Chapter 407 405 Sorting Hat

Chapter 407 405. Sorting Hat

Jon did not stop this time. He walked forward until he reached the wall behind the desk, and then the voice in his mind called him to stop.

"It's the wall in front of you. Reach out and push it. Just push it gently. You are qualified."

According to its words, Jon's hand touched the cold wall, and just when he put his hand on it and exerted force, the whole wall began to tremble.

Then the bricks on the wall in front of Jon suddenly began to split, and soon an entrance for people to pass through opened in front of him.

The candlelight in the principal's office shone into the dark secret room, and Jon also saw that it was filled with broken picture frames, parchment and notes thrown everywhere, and a tattered hat in the corner, as if it was used as a garbage dump.

When Jon first entered the secret room, his eyes were fixed on the tattered hat, which was a gray, patched, dusty pointed hat.

"Is it you?"

He asked.

The voice sounded in his mind again.

"Aha, I didn't expect that after all these years, I can still see living Hogwarts students!"

The voice of the hat sounded a little emotional, and Jon certainly noticed the hidden meaning in its words.

"That is to say, you have seen Hogwarts students before, but they are all dead."

"About seven or eight years ago, that reckless young man mistakenly entered and was swallowed alive by the big snake. At that time, I could still vaguely feel some things happening outside."

It seemed that the hat itself did not want to talk more about this topic, and it quickly shifted the conversation to somewhere else.

"I think even if the Hogwarts you attend is not this castle, you should have heard of my existence, right? The Sorting Hat, which was once used to help freshmen decide which college they should go to."

Jon certainly couldn't fail to recognize it. He walked to the side of the Sorting Hat, picked it up from the ground, and patted the dust off it.

"When I first entered school, senior students told me that Hogwarts used to have four colleges, and you are the hat used for sorting. However, the tradition of the school generally does not tell freshmen that it is so simple to just wear a hat for sorting."

"Of course, this is a good tradition. After all, when those children know that sorting is just wearing a broken hat like mine, instead of fighting with trolls or dragons, they usually just breathe a sigh of relief, and no longer think about wearing me on their heads will dirty their hair that they carefully groomed last night."

The Sorting Hat seemed to have not talked to anyone for a long time. It talked a lot and never stopped talking since it saw Jon.

But Jon obviously couldn't continue to waste time here. Although he had a three-hour advantage over Emil, for one person to search the entire castle, let alone three hours, even thirty hours might not be enough to find every corner of the entire Hogwarts Castle.

"Mr. Sorting Hat, do you want to go out with me? I'm still in a competition, and this competition is about whether Hogwarts Castle will continue to belong to the Dark Lord or return to Professor Dumbledore's hands. We can't waste time."

"Why not?" The Sorting Hat answered very straightforwardly, "I've been thrown here for so long, and I certainly won't refuse the opportunity to go out and get some fresh air. Although I was put in the cupboard most of the year before, there will always be a day when I will come out to sing and chat. Now I haven't talked to anyone for a long time."

Seeing that it agreed, Jon folded it solemnly and finally stuffed it into his robe pocket.

And this did not prevent the Sorting Hat from continuing to communicate with him in his mind.

After leaving the principal's office, Jon went downstairs with a clear goal and began to walk towards the auditorium on the first floor.

According to normal reasoning, the Triwizard Cup could not be placed in the auditorium so clearly and directly, but as the place where the students of the entire castle usually gather and the first place that can be thought of after entering the castle, Jon felt that Matthew and his team must have left some clues in the auditorium.

"What kind of competition are you playing? It can actually determine the ownership of Hogwarts?"

The voice of the Sorting Hat sounded in Jon's mind.

Jon answered while going downstairs.

"Before the start of the Triwizard Tournament, the Dark Lord and Professor Dumbledore swore a blood oath. The two Hogwarts and the warriors from Beauxbatons and Durmstrang participated in the competition. The winner would be the only legitimate Hogwarts and would also have the legal right to occupy the castle."

"Using the Triwizard Tournament as a bet?" The Sorting Hat's voice sounded a little strange. "Do you know that the Dark Lord has never actually gained control of the castle? He can't even stay here for more than a day, otherwise the castle will either collapse or he will leave."

It was the first time that Jon heard about what would happen if Voldemort stayed in Hogwarts for a long time, but he asked again soon.

"But we also found that he was trying to wear away the original consciousness of the castle and then impose his own consciousness."

"Of course he would do it, and it has actually been considered successful. Now there is only one last step left." The Sorting Hat said as a matter of course.

Jon stopped subconsciously and frowned.

"Only one step away? What do you mean?"

The Sorting Hat seemed to know all about Jon's question, and it answered quickly.

"I have a deep connection with this castle. I can feel what he is doing more intuitively than other things. He has actually succeeded. The only thing missing is that the original will of the castle has not been completely eliminated, so he Only the last step is left, which is the step of the Triwizard Tournament that you are currently in?"

Jon couldn't help but hold his breath. He felt as if he could reveal why Voldemort wanted to hold the Triwizard Tournament in the first place.

"So this game will help him take full control of the castle?"

