Before the Sorting Ceremony

"How do you know that the muggles will soon learn about our existence?" asked Aurore with a puzzled expression.

"Some muggles already know about us, like the rulers of countries or some powerful muggle families. Do you really think that the actions that the fool Voldemort made while the first war were unnoticed by the muggles? It was the same with Grindelwald and probably with every Dark Lords who stepped in power and made chaos, cities were wiped, some spells made the sky a sea of fire while others made oceans froze, even countries were destroyed and their name was forgotten in the torments of time while history only remembers what was remaining but almost nothing that was lost because history is always built by the vanquisher who becomes the good while the vanquished either is forgotten either is become the bad. So the history always arranges the one who remains at the end, but of course, even with all efforts made to manipulate the history, there is always books written who survive through all the wiping and cross through the torments of time, if not, then we wouldn't have this conversation since without knowledge I gained in these books then I would be like a sheep, indoctrinated by the history made by the vanquisher and will follow the herd."

"How can we be sure that these books you're talking about were not a part of the deformed history?" asked Tracey with a graved look as if she now understand that it's almost impossible to know the real and true history and we merely know what the different vanquishers afforded us to know.

"We can't be sure, that's why we should never have a blinded trust in books, and not only in history books but in almost all kind of books, by example, our coursebooks could not be accurate or lacking some knowledge and maybe even biased by the author's beliefs. And what's better than a coursebook for a school destined for impressionable students as a lot of them are not pure-blood and don't have access to wizarding knowledge before the school, even half-blood mostly don't have a lot of knowledge on the wizarding world." I said with a serious expression because I really want them to be aware of the dangers that lurk everywhere.

"So to resume at why I think that the muggles will learn about our existence it's because why us wizards sorely repose on magic, muggles repose on technology, and their progress are really fast when our wizarding world is stagnant, no it's even regressing, wizards were stronger centuries ago, a lot of knowledge was lost. Meanwhile, the muggles improve their technology, increase their efficiency always faster. If wizards were caring a little more about muggles then maybe the wizarding world would be alarmed by them, but we are too proud to observe them so when we will notice then it will be too late." I resumed on the subject before I digressed on the history subject.

As we were talking of a passionate subject we didn't pay attention to our surrounding and Hagrid was already in front of a stern old witch clothed in emerald green robes, she has green eyes, black hair tight in a bun, she is quite tall and was probably quite a beauty in her younger years, I quickly recognized her as Minerva McGonagall, deputy headmistress, head of Transfiguration and head od Gryffindor. An intransigeant and impartial person, I rather liked her in the books and the movies, she was my second favorite teacher, just behind Snape as he was for me the more complex and charismatic character in Harry Potter universe, but after, I found about Grindelwald and Snape was relegated at the second place.

"Thank you Hagrid, I will take the relay from here," said McGonagall in her characteristic stern voice.

Hagrid nodded and turned away and slowly disappeared.

Without any words, McGonagall led us in the maze the castle is, we reached the entrance of the great hall, before we could make our way in the great hall McGonagall stopped.

"The start of term banquet will begin shortly, but before you take your seats in the great hall, you will be sorted into your houses. The Sorting is a very important ceremony because, while you are here, your house will be something like your family within Hogwarts. You will have classes with the rest of your house, sleep in your house dormitory and spend free time in your house common room."

"The four houses are called Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw and Slytherin. Each house has its own noble history and each has produced outstanding witches and wizards. While you are at Hogwarts, your triumphs will earn your house points, while any rule-breaking will lose house points. At the end of the year, the house with the most points is awarded the House Cup, a great honor. I hope each of you will be a credit to whichever house becomes yours."

"The Sorting Ceremony will take place in a few minutes in front of the rest of the school. I suggest you all smarten yourselves up as much as you can while you are waiting."

What followed the famous speech McGonagall said was like the canon with Weasley telling bullshit about how the sorting ceremony is about brawling a Troll and of course the little confrontation when Malfoy presented himself to Harry Potter.

Neville was ashamed because like in the canon he again lost his toad and of course find it while McGonaggal speech, interrupting her by calling his toad and rushed toward the lost pet. He will probably be embarrassed again when he will go toward the Gryffindor table with the Sorting Hat on his head...

McGonagall reappeared and led us in the great hall, the Sorting Ceremony will soon begin, but before I'm afraid that we have to hear the ridiculous song sang by the Sorting Hat...