A certain Hogwarts rune professor

Chapter 723 Journey of the Sorting Hat

Chapter 723 Journey of the Sorting Hat

Felix was wearing a dirty, crumpled, and patched sorting hat, and he asked in a whisper, "Do you have something to tell me?" While speaking, he glanced at the picture frame on the wall, the portrait They immediately closed their eyes and snored.

"I don't want to look for you, you have been coveting me." A small voice sounded in my mind.

"I'm very curious about the way you exist."

"What are you curious about?"

"You have existed for too long, and your material is too ordinary—"

"Think of the portrait of the headmaster on the wall, and then think of Peeves." The Sorting Hat said in a smooth tone.

"Portraits? Peeves? They—" Felix was taken aback. "Wait, are you part of the school?"

"Yes, as long as the school is still there, I will always exist, even if I am just a hat made of ordinary materials."

After solving a long-standing puzzle, Felix was a little relieved, but also a little dazed. After thinking about it, he calmly asked in his mind: "By the way, why did you assign me to Slytherin in the first place?"

"Oh, let me think about it—calm, sober, worshiping power, setting the ambition to be the top of the magic world on the first day of school, and—with all due respect, being sober about the dark elements of human nature at a young age Recognized and fully prepared, this is very rare in my entire career in sorting."

Felix smacked his lips, "So I'm very much in line with Salazar Slytherin's philosophy of selecting students?"

"Idea, what idea?" the Sorting Hat asked carelessly.

"Certainly the minds of the four founders of the school—"

"So you think I've got a little note all over my lining sewn into it?"

"I thought there would be something similar." Felix said calmly, "For example, a set of fixed thinking patterns, or a standard process." The Sorting Hat interrupted angrily:
"—Then isn't my job to hide behind the students' thinking and tick off the slips of paper?"

"You disagree on that."

"Of course I do! I do! My job is much more important and complicated than you think," the Sorting Hat shouted loudly. "Although I'm just a hat, I have my own thoughts and characters. I'm more Some people are smart, have no human flaws, don't need to eat, sleep, the mouth is used for speaking, not mixed with other purposes - I am also obsessed with beneficial thinking, well, most of the time I am recalling the past, compiling New song..."

"It's amazing." Felix said, although he didn't know what to remember. Could it be the days when he was in the Hogwarts headmaster's office and eavesdropped on the previous headmaster's office?But is there any sense of participation?Or savor nearly a thousand sorting ceremonies alone, but the question is will it really not be confused...

The Sorting Hat seemed to choke, it was silent for a while, and said, "I'll show you to see for yourself."

"it is good."

Felix closed his eyes and waited. The Sorting Hat remained silent for a long time.He was surprised.

"Take off your brain's defenses." The Sorting Hat said sullenly, "I can't see anything but superficial thoughts. It's like hitting a thick stone wall..."

"Sorry." Felix murmured, he took off the protection, and after a few seconds, he felt an invisible force grabbing the top of his head and lifting him up, as if to pull him to the ceiling or into the hat. It made him think of the working principle of the thinking cabin, and he didn't resist.

In a blink of an eye, he appeared in the darkness.Gradually, colors appeared in the darkness, and Felix stared at a series of light spots that appeared out of nowhere and suddenly fell, splashing out gray-green and silver-white sparks, which formed a long quagmire of silver light and green foam, Stretches into the distance.

A lone figure wades through the shallow, murky water.

Salazar Slytherin walked past Felix at a leisurely pace, holding a wooden stick used for pathfinding.When the two passed by, his expression didn't change at all, the simple robe on his body seemed to be made of a whole piece of black cloth, and several little snakes followed him step by step.

Light and shadow flickered, this time transforming into a wilderness.Felix saw a young man walking on a country road, his back straight, his steps brisk, his red hair fluttering in the wind.The young Godric Gryffindor jumped on a rock, looked back at the small village when he came, and then walked resolutely into the distance.

He naturally didn't know that his hometown would be named after him in the future.

On the quiet riverside, Rowena Ravenclaw quietly watched the flowing river, the blue sky was reflected in the river, and an eagle passed across the water;

In the golden valley, Helga Hufflepuff twirled an ear of wheat that gleamed in the sun, and a little flower came out of it.

Felix suddenly realized that this was the memory of the four founders of the school, and then new doubts arose. According to what the Sorting Hat said in previous sorting ceremonies, they jointly injected ideas into it. Felix always thought it was an idea, but Ideas are always outdated, and the moral concepts of the Middle Ages may not be suitable for the present, but the work of the Sorting Hat has never stopped.

Now he understands a little bit that the four founders did inject ideas into the sorting hat, but not superficial ideas, but the footprints they walked.

Felix shuttled through the darkness, and new pictures appeared every minute and every second. Slowly, he grasped a clue and peeked into a hidden corner of history—why did Gryffindor and Slytherin become good friends?Because they both pursue great power; why did they part ways in the end?When he saw Gryffindor learning swordsmanship from Muggle knights, and Slytherin mercilessly eradicating threats in front of him, Felix had a vague answer in his mind.

This feeling intensifies when meeting Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff.

