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In front of the long table on stage is a four-legged stool, on which sits a pointed wizard's hat with patches, giving an obvious sense of age.
At this moment, the pointed wizard's hat was singing by itself until McGonagall came forward and stopped.
"Whoever I call now will put on the hat, sit on the stool and wait for the sorting."
Professor McGonagall pulled out a scroll of vellum:
"Colin Creevey!"
Colin's body stiffened, and he immediately ran up, a little nervous to sit down and put on the hat.
With almost no pause, the hat provided an answer:
"Gryffindor!"
All the wizards at the long table of Gryffindor applauded thunderously, celebrating that their college had a new student.
"Astoria Greengrass!"
"Slytherin!"
"Luna Lovegood!"
"Ravenclaw!"
"Ginny Weasley!"
"Gryffindor!"
As one after another of the young wizards were called up, soon it was George's turn.
"George!"
In the moment George put on the Sorting Hat, he, like the other young wizards, didn't hear any hesitation or questioning from the Sorting Hat, but directly had an answer.
"Slytherin!"
"Surprisingly, it's Slytherin!"
George's face showed some surprise, but he quickly composed himself, put away the Sorting Hat, and took his time to sit down at the Slytherin table.
To be honest, he felt that he had a high probability of being in Gryffindor and a low probability of being in Ravenclaw, but hadn't expected to end up in Slytherin.
However, after thinking about it, he realized that he tended to be more organized and goal-oriented, sometimes even pragmatic. These characteristics also somewhat fit some aspects of Slytherin.
Perhaps he deep down had a genuine inclination towards the characteristics of Slytherin.
Slytherin does not mean evil, and none of the four houses represents absolute good or absolute bad.
Both Gryffindor and Slytherin have produced wizards like Dobby, and Slytherin has also had wizards like Regulus who were willing to sacrifice themselves to resist Voldemort, even if it meant dying instead of letting house-trained wizards take their place.
The features of the four houses are actually mostly positive.
Gryffindor represents bravery, Ravenclaw represents wisdom and learning, Hufflepuff represents honesty and integrity, and Slytherin represents intelligence, ambition, and goal-oriented behavior.
"Slytherin is also fine. Snape is a bit of a hothead and is skilled in dark magic. If he can contribute to Slytherin's honor, it would be quite beneficial."
Coming back to his senses, the sorting ceremony had already come to an end.
Actually, before the sorting ceremony, he had analyzed the personalities of each Head of House for every possible college he could be sorted into and made plans to deal with each scenario.
Therefore, even being sorted into Slytherin wouldn't be a big issue.
Dumbledore briefly introduced the new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor, Gilderoy Lockhart, and announced that dinner had begun.
Immediately, countless dishes prepared by house-elves appeared on the four long tables, and the hungry young wizards began to feast immediately.
George also began to eat the food on the table, but he still paid some attention to the long table in front of the stage.
Sure enough, a witch with a gaunt frame, yellowish skin, a hooked nose, oily black hair cascading over her shoulders, wearing long black robes and a cloak that exuded an eerie coldness soon appeared at the entrance of the auditorium.
He walked swiftly to the long table like a large bat, and any young wizard he passed, regardless of their house or year, instinctively held their breath.
This person was none other than the head of Slytherin, Severus Snape.
One of the greatest potion masters and a powerful wizard in the league under Dumbledore, Voldemort, and Grindelwald.
Snape spoke a few words with Dumbledore and McGonagall, and Professor McGonagall's face quickly turned stern. Then, the three of them walked out of the hall together.
"My father has been promoted again... in the Ministry."
"My mom bought me a wand worth twenty Galleons when I was seven... "
"Hmph, what is that to you? I..."
At the Slytherin table, first-year witches began to brag about their families and wealth while eating.
Witches and wizards who are sorted into Slytherin are typically pure-blood descendants, with very few exceptions for half-bloods. Pure Muggles usually do not have children who can be sorted into Slytherin.
So they have known each other since they were young.
And even if they don't know each other, they will deliberately show off their families and wealth at this moment to ensure their future status.
George did not participate in this, he this body is likely a half-blood, Muggle mother and wizard father had a relationship, unexpectedly pregnant, unable to find the father's situation unwilling to drag himself down, it's quite normal to abandon the child.
Therefore, in terms of family status, he is definitely at the bottom of Slytherin's social hierarchy, and there is no need for him to subject himself to unnecessary distress.
As a half-blood, as long as he demonstrates absolute strength like Severus Snape and Voldemort, he will naturally have a place and followers.
Slytherin values bloodline more than strength, but of course, you must be at least a half-blood.
"Oh, by Merlin's beard, it's Bloodman Barrow! He looks terrifying!"
At that moment, the young witches shuddered, as a terrifying ghost with a gaunt face, empty eyes, and covered in blood suddenly sat down at the Slytherin table.
The ghost sat right next to George.
George looked up at Bloodman Barrow and gave a faint smile, nodding gracefully to the ghost as a greeting before continuing to eat his dinner at a leisurely pace.
Having blood all over him is nothing. He's seen all sorts of things in the lab. He's killed dozens of people. He wouldn't be scared by a little blood.
But Bloodman Barrow was obviously surprised that a first-year witch was so calm in the face of his ghostly appearance.
However, as a Slytherin ghost, he was quite satisfied with having a brave young witch like George in his house and nodded in response.
"What family is he from, to dare to greet Bloodman Barrow like that?"
"I don't know. I haven't heard of him. He must be a half-blood."
"Half-blood? But he doesn't look like one. I think he's from one of the twenty-eight families. He looks very elegant."
George's performance in front of Bloodman Barrow naturally caught the attention of all the Slytherin witches and wizards, and they were curious about this elegant and bold young wizard.
But soon they concluded that George was a half-blood, because if he were pureblood, they couldn't have never heard of him, and the name George also seemed quite strange.
However, even so, some first-year witches still developed a liking for George.
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