Hogwarts Chinese Exchange Student - Harry Potter (Color Illustrations Edition)

Author: Long Kui
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Publish Date: 2006-08-01
Features: Today is the first day of school in the morning, Harry, Ron, and Hermione sat at the table as usual, eating breakfast. The atmosphere in the hall was not as lively as usual on the first day of school. It seemed that the grand banquet and the exciting Sorting Ceremony last night could not hide the shadow of Voldemort's return from everyone. "That position is still empty," Ron said while eating bacon, looking at the position of the Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher. The Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher at Hogwarts had an astonishingly high turnover rate of one per year, as if there was a curse. Every teacher of Defense Against the Dark Arts would encounter some terrible things that forced them to unwillingly or forever unable to continue teaching. Last year's Professor Umbridge—Hogwarts' most hated teacher, who was almost half-mad from fear of the Centaurs, clearly could not continue teaching. This was a huge relief for most students. Who would be the teacher for this course this year became another mystery. Harry, Ron, and Hermione had looked forward to and worried about the holiday, but when they arrived at Hogwarts last night, they found that the position was still empty. "Maybe the new teacher hasn't arrived yet," Harry said, "Perhaps the new teacher is an expert invited from a distant country." "But it seems like someone else is coming today too. Look," Hermione signaled them to look in the direction of Professor McGonagall. Professor McGonagall had the Sorting Hat in her hand. She, Dumbledore, and the other teachers seemed to pay little attention to the food on the table and kept looking outside the door, as if waiting for something. "The Sorting Hat? Is there still a new student?" Ron said in confusion, stretching his neck to look outside the door. Just then, the towering figure of Hagrid appeared. A smile was on his face as he walked briskly over and stood at the door, saying to Dumbledore, "They're here." Dumbledore smiled with relief, as if a long-standing matter in his heart had finally come true. "Let them in quickly," he said, slowly standing up and announcing to all the students, "Everyone, please pay attention. We now welcome six exchange students from the Nine Realms Magic Academy in China to our school." Then he led the applause himself. Faced with this sudden situation, everyone was a bit stunned, but some quick students quickly put down their forks and joined Dumbledore in clapping. Amidst some scattered applause, six Chinese students walked in. They were all about fourteen or fifteen years old, dressed in Hogwarts uniforms, looking around the room with curious eyes at the foreign teenagers and the enchanted ceiling. "Welcome, children from China. We've been waiting for you," Dumbledore smiled warmly. The six Chinese students seemed to have met Dumbledore before, nodding and greeting him politely. The boy in front spoke softly to Dumbledore, and Dumbledore nodded and smiled, turning to the others and saying, "Children, these six students are from the Nine Realms Magic Academy in China. Due to the time difference, they just arrived this morning. So now we will hold a special Sorting Ceremony for them. Before that, I'll introduce them to you." "These two, are Yun Gui and Ning He from the Thunder Institute of the Nine Realms," the two handsome Chinese boys nodded in greeting. "These two, are Wen Qi and Hui Fu from the Clear Wind Institute of the Nine Realms." Wen Qi, the girl with the name, was extremely delicate and pure, smiling shyly. Hui Fu, on the other hand, was much more outgoing, with a pure and flawless face, saying in English, "Hello." "This one, is Xiao Sen from the Deep Wood Institute of the Nine Realms." A slightly shy boy smiled and nodded. "This one, is Jiang Ao from the Mist Institute of the Nine Realms." A girl with a face full of indifference and mystery, extremely beautiful, nodded faintly, but even without smiling, she had a captivating beauty. After that, Professor McGonagall raised the Sorting Hat and signaled the exchange students to sit down for the Sorting Ceremony. The Sorting Hat was very happy to have two opportunities to appear in a year, but obviously, due to the short time, it couldn't compose a new song in time. Instead, it just said some welcoming words for the foreign students. Harry noticed that although the six Chinese students were curious about the talking Sorting Hat, none of them were nervous, as if they were very confident that Hogwarts would accept them. Indeed, none of them were rejected by the Sorting Hat. Yun Gui and Ning He went to Gryffindor, Wen Qi and Hui Fu went to Ravenclaw, and Xiao Sen went to Hufflepuff. What made Harry and the others sigh with regret was that the extremely beautiful Jiang Ao went to Slytherin. After that, Dumbledore announced that they would be entering their sixth year of study and hoped they would get along well.