Hogwarts 1991

Chapter 232 We Are Hogwarts!
The blazing fire path continuously circled and spread upwards from four directions.

The ceiling lit up bit by bit, and the galaxies began to float above their heads.

McGuffin didn't know where they were going... Maybe it was a Hogwarts basement, or maybe it was a magical secret place like the Room of Requirement that was constantly expanded by spells.

It made him feel so small here...

The ceiling is almost like the real starry sky, far away and untouchable,... Various galaxy, nebula exudes various colors of fluorescent light and continuously rotates in a changing and irregular shape.

All of a sudden, let everyone indulge in this eternal endless starry sky.

When he came back to his senses for a while, the huge stone steps around the Hogwarts classroom hundreds of years ago had been surrounded by spirally wound fire paths.

The flickering flames illuminated the entire classroom brightly.

All of them are revealed from the mysterious, vague and vague atmosphere.

This ancient classroom is circular, but it does look square, and it is also a square room surrounded by four huge statues.

It is said to be round because...

Except for the ceiling of stars above the head that they can't see the edge of.

The top here is circular and extremely wide, like being in an unusually wide football field. The place where the original auditorium was located was replaced by circles of spiral fire paths from top to bottom. (Every flame is burning on the passage like a giant stone step like a pyramid)

But the flames were scorching,...but they didn't feel any heat at all, as if they were separated by two spaces.

It is said to be square because downwards from the circular court... At each point that divides the circle into four equilateral distances, there are four giant sculptures of different materials standing.

From the position where they were half-bodied, the lower part of the field became a square, and the huge steps like an inverted pyramid shrunk little by little to the bottom, which was where they stood.

When it comes to the ground space, it becomes much smaller, only as big as a basketball court.

"Big Four!..."

Hermione looked forward to admiring.

Just like the illustrations in the book.

Statues of the four founders of Hogwarts, Godric Gryffindor, Helga Hufflepuff, Salazar Slytherin and Rowena Ravenclaw, have stood there for centuries.

In their hands they each held a sword, a diadem and a golden book (one hand held the book in the center, and the other hanging hand held the legendary diadem that bestows wisdom), the serpent that encircled the wand, and the golden cup (with a small sapling in it).

All the flames start in front of their iconic items, and end in the middle of the place closest to the sky, converging in the sky to form a ring of fire that burns fiercely.

The four huge statues leaned slightly like five or six-story giants and stared at the little wizard below.

Fang Nuo saw that after hundreds of years, wizards finally came again, and a faint smile appeared on their faces...

The materials of the four statues are still different... Gryffindor is hewn from red granite, Hufflepuff is made of several giant yellow-green trees, Ravenclaw looks like it is made of translucent white-blue ice, and Slytherin is a dark green bronze statue.

"Mother……"

Lady Gray gazed at the giant statue of Rowena Ravencaraw for a long time, her voice full of regret and sorrow.

This classroom... or this secret teaching space of Hogwarts hundreds of years ago is completely different from the slightly modernized classroom of today.

You can also get a general understanding from Malfoy's disdainful words.

"What kind of unlucky place is this?... There is not even a stool!"

The ground here is lined with a slightly shiny black slate, and irregular metal mats are scattered here and there in the area as large as the basketball court.

In the center of the venue, there is a step more than two meters high... or a podium.

Bronze color and texture, but it looks like wood grain under the firelight.

The voices of Malfoy and other little wizards became louder and louder, waking Ms. Gray from her sad memories.

She clapped her hands to signal the little wizards to be quiet, and said.

"Now, like this."

"Each college selects a student representative and walks in front of me..."

"Other students pick a seat and sit down..."

"What kind of seat is this... Is this how Hogwarts taught students before? Can't even afford a table and chairs?" Draco Malfoy said in his cold, drawn-out tone.

"This this……"

Ms. Gray was visibly disturbed, unable to find her words.

"Shut up! The Broom King...you can't win the competition if you buy so many brooms, what are you talking about..." Hermione said directly with an unhappy face.

She was obviously eager to learn how Hogwarts was taught hundreds of years ago, and she didn't know anything about this place from the library.

Unknown knowledge excited Hermione, and she didn't want others to interfere with her studies.

"Know everything, you..." Malfoy pulled his face.

McGuffin was really convinced. Can't these little wizards feel the chill brought by the sight of the bloody Barrow behind their backs!
To die like this.

Although the bloody Barrow didn't appear frontally, it was obvious that Ms. Gray's crazy suitor was hiding in a corner of the wall and watching secretly.

Just in case, he should come forward to get some goodwill points!
"Slytherin, this school is going to be ruined." Malfoy sneered, "With this kind of stupid teaching, and a school where mudbloods are rampant... My father must have a thorough cleaning and change..."

He raised the newspaper in his hand and said loudly.

"Shut up! Malfoy." McGuffin walked up to Malfoy and said coldly.

The other students also stared at Malfoy with dissatisfaction.

(After all, this unknown and unfamiliar environment makes them feel full of freshness. I want to see what Ms. Gray will teach them next. After all, the reading teaching method like Mr. Binns made them drowsy and unable to lift their heads...No one thinks that they can learn anything)
Malfoy, seeing that the situation was not good for him, took two steps back wisely, and said nothing.

After a little discussion among the little wizards, the four academies elected their own representatives.

Gryffindor is naturally Hermione, Ravenclaw is a girl McGuffin does not know, Slytherin must be Malfoy, and Hufflepuff is a little wizard named Ernie.

They stood in the middle of the field, under the podium.

Lady Gray is floating above.

She looked at the little wizards, then flicked her hands.

