days at Hogwarts

Chapter 160 School Opening Dinner

White clouds of steam billowed from the chimney, and the bright red-painted express train slowly departed, heading for Hogwarts along a hidden railway.

After departure, occasionally there are little wizards swimming in the aisles of the carriages.They didn't see each other for a summer vacation, and they went around, telling each other the joy of reunion and what they had seen during the vacation.

"Long time no see! Loren, and Hermione, you too!"

Seamus and Dean said in unison, they hooked each other's shoulders, and hopped past the cubicle.Before they could answer, they had already gone to the next compartment, like two happy little lions.

The young wizards of other grades also have similarly cheerful people, they are keen to visit, only the freshmen of the first grade are mostly sitting in the carriage, chatting with the friends they just met.

Loren and Hermione stayed in the carriage, greeting people passing by from time to time.

At this moment, a special guest came from outside the compartment glass.

She was a very peculiar girl with disheveled, dirty, waist-length dark golden brown hair, very light eyebrows, and a pair of big silver eyes, blinking and staring at him curiously.

She wore a pair of owl-rimmed glasses on her forehead, and a necklace of half a string of Butterbeer corks around her neck.This necklace seems to be a half-finished product, and the remaining half of the cork seems to be missing, so it is empty.

Hermione felt that there was an indescribable weirdness in such a dress.

"Hello, may I ask if there is room for this compartment?" Luna Lovegood asked lightly.

She didn't care about her distinctive attire at all, and her indifferent expression conveyed the feeling that this was a normal attire. The little girl looked at Loren, her eyes focused on those blue eyes.

Loren recognized Luna at a glance. Four people can sit in one compartment. He nodded first, and then asked strangely: "The compartment for freshmen is at the back, and there should be enough space. Didn't you find the compartment?" ?”

"My dad and I were delayed a little on the way. We came late and couldn't find an empty cubicle. They didn't want me to sit next to the occupied cubicle." Luna naturally climbed onto the seat and sat next to Hermione, as if Talking about trivial things.

Loren didn't ask much, and introduced: "I'm Loren Morgan, and this is Hermione Granger. We are both from Gryffindor."

"Hello." Hermione was still looking at the necklace of semi-finished Butterbeer corks.

"Nice to meet you, my name is Luna Lovegood." Luna kept looking into Loren's eyes.

This feeling of being watched is quite strange. Reminiscent of Luna's story, Loren couldn't help asking: "Why do you keep looking at me, do you have a molesfly on my head?"

For Luna, he didn't think it was a crazy girl, maybe like his magic vision, she could see things that others couldn't.

Luna's eyes lit up, and her silver eyes burst out with a dazzling brilliance: "You also know about Harassing Gadfly?"

"What is a Harassing Gadget?" Hermione also asked.

"They are invisible, they will buzz into your ears and mess up your mind." Luna seemed to always speak like this, light and calm, with no ups and downs in her voice.

She turned to look at Loren's blue eyes: "But you don't have a harassing gadfly on your head, it's a butterfly with blue wings."

"Butterfly?" Loren touched his eyes in surprise, but what he felt was the softness of the eyelids.

But Luna saw the peculiarity of his eyes again, which was hardly a coincidence.

"Yes, a butterfly with blue wings and beautiful texture, it protects your eyes with its wings." Luna said while observing.

Hermione also knew that Loren's eyes were different, so she didn't doubt Luna's words.She stared carefully at Loren's eyes, trying to see the trace of a butterfly there.

Of course nothing was seen.

Loren couldn't see his own eyes, but he had an idea: "I can't, but maybe I can try to see the reflection of your eyes."

Luna tilted her head and thought for a while, her clever silver eyes flickered: "This is really a good idea, I never thought of it before."

The two propped their hands on the table, their heads slowly moved closer, one wanted to observe the butterfly carefully, and the other wanted to see the butterfly.Eye to eye, looking at each other very seriously and carefully.

Hermione looked at this weird scene, looked at Loren on the left, and Luna on the right, feeling something was wrong.

After half a minute, she really couldn't bear the weirdness in her heart, got up and sat opposite, and pulled Loren back to the seat.The reason is very reasonable: "This may be a special ability, not seen through optical vision."

