novelraw Chapter 49 The Sorting and the Wand
Chapter 49 The Sorting and the Wand
Any wind and rain in the UK will not disturb Halle who is far away in the United States for the time being.
On the morning of the first day of school, unlike any other parents who were in a hurry and reminded their children if they had forgotten something while preparing breakfast, Bruce and Alfred sat in the main hall very leisurely and at the same time, sitting in the main hall with Harry, waiting to appear out of thin air door key.
They all believe that "being in a hurry" is what they need most at present, which can temporarily relieve the tension and anxiety of sending their children to boarding schools.
Harry was sitting on the sofa with a suitcase in hand, his eyes kept glancing at the grandfather clock, his thoughts were wild and chaotic.
——I hope the port key will not be a tire this time.
——Is there a thousand-year-old monster in Ilvermorny?
——Speaking of the Millennium Monster, Uncle Bruce warned her not to show the Parseltongue ability to anyone after she arrives at school.He said it was because snake language was unlucky, and wizards were very superstitious...
Harley has already changed into the school uniform robe sent by the owl along with the school admission instructions. She is not used to this way of dressing, like the school drama club, playing Shakespeare with homemade costumes...
Ilvermorny's robes are blue and raspberry.Queenie, who is familiar with the history of the school, told her: This color scheme is to commemorate the founders of the school, Aesop and James.Blue is Aesop's favorite color. When she was a child, she dreamed of becoming a student at Hogwarts Ravenclaw; red came from James' favorite cranberry pie.Below Harry's neck, there is also a golden Gordian knot, which is used as a button to fasten the school robe, which commemorates the brooch Aesop brought from England. *
Harry was about to pour another glass of water, when suddenly a slipper appeared on the coffee table in front of her and Grandpa Afu.
...Presumably this is the port key, it's really...a personal choice.
The admission instructions say that the portkey will only last for 5 minutes, and if a freshman misses it, he will have to wait for the next year to enroll—very strict rules.
"Huh...Okay, I'm leaving." Harry got up and grabbed his suitcase, leaving her with little time, "Queenie said, I can write to you. Um...you also want to Write it to me."
Bruce frowned.write a letter?No real-time delivery tool for long-distance information?This is so far behind...
Grandpa Afu put one hand on Hari's shoulder, and smoothed the bangs on her forehead with the other hand, "No matter what happens, tell us, don't carry it alone."
Harry's eyes suddenly became a little sore and hot because of this sentence.
She swallowed, lowered her head and blinked quietly - in a few seconds, she might have to face many future classmates, if she cried at this time, it would be so embarrassing.
After making up her mind, the girl raised her head, bid farewell to the parents, and decisively grabbed the slippers in front of her.
The last scene in front of her eyes was Grandpa Afu's frowning, and Uncle Bruce brought to his mouth the coffee he hadn't drunk for a long time.Afterwards, she was thrown into an irresistible high-speed rotation by a powerful hook behind the navel.
Although she couldn't see anything clearly, she could still feel that the distance the Portkey had moved this time was far greater than what she had experienced in Scotland.
Just when she felt that she was going to spit it out in just one more second of flying, the spinning stopped abruptly, and she lost her foothold and fell to the grass with a plop.
This time, there was no Uncle Bruce to support him... Harry quickly got up on the ground, and firmly believed that the tears in the corners of his eyes fell out.
"First-year freshmen, line up here!"
As soon as Harry grabbed her suitcase again, she heard a teacher shouting not far away, so she began to walk slowly towards the short queue.
What made her breathe a sigh of relief was that the new students who appeared in the grass from time to time had the same awkward landing posture as herself; moreover, each of them looked a little uneasy.
Harley craned her neck to watch at the end of the line, looking for the familiar golden curly hair, and finally met another pair of eyes that couldn't stop looking around—Queenie showed a bright smile, pulled her suitcase and retreated to the end of the line, Stand side by side with Harry.
