After the carriage started moving, Hermione cast her gaze forward. She was surprised to see some animals standing between the usually empty shaft poles. They looked a bit like reptiles, with heads like dragons. They had no flesh at all on their bodies.
No, the black fur was tightly attached to the skeleton, and every bone was clearly visible. The eyes without pupils were white and stared intently. Bat-like wings grew out of the bulge between the shoulder bones.
"I really don't understand. These carriages could walk on their own before, so why are these scary black winged horses used to pull them this year?" Hermione said to Ryan. She thought these animals looked a bit scary and didn't know why the school was doing it.
Use them to pull carts for students.
"I think they should always be here. The reason you haven't seen them before is because they are thestrals." Lane explained.
"Thestrals? Wait, I have an impression. Do you have to have seen death to see them?" Hermione nodded thoughtfully when she said this. "I think, in this situation, I can see them.
They are also a good thing, at least they can be prepared in this regard. Unfortunately, more and more little wizards will be able to see them in the future."
When the Thestral entered Hogwarts and stopped in front of the castle, Ryan and the others quickly jumped off the carriage and walked into the hall. The hall was very warm, and Ryan and the others found Harry Rowe sitting with him in the middle of the Gryffindor table.
En and Ginny sat down in the empty seats opposite them.
"Ryan, I saw a strange creature in front of the carriage, but neither Ron nor Ginny saw it. Do you know what happened?" As soon as Ryan sat down, Harry hurried over and asked, Ron
Eunha Jinni also listened with her ears pricked up.
"Cedric didn't fail last year." Ryan's first reaction was actually thinking about this. Later he recalled that he killed Crouch Jr. and Peter in front of Harry last year. He had also seen death.
So Ryan told Hermione again what he had just told Hermione in the carriage.
After helping Harry with his knowledge, Ryan looked at the faculty bench. Hagrid still went to find the giants this year, which could be seen from the absence of the extra-large chair on the faculty bench. Other than that, other professors were doing everything as usual.
The only newcomer is Umbridge, who is short and fat, with short curly ash-brown hair, and a very ugly big pink bow on it, which is similar to the plush dress she wears outside her robe.
The pink cardigan matches well. But to be honest, her age is really not suitable for this kind of girly style.
Wearing a dark purple robe studded with silver stars and a matching hat, Dumbledore sat on the golden high-backed chair next to her, tilting his head towards Umbridge, who was facing him.
The ears speak.
At this time, Professor Graplan came out of the small door behind the staff table and walked to the end of the table, sitting on the seat where Hagrid had been sitting. That means that the first-year student must have crossed the lake and arrived at the castle.
Sure enough, a few seconds later, the door to the hall opened, and a long line of frightened first-year students walked into the auditorium led by Professor McGonagall. Professor McGonagall was holding a stool with a
He wore an ancient wizard's hat. The hat was patched with patches, and the frayed brim had a wide crack next to it.
The buzz of conversation in the auditorium gradually died down. The first-year students lined up in front of the staff table, facing their classmates from other years. Professor McGonagall carefully placed the stools in front of them, and then stepped back.
All the teachers and students in the school waited with bated breath. Then, the crack next to the hat brim opened like a mouth, and the Sorting Hat sang this year's song. "...Oh, know the danger, read the signs, and the lessons of history.
Give us a warning that our Hogwarts is in danger, and enemies outside the school are watching. We must be closely united within, otherwise everything will collapse from within..."
After the hat finished speaking, it stopped moving. There was applause everywhere, but there were whispers in between, because this year the Sorting Hat's song was unusual. Usually it would only introduce the origins of the four houses and the reasons for the division. But this time the Sorting Hat directly proposed
Warning, students present have never encountered this before.
Fortunately, the ghosts knew something. The headless Nick told them that the Sorting Hat would send a proper warning to the school when it felt it had a moral responsibility. This situation had happened in history, but it was not a good one.
sign.
"Dark clouds are threatening to destroy the city! I just hope that this time there will be fewer deaths than before." Ryan thought silently. At this time, Professor McGonagall reported the list of first-year students, and everyone's attention was quickly diverted.
, the buzzing discussion in the auditorium suddenly stopped. Professor McGonagall frowned and glanced at the four tables, then lowered his eyes at the long piece of parchment in his hand, and loudly announced the first name. "Euan."
Abercrombie."
Slowly, the long team of first-year freshmen shortened little by little, and the four houses had accepted many freshmen. Finally, Ross Zeller was sorted into Hufflepuff. Professor McGonagall picked up his hat and
The stool strode away, and then Professor Dumbledore stood up and announced the start of the dinner.
The dinner was as sumptuous as ever. After the meal, Dumbledore began to arrange some things as he did in previous years. However, while speaking, he was interrupted by Umbridge coughing.
Ryan only observed her face at this time. He could only say that compared with the movie, the movie actors chosen at that time were definitely beautified. The real Umbridge had a pale, toad-like face and a pair of droopy eyelids.
, bulging eyes. It makes people extremely uncomfortable after watching it.
And her voice was high, high-pitched, and breathy, like a little girl's voice, which made her even more disgusting. And her tone of treating all the students as five-year-olds made her even more disgusting.
All the students were disgusted, but she didn't care at all and began to recite a speech in a rigid tone.
""The Ministry of Magic has always believed that educating young wizards is a very important matter. Some of the precious talents you are born with may be fruitless if they are not cultivated and exercised under careful and careful guidance. Unique to the wizarding world
The ancient skills must be passed down from generation to generation, otherwise they will disappear.”
This kind of useless talk quickly made everyone lose interest, and the attention of the young wizards began to gradually scatter. Compared with the silence when Professor Dumbledore spoke, the auditorium now seemed a little noisier.
"Let us keep moving forward and enter a new era that is enlightened, efficient and reasonable, resolutely maintain what should be maintained, improve what needs to be improved, and abandon what we should ban." The lengthy and boring speech finally ended after more than ten minutes.
Dumbledore started to clap politely, and other teachers also clapped their hands a few times. Since most of the students were distracted, only a few of them applauded.
"This guy is the one who destroyed the Dementors in front of a bunch of jury members." Harry said to Ryan and the others, "By the way, what did she just say? It sounds like a lot of nonsense to me."
"There is something very important hidden in the nonsense." Ryan said, "It seems that the lessons taught to the Ministry of Magic during the holidays are not enough. Their goal now is to start a full-scale war with Dumbledore, and even extend their dirty hands to the school.
inside."
Harry and Ron had expressions of confusion, but Ryan had no time to explain to them. There was a crash of tables, chairs and benches all around. It was obvious that Dumbledore had announced the disbandment of all teachers and students in the school, because everyone stood up and prepared to leave the auditorium.
"We should go give directions to the first-year students. See you later." After saying that, Ryan and Hermione stood up and started shouting: "First-year students! Come and assemble here."
Seeing how busy they were, Harry and Ron could only give up the idea of getting to the bottom of the matter for the time being, shrugged and walked towards Gryffindor Tower.