[HP] Butterfly Effect

When the sky was completely dark, the train reached its terminal.

After getting off the bus, the old students and the freshmen immediately divided into two groups.Students who had already attended Hogwarts gathered to catch a bus to the school on the other side.The freshmen were crowded in place, not knowing how to get to the school at all, until the giant Hagrid came to welcome them, and they collectively took the ferry to Hogwarts.

To be honest, when Hagrid showed up, many freshmen were taken aback by him.All I could see behind a bright light was a huge black shadow slowly moving closer.The miner's lamp in his hand illuminated the huge amount of steam from the train, and he looked like a towering monster coming out of the mist, with layers of shadows being dragged behind him.

Hogwarts is a medieval castle located on the edge of a towering cliff. The area of ​​the castle almost covers the entire hill, and the bottom of the cliff is a vast expanse of water.When they arrived, there was no moon or stars in the sky, but the whole castle was brightly lit, as if the stars had been picked off and decorated in the school.

The closer you get to Hogwarts, the more clear spots of light float on the water surface, and the warm light pours down from top to bottom, intertwined in the mist at the bottom of the castle, dense and soft.Before that, Aurora and the others seemed to be floating through the darkness.

After landing on the shore, they walked up the stairs built from the school gate to the water surface, and gradually entered the school.

The scene inside gave all the students a feeling of going back in time, as if there was a kind of magic here that split a complete world into two different scenes.Outside, Muggles enjoy the convenient energy brought by the third technological revolution after World War II, and atomic/atomic/computer energy and computers are increasingly infiltrated into life.However, the wizarding world has always maintained its previous appearance, and every detail reveals a classical charm that only existed in the Victorian era or even earlier.

Everything here is so ancient, and every brick and stone is a witness to endless history.The traces of wear and tear of those carvings from the passage of time have precipitated an obscurity and delicacy that is completely different from modern society. It is a feeling that has nothing to do with vivid vitality, but has a heavy foundation.Rock yellow is the main color of everything here, as colorful as letter paper covered with sunshine.

The witch standing on the steps was wearing a forest green velvet robe, and a Scottish-style feather-pointed hat cast a large shadow on her face.She should be very old, but she is tall and thin, her temperament and posture are very elegant, and she has a majestic aura that makes people around her dare not make mistakes.She just stood there without saying anything, miraculously quieting down the noisy freshmen.

After a simple self-introduction and the announcement of the academy's reward and punishment system, the witch who called herself Professor McGonagall led the freshmen into the dining room.Everything was the same as what Aurora had seen in the "Hogwarts, A School History", but it was far stronger than the impact of those barren words.

After being enchanted, you can see the high roof of the sky, hundreds of white candles floating in the air, and orange flames burning on it, blooming like roses dripping on the snow-white ground.

The freshmen gathered in the open space at the front of the four long and wide dining tables, facing all the professors and principals of Hogwarts above the steps in a dignified manner.Professor McGonagall shook out the parchment in his hand, stood beside the stool with a shabby wizard hat as described in the book, and read the names on it one by one.

"Cecilia Winston."

The sorting hat was put on the tall blue-eyed girl's head, and after thinking about it for about half a minute, it announced the result cheerfully and loudly: "Hufflepuff!"

The students at the table next to the wall immediately cheered to welcome their new classmates.

"Bill Weasley."

The red-haired boy also quickly got his own result: "Gryffindor!"

"I really don't know which college we will be assigned to." Vox nervously watched the freshmen in front go up one by one, then got his own answer, and asked Aurora, "Have you thought about going to the college?" Which college?"

Compared with the nervousness of Vaux and other students, Aurora seemed much more comfortable, and her voice was still brisk and calm: "I haven't thought about it, but I hope I can go to a very friendly college. It’s important, I don’t have any specialties myself.”

"I wish we could be in the same academy."

"hope so."

At this time, Professor McGonagall suddenly called Vaux's name: "Gerard Chevalier."

Vaux closed his eyes hard, then clutched his sleeves and let go, almost trotting all the way to the stool.Aurora leaned forward as much as possible, because she was considered short among the group of freshmen, and could only see what was happening above through the gaps in the crowd.

After the Sorting Hat was put on Vox's head for about a short while, it made that excited and loud sound again, and this time its brim happily lifted to the sides, like a pair of little wings: "Gran Fendo!"

Vox heaved a sigh of relief, and quickly sat down in the empty seat next to Bill Weasley in response to the applause from his fellow students, then turned his head and gave Aurora an encouraging smile.

The list went halfway, with Hufflepuff having the most students and Slytherin having the fewest.

"Caroline Cooper."

"Hufflepuffs!"

"Beverly Greenberg."

Aurora saw that the Sorting Hat gave the answer within ten seconds of touching Beverly, and her voice was shrill and shrill: "Slytherin!"

"Aurora Field."

Aurora squeezed out from the crowd and sat on the wooden bench, with the Sorting Hat placed on top of her head by Professor McGonagall.

"Hmm..." Aurora heard a small, misty voice squeeze into her mind, "This kind of talent... Yes, there was a person with this kind of talent in Hogwarts before, a student decades ago. Haha , It's so strange, you obviously don't have any blood relationship. Hmm... your personalities are also very suitable."

"Then, should you put both of you in the same house..." the voice asked in a drawn-out tone, "Come on, let us ask, what is your greatest wish for coming to Hogwarts?"

"Wish?" Aurora was confused by the question, and then thought about it for a while, "Study hard, graduate smoothly, and find a good job in the future."

She swore she answered seriously.

The voice started muffled laughter in Aurora's head, and it took a while before it stopped: "Same talent, right personality, I know where you should be. Haha, that's interesting."

"Hufflepuff—!" The Sorting Hat almost jumped off Aurora's head this time, and there was a strange smile in the loud announcement.

