New Professor at Hogwarts

"Aren't you coming yet?"

Many students were shivering slightly from the cold and their faces were pale.

People raised their heads and looked at the sky eagerly, expecting to see a carriage arriving at Hogwarts.

Xia Ran lowered his head and looked at the lake.

at this time--

Wow~~

Huge waves suddenly rolled up on the lake, and a very loud but strange sound floated towards everyone from the depths of darkness. It was a suppressed rumbling and sucking sound, like a huge The vacuum cleaner moves along the river bed.

"What is this sound?" Professor Caridi asked with a frown.

"In the lake! Look on the lake!" one of the Gryffindor students shouted loudly, pointing to the lake.

Xia Ran and the others stood on the slope of the lawn overlooking the field, and could clearly see the calm, dark water, but at this moment, the water suddenly became no longer so calm.

There was a commotion in the water in the middle of the lake. Water splashed suddenly, and the waves slapped the wet lake shore. The next second, in the very center of the lake, a large whirlpool emerged out of thin air, like a huge plug, which was pulled from the water. It's like it was pulled out from the bottom of the lake.

A long black pole-like thing slowly rose from the center of the vortex, and then people saw the sail rigging.

"Xiaran, you are right again, it is really a ship!" Madam Pomfrey, the school nurse, said in surprise.

"Luck." Xia Ran smiled. You can't say that you already knew the plot, right? Although the plot has undergone huge changes now, some less critical aspects have probably remained the same.

Slowly, the magnificent ship rose out of the water, shining in the dim light of the stars and moon.

It had an eerie, skeletal appearance, as if it were the remains of a shipwreck that had just been raised, and the portholes shone with a dim, foggy gleam that looked like ghostly eyes.

Xia Ran guessed that many myths and legends about the sea in the Muggle world were probably caused by wizards' various strange items, which were accidentally seen by Muggles and thus spread.

Finally, with a faint splashing sound, the big boat emerged completely, bumped on the undulating water, and began to sail towards the lake shore.

A moment later, everyone heard a splash, an iron anchor was thrown into the shallow water, and then there was another snap, and a wooden plank was put on the lake shore.

"Durmstrang, the school and former headquarters of the first Dark Lord Gellert Grindelwald?" Xia Ran's eyes moved slightly and she thought to herself.

The people on the boat were disembarking. Xia Ran could see the silhouettes of these people as they passed through the porthole light. He also noticed that these people all looked very tall, only slightly shorter than Hagrid.

But this was not without reason, because when they got closer and walked along the lawn into the light cast by the foyer, Xia Ran discovered that the reason why they looked so big was mainly because they were all wearing a kind of A fur cloak with tangled fur.

The man who led the Durmstrang students towards the castle was wearing a different kind of fur: silvery white, soft and smooth, much like his hair.

"Karkaroff, a former Death Eater, sold many of his accomplices to avoid prison." Xia Ran thought with a smile in her eyes, "Isn't he aware that Voldemort has been resurrected? "

"Dumbledore!" Karkaroff called enthusiastically as he walked up the slope. "How are you, my dear old fellow? How are you doing lately?"

"Excellent, thank you, Professor Karkaroff." Dumbledore replied.

Karkaroff's voice was mellow and sweet. When he walked into the light shining from the main entrance of the castle, people discovered that he was as tall and thin as Dumbledore, but his white hair was very short, and his The goatee didn't quite cover his thin chin.

Karkaroff walked up to Dumbledore and shook his hand with both hands.

"Dear old man... Hogwarts." Karkaroff raised his head, looked up at the castle, and said with a smile. Even though he was smiling, there was no smile in his eyes. They were still cold and sharp, like a handful of steel. Just like a knife.

"It's great to be back here. It's great. They're all gone... By the way, Viktor, come here and warm yourself up... You don't mind, Dumbledore? Viktor has a little cold. Well, the journey is really long..."

Karkaroff motioned for one of his students to come forward.

When the boy walked by, Xia Ran glanced at the eye-catching aquiline nose and the two thick, black eyebrows. He didn't need the whispers in the crowd to recognize who that figure was. who.

"Krum? Is it Viktor Krum?!"

"I can't believe he is Durmstrang's student?!"

The students talked excitedly, and even a few teachers couldn't help but said in surprise: "Krum is still a student? It's really unexpected."

By this time Dumbledore had invited Karkaroff into the Great Hall.

"Just a Quidditch player, is that all?" Xia Ran raised her eyebrows.

"Oh, my God!" Ms. Huo Qi looked at Xia Ran in disbelief and said, "Xia Ran, do you know what you are talking about? Just a Quidditch player...that's all? Viktor Krum, That's the best Seeker in the world! You can't find another Seeker like Krum in the world."

"Okay, don't get excited." Xia Ran shrugged.

He was not interested in this sport anyway, but what Xia Ran longed for and was most interested in was how to enhance his magic power and how to increase his knowledge of various subjects.

Isn't it the most important thing to be strong?

He doesn't quite understand the thoughts of many people in the magic world, but he can accept it. After all, it is not easy to increase magic power and increase knowledge, not to mention how many people can really become legendary level wizards?

In the contemporary wizarding world, apart from the most powerful white wizard Albus Dumbledore and the second-generation Dark Lord Voldemort, the only one who can barely survive is the first-generation Dark Lord Gellert Grindelwald who is in prison, but this is already The magic world has accumulated over the past hundred years.

The difficulty of the legendary wizard can be seen through the lens.

Without the help of Force points, Xia Ran is basically hopeless.

"Let's go into the auditorium. The welcome banquet has begun." Professor Sinistra said, and a group of professors stepped up the steps behind them.

Compared with the restrained excitement of the professors, the students were even more excited and did not hide it at all.

Several sixth-grade girls were rummaging around frantically in their pockets as they walked.

"Oh, I can't believe I don't have a quill with me."

"Do you think...Krum will sign me with my lipstick?"

"Absurd! How ridiculous!" Hermione seemed to be one of the few sober people.

Ron ignored Hermione, but looked at Harry and said, "If possible, I would like to get his signed photo. Harry, you didn't bring a quill, did you?"

"No, they're all in my bag upstairs." Harry replied.

Hermione snorted haughtily.