the lost castle

"Enter Hogwarts, come, welcome the start of horror"

Nothing can stop Hogwarts from starting normally once a year! !

But this time the question is whether the students dare to come.

Some parents who had decided not to allow their children to go to Hogwarts hesitated under the overwhelming attacks of the Daily Prophet. You must know that Gryffindor and Slytherin are still deeply rooted in their impressions. The concept of a peaceful life, but looking at it now, it is not a Slytherin, not just Gryffindor, but the four founders of Hogwarts exist at the same time, Merlin, this joke is a bit big, although England has experienced During the horror period of the Dark Lord’s reign, the strength in Europe and the world has been declining all the way, but there is no United Nations in the wizarding world. Whoever is strong and who is weak just feels good or uncomfortable. It takes Hogwarts who has been dead for 1000 years Do the founders all show up again?

But children don't care what adults are worrying about. They are all sharp-eyed and simple-minded. They can't wait to count the days and wait for the time to go to school. Those who are not new students spend their time comforting their parents. They even experienced the war last semester. By the way, no matter how terrifying the founder of Hogwarts is, he will not try to tear down the castle like the Death Eaters (hey, the point is wrong) Besides, even Salazar.Slytherin is a terrible dark wizard, isn't there three others.The Slytherin house rejects the witches of the Slytherin family, and they are not from the Slytherin house, so what are you afraid of, even the freshmen just don't enter the snake house.Hey, it's actually that there are no sorcerers in that academy, okay?

So this year's Hogwarts Express, from the entanglement of parents on the platform, repeatedly persuading their children to think about starting again, to the start of the train, the little wizards who are full of cars are very excited, even the little wizards who usually care most about selling snacks. Didn't even look at the cart.

The excitement lasted until they got off the train, the new students entered the castle from the ferry, and others came to the hall to prepare for the new school year sorting ceremony, still chattering.

The sharp-eyed ones have already discovered the changes in the four animals on the school badge, and they are even more excited. They don't even look forward to the sumptuous dinner they have been waiting for. They stare closely at the side door leading to the hall behind the professor's long table. Unfortunately, they keep seeing Professor McGonagall put the Sorting Hat on the four-corner stool, and the four middle seats were still empty.

Slughorn coughed heavily, of course he knew what the students were looking forward to with those bright eyes, but it was a pity, not to mention these children, even they had never seen the four of them until now.Hogwarts is so big, it's a joke that you're looking for four founders who can Apparate and have their own secrets.

The Sorting Hat twisted its body, very dissatisfied that everyone's attention was not on it.

To be precise, on the first day the master came back, he took the Gryffindor sword out of its hat, which made it very uncomfortable. After all, it was the sword that had been with it for 1000 years~~

So it opened its mouth, and the song was definitely the loudest in recent decades, distorted and high-pitched so that it went straight to the dome.

"~Hogwarts was first founded long ago, in a history where reality has disappeared~"

A blue arc of light came flying out of nowhere, and the Sorting Hat screamed and jumped on the four-corner stool, trying to avoid it.The spell disappeared without a sound after passing by, but this little episode shocked many people, and many more people, including the professor, felt inexplicably happy. Not a pleasant thing to do.

The auditorium was silent for at least ten seconds, and there was no sound.

When the Sorting Hat opened its mouth again, its voice was much lower. It was purely chanting. The brim of the hat kept rubbing left and right, twisting endlessly, as if observing the surrounding situation, ready to escape at any time if something bad happened.

As a result, except for the freshmen, no one was seriously listening to what the hat sang.

The sorting ceremony was carried out in a very quiet and orderly manner. There was no headmaster, which just meant that no one made the final speech. It didn’t affect anything at all. Far from reducing the number of new students entering Slytherin, on the contrary, many of them would have chosen Ravenclaw. All the young wizards who were born in the pure-blood nobles were willing to enter the Snake Court because they no longer shy away from taboos after the war.

The dinner was very sumptuous, the tables were piled full of plates, and the aroma was overflowing, but everyone was a bit clueless.While eating, he secretly glanced at the four empty chairs.

But they were doomed to be disappointed tonight, and until the last pudding disappeared from the table, the professors of Hogwarts were also sure of one thing, that is, the four founders may not be as directly involved in the school as they feared. business, or without directly asserting that a big change is coming.

To be honest, there are still certain problems with the current education system for training young wizards, but due to various reasons, it is difficult to change, but in any case, the medieval Hogwarts curriculum is definitely not suitable for today's children.That is to say, those four probably have many things they don't understand about the current era, right?

For example, Quidditch and the Floo network, those are things that never existed 1000 years ago.

Fortunately, Hogwarts has remained unchanged for thousands of years, unlike Diagon Alley.

Reminiscent of the Gringotts goblin being beaten innocently, the professors really wanted to laugh but couldn't laugh, especially when they had been to the Middle Ages and heard the rumors about the goblin persistently chasing the four of them.

