Chapter 48 School Starts? School Starts!

Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, it is the beginning of September again, and now it is time for all schools to start autumn! The teachers and students of Hogwarts also took the Hogwarts Express on platform nine and three-quarters today, and returned to their school, Hogwarts Castle! They are going to continue their study and life here for a new semester.

This is the Great Hall of Hogwarts, where all the teachers and students of the school are gathered at this time, the bustling and bustling scene is extraordinary. The chandeliers on the ceiling have been lit, and the lights are dotted, illuminating the hall very brightly! Today is a good day for the start of the new semester. The teachers and students of each college have already sat at the long table of their own college according to their grades.

And in the middle of the auditorium hall, a small wooden chair was placed, and on the chair was a wizard hat that looked a bit tattered. This thing is the characteristic of Hogwarts. Legend has it that freshmen must wear the sorting hat once before entering the school! It is said that it can sort students into various colleges according to their talents and qualities! And now, it's chirping about something!

The song sung by the hat made Annie curl her lips in disdain in the teacher's seat! In her opinion, isn't this a constant enchantment that detects thoughts! It's nothing more than spying on the students' ideas and talents to classify, maybe there are some storage functions and a basic secondary wisdom technique? Just choose talent and choose apprentices! Why are you making it so mysterious?

The most important thing is: the song it sings is terrible! That's not music at all! That's just noise! Anne didn't like it very much! She has endured it for a long time, and it has been sung for so long, and it hasn't finished yet! It's not over yet! Annie felt that after a while her patience reached its limit, she might throw a permanent silence spell over it! Seal its broken mouth forever!

And now, Professor McGonagall, the vice-principal of Hogwarts School, is standing next to the wooden chair. She is busy arranging a group of students who look smaller to stand in line one by one. These students are obviously Hogwarts this year. Ci's first-year freshmen are here, and after the hat finishes singing, they are about to prepare for the sorting ceremony one by one! This may be very important! So Professor McGonagall is maintaining order while whispering to these little guys.

"Hey! Harry! You should have read the newspaper I sent you, right? The big event that happened in our wizarding world recently! That is really big news!" At the long table of the second grade, taking advantage of the sorting ceremony, Before it officially started, Ron tilted his body, leaned close to Harry's ear and whispered mysteriously.

Just at the beginning of last month! The Gringotts Wizarding Bank incident that shocked the wizarding community at home and abroad has been spreading for quite a while! For a long time, it has successfully attracted the attention of the entire British wizarding community, and all wizards are paying more or less attention to this matter! According to Ron's father, Mr. Arthur Weasley, even the foreign Ministry of Magic sent a special letter, trying to ask the whole story of this matter and other specific circumstances.

Thanks to this incident, many things that should have happened in the original book have changed a lot! Because Lucius Malfoy didn't have much leisure time to brew any conspiracy against Harry Potter, and then naturally there was no house elf Dobby who rebelled against the Lord to make trouble and make trouble, and Ron and Harry also Naturally, there will be no more incidents of driving a flying car to school and hitting the Whomping Willow!

"Newspaper? Where did the newspaper come from? I didn't see it! What's the big deal? Could it be that Voldemort has been resurrected?" Harry seemed a little puzzled. Apart from Voldemort's resurrection, he didn't think there would be anything worth noting happening in the wizarding world. Big things! Moreover, the Sorting Hat in the middle was still singing the ugly song of the Sorting Hat loudly, and he couldn't hear what Ron said clearly.

Just now he was looking at the freshmen in the middle of the hall with great interest. Last year,

Harry, just like the freshmen in front of him, was surrounded by senior classmates, waiting nervously and miserable to be sorted! Especially at that time, there were still people maliciously spreading rumors among the freshmen that the Sorting Hat would eat people's brains! Harry's mood at that time was not to mention how complicated it was!

