Hogwarts Outsider Chapter 120: New semester banquet

The car door was opened, and the sky was filled with lightning and thunder.

Hermione wrapped her cloak around Crookshanks, while Matthew and Neville barely covered their heads with the cloak; they were walking hard in the rain.

It's pouring rain and pouring down, the weather can be said to be terrible.

Out of the corner of Matthew's eyes, he saw Professor Kettleburn, the teacher of the Protection of Magical Animals class, greeting the first-year students.

According to the usual practice, first-year students have to ferry across the lake to enter the Hogwarts castle.

Matthew was suddenly a little lucky. On September 1st last year, the sky was at least sunny... In weather like today, it is unimaginable to take a ferry across the lake; it is too miserable!

The three people moved little by little with the flow of people, followed the crowd, and left the dark platform.

At the exit of the platform, there were many carriages parked, although they did not appear to have horses (thestrals were actually pulling them, but neither Matthew, Neville nor Hermione could see them).

Matthew, Neville and Hermione climbed into one of them quickly, and then they felt relieved; then, Hufflepuff's second-year Justin Fletcher also got into the carriage, and the door slammed It closed with a snap.

The long carriage began to set off along the path leading to Hogwarts Castle, and the axles splashed countless water along the way.

About a quarter of an hour later, the carriage passed through the gate of Hogwarts.

Matthew can see the very conspicuous sculpture of a wild boar with wings on the two stone pillars at the gate—

When Principal Gellert Grindelwald dueled with the black witch Morgana a few months ago, he remembered that these two wild boar sculptures also helped a lot.

Animals like pigs also have special significance to Hogwarts.

The word Hogwarts is derived from the word warthog.

Therefore, there is a story that is popular among wizards: Rowena Ravenclaw chose the location and name of Hogwarts when she dreamed that a warthog brought her to On a cliff by a lake, this cliff is naturally the site of Hogwarts now.

A few minutes later, the carriage stopped at the gate of the castle.

They jumped out of the carriage quickly, and then climbed up the marble steps.

…

The distraught students came to the Hogwarts auditorium.

It was already very late. Due to the sudden inspection midway and the bad weather after arriving at the station, they started the banquet at least an hour later than usual.

The Great Hall was still as splendid and resplendent as ever; and it seemed to have been redecorated for the feast of New Shaws.

Hundreds of candles floated above the table, lighting up the gold saucers and goblets. And those wet students took their seats one after another, sat on the long tables of the four colleges, and then began to greet each other eagerly.

There is a fifth table at the top of the auditorium, where the teachers are seated facing their students.

Matthew looked at the table at the guest table, and he saw the face of Principal Gellert Grindelwald.

According to the usual situation, Principal Grindelwald would come to the auditorium after the banquet started... But this year, due to a small accident, the students were generally late for more than an hour, so Principal Grindelwald was considered a "arrived" early.

Principal Grindelwald had a serious expression on his face. He was lowering his head, as if he was thinking about something.

Sitting next to Principal Grindelwald is the vice-principal Professor Rozier. Her face is still very young, and she is smiling and talking about these things with another teacher beside her.

The other teacher is a strange face!

That's right, Matthew quickly discovered the face he met on the train earlier——

The "stranger", he is currently sitting in the guest seat, talking to the vice principal in a somewhat reserved manner.

It seems that Matthew guessed right. It was just a small accident when Mr. Longbottom was tested earlier. That "stranger" is a genuine new Hogwarts teacher.

It's not hard to guess.

If a fugitive from Azkaban dares to swagger like this and take the express train to Hogwarts... Matthew will even wonder if he has stayed in Azkaban for too long and has ruined his brain up.

…

It's just that he couldn't point it out to Miss Hermione Granger, because Miss Granger had already gone to the long table in Ravenclaw.

Matthew also hurried to Slytherin's long table.

On the ceiling of the auditorium, there are no longer stars and moons, but a dazzling sun——

After sitting down, under the irradiance of the "sunlight", he suddenly felt warm all over his body, all the chills were dispelled, and the wet clothes dried quickly.

"Wakefield!" Matthew had just sat down when Agnes Lestrange suddenly walked over from the other side of the long table, calling his name.

"Long time no see!" Matthew smiled and nodded towards the beautiful girl.

"At the beginning of the summer vacation—" Miss Lestrange hesitated for a moment ~IndoMTL.com~ and asked in a low voice: "I saw you in Lihen Bookstore?"

"Yes, I was working as a temporary worker there!" Matthew replied calmly.

In fact, he was a little strange in his heart. When he was working at Lihen Bookstore, he did meet many Hogwarts acquaintances... But he was sure that Miss Agnes Lestrange was not among them.

"Later, something happened to Lihen Bookstore and it was closed..." Miss Lestrange continued.

"That's right, but I haven't been affected in any way." Matthew replied honestly.

He also secretly said something in his heart, in fact, I was the "culprit" of that incident.

"If no one is willing to invite you to his house before next summer vacation, you can come to me..." Agnes Lestrange said very quickly.

Then, she flicked her long hair, turned and left, and quickly returned to her previous seat.

Just leave Matthew there with some doubts:

"Does my popularity seem that bad? Why do they all think that no one invited me..."

…

Soon, Malfoy, Nott, Crabbe and Goyle also arrived at the auditorium.

They sat next to Matthew one after another, and the Slytherin boys got together again after a summer vacation.

At the same time, they also began to talk eagerly——

"You look a little unhappy, Draco?" Theodore Nott asked a little surprised.

"The Dracos had a little trouble over the summer," explained Vincent Crabbe.

And Gregory Goyle added another sentence: "There is a **** who reported Draco's father and participated in a 'smuggling'... This incident has ruined his father for almost a summer vacation."

"It's quite an asshole!" Matthew agreed nonchalantly.