Study Days at Hogwarts

  Chapter 172 Smith

  During the rest of the journey, the four got together to talk about the wizard card.

   Albert used the card games he had played before to perfect the rules of the wizard card game. Of course, this can only be regarded as the rudimentary form of the wizard card. Fred, George and Lee Jordan listened to it with great interest and offered their opinions from time to time.

"You said that one day the wizard card really became famous. How much galleon is this notebook that originally recorded the rules of the wizard card worth?" Albert shook the notebook in his hand and asked the three people in front of him in a joking tone. partner.

   "If it were me, I would definitely not sell it." Lee Jordan said without hesitation, "This notebook will become a legend and be handed down along with the wizard card."

  The emotions of several people have been in the stage of excitement, and the prospect of the wizard card and the game that Albert described to them is too good. Moreover, whether it is Fred or George, or even Lee Jordan, they can feel the charm contained in this game.

  No way, there are too few games in the magic world.

   When the Hogwarts Express train started to slow down, Albert and the others suddenly came to their senses, and hurriedly put on school robes for themselves.

   Soon after, the train stopped at Hogsmeade Station under the rain. It was still raining outside, and both Fred and George tried to cover themselves with cloaks. Lee Jordan took out an umbrella from the suitcase, looked at Albert suspiciously and asked, "You didn't bring an umbrella?"

  Lee Jordan felt incredible. With Albert's character, how could he forget to bring an umbrella?

"No, I have this!" Albert chanted a spell, raised his wand to conjure an umbrella, and reminded with a smile: "You probably forgot, I practiced summoning for a long time last semester." Curse. See, now it comes in handy."

   "Don't squeeze over." Seeing Fred and George squeezed under his umbrella, Lee Jordan was immediately speechless.

   "Albert, help me copy an umbrella." Fred shouted to Albert, it was too crowded for the three of them to gather under one umbrella.

   "Give me your wand." Albert called to Fred, it was too noisy.

   "Don't you have a wand?" Fred was puzzled, but seeing Albert holding his wand, he understood what was going on, and handed his wand to Albert.

   "Duplicate into pairs." Albert took Fred's wand, chanted a spell, knocked on Lee Jordan's umbrella, and helped duplicate an umbrella.

  Before returning it to the other party, Albert glanced at the wand again, and muttered, "Sure enough, it doesn't work for me, and the power of the spell has obviously weakened."

   "What are you talking about?" Lee Jordan handed the twins the duplicated umbrella and asked them to squeeze an umbrella for themselves. Seeing this scene, the wizards behind were full of envy. After all, there were only a few of them with umbrellas.

   There are very few people who can use the summoning spell to get an umbrella like Albert.

It was raining fast and hard, as if buckets of cold water were constantly pouring on everyone's heads. The unlucky people who didn't bring umbrellas got wet as soon as they got out of the train, and they could only hang their heads in the pouring rain , squinting and shrinking his body, trying to resist the rain on his head.

   "First-years come here!" A familiar voice came from not far away, and Hagrid, holding an oil lamp, waved to the drenched first-years.

   According to the usual practice, Hagrid will lead them to experience the traditional trip across the lake.

  Others push each other along the platform.

Albert, Fred, George, and Lee Jordan purposely stayed behind in the line, gloated at the group of unlucky **** who were drenched in water, and made sarcastic remarks heartlessly, while George and Lee Jordan were still discussing What makes them unwilling to bring an umbrella.

  Of course, Albert and the others are not the only ones with umbrellas. Students with umbrellas follow behind the team in a hurry, and don't want to squeeze with everyone. Anyway, there must be enough carriages.

   Several people followed other students through a rough and muddy road, and they saw a large number of carriages, each of which was pulled by an invisible Thestral.

The shivering students hurriedly climbed into the carriage, and the four of Albert boarded one. Angelina and Aliya next door were sharing an umbrella with Shanna. The latter was still with Albert before getting into the carriage. Chatting with Te, expressing interest in the copying spell.

   "If you have time, I can teach you!" Albert said to Shanna, "This spell is not too difficult, as long as you are willing to spend some time practicing."

