Hogwarts: From Squibs to Greatness

Chapter 27 Hufflepuff! (Seek to follow up, ask for votes)
John naturally returned the old man's smile, anyway, he was not afraid of the shadow slanting.

This was just a small episode, and soon Professor McGonagall took a four-legged stool and placed it at the front of the auditorium, and then she placed a patched, worn, and dirty-looking wizard hat on the stool superior.

And when Professor McGonagall took out the hat, everyone in the auditorium focused on it, no matter if it was a freshman or an old student.

Gradually, the auditorium became silent, except for soft coughs that sounded from time to time. Just when many freshmen were guessing why Professor McGonagall took out such an ordinary old hat.

Then, under the shocked eyes of most of the freshmen, the hat moved by itself!

I saw that the hat kept twisting, and then several wide slits were split on it, forming a crumpled face.

Then, in the eyes of everyone, the hat began to sing with a somewhat hoarse voice and an ancient melody:
You may think I'm not pretty,
But don't judge a book by its cover,
If you can find a more beautiful hat than mine,
I can eat myself.

You can make your bowler hats black and shiny,

Make your top hats smooth and crisp,

I'm the Sorting Hat at Hogwarts

…………

Although the voice is hoarse, it seems that this hat is very good at singing, and it sounds like there is no vicissitudes of history. I have to say that this is indeed a magical hat.

I really don't know how the four founders did it back then, injecting their thoughts into dead things, creating a sorting hat that can move for thousands of years.

After the hat sang, the audience applauded thunderously, and the freshmen also applauded led by the old students.

The hat also bowed to the four dining tables one by one in coordination, and then stood still. If it wasn't vivid before, some people might really think it was an ordinary broken hat.

"Looks like we'll just have to wear this hat," Ron whispered to Harry. "I know they're lying to me, but I'm going to kill Fred anyway, and he sounds like It's like fighting a troll, and it scares me so much that I can't sleep all night."

Hearing Ron's words behind him, John smiled knowingly, but the entertainment activities in the wizarding world are really lacking, otherwise things like teasing children before entering school would not become an entertainment that all wizarding parents are keen on.

Professor McGonagall took a few steps forward, holding a roll of parchment in his hand, which was filled with the names of the young wizards who enrolled this year.

"Whoever name I call now puts on a hat, sits on a stool, and waits for sorting."

Then John heard the name of the witch who was honored as the iron hat king, the lineage detector, the future owner of the Leaky Cauldron, and Neville's wife in his memory.
"Hannah Abbott!"

A rosy-cheeked little girl with two blond braids staggered out of the queue and put on her hat, which just covered her eyes.

She sat down, saw the face on the hat only paused for a moment, and shouted loudly:
"Hufflepuff!"

The people at the far right table applauded and cheered for Hannah, welcoming her to sit at their table, and the ghost of the fat monk who greeted the little wizards kindly before also waved happily to her at the long Hufflepuff table regards.

Soon, one by one, the little wizards sat on the four-corner stools, put on the sorting hat, and received the welcome applause from their colleges.

Just like in the original book, Hermione, Neville, and Harry were all assigned to Gryffindor.

Especially Harry, when he was assigned to Gryffindor, the whole Gryffindor cheered so loudly that it seemed that the ceiling of the auditorium would be knocked down.

George and Fred put their shoulders together and shouted loudly: "We have Potter! We have Potter!"

Even the ghost who was frightened by John before smiled and patted Harry's arm, and Harry shivered subconsciously.

"John Williams!"

Professor McGonagall called out John's name, and John walked slowly towards the sorting hat.

The red hair is like a burning flame, and there seems to be an iceberg hidden in the blue dragon eyes. His whole body exudes a temperament like the sun. His handsome appearance and height beyond his peers make many people look sideways.

Many little witches were blushing and guessing his identity, discussing him in low voices.

As long as everyone likes beautiful things, all the professors except Snape and Quirrell smiled at John, and John saw Hagrid greet him cautiously.

Sitting on a four-legged stool, Professor McGonagall put the Sorting Hat on his head.

When the Sorting Hat touched his hair, everyone heard the Sorting Hat let out a scream
"Aww! Mag get me away! Burn me to death!!!"

Hearing this, Professor McGonagall immediately removed the sorting hat from John's head. Everyone was stunned by this situation.
The Sorting Hat, which was taken away by Mag, first let out a sigh of relief, and then thanked Mag.

"what happened?"

"I do not know……"

While everyone was discussing, Dumbledore suddenly stood up and shouted, "Quiet!"

