Chapter 9 Start

"Nelson Williams!" Dumbledore shouted from the stage.

Nelson was still entangled between Gryffindor and Ravenclaw. Under Dumbledore's guidance, he walked up to the stage, sat on the four-corner stool, picked up the tattered Sorting Hat and put it on his head .

"Pull—" He was about to speak, and as soon as he uttered the first syllable, he heard that the Sorting Hat had made its decision.

"Slytherin!"

There was a burst of applause at the table next to it. It was the long table of Slytherin Academy. Around the table sat a group of students wearing wizard robes. The collars and cuffs of their wizard robes were embellished with green lace. Wearing a silver badge filled with green, the badge is the same as the huge badge suspended above their heads - a shield-shaped green badge with a snake with its head held high.

Compared with the welcome of the other three colleges, they seem to be more reserved and more orderly.Nelson looked a little dazed. He was walking towards the long table of Slytherin under his feet, but he was very confused. He had always considered himself a good person or a smart person, but was assigned to such a man who had trained many notorious evil wizards. Academy, he couldn't help but look back to see if the Sorting Hat was still there. He wanted to put on the Sorting Hat again and make his own choice... But when he turned around, he saw that Dumbledore had left with the hat and the four-cornered stool. into the banquet hall—he was the last student of the branch.

Nelson turned his head to look at the long table in front of him, his old friend Tom stood up to applaud him, smiling, surrounded by a large group of freshmen, his new friend Alphard had come to hug Nelson, his sister stood He glared at his brother's back behind Tom.The senior students who were seated at the table saw their last student approaching the long table, and stood up to applaud neatly. They all smiled, some faces may not be handsome enough, some faces may not be sincere or even sly , but the welcome at the moment is genuine.

Nelson felt this friendship, he expelled the thoughts in his mind, and laughed at himself: "I still call myself a moral success, didn't the thoughts just now put on tinted glasses to look at others? What qualifications do I have to look down on? Where's Slytherin?" He smiled and hugged Alphard who came running, patted him on the back, walked towards Tom, and the two looked at each other and shook hands.

"Hello, Williams." A flat female voice interjected.

Nelson looked in the direction of the voice, it was a black-haired girl with a ponytail, she looked sixteen or seventeen years old, her skin was pale, her eyes were deep, her lips were thin and bloodless, and she even looked mean. Laitlin boys.

"Hello." He let go of Tom's hand and said hello.

"I'm this term's Head Girl." She took a badge from the boy behind her. "My name is Miranda Goshak. This is your Slytherin badge, every Slytherin house. of students must have it on their chest while wearing their uniform." She handed the badge to Nelson.

Nelson took the badge and saw Tom and the freshmen around him each had the same badge in their hands.

"Thank you."

"Oh, you're welcome." Miranda was turning to leave when she heard this sentence, "I hope you have a good time in Slytherin."

Then she turned back to the head of the table and sat down there, the chairs of the people on the left and right were a little far away from him.

"She has a weird temper and is not easy to get close to. Everyone is a little afraid of her." Nelson just found an empty seat and sat down, which Tom helped him to occupy early in the morning, and there was still a warm pie on the plate in front of him. , he seemed to be certain that his friend would come to an academy with him, Tom handed him a glass of corn juice, and Walburga next to him said gossip, "But she is really good, her grades are first, she was Prefect, maybe I'll be Minister of Magic in the future."

"What did she do? Why should you be afraid of her?" Tom asked disdainfully, clinking glasses with Nelson with his pumpkin juice.

"Not really... I'm just afraid of her..." It seems that it's just because of her bad personality?Nelson looked at Miranda in the distance and thought, as if she noticed that someone was looking at her. Miranda raised her head and looked in Nelson's direction. The two eyes met, and Nelson raised her glass from a distance. Something, Nelson noticed that she was wearing a pair of black-rimmed glasses so that her eyes didn't look as deep and her features were softer.

"Squeak-" The door of the banquet hall opened, Dumbledore put down his sorting hat and walked back. He walked to the staff's table and sat in an empty seat. Nelson looked at him and found that he was talking with a man next to him. The man with a bright and handsome face, some slightly bald and bloated, said something. The man looked at the Slytherin table while talking. The eyes of the two met, he nodded to Nelson and then went to scan the table.

"Ding—" The old man in the middle of the dining table pulled the bell by his hand, and soon the hall was quiet, and all the students sat upright and looked at him.

"Welcome!" He stood up against the table. "Welcome to Hogwarts for the new school year!"

Armando Dippet, the current headmaster of Hogwarts, had silver hair cut short and close to the scalp, his sallow skin covered with age spots, his hooked nose high and strong, dark and dark. His eyes were sharp under his bushy eyebrows.

