Chapter VI Sorting Ceremony
The branch hat finally calmed down after singing the song. Professor Mei Lesi took out a piece of parchment and said, "Next, the freshman who read the name will wear the branch hat. After the branch, you can sit in your own college seat."
"Abraxas Malfoy!" Professor Melles shouted on the parchment.
Xiwen patted Abu on the shoulder and whispered to cheer.
Abraxas walked towards the chair in front of the auditorium with a calm appearance, but Xiwen noticed his hands trembling.
"Slytherin!"
The moment the branch hat touched his head, he shouted decisively, and a warm cheer broke out from the Slytherin's long table. Abu also smiled and walked happily towards the position of Ignatius, who was waving to him.
Professor Melles: "Alastor Moody!"
The Sorting Hat shouted out without hesitation: "Gryffindor!"
"Baruke Diggory"
"Hufflepuff!"
...
"Panie Mannis!"
When Professor Melesi called this name, Xiwen looked up and saw the freckled girl who had been driven away by Abraxas in the carriage. When she hurriedly walked by, she accidentally stepped on Xiwen's feet, turned around and bowed, and kept apologizing.
Xiwen shook her head and said, "It's okay, hurry up and go to the branch."
After being forgiven, the freckled girl Mannis hurriedly ran to the chair and sat down, trembling all over her body and put on a branch hat.
The scene suddenly became quiet and the branch hat was not open for a long time.
Xiwen glanced at the professor's seat and the college desk below the stage, and found that everyone was just a little interested and started chatting, as if they were very accustomed to it.
El Chiona next to him saw Xiwen's doubts and explained to him: "Some little wizards have the characteristics of different academys at the same time. They will think longer when they meet them."
Xiwen nodded in a clear way, and then suddenly asked with interest: "You said, will anyone have the qualities of four academies at the same time?"
Elchiona gave him a blank look and said, "The possibility is not high. I don't think a Slytherin has the characteristics of Hufflepuff."
"That's right."
After thinking for more than a minute, the branch hat finally opened the crack on the edge of its hat:
"Ravenclaw!"
Off the audience, Ravenclaws wearing blue collar school uniforms applauded and welcomed their first freshman.
Ravenclaw seemed to be the least of the four academies, and the opposite was Hufflepuff, who was almost full by the long table.
"Come back, Miss Mannis!" Professor Melesi suddenly shouted.
It turned out that it was Paney Mannis who forgot to put the division hat back on the chair, and the whole auditorium burst into laughter.
Mannis blushed and ran to the back row of Ravenclaw's long table, huddled in the corner, and several Ravenclaw's senior students stood up as if they were going to comfort her.
"Manto Trelawney." Professor Melles was obviously more concerned about the progress of the branch and quickly called out the next name.
The girl who walked towards the branch hat was a silver-haired girl with a cold and beautiful face and weird silver pupils were very eye-catching. Her expression was as if nothing around her could not attract her attention.
"Ravenclaw!" shouted the school hat.
The girl named Manto opened her silver-white eyes and calmly placed the branch hat on the chair, her expression still remained unchanged, as if everything was expected.
"Xivin Rozier!"
Xiwen, who was observing the strange girl, was slapped hard. Xiwen turned her head in shock. El Chiona curled her lips from the side and said, "Don't be fascinated, it's you!"
Xiwen smiled embarrassedly, tidied up her sleeves a little nervously, and walked towards the branch hat...
Resisting the urge to recite the cleaning spell for the branch hat, Xiwen calmly put the branch hat on his head without any shaking his hands, because he seriously suspected that as long as he leaned a little, it would shake off a lot of dust and go to his face.
“It’s very difficult.”
An unpleasant voice rang in Xiwen's mind, almost scaring him!
"Child, don't be nervous, I'm the branch hat you wear on your head."
The sound of the explanation of the branch hat sounded in time, which made Xiwen not lose her composure in public.
"Interesting kids, noble blood and lofty ambitions, Slytherin is obviously a good choice; he is keen on learning knowledge and possesses extraordinary wisdom, and you can also be well cultivated in Ravenclaw."
Xiwen was thinking about why she couldn't go to Gryffindor and Hufflepuff when the sound of the branch hat sounded again: "You may also have the character of courage and integrity, but these seem so insignificant compared to your wisdom and ambition."
Without time to think about what ambitions he had, Xiwen found that the branch hat could hear what he was thinking.
