MTL - In This Hogwarts Without a Savior-Chapter 407 405. The Sorting Hat

   Chapter 407 405. The Sorting Hat

  Jon didn't stay any longer this time. He stepped forward until he reached the wall directly behind the desk, only to be stopped by the voice in his head.

   "It's the wall in front of you, reach out and push it, just push it lightly, you already have the qualification."

  According to its words, Jon's hand touched the cold wall, and when he put his hand on it, the whole surface began to tremble as soon as he exerted force.

  Then the bricks on the wall in front of Jon suddenly began to split, and soon opened an entrance for people to pass in front of him.

The candlelight in the principal's room shone into the dark secret room, and Jon also saw that it was full of tattered picture frames, parchment and notes thrown everywhere as if it was being treated as a garbage dump. A battered hat in a corner.

  When Jon first entered this secret room, his eyes were fixed on the broken hat. It was a dusty, patched, dusty pointed hat.

"It's you?"

   he asked.

   That voice sounded in his mind again.

   "Aha, I can't imagine that after all these years, I can still see live Hogwarts students!"

  The voice of the hat sounded a little emotional, and Jon certainly noticed the hidden meaning in its words.

   "That is to say, you also saw Hogwarts students before, but they were all dead."

   "About seven or eight years ago, that reckless young man entered by mistake and was swallowed alive by that big snake. At that time, I could still vaguely feel some things happening outside."

  As if the hat itself didn't want to talk about this topic, it quickly moved the conversation to other places.

"I think even if the Hogwarts you go to school is not this castle, you should have heard of my existence, right? The sorting hat was once used to make choices for freshmen to decide which college they should go to study in." place."

   Of course, it was impossible for Jon not to recognize it. He walked to the Sorting Hat, picked it up from the ground, and patted the dust on it.

"When I first entered school, the senior students told me that there were four houses in Hogwarts, and you were the hat used for sorting houses, but the tradition of the school generally does not tell freshmen that they only need to wear a hat in the sorting house. It's such a simple thing."

"Of course, it's a good tradition. After all, when those little kids know that the sorting house is just wearing a broken hat like me, instead of fighting trolls or dragons, they usually just breathe a sigh of relief and don't go to the school anymore." Trying to put me on their head would mess up their hair, which was groomed last night."

   The Sorting Hat doesn't seem to have talked to anyone for a long time. It talks a lot, and it hasn't stopped talking since meeting Jon.

But Jon obviously can't continue to waste time here. Although he has a three-hour advantage over Emil, for a person to search the entire castle, let alone three hours, even thirty hours, it is not enough. You must be able to find every part of the entire Hogwarts castle.

"Mr. Sorting Hat, do you want to go out with me? I'm still in a game, and this game is about whether Hogwarts Castle will continue to belong to the Dark Lord, or return to Deng Xiaoping." In the hands of Professor Bullido, no time should be wasted."

"Why not?" The Sorting Hat replied simply, "I've been thrown here for so long, and of course I wouldn't refuse the opportunity to go out to get some fresh air. Although I was thrown out for most of the year In the cupboard, but there will always be a day when I will come out to sing and chat, and now I haven't talked to anyone for a long time."

  Seeing that it agreed, Jon solemnly folded it, and finally stuffed it into his robe pocket.

   And this does not prevent the Sorting Hat from continuing to communicate with him in his mind.

  After leaving the principal's office, Jon went downstairs with a clear goal and started walking towards the auditorium on the first floor.

According to normal reasoning, it is of course impossible for the Tri-Strong Cup to be placed in the auditorium in such a clear and straightforward manner, but it is the most concentrated place for students in the entire castle, and it is also the place that can be thought of immediately after entering the castle. Xiu, they must have left some clues in the auditorium.

   "What kind of competition are you conducting? How can you still decide the ownership of Hogwarts?"

   The voice of the sorting hat rang in Jon's mind.

  Jon replied as he went downstairs.

"The Triwizard Tournament, before the start of the game, the Dark Lord and Professor Dumbledore made a blood oath together. Two warriors from Hogwarts, Beauxbatons and Durmstrang came to participate, which side Winning is the only orthodox Hogwarts, and will also have the legal right to occupy the castle."

"Using the Triwizard Tournament to make this kind of bet?" The voice of the Sorting Hat sounded a little weird, "Do you know that the Dark Lord has never actually gained control of the castle, and he can't even stay here for more than One day, or the castle will either disintegrate itself or he will go out."

  Jon was the first to hear what would happen if Voldemort stayed in Hogwarts for a long time, but soon he asked again.

   "But we also found that he is trying to wear down the original consciousness of this castle, and then impose his own consciousness."

   "Of course he will do what he will do, and it has actually been considered a success, and now it is only the last step." The Sorting Hat said as it should.

  Jon stopped subconsciously, and he frowned.

   "Just the last step? What do you mean?"

   The Sorting Hat seemed to know everything about Jon's question, and it quickly answered.

"I have a deep connection with this castle, and I can intuitively feel what he is doing more than other things. He has actually succeeded, the only difference is that the original will of the castle has not been completely wiped out, so he It’s only the last step, which is the step of the Triwizard Tournament that you are currently going on?”

  Jon couldn't help holding his breath, he felt as if he could uncover why Voldemort wanted to hold this Triwizard Tournament in the first place.

   "So this game can help him completely control the castle?"

