fitness. After the experience of being in distress in the Forbidden Forest and being released from a balloon, she began to consciously strengthen her running exercise, and in addition to better "cardiopulmonary function", she found that her magic power actually increased. This unexpected joy made her begin to pay attention to every word he said, and even found a special notebook to record Zhao Mai's words and deeds in the Forbidden Forest. Of course, she promised to keep it secret, so there was no name on the book, just a simple "him".

"It's been eight years in a row that we haven't won a Sorting Championship, and the last four years have been Slytherins, don't you find it a little boring?" Barbara exhaled softly into Susie's ear, "As long as Mike joins in, our house will win!"

"Huh, is he that good?" Susie gently pushed Barbara's face away a little so that she could turn her head to face her and speak, "He's good at exams, but that doesn't mean he'll get more marks for the house." Is he a good Quidditch player?"

"No, while a Quidditch player is handsome, that's not his style. Barbara found herself unable to share the story of what happened in the Forbidden Forest, or she would have broken her oath. So she could only shake her head and say vigorously, "Ahhhh

Susie looked at Barbara suspiciously, then at Zhao Mai, and reached out to touch Barbara's forehead. "You don't have a fever?"

"Of course, I'm sober. Barbara grabbed Susie and shook it back and forth vigorously and said, "You have to believe me, if you want to win the Sorting Championship, the only possible way is to let Mike come to our house to come to our house!"

"Well, I believe in you. An eighth-grader is always not bad. Susie hurriedly said, reaching for her glasses that were about to fall. "As long as you study hard, is it so important to be a sorting champion?"

"Of course, I'd be sad if I didn't win a Sorting House in seven years at Hogwarts. Susie, you're not going to make me sad, are you?" said Barbara, rightly, "so let's pray together that the Sorting Hat will send Mike to Ravenclaw." ”

While they were praying, the person concerned, Zhao Mai, was unaware. He sat down beside a nervous and excited Addo and closed his eyes until the freshmen lined up to enter the hall. After a brief speech by Headmaster Depart, Professor Dumbledore put on the Sorting Hat for each student, and then the crumpled hat would call out the name of the House and assign the new students.

The faculties are not evenly distributed, but each has an upper limit on its carrying capacity. Hogwarts dormitories and classrooms can accommodate up to 1,000 students, but the current teachers and teaching resources can only maintain a maximum of 400 students, which is why not all the tutors can stay, and some need to continue their studies until next year to join the next class of students in the first year.

Of course, there are also some tuition students who will be joining Year 1 this year, and they joke that they are all "the lucky ones at the end". Immediately after the eleven or twelve-year-olds, the men also began the sorting ceremony.

Some of them were seventeen or eighteen years old, and some were in their early twenties. They were tall and out of place in a crowd of children, which led to some laughter. Zhao Mai looked left and right, poked Ado with his elbow, and then began to applaud rhythmically. Soon, all the cram students joined in, and the applause of the drums drowned out the laughter. All tutors are a unit, no matter which college they are assigned to, they all share the time they spend learning together, and they will always carry the title of "tutors".

The tallest of them all was Addo, and Professor Dumbledore stood on tiptoe to toss the Sorting Hat over his head. The hat hesitated for a moment, then suddenly shouted, "Ado! uh, I mean Hufflepuff!"

"Addo. To a round of applause, Addo made it to the Hufflepuff table. Hufflepuff is obscure among the four houses and looks the most mundane, but actually provides the wizarding world with the most pillars and masonry.

Tolkien was assigned to Gryffindor, which was quite satisfying to him. Tolkien said on more than one occasion that he wished he could get into Gryffindor, and that the brave lion - in fact, the griffin - was his favorite animal. Given the British love for lions, such a choice is also understandable. (To be continued.) )