The other professors have already left.
There were only three people left in the Great Hall: Snape, Dumbledore, and McGonagall. Sorting Hat's lung-splitting screams finally made Dumbledore unbearable.
"Professor Snape, as Sorting Hat said, it is one of Hogwarts's precious properties, and we have no right to damage it or do other... other things."
Dumbledore never calls anyone by their first name when others are around.
He originally planned to take Snape to visit the poor student who was unconscious just now. Unexpectedly, Snape had already taken advantage of Sorting Hat while he was trimming his beard.
Tell the truth.
Snape's behavior at this moment is actually not a bad thing in Dumbledore's opinion. It at least proves that Ian does have some weight in Snape's heart.
This is the fetter that can hold Snape from falling into it when Snape is on the verge of the abyss.
"I just want to take Sorting Hat to take a bath."
Snape continued to carry Sorting Hat with an expressionless face.
"A cesspit is not a bathroom! Let me go! You nasty old bat!"
Sorting Hat shouted.
"I think you should talk less." Professor McGonagall saw that Snape's face turned a little ugly, and she quickly made a silencing gesture towards Sorting Hat.
"Hoho, old bat, right? Even Merlin couldn't save you today." Snape said as he took Sorting Hat towards the toilet.
Dumbledore raised his hand and stopped talking.
"Dumbledore! Save me! McGonagall!"
"I watched you grow up! Please save me!"
Sorting Hat wants to struggle but has no ability at all.
"It's Ian! It's Ian! I want to file a complaint! It's the little wizard who called you that! I'm just imitating him!" Seeing the door getting closer and closer, Sorting Hat finally couldn't hold it any longer.
He became a traitor once.
However.
Thousands of years of time did not seem to make him realize the price of being a traitor - Snape's face became a little uglier, and his steps suddenly accelerated a little faster.
"Then let you take a bath in Ravenclaw's cesspit."
Snape's tone was cold.
"No!!!!"
Sorting Hat let out a desperate scream.
"Okay, Professor Snape, don't scare it anymore." Dumbledore said helplessly. When facing Snape, he actually felt a little guilty.
After all.
He was the one who initially promised to let Ian enter Slytherin.
Who would have thought?
No matter how you observe, you will definitely feel that he will be a standard Slytherin child.
Why did you go to Ravenclaw?
He even secretly asked Sorting Hat last night so that Sorting Hat could give more consideration to Ian. As a result, the child was assigned to another academy by Sorting Hat - of course Dumbledore believed in Sorting Hat's judgment, but Snape was obviously not happy to accept this fact.
"I'm not kidding."
Snape Even though he said so, he still stopped in his tracks.
When Dumbledore saw this, he immediately spoke, "Give Sorting Hat some time, I believe it can give a convincing reason. After all, it has never made a wrong judgment in thousands of years."
Principal Old Bee's words made Professor McGonagall standing next to him nod his head.
"Interfering with Sorting Hat's work is actually a kind of overstep." Professor McGonagall is a very conscientious professor. She has restrained her Gryffindor nature for many years after becoming a professor.
"That's right! I never make mistakes!"
Sorting Hat also defended himself loudly at this time.
"I only believe in my eyes. Slytherin will bring him glory. He was born to be Slytherin." Snape recalled several meetings with Ian in his mind.
Whether it's an orphanage.
It's the dug-out floor of Hogsmeade Village.
And Ian's many words and deeds.
From Snape's point of view, they are constantly proving that Ian will be a student of the college he is in charge of.
Ambition, shrewdness, strong will and understanding of glory.
In terms of these very, very precise characteristics, Snape felt that even if he did not have any filters, he would think that Ian was even more outstanding than most of the Slytherin students he had taught.
The characteristics are so obvious!
Where else to go besides Slytherin?
Take a look at the students who entered Slytherin this year!
One is inferior to the other!
Leaving aside the Grindelwald brats, the others were simply the worst Slytherin he had ever seen! There was actually a coward who fainted from excitement among them!
I fainted from excitement!
Shouldn't such people go to Gryffindor?
Snape The more I think about it, the angrier I get.
He felt that Sorting Hat was deliberately disgusting him. Even the kid from Grindelwald's family was fooled into lameness. How could such a cunning Ian not be Slytherin?
"Silence won't save you."
Snape picked up the tip of Sorting Hat's hat and raised Sorting Hat high in a cold tone.
"I'm just thinking! I'm thinking about how to explain to you how special the little boy you fall in love with is!" Sorting Hat's tone was somewhat arrogant.
"I'm listening, but if you're going to say something about him being smart, clever, wise, fair, knowledgeable, and far-sighted, I think I can find a way to make you smell like a cesspit forever."
Snape sneered.
He certainly knows the characteristics of students in each college very well.
"No! You can't do that! Dumbledore Say something!"
Sorting Hat's expression became even more frightened. It has wisdom that is not inferior to that of humans. Some even say that Gryffindor once left a fragment of its soul on it.
Of course, these are all rumors and there is no evidence, but one thing is very certain, that is, Sorting Hat does know the weight of Potions Master.
"Dumbledore can't save you, it seems you really intend to fool me like this."