"I heard that Hogwarts goes to Hogwarts by train!" Queenie whispered to Harley. Too late, so no house-elves of my own."
Before Harry could reply to Queenie, the teacher who organized the freshman interrupted the conversation.
"Okay, 5 minutes have passed, those who didn't come can only wait for next year... Well, let me count, yes, they are all here this year."
The teacher who ushered in the new students was a short witch - unlike the three Hogwarts professors Harry had met in Scotland, the teacher at Ilvermorny was dressed very... "fashionably".Her robe is not as traditional as Professor McGonagall, but a style between a No-Maj long coat and a robe, even cream yellow.
Led by the "fashionable" witch, the freshmen lined up in two teams and slowly marched towards Ilvermorny Castle not far from the grass.
Ilvermorny is not only the magic school with the shortest history of establishment, but also the only school known to be founded by No-Maj.All Harry knew was that the castle was located on the top of Mount Greylock in western Massachusetts. Its exact location was kept secret and protected by magic. In the eyes of ordinary people, it was just a cloud of mist.
Ilvermorny's castle is not as old as Hogwarts, but it is still magnificent.The main entrance is flanked by marble statues of Aesop Searle and James Stewart.Together with the freshmen, Halle entered the campus from the main entrance, admiring the tall statues.
James Stewart is a No-Maj. He and Aesop, who had just arrived in North America and escaped from his aunt, came together after a long trial. Praise for a long time.
He even named one of the four colleges, Goblin College, to commemorate a goblin friend who once had a relationship with Aesop, who appeared at the nick of time, killed Gormlaith Gaunt, and saved He and the Aesop family.
He is also the first, and currently the only, No-Maj known to be able to make wands.The wand that Aesop carried when he fled England was the only wand in North America at the time.Later, due to various coincidences and the joint efforts of the two, the magic wand that James made for the first time was extraordinary, and later he and his wife Aesop discovered a variety of wand core materials unique to North America.
These were all told by the leading teacher to the freshmen when they passed the statue. Harry guessed that this was a routine school entrance activity, because the teacher's tone sounded very dull and boring, as if he was endorsing a book.
The freshmen, including Harry, were led into a rotunda at the entrance of the castle by the leading teacher.All the freshmen kept looking up and down, whispering.
Harry saw that around the Gordian knot in the middle of the hall, there were four wooden carvings representing the four colleges.
Even more unsettling to the freshmen were the other teachers and students standing on the ring terrace above them, giving Harley the feeling that...they were putting on a show.
Under the guidance of the teacher, Harley, Queenie, and other freshmen stood in a circle against the wall. The "Fashion" female teacher took out a list and began to roll names one by one according to the initials of their surnames. The students who were called had to step forward and stand above the Gordian Knot in the center of the stone floor of the hall.
At this time, the four statues with magic will choose the students they want to recruit - if the student is a favorite of a certain college, the long-horned water snake will light up the crystal embedded in its forehead; the cat and leopard will roar; Thunderbirds flap their wings; goblins raise their bows.
This is where it starts?Harry was on edge, terribly worried that when it was her turn, no house wanted her and she would be forced to go home.
Her palms were sweating, and she resisted the movement of rubbing her hands on the robes, watching the team shrink little by little.Harry looked at Queenie next to her, and she was not much better, with tiny beads of sweat on the tip of her nose.
She also found that some people's sorting results were so quick that a wooden sculpture responded almost as soon as he or she stood on the Gordian Knot; for others, it took a few minutes to wait; , being selected by two or three colleges at the same time, at this time the right to choose is transferred to the freshmen.
Whenever a new student is successfully sorted into a college, a badge will appear on his or her chest. Due to the distance, myopic Halle can't see the details of the badge clearly; at the same time, the senior students and teachers on the circular terrace will Applaud politely, some of them will be especially enthusiastic, and Harry guesses that they should be students of the corresponding college.
