A sharp Hogwarts

"Quiet, wait and see what happens? What do you mean..."

Lucius Malfoy was stunned and looked at Snape in confusion.

"It's obvious that rejecting underage witches at Hogwarts would cause a lot of controversy - especially today."

Snape's eyes were as cold and hard as ever, and he looked around with an intriguing accent in his voice.

"There are too many strange and unreasonable things about this matter. I suggest that she keep her student status and recruit her to come in for observation. Then she can use it as bait and put it out in the open and wait for the fish to bite."

"What? Bait?! Miss Dalia is still a child, not a piece of meat!"

"Normal admission? Snape - she's not even in the Book of Admission!"

Before Snape could finish his words, Professor McGonagall and Malfoy retorted in unison.

"So, I mean... watch for a while."

Snape said softly and slowly, rubbing the thumbs of his clasped hands up and down a few times.

"It won't take long, at most around Christmas, before we find out how talented Miss Dahlia Dursley is."

"If she proves that she is suitable to learn magic and there are no violations, I think an exception can be made - reality is stronger than the rules on paper."

"certainly……"

Snape glanced at Dahlia and said coldly without any emotion.

"If it turns out that she has no wizarding talent, then we will naturally have reasonable reasons to order her to drop out of school..."

"When the time comes, I will personally cast a spell to erase her memory - Muggle, and she should return to the Muggle world and stay well."

He snorted contemptuously, his dark eyes flashing with arrogance, and stared at Dalia's face and spoke softly.

"There is no need for Squib to go through the Ministry of Magic procedures. It is not even worthy of being recorded by us. She and this farce will disappear from Hogwarts forever."

After Snape finished speaking, the room fell into silence.

After a long time, Dumbledore spoke slowly.

"I agree with Severus's suggestion—"

"...Now it seems that there is no other better choice, right?"

Professor McGonagall shrugged.

"Then I agree." Professor Flitwick also nodded.

"I retain my previous views and I will formally lodge the relevant protest at the board meeting later."

"Hogwarts is not run by a board of directors, Mr. Malfoy."

Professor Sprout raised his eyebrows high, "Now that the four deans have reached an agreement, it's time to get everything back on track, right?"

"On the right track?" Dalia couldn't help but muttered in a low voice.

"Continue with the sorting——"

Professor McGonagall said, stroking the sorting hat in her hand and walking to Dahlia's side.

"We need to know which college you belong to so that we can arrange the corresponding class schedule, but only in this room..."

"Oooh-"

Dalia nodded and stood calmly in place, letting Professor McGonagall put the Sorting Hat on her head.

The Sorting Hat shouted less than a second after it had touched her golden hair.

"Gryffindor!"

Ugh--

Snape let out a small sigh.

He shook his head with a wry smile and retreated silently into the shadows.

…………

By the time Dalia returned to the auditorium, the first main course of the banquet had already been served.

The professors sat down in their seats one after another, and Dalia quickly came to the Gryffindor House table under the gaze of the students.

Most of the seats were occupied, except for the last empty seat next to Percy Weasley.

"Dalia, what did the professors say in the end?" Harry asked urgently.

"Of course it's a misunderstanding——"

Ron said quickly, looking at Dalia happily, "You were sorted into Gryffindor too?! That's great!"

"...Well, that's it for now."

"For now?" Percy Weasley frowned in confusion.

"Well, that's what the Sorting Hat said, but I haven't become a permanent member yet."

Dalia shrugged her shoulders, walked over to sit next to Percy, and said while arranging the tableware.

Then, she began to tell them exactly what happened in the small room. She talked for about a minute, and everyone listened very attentively.

There is nothing worth keeping secret about these things. Even if she doesn't tell her now, there will be countless curious looks from the school for a long time to come.

Rather than letting all kinds of speculations fly, it would be better for her to tell the whole story directly and openly - anyway, the school will explain that the fact that the new students are not on the Hogwarts freshman directory should be due to the fact that Hogwarts has not included the new students in the past hundred years. Gwarts was the first to do this, and the follow-up "probation" and "midterm assessment" naturally couldn't be concealed.

She talked about the votes of the four deans and school board members; she also mentioned that the letter might have been forged by a mysterious wizard...

Of course, there is also the final result, as well as a series of instructions from Professor McGonagall after she was sorted.