"Capture God and seek thoughts?" he asked.
"Smart kid." The voice of the sect hat sounded again. "Okay, I want to know your own opinions, do you want to go to Slytherin or Ravenclaw?"
"Everything is OK, no choice." Xiwen muttered, but she was thinking that she had immersed herself in the sea of books every day. On the one hand, she really wanted to find some solutions to the incompatibility between the soul and the world. She basically spent those twenty years in reading, and she never had Kama Taj since she was a child, and she had very few other experiences.
If you choose any, you probably want to change your lifestyle.
"I understand." The branch hat seemed to finally make up its mind.
"Slytherin!"
Applause was thunderous on Slytherin's long table. Xiwen was stunned for a moment, opened her eyes, and saw that Abraxas and Ignatius were already waving.
He carefully placed the branch hat smoothly on the chair, and looked up and saw El Chiona looking at this side in the new student on the stage. After seeing his gaze, he immediately turned his face.
Smiling at El Chiona, he walked towards the Slytherin table.
"Xiwen!" Abu waved his hand and asked Xiwen to sit over and said to him mysteriously. "How did you do it? The branch hat was silent for five minutes! Pweet and I began to worry that you would be assigned to other colleges. Fortunately, you came to Slytherin in the end."
Xiwen was a little surprised: "Has it been so long?"
Abraxas said: "Pweett is carrying an hourglass. Look, the sand is almost leaking."
Ignatius cooperated and took out the hourglass and said, "Reversing it every ten minutes, there is more than half of the sand inside when you start the branch."
Xiwen looked at the dark green frame, an hourglass filled with fluorescent green gravel, which was leaking the last few grains of sand. Then the main body of the hourglass in the frame automatically rotated and turned upside down.
"It's true. But I really didn't feel it's been long." He held his chin and wondered. "It has been hesitating to divide me into Ravenclaw or Slytherin."
"What a pity, it was sure that I belonged to Slytherin without talking to me." Abu tried to make a regretful expression, but the pride on his face could not be hidden at all.
At this time, Professor Mei Lesi pronounced a familiar name.
"Walbuga Black!"
Xiwen saw the girl who had met in the tufan garment store.
"Another Black." Abu muttered.
"And?" Xiwen asked.
"Don't you know? The people of the Black family are about to occupy Slytherin." Abraxas said and counted the students of Black's Slytherin for Shiven. "Charice Black, the president of the seventh-grade female student union, Doria Black, the chief of the sixth-grade, Cedrila Black, the chief of the fifth-grade, and several blacks in the lower grades... it's really a headache!"
Xiwen caught a glimpse of Wolbuga Black's clear branch, sitting next to a girl with a slightly similar appearance to her at the Slytherin table.
"The people in the Black family seem to be either the chairman or the chief. Are they all excellent?" Xiwen asked.
Hearing this question, Ignatius turned around and explained: "Director Slughorn has a good relationship with our pure blood families, but it is more favorable to which one family is bigger. It is normal for the Black family to be valued."
Xiwen twitched the corners of her mouth, "It's too real..."
At this time, Elchiona was also called to her name, and the Sorting Hat easily gave Slytherin the answer.
El Chiona ran over happily, and asked Xiwen to lean against him while sitting down.
She grinned and said, "Do you know you just asked me to stand for five more minutes!"
Xiwen smiled bitterly: "I don't want to do it either. If you want to blame it, blame the branch hat! Otherwise, I will chant a spell on the branch hat to avenge you?"
Elsiona said: "When it comes to chanting a mantra, you can chant a cleansing mantra for it, it's too dirty!"
Xiwen nodded in agreement, "Who said no?"
...
Finally, all the freshmen were finished in the branch office, and Principal Armando Dipet, who was sitting in the middle of the auditorium podium, stood up to speak. He had his well-trimmed white hair and white beard, and the wrinkles on his face looked neat, looking like a capable old man.
"Welcome, welcome all freshmen to Hogwarts! This will be your warm family for the next seven years. Of course, the old men are also welcome to come here."
Then, his expression became serious: "I want to reiterate the first chapter: Students are not allowed to enter the Forbidden Forest, and do not cast spells in the corridor. The world situation is still tense, and I hope everyone can study hard and improve their self-protection ability."
After the speech, the principal waved his hand and all kinds of food appeared out of thin air on the long table. Everyone couldn't wait to start to feast.
Chapter completed!