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Chapter 0019 Banquet

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If it can't see through Ye Ting's mind, the sorting hat can't judge him.

It hesitated for a long time until Professor McGonagall urged it to hurry up.

"Okay, okay, then I'll make an exception. It's up to you to decide where you go. Which house does Mr. Ye want to go to?"

"Ravenclaw." Ye Ting replied.

"Ravenclaw!" The hat shouted, and then left a sentence in his mind, "I will remember you, son."

Most of Ravenclaw's students were girls. Seeing such a handsome man assigned to Ravenclaw, they cheered happily and warmly welcomed Ye Ting.

Ye Ting sat among the girls and politely coped with their enthusiasm. Most people wanted to know him, and the seniors couldn't wait to have a romantic date with him, which forced Ye Ting to refuse them one by one. During this period, he also heard Hermione and Cho Chang complaining "shameless."

Others asked him about the source of the cloak. Ye Ting introduced his design and Mrs. Mokin's store to them, which unexpectedly aroused admiration and praise.

This is the first time he has faced so many girls at the same time. If he had been nervous and speechless in his previous life, he is now able to cope with it - of course, college girls are much more difficult to deal with than little girls at Hogwarts.

The last sorting that caused a sensation was, of course, Harry Potter.

Everyone wanted to see the boy who survived the killing curse. When he was assigned to Gryffindor, there was a loud applause, and the Weasley twin brothers shouted, "We have Potter!" We have Potter!" Even the ghost of Gryffindor welcomed him.

The last three people. Lisa Turpin was assigned to Ravenclaw.

Ron Weasley was assigned to Gryffindor.

Blaise Zabini was assigned to Slytherin.

Albus Dumbledore stood up. He looked at the students with a smile and stretched out his arms to them. There seemed to be nothing happier than seeing the students gathered together.

"Welcome!" He said, "Welcome to Hogwarts to start the new school year!" Before the banquet starts, I want to say a few words. Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak! Thank you!"

He sat down again. Everyone applauded.

But in fact, all the little wizards were confused about his last sentence.

"What exactly does that sentence mean?" Hermione beside him frowned.

"Don't care about it," Cho Chang replied, "Dumbledore is a great wizard, but he is a little crazy..."

"He is not crazy." Ye Ting interrupted, "These words are read backwards in Latin, which means 'May Merlin bless you.'"

"Do you know Latin?" Hermione was so surprised that she didn't even find the pumpkin pie in her hand falling to the ground.

"Yes, the day after I decided to go to Hogwarts, I began to learn Latin--" Ye Ting replied while enjoying a plate of roast lambs in front of him, "I also learned Old Celtic and Old Nordic, which are historically important and mythical languages. I think it may be necessary to learn magic. It turned out to be that I was right.

"There are Old Celtic and Old Nordic languages! I don't even know what that is!" The girls all marveled at his genius and erudition, especially Hermione, who is also a top student. Now she is really convinced of Ye Ting.

In the face of real evil geniuses, even top students should be ashamed.

Next is the time to eat. Ye Ting enjoyed Hogwarts's delicious food.

Although the dark cuisine in Britain is well known in the world, the magical world in Britain is completely different from its Muggle counterpart. These delicacies are overwhelmed. Except for being a little too sweet, almost every dish can be praised by Ye Ting.

"If I were from Shanghai, I would like them twice as much." This is Ye Ting's final evaluation, but even Cho Chang didn't get him.

After everyone had a full meal, Dumbledore waved his wand casually, and in an instant, all the dishes disappeared.

He stood up, and the hall returned to silence.

"Oh, now that everyone is full and quenched, I want to say a few more words to you. At the beginning of the semester, I would like to raise a few precautions for you.

Attention, first years, you are not allowed to enter the forbidden forest. Some of our old students should also keep this in mind.

"In addition, Mr. Filch, the caretaker, wants me to remind everyone not to cast magic in the corridor during passing period.

The review of Quidditch players will be held in the second week of this semester. Any students who are interested in joining the quidditch team should contact Mrs. Hooch.

"Finally, I must tell everyone that anyone who does not want to suffer in an accident or die in pain, please do not enter the corridor on the fourth floor."

The first years started talking, and Hermione also asked Cho Chang curiously. But even Cho Chang was puzzled by the last sentence. She said that this rule was just added.

Only Ye Ting knows that the biggest accident that would happen this year would come from this corridor.

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Chapter 0020 School Song and Common Room

However, judging from the heated discussion among students, the legends of "Seven Incredible Houses" is quite popular in both the East and the West.

