Capítulo 77: Chapter 77: Opening Banquet
The cold rain was pouring down, and by the time they all climbed the marble stairs and entered the castle, everyone was visibly relieved. Harry's face was no longer pale, Ivan felt almost recovered, and his legs had finally stopped shaking.
The smell of food floated out of the Great Hall, and the laughter inside made the young wizards feel wonderful to be back in the world.
Ivan sniffed and rubbed his belly, feeling his stomach empty.
He had missed the Sorting Ceremony last year and hadn't ended up eating anything, which was a shame, because besides the party food, he had wanted to see the Sorting Ceremony.
As he was about to enter the large dining room, Professor McGonagall's voice suddenly came over, "Mason, Potter and Granger, I want to see the three of you!"
They turned their heads in surprise, and saw Professor McGonagall coming towards them with a stern look on her face, and Ivan quickly wondered if she had done something wrong recently.
"You don't have to be so nervous, I just want to talk to you in my office." She turned her head and continued, "Weasley, Creevey, you can go to the party first."
Ron and Colin watched in disbelief as Professor McGonagall led Ivan, Harry and Hermione away from the crowd.
They walked to Professor McGonagall's office, it was a small room with a cozy fire in the fireplace.
The three were astonished to see Madam Pomfrey there waiting for them.
"Professor Lupin sent an owl saying you fainted on the train, Potter." Professor McGonagall looked concerned, "As for you, Mason, Lupin said you used the Patronus Charm, which is amazing considering your age, but the strain on your body must be immense."
"No, Professor..."
Before they could finish their words, they were interrupted by Madam Pomfrey, "So it's you two!" She said in a voice of understanding, "I thought it was someone... You're not doing anything dangerous again, are you? Last time the basilisk, what is it this time?"
"You two!" said Madam Pomfrey in an angry voice, "I thought.... I thought... you wouldn't do anything dangerous like you did with the basilisk."
"That's four Dementors, Pomfrey." Said Professor McGonagall.
They exchanged a discreet glance and Madam Pomfrey took a deep, cold breath and gave a disapproving laugh.
"Place Dementors around the school." Madam Pomfrey muttered as she examined Ivan and Harry, "He won't be the last to faint. You're all sweaty. Surely they're terrible creatures, the effect they have on people who are already frail..."
"I'm not frail!" said Harry angrily.
"Of course not," Madam Pomfrey said absently, "You look fine, what do you need, bed rest or..."
"I think we're fine, I think I have a lot of happy things to remember the spell wasn't as hard as I thought it would be," Ivan said hurriedly.
Since taking the potion, his mana had clearly increased by a good margin, and he was actually at a much higher level than a young wizard his age, and using a Patronus spell hadn't affected his body too much. But Ivan was curious as to why a guardian had begun to form, though he couldn't remember anything happy at the moment.
"I don't need anything!" Harry nodded approvingly, "Professor Lupin gave me some chocolate and now I feel much better."
"So we have a professor who knows his remedies," Madam Pomfrey whispered.
After Ivan and Harry repeatedly insisted that they were fine, they left with Madam Pomfrey. Professor McGonagall had something to tell Hermione.
"What does Professor McGonagall have to talk to Hermione about?" asked Harry curiously.
"It should be about some of her classes being in conflict, so maybe Professor McGonagall is persuading her to drop some classes." Ivan said, though he knew that Professor McGonagall was giving Hermione a time-turner.
She used one at the end of last year, but the time-turner she used was made by Rowena Ravenclaw herself, and it was powerful enough to bring it back a thousand years.
Unfortunately, upon his return, Ravenclaw had not given it to him.
Ivan thought there might be something else in the secret room, but the basilisk went to many different places at the time and he couldn't be sure of its exact location, so he couldn't go rifling through Ravenclaw's tower looking for a secret room.
There were also the secret treasures left behind by the four founders, and he still didn't have any key clues to it, nor did he know what the riddles meant.
As Ivan frowned, Hermione came out in great delight, behind her was Professor McGonagall, who came down the stairs to the Great Hall with them.
In the Great Hall there was a sea of black hats, every table was filled with students, thousands of candlelights shone on their faces, the candles were suspended in the air above the table. Professor Flitwick emerged from the Great Dining Hall with an old hat and a three-legged stool.
"Oh my goodness!" said Ivan as he slapped his forehead, "I missed it two years in a row."
"Yes, you are very unlucky," Colin said as he looked at Ivan sympathetically.
As Ivan sat down, he noticed that there were some new faces at the Gryffindor table, who should be the new first years.
He didn't know them, but they seemed to know him.
In fact, people kept turning their heads to look at Ivan or Harry, people were pointing at both of them, and the news of what had happened on the train was spreading fast.
People were very interested in the matter, whether it was because Harry had fainted or the spell Ivan that he used to defeat the Dementors.
Maybe when he finished his "Me and the Basilisk at Hogwarts", he could write another "Me and the Dementors at Hogwarts", which was a real event that happened anyway, and if he followed Lockhart's formula, it would be a hit.
Ivan's age was the best selling point, and how many twelve-year-old wizards besides him had the experience of defeating Basilisks and Dementors?
It was only when there was a great round of applause that Ivan came to his senses.
He saw Hagrid standing in the professor's chair red-faced, his smile hidden in his untidy black beard.
Dumbledore had just introduced two new teachers for this year, Lupin, as expected, to teach Defense Against the Dark Arts, and Hagrid to teach Care of Magical Creatures. Everyone, apart from Snape and the Slytherin students, was delighted with this appointment.
Needless to say, Hagrid was well known to all the young wizards and, having cleared his name of any wrongdoing, it seemed only logical that he would replace the last retiring Care of Magical Creatures teacher as the new Care of Magical Creatures teacher.
As for Professor Lupin, the students who had experienced the Dementor attack on the train applauded even though he was very poorly dressed, everyone was delighted to finally have a proper Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher.
Even Malfoy, Goyle and Crabbe clapped a couple of times, but soon stopped.
Following their stares, Ivan saw that Snape was staring at Professor Lupin.
Snape's look was more than annoyance, it was disgust.
Ivan and Harry looked at each other in silence, their newly improved mood ruined by Snape's stare.
Then Dumbledore announced that the Dementors had received permission from the Ministry to station themselves at all entrances to the school grounds, and that he had asked all students to restrain themselves from confronting the Dementors, as the creatures did not inherently know what a request or an excuse was, and would see any lack of cooperation as provocation and attack.
No young wizard would be able to defend himself against a Dementor attack.
At Dumbledore's words, Ivan found that everyone turned their heads to look at him, no one spoke and the atmosphere was terribly heavy.
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