"Difficult, very difficult!"
A shrill voice sounded in Jon's ears:
"I can see that you are very courageous, have a good heart, and a good talent..."
"I want to go to Hufflepuff!" Jon said silently in his heart.
"What?" The Sorting Hat's shrill voice seemed a little unbelievable.
"I want to be in Hufflepuff!"
"While you undoubtedly meet all the requirements to be a Hufflepuff student, I don't think that's a very good choice..."
"I want to be in Hufflepuff!"
"Have you made up your mind? If you go to Gryffindor, it will undoubtedly lead you to glory..."
...
...
"I want to be in Hufflepuff!"
"Don't you have any other ideas?" the Sorting Hat yelled impatiently.
"I want to be in Hufflepuff!"
"Is this all you can do to repeat yourself?" The Sorting Hat seemed a little angry.
"I want to be in Hufflepuff!"
When Jon repeated this sentence for the sixth time, the Sorting Hat couldn't stand it anymore, and it shouted the name to the whole restaurant:
"Hufflepuff!"
The people at the table on the right began to applaud and cheer for him; the fat monk also waved to him.
At the table on the far right, Astoria let out a slight sigh for some reason when she heard the voice.
Jon breathed a sigh of relief. He finally didn't have to go to Gryffindor and accompany the group of protagonists in fear.
"To be honest, you are the second student this century who has offered to go to Hufflepuff!" The voice of the Sorting Hat sounded in Jon's ears again.
"Oh, who's the first one?"
"Newt Scamander, I hope you can be as good as him!" The Sorting Hat sent its best wishes: "Mr. Scamander was expelled from Hogwarts in his fifth year..."
Before he could communicate with the Sorting Hat, Professor McGonagall came over and roughly pulled the hat off his head.
"Luna Lovegood!" Professor McGonagall shouted.
The strange girl who had rowed with Jon earlier came running over in a hurry.
Jon had already come to the table near his right, and a tall boy came over: "Welcome to Hufflepuff, Jon... I'm the Hufflepuff prefect, Gabrielle Truman!"
"Hello, Gabrielle!"
"Come, Jon, sit here!"
A ruddy-faced little girl with two golden braids pulled Jon to her previous position.
The Sorting Ceremony is still going on.
Luna Lovegood was sorted into Ravenclaw...Steven Lucas, like Jon, became a new Hufflepuff...
Applause rang out in the hall again and again, and one freshman after another became a member of each college.
The last two, Ginny Weasley went to Gryffindor and Magdalena Yaxley went to Slytherin.
The Sorting Ceremony is over.
Professor McGonagall picked up the Sorting Hat and was about to put it away... the door to the hall was opened, and Professor Snape and Professor Flitwick came back together; Daphne Greengrass followed behind the two professors, with her head down and tears on her face.
Professor Snape ordered his students back to the Slytherin table, and he went up to Professor McGonagall and whispered something.
Professor McGonagall's expression seemed a little complicated at this moment. She didn't even have time to put away the Sorting Hat. She hurriedly followed Professor Snape and left the hall.
Professor Flitwick walked to the top of the podium and whispered something to Professor Dumbledore...
Dumbledore's face suddenly changed, and he quickly left the hall... He didn't even have time to say the classic words.
The headmaster and the vice-headmaster were not there, and in the end it was Filius Flitwick, the head of Ravenclaw, who stood on Dumbledore's plate: he welcomed the new students to the campus, introduced the new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor Gilderoy Lockhart, and reminded everyone of the prohibition of entering the Forbidden Forest and the review time for Quidditch players.
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The dinner has begun!
"Would you like some steak?" The girl with two golden braids enthusiastically recommended to Jon, "The steak at Hogwarts is great!"
"Thank you..." Jon quickly cut off a piece of steak: "By the way, I don't even know your name!"
"Hannah, Hannah-Abbott...I'm a second-year student!"
Jon put down his knife and fork solemnly, then shook hands with Hannah: "It's an honor to meet you, Hannah, oh no, Miss Abbott!"
Hannah introduced the situation of Hogwarts to Jon in a messy way... For example, the school is very safe, Dumbledore is the most powerful wizard in the world; Hufflepuff students are very united, and Professor Pomona Sprout is very kind to them; and they must not wander around the school at night. Last year, three idiots from Gryffindor wandered around the school at night, causing them to lose 150 points...
"By the way, do you know Harry Potter?" Hannah suddenly said mysteriously.
"Harry Potter, do you mean the Boy-Who-Lived?" Jon still cooperated and made a surprised expression.
"Yes!" Hannah was very satisfied with Jon's performance and said proudly, "Harry Potter is a student of our class. He is in Gryffindor ... My grandfather always hoped that I could go to Gryffindor. He graduated from Gryffindor, but unfortunately the Sorting Hat thought that I didn't have enough courage..."
As she spoke, Hannah's tone became a little lost, and she began to look at the Gryffindor table, ready to find any trace of Harry and point it out to Jon.
Unfortunately, Hannah didn't know that Harry Potter and Ron Weasley were in Professor McGonagall's office right now, and they had just caused a disaster...
McGonagall, Dumbledore and even Snape had already run over to clean up their mess.
"Oh, by the way, there's one thing that people outside of Hogwarts may not know..." After searching for a long time without finding it, Hannah continued, "At the end of last semester, Harry once again successfully stopped the You-Know-Who conspiracy; Professor Dumbledore specially added 160 points for Harry and his friends, helping Gryffindor snatch the House Cup from Slytherin!"
"Wow..." Jon nodded repeatedly.
Jon now knows that the legendary Hannah Abbott was actually Harry's little fan girl.
But he was not convinced by the House Cup... This kind of trophy is decided a year in advance, and Dumbledore has to make up a certain number of points at the end of the semester. How do you expect others to play?
"By the way, how long has it been since Hufflepuff won the house cup?" Jon asked curiously.
"Well..." Hannah seemed a little embarrassed.
"Seventy-nine years!" A tall, handsome boy turned around and said seriously, "The last time Hufflepuff won the house cup was in 1913!"
"Uh..." This time was longer than Jon had imagined.
At this moment, Jon suddenly had the idea of helping Hufflepuff win a house cup... However, this unrealistic idea was even more difficult than tearing Voldemort apart with bare hands, so he quickly put it out of his mind.
"Jon Hart, right? I remembered your name during the sorting ceremony just now!" The handsome boy smiled and said, "I'm Cedric, Cedric Diggory!"
"Cedric is the captain of the Hufflepuff Quidditch team... the only one in this century to be the captain of the Quidditch team in his fourth grade!" Hannah, who was standing behind him, had an admiring expression on her face and whispered, "His grades have always been top of the fourth grade."
It seems that Jon made a wrong judgment. Hannah is not just a fan girl of the savior Harry.
"Hello, Cedric!" Jon smiled and shook hands with Cedric.
He exchanged a few more words with Cedric, and the dinner gradually came to an end... Dumbledore, McGonagall and Snape also came back!
Dumbledore introduced Gilderoy Lockhart to everyone again, and then began to lead everyone in singing the school song:
Hogwarts, Hogwarts,
Hogwarts, Hogwarts,
Please teach us knowledge.
Whether we are old men with bald heads or children with broken knees,
Our minds can take in some interesting things.
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This is just bullsh*.....