"Maybe so." Luna looked at Hermione, she seemed to feel that there was a molesfly on the girl's head just now.

Loren turned to look at Hermione, the girl's cheeks were slightly flushed.Hermione's eyes rolled awkwardly, and by chance she caught Loren's sight, and quickly fled away.

For some reason, Loren suddenly felt happy, as sweet as eating sizzling bee candy.

Skipping this episode, the chat between the three proceeded in a subtle way, all the way to the magic school.

"Do you know any other strange creatures?"

"Oh, what I'd most like to find is the Horned Snork..."

"what is that?"

……

The freshmen were going to cross the lake in a small boat, and after Luna got off the car, she heard Hagrid's call, and followed the freshman group all the way away.

Loren and Hermione followed the seniors. They crossed a flat road and got into the black and gray carriage that was parked on the side of the street.It was a carriage because they saw no horses pulling the cart, the reins were empty, and there was nothing in place for the towbar.

They are no longer freshmen, so naturally they won't foolishly ask what the car is driven by. After a school year, they more or less know the existence of Thestrals.

Only those who have seen death and accepted death can see thestrals.Loren didn't know if he had seen death, but he could.

It was a black, horse-like creature with broad, black, featherless, bat-like wings.The black fur is tightly attached to the skeleton, and every bone is clearly visible.

Their heads resemble those of dragons.The entire eye is silvery white, without the distinction between the pupil and the white of the eye, it looks a bit hollow, and there is a hint of divinity in the hollow.

Perhaps because of their characteristics linked to death, a group of thestrals stood quietly in the dimmed night, quiet and weird.

"Can you see thestrals?" A worried look flashed in Hermione's eyes. It's not a good thing to witness death.

"It's my eyes. Thestrals are also a magical creature." Loren said.

Hermione was clearly envious. "What do they look like? Are they really black? Are there scales?"

Seeing that she was really curious, Loren pulled her forward a few steps, came near the pole, and took her hand to touch the mane on the neck of the Thestral.

Feeling the warmth of a creature's fur from where there's nothing is honestly a bit creepy.Hermione's hand was taken to stroke the Thestrals stiffly, and it took a while to get used to it.

In Loren's field of vision, thestrals squinted their eyes, enjoying this kind of tickling comfort.They will even actively arch their necks and rub their hands.

"Although I can't see it, I can feel that it is a gentle animal, not the ominous one in the legend at all." Hermione fondled it, responding to the Thestral's kindness.

"I seem to feel the bones, are they thin?"

"Very thin, you can directly see the outline of the skeleton."

"Perhaps Hagrid should be suggested to feed them more food."

Loren sighed, and Hermione started again.

After getting in the car, along the way, Hermione was worried whether the Thestrals were malnourished or not having enough food.When she entered the Great Hall and sat at the Gryffindor table, she was still worrying about it, chattering non-stop.

Countless candles taller than a person stopped in the air, illuminating the auditorium brightly and brilliantly, and the stars on the dome were shining brightly.

Last year, they were uneasy freshmen next door, spreading rumors about their separation.

"Do they really have enough food?"

Loren slapped Hermione on the seat, and said earnestly, "Hagrid loves these cuties the most. He won't let the animals starve, don't worry!"

Hermione fell silent.

"Hey, loving couple!" George and Fred changed places and sat next to Loren, Hermione blushed with shame at a word.

"Did you see our good brother during your honeymoon trip?"

"And Harry, we haven't seen them since we got in the car."

Harry and Ron!
Flying cars!

Whomping Willow!
Loren opened his eyes wide and remembered, he remembered everything.In order to prevent Harry from returning to school, Dobby used magic to isolate platform [-] and three-quarters. In desperation, the two chose to drive a flying car back to school, violating the secrecy law, and finally crashed into the Whomping Willow.

He stood up abruptly, and then sat back... Forget it, it's already this time, the car must have been released into the Forbidden Forest.

"What's the matter?" George asked hastily.

"No, we didn't see them either." Loren shook his head. Anyway, they won't be expelled, so let's take it as an adventure.

