Reborn at Hogwarts - Chapter 103

c103 Thestrals (two updates starting today)

“…What, it turned out to be a dream?”

It wasn’t until Snape’s bat-like figure walked out of the box that Ivan reacted belatedly.

He touched his head, which was suffering from pain, and was still in a daze for a while.

The scene in the dream just now is still vivid in his mind, and the reality makes him have the illusion that reality and dream are intertwined and confused.

If what I saw just now was just a dream, is there any reality at all?

At this moment, there was a loud noise and the cold wind blowing into the box, and Ivan shivered, only then did he realize that Snape had left the door open when he went out, and he just leaned on the seat in a funny posture.

Fortunately, the location here is relatively remote, otherwise, wouldn’t it be seen by those students?

Ivan quickly sat up straight. At this time, the noise of the students in the corridor outside was getting closer. He picked up the suitcase, stepped out of the box before them, and walked under the car.

After getting out of the car, the night’s cold wind penetrated through Ivan’s collar. Ivan wrapped his coat tightly and looked left and right, but he didn’t find Snape.

The old bat is probably back in school.

After waiting on the Hogsmeade platform for a while, the figures of the students appeared next to the car door one after another. The ones walking in the front were obviously this year’s freshmen. Ivan originally thought that they would be overwhelmed when they suddenly came to a new environment. Strange and uncomfortable, but soon he knew that he was thinking too much, and the excitement was stronger than the discomfort of the unfamiliar environment.

The freshmen huddled together on the platform, and hearing the bustling voices gave Ivan a headache. Fortunately, several senior students soon stood up to maintain order, and Ivan recognized them as the prefects of various colleges.

Students in higher grades don’t need any reminders, they have already consciously stood in line, the teams of the four colleges are not clearly divided, but there are obviously gaps between them.

Among them, the distance between Gryffindor, Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff is not large, only Slytherin, who has always been unlikable, gathered together for their own sake, not only did not care about being subconsciously ignored by the other three houses On the contrary, he still vaguely disdainful.

They are all from the same academy, why should they be so clearly distinguished, there will still be students in Slytherin who will help when they defeat Voldemort in the future… Thinking this way, Ivan still stood there without moving.

“First Years, come this way! Harry, come this way, how are you?”

At this time, a familiar shout sounded, and there was a commotion in the freshman team. Ivan followed the reputation and saw the gamekeeper of Hogwarts: Hagrid.

This half-breed giant was wearing an almost invisible animal skin cloak, a bearded face with a smile on his face, and a yellowed oil lamp in his right hand. He looked no different from Ivan when he first entered school .

At this moment, he was leaning over, and clumsily stretched out his empty hand, as if he was embracing, or groping for something he had dropped on the platform. Ivan stared at him intently for a while before finally confirming that he was hugging a freshman. When the two separated, Ivan saw the boy’s black hair.

harry potter.

Hagrid and Harry met before school started, and took him for a walk around Diagon Alley, so they were already familiar with each other. It can be seen that they haven’t seen each other for a few days, and Hagrid has saved a lot of words to say to Harry, but the Slytherin prefect impatiently urged the freshmen to leave quickly and not block the road, so Hagrid could only take comforting pictures. Patting Harry on the shoulder, he held the oil lamp high and walked towards the direction of the Black Lake.

The freshmen obediently followed behind him. It seemed that the half-blood giant’s huge size and seemingly fierce appearance had successfully deterred them.

After Hagrid left with the freshmen, the prefects of the four houses stepped out of the line and led the others to the other side—by taking a boat through the Black Lake to Hogwarts. For the entrance ceremony, old students of course have another channel.

Led by the prefects of each house, the students left the Hogsmeade platform and came to a rough muddy path outside, where at least a hundred carriages were waiting for the remaining students.

“Why are there no horses?”

In the team of Ravenclaw College, the roommate grabbed Zoe’s arm, tiptoed to look at the carriages, and asked Zoe curiously.

Zooey shook her head. She was actually more curious than her roommates, but seeing the blank expressions of the students around her, she knew that even if she asked, no one would be able to answer her.

“Actually, there are, but you can’t see them.”

A voice suddenly sounded behind the two of them. Zoe and her roommate were taken aback. When they wanted to turn around to see who was talking, a boy had squeezed out from the middle of the line and stood beside them.

“Ivan? When did you come?” Zooey looked at the boy beside her in surprise, she didn’t notice Ivan’s approach at all.

“I’ve been in the team all the time.” Ivan smiled and greeted Zoe’s roommate who likes to wear two pigtails, “Good evening, Fiona.”

“Good evening.” Fiona smiled and waved to Ivan.

“I’m lying. I didn’t see you when I was in line.” Zooey was not so easy to fool, she remembered very clearly, after she got off the car, she made sure that Ivan was not in the line of the four colleges at all, “You Where did you go?”

Ivan looked at Zooey in surprise. He hadn’t expected that Zooey would pursue this question so hard. According to her temperament, she should be very smart to give up asking at this time.

What’s going on today?

But there’s nothing to hide about this matter. Ivan fooled Zooey with the sentence “I was standing in the corner”—or, after getting an answer, Zooey didn’t pursue it any further.

“Four people per car, please keep in good order.”

Under the command of the prefects, the students pulled their friends and boarded the carriage. Zoe saw that after they closed the door, the carriage moved by itself and began to move forward with bumps and shakes.

“There really are no horses!”

The child’s emotions came and went quickly, seeing the miraculous scene of the carriage advancing automatically, Zooey immediately put Ivan’s perfunctory behind her, and was amazed together with Fiona.

Ivan remained silent, without any intention of interjecting.

He kept his eyes on those carriages that were not being pulled, but were able to move forward by themselves.

In the eyes of Zoe, Fiona, other students, and even most of the professors, the front of these carriages was empty.

But Ivan knew that was not the case.

In his eyes, the front of the carriage was not empty. Between the poles stood animals that looked like horses, but also reptiles. There is no flesh on their bodies, the black fur is tightly attached to the skeleton, and every bone is clearly visible.

Their heads were very similar to those of the dragons Ivan had seen in books, and their pupilless eyes were white and staring intently. In the bulge between the shoulder bones, there are big, black and tough wings, which seem to belong to a huge bat.

These animals were motionless, standing quietly in the thickening night, looking weird and terrifying.

Thestrals.

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