She was about to grab Queenie's hand hanging on the side of the robe, when she heard the teacher shouting the name of "Queenie Kowalski" in front of her—unlike Potter's P, K is indeed a rather early letter ah……
The blond girl exhaled softly and walked towards the Gordian Knot with deceptively calm steps, and Harry saw that she was almost on the same page.
Queenie stood still, glanced at Harley, and then began to stare straight ahead, waiting for the "sentence" - within a few seconds, among the four statues surrounding Queenie, the bow and arrow in the goblin's hand was raised.
This result is not difficult to guess. Harley remembered that Queenie said that goblins represent the heart, and most of the colleges are kind-hearted healers. This description fits his friends.Queenie also said that her grandmother who also knows Legilimency is also from the Goblin Academy...
Almost seamlessly with the goblin's response, the Thunderbird spread its wings.It seemed that Queenie herself was a little surprised by this result.She looked at the teacher who nodded in encouragement, bit her lower lip with a hesitant expression.Finally, her gaze met Halle's in the crowd.
"I choose Thunderbird." Queenie replied softly.
Then the blond girl stepped out of the Gordian Knot and joined the sorted ranks.Leaving Harley and the other students who were waiting to be sorted continued to be uneasy.
It wasn't long before it was Harry's turn.There were sporadic exclamations from the seniors upstairs when her name (Harry Potter, not "Linda Kent") was called out by the yellow-robed teacher.
She also saw from the corner of her eye that some teachers also bent over the railing, probably trying to see her face clearly...
She forced herself to calm down, not to look at the circular terrace above, and walked up to the position where she was waiting for the sorting. Surrounded by four statues, she felt her heart was about to jump out.
"Wisdom", "Body", "Soul" and "Inner Heart", which of the four basis of classification can represent oneself?She doesn't know... She only knows that she is an ordinary girl (maybe more able to fight), and she is also very lucky to come to the United States and join Grandpa Fu's big family...
Gosh gosh, it's been a few minutes?Harry rolled his eyes, quietly looking at each silent wooden sculpture, lost the perception of time, and felt that he had been standing here for a long time.She thought that she might really be driven back to Gotham, and that's okay, it's just a little embarrassing.
Finally, when Harley was about to step down from the Gordian Knot to make room for someone else, a statue responded—it was Cat Leopard, and a clear growl announced her belonging.
So what can represent her is the "body", she is a "warrior", the training in Paradise Island is not in vain, not bad...
"Wait a minute, Miss Potter!"
Harley was about to retreat into the line of being sorted, when the yellow witch called to stop her.
Before she could open her mouth to ask why she was stopped, the other two sculptures reacted almost at the same time - the thunderbird with its wings spread, and the long-horned water snake that lit up the crystal above its head.
She can understand the Thunderbird, but the horned water snake that represents wisdom?She feels that she just loves to read books, and she is not a "scholar" at all.
Almost all the teachers and students showed expectant expressions—the same as they treated individual students who were recruited by the three colleges at the same time.Halle guessed that it would be a sensation if he could be admitted to the four colleges at the same time.
During this period, Harry wanted to make a choice several times, but was stopped by the yellow witch.Waiting and waiting, the goblin sculpture just didn't move, and finally the witch frowned, staring at the goblin sculpture, looking like she wanted to check to see if something was wrong.
"I choose Thunderbird." Harley decisively ended the embarrassing situation and walked quickly down the Gordian Knot—their unrealistic expectations of her put a lot of pressure on Harry.
She walked up to Queenie, and both girls were overjoyed to be sorted into the same house.Harry looked down at the gold and red badge that appeared on his chest, on which was a thunderbird flying.
The sorting ceremony ended soon, and this year there were no students who could be recruited by the four colleges at the same time.
The freshmen were then ushered into another hall.Different from the circular room just now, this room is elongated. Except for the door, the other three walls are filled with magic wands from the roof to the floor, which is very spectacular.
