Chapter 919: A warning from the Sorting Hat
Looking in the direction she was pointing, everyone's eyes first fell on Professor Dumbledore. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
Dumbledore sat in the golden high-backed chair in the middle of the long staff desk, wearing a dark purple robe covered with silver stars and a matching hat, and he tilted his head towards the woman sitting next to him, who was speaking into his ear.
The movements of the two people seem to be very intimate, and people who don't know how good the relationship between the two of them is.
Truth be told, this woman looks like someone's unmarried aunt.
She was short and fat, with short, curly taupe hair and a large pink bow that matched the plush pink cardigan she wore over her robe.
At this moment, she turned her face slightly, took a goblet and drank for a day, and glanced in their direction.
So they saw a pale, toad-like face and a pair of eyes with droopy eyelids and bulging eyes.
"Oh my God, it's her!" Harry recognized at once, shocked.
"Dolores Umbridge!" added Aven, not at all surprising.
Although a lot has changed, she still arrived at Hogwarts as scheduled, and she doesn't know what tricks she will come up with.
In Aven's opinion, Umbridge is much more difficult to deal with than Fudge, and is very capable of handling things.
"Look at her clothes, what a pretty cardigan!" Ron said with a smirk.
"I think it's a little scary, she's not fit in this dress. Colin agreed.
"Looks a little familiar......," Hermione said, thoughtful, "who is she?"
"It's the woman named Umbridge!" Harry said, "she participated in the interrogation of me and Aven, and she worked for Fudge!"
"Oh!" Hermione nodded abruptly, "what is she doing here?"
"She's here to be a Defence Against the Dark Arts professor. Evan said, "Fudge arranged for her, you should understand, right?"
Hermione nodded worriedly, it wasn't good news, and Harry, Ron, and Colin looked at them curiously.
"Understand?" Ron asked, "Defence Against the Dark Arts class is going to be terrible this year, don't worry, I'm ready for it, in fact, I've never expected ...... class."
"Lupin, Sirius, and the Mad-Eye are still good!" said Harry, "I hope this woman doesn't have a problem." ā
If it were another week, he would certainly not think so, and he would not be worried about Umbridge.
Although Hermione wanted to explain to the others what Umbridge's arrival meant and let them know the seriousness of the matter, Professor Grapeland walked in through the side door and sat down in the seat that was supposed to belong to Hagrid.
This means that the first-year students must have crossed the lake to the castle.
Sure enough, a few seconds later, the door to the hall opened.
A long line of frightened-looking first-year students was led into the auditorium by Professor McGonagall.
Professor McGonagall held a stool with an old wizard's hat on it.
The hat was patched on top of each other, and there was a wide tear next to the frayed brim, and the hum of conversation in the auditorium died down.
First-year students line up at staff desks, facing their classmates from other grades.
Professor McGonagall carefully placed the stool in front of them, then stepped back.
The faces of the first-year students shimmered pale in the candlelight, and a little boy in the middle of the line looked as if he was shivering.
The freshmen were nervous, waiting for the Sorting Hat to decide where they would go, and even their future fate.
Evan had always thought that the four Hogwarts houses were so distinct from each other that he divided them into four different groups when the new students first entered, and kept telling them the stories and qualities of the four founders.
Gryffindor's courage, Ravenclaw's ingenuity, Hufflepuff's love and loyalty, and Slytherin's strength and power.
These traits imperceptibly imperceptibly imperceptibly left a deep imprint on the students of the four faculties.
Obviously, the Hogwarts Sorting system has a considerable impact on students.
Even though a thousand years have passed, everyone still inherits the will of the four founders, but is it really good to do so?
The sorting ceremony has always been a highlight of the opening ceremony of the new semester, and all the teachers and students of the school are waiting with bated breath.
In the blink of an eye, the crack in the brim of the hat opened like a mouth, and the Sorting Hat sang loudly: I was wearing a new hat a long time ago, when Hogwarts was not yet built, and the four founders of the Noble House thought they would never go their separate ways.
They are united by a common goal, and their aspirations are so similar: to build the best magic school in the world, so that their knowledge can be passed on and perpetuated.
"We're going to build a school and teach together!" the four friends had a firm idea, but they never dreamed that one day they would split up with each other.
What better friend could be in this world than Slytherin and Gryffindor?
Unless you count the other pair of best friends, Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw.
How can such a good thing be ruined? How can such a friendship be written off?
Alas, I have witnessed this sad story with my own eyes, so I can tell you it in detail here.
Slytherin said, "The students we teach must be of the purest blood. ā
Ravenclaw said, "The students we teach, they have to be intellectually superior. ā
Gryffindor said, "The students we teach. You must be brave and courageous. ā
Hufflepuff said, "I'm going to teach a lot of people and treat them the same. ā
The first time these differences came to light, they caused a small quarrel.
Each of the four founders had a college that only enrolled the teenagers they wanted.
Slytherin recruits wizards who, like himself, are of pure blood and scheming.
Only the sharpest-minded juniors can listen to Ravenclaw's teachings.
Anyone who is bold and adventurous will be accepted into the house by the brave Gryffindor.
The rest were taken in by the kind Hufflepuffs, who taught them all her skills without reservation.
The four academies and their founders have maintained a strong and sincere friendship in this way.
During those many pleasant years, teaching at Hogwarts was pleasant and harmonious.
But then slowly there was a split, and it intensified because of our shortcomings and fears.
The four colleges are like four stone pillars that once held our school together.
Now they are turning against each other, disputes are continuous, and each wants to monopolize power.
There was a time when the school was dying.
Countless quarrels, countless fights, and former best friends turned against each other.
Finally, one morning, the elderly Slytherin ran away.
Even though the strife had subsided, he left us discouraged.
Only three of the four founders remained, and from then on, the situation of the four colleges was no longer as harmonious and united as it had been imagined in the past.
Now that the Sorting Hat is in front of you, you all know what happened: I have divided you into every house, because my duties cannot be changed. But this year I'm going to say a few more decades, and I ask you to listen carefully to my new song, and as much as I'm destined to divide you, I'm afraid it's not the right thing to do.
Although I had to do my duty to divide the new students into four parts each year, I feared that such a classification would lead to the collapse that I feared.
Oh, know the dangers, read the signs, the lessons of history warn us that our Hogwarts is in danger, and that enemies outside the school are eyeing us.
We have to be united internally, or everything will fall apart from within.
I've spoken out to you, I've sounded the alarm for you, so let's start the sorting ......