The car door was opened, and lightning and thunder were constantly roaring in the sky.

Hermione used her cloak to cover Mount Crook, while Matthew and Neville barely used their cloak to cover their heads; they were struggling in the rain.

It was raining heavily and swarming, and the weather was terrible.

From the corner of Matthew's eyes, he saw Professor Kettleborn, a teacher in the protection of magical animals, who was greeting the first-year freshmen.

According to convention, first-year students have to ferry over the lake before they can enter Hogwarts Castle.

Matthew suddenly felt a little lucky. On September 1 last year, the weather was at least sunny... It was unimaginable to cross the lake in the weather like today; it was so miserable!

The three people moved little by little with the crowd, and followed the crowd and left the dark platform.

At the exit of the platform, there were many carriages parked. Although they did not seem to be pulled by horses (in fact, they were pulled by the Paradises, but neither Matthew, Neville nor Hermione could see it).

Matthew, Neville and Hermione quickly climbed into one of them, and then he felt relieved; then Justin Finlieri, a second-year Hufflepuff, also got on the carriage, and the door slammed and closed.

The long carriage began to set out along the trail leading to Hogwarts Castle, and countless splashes of water were splashing along the axles.

About a quarter of an hour later, the carriage passed through the gates of Hogwarts.

Matthew could see two stone pillars at the gate, and a very conspicuous wild boar sculpture with wings—

When Principal Gellert Grindelwald duel with the black witch Morgana a few months ago, he remembered that these two wild boar sculptures also helped a lot.

An animal like pig also has special significance to Hogwarts.

The word Hogwarts is derived from the word wart hog.

So there is a story that has been widely circulated among the wizards: the location and name of Hogwarts were chosen by Royna Ravenclaw. At that time, she dreamed of a warthog taking her to a cliff by a lake, which is naturally the campus of Hogwarts now.

A few minutes later, the carriage stopped at the entrance of the castle.

They quickly jumped off the carriage and climbed the marble stone steps one after another.

...

The students in a mess came to the auditorium in Hogwarts.

It was already very late, and due to sudden inspections in the middle and the bad weather after arriving at the station, they started the banquet after at least an hour later than usual.

The auditorium is still so grand and magnificent; and for the banquet of Xinxues, it seems that it has been redecorated.

Hundreds of candles floated over the table, making the golden plates and goblets shine. The wet students sat in one after another, sat on the long tables of the four colleges, and began to greet each other eagerly.

There is a fifth table at the top of the auditorium, where teachers sit one after another, facing their students.

Matthew looked at the table in the guest chair and saw the face of Principal Grindelwald.

According to the usual situation, Principal Grindelwald would only come to the auditorium after the banquet began... However, due to a small accident this year, the students were generally more than an hour late, so Principal Grindelwald "arrived" early.

Principal Grindelwald's expression was very serious. He was lowering his head, as if he was thinking about something.

Sitting next to Principal Grindelwald was Vice-President Professor Rozier. Her face was still extremely young. She was smiling and talking to another teacher beside her about these things.

The other teacher was a strange face!

Yes, Matthew soon discovered the face he met on the train—

The "stranger" was now sitting in the guest seat with a tight grip on his face, talking to the vice principal a little restrainedly.

It seems that Matthew guessed well. When Mr. Longbottom tested, it was just a small accident. The "stranger" was a real new Hogwarts teacher.

This is not difficult to guess.

If an Azkaban fugitive dared to take the express train to Hogwarts, if he dared to sway like this, he would even doubt whether he had been in Azkaban for too long and had broken his brain.

...

But he couldn't point it to Miss Hermione Granger, because Miss Granger had already gone to Ravenclaw's long table.

Matthew also hurried toward Slytherin's long table.

On the ceiling of the auditorium, there are no longer stars and moons, but a dazzling sun.

After sitting down, under the "sun light", he suddenly felt warm all over his body, the chill was dispelled, and the wet clothes quickly dried up.

"Wickfield!" As soon as Matthew sat down, Agnes Lestrange suddenly walked over from the other side of the long table and shouted his name.

"Long time no see!" Matthew nodded to the beautiful girl with a smile.

"At the beginning of the summer vacation—" Miss Lestrange hesitated for a moment and asked in a low voice: "I have seen you at Lihen Bookstore?"

"Yes, I was working as a temporary worker there!" Matthew replied calmly.

In fact, he was a little strange in his heart. When he was working in Lihen Bookstore, he did meet many acquaintances of Hogwarts... but he was sure that Miss Agnes Lesterlanch was not among them.

"Later, something seemed to have happened in Lihen Bookstore, and it was sealed..." Miss Lestrang continued.

"That's right, but I'm not affected at all." Matthew answered honestly.

He also said in his heart that I was actually the "culprit" of that matter.

"If no one is willing to invite you to his house before next summer vacation, you can come to me..." Agnes Lestrange said with a very fast speech.

Then, she shook her long hair, turned around and left, and soon returned to her previous seat.

Only Matthew stayed there with some confusion:

"Does my popularity seem that bad? Why do they all think that no one invites me..."

...

Soon, Malfoy, Nott, Crabbe and Gole also arrived at the auditorium.

They sat next to Matthew, and the Slytherin boys got together again after a summer vacation.

At the same time, they began to talk enthusiastically—

"You look a little unhappy, Draco?" Theodore Nott asked in surprise.

"The Draco family had some trouble during the summer vacation," Vincent Crabb explained.

Gregory Goal added: "A bastard reported Draco's father and participated in a 'smuggling'... This incident has tortured his father for almost a summer vacation."

"He's a pretty bastard!" Matthew echoed as if nothing had happened.
Chapter completed!