The Shopkeeper of All Worlds in the British Wizarding World

Chapter 74 The beginning of the new school year

After Ryan and the three of them bid farewell to Professor McGonagall, they walked down the stairs towards the Gryffindor Tower.A few minutes later they came to the portrait of the Fat Lady.

"Oh, you guys are really early, it's not normal." The fat lady looked at the three of them and said.

"Honey-eating bird, honey-eating bird." After turning around in the fireplace for a long time and bouncing on the carriage for a long time, Ryan, who felt a little dizzy, really didn't want to talk, and it seemed that Harry and Ron thought so too.

The portrait of the Fat Lady unscrewed, and the three of them crawled through the opening, then flung themselves onto the nearest sofa.

After sitting for a long time, Ryan was relieved, and then saw someone put a plate on the coffee table in front of him, with Yorkshire pudding and roast beef on it, and roast potatoes and pea sprouts next to it.Beef and vegetables are served with a brown gravy.Next to the plate was a jug of pumpkin juice and three glasses.

It seems that if it is not punished for causing trouble, this simple meal at Hogwarts is also very rich.Ryan and the others poured gravy on the pudding and ate the beef. After all, they were already hungry after a long morning.

After lunch, the cutlery disappeared, just as when eating in the auditorium.The house elves of Hogwarts are indeed very good, serving every wizard without being discovered by the wizard.

After sitting for a while, Ryan asked Harry and Ron, "Why can't we get over that wall, is it because of a malfunction?"

Harry continued: "Maybe, after all, the Hogwarts Express has been in operation for more than a century. Considering that the gates at the entrance of the subway are broken every day, it is normal for this kind of entrance to break down once in a while."

"No, things in the wizarding world are not so easy to break. Especially the important partition walls are inspected every year." Ron retorted, and then he turned to Ryan and said, "Thank you this time, I just thought of it now, If I really drive my dad's car away, my mother will definitely kill me. Not to mention that if we really drive, it is estimated that we are still sitting in the small compartment basking in the sun."

"You're welcome, I just occasionally think about things and think about others." Ryan said. "I'm going to take a nap. I'm really tired after tossing around all morning."

After speaking, Ryan went up the escalator and went back to his room to take a nap. When he got up at three o'clock, he washed up and then put on his robe and went downstairs. When he saw Harry and Ron playing crackling and exploding cards, Harry shook his hand , the cards exploded, as if burning his eyebrows.

Seeing Ryan coming down the stairs, Harry seemed to suddenly think of something and said to Ryan, "By the way, Ryan. Thank you for the letter and postcard you sent me during the holiday."

Later, Lane also joined their game.Relying on the assassin's inheritance, Ryan has a steady hand and can build a very tall castle with crackling explosion cards.It's a pity that he was not Ron's opponent at all in Wizard Chess, and was defeated.

Finally, when the three of them felt a little tired, it was time for dinner.They packed themselves quickly, and then went downstairs to the auditorium to attend the opening ceremony.

When we arrived at the auditorium, everyone hadn't come yet, so Ryan and the three of them waited in the hall at the entrance of the auditorium.After a while, there was a chattering sound from the corridor, and the students all arrived.

Ryan followed the crowd to sit down at the Gryffindor table.Like last year, the sky-seen ceiling was filled with candles, and the auditorium was a sea of ​​pointed black hats.The only difference is that this year Ryan is no longer a freshman at the door.Instead, he sat at the table of his own college like other students, waiting for the freshman's branch.

Lane just sat down.I heard hurried footsteps coming from the front, and then a figure sat opposite Ryan.It was Hermione.There was a little anxious look on his face.

"What's the matter with you? I haven't seen you and Harry on the train. I thought you were all missing."

"My father had a small car accident on the road this morning, and he was a little late at the station. Then somehow, the partition wall of the platform broke down. It trapped me and Harry outside. Let's go to the bus station. The Cauldron Bar wrote a letter asking for help, and finally Professor McGonagall sent it to the school with the help of the Floo network."

After hearing this, Hermione patted her chest with her hands: "It's as long as you're all fine, you don't know how worried I was when I found out that there were no one of you in the car."

Ryan wanted to say something more, but when Dumbledore stood up to speak, he shut his mouth.

The principal announced the beginning of the sorting ceremony, the door of the auditorium was pushed open, and the freshmen shivered like quails.Sure enough, it is an ancestral prank of Hogwarts not to tell the new students about the specific situation of the sorting ceremony.

But looking at these freshmen, think about the seventh graders who have graduated.Only then did Ryan discover that the real power of the British wizarding world has always been Hogwarts.

Not to mention anything else, at least most of the employees of the British Ministry of Magic graduated from here.If a bureaucrat like Fudge resigns, there will be another one, but since 1956, the headmaster of Hogwarts has always been Dumbledore. It can be said that almost all employees of the Ministry of Magic are students of Dumbledore.

Ryan was thinking about the grievances and grievances between the Ministry of Magic and Hogwarts in the original book, when the singing of the Sorting Hat brought him back to reality.I have to say that even after a year of brewing, the singing of the Sorting Hat is still so ugly.

Next came the sorting ceremony, and Ginny Weasley was sorted into Gryffindor without incident.In addition to this, there is Colin Creevey, a famous Harry Potter fan.Ryan felt that the two of them should set up a Harry Potter fan club together, and there should be a lot of common language.

After the usual headmaster's speech (as brief as last year's), the sumptuous dinner began.The auditorium echoed with laughter and the clash of knives and forks.

When the last dessert was gone, Dumbledore told everyone it was time to go back to bed.Hermione finally found a chance to ask Ryan in detail how he ended up at school.After listening to Lane's narration, Hermione said to Lane:
"It's a good thing you didn't listen to Ron's bad idea, otherwise you would definitely deduct a lot of points from the academy today, and you might even be expelled."

After returning to the common room, the students really showed interest in Ryan and his three unusual ways of arriving at school.Ron seemed to enjoy the attention, and kept describing the situation to anyone who would listen.

Ryan shrugged after seeing this scene, and went upstairs to his dormitory after exchanging goodnight with Hermione.Ryan practiced spells for a while while his roommates hadn't returned to the dormitory.Then I went to the bathroom to wash up and went to bed.What a thrilling first day of school.

(End of this chapter)