Dragon Roar Master at Hogwarts

Seeing Astoria's lonely expression, Dudley quickly guessed what she was thinking, because he had seen this expression on Ginny's face last year and Harry Potter the year before.

The sorting system is undoubtedly one of the most unreasonable traditions of Hogwarts in Dudley's opinion. This system originated from the founders of Hogwarts 1000 years ago, Godric Gryffindor and Salazar Slytherin. After , Rowena Ravenclaw and Helga Hufflepuff established the school, they had differences over the students they wanted to recruit, which resulted in disagreements.

After the death of the founder, this tradition was actually retained, and instead the Sorting Hat, a relic of Gryffindor, was used to select houses for students.

Dudley didn't understand this kind of house system very much. After all, it was okay in the founder's era, but now there is actually no difference in the courses of the four houses of Hogwarts. The education they receive is obviously the same, but they still insist on treating students differently. It’s really weird to categorize them into categories.

To be precise, the current sorting results of Hogwarts are essentially the same as the classification of classes in Muggle schools.However, in Muggles, even if you get points, you can only sort out the key classes with better grades among a dozen classes, and this is determined by the education system.

The branches of Hogwarts undoubtedly deliberately put various labels on students. For example, Gryffindor is upright and brave, Ravenclaw is talented and intelligent, Hufflepuff is loyal and honest, and Slytherin is cunning and cunning.

Obviously, everyone was just 11 years old when they first entered school. Their outlook on life and values ​​are very malleable, and they are easily influenced by the outside world. In this case, they were labeled in advance by the sorting hat and stayed with students of the same category. At the same time, it is even more difficult to change their minds.

For example, Slytherin is a notorious birthplace of dark wizards, producing more dark wizards than the other three houses combined.In Dudley's view, this is because reputation comes first, which leads to the fact that there are white wizards who can meet the characteristics of Slytherin, have normal moral values, and can restore Slytherin's reputation, but they all refuse to enter school because of Slytherin's bad reputation. Harry Potter is a classic example of this.

This led to those who were willing to go to Slytherin, either because they had a pursuit of black magic, or because they were influenced by their families and were born pure-bloods. This vicious cycle led to Slytherin becoming a famous dark wizard. The training base can even be said to be the reserve team of Azkaban.

Regarding this, Dudley believed that the Hogwarts staff team under the leadership of Dumbledore was not to blame.

As an educator, when they discovered that Slytherin frequently had criminal graduates, they did not immediately review whether there was any problem with their education methods and study whether there was a solution to the problem. Instead, they blindly shifted the responsibility. The students themselves believe that Voldemort is inherently evil and that those pure-blood family members are inherently evil.

This even led to Harry Potter's father, James Potter, gathering his friends to attack Severus Snape of Slytherin House. There was no upright and brave Gryffindor. Even Dumbledore turned a blind eye to this matter.

Under such circumstances, how could Snape be expected to resist the olive branch extended to him by the Death Eaters and resist the temptation of Voldemort?

What's worse is that this unreasonable sorting system also led them to blindly trust Peter Pettigrew, rejecting Snape's friendship, and instead trusting this despicable and heartless betrayer. One of the consequences.

When Harry's family was destroyed and his parents were killed by Voldemort, Dumbledore blamed Voldemort's cruelty and bloodthirsty, blamed Snape for eavesdropping on the prophecy, and blamed the informer who had not found out his true identity at that time, but Has he ever thought about whether his Hogwarts sorting system has an unshirkable responsibility for this tragedy?

Thinking of this, Dudley sighed deeply and smiled sincerely at Astoria.

"Don't worry, Miss Astoria, the sorting system of Hogwarts is very crude and inaccurate. The result of the sorting will not necessarily determine your life, just like me, although I am from Slytherin House. student, but I still gained true friendship from my Gryffindor and Ravenclaw classmates.”

Having said this, Dudley looked at Luna, who smiled slightly and turned to look at Astoria.

"Dudley is right. Although I am a Ravenclaw student, I don't get along well with my classmates. My real best friends in school are in other houses——"

After saying this, Luna looked at Dudley playfully. Dudley couldn't help feeling a little embarrassed. Luna wouldn't talk about him anymore.

"She is a girl from Gryffindor. I will introduce her to you when I have time."

After hearing Luna's words, Dudley realized that she was talking about Ginny and touched his nose in embarrassment. It seemed that he might have misunderstood.

"...However, there is another person. Although he is from Slytherin House, he is the person who once saved my life and soul. He is a higher level existence than a friend. I am willing to keep any secret for him. "

When he saw the infinite emotion in Luna's ethereal and beautiful eyes when she looked at him, Dudley realized that there was no need to test Luna anymore. No matter whether she had discovered his dual identity, the result would be the same. There will be no changes.

That's what best friends are.

Astoria looked at the look between Dudley and Luna with envy. After a moment, she said timidly and with some expectation:

"Brother Dudley, and sister Luna, are you a couple?"

Hearing Astoria's words, Dudley almost choked on his Bibi's multi-flavored beans and quickly looked at Luna opposite him.She originally thought that Luna would retort immediately, but Luna blinked her eyes and looked at herself expectantly, as if she was waiting for her answer.

Dudley sighed in his heart, but quickly calmed down because the figure of the black-haired girl appeared in his mind.

"You misunderstood...Miss Astoria...I, my relationship with Luna is not like this."

Hearing Dudley's words, Luna's eyes clearly flashed with a hint of loneliness, but it was quickly covered up by her usual ethereal movement.

"Dudley has a very beautiful girlfriend...and Dudley is very devoted to her, but he is not so easy to fall in love with someone else."

Having said that, after Astoria's question, the atmosphere in the box became obviously awkward, and they were relatively silent until the Hogwarts Express arrived at Hogsmeade Station.