Hogwarts 1991

Chapter 26 Banquet
Harry suspected that the old hat had gone mad, or that it wanted revenge on Professor McGonagall for assigning McGuffin Albert to Gryffindor.

Ron, Percy and other Gryffindor students next to him should have applauded and applauded, but everyone stayed in place, at a loss.

After McGuffin put the hat on the chair and left, the crazy hat slumped onto the chair, shaking slightly.

McGuffin returned to Gryffindor, and there was no applause for him.

Harry estimated that everyone in Gryffindor thought the same as him. The hat was either broken, or he took revenge on Professor McGonagall to assign the little wizard to Gryffindor.

When McGuffin came to the Gryffindor long table, the Weasley brothers took the lead in applauding, and only then did applause sporadically break out here.

The banquet seems to have returned to the normal track.

It's just that many students quietly stared at the boy who caused the riot from the corner of their eyes, whispering, and constantly discussing the newly released gossip.

Some little wizards even swore that the scene just now happened because this guy cast an evil black magic on the Sorting Hat, which caused all this to happen.

McGuffin didn't care about any of this, he was broken, completely spoiled by the hat.

"Who the hell is messing with me!"

Things were totally unexpected, what went wrong!
McGuffin's hands and feet were cold, and he didn't know what to do. He came to the long table of Gryffindor and sat down like a sleepwalker. His whole body was pale and pale, and he lost his color.

Albus Dumbledore obviously understood the students' minds very well. He stood up and stretched out his arms to them, and said a few simple words: "Idiot! Scream! Scum! Twist!"

"Thank you everyone! Now the banquet begins!"

The students applauded and cheered together, and the weird atmosphere in the hall subsided.

Then Dumbledore took his wand and tapped the tall gold cup in front of him.Exquisite delicacies immediately appeared on the four long tables: lamb chops, steaks, pork chops, sausages, bread, baked potatoes, carrot potatoes,... all kinds of food.

The attention of the little wizards was finally diverted from the accident just now.

The Weasley twin came up to McGuffin and patted him on the back and said, "Job, what the hell did you do just now! Never seen the Sorting Hat like that, it's crazy!"

George said, "Very interesting! You must tell us how it's done, some kind of Confusion Charm? We could use him on those bastards on the Slytherin Quidditch team too, make them embarrass themselves in public, or make them go crazy in front of Filch - throw a big shit in his face..."

George closed his eyes and raised his head, his face full of excited fantasies.

Fred chewed the steak and said vaguely: "Don't you want to eat some? It tastes really good, aren't you hungry?"

"Hungry! Why don't you eat!"

McGuffin took a lot of baked potatoes, steaks, etc., and stuffed a lot of food into his mouth, with the sides of his cheeks puffed up. He turned his grief and anger into appetite to relieve his depression.

"It's absolutely impossible to continue like this. I want to find some remedial measures to make up for what happened just now!"

McGuffin isn't going to sit still.

Well, that hat must be in disrepair, well, it must be.

McGuffin completely forgot about those horrible memories and thoughts he fabricated on the surface of his brain, which is likely to be the cause of the Sorting Hat accident.

Throwing the blame on the Sorting Hat, McGuffin thought about it in detail, and felt that he was being plotted against by the "Little Hat" because he was too honest.

To divert other people's attention, you have to rely on other 'explosive' events to happen.

To do this, McGuffin, who is familiar with the plot, quickly thought of a feasible method.

That is relying on our iron-headed savior-McGuffin looked back.

Nick was tearing his head off as a demonstration, which stunned the freshmen beside him.The neck is broken and translucent, and the lines of flesh and blood are clearly visible.

——I said, is it okay to do this while eating?
Harry, who was discussing Slytherin's ghost, Baron the Bloody Man, with Nick, suddenly felt a chill down his spine.

According to the feeling, McGuffin Albert was alone in a corner, and there were no freshmen around him, only the two twin brothers of the Weasley family who didn't know what to say to him.

He stared at himself with that strange gaze, perhaps realizing that Harry had noticed, he immediately retracted his gaze, and that feeling disappeared instantly.

"Does that happen often? Isn't the McGuffin a little-weird?" Harry was very surprised and turned to Percy next to him and asked what happened to the Sorting Hat just now.

"Oh, it's also the first time I've seen it. You've heard the evil black magic theory from other little wizards, right? That's impossible, not to mention that it's impossible for freshmen at this age to master this kind of magic. What's more, the professor and even Dumbledore, the best wizard in the world, are still watching from above. No one can use black magic under his nose."

"...Zi Liu." After taking a sip of the rich potato and beef soup, Percy continued, "I guess the Sorting Hat has been used for too long, it has been 400 years, and it just broke when it was worn on the Macguffin's head? Would you like some beef soup? It's really delicious!"

After Harry declined Percy's offer, this statement barely gave Harry a reason to console himself, and he quickly turned his attention to the food, eating with an open stomach.

When ice cream, puddings, donuts, cakes, and biscuits of various sweets and flavors appeared on the dining table, everyone finally talked about other aspects.

The freshmen introduced each other, and no little wizard talked to MacGuffin, which was exactly what he thought.

He came here to learn magic, not to make friends with these brats.

After the sweets disappeared and the banquet was over, Dumbledore stood up again and announced some precautions, and then began to direct everyone to sing the school song:
(Golden ribbons twisted and coiled like snakes over the dining table to form lines of text.)
Hogwarts, Hogwarts, Hogwarts, Hogwarts,

Give us the knowledge,
……

We will study hard until we turn into dung.

Everyone sang the song in disarray, especially the two Weasley brothers who sang slowly and leisurely according to their own unique tunes.

Let everyone go back after Dumbledore announced a few new school rules.

The banquet is finally over.

(End of this chapter)