"Of course." The Sorting Hat seemed to snap its fingers, "Don't think that the Triwizard Tournament started after the death of the Big Four and think that it will not have any impact on this school, just like this castle at the beginning. When they used it as the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, it was just an ordinary magical castle with some magic applied at that time, far from having its own consciousness."

"For thousands of years, almost every wizard in the whole of Britain has graduated from this castle. They spent the whole seven years from the age of 11 to 18 here, which is equivalent to the castle witnessing their entire youth. So when the students were studying magic at school, the lost magic power was constantly affecting the castle. Of course, the magic power of a single little wizard is limited, and it will not produce much effect at all. Change happens slowly over time."

"One day when this school was first established, Peeves appeared. At first, both the students and the professors thought it was a ghost that wandered into Hogwarts by accident, but it became more and more Becoming extraordinary and showing amazing ability."

   "Peeves?" Jon was no stranger to this name, knowing that it used to be one of the ghosts of Hogwarts.

"Yes, Peeves." The Sorting Hat continued to Jon patiently, "It is an elf that appears in front of people in the form of a ghost, or you can also call it a castle elf, it is this castle that generates consciousness. It's a real embodiment, but it represents the naughty and bad side of the castle students throughout the ages. I don't know if you have heard how much the administrators of this castle hated it, and in order to How hard it took to drive it out of the castle."

  Jon shook his head.

"Well, that was actually in 1876, when the caretaker of the castle was Koros Calpe, and he laid traps carefully, using as bait all kinds of weapons that he thought Peeves couldn't resist, and then prepared A huge bell jar, with various containment spells, ready to cover Peeves when he steps onto the trap."

"The results of it?"

"It turned out that Peeves not only escaped easily, but also sprinkled broken glass in the hallway, and even escaped a trap consisting of several machetes, crossbows, a musket and a small cannon. Peeves, for his own amusement, Self-joy, randomly shooting at the windows, putting everyone's lives in danger, the castle was evacuated, and the teachers and students of the whole castle had a three-day confrontation with it, and finally the female headmistress Yupra Thea Moore agrees to sign off on a contract that grants Peeves additional privileges."

"Privileges include allowing Peeves to swim once a week in the boys' bathroom on the first floor, giving priority to throwing stale bread in the kitchen, and getting a new hat made by the meticulous lady in Paris. From now on, no matter how annoying Peeves is, no administrator or headmaster will ever bring up the idea of ​​expelling him."

"Think about it, how could a normal ghost do these things? That idiot Calpe couldn't have imagined, how could he drive the castle out of the castle by himself? Peeves is an elf created by the magic of the students, and at the same time Represents this Hogwarts castle itself."

"But after the Dark Lord took over the castle, Peeves disappeared within a few days. There were many rumors at the time. Some people said that it offended the Dark Lord himself, and was used by the Dark Lord with the most powerful The death curse was killed, and some people said that it was because Hogwarts was no longer the original Hogwarts, so Pippi disappeared. But in fact, it was the Dark Lord who imprisoned it. A part of the students in this school let that repressed emotion and magic counteract the will of the castle itself, constantly erasing its ability and existence."

  Jon has come to the auditorium at this time.

   "Then what does this have to do with the Triwizard Tournament?"

"Don't worry, I'll talk about it next. Just like the magic and emotions of the students affected the castle, around the thirteenth century, that is, when the school was built less than three hundred years ago, the three powers fought for hegemony The competition, which is used for the exchange of young wizards from various countries in Europe, was proposed. The competition is held every five years, and the venue is taken by three magic schools in turn. Such competitions were not suspended until 1792, and this It has been 500 years. Do you know how many times Hogwarts has won the Triwizard Tournament during these 500 years?"

   Without waiting for Jon to guess, the Sorting Hat has already given the answer.

"63 times, it is the school that has won the most championships. The imprint of this game has been deeply engraved in the castle that was given the name of Hogwarts itself. No one can erase it. It is like magic. Will is the decision The key to everything. It is precisely because of this that the Triwizard Tournament has a very unique meaning for this castle, especially after the students participating in its name won the championship. And the most important thing is that the Dark Lord still He made a bet with the will of the castle that the students of Hogwarts would never win the Triwizard Tournament."

  Jon suddenly seemed to think of something, and he asked immediately.

   "What if the students representing Hogwarts won the championship?"

"Then his plan is over, especially you, the student named Jon Green. You can wake me up, which means that the castle itself has a good impression of the castle. If you win the championship, then the Dark Lord and others All the efforts made over the years will be in vain, the will of the castle that was consumed by him will be restored, and you will also become the new owner of the castle."

  Hearing such an answer, Jon didn't have the slightest surprise or any excited psychological fluctuations, but continued to ask.

   "What if the other representative is that the Hogwarts students under his guidance won the championship?"

"It's not a good thing for him. I don't know how the castle feels about that student, but as long as it wins the championship in the name of Hogwarts, it will be a huge boost to the castle's own will. , should be the word. But once Hogwarts is the home game, especially if the game is still held in the castle, the game ends with the victory of the other two schools, let alone the three schools that have been suspended for more than two hundred years. The resumption of the Tournament is a terrible consequence for the castle, because the block that the castle itself suppresses is itself. If the students of Hogwarts do not win, then it will disappear by itself and will not be seen again. Be a resistance to the Dark Lord."

  Jon finally understood at this time!

   I understood why Draco Malfoy was the one who represented Hogwarts Castle in the competition, and why Emile Lestrange was the one with high hopes!

  (end of this chapter)