As excellent witches of their time, they are also a pair of close friends. They have traveled to many places hand in hand to help the weak.Hufflepuff is full of kindness and treats everyone equally, and her eyes are always willing to stay for the weak. Ravenclaw is obviously more willing to deal with people with a flexible mind, because it helps to solve problems.The two cooperated perfectly, the former eliminated many unnecessary disputes, and the latter was good at making suggestions and solving problems once and for all, such as building a windmill.

From the travels of these two ladies, Felix saw the culinary magic of the Hogwarts kitchen and the prototype of the castle's architectural structure in the future.

Naturally, the experiences of the four school founders when they were young also foreshadowed the differences in the future.

Among the four, Salazar Slytherin is the most extreme, or - the most solitary, his life is closer to that of an ascetic, alone, walking through the troubled times alone.Like Gryffindor, he pursues power, but is more unscrupulous; like Ravenclaw, he is alienated and detached, but more indifferent to himself; A share of sympathy is extremely stingy, and it will never be given to anyone who has nothing to do with it.

These four best wizards and witches of the time met, and each had heard of each other, so they exchanged magic with each other.To Felix's surprise, the three other than Hufflepuff obviously got along better at the beginning, and Slytherin even bluntly pointed out that the magic studied by Hufflepuff was "not worth mentioning, Nothing good in a troubled world." Fortunately, the calm Ravenclaw and the enthusiastic Gryffindor reconcile, coupled with Hufflepuff's usual good temper, this conflict did not cause a storm.

As the communication gradually deepened, Hufflepuff proved that she was an excellent witch. She was not only good at cooking magic, but also good at identifying herbs and mixing potions.

In the end, the four decided to build a magic school together.

They came to the Scottish Highlands, which is remote, with a primitive and desolate environment. The ancient rocks are divided into canyons and lakes by water and glaciers. Ravenclaw picked a cliff with a lake surrounded by emerald hillsides. Wearing a white snow cap, there is a deep canyon below, and the lake is next to dense woods.

The four agreed that this was an ideal place to build a school.

Among them, only Ravenclaw had the experience of building a house by hand (using magic). She conceived the floor plan of the school, especially the flexible spiral staircase of the main building, and the two men brought various materials, Hufflepuff Qi searched for flowers and green plants to decorate the school, and accidentally found a wild wand tree in the nearby virgin forest.

The castle gradually took shape, and the four of them worked together to arrange the most rigorous defensive magic for the school at that time. After considering that the castle would be filled with students in the future, they even came up with a genius idea—this was unique at the time The pioneering work - relying on the castle to collect the scattered magic power, as the most important part of maintaining the magic castle and building a defense system.

Felix watched the scene intently.

He didn't expect to get advanced magical knowledge from the Sorting Hat. At first, he was just curious about its existence, and later he wanted to chat with the four founders of the Sorting Hat, if possible.But the surprise came suddenly——

The four founders of the school do the same thing without reservation and passion, and give full play to what they have learned.The secrets of Hogwarts Castle unfolded little by little in his eyes, Felix followed suit, and the rune book hung on his chest, turning the pages automatically.With him as the center, circles of rune symbols spread along the ground and spread in all directions, climbed up the wall, and extended outward through the crack of the door...

As a magic power center in the castle, the magic power channel in the House of Response emerges from the thin air, accepting the power that symbolizes the ancient rune, and soon this new power flows along the magic power channel like surging blood. the whole castle.After passing Myrtle's abandoned bathroom, take a new fork and go straight to the Slytherin Chamber of Secrets.

In the Charms class classroom, Professor Flitwick had just given a wonderful demonstration to the students below, then he suddenly stopped, stretched out his hand, and gently picked the air with his wand, a string of golden magic lights came out from the tip of the wand. Text symbols.

The students raised their heads, and the walls and floor undulated like fine waves, and everything became calm in the blink of an eye.

Professor Flitwick cleared his throat, "Students, let's continue the class..."

In the school kitchen, the house elves were busy preparing lunch for the students. A gust of wind passed by, and they seemed to sense a loving gaze. The house elves looked around, but found nothing.Hanging in the kitchen is an ordinary portrait of a woman with kind eyes.This painting is not connected to the school castle, nor does it have any magical powers, it is just passed down in the house-elf community for generations.

Every house-elf has heard the old story for as long as he can remember: "Ms. Hufflepuff brought them into Hogwarts, gave them shelter, respect and work, and taught them cooking magic herself..."

Felix opened his eyes, and the last image remained in his mind. It was when the four founders stood together and injected their thoughts—the trajectory of life into the sorting hat. Slytherin was wearing the locket, and Greg Ryffindor held the sword, Ravenclaw wore the diadem, and Hufflepuff held the cup, and for that moment at least, their eyes were relieved.

Felix stood up slowly and put the Sorting Hat back on the partition.His eyes stayed on the glass box next to it, which contained a locket, a sword, and a gold cup. Except for the shining Gryffindor sword, the other two relics of the founder were somewhat dim.

Felix took the Ravenclaw diadem from the ring and placed it gently beside it.

(End of this chapter)

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