   "It's time to go." Fred reminded.

   After Albert climbed into the carriage and closed the door, the carriage stumbled and set off. The long carriage moved along the path leading to Hogwarts Castle. The wheels ran over the stagnant water and splashed a lot of water.

  Albert leaned against the car window, feeling the violent bumps in the car.

  No one spoke, everyone gathered by the car window and looked at Hogwarts in the distance.

   Soon after, the carriage passed through the Hogwarts gate with the winged boar sculpture, and finally stopped at the stone steps in front of the two oak gates.

  The people in the carriage in front had hurried up the stone steps and ran into the castle against the heavy rain on their heads.

   Albert, Fred, George and Lee Jordan got off the carriage under umbrellas, and walked leisurely up the stone steps among the rushing crowd.

  On the way, Albert picked up an unlucky guy who slipped and fell. The other party just said "thank you" and ran away in a hurry.

   "That guy is stupid." George muttered.

   "How stupid?" Lee Jordan asked curiously.

   "Guess for yourself."

  Albert ignored the bickering between the two, stood at the door, looked back in the direction of the Black Lake, and could vaguely see a vague light on the lake moving towards the dock.

   Are the freshmen still crossing the lake?

   "Albert, go!" George urged.

"coming."

   Albert withdrew his gaze, followed behind everyone, walked slowly to the foyer, and entered the auditorium through two opposite doors.

   It is said that the hall of Hogwarts will be redecorated every year for the freshman banquet to make it look more magnificent.

   Albert walked into the auditorium, looked up at the guest seat, and sure enough, he saw a strange figure there.

He nodded towards Rowena nonchalantly, and then sat in the seat that Lee Jordan had specially vacated for himself, and also chatted with the ghost of Gryffindor College passing by—Nick, who was almost headless. Say hello.

   "Good evening." Albert retracted his gaze and greeted his acquaintances in the same class with a smile.

   "You're tanned." Shanna looked at Albert and said, "Did you go to the beach for summer vacation?"

   "The Basque beach in France." Albert nodded, "The food there is really good and memorable."

   "It's really enviable!" Shanna said enviously, "It's boring to stay at home during the summer vacation."

   "It's really boring." Fred muttered, "However, this is basically how I spend every year, and I'm used to it."

   "At least you can still play Quidditch." Lee Jordan couldn't help protesting.

   After everyone chatted for a few words, Professor McGonagall brought the first-year students over. The sound in the auditorium began to disappear and fell into a complete silence.

  The head of Gryffindor put a tattered, dirty, and patched wizard hat on a three-legged stool under the watchful eyes of everyone.

  Then, the Sorting Hat suddenly sang the new Sorting Hat song under the astonished eyes of the freshmen.

  After the singing, the sorting ceremony officially began.

   To be honest, watching other people's sorting ceremony is quite interesting.

   Freshmen began to be assigned to various colleges.

   Well, Albert never admitted that he was actually interested in Qiu Zhang's appearance.

After all, in the Harry Potter stories, Cho Chang is a lovely girl with an oriental appearance. However, everyone has to admit that the aesthetics of Europeans and Asians are different. No, it should be said that each country’s Everyone is surprised.

  Maybe in the eyes of most Europeans, Africans and Asians are similar.

   Fortunately, Albert did not have the face blindness that many Europeans have.

  Qiu Zhang is in the front row. Unlike the Europeans, she has a more Asian face shape. Well, she is indeed a lovely girl.

However, compared with Qiu Zhang, Albert is more concerned about a boy named Zacharias Smith. Albert has no special impression of his name, but he himself will pay special attention to the surname Smith .

  By the way, this Smith was sorted into Hufflepuff.

   Gryffindor has also ushered in several new students, and Katie Bell is one of them. Albert has a little impression of this girl. She seems to be one of the three Gryffindor suitors.

   "Is that the Rowena Smith you mentioned?" Fred looked curiously at the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor, and asked Albert beside him.