And now, the tide is turning! He, Harry Potter, had already sat in the seat of the second year, and finally started to switch to him to watch the freshmen being sorted! This is a very novel experience! So, he also imitated what the senior students did to him, staring at the freshmen, seeing who was more nervous, then staring at them, and when that person felt his gaze, he would become even more nervous. nervous! The more nervous he is, the more he won't let go! Looking at the distressed expressions of those new students, this is a very fun thing!

"Don't tell me, you don't even know!!!" Realizing that Harry didn't seem to know, Ron exclaimed in disbelief! There are still people in the current wizarding world who don't know about that? Are you still a wizard after all? Surprised, he didn't even notice that Harry just mentioned the mysterious man's name directly in front of him!

He remembered very clearly that not long ago, he specially sent Harry a copy of the Daily Prophet newspaper that day! It was the one that sold the most! Of course, the newspaper was only mailed after his whole family had read it! And now, Harry actually said he didn't know? So, where have all the newspapers gone? Regarding that newspaper, Ron originally wanted to keep it as a souvenir for himself! But after thinking about it and thinking about it, I finally sent it to him because he and Harry are good gay friends! However, now Harry actually told him that he didn't know? !

Ron's huge voice immediately caused dissatisfaction among the surrounding Gryffindors! Looking at the menacing or warning eyes of the people around him, he could only smile awkwardly and apologize to those around him, then lowered his voice again and whispered in Harry's ear, "Didn't I already send you a letter a few days ago?" A copy of the Daily Prophet? Where is it now? Didn't you receive it? It shouldn't be!"

"The Daily Prophet? I didn't see any papers during the holidays! Oh, Ron! Didn't I tell you? Don't ever owl anything at my Uncle Vernon's! He bought it again last year." A double-barreled shotgun, he doesn't welcome anything from the wizarding world into his house! He might actually shoot your owl down!" Harry was stunned, and throughout the holiday, he It's true that they haven't received anything from the wizarding world!

Even his pet owl, Hedwig, was kept in a cage by him throughout the holiday, without even a chance to let the wind go! If Ron did send him a newspaper, it must have been confiscated by his Uncle Vernon or Aunt Petunia again! It seems that I have missed a lot of interesting things during this holiday!

"Of course I remember what you said! Don't worry! I actually asked my dad to send it to you with their special owl from the Ministry of Magic! Even if it is really shot down by your uncle! It's not my family anyway. I don't feel bad if I'm dead!" Ron waved his hand, not minding that he encouraged his father to use his property for private use! It's the owl of the Ministry of Magic anyway! Right? If you die, you die! And he doesn't need Ron to lose money!

"By the way! I almost forgot to ask! What happened? You are still so mysterious! Could it be that Voldemort is really resurrected?" Harry remembered that before the holiday, Voldemort was just a ghost of! Could it be that in this short summer vacation, he really came back to life? Then he is too good at doing things, right? Sure enough, he is the villain Voldemort!

"Well, it seems that you really don't know! Also! Don't mention the name of the mysterious man in front of me again!" Hearing the name that could not be said, Ron's face turned pale with fright! He shook his head helplessly at Harry, then glanced carefully at Hermione, who was sitting beside him, and leaned into Harry's ear again, whispering: "It's actually like this...! Then ..."

"Is this unlikely? Rob, rob the Gringotts Wizarding Bank? How could such a thing happen?!" After hearing this, Harry's eyes behind his short-sighted glasses widened, his face full of disbelief! This is much more explosive than Voldemort's resurrection! Then he hurriedly turned to Hermione on the other side, and asked aloud, "How is this possible?! Hermione! Could it be that what Ron just said is true? Could it be that you were really involved in that incident at Gringotts?"

"Hmph!" Hermione snorted coldly, and turned her head to the other side. She didn't pay attention to the two muttering beside her at all!

She naturally knew what they were muttering just now! He must be saying something bad about her again! Since the incident at the Gringotts Wizarding Bank, Hermione has become accustomed to the strange stares of the people around her and the questioning of those troublemakers! In fact, she has already been bored!