When the little wizards stopped talking, Dumbledore made the next decision.

"Now, before everyone goes to bed, let's sing the school song together!" Dumbledore shouted. The smiles of the other professors seemed frozen.

Dumbledore gently wave his wand, and a long golden ribbon floated out of the wand, twisting and coiling out a line of words like a snake over the high dining table. Ye Ting could see that this was the lyrics of the l, Hogwarts school song.

"Everyone chooses their favorite tune." Dumbledore said, "Get ready, sing!"

So all the teachers and students sang loudly.

The sound was so unpleasant that Himari, who was sleeping in his backpack, was awakened by the chorus and covered his ears and shouted.

Everyone sang this song in a hurry. Only the twin Weasley brothers continued to sing with the slow melody of the Funeral March. Dumbledore conducted the last few bars for both of them with his wand, and his applause was loudest when they finished singing.

"Music," he wiped his eyes and said, "It's a magic beyond all we do here! Now, it's time to go to bed. Everyone go to your dormitories.

The freshmen followed the house prefects out of the hall and crossed the corridors.

Ye Ting recognized Ravenclaw's prefect. Her name was Penelope Clearwater. She had long brown curly hair and her beautiful appearance showed elegance and intelligence. For Ye Ting, her charm far exceeded that of Hermione and Cho Chang.

Ye Ting is very interested in this girl who plays soy sauce in the original work, but often appeared in fan fiction.

She and another male prefect took the Ravenclaw students to the west tower of the castle, the top of Ravenclaw Tower, in front of an old shining board with an eagle-shaped bronze door knocker.

"Unlike other houses, Ravenclaw's house has no password. You can only enter if you answer the riddle asked by the ring and get recognition." Penelope explained than she knocked on the door, and the eagle's beak immediately opened, but did not make a bird's cry, but said a sentence in a gentle and musical voice.

"What breaks as soon as you say it?"

"So, would anyone like to try it?" She looked at the first years with expectation, especially Ye Ting twice. In terms of appearance alone, he surpassed all the new students, including girls, so even if Penelope likes the connotation, she still has a very high initial good impression of him.

In response to the expectation of the prefect, Ye Ting happily answered.

"Silence." He replied.

"Great answer." The eagle door knocker expressed appreciation, and the door suddenly opened.

Isn't this just a brain teaser?

Ye Ting is a little speechless, and the problem of this door is too easy to solve.

But in fact, due to the lack of corresponding basic education, most little wizards lack logical reasoning skills, so for the smart Ravenclaw, riddles are often safer than passwords.

Penelope nodded to Ye Ting with appreciation, and her good impression of him greatly increased - because he not only had a charming appearance, but also was not bad in wisdom - and then introduced herself to the students: "Congratulations! I'm Penelope Clearwater, and I'm glad to welcome you to Ravenclaw House. Our coat of arms is an eagle, soaring high above the peak; our colors are sky blue and bronze..."

What followed was a long speech introducing Ravenclaw, including Ravenclaw's great achievements, Ravenclaw's characteristics, comments on other colleges, etc. Finally, she mentioned Ravenclaw's ghost, The Gray Lady, the daughter of Ravenclaw herself. She would often help the Ravenclaw students.

Ravenclaw's common room is a large round room with elegant arched windows on the wall with blue and bronze silk. Ravenclaw students can see the beautiful scenery from the window. The ceiling is a dome with stars on it and stars on the dark blue carpet below. There are tables, chairs, bookshelves, and a white marble statue of Rowena Ravenclaw is in the niche opposite the door. A door next to the statue leads to the dormitory above.

The two prefects took the freshmen to the dormitory.

The bedroom is a quadruple room with four beds with four curtains, with crimson flannel curtains hanging on the top.

Ye Ting opened the luggage, packed up his belongings a little, and then took Himari to the head of the bed.

Himari at night looked energetic and rolled excitedly on the velvet quilt.

The names of his three roommates are Anthony Goldstein, a blonde Jew; Terry Boot, with brown hair; and Michael Corned, a brunette. They are all supporting characters with famous surnames and plots in the original work.

They, Ye Ting, Kevin Entwhistle, and Stephen Cornfoot in another dormitory, are the only six boys among Ravenclaw's freshmen this school year, and they can't even make up two dormitories.

But in fact, Ravenclaw has always been dominated by girls. In terms of the number of boys, the number this year is far higher than last year.

After greeting each other, everyone changed into pajamas and fell asleep. The journey to Hogwarts is really exhausting.