Chapter 308: Opening ceremony

Finally, the train slowed down slowly, and all the students heard a lot of noise all over again, because everyone was busy gathering their pets and carry-on luggage together, ready to get off. Ron wanted to supervise the order. After returning, he disappeared from the carriage, leaving Harry and Hermione to look after their pets.
They got out of the car and left the platform. After a few steps, they saw a lantern with a soft light, and moved to the side staggeringly. It was Professor Grapland, the magical animal of Hogwarts. Protection teacher, a serious middle-aged woman, she is now responsible for receiving first-year freshmen.
The students in the upper grades should be separated from the students in the first grade. As a rule, the students in the first grade need to take a small boat to commemorate the activities of four founders.
The rest of the group walked outside the station and slowly walked through the narrow doorway to the road outside. The dark street was being washed away by the rain, and the accumulated water consciously flowed in one direction. With.
There are about a hundred horse-drawn carriages parked here, and every year they send students over the first grade to the castle.
Only a small number of people who might be called unfortunate can see the secret.
Ye Qi, only those who have seen death will see their true face.
In the eyes of most people, the front of the carriage is still empty.
Luna walked quietly to the front of a carriage. In her gray eyes, there were some animals standing between the cowls. They looked a bit like reptiles, they had no flesh on them, and the black fur was tight. The ground is attached to the skeleton, and each bone is clearly visible. Their heads are very similar to dragons' heads, their pupilless eyes are white, and they stare intently. Wings grew between the shoulder bones-large, black, tough wings that seemed to belong to huge bats. The animals stood motionless, standing silently in the darker and darker night, looking weird and ominous.
The Ye Qi bowed her head gently, accepting her touch.
It just looks strange to others.
Every year, she will appease this group of creatures that are regarded as unknown by others, if those people can see Ye Qi.
"It's true that someone called her crazy girl." Ron said slightly bitterly, perhaps in retaliation for what he had just said.
"There's nothing there," he said loudly, then exchanged a few glances with them, hoping to get approval.
"I can't see anything, maybe it represents true happiness." Luna walked in front of them, said such a word gently, smiled a little, and stepped on some wooden door and some moldy carriage
"Look, the gods are nagging, saying something that people don't understand." Ron pointed to the carriage that Luna boarded, and said unpleasantly.
Hermione turned her head and stared at the empty space in front of the carriage. If she thought about it, there seemed to be something there.
"Don't bother, go away, I don't want to be late." Ron urged Hermione.
The carriages lined up and creaked and wobbled along the road. They passed the tall stone pillars on either side of the gate leading to the school grounds. On top of the pillars were winged wild boars.
Hogwarts Castle is faintly getting closer and closer: the towering towers are darker against the dark night sky, and occasionally a window radiates a dazzling light above them.
The carriage was tinted by the stone steps leading to the oak gate, and the senior students got off the bus one after another and walked into the castle.
The auditorium was full of four long college tables, with a dark ceiling without stars, just like the sky outside they saw through the tall windows. A candle floated over the dining table, illuminating the silver ghosts dotted in the auditorium, and illuminating the excited faces of the students. They were talking happily, exchanging news during the summer vacation, greeted friends from other colleges aloud, and examined each other's new hairstyles and new clothes.
Almost all students were not affected by Voldemort's resurrection.
A few seconds later, the door to the hall opened, and a long line of seemingly shocked first-year freshmen led into the auditorium by Professor McGonagall.
The emotions of excitement and horror are intertwined on their faces.
Professor McGonagall had a stool in his hand and placed an old wizard hat with a patch of patches on it, which was frayed and had a wide crack beside the brim.
Maybe it took too long, this hat is worn out.
The teachers and students of the whole school were holding their breath and waiting. Then, the rip beside the brim opened like a mouth, and the branch hat sang loudly: I was still wearing a new hat a long time ago...
The branch hat is singing, but just changed a new song that is different from the previous years...
Probably explain the past and current status of the four colleges, Fujin has made some recollections, and then changed some lyrics to create a new song.
The most significant change is the warning.
"...We must be closely united inside, otherwise everything will collapse from within. I have told you bluntly, I have sounded the alarm for you? Now let's start the branch."
The singing continued for a while and ended.
The buzzing conversation in the auditorium gradually subsided. The first-year freshmen lined up in front of the faculty desk, facing the students of other grades. Professor McGonagall carefully placed the stool in front of them, and then stepped back. The first-year freshman's face shone palely under the candlelight.
One by one, the students stepped forward to EbookFREE.me~ and stepped down again to accept the branch cap assignment.
They held their breath and put on their hats as if they were going through a trial.
The branch also ended quickly.
Dumbledore was sitting on the golden high-back chair in the middle of the long staff table, wearing a dark purple robe covered with silver stars and a matching hat. Dumbledore tilted his head to the woman sitting next to him, and she was talking into his ear.
The woman was short and fat, with short, fisted, grey-brown hair, and a very ugly pink bow on her. It was very close to the fluffy pink cardigan she covered in a robe. match.
At this moment, she turned her face slightly and took a sip of a tall wine glass, revealing a pale, toad-like face and a pair of eyes with loose eyelids and protruding eyes, and scanned the students around her.
"Hopefully our cooperation is good, Principal Dumbledore." Dolores Umbridge put the glass down at this time, a ugly smile appeared on his face, and said to Dumbledore in a grungy voice .