At night, Kewen was woken up by Penello, because he fell asleep unconsciously in the car. After all, it was the first time for him to ride this old-fashioned train. agree.
"Well... are we there yet?" Ke Wen raised his eyes to the dark night outside the window, got up and stretched his waist and asked.
"We've arrived at Hogsmeade Station." Penello said as he straightened the folds on his magic robe, "There's still some way to go before Hogwarts, let's get off the bus quickly."
"How do you know?" Ke Wen was puzzled, and at the same time took out his wand and pointed at Penello: "Clean it up."
In an instant, the robe on Penello became as neat as new.
"Thank you, put on your robe quickly." Penello urged: "Hurry up, you have to go down to gather. When you were sleeping, the conductor came to inform you."
"Okay." Cowen put away his wand, opened the suitcase and took out the wizard's robe.
Quickly put the robe on his body, and after closing the suitcases, Ke Wen picked up the two large leather suitcases, one in each hand.
"Oh, I forgot to say." Seeing this, Penello slapped his forehead quickly: "You don't need to take the salute. The conductor said that it should be placed directly on the car. Someone will help us send the salute to the academy."
"Oh, okay." Ke Wen let go, put the suitcase down again, looked at the two owl cages and asked, "Don't you use the owls too?"
"No, let's get out of the car." Penello said, reached out, took Kewen's hand, and walked out of the compartment.
Following the flow of people, Ke Wen and Penello got off the train, when there was a loud voice in the distance.
"New students come to me!"
Ke Wen turned his head and looked at the locomotive for a moment, and saw a short and fat female wizard holding a wand to her throat, using the "loud voice" magic to repeat: "New students come to my side!"
"Wow, that man's voice is really loud." Penello whispered in surprise.
"The effect of the spell, that's Professor Pomona Sprout." Kewen knew each other, so he leaned into Penello's ear and explained: "It's the professor who teaches herbalism and the dean of Hufflepuff College. .”
"You know him?" Penello asked.
"Basically, I know all the professors at Hogwarts College." Ke Wen nodded, and then walked forward while leading Penello, and said: "During the holidays, professors often take freshmen to the wand shop, O Levande introduced us to each other."
While speaking, the two of them had already come to Professor Pomona Sprout. Since more than a dozen freshmen had already gathered around them, they did not squeeze through the crowd to go to the front.
But even so, Professor Pomona Sprout saw Ke Wen and nodded to Ke Wen with a smile in her eyes.
With a polite smile, Ke Wen nodded to Professor Sputrow as a greeting.
"Okay, okay. Let me count." After a while, Professor Sputrow stopped calling, looked at the group of little wizards in front of him, and started counting.
The counting was finished soon, and Professor Sputrow nodded with a smile: "Very good, the number is correct, and the freshmen are all here. Next, follow me closely, children, do you understand?"
There were voices with different responses, and Professor Spoutlaw didn't pay attention. He raised his hand to help the patched old wizard hat on his head, and turned to lead the way.
After leaving the station, there was a huge inland lake in the distance. Along the uneven dirt road, a group of people came to the lake under the leadership of Professor Sputrow.
"Okay kids, we're here." Professor Spoutlaw pointed to the lake: "Now line up, everyone get into the wooden boat, and each boat can take up to five people."
The freshmen lined up to board the boat obediently, because Kewen and Penello walked last, so when it was their turn to board the boat, they were the only two on the small wooden boat.
As Professor Sputrow got into a small canoe alone, all the canoes started slowly one after another, led by Professor Sputrow's canoe, and sailed towards the interior of the lake.
Each wooden boat has a wooden pole, and an oil lamp is hung on the top of the wooden pole. The light can only illuminate a range of one meter around the wooden boat, and people need to hold the wooden pole with their hands.
Ke Wen took over the job, and did not use any spells like Levitation, because there were so many newborns nearby, and he didn't want to show off his magical abilities.
The wooden boat drove slowly, and after more than ten minutes passed, after passing through a low stone bridge hole, the surroundings were no longer dark, and a faint light came from the distance ahead.
Because of the mist on the lake, everyone couldn't see the scene where the light came from. It wasn't until the wooden boat drove for another ten minutes that they could see the source of the light clearly.
It was a gigantic castle, built on top of a cliff. Orange lights shone through the large and small windows of the castle, reflecting the lake in front of it in a dim yellow color.
"Wow..." Penello stared straight at the castle in front of him, and exclaimed involuntarily.
At the same time, various exclamations sounded from the surrounding small wooden boats. Immediately, the originally quiet environment was completely broken, and the freshmen on each ship couldn't help but start discussing about the castle.
Ke Wen didn't care that much about the castle, it was just a castle, and it wasn't worth his surprise. But unable to bear the excitement of Penello beside him, he had no choice but to echo a few words perfunctorily.
After a while, the discussion gradually subsided, and the wooden boat drove for more than ten minutes, and finally reached the shore.
Going ashore, the freshmen were led forward by Professor Sputrow, left the pier, walked across the road, and finally came under the castle.
After entering the main entrance, it was not the castle hall in front of it, but went up two more stairs, and then stopped in front of a huge carved wooden door.
"Thank you, Pomona." In front of the door, Professor McGonagall nodded slightly to Professor Spoutlaw with a serious expression.
"Sure, then I'll go first." Professor Sputrow responded, "I'll hand over the children to you."
"Well, let's go in quickly." After Professor McGonagall finished speaking, his eyes quickly scanned the faces of the sixty-two freshmen, and his eyes also stayed on Ke Wen's face for a moment.
"Welcome to Hogwarts..." Professor McGonagall delivered a speech, and then explained the sorting matters that new students will face next, and briefly talked about the rules of the college.
After Professor McGonagall finished speaking, Penello whispered in Ke Wen's ear: "I am really looking forward to the future life of the college. By the way, Ke Wen, do you know how to divide schools?"
"I don't know. I've asked many people, but they didn't tell me." Ke Wen shook his head and answered in a low voice...
(end of this chapter)