When Aurora walked over to Hufflepuff, who was applauding warmly, she turned her head and saw Vox sitting at the Gryffindor table, who was rather disappointed.She waved to him and sat down next to Caroline.

Soon, each student found a fellow student with whom they would spend the next seven years, and the Headmaster, Albus Dumbledore, stood up to announce the new teachers and other considerations for this semester.

"This is a belated announcement, because I think many of my classmates already knew about it in the last school year, but because of the freshmen's entrance, I have to say it again." Horace Slughore, the old head of Slytherin House Mr En has left, so Severus Snape has been the new Head of Slytherin since last year and the official Potions Professor from this school year."

While Principal Dumbledore was still introducing, Aurora suddenly felt as if her feet were frozen by something bitingly cold.She looked under the table suspiciously, and saw a translucent and pearly white ghost lying on the ground and making faces at her.The ghost had a big round head, eyes almost as big as ping pong balls, and long sharp and long ears. It lay motionless on the ground and stared at Aurora, grinning with a cold and treacherous smile.And the icy coldness that Aurora felt was coming from that ghost.

Because he was scratching his feet.

"Let us welcome Professor Snape."

"Ahhh—! There is a ghost!"

Aurora didn't care that it was the time when the audience was silent, and was so frightened by the ghost under her feet that she jumped up from the stool.What followed was a disaster, with Caroline and the rest of the new Hufflepuffs screaming in terror.Vaux and Beverly stood up at the same time and looked in Hufflepuff's direction, not understanding what happened.

However, the farce was not over yet, another chubby little monk-like ghost suddenly jumped out from the wall and stopped the freshmen, and threw a rare tantrum at the laughing Peeves rolling around under the table: "You are too much Peeves! How can you scare the freshmen when the principal is speaking!"

After finishing speaking, he turned his head and stroked Aurora's hair, which was still trembling in a state of panic: "Oh, poor child, are you okay?" Shivering with the same cold.

The ghost's body temperature is too low.

"I..." Aurora pressed against the wall tightly, staring at the ghost in front of her with wide eyes.She could completely see through the translucent body of the other party and see that everyone was looking at her, including that Professor Snape whose introduction was interrupted just now.

When he and Dumbledore stand together, there is a strange and dramatic contrast effect, from every touch of color on the body to the eyes, it is almost the opposite.The thick and warm light in the hall didn't seem to affect him at all, and even the outline of his whole body couldn't warm him at all.

Snape's eyes were as dark as the robe he was wearing. When he looked at people without emotion, he was like a dark river frozen below the ice in a winter night, with no fluctuations and bottomless depths.Aurora suddenly felt a little dazed, she seemed to have seen these eyes somewhere, but the new Slytherin headmaster in front of her was obviously much clearer and stranger than the vague memory deep in her mind.

"The mischief should be over, Peeves." After Dumbledore finished speaking, he stretched out his hand and pinched Peeves' collar in a vacuum to lift it up, his chin slightly retracted, and his shining blue eyes looked from above the lens. Looking at the group of terrified children.I don't know if it was an illusion, but Aurora felt that Dumbledore smiled very lightly just now.

Except for the Bloody Baron, Peeves only listened to Dumbledore, so he obediently walked through the wall and disappeared.

"I'm sorry, Professor..." After Aurora regained her composure, she realized that some students were laughing softly, and she immediately felt ashamed.

"Oh, it's all right, there's no need to apologize. Please take a seat, children." The principal gestured gracefully, the tiny gemstones on his cuffs sparkling in the candlelight.

Caroline patted her chest with lingering fear, and sat down next to Aurora, looking down from time to time.The fat friar reassured them that Peeves would not be coming back for a short time.

After the introduction, Aurora hardly listened to it at all, only heard words such as "forbidden forest" and "black lake".It wasn't until the opening banquet was finally announced that Aurora's attention was mobilized again by the rich and exquisite dining table in front of him, which could fill a whole college's students, but there was no repetitive food.

She chose the dish closest to her to try, only to find that the swan's eye was actually mint candy—mint and sugar, the two things she hated the most were fused into one, and hatred could not describe the taste.

After the banquet, they sang a school song with only words and no tune under Dumbledore's command, so anyone can sing it in any tune they like.Afterwards, the students from each college were taken back to their respective residences by the prefects.

Aurora met her roommates, one was Caroline Cooper, whom she had known for a long time, and the other was Cecilia Winston, who was also assigned to Hufflepuff.

Caroline's personality is quite familiar, and Cecilia, who is also lively and cheerful, quickly chatted from life experience and hobbies to family background.Because Hufflepuff is a famous hodgepodge of students, no one here has an opinion on the purity of the blood, and as long as the personalities are compatible, they can chat from dark to dawn.

The luggage had already been sent to the residence, and the first thing Aurora did when she returned to the room was to rescue Brett from the cloth box.The little guy was suffocated, and he scratched at Aurora when he came up, and slapped Aurora's face with his soft meat pads, looking super fierce.

On the other side, Vox ran into Bill Weasley who had just been sitting with him during the meal.Vox was a little surprised by the other party's interest in the Muggle world. Bill told him that it was because his father worked in the Ministry of Magic and Muggle-related departments, and his father liked to study Muggles.

Vox twitched his lips, not reminding him that although Bill's statement was harmless, Muggles would never be happy to hear it.No one likes being treated like a research subject.

The lights at Hogwarts went out one by one, and the night deepened.

The author has something to say:

Congratulations to Peeves for achieving the assist achievement.

The new character, Cecilia Winston, is provided by [姽童连篇] in Daqun. I have already poked you privately. Please reply to Jinjiang Eddie after seeing it, and I will change it.

Well, this slow story is about to officially begin.