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Chapter 578 Hogwarts, Welcome Dinner

Zhou Ming successfully used silent spells and a castrated version of the Flying Spell to lure Hermione into his carriage.

Cynthia raised her head and looked at Zhou Ming with contempt, then lowered her head again before Hermione noticed her look.

Others might not hear what Zhou Ming and Hermione said outside, but could she not hear it? Although she had never experienced sex, as a deity, she had seen such things too many times, and there was nothing new about it.

She despised Zhou Ming simply because he had the face of a twelve-year-old boy and the heart of an old monster who knew who knew how many years, and he tried to deceive a real twelve-year-old girl.

But then again, for beings like them, age really doesn't matter. If nothing unexpected happens, they can live as long as the heaven and the earth. It's already very good for an ordinary person to live peacefully to the age of 70 or 80. Those who can live to the age of 90 or even 100 are extremely rare.

Wizards can generally live a little longer than ordinary people, but at most they can live about one hundred to five hundred years old without using any special means. And this only applies to powerful wizards. It is really rare for those who are mediocre or weak to live that long.

In short, Cynthia was disgusted by Zhou Ming's behavior, but she couldn't find any major faults, so she said nothing, but just looked down on him a little.

Then Zhou Ming pulled Hermione to sit on the bench and began to explain to her the technical points of silent casting and the casting techniques of the Flying Spell (castrated version).

As expected, Hermione's attention was completely attracted by the knowledge. During this period, she was distracted by Harry and Ron, but was quickly pulled back by Zhou Ming.

Outside, Percy appeared twice, each time with his eyes fixed straight ahead, not noticing where Hermione was.

The train hummed forward and soon arrived at Hogsmeade Station.

It wasn't until the train stopped that Hermione came to her senses. She immediately stood up anxiously, wanting to go out and ask about Harry and Ron's situation.

"Don't worry, there are people everywhere outside. I will protect you. After we get out, we will go find the teacher together."

Zhou Ming naturally couldn't let her leave like this, so the moment she stood up, he grabbed her little hand.

Hermione struggled several times but failed to break free, and lowered her head with a red face.

"You, don't hold my hand..."

"Oh, sorry. I was mainly worried that you might accidentally bump into something if you ran out like this. Okay, let's go together."

The place outside is full of students now, and the corridor is noisy.

He opened the car door, letting Hermione and Cynthia go first, and he followed behind.

Don't worry about luggage, the school's house-elves will deliver it to their rooms.

The three followed the crowd and quickly got off the train. When they looked up, they saw the huge figure not far away.

"First-year students, come over here, don't crowd! Hey, those of you over there, don't run around. Everyone, listen up, first-year students, gather over here!"

"It's Hagrid!"

Hermione suddenly became excited, but fortunately this time she did not rush to Hagrid, but gave Zhou Ming a blank look.

"You can let go of my hand now. I don't plan to go over there."

"hehe."

Zhou Ming smiled and let go of Hermione's little hand.

In fact, he has never been an impatient person, really, but this time there is a little difference, because he and Cynthia traveled into a world dominated by movies.

Why do you say that? Because Hermione's appearance is so familiar to him. He fell in love with her at first sight.

That's why he would, for the first time in his life, keep pulling such a twelve-year-old girl.

Seeing that Hermione was much calmer than before, Zhou Ming finally felt relieved. He followed the two of them, followed the crowd, and walked around Hagrid into the distance.

These sophomores and higher grade students naturally could no longer take the boat across the Black Lake; that was a privilege only the freshmen in their first year could enjoy.

It is said that the first four founders of Hogwarts came to Hogwarts in this way. It is a unique ritual to let the first-year students walk the old path of the founders. Some people also say that this is actually to establish a connection between the freshmen and Hogwarts. Only after going through this ceremony can they be considered true Hogwarts people.

In this regard, Zhou Ming wanted to say that he was just overthinking it.

The magic in this world is indeed amazing, but there is no such magic ceremony. The school insists on doing this, in addition to commemorating the four founders, the main purpose is to enhance the students' sense of belonging to the school and give them a sense of sacred participation, nothing more.

There is no need to do this for students in the second grade and above. The small boats on the shore of Black Lake are not enough for so many of them. If they want to go to school, they need to take a carriage.

That’s right, it was the carriage pulled by the Night Thestral.

The Thestrals are a type of Pegasus, and are also magical creatures, classified as dangerous animals by the Ministry of Magic. In fact, the Thestrals are not dangerous, and are even safe.

Because they are very smart, they can tell whether a person is kind or malicious towards them, but this is not a special ability. Just like ordinary humans, they can independently judge the degree of danger. If you are not dangerous or have no ill intentions towards the Thestral, then it will be the same.

Thestrals have a strong ability to distinguish directions. As long as you tell them the approximate direction you want to go, they can take you to the exact location.

In addition, the Thestral is also a very loyal magical animal. Once it recognizes a master, it will never leave until death.

But even though it has so many advantages, it is still not liked by people. There are probably two reasons for this.

First, its appearance is a bit too scary. They have no flesh on their bodies. The black fur is tightly attached to the skeleton, and every bone is clearly visible. Their heads are very similar to dragons, and their pupil-less eyes are white and like to stare at people. Wings grow from the bulge between the shoulder bones. They are large and black, and look like giant bats.

The second is another characteristic of the Thestrals, which is that only those who have seen death can see the Thestrals.

This characteristic makes many superstitious people think that they are a symbol of bad luck, so people will consciously and actively stay away from such creatures.

