The fleet rowed across the lake as smooth as a mirror, and carried the little wizards through the ivy curtain covering the front of the cliff, down a dark tunnel, and finally arrived at a place similar to an underground pier.
Everyone disembarked one after another, and Neville also found his lost toad by the way.
Hagrid continued to lead the way with his lantern in his hand, but this time he reversed course and began to climb.
Fish was too lazy to waste this effort, he rolled onto Hagrid's shoulder again, shaking his calf comfortably.
"Why can he ride on that stupid big man, but I need to go on my own way."
Draco Malfoy muttered uncomfortably, even with the help of Goyle and Crabbe, this young master still made him a little embarrassed along the way.
Fish with sharp ears heard Malfoy's complaint, he turned his head to look at the light blond boy, and remembered Minerva's advice to him
Get along well with other little wizards.
So Fish moved his buttocks and turned his body around.
He sat down on Hagrid's shoulder, waving his arms at Malfoy, "Hey! Do you want to sit on it too?"
Malfoy, who was suddenly named by Fish, was stunned for a moment, feeling the strange gazes from all around him, his pale cheeks flushed involuntarily.
"No, no need."
Malfoy waved his hands quickly, and then actively lowered his head.
"Are you all right, Malfoy."
Crabbe asked with some concern. As one of Malfoy's followers, it was the first time that Crabbe saw Malfoy being so talkative.
Although Crabbe himself has an inexplicable affection for the little boy, with his limited IQ, he cannot sort out the relationship between the two.
"What can I do?"
Facing his squire, Malfoy immediately resumed his normal manner, proudly raising his head and pointing his nostrils at Crabbe.
In fact, Malfoy himself was also a little puzzled. Originally, he wanted to ridicule the little wizard, but he didn't know why the words came to his lips, but he couldn't say anything, and then he himself was so inexplicably fooled.
However, before Malfoy could recover, the freshmen, led by Hagrid, arrived in front of a huge oak door.
"Is everything here? Look, is your toad still there?"
Hagrid finally checked the number of people and paid attention to Neville's toad, then he raised his huge fist and knocked three times on the castle gate.
The door in front of me opened immediately, and a tall witch in emerald green robes stood behind the door, her black hair was pulled up high, her expression was serious, which made the group of nervous little wizards even more nervous.
Just then, a voice broke the tense atmosphere.
"Minerva! I'm hungry, when can I have dinner?"
Fish, who was sitting on Hagrid's shoulder, looked relaxed. After seeing Professor McGonagall, he immediately waved his arms excitedly and shouted at her.
Professor McGonagall looked at Fisher, who was sitting on Hagrid's shoulder, and her serious expression immediately softened a lot, but her words were still harsh.
"Get off Hagrid quickly! Also, you must call me Professor McGonagall at school."
"Okay, Minerva, no problem, Minerva."
Fish answered with a grin, jumping off Hagrid's shoulders.
Professor McGonagall did not continue talking to Fish, she nodded at Hagrid, "Thank you, Hagrid. Let me pick you up here."
A group of little wizards followed Professor McGonagall into the gate of the castle, and they all consciously kept a short distance from her.
Only the restless Fish ran to Professor McGonagall, reaching out to pull her sleeve, but Professor McGonagall hit him on the forehead with a backhand.
"Go back to the team for me."
The corner of Professor McGonagall's mouth twitched slightly, and Fisher ordered in a low voice.
"oh¡ª¡ª"
Fish covered his forehead with both hands, and returned to the crowd with his mouth pouted. His little aggrieved expression caused the little witches to exclaim "so cute" and "I really want to hug him".
Even among the boys, Harry vaguely heard similar exclamations.
Professor McGonagall took the first-year freshmen to a small empty room, and then briefly mentioned the sorting ceremony to be held later and the four houses of Hogwarts.
"What about dinner?? "
It doesn't matter what the sorting ceremony is, Fisher's focus is still on food.
"After the sorting ceremony is over, dinner will naturally be arranged for you."
Professor McGonagall glared at Fish, but still answered his question seriously.
Without the temptation of food, it would be wishful thinking to let this kid Fish stay here in peace.
"I'll pick you up when it's ready over there." Professor McGonagall looked at Fish with a warning look, "Please keep quiet while waiting."
After finishing speaking, Professor McGonagall left the room, and a group of young wizards immediately began to whisper.
What they talked about the most, apart from the sorting ceremony, was Fish, who was obviously a very special student, and Harry Potter, the famous savior, whose scars were covered by his hair, so only a limited number of people knew that he was there several.
After Professor McGonagall left, Fish ran to the door without anyone else, and looked outside through the crack of the door.
"Do you know what happened to him?"
After chatting with Ron about the sorting ceremony and making himself more nervous, Harry thought it would be better to change the subject to ease his emotions.
"I don't know, he is probably the child of that Professor McGonagall just now?"
Ron shook his head, and said a guess that everyone could see at a glance.
"Minerva McGonagall, head of Gryffindor College, master of transfiguration, one of the seven Animagus of this century, she has no children."
Hermione Granger, who was still reciting the spell in a low voice, interrupted suddenly.
"I saw her introduction in "Important Magical Events of the Twentieth Century"."
"That's a nephew or something." Ron's cheeks twitched twice, as if he felt a bit ashamed that his knowledge was not as good as that of a witch from a Muggle family, and interrupted impatiently: "That's not the point at all."
"Excuse me what is an Animagus?"
Before Ron and Hermione got into an argument, Harry raised his doubts.
"Animagus is a very, very difficult magic." Mentioning this, Hermione seemed particularly excited. "This spell can turn a wizard into an animal that suits him best. It usually takes several years to be able to do so." Become an Animagus, since the 20th century, there are only seven registered Animagus in the Ministry of Magic!"
Hermione's words were full of admiration for Professor McGonagall.
"It should be eight now." Ron didn't like Hermione's "good student" attitude very much, which reminded him of his outstanding brothers, so he choked without hesitation, "I remember Two or three years ago there was a report in the Daily Prophet that a born Animagus had been discovered."
And very coincidentally, Draco Malfoy not far away also talked about this matter.
"I think I know who he is," Malfoy whispered to the people around him in his slow tone, "He is the little wizard Minerva McGonagall adopted a few years ago, a natural born Nimagus."