Take control of thunder and lightning from Hogwarts

Chapter 19 Branch
Seeing that they were about to enter Hogwarts, everyone forgot the unpleasantness just now, and under Hagrid's guidance, the next-year freshmen came to a ferry by the lake.

"Everyone get on the boat, remember that each boat can't have more than four people." Hagrid turned back and shouted at the freshmen.

Anduin, Charles, and Vivian got on the same boat, and at the same time another girl got on the same boat.

"Hey, I'm Orianna, hello." The girl who was in the same boat with them greeted.

"Hello, I'm Vivian, this is Anduin and Charles, let's just sit down and let the two gentlemen help rowing." After discussing with the two men, they arranged jobs.

Anduin and Charles looked at each other speechlessly, and then rowed the boat silently without saying much.

But Anduin soon discovered that the ship seemed to be enchanted, and it actually followed its course without much paddling.

"I heard that only first-year students are going to row into the school. It is said that the purpose is to let the freshmen walk the road of the four founders of the year again. The four people in each boat also represent the four founders of the year." Vivian, the gossip girl They started talking about the rumors they heard from somewhere, and Anduin watched as Hogwarts got closer and closer to them.

I don't know what kind of mood the founder was in when he approached the castle, but everyone on board is very excited now.

"All the freshmen disembark, follow me." Hagrid carried the oil lamp and led the way. After many freshmen disembarked, they came to Hogwarts' first building, the Houseboat.

After passing the houseboat, there is a long and winding staircase, going up the cliff. Everyone struggled to climb up the ladder, and finally climbed to the top of the cliff. The huge castle standing on the cliff is Hogwarts.

Climbing the cliff, a group of freshmen followed Hagrid to the entrance hall of Hogwarts. Entering the hall, a middle-aged witch in a dark green wizard robe was waiting for everyone on the steps. It was Professor McGonagall.

Professor McGonagall saw the newly enrolled underage wizard, and also saw Anduin in the crowd, and he didn't forget to lower his head and glared at him, presumably his 'brilliant' deeds have been passed on to Professor McGonagall.

"Professor McGonagall, I'll leave these little guys to you." Hagrid turned and left.

"Thank you, Hagrid, thank you." Professor McGonagall said politely to Hagrid, then turned around and said to everyone, "Welcome to Hogwarts, the opening banquet is about to begin, but before it begins , what you will meet will be the sorting ceremony, and I will take you into the auditorium later..."

Then Professor McGonagall introduced a bunch of precautions to all the freshmen under the steps. Anduin listened to it for a long time and found that the main content is two aspects, one is about the division, and the other is about the college cup. Performance, good performance will have extra points, poor performance will be deducted points, it will affect the ownership of the Academy Cup, and so on.

Professor McGonagall explained it efficiently, then glanced at the excited little wizards, smiled gratified, asked everyone to wait for a while, and then left first.

The freshmen waiting under the steps were both nervous and excited. They were nervous because they didn’t know how to separate, and they were afraid that they would not be able to pass the separation ceremony. They were excited because they wanted to quickly enter their own academy to add points to the academy. Be ready to devote yourself to your academy at any time.

Anduin rolled his eyes, a bunch of little brats know what honor is, and it's not that whoever wins will win in a group fight. It is estimated that after the real school starts, these guys will know that college points are not so easy to earn, and a bunch of bear children It would be nice not to lose points to the academy if you are wild.

"Anduin, are you nervous? It's going to be sorted soon, and I don't know how to sort it. It's not going to be an exam. I've been playing all summer and don't understand anything." Vivian was obviously very nervous, and then Can't wait to pass this tension to Anduin.

Anduin looked at her amused, you've spent the summer not playing or gossiping about others, but still whispered a few words of comfort to her.

After a while, Professor McGonagall returned and led the group to the auditorium. The group came to the door where the entrance hall meets the auditorium. There were four huge hourglasses on both sides of the door. Below the hourglass were carved lions, eagles, There are four kinds of animals, badger and snake. At present, all the hourglasses are empty. It seems that these four hourglasses are responsible for recording the scores of each college.

Professor McGonagall stretched out his hand to open the door and led the crowd into the auditorium hall.

The auditorium of Hogwarts is very wide and the height is very exaggerated. I don’t know if it is because of the use of magic, I can’t see the top at a glance, and there are dense candles floating above, which brightens the whole auditorium.

There are four long tables with exaggerated lengths in the auditorium. There are already a large number of senior students sitting on the tables and looking at them. There is a chair in front of the long table, and a worn hat is placed on the chair.

When the crowd came in, the hat was already singing the opening song with a tone-deaf tune. When the crowd came to the chair, the hat seemed to have not finished singing, and was still howling.

Anyway, in Anduin's ears, it was almost like a howl.

After a while, the Sorting Hat finally ended his singing in the applause of the crowd, and then Professor McGonagall walked over to the chair with a piece of parchment and shouted, "Now start the sorting ceremony, the little wizard who called his name came forward. , do it on a chair."

"Orianna Hinkley" was the first girl who had just sailed with Anduin and the others, and Orianna sat down on the table with a little apprehension. Professor McGonagall put the sorting hat on on her head.

"Ravenclaw!" The Sorting Hat called out after a few seconds of hesitation.

Orianna also walked to the Ravenclaw long table, which cheered and applauded her.

Immediately afterwards, the sorting ceremony began in an orderly manner, and Vivian was assigned to Slytherin, as she predicted, although she was not pure blood, after all, her family tradition has always come from Slytherin.

Charles was assigned to Gryffindor, which was similar to what Anduin expected, and that Sampur Travers was also assigned to Slytherin. Anduin mourned for Vivian in his heart. Being a classmate is not easy.

It turns out that the so-called branch is such a joke, Anduin is still complaining in his heart, and Professor McGonagall on the stage has already pronounced his name, "Anduin Wilson".

(End of this chapter)