"Of course." The Sorting Hat seemed to snap its fingers, "Don't think that the Triwizard Tournament was started after the death of the Big Four, and that means it won't have any impact on this school, just like the beginning of this castle. When they used it as Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, it was just an ordinary magic castle with some magic applied to it, and it was far from having its own consciousness. "

"Nearly every wizard in the UK has graduated from this castle for thousands of years. They spent the entire seven years here from the age of 11 to 18, which is equivalent to the castle witnessing their entire youth. . So when the students were doing magic in school, the lost magic power was also constantly affecting the castle. Of course, the magic power of a single little wizard was limited and would not have much effect at all. But over time, Change happens slowly over time.”

"One day after the school was first founded, Peeves appeared. At first, both students and professors thought it was a ghost that accidentally wandered into Hogwarts, but it became more and more... He became extraordinary and showed amazing abilities.”

"Peeves?" Of course Jon was familiar with this name, knowing that it had once been one of the ghosts in Hogwarts.

"Yes, Peeves." The Sorting Hat patiently continued to Jon, "It is an elf that appears in front of people in the form of a ghost, or you can also call it a castle elf. It is the castle that generates consciousness. A concrete embodiment of the castle, but it represents the naughty and bad side of the students of this castle throughout the ages. I wonder if you have ever heard how much the administrators of this castle hated it, and in order to keep it How much effort it took to evict it from the castle.”

Jon shook his head.

"Well, that was actually in 1876. The administrator of the castle at that time was Coros Calpe. He carefully laid out traps, using various weapons as bait that he thought Peeves could not resist, and then prepared A huge bell-shaped jar, cast with various containment spells, ready to cover Peeves when he walks onto the trap."

"The results of it?"

"The result is that Peeves not only escapes easily, but also scatters broken glass in the corridor, and even evades a trap consisting of several scimitars, a crossbow, a short gun and a small cannon. Peeves just for his own entertainment Taking pleasure in himself, he shot at the windows at will, putting everyone's lives in danger. The castle was evacuated. The teachers and students of the entire castle had a three-day confrontation with it. In the end, the headmistress Yupra Thea Moore agreed to sign the contract giving Peeves additional privileges."

"Privileges include allowing Peeves to swim in the boys' toilet on the first floor once a week, giving priority to throwing out stale bread from the kitchen, and getting a new hat made by Madame Elaborate in Paris, and that's when it started. From now on, no matter how annoying Peeves was, no administrator or headmaster ever raised the idea of ​​expelling him."

"Think about it, how could a normal ghost do these things? That idiot Calpe had no idea how he could drive himself out of this castle? Peeves is an elf created by the magic of students, and he also Represents the Hogwarts castle itself.”

"But just after the Dark Lord took over the castle, Peeves disappeared within a few days. There were many rumors at the time. Some people said that it offended the Dark Lord himself, and was used by the Dark Lord with the most powerful weapon. The Death Curse killed Peeves, and some people say it was because Hogwarts was no longer the original Hogwarts, so Peeves disappeared. But in fact, it was the Dark Lord who imprisoned him, and coupled with the oppression. Some students in the school let the suppressed emotions and magic conflict with the will of the castle itself, constantly erasing its ability and existence. "

Jon had already arrived at the auditorium at this time.

"Then what does this have to do with the Triwizard Tournament?"

"Don't worry, I will talk about it next. Just like the magic power and emotions of the students affected the castle, around the thirteenth century, less than three hundred years before this school was built, the Triwizard Competition This competition was proposed for the exchange of young wizards from various European countries. The competition was held every five years, and the venue was taken by three magic schools in turn. This competition was not suspended until 1792. It has been 500 years. Do you know how many times Hogwarts has won the Triwizard Tournament in these 500 years?

Before Jon could guess, the Sorting Hat himself had already told the answer.

"63 times, it is the school that has won the most championships. The mark of this game has been deeply engraved in the castle named Hogwarts itself, and no one can erase it. Just like magic, will is the key to everything. It is also because of this that the Triwizard Tournament has a very unique meaning for this castle, especially when the students who participated in the competition in its name won the championship. And the most important thing is that the Dark Lord also made a bet with the will of this castle. He bet that the students of Hogwarts will never win this Triwizard Tournament."

Jon suddenly seemed to think of something, and he asked immediately.

"What if the students representing Hogwarts won the championship?"

"Then his plan is over, especially you, the student named Jon Green. If you can wake me up, it means that this castle itself has a very good impression of you. If you win the championship, all the efforts made by the Dark Lord over the years will be in vain. The castle's will that has been worn out by him will be restored, and you will become the new owner of this castle."

Hearing such an answer, Jon did not have any surprise or any excited psychological fluctuations, but continued to ask.

"What if another representative, a student from Hogwarts under his guidance, won the championship?"

"That's not a good thing for him either. I don't know how the castle feels about that student, but as long as he wins the championship in the name of Hogwarts, it will be a huge boost to the castle's will. That's the word. But once this game is played by Hogwarts, especially the game is held in the castle and the other two schools win, not to mention that the Triwizard Tournament, which has been suspended for more than 200 years, is held again, this is a terrible consequence for the castle, because the obstacle the castle itself is under is itself. If the students of Hogwarts don't win, then it will disappear by itself and will no longer be a hindrance to the Dark Lord."

Jon finally understood at this time!

Understand why it was Draco Malfoy who represented Hogwarts Castle in the competition, and why the person who was placed with high hopes was Emil Lestrange!