Hogwarts: From Silent to Dark Lord

“When you have the opportunity, be sure to steal the sorting hat out of the principal’s office and study it well.”

Toby leaned into Jamie’s ear and said with a smile.

At this time, the shabby hat finally finished singing, and the audience immediately applauded, and all the students clapped.

The hat bowed to each of the four tables before standing still.

“It seems that we just need to wear that hat, and we don’t have to fight some fire dragon or giant like Toby said.”

“Fred and George told me before that we were going to fight trolls, and I really wanted to kill them, so I’ve been worried.”

Ron whispered to Harry on the side.

Harry breathed a sigh of relief, he had been really frightened before, if he went to fight some fire dragon or giant, then he would rather stay at his aunt’s house, so that his life was not in danger.

Professor McGonagall walked over to the four-legged stool, a roll of parchment in her hand.

“Now whoever I call by name, put on a hat, sit on a stool, and listen to the Sorting House.”

“Hannah Abbot!

Professor McGonagall called out the first name.

A ruddy-faced little girl with two blonde braids stumbled out of the queue, walked to the four-legged stool, picked up the hat and put it on her head, and sat down on the stool herself.

After a few breaths, the hat suddenly shouted.

“Hufflepuff!”

The students at the table on the right immediately applauded, the largest number of people at this table, and Hannah took off her hat, walked quickly to the table, and sat down in the front seat.

“Susan Burns!”

“Hufflepuff!”

The hat shouted again, and the speed of recognition was very fast.

“It seems that in order by the first letter of the surname, it will be your turn for a long time.”

Toby said in Jamie’s ear.

Abo’s last name, the initial letter is A, Burns’s last name is B, and Jamie’s last name is Bauer, and the initial letter is also B.

Sure enough, after a few more little wizards, it was Jamie’s turn.

“Jamie Ball!”

Jamie calmly walked out of the team and slowly walked to the four-legged stool, because Jamie and Toby were facing away from the teacher’s seat before, so Dumbledore on the teacher’s bench could not see Jamie’s face.

As for the previous Hogsmeade Station, because there were too many young wizards, plus Toby and Jamie deliberately hidden, they did not let Dumbledore see it.

It was only now that Dumbledore finally saw Jamie’s face for the first time.

At the same time, Jamie also raised his head and looked at Dumbledore in the professorship, the greatest white wizard in the world.

“Ding-dong!”

The fork in Dumbledore’s hand fell on the plate with a crashing sound, and his originally smiling face changed for the first time.

The teachers in the dock, including Professor McGonagall who was sorting the house, looked at Dumbledore.

But Dumbledore did not react, staring at Jamie in front of him obsessively, and the whole person seemed to be trapped in a long memory.

Seeing Jamie’s face made Dumbledore feel like he had traveled back more than ninety years, in the beautiful Godric Hollow, where he first met the man with whom he had been entangled all his life – Gellert Grindelwald.

He had just graduated from Gryffindor House at Hogwarts and returned to Godric’s Hollow to take care of his sister.

Gellert Grindelwald, on the other hand, was the nephew of their neighbor, Ms. Baghda Bagshot, and he met Grindelwald through the introduction of Bathilda Bagshot.

Although he only had two months and only been together for two months, he felt that these were the happiest two months of his life.

Later, Grindelwald started the wizarding war in Europe, he and he eventually parted ways, and later, he duelled with him, he defeated him, and he was imprisoned in Newmongard, where he remains to this day.

“You… What is your name? ”

Dumbledore finally came to his senses and looked at the boy in front of him, this boy was younger than the Grindelwald he knew back then, but their faces were very similar.

“My name is Jamie Ball, Mr. Principal.”

Jamie put his right hand on his chest and saluted Dumbledore slightly.

“Not him, you’re not him!”?

Dumbledore muttered, quickly returning to his original smile, but whether he had recovered or not, and what he thought in his heart, no one knew.

“Oh, okay, Mr. Ball, please go ahead.”

Dumbledore smiled and stretched out his hand, but there was still a hint of complexity in his eyes, but it was well hidden by him.

Obviously, Jamie’s Grindelwald-like appearance rippled in Dumbledore’s heart.

“Mr. Sorting Hat, hasn’t anyone cleaned you all this time, that’s really pitiful, it’s better for me to help you.”

Jamie came up to the Sorting Hat and said.

“Oh, a little wizard with a unique personality, you are the first little wizard who dares to speak to me like that, because I am just a hat, and I only use it once a year, and I will be forgotten in the headmaster’s room after each use.”

“No one has ever felt that a hat needs to be cleaned, in fact, I am a hat who loves to be clean, but no one has ever washed it even for me once.”

The Sorting Hat said a little pitifully.

“Oh, that’s so pathetic, Professor McGonagall, Mr. Headmaster, don’t you ever care how a hat feels, Mr. Sorting Hat has worked diligently for Hogwarts for so many years, but he hasn’t even been cleaned once.”

“Is it because Mr. Sorting Hat is just a hat that we don’t care how it feels?”

Jamie looked at Professor McGonagall, then turned his gaze to Dumbledore in the teacher’s chair, with a reproach in his eyes.

“Ahhh… This…”

Professor McGonagall was a little embarrassed, it was the first time she had encountered such a problem, but if you thought about it, they really didn’t think about cleaning the sorting hat.

“Mr. Bauer is right, it was indeed our negligence.”