"You are here to choose your wands—or rather, be chosen by your wands. Ilvermorny's wands are made of core materials unique to North America, including, but not limited to, horned water snake horns, cat and leopard hair , Heartstrings of the Mountain Tyrannosaurus, and the antlers of the Jackalope, each wand is unique, please cherish it." The yellow witch told a group of little wizards.
"Before the Rapaport Law was repealed in 1965, students under the age of 17 could not take their wands out of school during the holidays. Although this restriction has been lifted, you still cannot use magic during the holidays. This rule must Obey it, and those who violate it will be severely punished by the Magic Congress, and may even be expelled from school."
The little wizards were originally excited that they were about to get their wands, but they all shrunk their necks involuntarily after hearing this rule.
According to the regulations, each little wizard will take turns to step forward to the wand selection platform. At this time, an automatic tape measure will pop out to measure each person's body data, even including the distance between the eyes.
Some little wizards were frightened by this weird unmanned ruler and jumped three feet high, but they had already seen Sister Zatanna's magic, and Harley, who was surrounded by Chaoying, was very calm.
Then the little wizard will put his hand on the designated position on the table, and wait for a suitable wand to pop out from the pile of wands all over the wall. Wizard, the whole process is over.
She didn't know how the wands were selected at Hogwarts, and whether it would be as troublesome as the American side.Because she had been waiting at the wand selection stand for half an hour...
The team behind Harry was getting impatient, whispering one after another...
"How about I come last?" Harry tentatively suggested to the teacher beside him.
"No, it's normal," the yellow-clothed witch was very calm, with a face full of surprise, "I heard that there are still people who have been waiting for a day in history."
There was a desperate cry from the team behind them.
"Wizards can actually use a lot of wands, especially adult wizards with powerful magic, who are almost not limited by tools; and the process of choosing wands now is just to choose the most suitable tools for you and the most beneficial for you to learn magic. Graduates of Ilvermorny are known for their mastery of wands, so rest assured there's sure to be one for you."
Another half hour passed...
"...Don't worry, there must be one that suits you best..."
The Yellow Witch changed her story...
Finally, after a sigh of relief, a wand box far away from the roof corner of the door floated out "hesitantly"—the goblin quickly caught it, as if afraid that it would change its mind, and then stuffed it roughly into Harry's hands.
Harry quickly stepped back from the wand selection table to make room for the students who had been waiting for a long time.After walking up to Queenie, she opened the box—"Cat Leopard Hair, Eleven Inches, Holly," read the small note inside the box.
"I think it's all the same, but yours looks much better than mine." Queenie curled her lips, staring at her wand, "Mine is too short, and I suspect it indicates that I'm not tall..."
The author has something to say:
*I just found out the admission results for graduate students yesterday afternoon, and I was accepted~ To celebrate, and thank you for your support for this article, all readers who commented under this chapter today will have a red envelope~
*Ilvermorny's robes, sorting standards and process settings are from Pottermore, and the settings issued by the Wand School are also from Pottermore, but the specific process can't be found, so it's all my nonsense; the location of the school's castle and the sculpture at the entrance The settings are all from Pottermore; the special core settings for North American wands are also from Pottermore.In short, the approximate settings can be found, but all the details are made up by me _(:з」∠)_
*On rare occasions, statues in more than one house will express a desire to recruit the same student.In this case, students have the right to make their own choices.Even more rarely (which happens only about once in ten years), all four colleges want to admit the same student. Serafina Picquery (the one with the hood in Fantastic Beasts) was the president of the Magical Congress of America from 1920 to 1928.She finally chose Longhorn Water Serpent Academy (quoted from pottermore)
*The issue of Harley’s name, it is assumed that she was registered in the wizarding world as soon as she was born, Bruce’s Muggle name change activity will not affect the wizarding world, her real name is on the admission notice; so, after a while, those tentacles in the UK extended Reporters who travel far enough will get word that Halle is in America.