"Well, it is indeed him. It seems that this year's Defense Against the Dark Arts class doesn't need to worry about not learning anything." When Albert was speaking, Angelina, who was opposite, was talking about the broomstick with George. Haven't bought a broom yet and would like to hear from others on the team.

   "Nimbus 1700 is good, this series of brooms has always been good." Wood interjected.

   "What did you buy?" Angelina looked at Fred and George.

   "Sweep Seven Star No. 5." The twins looked at each other and said in unison.

   "Where's Albert?" Angelina asked Albert again.

   "He didn't buy a broomstick," Fred replied to Albert.

   "I suggest you ask someone in the team to borrow a broom for a try, and then think about what to buy." Albert said his proposal.

  However, this proposal is not very good. Most people bought comets and sweepers, and none of them bought Nimbus, because the brooms of this series are more expensive.

"What's your budget?" Wood asked, "If it's not too high, I suggest you buy the latest sweeping seven-star No. 6. Comet hasn't launched a new broomstick for several years. Of course, Comet 260 is also considered good Broom, but the speed is a bit slower, it depends on how you choose."

   While several people were talking, the last student entered Ravenclaw. After the sorting ceremony, Professor McGonagall took away the sorting hat and stool.

   "Welcome to Hogwarts in the new school year!" Professor Dumbledore stood up from the guest seat. He looked at all the students with a smile and opened his arms in a welcoming gesture.

   "This year, I am very happy to welcome a new teacher to our team, Professor Smith, who fills the vacant position of the Defense Against the Dark Arts class."

   There was some applause in the auditorium.

   "Okay, I think you are hungry too, let's start eating." Dumbledore raised his spoon and tapped the goblet in front of him.

  The golden plates and goblets in front of everyone were suddenly filled with food and drinks, and the auditorium echoed with laughter and the clash of knives and forks.

  Albert wasn’t very hungry, so he picked his favorite food, and while cutting steak, he talked with Nick about the academic issue of whether ghosts could eat.

  Nick said that usually only rotten food is served at the ghost banquet. When the ghost wants to taste the food, it will pass between the tables that hold the food.

   "I guess they let the food rot to make the taste stronger." Albert said to the people next to him, which caused a lot of blank stares.

  After the last dessert was swept away, Dumbledore stood up again, and the buzzing voice in the hall stopped abruptly.

   "Okay!" Dumbledore looked at everyone with a smile, and said, "Now, everyone is full, and I want to make a few announcements."

   "Mr. Filch, the gatekeeper, wants me to tell everyone. This year, students are not allowed to grow garlic in the castle and carry garlic-related items."

  When Dumbledore talked about this, many people couldn't help laughing. They all remembered that someone used garlic to trick Filch before the summer vacation last semester.

   After being kicked by Albert, Fred and George tried not to let themselves laugh out loud. Both of them held their breath and felt uncomfortable.

  …

   After Dumbledore said that everyone should go to bed, the freshmen's opening banquet is over.

   "I didn't expect Filch to prohibit everyone from bringing garlic." After leaving the hall, Fred finally couldn't help laughing.

   "It's a pity, the garlic scrambled eggs taste pretty good." Lee Jordan said seriously.

   This made Fred and George want to laugh.

   Albert followed everyone to the entrance of the Gryffindor common room.

   "Password?" the Fat Lady asked as they approached.

   "Nonsense," Percy said, stepping up.

  The portrait pops forward, revealing a large hole in the wall.

  Everyone climbed in from here, the circular common room still had those familiar furnishings, and a raging flame was burning by the fireplace.

  The boys all swarmed up the spiral staircase to their dormitories.

  Four four-poster beds stood against the wall, with crimson curtains hanging from them, and each person's trunk was placed at the foot of his own bed.

   "Good night." Fred was too full, took out the pajamas from the suitcase, changed for himself, and lay down on the bed directly, not wanting to move.

   "Good night." Albert also changed into pajamas and climbed into bed. Their bedding had been warmed by a charcoal stove.

  Lying on the comfortable bed, listening to the sound of rain outside, Albert closed his eyes, feeling that life in Hogwarts is very comfortable.

  (end of this chapter)