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Slytherin...?
Sorting Hat, are you messing with me?!
What happened to the Sorting Hat respecting personal choice?
So this so-called respect is only for Harry Potter, is that it?
Sean really wanted to grab the Sorting Hat and shake it wildly, roaring and asking it why, why does a hat like you have two faces!
After Professor McGonagall, with a smile playing on her lips, took the Sorting Hat off Sean's head, Sean, under the cold, empty gaze of Snape and the silent stares of all the Slytherin students, walked to the Slytherin long table and sat down, feeling like life wasn't worth living.
Not long after, Millicent also came to the Slytherin long table. He stood opposite Sean and said directly, "Sean, if you give me back my stuff now, I can still..."
"I'm not in a good mood right now. If you want to be like Malfoy, then keep barking in front of me."
Millicent paused, wanting to say something, but ultimately didn't dare. He gave a cold snort and went to sit with other Slytherin students.
At this moment, Sean had a headache.
Of course, this wasn't because he had been sorted into Slytherin.
Being sorted into Slytherin just now was indeed beyond his expectation, and he did have a bit of a headache about the situation, but Sean wasn't overly worried. This was Hogwarts after all, and such malicious incidents wouldn't occur. Being careful and cautious in daily life could avoid most problems.
Sean's headache was due to the hidden Death Eater reserve attribute of Slytherin.
The first two or three years would be fine, but later, as No-Nose gradually returned, the belief in No-Nose within Slytherin would also rise again. At that time, Slytherin would inevitably become very dangerous, especially when No-Nose officially returned. As a member of Slytherin, it would probably not be easy for Sean to stay away from the vortex.
Originally, Sean had planned to spend seven years leisurely at Hogwarts. Now it seemed basically impossible. Moreover, to avoid being used as cannon fodder and crushed in the future, Sean felt that he had to make some plans, at least to make himself capable enough to protect himself.
Thinking of self-protection, Sean suddenly remembered the fight he had with Malfoy, Goyle, and the others earlier. According to the panel's usual behaviour, if he won against them, there should be a high probability of obtaining a certain skill from Malfoy and Goyle. As soon as he thought of this, Sean immediately opened the panel and indeed saw the corresponding prompt.
Only...
[Duel Won!]
[Conditions Met: Victory Against Draco Malfoy.]
[System Commencing Random Ability Extraction from Defeated Target: Draco Malfoy.]
[Extracting...]
Sean felt that little mental buzz.
[Extraction Complete!]
[New Ability Acquired: Pure-blood Noble Table Manners]
Sean's mouth twitched a bit. Seriously? Table manners? He kept reading.
[Duel Won!]
[Conditions Met: Victory Against Gregory Goyle.]
[System Commencing Random Ability Extraction from Defeated Target: Gregory Goyle.]
[Extracting...]
Another little buzz.
[Extraction Complete!]
[New Ability Acquired: Wizard Chess Cheating Techniques]
At this moment, Sean had already rolled his eyes to the sky. So these two guys were even worse than his little useless Onii-chan. And what about the only heir of the Malfoy family? Get out of here!
While Sean was rolling his eyes, the sorting ceremony officially ended. Professor McGonagall returned to the professors' long table and sat down. Dumbledore stood up and began to speak.
And at the moment the sorting ceremony officially ended, forty red gems were directly missing from Gryffindor's scoring hourglass, while one hundred and ten green gems instantly disappeared from Slytherin's scoring hourglass!
Gryffindor's points deduction came from Harry and Ron. They both participated in the fight and were each deducted twenty points. As for Slytherin's deducted points, sixty of them came from Malfoy and his two followers, and fifty came from Sean, the awesome guy who set the precedent for fighting on the first day of Hogwarts.
Professor McGonagall, head of Gryffindor, didn't seem the least bit upset about her house losing points. In fact, she took a satisfied sip of her wine, clearly enjoying the fact that, for once, someone else was having an even worse night.
In contrast, Snape, the Head of Slytherin, wore a complicated expression in his usually impassive eyes. It was hard to tell whether it was regret or annoyance, but there was a definite mix of emotions—awkwardness and a hint of helplessness.
Heaven knows how a reckless and rude boy ended up sorted into Slytherin!
Even with Snape's extensive knowledge and experience, he hadn't expected someone like that to appear in his house.
After all his maneuvering, he thought he had set a clever trap for Gryffindor, but he'd ended up falling into it himself. Snape pressed down three times harder as he cut his steak, the harsh scraping of his knife against the plate cutting sharply through the air.
After Dumbledore finished speaking, a large amount of food immediately appeared on the long tables of the four houses. The atmosphere in the other three houses reached its peak with the appearance of food, and the Wizards, big and small, started eating with gusto. In contrast, Slytherin was quite quiet. This was naturally partly because their house had been deducted one hundred and ten points right at the start of the school year but also because Slytherin itself was not as casual as the other houses.
Except for a few newcomers like Goyle and Crabbe, who had no manners, the other Slytherin students ate with a considerable degree of etiquette. Only by being different in every way could they demonstrate the so-called nobility of pure-bloods.
"Samuel, how are the new students this year?"
"The Malfoy Family and the Bulstrode Family people are here. Their quality is quite good. After all, they come from the most famous Pure-blood families. The upper limit is unknown, but the lower limit should not be too low."
The speakers were two fifth-year students, who were also the newly elected male and female Prefects this year.
Each house at Hogwarts selects one male and one female Prefect in their fifth year, and each Prefect serves until they graduate in their seventh year. In other words, each house will have six Prefects simultaneously at any given time. When the seventh-year students graduate, it is time for the new fifth-year students to elect new Prefects.
Prefects can only be the most outstanding students in each house. Of course, the so-called most outstanding is also chosen by the Dean of each house themselves. Otherwise, Ron in the original story could not have become a Prefect; purely in terms of excellence, he was really not qualified.
The selection of Slytherin Prefects is slightly different from other houses. Snape doesn't like to manage these trivial matters, so a small selection is held within Slytherin, and then the outgoing Prefects give the list of new Prefects to Snape. Once Snape agrees, the selection is considered complete.
Therefore, Slytherin Prefects either have superior family backgrounds, are extremely outstanding, or simply possess both. And at this moment, the two fifth-year Slytherin Prefects can be considered examples of possessing both!
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