George, who didn't get a useful answer, was disappointed: "Tsk, I'll just say it."

Fred nodded, and the two walked away together, spitting together: "Addicted to beauty."

Both Loren and Hermione were blushed, and they didn't notice the disappearance of their two friends all the way, especially Loren, who didn't even remember the plot.indeed a little...

In the guest seat, that is, the faculty seat, Lockhart, who was dressed in a blue-gold robe and embroidered with silver silk borders, was more conspicuous than Dumbledore.He can always show a perfect smile from every angle, and his white teeth can even reflect candlelight.

Sitting next to Professor Flitwick, Professor Sprout had a teasing smile on his face: "What an excellent Ravenclaw graduate! Best-selling author, adventurer, traveler, and became a Hogwarts professor."

Poor thing, Professor Flitwick was originally short, and he could only show his head when sitting on the seat. After listening to Professor Sputrow's words, he even shrunk his head and couldn't see it.

"I really don't know why Dumbledore hired him as the professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts." Helpless sobs came from under the table.

Although they have only been together for a few days, their talent cannot be hidden or pretended like pregnancy.Any professor who spoke to Lockhart would be able to see the grass cores stuffed in his gorgeous skin.

It is a shame that this idiot graduated from Ravenclaw, and Professor Flitwick is the head of Ravenclaw.

It wasn't until long after the sorting started that Harry and Ron appeared at the door, looking into the auditorium.

The Boy Who Lived, the savior Harry Potter, violated the Statute of Secrecy by driving an illegally modified Muggle vehicle.The crime was committed in the morning, and some evening papers that reacted quickly published the news that day.

After the sovereignty of Hogwarts was established, this kind of matter was left to the school to handle. After the Aurors dealt with the memory problem, the Ministry of Magic directly transferred the documents to the school.

It can be said that before Harry and Ron drove to school, his criminal file and the consequences were all determined.From a certain point of view, the administrative efficiency of the wizarding world is quite high.

Professor McGonagall's face turned black, but she couldn't leave the sorting house for freshmen, so she could only continue to call the freshman's name with a straight face.

Looking at the embarrassed Harry and Ron, Dumbledore smiled: "What an age full of courage. When I was their age, I couldn't do such a thing."

Lockhart smiled dazzlingly, and praised in response: "Yes, just like me back then, if you don't pay attention, you will do different things. Ability and talent are like light, which cannot be concealed!"

"Hey, stupid, ignorant so it's meaningless." Snape's deep voice was calm, and he didn't know who he was talking about.

Anyway, Lockhart certainly didn't think he was talking about himself. He turned to Professor Flitwick and continued talking about how he had carved his name on the Quidditch pitch in 20-foot-long letters.

Professor Flitwick's beard was trembling. He had never felt so deeply ashamed of being a Ravenclaw.

"Don't treat the students so harshly, Minerva can't leave, Severus, go and comfort the two children." Dumbledore said cheerfully.

The corner of Snape's mouth curved slightly, and he reluctantly accepted the task, not knowing if he laughed in his heart.

He went around through the side door next to the guest table and took Harry and Ron with him.

Loren's gaze followed Professor Snape away, and he silently prayed for the two of them in his heart, hoping that it would be okay to hit Willow, otherwise Professor Sprout would also curse.

"Luna Lovegood." Professor McGonagall's voice sounded again.

Luna, who was bouncing forward, had already changed out of her weird attire. She was wearing a Hogwarts magic robe, with an ethereal temperament and a beautiful face with long hair, like a moonlight elf.

The Sorting Hat was as worn out as ever, but it somehow matched Luna's temperament. Her lips opened and closed slightly, and it was obvious that she was talking to the Sorting Hat.Eventually she was sorted into Ravenclaw house.

Percy and the twins were relieved when they saw Ron being taken away by Snape, no matter what the mistake, he was safe.When Ginny was assigned to Gryffindor, there was the loudest cheering and screaming in the room.

In the school song session at the end of the dinner, George and Fred played steadily, and when they sang the final high notes, they stepped on the table and almost fell into Lee Jordan's arms.

(End of this chapter)