Chapter 120: New semester banquet

The car door was opened, and lightning and thunder continued to flash in the sky.
Hermione covered Crookshanks with her cloak, while Matthew and Neville reluctantly covered their heads with cloaks; they walked hard in the rain.
It was pouring rain, swarming down, and the weather was terrible.
Out of the corner of Matthew's eye, he saw Professor Keitelburn, the teacher of the Magical Animals Conservation Class, who was greeting first-year freshmen.
By convention, first-year students have to ferry across the lake to enter Hogwarts Castle.
Matthew suddenly felt a little grateful. On September 1st last year, the sky was at least sunny...It was hard to imagine going across the lake in the weather like today; it was terrible!
The three moved little by little with the crowd, followed the crowd, and left the dark platform.
At the exit of the platform, there are many carriages parked, although they do not look like a horse (in fact, they are pulled by night skies, but Matthew, Neville and Hermione are not visible).
Matthew, Neville, and Hermione hurriedly climbed into one of them, only to feel relieved; then, Hufflepuff's second-year Justin Finley got into the carriage, and the door slammed shut. Up.
The long horse caravan started to set off along the path leading to Hogwarts Castle, and countless water splashes were splashed on the axles along the way.
After about a quarter of an hour, the carriage passed through the gate of Hogwarts.
Matthew can see the big winged boar sculpture at the gate, on the two stone pillars
When President Gellert Grindelwald duel with Morgana the Black Witch a few months ago, he remembered that these two wild boar sculptures also helped a lot.
The pig is also of special significance to Hogwarts.
The word Hogwarts is derived from the word warthog.
So there is a story that spreads widely among wizards: the location and name of Hogwarts were chosen by Rowena Ravenclaw, when she dreamed of a warthog taking her to a lake This cliff is naturally the site of the current Hogwarts school.
After a few minutes, the carriage stopped at the gate of the castle.
They quickly jumped off the carriage, and then one after another ascended the marble stone steps.
...
The embarrassed students came to the auditorium at Hogwarts.
It was very late. Due to a sudden inspection halfway and the bad weather after arriving at the station, they started the banquet at least an hour later than usual.
The auditorium is still so magnificent and magnificent; and for Xin Xuesi's banquet, it seems to be decorated again.
Hundreds of candles hung in the air above the table, shining brightly on the golden plates and goblet. 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 was a fifth table at the top of the auditorium, where teachers sat one after another, facing their students.
Matthew looked at the table on the guest seat, and he saw the face of Gellert Grindelwald.
As usual, Principal Grindelwald will come to the auditorium only after the banquet begins... But this year due to a small accident, the students were generally late for more than an hour, so Principal Grindelwald "arrived early" "Again.
Principal Grindelwald has a serious expression. He is lowering his head, as if thinking about something.
Sitting next to President Grindelwald is Professor Rozier, the Vice President. Her face is still very young. She is smiling and chatting with another teacher beside her.
That other teacher is a strange face!
Yes, Matthew quickly discovered the face he had met on the train before—
The "stranger", he is sitting in the main guest seat right now, talking to the vice principal in a somewhat cautious manner.
It seemed that Matthew had guessed right. When Mr. Longbottom was tested, it was just a small accident. The "stranger" was a genuine new Hogwarts teacher.
It's not hard to guess.
A fugitive from Azkaban, if he dared to sway so much and take the express train to Hogwarts... Matthew would even wonder if he had been in Azkaban for too long and broke his brain.
...
It's just that he could not show Miss Hermione Granger, because Miss Granger had already gone to Ravenclaw's long table.
Matthew also hurried to the long Slytherin table.
On the ceiling of the auditorium, there is no longer any shining stars and moon, but a dazzling sun
After sitting down, under the "sunlight", he suddenly felt warm all over his body, the cold was completely dissipated, and the damp clothes quickly dried out.
"Wickfield!" Just as Matthew sat down, Agnes Lestrange suddenly walked over from the other side of the long table, calling his name.
"Long time no see!" Matthew nodded at the beautiful girl with a smile.
"At the beginning of the summer vacation—" Miss Lestrange hesitated for a moment~EbookFREE.me~ and asked in a low voice: "I saw you at Lihen Bookstore?"
"Yes, I was working as a temporary worker there!" Matthew replied calmly.
In fact, he was a little bit strange in his heart. While working at the Lihen Bookstore, he did meet many Hogwarts acquaintances... but he was certain that there was no Miss Agnes Lestrange among them.
"Later, something happened to Lihen Bookstore and it was all closed..." Miss Lestrange continued.
"Yes, but I haven't been affected in any way." Matthew answered honestly.
He still said secretly in his heart, in fact, I was the "culprit" of that incident.
"If no one wants 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 soon returned to her previous seat.
Only Matthew stayed there with some doubts:
"Does my popularity seem so bad? Why do they think no one invited me..."
...
Soon, Malfoy, Knott, Crabbe, and Gore also arrived in the auditorium.
They sat next to Matthew one after another, and the boys in Slytherin got together again after a summer vacation.
At the same time, they began to talk eagerly—
"You look a little unhappy, Draco?" Theodore Knott asked in surprise.
"The Draco family had some trouble during the summer vacation," Vincent Crabbe explained.
And Gregory Gore added: "There was a who reported Draco's father and participated in a'smuggling'... This incident took his father almost a summer vacation."
"It's a jerk!" Matthew echoed casually.