Reborn at Hogwarts

The sorting ceremony was soon over.

The last freshman was sorted into Slytherin. After he stumbled into the seat, Professor McGonagall rolled up the parchment, picked up the sorting hat and left.

Albus Dumbledore stood up, looked at the students with a wide smile, and stretched out his arms to them, as if nothing pleased him more than seeing them all together.

"Welcome!" he said. "Welcome to Hogwarts for the start of the new school year! Before the banquet begins, I would like to say a few words. That is: Idiot! Cry! Scrap! Screw!

"thank you all!"

He sat down again. Everyone applauds and cheers.

Although he didn't understand the meaning of Dumbledore's words at all, Ivan still clapped his hands politely.

At this time, the empty dinner plate in front of him was suddenly filled with food.

Although the Vesemir family is considered wealthy among wizards, Ivan has never seen so many things on the table at once: roast beef, roast chicken, pork chops, lamb chops, sausages, steaks, boiled potatoes, roast Potatoes, crisps, Yorkshire pudding, pea shoots, carrots, gravy, tomato sauce...

And for some strange reason, there was also a large pile of cockroach-shaped candies. These things caused screams one after another. Ivan recognized Eddie's voice very keenly, so he turned his head and looked at his position. Go, and find that he has crawled under the table in fright.

"Uh—it's disgusting." Penello frowned, with a disgusted expression on his face, and pushed the plate containing the candy away from himself with a fork, "Professor Dumbledore seems to be obsessed with eating recently. Heap of cockroaches, although I heard that the taste is not bad, but this shape is too realistic—”

"Really? It tastes good?" Ivan moved closer to the plate with interest, and looked at it carefully, completely oblivious to the shocked expressions of the people around him.

"I heard from people who have eaten it that it's not bad." Allen stammered.

"Then I'll try it." Ivan couldn't wait to pick up a pile of cockroaches with a fork, and stuffed it into his mouth while everyone looked up at him. After tasting it carefully, he said hesitantly, " It tastes a bit like mint, with a little bit of peanut butter... What are you looking at me for? Penello, don't you want to try one?" He pushed the plate towards the girl.

"No, no, no. These are all yours." For the first time, Penello showed a panicked look on his face, while trying to move his body, keeping himself farther away from the pile of cockroaches, while waving his hands again and again.

Ivan shrugged, and didn't mean to force it.

These guys are really immature, but they don't know that there are many delicacies in this world, all of which look strange, and some are even more disgusting than cockroaches.

As long as it tastes good, you can eat it as soon as you close your eyes and open your mouth. Why do you think about it so much...

With this in mind, during the meal, Ivan ate a few more cockroach piles. Every time he saw him throw that piece of cockroach-shaped fudge into his mouth, the Ravenclaws sitting next to him They all showed a look of panic mixed with fear.

After everyone had opened their bellies and filled their stomachs, the rest of the food disappeared from the plates. The plates were all clean again. After a while, the pudding came up. There are all kinds of ice cream, apple pie, treacle fruit pie, chocolate trifle, fried jam donuts, marmalade pudding, strawberry, jelly, rice pudding...

And different from others, there was a new plate of cockroaches in front of Ivan...

Ivan froze for a moment, and immediately turned his head to look in the direction of the guest of honor. Dumbledore was also looking at him, and raised his glass with a smile.

"...This old man will not introduce me as a fellow in food, right?"

"It seems that Professor Dumbledore likes you very much, and finally someone has the same taste as him." Penello looked at the whole plate of cockroaches with glee, "You'd better eat them all, otherwise Professor Dumbledore will Sad."

"..."

Finally, the pudding disappeared too, and Professor Dumbledore stood up again. There was also silence in the auditorium.

"Oh, now that everyone has eaten and drank enough, I want to say a few more words to everyone. As the term begins, I want to give you a few things to pay attention to.

"Attention first-year freshmen, no students are allowed to enter the forest area on the school grounds. Some of our old classmates should also remember this well."

Dumbledore's shining eyes flicked in the direction of the Weasley twins.

"Also, Mr. Filch, the administrator, asked me to remind everyone not to do magic in the corridors between classes.

"Finally, the review of Quidditch players will be held in the second week of this semester. Anyone who is interested in participating in the college team please contact Mrs. Hooch.

"Now, before we all go to bed, let's sing the school song!" cried Dumbledore. Ivan noticed that the smiles of the other teachers seemed to freeze.

Dumbledore flicked his wand lightly, and a long golden ribbon flew out of the wand, twisting and coiling lines of words high above the dining table like a snake.

"Everyone chooses a tune they like," said Dumbledore. "Get ready, sing!"

Then all the teachers and students sang loudly:

Hogwarts, Hogwarts, Hogwarts, Hogwarts,

Please teach us knowledge,

Whether we are bald old men

Or the kid who broke his knee...

Everyone sang the school song in a hurry. Only the Weasley twins continued to sing along to the slow melody of "Funeral March". Dumbledore conducted the final bars for them both with his wand, and when they were done, he gave the loudest applause.

"That's great," he said with a smile. "We always need some creative kids. It's bedtime. Everyone go back to the dorms."

Alan and another girl whom Ivan didn't know stood up and led the Ravenclaw freshmen through the noisy crowd - Ivan saw the Weasley twins confronting him in the Gryffindor procession Making faces - Walking down the castle's corridors, suits of armor rattled by the sound of footsteps as they passed.

The students filed into the tower on the west side of the castle, followed the two prefects into a spiral staircase, and climbed up in dizzying small circles. When Ivan felt a little dizzy, they finally reached the top of the tower and stood in front of a door.

There was no handle or keyhole on the door, just a bare old board with a bronze knocker in the shape of an eagle.

Allen turned around, turned his back to the gate, and said loudly to the little wizards: "This is the lounge of our Ravenclaw college. Unlike other colleges, we don't have any passwords. If you want to come in, you must Answer the questions raised by Eagle Ring, and only when you answer correctly can you enter the door."

After speaking, he knocked on the door.

The eagle's beak opened immediately, but instead of making a bird cry, it said in a soft, musical voice: "Life and death, what is the relationship between the two?"

"One cycle, more than one cycle." Allen replied.

"It makes sense." Yinghuan commented, and the door slowly opened.