Because it's not a serious entrance season, there are few people on the bus. Two teams of parents took their young children to visit Hogwarts. After talking, Zhao Mai knew that one of them was Romanian and the other was Australian.
They are all pure wizard families. They have no interest in the Muggle world. They just complain that the world war makes the transportation not as convenient as it used to be. "It seems that they haven't got rid of the ignorance of hundreds of years ago, but there is no witch to kill this time, so they kill each other." The two families have similar ideas. "Fortunately, we have got rid of Muggles and won't be infected by their idiocy."
It was like talking about another world. Zhao Mai suddenly felt that in the eyes of the wizard, the wizard world is the real core world. The Muggle world without magic is just a place that overlaps with their world. This is totally opposite to the feeling of Zhao Maigen's "earth hometown".
Only those who pushed the van and said "candy, drink, sandwich bread and newspaper" reminded him of his "cigarette, bread, ham sausage, beer, mineral water, don't forget to collect your legs" when he took the bus. He knew that he always had the problem that his thinking was easy to fly, and that he had the character that Zhong Jianbai called "affectation". Pay attention to the present first, pay attention to the present first -- Zhao Mai constantly reminds himself.
Looking at the beautiful scenery outside retreating in the gray smoke of the train, Zhao Mai finds it hard to get his mind back at this time. This is an undisturbed land, without the influence of war. Grass, flowers and sheep are growing freely in the fields. In the shade cast by big trees, there are several small figures playing. Zhao Mai turned on his mobile phone and saw the place name of "wizard world · earth" on the navigation. I remember that at the detachment conference, the wizarding world was called "the sub world attached to the earth", which is probably the origin of the special structure of place names.
At present, the taxi's crossing ability has not been restored, so it is impossible to turn on the billing system, and Zhao Mai has no way to know whether it costs from the wizard world to the original earth.
Formal freshmen get off from the station and need to cross a large lake by boat. But it's not school season, and there are no special ferry people waiting at the dock, so they have to take a carriage around the village of Hogsmeade, which is a small village of witches, and then enter through the main gate of the castle.
There are already people waiting for them, a tall and thin old man and a strong middle-aged man. The old man's hair was neatly combed back, and a pointed hat about the size of a thumb was protruding from his hair, like a horn growing on his head. He took a look at Zhao Mai and others, with no sadness or joy in his eyes, as if he saw only a few stones. But when he saw two families in Romania and Australia, he had a big smile on his face.
"Welcome to Hogwarts. I'm the headmaster, your friend Amando dipert, and next to me is Professor Dumbledore. Please come with me and I'll show you around the school. " The smile on his face disappeared after he met Zhao Mai: "as for you, just follow Albus Dumbledore, the deformation professor. He will arrange for you. After all, that's what he caused
Zhao Mai looked up and down at the famous Albus Dumbledore. He is now thirty-seven years old, and his energy is at its peak. Because he stands upright, his shoulders seem to be able to bear a heavy burden. Now his chin had only a short, uncut beard, which was as brown and uneven as his hair. The famous long beard and the most powerful wizard of later generations are just a rudiment.
He has a pair of wise blue eyes, like an owl on the hook nose. Unfortunately, the bridge of his nose was interrupted, and there was an obvious distortion, so he lost a lot of ferocious and severe feeling, and became soft instead. Zhao Mai looked at him, suddenly felt his spiritual defense was touched, so he frowned and said to Dumbledore, "don't read my mind."
Dumbledore blinked, nodded and said, "I'm sorry, it's an unconscious divergence. But I see that you have done a good job of thinking protection, which is quite rare. " He looked at the crowd, bowed slightly, and said very politely, "as the principal introduced me, my name is Albus Dumbledore, and I'm now a deformation teacher. Before you officially assign grades and enter school, I will lead you to tutor. However, you should not have psychological pressure. Being assigned to any grade is just an evaluation of your past knowledge and will never affect your future achievements. "
"Thank you, but why did the headmaster say you caused this?"
"I'm a student of Hogwarts Gryffindor college. When I was here, I found that the number of freshmen is decreasing year by year, especially the number of non wizard students is very low. It's very strange." He made a gesture of invitation, and then chatted with everyone as he walked: "the descendants of witches are easy to produce witches, and they will be tested in advance to ensure that they can enter school when they are 11 years old. However, the wizard born in the pure Muggle family will not know the wizard world at all. At this time, if there is a problem in searching for the wizard curse, it will lead to the loss of talents in the wizard world. Inspired by a friend, I came up with this problem, and after research, I found out the mistakes in searching for the wizard's curse. Unfortunately, many Muggle family born witches have missed the opportunity, because they can't control their own magic, leading to all kinds of problems. But fortunately, a group of people have been found, just like you. ""What happens to those who miss out?" Zhao Mai asked.
"Some people can't guide their own magic all their lives, so they are no different from ordinary Muggles." Dumbledore said: "but there are some people whose magic comes out and there is no way to control it. Muggles can't handle things like this if the witches don't step in. Over time, these people are likely to be engulfed by magic, lose self-consciousness, and even die, which is quite tragic. "
He said as he walked, leading the people forward. Hogwarts is a huge castle on a cliff. The coach stops near the hillside, but it still has to go a little further after getting off. From the mountain road to the East, you can see a vast forest, stretching to the end of the horizon. "There is a forbidden forest. There is no problem in this part of the area near the castle. The more you go in, the more dangerous it is. In addition to all kinds of wild animals and animals, there are Centaur tribes deep in the forbidden forest. They don't like to be approached. It's said that there are unicorns in the forbidden forest, but I haven't seen them yet. Anyone says that he has seen them with his own eyes. Anyway, you don't go there. Once something goes wrong, even the body can't be found. "
He led them through the tall main gate and turned left. "You don't have a college, you don't live with the students, you live alone in the staff dormitory. There are many rooms in Hogwarts and the roads are complicated. You can always ask these paintings on the wall after you remember the house number. They will tell you how to get there. However, there are some pictures that can be joked or lied, so I suggest you remember them by yourself. The teachers' lounge on the first floor provides three meals a day, two at six and one at twelve. I will teach you, the classroom is on the fourth floor of the charm class classroom, I think the charm is where you need to learn most. Compared with the children here, you are all adults. I think you can understand the virtue of self-discipline. "