Chapter 56 56: Gaze in the Dark
The questions in the first year of school did not stump the new little wizard.
Everyone quickly entered the lounge.
Then.
Two prefects, one male and one female, each gave a speech that showed their presence. They were both eloquent, and there was a lively round of applause in the lounge.
Satisfied, the two began to divide dormitories for the first-year students.
There are only seven young wizards in Ravenclaw this year.
Perhaps due to the care from the prefect, or perhaps because he was lucky today. After four young wizards formed a dormitory, he was assigned to a dormitory with three people.
What a coincidence.
Ni Ge, who impressed Ian at the banquet, and a boy with green hair became Ian's roommates who would share a room with different beds for the next seven years.
The decoration inside the dormitory is the same color as the lounge outside. Five desks are lined up in front of the windows, and flannel curtains are hung in front of several beds.
“Ian Prince.”
After stuffing his suitcase under the bed, Ian took the lead in introducing himself to his roommates. Both of his roommates Busily unpacking the contents of the suitcase.
"William Smith, I remember you. You spent ten minutes in sorting." The green-haired boy has many freckles on his face that Europeans and Americans are keen on.
Not much.
"Has it been that long? I only remember a few casual conversations with the Sorting Hat." Ian was a little surprised. He shook hands with William, the freckle boy who came up and extended his hand.
"I also feel that time flies so fast. The Sorting Hat may have stolen some of our time. This may be why it can live so long."
The little black wizard also joined. chat.
"My name is Michael Jordan."
He added a self-introduction.
"What a good name, you must be very suitable for playing Quidditch." Ian was not a person who held grudges, until he saw Little Nico taking out a large bag of fried chicken legs and chips from nowhere.
"Do you want to eat it? I secretly hid some during the dinner." Michael put a large bag of food on the table and started to eat crazily with a chicken leg.
“You have bags with expansion spells cast on them! I’ve seen their introduction in extracurricular books!” The green-haired William looked at the small cloth bag on Michael’s bed in surprise.
Ian stared directly at the steaming drumstick in Michael's hand.
Good guy!
The reason why the food in front of him disappeared so quickly before was now finally found out!
"Yes, that was the admission gift my mother gave me a few days ago." Michael said a little embarrassedly while chewing on the chicken drumstick in his hand.
"I don't know why, my mother didn't let me eat these things since I was a child, but they are really delicious..." As he said, he squeezed a little more ketchup into his mouth.
A very special way to eat French fries.
"My mother didn't give me anything. She is an ordinary person who doesn't know magic. Only my father is a wizard, but my mother decides everything in our family."
"My mother is also in charge of money. Maybe my mother is smarter. It's just that our family is very poor, and even if we have money, we have to use it to support my younger brother and sister."
William just hesitated and said I chose to grab a handful of fries and started eating them slowly.
"Mixed-blood, that's fine too. Although I come from a pure-blood family, I haven't seen my father since I was a child. He died not long after I was born."
"It is said that he died in a fight with a mysterious man. My mother would often cry and say that he fell on the eve of dawn." Michael's voice was a little sad.
However.
This did not affect the speed at which he showed off his chicken legs.
"He must love you." Ian gave some comfort.
"That's true. I've always known that he loves us very much. The reason why he joined that fight was actually because of my birth. He wanted to create a more stable environment for my future. ”
Michael finally choked up and couldn’t eat the chicken legs.
"You are at least better than me. I am an orphan and have never seen my parents since I was a child." At this time, Ian also participated in the competition in the dormitory.
No surprises.
He gained two pairs of eyes with pity.
“You are so pathetic.”
“Here, let’s eat two chicken drumsticks.”
Both of them were resigned to losing, and Michael handed Ian a chicken drumstick. Chicken legs——compared to eating this kind of thing as a late-night snack, he actually wanted to eat some watermelon jelly.
"No, I'm losing weight." Ian shook his head and chose to refuse. He looked at Michael's bed. It was obvious that there was no watermelon jelly hidden in the empty bag.
Michael probably really showed off all this stuff at the banquet.
“You are so thin, why do you still need to lose weight?”
William’s eyes widened.
"If I were you, I would eat more, you are too thin." Michael also nodded in agreement, and he stuffed the chicken drumstick handed to Ian into his mouth.
"I have to eat, my mother said, I'm still growing my brain."
I have to say it.
His appetite is really big.
"I need to review the knowledge in the textbook again. I don't want to be unable to answer the professors' questions in class tomorrow." William packed up his things and took out the textbook.
He turned on his small desk lamp, sat in front of the desk, and began to read hard.
"Actually, there is no need to be so nervous. Even children from pure-blood families will not learn any magic before entering school. As long as we listen carefully in class."
Michael eats and drinks. He walked towards the bathroom.
“It makes sense.”
Ian felt that Brother Hei was right. However, William obviously had his own persistence. He sat in front of the desk and read hard. He seemed to be reviewing Knowledge related to "History of Magic".
"Why are you sitting in front of the table?"
After washing, Michael walked out of the bathroom and found that Ian was also sitting at a desk.
"I'm just writing a letter home to prevent the adults at the orphanage from worrying about me. They are all very good people." Ian showed the paper on his desk.
Michael came over to take a look suspiciously, and then confirmed that Ian was not the kind of roommate who secretly wrote the letter and deceived others. Ian was indeed writing a letter with a quill.
[Dear Dean Elena:
I have settled in at Hogwarts School for Gifted Youngsters. The students here are very friendly and the professors are rare experts in various fields.
I hope you don’t worry and tell Daniel and Joey that no one bullies me because of my background. The learning atmosphere in the entire school is very strong.
What if...]
The letter has not been finished yet.
Michael just glanced at it without looking carefully.
"Maybe I should write a letter to my mother tomorrow." He seemed to be inspired and thoughtful, yawned and walked to his bed.
Falled down and fell asleep.
This may not be a talent.
Amidst the gifted snoring of his roommate, William put on earplugs and continued studying, while Ian again considered his words to write a safe letter to the orphanage.
Due to the special nature of Hogwarts and the confusion spell the school cast on several orphanage adults, he could only try his best to disguise Hogwarts as an outstanding Muggle elite institution.
This is not an easy task.
After all.
It’s up to him to imagine what kind of life a student in an elite college should live. If he accidentally writes about the ridiculous story that rich people eat a lot of braised chicken and rice, that would be a little bad. .
"Swish, brush, brush~"
The quill made a subtle sound.
William's small desk lamp was very bright, perhaps some kind of tampered Muggle object. Ian, who concentrated on writing the letter by the light, also chose to go to bed to rest after washing himself.
William is still working hard alone.
It was already raining lightly outside the window.
Under the quiet night.
A subtle thunder and lightning flashed across the sky. In the brief and dim light outside the window, no one noticed that a pair of strange eyes were staring at the dormitory.
It was a strange creature hanging upside down from the eaves, clinging to the eaves bricks, with a pair of blue wings. It looked like a reptile and a huge butterfly.
It was so hidden against the eaves, staring at the Ravenclaw dormitory. The small, strange eyes reflected the soundly sleeping Ian... his little head.
〔ps: Thanks to the experts for pointing out, the question in the previous chapter has been modified. In fact, I just want to write a question that can have multiple answers if it is logical! 〕
(End of this chapter)