Chapter 121: New teacher

Due to some delays, the process of this year's school banquet seems to be more concise than usual.
They chatted together, and after only five minutes of chatting, Professor Rozier, the vice president, left her seat. After a while, she led a long line of first-year students to the top of the auditorium.
If Matthew and the others were drenched before, then compared to these first-year freshmen, they are nothing at all...
Look at them, it's as if they didn't take a ferry, but swam over from the lake!
One by one, they all became a rookie.
They stood in a row along the staff table and stopped. Many people were trembling, perhaps because they were cold and nervous.
Professor Rozier put a three-legged stool on the ground in front of the freshmen, and put a ragged, dirty, patched wizard hat on the stool.
The eyes of the entire auditorium were suddenly focused on the wizard's hat. For a time, there was silence.
Then, a crack near the brim opened like a mouth, and it suddenly sang:
"Welcome to Hogwarts,
I hope you don’t regret coming here,
You may spend seven years of romantic time in this castle,
Or maybe just wasting a lot of time here,
..."
...
The lyrics have not changed much from a year ago. They are still to make everyone aware of the crisis, to call for unity, and to call on the students of the four colleges to live together in harmony.
When the singing was over, there was warm applause in the auditorium.
And Professor Rozier unrolled a large roll of parchment.
"When I call someone's name, whoever goes over sits on a stool and puts on a hat," she said to the first-year freshman. "When the hat is announced the college, go and sit at the corresponding table in each college."
"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 long Slytherin table. The Slytherin students began to applaud one after another, and Matthew also applauded symbolically.
"Theresa Baker."
"Ravenclaw!"
"Melinda Popin."
"Ravenclaw!"
"Colin Crevy."
"Gryffindor!"
...
"Astoria Greengrass."
"Slytherin!"
Astoria seems to be Daphne Greengrass's sister. She sat between her sister and Agnes Lestrange, and they were chatting happily.
...
The sorting ceremony continued, and the men and women freshmen with varying degrees of fear on their faces, they walked to the three-legged stool one by one. The team is slowly dwindling, and Professor Rozier has already read the name on the list with an L switch:
"Luna Lovegood."
A girl with a weird and erratic temperament walked up to Professor Rozier. Her pale skin, silver eyes and dark golden-brown hair are all prominent in the crowd.
"Ravenclaw!"
And Steven Lucas became Hufflepuff's freshman.
...
The applause was repeated in the auditorium, and there were fewer and fewer students left.
"Elaine Shafik."
Matthew heard a somewhat familiar surname, like the manager of Lihen Bookstore, it also seemed to be the surname of a family of pure-blood wizards.
"Slytherin!"
...
With the last two students, Ginny Weasley went to Gryffindor, and Madeleine Yaxley came to Slytherin, and the sorting ceremony was completely over.
Professor Rozier picked up the sorting hat and small stool and took them away.
Crabbe hurriedly grabbed the knife and fork, then looked at the empty dinner plate in front of him eagerly—
Professor Grindelwald stood up, his lines were more concise than a year ago:
"Eat!"
All kinds of delicious food suddenly appeared on the golden dinner plate, as if they had fallen from the sky.
Chunks of beef, pies, plates of vegetables, bread, jam, mashed potatoes and a pot of pumpkin juice...
Crabbe, who couldn't wait a long time ago, began to stuff a lot of mashed potatoes into his mouth.
...
The banquet remained as lively as before.
The heavy rain was still beating the windows densely, but the sun on the ceiling disappeared.
A flash of lightning suddenly lit up, illuminating the golden plate, the remaining meal on the plate disappeared, and the pudding was filled in the blink of an eye.
Matthew picked up a piece of syrup fruit pie, which tasted good, he liked it very much.
As the pudding was wiped out, the golden plate and goblet disappeared.
Everyone was lying on the chair, touching their full belly.
At this time, Professor Gellert Grindelwald stood up again:
"Now, I think everyone has enough food and drink, and I have to announce some precautions too—"
"First of all, for the freshmen, when you step into Hogwarts~EbookFREE.me~ this castle will guard you like your home and will accompany you to grow up... When and where, Hogwarts will be your strongest shield!"
"Of course, compliance with Hogwarts discipline is also necessary. Professor Keitelburn asked me to remind you once again that students are prohibited from entering the forbidden forest on campus, otherwise the consequences are at your own risk; in addition, the administrator Mr. Pringle wants me to Let me tell you that this year, several items that are prohibited from use in the castle have been added, namely..."
After briefly introducing the school regulations, Professor Grindelwald turned his attention to his side:
"Besides, please allow me to introduce our new transfiguration class teacher this semester—"
"Professor Severus Snape!"
On the train, the wizard who had been with them for most of the distance, stood up quickly and nodded at the four long tables.
Thunderous applause suddenly sounded, and everyone eagerly welcomed the new Hogwarts teacher.
...
Matthew Wickfield froze there in a daze.
He is one of the few students who did not applaud.
What a joke!
Severus Snape?
Tell me, that man is Snape?
Matthew shook his head strangely. He just wanted to take a sip of pumpkin juice to calm down.
How could it be Snape...
Unless Matthew Wickfield is blind!
Oily black hair, big bat-like clothing, hollow eyes, and the iconic hooked nose... These iconic features of Snape, he didn't even see the wizard on the train. Over.
Is this your own problem?
Or is it the problem of this world?
Or is it this "Severus Snape" problem?
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