0029 First arrival at Hogwarts
The students were guided by the platform on the Blackwater Lake. He was a big man named Hagrid. He had some thick and curly long brown hair and beard, about three meters tall, and was much stronger than ordinary people.
He was wearing a worn and not very clean gray fur coat, and he looked a bit like a hunter in the wild.
August was slightly surprised when he saw Hagrid. This person obviously had the bloodline of the giants.
Hogwarts was able to arrange people like Hager to work in school, which shows that the people in the school are still relatively open-minded.
For many wizards, creatures with alien blood are lowly, such humanoid creatures as centaurs and mixed-race giants, and the best example of this type of wizard is August's father Lucius.
The senior management of Hogwarts must have had some huge differences in the ability to work in Hogwarts. At the same time, there must be a very prestigious person who can withstand internal and external pressure and insist on letting Hagwart stay here.
As August expected, the person who withstood the pressure from all sides left Haeger was Dumbledore, the current principal of Hogwarts. Heeger was also Dumbledore's most loyal subordinate and supporter.
Although Hagrid looks a bit scary on the outside, he is very honest.
After greeting the students with a smile, Hagrid began to introduce some of the history of Hogwarts, and arranged for ferries to carry the students across the Blackwater River in turn.
After a simple contact with Hagrid, the students found that this big man was very easy to get along with, so they no longer were afraid of him, but asked him various questions about wizards.
The Blackwater Lake is very wide and is a natural barrier outside Hogwarts. It took everyone about twenty minutes to cross the river.
After everyone crossed the Blackwater River, Hagrid introduced all the students into Hogwarts' castle.
After entering the castle, everyone can more experience the unique charm of Hogwarts.
European classical architectural styles and various colorful magic decorations complement each other, making everyone feel like they have entered a magical world.
There are many lifelike oil paintings on the surrounding walls. The people in the paintings can communicate with everyone like real people, and some even turn into soul states and fly out of the oil paintings flying around everyone.
At first, the students were a little afraid and discomfort with the people in the ghostly paintings, but soon they found that these guys were not hostile but were very interesting, and their moods were calmed down.
When everyone walked through a long corridor, they saw a very wide door, behind which was the largest auditorium at Hogwarts Academy.
This auditorium is enough to accommodate all professors, staff and students from various colleges of Hogwarts. Almost all major events in Hogwarts are also held in this auditorium.
At this time, a female wizard was standing in front of the closed door of the auditorium. Her name was Minerva McGonagall, a professor who was very proficient in transfiguration.
During the years she coached at Hogwarts, Professor McGonagall has written many works on transfiguration, and several of her works have been read by August.
In addition to being a professor in the Hogwarts Transformation Class, Professor McGonagall is also the vice president of Hogwarts and the dean of Gryffindor College.
Professor McGonagall looks about sixty years old and is a tall and thin old man.
She was wearing a neat wizard robe, a pointed wizard hat on her head, and a pair of round-frame glasses. The expression on her face was very serious, which made people feel daunting.
Seeing Haeger bringing the new students here, Professor McGonagall walked up to make a handover with Haeger, and she would lead the students into the auditorium later.
Professor McGonagall's eyes swept across all the students, and a kind smile appeared on his serious face. It suddenly made the students around him feel a different feeling, as if this wizard who made them feel a little scary just now suddenly became a different person.
Professor McGonagall herself is a person who is cold on the outside and hot on the inside. She usually looks very serious and makes it difficult to get close to, but in fact she cares very much about her students.
However, only those who really know her know these things are known. Most students are still a little afraid of her on weekdays.
"Welcome to Hogwarts, and in a while you will pass through this door and have dinner with the professors and seniors of the college. But before you get in, we will have to hold the branch ceremony first."
"Hogwarts has four major colleges, namely Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw and Slytherin. When you join one of the colleges, the college will be your new home, and you will share the honor and disgrace with your college!"
Professor McGonagall first welcomed all the students and briefly introduced to everyone the four major colleges in Hogwarts.
Among the content she introduced, the most important thing is Hogwarts' college scoring system.
When a student performs well, his academy will get extra points; when a student commits a violation, his academy will get extra points.
At the end of each academic year, Hogwarts will rank the scores of the four major colleges. The college with the highest score will receive the "College Cup", which can place this trophy that represents Hogwarts' highest honor in its own college for a year until it is re-scored at the end of the next academic year.
After talking to the students, Professor McGonagall introduced some rules and regulations of each college and the school, he turned around and waved his arms.
Then the huge door in front of her slowly opened automatically, revealing the scene in the auditorium.
At this time, all the new students felt that their vision suddenly became wider, and a huge auditorium that could accommodate thousands of people appeared in front of them.
The auditorium was brightly lit, and hundreds of candles burning with magic flames were floating above it. The flames shone brightly in the entire hall.
At the front of the auditorium was the professor's seat, an old man with white hair and extremely thick hair sat in the center, and on both sides were many adult wizards of different ages and clothes.
There is no doubt that the old man in the center is currently the greatest wizard in the world, Albus Dumbledore, the current president of Hogwarts, and he is sitting next to him by professors from various colleges.
The center of the auditorium is divided into four areas, each with two rows of slender dining tables.
It is not difficult to see from the flags with the college badges hanging above each area that these four areas correspond to the Fourth Brother College in Hogwarts.
At these dining tables, students from other grades of each college were sitting there, looking at the younger students who seemed a little cramped with smiles on their faces.
I remember this when they first came to Hogwarts, and now they still find it very interesting to recall it.
Among the students, August, who is much taller than others, is particularly eye-catching. On the one hand, he is handsome and outstanding in temperament, and on the other hand, he is surrounded by his sisters, Elephant, which is even more eye-catching.
When August, who felt very sensitive, he noticed that many people were observing him when he entered the hall. One of the male professors with a headscarf wrapped around his head smiled and signaled at him, which made August feel a little strange.
Chapter completed!