It was only then that McGuffin discovered that there was a metal-shaped book on the desk, and as Ms. Gray's hand was floating, the book was slowly being opened.

Then she waved again to the flames above.

A large number of flames turned into flames wrapped around the four statues, slowly wriggling, and slowly building bridges in the sky, starting to gather in the sky where they were.

— Form a fireball about one meter in diameter.

Everyone looked up at this magical scene.

"Quickly, point your wands in that direction, towards the sky!" Ms. Gray shouted hastily.

Malfoy raised his wand reluctantly under the urging of everyone, and aimed at the fireball together with the other three young wizards.

"Tell me what you think about your own academy!"

"what?"

Not only Malfoy, everyone was puzzled.

Ms. Gray said hurriedly, "You are the first to think of the most representative words for the academy in your mind, just say it out loud!"

"Just express your love for your house... Remember that the four founders of Hogwarts are watching you!"

"What the hell is this! This crappy school is really... let some crazy ghosts teach... Father will go crazy if he knows it!"

Malfoy kept complaining, but he could only follow the crowd and raise his wand and aim it at that thing.

Although Hermione was at a loss, she immediately thought of a lot of descriptions about Gryffindor in the book, organized her words a little, and was about to speak.

At this moment, Ms. Gray began to move her hand slowly on the metal writing, muttering in her mouth.

As before, the voice was muffled and fragmented, not like a language.

As the sound continued, many harmony voices began to echo in the entire secluded space to sing with her.

This time they understood... The tune was actually the school song of Hogwarts, but the tune was a little different from usual,... It made people feel a little sad, empty, and sounded very lonely.

I don't know who started it, or there is an inexplicable magical power in this song. Other little wizards...including McGuffin, who is tone deaf, also murmured and hummed along with the tune.

When the four little wizards aimed at the fireball, the fireball rapidly expanded and shrunk, and gradually thinned out into an orange-red disc, spinning and floating in the sky like a galaxy.

And a ray of light was shot from the hollow in the middle, and fell vertically to shine on the little wizards.

For some reason, Hermione felt a surge of strength in her heart, and she felt her scalp stand on end. (Perhaps it was the illusory, ethereal, mysterious, and somewhat lonely singing that made her excited!)
His body was numb, and the words he had prepared were all forgotten in an instant.

A voice, a word kept echoing in her ears.

The mood became more and more surging, and the blood kept beating and surging in her heart. After coming to Hogwarts and being assigned to Gryffindor, Hermione studied by herself, cast spells, made friends, and took exams... All kinds of wonderful and magical, ordinary, distressed and sweet scenes kept flashing before her eyes.

Hermione forcefully retracted the wand back to her chest, as if swearing, she stared at the wand and said out loudly.

She can't stop, she has to say it.

(The same is true for the other three young wizards including Malfoy.)
"We are brave, we are reckless, we are courageous...We are Gryffindors! Gryffindors will uphold justice!"

"We desire power, we are strong and calm, we are graceful and self-reliant...we never regret it! Slytherin will always stand at the top!"

"We are clever, we think calmly, we never give up... Wisdom is our most precious gift, and Ravenclaw always welcomes a seeker!"

"We are tenacious, we are not afraid of hardships, we are honest and loyal... Hufflepuffs always give nature, and the world will be ours!"

All the little wizards below shouted along with the four little wizards almost at the same time.

The roar echoed in this classroom hundreds of years ago.

Layer after layer echoed, the flame seemed to be shaken by the power contained in it, rolling and beating and sweeping like ocean waves, and the whole classroom dimmed rapidly.

McGuffin was the first to regain control of his body.

"Is this the Imperius Curse, or the Manipulation Curse, or the Confusion Curse..."

"It all feels a bit different!"

McGuffin immediately recalled the feeling with an ugly face, although a positive feeling emerged in his body just now, an emotion that was too surging to hold.

But the sudden uncontrollable situation made him a little scared... He wondered what was going on in his heart.

Just thinking about this, his wand trembled slightly, involuntarily leading him to lift it up to the sky, towards the top where the four little wizards were pointing... the same goes for other little wizards.

Then streaks of silvery meteor-like light shot from the tip of the wand to the slowly rotating flame disc in the sky.

The flame disc quickly turned into lines of words in the sky—the words they spoke just now, and then turned into chapters of 'music' one by one, shrinking and falling on the book in front of Ms. Gray.

The pages of the book were flipped back and forth quickly, and the words were projected into the mid-air as light.

"Something is ringing!"

Ron exclaimed.

All the little wizards stood there watching all this.

Four sculptures come to life.

——Yes, literally.

Following the sound, they raised their heads and observed, as if observing whether the words spoken by the little wizards just now were in line with their own intentions.

Nod slightly from time to time.

"Hogwarts!"

In the end, as if four men and women roared from hundreds of years ago, after this huge shock, all the flames disappeared, leaving only the bright starry sky still spinning... spinning?
"This this……"

All the little wizards gasped.

The sky was split.

The starry sky originally displayed on the ceiling has a gap in the middle, and it is still expanding slowly. The blue sky, bright white clouds and sunlight are slowly squeezed out of the gap, and the starry sky is gradually pushed and pulled to the sides like a sliding door and disappears.

The spiral fire path, the huge pyramid-like stone wall steps...all disappeared.

Instead... it was the summer sun; it was the grass like floating waves; it was the silvery, slightly rippling river and lake, even in the world of wizards, it could be said that the changes surrounded the little wizards like a dream.

Although there were some computer special effects like this in the previous life, I can also imagine the kind of virtual reality in the future...

But this genuine feeling, the slight warmth in the air, the touch of the breeze...

— Incredible!

(End of this chapter)