Chapter 208: The Opening Ceremony of the School Is Here Again

The day before the end of the summer vacation, the trio had enough fun, and the homework they had to do was completed under the guidance of Isha. The supplies for the start of school had been bought early, so they followed Isabel and Chen Weiguo back.

However, Chen Bin and Kate stayed. It's not that the master refuses to let him go, but that Chen Bin is always just a little bit short of being able to predict the danger of crossing a higher level. It's always just a little bit short, and it will always be a little bit.

At this point, he asked Lao Deng for leave by sending a letter to Isha. If he didn't learn this ability, he wouldn't go back to Hogwarts. Wherever Chen Bin is, Kate will follow, so she also asked Yisha to ask for leave from Lao Deng.

"Bin, don't force yourself too much and pay attention to your health." Hermione touched Chen Bin's face before leaving, her words full of pity and care.

Chen Bin was really not used to having such contact with women other than Kate and Yisha, but he said: "Don't worry, you should also pay attention to your health, don't just focus on your studies."

After saying this, Chen Bin stared at Isha with murderous eyes. If it weren't for this funny selfishness, how could he have once again teased the heartbroken Hermione?

(3`): "Binbin pay attention to your health and take good care of Kate. Kate, don't work too hard, just treat it as a holiday. Goodbye!"

Isha led the group of people and disappeared into the woods, and the world became quiet again.

"Mom, Yisha is gone. Do you want to come and stay at Chen's house for a few days?" Chen Bin immediately called Li Xiuhui.

"Yeah, that's fine. But is she really gone?"

"gone."

"I'm coming over now." Li Xiuhui had just hung up the phone, and she had already flashed to the door of the Chen family mansion, arriving earlier than Chen Bin!

Kate saw the figure in the distance and couldn't help but smile: "It seems that Xiuhui's mother also misses her son very much."

"What? Are you unhappy that you chose a mama's boy?" Chen Bin pretended to stare at Yisha fiercely, and then said seriously: "Would you like to go around the Northeast so that you can feel the benefits of a mama's boy? "

"My husband is the best." Kate kissed Chen Bin and pulled him towards Li Xiuhui.

On the other side, when everyone returned to Naama Castle, two owls immediately flew in front of them and handed Harry and Ron similar letters - letters of appointment from male and female prefects of Gryffindor and prefect badges .

Isabel seemed to have predicted all this, and took a pen and paper to write a letter to the two of them to inform their families.

That night, the two house elves prepared a celebration dinner early in the morning and made the hall very lively. A large number of automatically flying magical decorations were constantly flying in the air, and there was also a very delicious French meal.

Hermione felt a little jealous of Harry, but didn't show it.

In the end, it was Isha who dealt with him.

"Harry, Prefect or Catcher, you can only choose one. As long as you choose, I have a way to make the Headmaster change his mind!"

This simple rhetorical question completely soothed Harry's emotions.

Hermione noticed that Isha seemed to know everything, including everyone's tempers and habits.

The three of them had a good sleep and were taken to the station by Mr. and Mrs. Chen the next day. Before boarding the train, Sister Isha gave them many detachable buttons with shooting functions and taught them how to charge the buttons with magic.

She also strongly recommends that in addition to going to the toilet, bathing and sleeping, remember to turn on their shooting function for a long time, because this year is bound to be a year of constant troubles.

The three of them also wanted to ask for the reason, but seeing Sister Yisha's expression of "I know the process but I don't want to tell you", the three of them shut up obediently.

After arriving at Hogsmeade Station, Hermione discovered that the carriage she had always thought was walking on its own was actually pulled by a magical animal she had never seen before.

It looks like a reptile, skinny, with a dragon-like face and broad bat-like wings.

Hermione asked Ron and Harry, but they said they saw nothing. Only Luna, who was sitting next to her, said she had been able to see it since she entered school.

This girl was looking at the magazine upside down and had a reputation for being crazy. Naturally, Hermione didn't want to have anything to do with her.

Before entering the castle, a group of students saw the new teaching building next to the lake becoming brightly lit. Several strange wizards are blessing the open space in the adjacent teaching building with unknown light. Many trolls were carrying thick square stones under the command of the wizards, as if they were expanding a new building.

A team of horses staggered towards the direction of the castle, passing through the open space leading to the castle. There were still tall stone pillars on both sides of the gate, and the top of the column was a winged wild boar. Everyone in the car is already used to this, maybe the new students coming by boat later will find it new.

As the castle got closer and closer, the towering towers looked darker against the dark night sky. Occasionally, a window could be seen shining red and dazzling light above their heads.

The carriage finally swayed to the stone steps leading to the oak door, and Hermione followed Harry and jumped out.

She saw things that Ron and Harry couldn't see. This experience was very new to her, but it was not comfortable. Ron is a pure-blood wizard and Harry is a half-blood. How difficult is it to be born as a pure Muggle to see different things? Hermione quickly rejected this idea. At least Luna was not born into a Muggle family.