More importantly, some rumors are getting more and more unreliable! Listen now! Listen up! Ron just said that Hermione participated in the bank robbery! In fact, the truth should be that the goblin at the bank robbed her of the money, okay? Wouldn't they have read the papers themselves if they wanted to know? Why do you still have to ask her?

Hermione figured it out a long time ago! The more she talks and explains about that matter, the more those troublemakers will want to ask! In the end, the more outrageous it spread! So, she has learned the best way to deal with it! That is: indifference! ignore! As long as she doesn't talk to them and ignore them, those troublemakers will naturally disperse! Her indifference and disregard are the best counterattack weapons against those gossips! Love to talk, love to ask, anyway, Hermione just ignores her! snort!

Originally, Hermione was thinking of revealing to her two friends in advance a little bit of the novel things that will happen at Hogwarts this year. This was the first-hand news she heard in the headmaster's office last month! Now people who know about this will definitely not exceed double digits! But now she suddenly changed her mind! She would never tell them two gossip-loving bastards ahead of time! Absolutely do not disclose any little news to them in advance! Who made them just mutter and choreograph themselves?

One thing, Ron was right! Hermione was one of the important participants in the Gringotts Wizarding Bank incident, and she did witness the whole thing! But she absolutely hates it when anyone asks her any questions about it! After all, she was terribly frightened at the time! This matter can be said to be her reverse scale! No one can touch it! And Harry and Ron actually discussed this matter in front of her, the boat of friendship was about to capsize!

But in everything there is a loss, there must be a gain! After Hermione got acquainted with Anne and was greatly frightened, she also gained a huge harvest that was not known to outsiders! Because the next day, at the end of the trip to Hogwarts, especially after knowing that little Annie was temporarily homeless and wandering around, Hermione strongly requested and invited Annie to stay at her house for a month! During this month, Hermione not only learned about Annie's life experience and that she is not from this world, but also learned a lot of magic knowledge from Annie! This knowledge is a good thing that the current wizarding world does not have! No amount of money can buy it!

But in fact, after Anne lived at Hermione's house for a month, the happiest person was not Hermione! Not even Anne! It was Hermione's irresponsible father: Mr. Granger! Because, now Mr. Granger is still worrying about the big box he hid under the bed, and the tens of thousands of Galleons! That is happy worry!

Of course, these gold coins were given to him by Annie! Said it was a meeting ceremony to come to their house! If you don't want to accept it, you can't do it! So, since then, Mr. Granger and his wife have been thinking, is it more cost-effective to go directly to Gringotts to exchange them for pounds? Or is it more cost-effective to melt it into gold ingots and exchange them in banks in the Muggle world outside? This is a great question worth exploring! They have studied for a long time, but they have not been able to make up their minds!

"Wow! That's cool! Alright! Ron, can you explain it to me more carefully?" Harry saw that Hermione ignored him, so he turned his head in embarrassment and continued to ask Ron.

Since Hermione neither denies nor admits it, then it's probably true! He didn't know about such a big and explosive event in the first place! What a pity! So he still wants to continue to ask, and wants to know more specific content!

"Okay! It's said to be like this at the beginning..." Ron was about to continue talking to Harry, but found that all the Gryffindor students around him suddenly stood up and applauded enthusiastically Especially his two twin brothers, they whistled loudly and waved their hands to cheer.

It turned out that the sorting ceremony had already begun when they were talking just now! Ron's sister, Ginny Weasley, got her wish and was assigned to her dream Gryffindor by the Sorting Hat! Because she is obsessed with someone in Gryffindor day and night! In fact, it is not too strange that she can be assigned here! The whole Weasley family seemed to be Gryffindors, after all! It's almost genetic!

"Harry! Let's not talk about it! I'll give you another copy of that day's newspaper when I go back to the dormitory! I was the copy that I secretly hid when my father and I went to the Ministry of Magic!" Now that the sorting has begun , Ron is unwilling to miss any details, besides, a sumptuous dinner will start soon! He didn't want to waste any more time on this topic.