In fact, thinking about it this way, it is not the wizards who are really declining, but the goblins. Think about how fierce their ancestors were back then.

Coming out of the auditorium, the corridor stairs are brightly lit up and down.

But what surprised the non-freshmen was that all the statues quietly guarding the corridors or classroom doors left the stone bases, dangling in twos and threes, and some of them buried their heads in muttering together. The reliefs in the public rooms are more lively than the portraits.

Some beautifully cast statues are not much different from living people except for their strange complexion and stiff movements.

A curious child reached out to touch it when passing by, hey, stone is still stone, wood is still wood, the feel is the same, but it caused the statues to stare back very dissatisfied.

"This is really great." Colin was the only one holding the camera and pressing the shutter to death.Creevey was alone, and although he was in seventh grade this year, his eager curiosity for new things remained undiminished.

Even the Lion House students shrugged and walked away, thanking Colin for his interest.

Only the freshmen stood curiously behind him, even the prefect was reluctant to move when he signaled them to go.In desperation, the prefect had no choice but to let Colin remember to bring those curious freshmen back before the curfew.

"This castle is really big."

The more they go up, the more lively they are. Of course, there are fewer students from other colleges. Although it is not the shortest way to the Gryffindor common room on the eighth floor, it is true that you can see a lot of people walking around like this. It was a new thing, and Colin was warned by the statues several times, because they didn't like this kind of strange things that suddenly flashed, which shocked them.

So another hand suddenly reached out from the corner next to it, and took the camera directly from Colin's hand. Although everyone was shocked, Colin still apologized subconsciously.

"Ah, I just think you guys are amazing, I always thought you couldn't move, so..."

Colin froze all the rest of his words, staring in front of him gaping, standing lazily against the wall, tossing and turning curiously looking at the knight with the camera in his hand, the silver armor was a familiar medieval style (from all the way I have seen too many statues) But the long golden hair and handsome appearance, it seems that no sculptor can endow the statue.

"Huh? I haven't been petrified, so of course I can move..." The knight, who still seemed to maintain his youthful appearance, casually turned the camera upside down, probably not finding much magic power inside, wondering.

Colin swallowed hard, scratched his head in embarrassment and said:

"Sir, that's my camera, can you return it to me..."

"What is this for?" the knight bent down and asked with great interest.

Although Colin is 17 years old, he is still a head shorter than the other party. This closeness confirms that the other party is absolutely impossible to be a statue. On the contrary, he looks very much like a person walking out of a portrait. He is handsome, sunny and smiling. It dazzled his eyes. If he had a camera in his hand, Colin would definitely press the shutter without even thinking about it.

His brain froze for a moment, forgetting to answer.

"This can be a picture of you on a piece of paper." There was a Muggle-born wizard among the freshmen, using a very general explanation.

"Isn't that the same as a mirror!"

The knight, who was no longer interested, threw the camera to Colin and passed them by.

Along the way, there are portraits, stone statues and reliefs of greetings and salutes, including passing ghosts.

Colin watched helplessly as Professor Flitwick came from the stairs, probably heading towards the Ravenclaw Tower. As soon as Professor Charms raised his head, he was so nervous that he almost fainted, and stammered:

"Good night, Lord Gryffindor."

"Ah, you are the one who is said to teach spells?" Godric, who is of goblin blood, definitely remembers the prison.

Professor Flitwick stuck to the corridor wall, nodding stiffer than a stone sculpture.

"Do you know where you can buy a basilisk in this era?"

Professor Charms opened his mouth wide and shook his head violently.

"Hey, the group of portraits in the principal's office just now said that this place is different from 1000 years ago. There are many things that you don't need to search for and grab, you can just buy them."

Yes, but—

"Why do you... want to buy a basilisk?" Professor Charms regretted as soon as he asked.

"I lost Salazar's pet."

really!

"What should I do? If I don't find another one for him, Salazar won't forgive me!"

Professor Charms stared straight at the distressed expression on the blond knight's face, but he obviously didn't expect Flitwick to solve the problem for him, so he left directly. The former head of Ravenclaw couldn't hold back the excitement, bang With a bang, he fell to the ground and passed out.

Colin was stunned, and then there was a click in his hand, forcing him to come back to his senses.

It turned out that he pressed the shutter subconsciously, and when he looked back, the freshmen behind him were still frozen in admiration, but there was a strange twisted expression on his face.Colin scratched his forehead, suddenly let out a cry of surprise, and went straight to the Gryffindor common room.

That night, the photo of the founder of Gryffindor questioning Professor Flitwick in the corridor caused an uproar in the Lion House.

You must know that the photos in the magic world are dynamic, and they can repeat the actions and sounds of the first few seconds and the last few seconds when they were taken, so the little lions put on a silly face, listening to the topic about the basilisk petrified, petrified Listening to their founder's woes, losing a Slytherin pet, Merlin, it's a really...seriously twisted... thing.

Who will explain to them, aren't those two opponents who don't like it?