"You have to admit that you are lucky to be able to study at Hogwarts!" Armando Dippet glanced at the students at Hogwarts with his eagle-like eyes, who seemed to be dying. The old man showed a resolute and resolute aura that made it difficult to look directly at him.

"You are in the safest place in the world, and you have the best teachers to teach you knowledge. You don't have to be like Aurors, to fight with the most rampant dark wizard bosses, and you don't have to be poor in the corners of the magic world. Down and out, starving...that's what Hogwarts brought you!"

He coughed twice and continued, "I don't ask you to give me, your teacher, or anything in return from Hogwarts, I only ask that you can calm down during the seven years you are studying at Hogwarts, Learn knowledge, grow up safely in the ivory tower, and be able to face the storm outside the school when you can be on your own."

"Currently—" He took out a piece of paper and began to read out the school rules and other matters, "In view of the current special situation in the wizarding world, in order to prevent you from being invaded by black magic, in recent years, Hogsmeade will only be open to the fourth grade and above. Students; first- and second-year students are not allowed to approach the forbidden forest, and if they violate the school rules, they will be at their own risk; in addition, it is forbidden to perform magic in the corridor..."

The students were drowsy, but did not dare to move.

"Nal, I have inquired. The person next to Dumbledore is our Dean, Professor Slughorn, who teaches Potions." Tom glanced at the Headmaster, lowered his head and whispered to Nelson next to him.

"Professor Slughorn? I thought it would be a big fat..."

"Why? By the way, Dumbledore taught Transfiguration. I thought he was very powerful. He was a Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher..."

"...In addition, the Quidditch field will open two weeks after the start of the school year. Teams that need to reserve the field at that time should fill out the application form by the captain, hand it over to the dean of the respective college for signature, and then hand it over to the male and female student council presidents..."

The headmaster's voice drifted, and the students began to get restless.

"Finally, I hope you must strictly abide by the school rules. The list of items prohibited from being brought into the campus has been posted on Mr. Oger's door... If you violate the school rules, you will be severely punished if found."

Armando Dippet noticed that the thoughts of many students had drifted into the distance. He picked up the bell at his hand and shook it again. The crisp bell brought back the souls of the students.

"Then, let's start the dinner." He finished reading the school rules and sat down with Dumbledore's support.

The students in the auditorium let out a tsunami of cheers.

Nelson saw that the table in front of him suddenly became crowded, and the rich food appeared on those empty plates. The people around him had already started to gobble up. He chose for a long time and put a plate of sausages and pies in front of him.

After a while, the principal seemed to be a little tired and left the banquet hall on crutches.As if a certain switch was flipped, the hall suddenly became lively, the students chatted eagerly, and the teachers were chatting with each other. Nelson noticed that there were a few sneaky silver-white figures wearing from the corners of the hall. Out of the wall, looking at the crowd.

"They are ghosts parasitic on the castle, a group of cowards." Seeing Nelson and Tom's curious eyes, Walburga explained, "They are not allowed to touch the students, Nuo, the one covered in blood on the side, used to be our senior."

Nelson and Tom gasped in amazement at the unfamiliar things in the wizarding school, and Alphard had already started planning which school rules he was going to break tomorrow.

As the dinner drew to a close, the long table was in disarray, Nelson had learned the whole picture of the castle from Walburga's mouth, and Tom, surrounded by a group of freshmen and sophomores, became an indisputable part of the banquet. focus.

"Hey, can you hear it?" Dumbledore's loud voice came, "I think everyone has eaten and drank enough, so now it's school song time."

He took out his wand and nodded lightly. A long golden ribbon floated out of his wand and rose into the starry sky above his head, forming one word after another.

"Sing it in your favorite tone! Don't worry about others." Dumbledore said, everyone stood up and looked at the lyrics above their heads. Tom was reluctant, looking like he was going to fish in troubled waters. "Prepare, sing!"

……

Hogwarts, Hogwarts, Hogwarts, Hogwarts,
Please teach us knowledge,
Whether we are bald old people
Or a child with a broken knee,
Our minds can accept

some fun stuff.

Because now our brains are empty, full of air,

dead flies and trifles,

teach us some valuable knowledge,

Give us back what we have forgotten,

You just do your best and leave the rest to us,
We will study hard until it turns to dust.

……

"Nar..."

In the darkness, Tom suddenly called out Nelson's name.

"what happened?"

They were lying in their dormitories. After the dinner, the prefects of their respective colleges took the freshmen to the lounges of their respective colleges. They walked to a stone wall on the side of the castle, and walked into a long, narrow, low room. The basement of Black Lake can be seen through the glass, and the prefect assigned them dormitories. Nelson, Tom and three other freshmen Alan Abbott, Dwight Parkinson and George Carroll were assigned to the same dormitory.

"It's nothing." Tom responded after listening to the snoring of the other three roommates after a moment of silence.

(End of this chapter)

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