"Okay! You have to remember!" Since the original newspaper of the day was available to read after the party, Harry decided not to worry about it for the time being, and hurriedly stood up together, applauding Ron's younger sister, Ginny with.

The sorting ceremony continued in an orderly manner. The four colleges of Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Slytherin and Ravenclaw each allocated different numbers of first-year freshmen. After the freshmen took their seats, Professor McGonagall finally removed the chair and the sorting hat, and the opening banquet is about to officially begin!

After receiving a certain order, the house elves of Hogwarts School began to cast spells, filling the long tables of various colleges with an assortment of high-quality food in an instant! You know, the dinner at the opening party of each semester is the most sumptuous in a year! So Ron from a poor family, and Harry, who was abused by his uncle's family for a summer vacation, these two brothers and sisters immediately picked up their knives and forks and started to eat extravagantly!

In fact, it cannot be said that it is not abundant at ordinary times, but you have to know that all kinds of meat have different prices and tastes! Today, you can eat beef and lamb shanks plus seafood, but usually, pork chops, potatoes and bread are good! School funding is not unlimited! That all requires the selfless sponsorship of shareholders! Where can you eat big fish and meat for free every day? This is just a school of magic, not a free lunch restaurant for Ministry of Magic officials! What kind of treatment do you want?

And the first day of school must be to give a good impression to the new students! so! It will definitely be extra rich on this day or during the holidays! This is a matter of face for Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry! Can not have the slightest sloppy! As for the usual words? cough cough! Eat whatever you have! Anyway, it is enough to ensure nutrition and not starve to death!

In the process of feasting, some careful students also found that today's teacher's seat seems a little different from usual! Because they discovered that there were not only Hogwarts professors at the teachers' long table, but also a particularly eye-catching little girl with blond hair! And it looks familiar!

But upon closer inspection, that little girl turned out to be the protagonist of the Gringotts Wizarding Bank incident a while ago! That one is said to be the most powerful wizard the wizarding world has ever seen! It is said that even Dumbledore or the Mysterious Man are not her opponents! And this statement seems to be justified!

Because according to the follow-up event analysis on the Prophet Daily in the later period, it shows that this little girl's record is very terrifying! In less than an hour, she knocked down twenty or thirty goblin employees, captured or stunned hundreds of Aurors and Gringotts guards, and finally killed an ancient dragon! Even the Mysterious Man or Dumbledore couldn't possibly achieve such a record, right? So the inference of the little girl's strength comes from this!

Regarding this point, quite a few students of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry are still not willing to believe it! In their opinion, how could a little girl of a few years old be more powerful than their most admired and most powerful Headmaster Dumbledore? This is obviously impossible! It must be that the editors of those newspapers deliberately made up and wrote it in order to gain attention! It must be so!

"Harry, help me, pass me that leg of lamb over there!" On the long table in Gryffindor, Ron was still holding a big lobster in his hand, and his eyes were fixed on Harry. The roast leg of lamb on the side.

"Oh! Alright! Here you are! Please help me bring the crab over there too!" Harry's food was no better than Ron's! He is also gnawing on a big chicken drumstick!

"thanks!"

On the other side of them, Hermione, who was whispering something with a female classmate, silently squinted at the two of them out of the corner of her eye, and then quietly and carefully moved her position so as to be further away from them. a little. After awkwardly smiling at the classmates who had just talked, he pretended not to know them, continued to move gracefully, and ate the food on his dinner plate slowly.

Fortunately, bad looks will not deduct points from the academy! Hermione felt that if there was a requirement in the school rules to eat a picture, Harry and Ron would definitely be able to deduct all the points from Gryffindor today! Don't they have a place for the word shame in their heads?

I'm afraid many people have noticed them by now, right? The two of them now have one leg of lamb and one lobster! And the other is to grab the chicken legs and crabs with both hands! It's just for dinner, can't you restrain yourself a little bit and be more reserved? No one wants to come and rob them! Look at Ginny, a first-year freshman sitting opposite, she probably doesn't want to recognize her brother now, does she?

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