Chinese students at Hogwarts.

Chapter 11 The Banquet

On the empty plate in front of Zhang Xiao, a rich food suddenly appeared: roast beef, roast chicken, pork chops, lamb chops, sausages, steaks, boiled potatoes, baked potatoes, fried potato chips, (why are they all potatoes?) and mint hard candy.

The people in the Snake House don't seem to like lively conversations like the lions. They talked about their summer vacation experiences while eating food.

"Yes, my father and I visited the Scottish national team and took a picture with Seeker Hector Lamont, to be honest, although Hector did not catch the Snitch in last year's World Cup final, But I maintain that he's just a fingertip away from being the best Seeker in the world.(Note 1)"

"I participated in a high-end private auction, and the things on it were not bad, but I only saw a helmet made by a goblin in the 17th century. It cost less than 1000 Galleons, and it was worth the money."

Even Malfoy was bragging to Clark and Goyle about his vacation life with his parents. He kept Zhang Xiao aside while talking, wanting to see Zhang Xiao's reaction.

Zhang Xiao didn't get involved in the topic. He rummaged through the food he was interested in, but unfortunately there were almost none. He noticed that only some people were talking loudly at the long Slytherin table, and some people kept their heads down and said nothing. Eating his own food quickly, occasionally talking in a low voice.

This made Zhang Xiao very curious, so he pulled the boastful Malfoy and asked:

"What happened to those people?"

Malfoy looked impatiently at where Zhang Xiao pointed, and sneered, "Those are all half-bloods, not noble pure-blood wizards, and what's even more ridiculous is that some of them grew up in Muggle society."

"By the way, you're also a half-breed?" Malfoy suddenly showed a nasty smile and looked at him suspiciously.

Zhang Xiao glared at him angrily:
"I am Chinese!"

Malfoy thought for a while but couldn't understand the connection between "Chinese" and the question he asked, and the magic world didn't know much about China, so he snorted vaguely and looked at the group of half-bloods who were eating. Leitlin sneered:
"Look at the way they devour it. It's so pitiful. I guess they can only taste such delicious and rich food at the Hogwarts opening banquet."

Zhang Xiao was stunned. He looked at Malfoy with a chicken leg in his hand. Delicious and rich?Except for Sheng who can talk and talk, the other three words are far behind, and asked contemptuously:

"You call these things delicious? Besides meat and potatoes, is there anything else?"

Looking at Zhang Xiao's inaction and contempt, Malfoy suddenly felt that the chicken leg in his hand suddenly tasted bad, and he asked tentatively:

"Then what is delicious? French food? My father also took me to eat French food. It is indeed more delicious and more stylish than the current one."

Zhang Xiao inserted a boiled potato and looked at it with distaste, "I have the opportunity to show you something, the French food is not bad, and what I think is delicious may not be delicious to you, the taste is too different."

The question of who is the best Chinese food or French food is the same as sweet and salty tofu nao. In the past life, there was a lot of quarrels on the Internet. Who is better? Get used to it!

Zhang Xiao, who had nothing to do after a full stomach, looked around, this time his eyes focused on a ghost sitting not far away.

His robes were stained with silvery blood, his eyes were hollow and melancholy, his cheeks were thin, and he just floated quietly beside the long Slytherin table.

Malfoy came over again, thinking that the noble Malfoy family must not be compared. If Zhang Xiao thinks this is not delicious, but he eats it, then the Malfoy family is not noble?
With that iconic fart and haughty smile on Malfoy's face, he whispered:
"You don't know who it is, do you? My father told me about it. Do you want to know?"

Zhang Xiao said casually:

"Ah, Bloody Barrow, the one who failed to chase Helena and committed suicide in the end has great prestige among the ghosts. He was the one who issued an order in the ghost council to forbid Peeves from attending the new school year banquet."

Malfoy's smile froze on his face, why do you understand so well?Even better than Zheng Luqi?He doesn't know anything about the ghost council.

"Are you telling the truth?" Malfoy asked suspiciously, frowning.

"Do you really know if you ask yourself?" Zhang Xiao pulled the fruit plate, took out a bunch of grapes from it, and ate them one by one, eh?The taste is really good, sweet and sour.

Malfoy looked at the bloody Baron not far away, shrunk his neck heartily, and muttered something softly.

Finally, the food on the plate changed from a meal to a dessert, and finally disappeared.

Professor Dumbledore stood up again.The restaurant also returned to silence. "Oh, now that everyone has eaten and drank enough, I want to say a few more words to you. At the beginning of the semester, I want to give you a few things to pay attention to."

"First-year freshmen, note that students are not allowed to enter the woods on campus. Some of our older classmates should also keep this in mind."

Dumbledore's shining eyes flicked in the direction of Gryffindor.

"Also, Mr. Filch, the administrator, asked me to remind everyone not to do magic in the corridors between classes.

"The review of Quidditch players will be held in the second week of this term. Anyone who is interested in participating in the house team should contact Mrs. Hooch.

"Finally, I have to tell everyone that those who don't want to suffer an accident or a painful death, please don't enter the corridor on the right on the fourth floor."

There was loud laughter from the Gryffindor table again, and Zhang Xiao was speechless, because it was the laughter of the iron-headed boy Harry. Unexpectedly, Malfoy was also laughing, and he did not forget to talk to Clark and Gao Err brags:
"Dumbledore's joke is really funny. My dad is the director of Hogwarts. He told me that the school will not put any students in danger, otherwise Dumbledore's headmaster's throne will be lost."

"Now, before we all go to bed, let's sing the school song!" cried Dumbledore.Zhang Xiao noticed that the smiles of the other teachers seemed to have froze.

Dumbledore flicked his wand lightly, and a long golden ribbon flew out of the wand, twisting and coiling lines of text like a snake above the high dining table.

"Each choose their favorite tune," said Dumbledore. "Get ready, sing!"

So all the teachers and students sang loudly: Hogwarts, Hogwarts, Hogwarts, Hogwarts, please teach us knowledge, whether we are old people with bald heads or children with broken knees, our The mind can accommodate some interesting things.

Because now our minds are empty, full of air, dead flies and trivial things, teach us some valuable knowledge, give us back what we have forgotten, you just do your best, leave the rest to us, we will study hard, until it turns into dung.

Everyone sang the school song in a hurry.Zhang Xiao's voice was exceptionally loud and clear, he sang Leo Ku's Love Song King.

Twice as long as the Weasley brothers' "Funeral March".Dumbledore directed the three of them with his wand. Seeing that the Weasley brothers had finished singing, Zhang Xiao tactfully stopped singing, and Dumbledore's applause was the loudest.

"Music," he said, wiping his eyes, "is more glamorous than anything we've done here! It's bed time. Go back to your dorms, everyone."

Zhang Xiao also wiped her eyes, she was sleepy, she yawned tears, and finally went to rest.

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Note 1: In the 1990 Quidditch World Cup final, the Scottish national team found the Golden Snitch when they were in the lead. In the end, the Seeker missed the opportunity because his fingers were shorter than his opponent, resulting in the loss of the game.

(End of this chapter)