Hogwarts Raven

Chapter 48: The Legend of the Big Four

It's getting dark.

The freezing temperature and gathering dark clouds hastened the arrival of night.

"found it!"

Hagrid, a huge half-blood giant with a face full of tangled beard, lit the lantern in his hand and walked towards the Black Lake with a group of young wizards.

"What's going on with those two people over there?"

"Are they also freshmen this year? Why didn't they take the train with us?"

"It's possible that they live near Hogwarts."

……

Ian and Aurora, who were squatting in front of the Black Lake playing in the water, almost immediately attracted the attention of many little wizards. They followed Hagrid and whispered.

"You are the two children Dumbledore mentioned, right?" Hagrid was still holding his pink umbrella in his other hand, which formed an extreme contrast with his burly body.

"If there's no one else here, then it must be us." Aurora almost had to tilt her head back to see Hagrid's bearded face.

"Professor, you are finally here. We have been waiting for you for so long." Ian quickly picked up his suitcase and walked towards the crowd of freshmen with Aurora.

"Hahaha, sorry, sorry. It took us some time to find a lost student." Hagrid's beard was shaking with laughter. He ruffled Ian's hair with his big hand. "Just call me Hagrid. I'm only the gamekeeper at Hogwarts. Don't call me the wrong name. You're such a cute little guy."

obviously.

The word "Professor" really touched Hagrid's heart.

"It's all the same, it's all the same."

Ian felt that the other person's big hand could almost cover his entire crown.

"Everyone is here now, let's hurry up and get on the boat, time is running out."

Hagrid's favorability has always been easy to gain, and when he saw the thin Ian, he even tucked the little red umbrella into his belt, and effortlessly freed up one hand to help Ian and Aurora carry the suitcases.

"Thank you, Professor Hagrid, you are a good man."

Ian followed Hagrid happily, and Aurora seemed to understand something. The two of them joined the group of young wizards following Hagrid.

just.

But no one spoke to them.

The first friendship.

Almost all of them started on the Hogwarts Express. The encounters in the carriages had largely determined the young wizards' initial circle of interactions.

The team soon arrived at the ship berthing area in the Black Lake.

"Four people in one boat. Don't fight or push. This is for your safety." Hagrid shouted at the many little wizards who were eager to try.

immediately.

He then threw Ian and Aurora's suitcases into the boat in front of him - Ian and Aurora naturally had no choice but to climb into the boat.

"You! I'm talking about you! No ten people in one boat!"

Hagrid ran over to where the other little wizards were.

At this moment.

The two girls also came over one after the other and climbed into the boat that Ian and Aurora were in. The two girls might not be familiar with each other, and they sat across from Ian and Aurora with a wide gap between them.

"Hello."

One of the girls greeted Ian and Aurora enthusiastically.

Aurora nodded slightly.

Ian breathed a sigh of relief.

"I thought we were going to go to school on a boat with big old Hagrid."

He was somewhat glad that there were only little guys like him on the boat.

"You just called him professor and said he was a good man, but now you say you don't want to take a boat with him?" Aurora looked at Ian with a little surprise.

“It’s not a question of whether or not you want to.”

Ian responded confidently, "Of course I think he's a good man, but what does this have to do with the possible capsizing of our boat?"

What a reasonable statement.

The girl opposite who had just greeted enthusiastically couldn't help but nodded.

Just at this time.

"Everyone hold on tight, we're off." Hagrid found a boat for himself, and with a shout, all the small boats began to move automatically on the mirror-like lake.

"This is unscientific!" Ian was surprised to see that the draft of Hagrid's ship was no different from that of other small boats. Then he sighed softly as if he had realized something.

“But it’s really magical.”

There is no way that the weight of one Hagrid is equivalent to that of only four little wizards. The boat that ferries the little wizards to Hogwarts is obviously some kind of alchemical creation with multiple abilities.

Feel the automatic sailing of the boat.

Ian was looking forward to learning about alchemy.

"You have beautiful eyes."

The enthusiastic girl noticed Aurora's eyes.

"Thank you."

Aurora responded flatly.

"My name is Qiu Zhang, and I hope we can become friends." The enthusiastic girl sitting opposite extended her hand to Aurora. Aurora hesitated for a moment but still shook hands gently with the other party.

however.

She did not introduce herself.

"She has autism and doesn't like to talk."

Seeing that the atmosphere was a bit awkward, Ian quickly tried to make up for his friend. However, this reason made Aurora turn around and look at him several times.

"So that's it."

I don’t know whether the girl named Qiu Zhang believes it or not.

"Just call me Ian. I'm different from her. I like to talk."

Ian extended his hand enthusiastically and shook hands with Qiu Zhang. He looked at Harry Potter's first love in front of him, who indeed had the pretty face of a typical Asian girl.

"Lumos!"

As the sky gradually darkened, the cold girl who had been silent all the time suddenly drew out her magic wand and chanted a spell. A soft white light hung on the tip of her wand.

This person seemed to be a really taciturn person by nature, and had no communication with Ian and the other two.

"Lumos!"

"Lumos!"

……

Except for their ship.

Occasionally, white lights began to appear on other small boats.

On the lake.

Small boats floated neatly towards the Hogwarts castle, leaving behind winding trails of water, outlining a painting-like trajectory in the boundless night.

"It is said that the four giants of Hogwarts arrived there on a small boat and founded Hogwarts." Qiu Zhang probably has a very outgoing personality.

She looked at the outline of Hogwarts Castle in the distance, showing her desire to popularize science that would eventually belong to Ravenclaw. "I remember someone once told me a story that when young wizards crossed the lake, they would be blessed by the four giants, and the legacy of the four giants would baptize the magic of the young wizards."

The slowly spoken words lifted Ian's spirits.

After a while.

"Rumor! It's a definite rumor!"

Ian checked his personal dashboard and sighed in disappointment.

Women will lie to him.

Personal dashboards don’t.

"It's just a story, of course it's not necessarily true." Qiu Zhang lifted his hair and smiled lightly, not caring why Ian refuted him.

"I don't mind you chatting."

Just at this time.

The aloof girl holding a glowing magic wand suddenly spoke up, "I'm just suggesting that instead of talking about some vague legends, maybe you should pay more attention to the crisis at hand."

Her sudden remarks startled Ian and the others.

crisis?

What kind of crisis could possibly happen at Hogwarts?
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(End of this chapter)