Hogwarts Outsider Chapter 121: New teacher
Because of the previous delay, the process of this year's school opening banquet seems to be more concise than usual.
They were chatting together, and after only five minutes of chatting, Professor Rozier, the vice-principal, left her seat. Moments later, she led a long line of first-year students to the top of the auditorium.
If Matthew and the others were considered drenched before, then compared with these first-year freshmen, they are nothing at all...
Looking at them, it's as if they didn't come by ferry, but swam from a lake!
Everyone has become a drowned rat.
They stood in a row along the staff desks and stopped in their tracks. Many of them were shivering, perhaps because they were cold and nervous.
Professor Rozier placed a three-legged stool on the ground in front of the new students, and placed a tattered, dirty, and patched wizard hat on the stool.
The eyes of the entire auditorium were immediately focused on the wizard hat. For a while, there was silence.
Then, a crack near the brim opened like a mouth, and it suddenly sang:
"Welcome to Hogwarts,
I also hope that you will not regret coming here,
You may spend seven romantic years in this castle,
It might just be a waste of time here,
…”
…
The lyrics are basically the same as they were a year ago. They still remind everyone to have a sense of crisis, call for unity, and call for the students of the four colleges to live in harmony.
When the singing was over, there was warm applause in the auditorium.
Professor Rozier unfolded a large roll of parchment.
"When I call someone's name, he goes and sits on the stool and puts on the hat," she said to the first-year students, "and when the hat announces the house, go and sit at the corresponding table in each house .”
"Sean Avery."
A tall boy with freckles stumbled out of the crowd and put on his hat.
"Slytherin!" the Sorting Hat shouted.
Sean Avery took off his hat and hurried to the Slytherin table. The Slytherin students started to applaud one after another, and Matthew also applauded symbolically.
"Theresa Baker."
"Ravenclaw!"
"Melinda Bobbin."
"Ravenclaw!"
"Colin Creevey."
"Gryffindor!"
…
"Astoria Greengrass."
"Slytherin!"
Astoria seems to be Daphne Greengrass' sister, and she sits between her sister and Agnes Lestrange, and they are chatting happily.
…
The sorting ceremony continued, and the male and female freshmen, with varying degrees of fear on their faces, walked towards the three-legged stool one by one. The team is slowly decreasing, and Professor Rozier has already read the names with the L switch on the list:
"Luna Lovegood."
A strange girl with an erratic temperament walked up to Professor Rozier. With her pale skin, silver eyes and dark blonde hair, she stood out from the crowd.
"Ravenclaw!"
And Steven Lucas became the new Hufflepuff.
…
The applause sounded again and again in the auditorium, and the number of remaining students has become less and less.
"Elaine Shafik."
Matthew heard a somewhat familiar surname, the same as the manager of Lihen Bookstore, and it also seemed to be the surname of a family of pure-blood wizards.
"Slytherin!"
…
With the last two students, Ginny Weasley going to Gryffindor, and Madeleine Yaxley coming to Slytherin, the sorting ceremony was completely declared over.
Professor Rozier picked up the Sorting Hat and the stool, and took them away.
Crabbe hastily grabbed his knife and fork, then stared longingly at the empty plate in front of him—
Professor Grindelwald stood up, his lines were more concise than a year ago:
"Let's eat!"
In the golden dinner plate, all kinds of delicious food suddenly appeared, as if they fell from the sky.
Chops of beef, pies, plates of vegetables, bread, jam, mashed potatoes and jugs of pumpkin juice...
Crabbe, who couldn't wait for a long time, began to stuff a lot of mashed potatoes into his mouth.
…
The banquet was still as lively as ever.
The heavy rain still beat heavily on the windows, but the sun on the ceiling was gone.
A sudden flash of lightning illuminates the golden plate, and the rest of the feast disappears, filling it with pudding again in the blink of an eye.
Matthew picked up a treacle tart, which tasted good, and he liked it.
As the pudding was swept away, the golden plates and goblets also disappeared.
Everyone was lying on the chairs, touching their swollen bellies.
At this time, Professor Gellert Grindelwald stood up again:
"Now, I think everyone has had their fill, and I'm going to make some announcements—"
"First of all, for freshmen, from the moment you step into Hogwarts ~IndoMTL.com~ this castle will protect you just like your home, and accompany you to grow up... No matter when and where, Hogwarts will be your most solid shield!"
"Of course, obeying the Hogwarts discipline is also necessary. Professor Kettleburn asked me to remind you again that students are strictly prohibited from entering the Forbidden Forest on campus, otherwise they will bear the consequences; in addition, Administrator Pringle Sir, I want me to tell you that this year, there are a few more prohibited items in the castle, namely..."
After briefly introducing a few school rules, Professor Grindelwald turned his gaze to the side:
"In addition, please allow me to introduce our new Transfiguration teacher this semester—"
"Professor Severus Snape!"
On the train, the wizard who had traveled with them for more than half the distance quickly stood up and nodded to the four long tables.
Thunderous applause erupted immediately, and everyone eagerly welcomed the new Hogwarts teacher.
…
Matthew Wakefield was a little stunned.
He was one of the few students who did not applaud.
What are you kidding!
Severus Snape?
You tell me, that man is Snape?
Matthew shook his head in disbelief, he just wanted to drink some pumpkin juice to calm down.
How could it be Snape...
Unless Matthew Wakefield is blind!
Greasy and black hair, dressed like a big bat, hollow eyes, and the iconic hooked nose... These iconic features of Snape, in the wizard on the train, he is a little Never seen it.
Is this your problem?
Is it the problem of this world?
Or is it this "Severus Snape" problem?
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