Hermione didn't think it was a big deal. If she had time, she could go to the library to find some information.

"Hermione, what are you doing?" Ron pushed her back and motioned for her to join the crowd.

Hermione hurried up the stone steps and entered the castle.

The hallway was lit red by torches, echoing with the footsteps of students. They walked through the flagstone corridor and headed for the two doors on the right that led to the Great Hall.

The Great Hall still had the four rows of long tables for the colleges, and the ceiling was a dark sky without stars.

Countless candles were suspended above the dining table, illuminating the silvery ghosts nearby.

The students were talking happily, some were discussing the news, some were greeting loudly, and some were exchanging the latest hairstyles and clothes.

Hermione noticed that whenever Harry walked by, people would also look at him with admiration or respect, only the people at the Slytherin table showed a disapproving expression.

Two cold visions fell on Harry, but he didn't notice it and was still happily chatting with Ron. Hermione's perception was much stronger than the two, and she immediately secretly glanced at the source of the hostility.

As expected, the owners of the two glances were "Gregory Goyle" and "Vincent Crabbe". Hermione also read newspapers carefully every day during the summer vacation, so she remembered that the father of these two people participated in the resurrection ceremony of the mysterious man as a Death Eater. Unfortunately, but fortunately for Hermione, the Aurors killed all the Death Eaters present.

Therefore, Hermione understood Goyle and Crabbe's hatred for Harry very well. For these two people, worse things followed. First, the family assets were frozen by the Ministry of Magic, and then the Malfoy family was excluded, so they are not living well now.

After everyone sat down, Hermione noticed that the number of people at the Slytherin table had obviously decreased. Excluding the seventh-year students who graduated, there should be seven or eight fewer people at their table.

There is no need to think too much, even their studies can be abandoned, either they immigrated or it was related to the resurrection of Voldemort. Hermione guessed that there was a problem with their family, or their father or elder's Death Eater was exposed, in short, they were involved with Voldemort, making it impossible for them to continue their studies here.

Nick, who was almost headless, came to the center of the table to chat with Ron. Sitting on the other side were Lavender Brown and the Indian girl Parvati Patil. They were greeting Harry in a hypocritical and overly enthusiastic manner.

However, Hermione noticed that Lavender Brown often glanced at Ron intentionally or unintentionally, but the latter did not notice.

Hagrid sneezed loudly at the staff table, blowing over the tableware in front of him. The students also laughed and joked that his handkerchief was bigger than their shirts.

Hermione's eyes swept along the staff table, but there was no Sirius, Lupin and Moody. Harry said that they were training new Aurors throughout the summer vacation, and they were obviously not back now. Suddenly, she found two new faces on the staff table, one was Fleur Delacour, and the other was a middle-aged woman she had never seen before.

"Who is that person?" She said sharply, pointing to the middle of the staff table.

Harry and Ron followed the instructions and looked. Professor Dumbledore was tilting his head to look at the middle-aged woman sitting next to him, who was talking into his ear.

The woman's appearance was very eye-catching. Not only did she have the temperament of a single old aunt, but she was also short and fat, with curly gray-brown short hair, and a disgusting pink bow on her short hair. What was even more disgusting was that she wore a fluffy pink cardigan over her robe.

If this outfit was put on Fleur, it might be just a little bit pretentious, but when the old aunt turned her face, Harry saw a pale toad face with a pair of sagging eyelids and protruding eyes under the eyelids.

Harry felt like vomiting. "Anyone who marries her is doomed to be unlucky."

"Do you know her?" Hermione said.

"No." Harry shook his head desperately.

Ron smiled and said, "What a beautiful cardigan!"

No one knew who she was, but Hermione had some impression of this face.

"Where on earth have I seen it?" Hermione whispered to herself.

"I must have seen it in a nightmare." Harry teased.

After thinking for a while, Hermione finally remembered that this face had appeared in the Daily Prophet. She could no longer remember the content of the report, but vaguely remembered that she was standing behind Fudge and nodding.

"She works for Fudge!" Hermione frowned, "But what is she doing here?"

Ron shrugged.

Harry shook his head.

As Hermione pondered the purpose of this woman, the conversation in the hall gradually died down. Now it was Professor McGonagall's sorting time. The first-year students lined up in front of the staff table, and sat on the stools one by one to listen to the broken hats on their heads announce their fate.

This year's sorting song changed again, telling the story of the four founders of Hogwarts having different ideas.

Slytherin wants pure blood; Ravenclaw wants wisdom; Gryffindor wants courage; Hufflepuff wants to treat everyone equally. In the end, they turned against each other, and the old Slytherin suddenly left.

Finally, the Sorting Hat reminds everyone that Hogwarts is now in danger and enemies outside the school are eyeing it covetously, so everyone must unite closely, otherwise everything will collapse from within.