It seemed that he had cast a loudspeaker spell on himself, his voice was so loud that everyone subconsciously stopped talking and became quiet.

Then Dumbledore looked at John with a very peaceful tone: "Mr. Williams, I hope you don't use magic power to probe the sorting hat anymore. I think you are very aware of the changes in your body after the magic riot, don't you?"

"He is just an old hat that has existed for thousands of years, and he will be sorted in the future. If you are really curious, you can come and ask me later."

After finishing speaking, Dumbledore winked at John, and John naturally had no reason to refuse, and nodded in agreement.

He just didn't expect the Sorting Hat to be so sensitive, and he had such a big reaction after just exploring it with magic power.

"Please continue, Professor McGonagall!" Dumbledore sat down with a smile.

Professor McGonagall hesitantly put the Sorting Hat back on John's head. This time the Sorting Hat stopped screaming, and he began to communicate with John in his mind.

"Scary boy, I felt as if I was put into magma just now, your magic power is really hot."

"What's your problem? I won't check the little wizard's memory, this is not allowed by Helga! Although Salazar wants to do it very much"

"I accept your apology, all right! Let me see, which academy do you fit in?"

"Well... it's really hard to choose! You have unparalleled courage, leadership, and a strong body, as well as perseverance and thirst for knowledge that surpass ordinary people, as well as equal tolerance and kindness, and you have lofty goals."

"The four houses are all suitable for you. I actually prefer you to go to Gryffindor, but I want to see your own decision!"

"Hufflepuff? Do you want to reconsider? I still think Gryffindor can bring out all your talents!"

"What? Hufflepuff! Of course, I'm not saying that the academy founded by Helga is not good, and I respect her very much, but I still..."

While John was arguing with the Sorting Hat in his mind which house to go to.

Everyone in the auditorium looked at John helplessly, because it had been 10 minutes since he put on the hat, and he didn't see any movement, and the hat didn't even speak.

If the professor and even Principal Dumbledore hadn't taken any action now, Harry and the others would all want to go up to see if something happened to John.

Soon, when many people were waiting impatiently, they heard the Sorting Hat shout helplessly.

"Hufflepuff!!"

In an instant, cheers erupted from all the long tables except Slytherin, among which the Weasley twins cheered the loudest. Professor Sprout's chubby face in the professor's seat showed a kind smile.

Although he knew that John had decided to go to Hufflepuff a long time ago, but when he really heard that the other party was assigned to Hufflepuff instead of Gryffindor, Harry was still lost for a moment, but soon he got his mood together and desperately applause.

John naturally saw Harry, who was a little disappointed, and Hermione, who looked at him in disbelief. He smiled in their direction, like a burst of fireworks, which evoked a scream from the witch.

Then John walked over to the cheering badgers and sat between an excited Justin Fenriely and a flushed Hannah Abbott.

After greeting them, a hand was stretched out in front of him, "Gabriel Truman, Hufflepuff Prefect, welcome Williams!"

John naturally smiled and shook the other's hand: "John Williams, I am honored to join Hufflepuff!"

"Don't worry about the house points, we don't care too much about it." The other party smiled, "Also, I want to say that you did a good job, those Slytherins need to be taught a lesson!"

After all, compared to pure-blooded Slytherins, Hufflepuffs have a larger proportion of mixed-blood and Muggle wizards, so they are more likely to be bullied by them. This may be one of the reasons why the badgers are united.

It seems that the group of pure-blood idiots in Slytherin are hated everywhere, and they bring Slytherin House and its half-blood wizards and Muggle wizards together.

With Ron being sorted into Gryffindor and Blaise Zabini being sorted into Slytherin, Professor McGonagall rolled up the parchment, picked up the sorting hat and left.

Albus Dumbledore stood up.He looked at the students with a smile on his face, and stretched out his arms to them. Nothing seemed to make him happier than seeing the students gathered together.

"Welcome!" he said. "Welcome to Hogwarts to start the new school year! Before the banquet begins, I would like to say a few words. That is: Idiots! Crying noses! Scum! Screw!"

"thank you all!"

After talking about the classic quotations in memory that have been interpreted more than once by many people, John applauded along with everyone.

And the moment Dumbledore finished speaking, a large amount of food appeared on the empty table.

Even the empty tall copper cup in his hand was filled with milk. This may be the reason why Tom has entered the kitchen early, because everyone else needs to pour water into the cup by themselves.

But now is not the time to think about these things, John cut a piece of steak and happily ate it with everyone.

(End of this chapter)