In the stunned eyes of the freshmen, about twenty pearl-white, translucent ghosts emerged from the wall and slid across the room. They didn't pay much attention to the first-year students: there are freshmen every year, and they didn't know they had seen them.
It had been hundreds of years, but a chubby monk-like ghost still said hello to everyone.
"I hope you can be sorted into Hufflepuff!" said the fat monk, "I used to study in that house."
Someone asked him about the process of the sorting ceremony, but he drifted away as if he hadn't heard.
Professor McGonagall also came back. The moment she walked in, Harry even had the illusion that she was about to take him to face destruction. Professor McGonagall asked the freshmen to line up in single file, and then led them into the auditorium.
The auditorium of Hogwarts is also a dining hall, which is extremely luxuriously decorated. Students are sitting around four long tables. Thousands of candles are floating above the tables. The tableware and wine glasses on the tables are shining with golden light. The dining room
There is also a long table on the upper stage, which is the seat of the teachers. The freshmen were brought to the table by Professor McGonagall and asked to line up in a row facing the entire school. The other faculty and staff were there.
behind them.
Professor McGonagall placed a four-legged stool in front of the first-year students. On the stool was a tattered pointed wizard hat. The hat was patched and looked dirty.
After being placed on the stool, the hat twisted, and a crack appeared on the edge of the hat like a mouth, and then the hat began to sing. No one knew what it was singing, but it was not the school song of Hogwarts.
After the song was sung, Professor McGonagall held a roll of parchment in her hand and walked a few steps forward. The students whose names she called had to put on their hats and sit on the stools to receive their hat's sorting.
Hearing that the sorting method was so simple, the students who had just been alarming in the small room blushed, but no one paid them any attention at this time.
"Hannah Abbott!" Professor McGonagall called the first new student's name.
Hearing this name, Tom felt inexplicably relieved. He watched a little girl with two golden braids walk out of the queue and put on her hat. After a moment, the hat shouted - "Hufflepuff!"
Everyone around the Hufflepuff table clapped and cheered her, and even the ghost of the fat monk waved happily to her.
Next, Professor McGonagall called the little wizards up one by one: Susan Burns, Justin Finlay, Ernie MacMillan and others entered Hufflepuff, Terry Butt
, Mandy Bloch went to Ravenclaw, Millicent Buzzard was the first freshman to enter Slytherin, and Lavender Brown became the first freshman to Gryffindor...
It was Hermione's turn. She ran to the stool and hurriedly put the hat on her head.
The hat hesitated for a while, then shouted loudly: "Ravenclaw!"
Hermione stood up from the stool with relief, showed a smile to Tom, and then walked to the Ravenclaw table to be welcomed by her seniors.
Tom was the last one to be sorted, not because he was special, but because the initial letter of his last name was Y, so he was at the end of the list. When Blaise Sabine was sorted into Slytherin, he was called by Professor McGonagall.
Go forward.
He put the hat on his head. The hat was a little big and slid down, blocking his sight.
A small voice appeared in his ear, "Well, you are really a good candidate for Slytherin..."
"I will never go to Slytherin." Tom thought in his heart.
"Oh? But you are really suitable there. Slytherin can help you reach glory. There is no doubt about it..."
"I think Tom, who came from an orphanage, is not very suitable for this academy..." Tom retorted in his heart.
"My duty is to assign the little wizard to an academy that suits him, so——"
"I swear, if I am sorted into Slytherin today, my magic will tear you to pieces," Tom tore off his kind mask and threatened viciously in his heart, "Use your brain! I was born like this
What will happen to a wizard who goes to Slytherin? If you don’t make it easy for me, I’ll make it hard for you!”
The Sorting Hat was silent.
"Azkaban." It muttered in the softest voice, and Professor McGonagall next to it felt as if there was something wrong with his hearing.
"What did you say?"
"Nothing..." The Sorting Hat twisted, and finally gave up the idea of shouting "Slytherin" or "Azkaban".
"Since you are not happy with Slytherin, then fine, then do what you want - Ravenclaw!"
Following these words, there was a burst of applause around the Ravenclaw table, and students from other houses also applauded, but more because the sorting ceremony was finally over and dinner could be served.
In addition to the applause, Tom's system also changed.
The first is the character column. Tom Yoder's name became [Tom Yoder (Wind)]. Since he joined Ravenclaw, he became a character with the wind attribute.
Then the main mission also came out, and he accepted a mission called "Stranger Who Catches the Wind". He decided to go back to his dormitory to do research at night.
"If I am assigned to Gryffindor, will the main mission be the Fire Bearer?" He thought in his mind.
When the dust settled, Tom breathed a sigh of relief. He took off his hat and quickly ran to the Ravenclaw table. There was an empty seat next to Hermione. When he plopped down into the empty seat, Professor McGonagall also
He rolled up the parchment, picked up the sorting hat and left.
At this time, Professor Dumbledore also stood up. Like all principals, he had to stand up and speak at the last moment, but fortunately, he really only spoke a little.
"Welcome everyone! Welcome to Hogwarts to start a new school year! Before the banquet begins, I want to say a few words. That is: Idiot! Crying nose! Residue! Screw! Thank you everyone!" I only said these few words.
, he sat down again. "Looks a bit crazy, right?" A senior from Ravenclaw House sitting opposite Tom smiled.
Since the wizarding world itself is a small circle, coupled with the special atmosphere of Hogwarts, the seniors here are particularly friendly and enthusiastic towards the new students in the house, and even Slytherin House is no exception.
"Robert Hilliard." He introduced himself.
"Tom Yoder."
"Actually, that sentence has a unique meaning," Robert patiently explained to the new students. "This sentence actually describes the four major colleges: Ravenclaw always thinks that everyone else is stupid, Gryffin
Most people think that everyone is a coward, Slytherin thinks that those houses with non-pure-blood wizards are scum, and Hufflepuff people are screwed."