Of course Zhou Ming was not afraid of them, and he could also see them. After all, he had seen so many dead people, and many of them had been killed by his own hands. Death was a common thing for him, so seeing Ye Qi's body was not particularly difficult.

The same was true for Cynthia. Only Hermione couldn't help but shudder when she saw Zhou Ming's hand stroking the air.

"Student Zhou, Zhou Ming, what are you touching? Is it a ghost?"

"No, it's the Thestral."

Zhou Ming explained it to Hermione with a smile and invited her to touch the Thestral, but as expected, Hermione refused.

What humans fear the most is always the unknown. Because we cannot see what the Thestrals look like, even if they look really cute, people will still feel scared.

On the contrary, if Hermione could actually see the Thestrals, the fear in his heart would probably disappear.

Everyone got on the car, which began to move slowly, then gradually accelerated, carrying a group of students towards the castle.

Hogwarts.

The most famous place in the Harry Potter world and where most of the stories take place.

It was first founded around 990 AD by the four greatest (to be determined) wizards in the world at that time: Godric Gryffindor, Salazar Slytherin, Rowena Ravenclaw and Helga Hufflepuff. The school's four colleges are named after their surnames.

Their original intention of establishing the school was to keep it away from the prying eyes of Muggles, because in that era, Muggles were afraid of magic and many wizards and witches were persecuted because of it.

Taking into account that wizards at that time did not have a complete education system, and children from wizarding families were all taught by their parents at home, the four founders decided to open a magic school to train young wizards.

Because each of the four founders has his or her own strong personality, they have different focuses when selecting students.

This also corresponds to the characteristics of the four major colleges. For example, Gryffindor focuses on courage, bravery, daring, nerves and chivalry, which has become the character of all Gryffindor students.

Hufflepuffs are known for loyalty, patience, hard work, fair play, honesty, and tolerance.

Ravenclaw College values ​​intelligence, wit, cleverness, creativity and wisdom, so the students in this college are generally the smartest and have the best grades among the four major colleges. Zhou Ming is in this college.

As for Cynthia, she is from Gryffindor, and this assignment seems a bit problematic at first glance.

After all, Cynthia is the goddess of the moon. She has always given people the impression of being noble and cold. How could she be grouped together with a group of little lions?

However, in fact, it is not difficult to see that she took the initiative to chase all the way out from the Saint Seiya world that this elegant goddess is actually very brave and even a little reckless deep down in her heart. It’s just that she is usually high and mighty, and the mortals below don’t quite understand her.

The last house, Slytherin, was different from the previous three houses, and therefore had serious disagreements with the other three on the issue of admissions.

As a result, not long after the school was founded, Slytherin and Gryffindor had a fierce argument over this issue.

Later, Slytherin simply left the school, and before leaving, he secretly built a secret room in the castle. The other founders knew nothing about it. This secret room is the main plot of this year.

This is a later story, so let’s not talk about it for now.

Back to Hogwarts.

Today, Hogwarts is recognized as the best of the 11 known magic schools in the world, and is also ranked first among the three major magic schools in Europe.

Before, Zhou Ming had only seen this castle in movies. Later, there were many related games, but he was always busy at work and had no time to play them. He couldn't even watch the plot online. Now he can finally see this castle with his own eyes.

It must be admitted that in the field of ancient castles, only these white people can play it well.

With this atmosphere and this environment, it’s hard to believe that there is no ghost dog in this castle.

Of course, there are real ghosts at Hogwarts, but they are not very scary.

First-year students still need to wait in the auditorium, line up to enter, and be assigned to a college, but older students can go in first.

This auditorium is located on the first floor and is one of the most frequently visited locations in the plot. It is also the location of the restaurant and the place where various banquets are held.

There were four very long tables in the hall, representing the four colleges, and another long table on the top of the dining room, which was the teacher's seat. There were also thousands of candles floating in the air; the roof was enchanted and looked like the sky outside.

There are four long tables, from left to right they are Slytherin, Gryffindor, Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw, so which side is left and which is right? It's very simple, just stand at the door of the hall and look towards the teachers' seats.

So after Zhou Ming entered the door, he went straight to the long table on the far right.

At this point, he had to separate from Cynthia and Hermione, who were from Gryffindor and were on the left side of the entrance passage.

The senior students quickly took their seats. There were many more classmates around Zhou Ming, but he didn't know most of them. Only one or two looked familiar to him, such as Zhang Qiu, who had an oriental face like him. He was sitting right opposite him and winking at him.

But don't get me wrong, Zhang Qiu doesn't like him, it's just that because the two of them have similar looks and styles, they are a little closer than others.

In addition, there is Marietta Edgecombe, the little girl who became an informer in the Order of the Phoenix plot.

Michael Corner, a long-haired boy who will have a secret relationship with Ginny in the future, was seriously suspected of his IQ by Ron.

Of course, the Ravenclaw prefect, Penelope Clearwater, is also indispensable here. She did not actually appear in the original movie, and there was only one shot of her back. However, when Zhou Ming was still on Earth, he curiously looked up pictures of this actor, and he must admit that she is not ugly.

Because he had seen the actor's photos, Zhou Ming recognized Penelope Clearwater in the Harry Potter world at a glance.

After simply identifying some familiar faces in the college, the welcoming ceremony officially began. All the professors and deans had already taken their seats in the teaching seats, which were all familiar faces, including Professor Dumbledore, Professor Snape, Professor Sprout, their own dean, Professor Flitwick, and so on.

What, you ask that man?

Haha, Zhou Ming’s gaze didn’t even stay on Lockhart for half a second.

At this time, the door of the auditorium opened, and Professor McGonagall walked in with a group of freshmen in two lines.

(End of this chapter)