Admiral of Hogwarts

314 banquet

After tidying up their appearance, everyone quickly exchanged their experiences during their summer vacation and chatted. It was at this time that they discovered an old man with scars sitting on the podium in the seat of the Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher.

His face was scarred, his mouth was like a big crooked gash, and the nose where it should have been was missing. What's even more terrifying is that he has a strange-looking blue prosthetic eye.

This appearance made many people also notice this. After reading it, Luna whispered: "The Defense Against the Dark Arts professor is actually Mad-Eye Moody? My father once said that he was the real hero in that war."

"Mad-Eye Moody! It turns out he is Mad-Eye Moody." Zhang Qiu, who was next to him, exclaimed softly. "My parents really admired him, but that's normal because he filled half the cells in Azkaban."

"It's just that because of his special career, he also has many enemies. The many assassinations made him gradually become a little nervous."

"He retired after someone tried to shake his hand but he mistakenly thought it was an attack and injured the other person. I never expected that Dumbledore would ask him to be the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor this year."

"It seems that he is a PTSD patient." Veneto suddenly whispered at this time. "pWhat is that?" Now it was Zhang Qiu's turn to be confused, because it was not a term in the wizarding world.

"Post-traumatic stress disorder often occurs in those who have experienced war. Because their past experiences have made them irritable, hyper-vigilant, amnesiac, and easily frightened." Hermione explained on the side, after becoming a ship girl She read a lot of these miscellaneous books.

"Indeed, that's what Moody is like." After listening to Hermione's narration, several people around them all nodded to agree with her point of view.

Soon, the door of the auditorium was opened, and everyone suddenly became quiet, preparing to welcome the opening ceremony of this new year.

As usual, Hagrid led a group of newbies into the auditorium this year, but what was different from previous years was that this year's newbies were shaking more violently. After all, the weather was really bad.

The thousand-year-old Sorting Hat was taken out again, and then a new song was sung. But to be honest, this kind of smelly, long and off-key song is really tormenting people's ears.

When the song finally ended, everyone clapped to express their happiness at having peace again in their ears.

As new students were called up one after another, the Sorting Hat began to sort the new students into different houses as usual, while the old students below began to whisper about these new students. Soon, Ella was mentioned on the list.

"Ella Dumbledore." Professor McGonagall read out the student's name as before, but immediately reacted after reading the name and subconsciously turned her head to glance at Dumbledore.

Dumbledore's expression at this time was even more exaggerated. As soon as he saw Ella's face clearly, his whole body froze there, then he grabbed the table with both hands and leaned forward slightly.

"Ravenclaw!" the hat shouted just a second or two after it was placed on Ella's head. After hearing about the college she would eventually go to, Ella politely returned the hat to Professor McGonagall, and then sat across from Hugo.

"It feels so good to be in the same academy as my sisters." Ella hugged Veneto's arm as soon as she sat down and said.

"Sister?" Zhang Qiu looked at Veneto, then looked at Ella and asked curiously, because the two of them didn't look like a pair of sisters at all.

"Of course it's my sister, because the sister who raised me has a very good relationship with Sister Hood, so I've known Veneto and the others since I was a child." Ella explained to the people around her.

"Look, Professor Dumbledore is looking at Ella." Hermione said to Hugo through the Admiral Network at this time. After hearing this, Hugo raised his head and looked at the faculty table, and sure enough, he saw Dumbledore heading here. Look sideways.

Fortunately, Principal Dumbledore is also a centenarian and has experienced many storms. So when the sorting ceremony was about to end, Professor Dumbledore finally returned to his usual state.

"By the way, what is your relationship with Principal Dumbledore?" At this time, Marietta asked Ella, because the surname Dumbledore is very rare in the wizarding world.

"It shouldn't matter. I am an orphan and was adopted at a very young age. And this name was attached to a note on my infancy." Ella said according to her assigned identity.

"So that's it!" Marietta nodded after feeling that her gossip was satisfied. But before she could ask the next question, the sorting ceremony was over.

When Professor McGonagall left with the sorting hat and bench, Dumbledore stood up. Then he just looked at all the classmates with a smile, opened his arms in a welcoming gesture.

"I only have two words to say to you," he said, his rich voice echoing in the auditorium, "Eat!"

No wonder Dumbledore became a respected headmaster, because he knew that what everyone needed in this situation was a hot dinner rather than some long lecture.

The entire auditorium fell silent for a moment, with only the sounds of knives and forks clinking against plates and the sound of chewing. After all, today's heavy rain made everyone feel cold and hungry, so they couldn't wait to eat something hot.

In this case, everyone eats much faster than usual. Soon everyone was full and the last of the desserts were being put away. Dumbledore's voice echoed in the auditorium again.

For Hugo, who had attended four opening ceremonies including this one, he began to take this opportunity to empty his mind and rest for a while, because as usual, what followed was all the same old talk.

Sure enough, the principal then talked about the contraband that could not be carried this year and the areas that were prohibited from going to in a routine manner, and then introduced this year's new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor to everyone.

The professors and students were still very interested in the annual Defense Against the Dark Arts course that is a specialty of Hogwarts, but Mr. Explosion only received scattered applause behind Moody.

Hugo glanced at Moody above and saw his magic eyes moving around and scanning the students below and the professors next to them.

After observing Moody on the stage for a few seconds, Moody turned his magic eye around as if he felt something. Seeing this, Hugo could only quickly turn his attention elsewhere.

Although judging from the information obtained during the summer vacation, it is very likely that Moody has not been swapped, but after school starts, the ship girls should conduct several rounds of investigations to ensure that there is no problem in this place.

Because everyone had a full dinner, everyone felt a little tired, and many people even fell asleep. At this time, Dumbledore suddenly released an explosive news.

"I would also like to inform everyone with great regret that the College Cup Quidditch Tournament will not be held this year!"

Boom, the whole auditorium was in commotion. As we all know, the only sport in the wizarding world is Quidditch. What Dumbledore said is equivalent to a middle school principal telling his classmates that all physical education classes are canceled this year.

If his prestige hadn't been high enough, there would have been voices of protest all over the place. Soon everyone fell silent and waited for Dumbledore to explain further.