Chapter 412 The Sorting Hat’S New Song
Unlike the students who were struggling on the train, Solim took Silna and Draco to find a Chinese restaurant in London and had a delicious meal - it must be noted that the Chinese restaurants at this time were still very authentic. , not messed up to suit European tastes.
This was Draco's first time eating Chinese food - one can imagine what kind of appetite Draco would have after being tortured for more than ten years.
"Our food is shit!" Draco was still angry as they walked on the road.
Why can those Asians make food so delicious?" Draco looked at Solim: "Are you really sure they are not wizards? Did they use magic when cooking?"
Sometimes Solim also feels that it is not a good thing for the wizarding world to be too closed. Of course, for those wizards and wizard families at the top, they are not closed, but the middle and lower class wizards rarely interact with Muggles. . Just like Draco, a relatively wealthy heir to a family, he would yell at him in the street because of the taste of his food. Sometimes Solim felt that Draco was quite pitiful.
The lunch problem was solved. After consulting Sirna and Draco, Solim decided to walk around the city more. Compared with the students who had been on the train for several hours, they were really leisurely. . Solim even took Draco and Silna to visit the London Zoo. As one of the oldest zoos in the world, Solim and the three of them would definitely not be able to finish the visit in one afternoon. In the end, if it weren't for time issues, Solim forced Draco and Sirna to visit the London Zoo. Ke dragged him away [Can this young man, who is exposed to the Muggle world for the first time, give the back-to-school dinner to
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When the three of them were walking on the road from Hogsmeade to the castle, Draco was still immersed in the world constructed by Muggles. Questions were thrown at Solim one after another, making him regret taking Draco to the zoo. .
When Solim and the others entered the castle, the train hadn't arrived yet, and Ye Qila's carriage hadn't arrived either. They could only walk towards the main castle step by step on their own. Fortunately, the floating spell helped a lot, otherwise their boxes would have been lost. Enough for them to drink a pot.
The opening dinner officially started. The freshmen hadn't arrived yet, but the students had already discovered something was wrong: the most conspicuous professor was missing, and sitting in his place was Professor Grubbly-Plank.
"Where's Hagrid~?" Harry looked around, "The freshmen should have crossed the Black Lake by this time, why hasn't Hagrid come yet?"
No one could answer Harry's question. Even if someone wanted to answer, they would have to first draw his attention away from the other person in the professor's chair.
"Who is that woman?" Hermione frowned and looked at the woman wearing a pink cardigan on the professor's desk.
"Umbridge—Dolores. Umbridge." Harry squinted. "She attended my hearing, and—"
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 is holding a stool in his hand, with an ancient wizard's hat placed on it. The hat is patched with patches, and the frayed brim has a wide crack next to it, but it looks relatively clean and has no cracks. What kind of moldy green hair or dirt - presumably these freshmen will know tonight what happened at the opening dinner a few years ago. Maybe by then they will be grateful to their seniors.
The buzz of conversation in the auditorium gradually died down. The first-year students lined up in front of the staff table, facing classmates from other grades. Professor McGonagall carefully placed the stool in front of them and stepped back. The faces of the freshmen shone pale in the candlelight. A little boy in the middle of the line looked like he was shivering.
Harry remembered how uneasy he had been when he stood there, waiting for the mysterious test that would determine which house he belonged to. All the teachers and students in the school waited with bated breath. Then, the slit next to the brim opened like a mouth, and the Sorting Hat sang loudly:
I was a newbie a long time ago, before Hogwarts was built, and the four founders of the Noble School thought they would never part ways. The same goal unites them, and their desires are so consistent: to build the best magic school in the world so that their knowledge can be passed on and continued.
The first time these differences came to light, there was a minor quarrel.
The four founders each own an academy and only recruit the teenagers they want.
Countless noises, countless fights, former good friends turned against each other. Finally, one morning, the old Slytherin suddenly ran away. Although the dispute was over by then, he still left us in despair. Only three of the four founders are left. From then on, the situation of the four colleges is no longer as harmonious and united as imagined in the past.
Know the danger, read the signs, and the lessons of history give us a warning that our Hogwarts is in danger, and the enemies outside the school are watching. We must be united internally, otherwise everything will fall apart from within. I've told you straight, I've sounded the alarm for you -
This year the Sorting Hat's song was extraordinarily long, so long that the students who were absent-minded at first gradually realized something - the Sorting Hat was giving them a warning. Combining the discussion at the end of last semester with the various reports in the Daily Prophet this holiday - reports that slandered, or "exposed" Dumbledore's true identity, and then thinking about the attitude of their parents at home - the students are now a little frightened.
After hat finished speaking, he became motionless again. There was applause everywhere, but everyone was a little perfunctory because they were busy whispering.
This was also the first time that Solim did not use "ear plugs to listen" when singing to the Sorting Hat. The sorting ceremony for freshmen (haha Li's) encountered the biggest embarrassment in years: no one paid attention, the students were busy exchanging opinions, and only when the people around them applauded did they take a look at the freshmen assigned to their own colleges.
"Welcome to our new students," Dumbledore said in a loud voice, with his arms spread wide and a bright smile on his lips, "Welcome! Welcome to our old students——Welcome to you! There is plenty of time for the speech, but Not now. Eat your heart out!"
Dumbledore sat down upright, throwing his long beard over his shoulders, not letting them block his plate - delicacies suddenly fell from the sky, and the five long tables were piled with large chunks of beef, stuffing and so on. Pancakes, plates of vegetables, bread, jam and jugs of pumpkin juice, groaned from being overwhelmed.
"I feel like I have no appetite." Draco looked at the food in front of him with some distress. He still had the boiled meat slices he had eaten for lunch in his stomach. .