You Think the School Is Your Home?!

The witch addressing the young wizards...

Was none other than Hogwarts' Deputy Headmistress, Professor Minerva McGonagall.

Because Professor Minerva McGonagall had just been questioned by the gray-haired boy, she had formed a slight impression of him. This child looked like he might not be very well-behaved at school...

As everyone knew.

Most ill-behaved children ended up in Gryffindor.

And Gryffindor's head of house happened to be Professor Minerva McGonagall. As she thought about memorizing the gray-haired boy's appearance and keeping an eye out for him causing trouble at school in the future, an even more difficult educational problem appeared.

Unfortunately.

There was more than one new student who would cause trouble at school this year.

The young wizards soon began raising more questions. Two nearly identical voices asked the same question in unison.

"Can we set traps at school?"

"Can we set traps at school?"

"..."

Why were there so many problem children among this year's new students?

Obviously, that was impossible!

"Of course... not."

As Professor Minerva McGonagall refused them, she followed their gazes and saw two identical twins. Both little boys had striking red hair.

There was no need to think too much.

Red hair meant they were definitely children of the Weasley family.

Professor Minerva McGonagall did not need to think any further to know that any wizard born into the Weasley family would enter the Gryffindor she oversaw with a hundred percent certainty.

The only hope...

Perhaps the two young twin wizards would be like their older brothers?

Whether it was Bill Weasley, who had graduated two years earlier, Charlie Weasley, who was in his sixth year, or Percy Weasley, who was in his third year, they were all children who had caused her very little trouble.

Obviously.

The twin brothers were completely different from their older brothers.

"Can't we, Professor...?"

Fred Weasley blinked his eyes and glanced at his brother, George. The twins raised their heads together and voiced their doubts in unison: "But we like setting all kinds of strange traps at home..."

"Do you think the school is your home?"

Professor Minerva McGonagall felt her blood pressure shoot straight up in anger. The moment she finished speaking, she was filled with deep regret. Wasn't she just contradicting herself?

They were still only children...

Professor Minerva McGonagall could not help spreading her hands as she seriously explained, "The school is still the school. It is where you come to study. I was only giving an example just now... Because you will spend a long time at school in the future, longer than the time you spend at home."

After saying that, Professor Minerva McGonagall immediately moved past the subject. She did not want to keep discussing a single sentence back and forth, since it would be easy for a group of little rascals to lead the conversation astray.

"All right, let's continue with the important matters."

Professor Minerva McGonagall rubbed her forehead and continued in a solemn voice: "Which house you are sorted into is extremely important, because everything you do at school will earn or lose points for your house. At the end of the year, the house with the highest total score will receive the House Cup. That will be the greatest honor a house can obtain."

After she finished, Professor McGonagall waved her hand and instructed them softly, "Wait here for a while. Do not wander around. The Sorting Ceremony will begin shortly."

As her voice fell.

The female professor turned and walked through the Great Hall's doors.

Professor Minerva McGonagall had to confirm that the students from every house and every other year had arrived before arranging the new students' Sorting Ceremony.

"What a pity..."

After watching Professor Minerva McGonagall leave, Vinson Wright shook his head and sighed regretfully. He looked toward the Weasley twins. "I originally found an excellent reason to escape punishment for breaking any school rule, but now someone else has ruined it..."

"..."

Wait...

Why hadn't they been sorted yet...

And he was already thinking about escaping punishment for breaking school rules!

Cedric looked at his friend speechlessly. He reached out and patted Vinson on the shoulder as if soothing him, while he himself finally relaxed a little. "Then we can just study quietly..."

"...What a pity."

Vinson Wright was still regretting the loophole he had seized from Professor Minerva McGonagall's words, only for the Weasley twins to disrupt and defuse it.

Who would have thought...

What on earth were these two brothers thinking...

Vinson had finally managed to seize Professor McGonagall's verbal loophole and move aside a table intended for eating, only for the twins to flip the table over!

And they still had the nerve to bring it up!

The twins remained completely unaware of this. They began winking at each other again and teasing their classmates, their antics making the surrounding young wizards laugh.

It seemed that no matter where they were...

The twins could always bring joy to the people around them.

However, in the eyes of the Hogwarts professors, this behavior was clearly a nuisance. When Professor Minerva McGonagall returned and saw the scene, her eyelids began twitching.

Professor McGonagall, the head of Gryffindor, darkened her expression, and her eyes quickly turned stern. "Mr. Weasleys, could you please behave yourselves for the moment?"

"...Yes."

The twins immediately drooped.

However, just as everyone around them thought they had become dispirited, the brothers slowly lowered their straightened upper bodies. Their movements were extremely slow and steady, as if they intended to squat down little by little until they buried themselves in the floor...

"Phew..."

Professor Minerva McGonagall took a deep breath to calm herself and said solemnly, "All new students, follow me inside. The Sorting Ceremony is about to begin."

These twin brothers...

They were definitely going to cause plenty of trouble at school.

However, Professor Minerva McGonagall's attention had been drawn to the Weasley twins, and she had completely forgotten about the gray-haired boy who had asked the first question.

"Vinson, I'm still a little nervous..."

Cedric followed closely beside his friend and spoke in a low voice. "What could go wrong during the Sorting Ceremony? What if I don't get sorted into Hufflepuff..."

"Don't worry. You'll be even more nervous in a little while."

Vinson kindly gave Cedric some advance warning so that he could prepare himself mentally.

The Hogwarts new students of 1989 were truly a colorful bunch!

Have a wonderful weekend. I'm sure you'll all be satisfied with Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday's chapters...

The Monday and Tuesday updates will be posted at midnight.

The other dates will remain at eight in the morning as usual.