Snape looked gloomy.
Compared with those young wizards from various colleges, as a professor, he certainly understands some of the rules of the branch. In fact, the young wizard himself also has some right to make decisions about his future college.
As long as there are some corresponding qualities in the body, Sorting Hat will consider the little wizard's request, and in his opinion, every drop of blood on Ian's body should bear the mark of Slytherin.
Even if Ian really has the quality of Ravenclaw, it is completely reasonable to separate it from Slytherin.
"Of course not! It's definitely not like this! If it's just so ordinary, how could I not give you this face? I will definitely throw that little wizard to you Slytherin!"
Sorting Hat's intelligence can be seen even in simple flattery. Of course, this may also be the quick wit forced by Snape's aggressiveness.
"But he went to Ravenclaw."
Snape's sneer was cruel.
"That's because Ravenclaw is the most suitable academy for him!"
Sorting Hat quickly screamed, "No one is more suitable for Ravenclaw than him. I have been waiting for a thousand years. Finding her successor for Ravenclaw is the mission entrusted to me by Gryffindor!"
His words did not satisfy Snape.
"Ravenclaw is the student with the largest number of assignments this year."
Unexpectedly, Snape is even counting this.
"Those are just students! Just students! You don't understand Ravenclaw! You haven't seen her grace back then! No one has been qualified to be her real apprentice for thousands of years!"
Sorting Hat's words made Dumbledore and Professor McGonagall's expressions change.
Professor McGonagall's eyes narrowed slightly.
Dumbledore's eyes behind the frame are a little more twinkling.
Of course they all understand the true meaning of apprenticeship.
That is the inheritance of the mantle.
It is the relationship between ancient wizards like father and son - as Sorting Hat said, there can be many students, but apprentices are different. Wizards will only accept as apprentices those children who feel that they can go further than themselves in the exploration and pursuit of magic, so that after their death, the apprentices can take their knowledge to see further scenery.
"Are you saying that the child named Ian has the talent to become Lady Ravenclaw's apprentice?" Professor McGonagall's expression showed a bit of incredible shock.
"Of course!"
Sorting Hat Sonorus's response.
"He and Ravenclaw have the same qualities, qualities that you guys don't have! Even you! Dumbledore is lacking in this aspect!"
Sorting Hat's shouting made Snape frown.
"Shut up!"
He didn't want Sorting Hat to continue talking.
"How can you say that Dumbledore..." Professor McGonagall also stood up to refute Sorting Hat. She did not want to maintain the unshakable authority of Dumbledore.
But the current situation.
Sorting Hat is probably the only one who can be saved by Dumbledore.
If Sorting Hat is really allowed to go around in the dung heap of little wizards and is smeared with Potions by Snape whose smell never disappears, then Sorting Hat will not be the only one who will be tortured.
She McGonagall is the branch host for new students every year!
"Professor Snape, Professor McGonagall, please let it continue... Do you think I am such a stingy person that I would compare anything with a little wizard?"
Dumbledore stopped Snape's behavior, and shook his head helplessly at Professor McGonagall. Then, he looked at Sorting Hat in Snape's hands with curiosity.
"I still say the same thing, Sorting Hat's judgment is not wrong. In fact, I agree with it. At Ian's age, I can't make improvements and create magic."
Dumbledore's words made Professor McGonagall's pupils shrink slightly.
"A new student who hasn't enrolled yet? Create magic?"
McGonagall looked in disbelief.
"..."
Snape's expression also suddenly froze.
Damn it!
Didn't that guy say that Dumbledore just played with the bird for him?
How come even the magic of creation and improvement appears!
"That child..."
Professor McGonagall's voice was trembling a little when she spoke. Of course she understood the meaning of Dumbledore's words. At the same time, she also recalled who Ian was standing with when he was sorted into the hospital.
A talented little wizard.
Standing next to a Young Grindelwald.
Professor McGonagall didn't want to speculate on Hogwarts's little wizard with malice, but she couldn't avoid the worry that emerged in her heart, and she couldn't help but look at Dumbledore nervously.
And this.
This is exactly what Snape doesn't want to see.
His lips were biting tightly.
I don't know if I regret my behavior of questioning Sorting Hat.
"Don't be nervous, they are all good children, Professor McGonagall, we need to have more confidence in our students." Dumbledore spoke in a soft tone.
Just.
Some of these subtle emotions cannot be noticed by anyone. "If we treat them as evil people to guard against them from the beginning, how can we help them stay away from the quagmire of evil?"
A very reasonable sentence.
"There's something wrong with my mentality."
Professor McGonagall nodded with deep approval.
Snape secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
He already wanted to throw away the Sorting Hat in his hand.
However.
"Dumbledore, I'm not saying that your magic talent is not good! Of course, that little guy's magic talent is also amazing, but that's not the reason why he should go to Ravenclaw."
Sorting Hat was still chattering, as if he wanted to convince everyone.
"Stop messing around with me!"
Snape scolded sharply.
"It was you who said a lot of things, why are you still blaming me?" Sorting Hat said aggrievedly.
Seeing that everyone present was a little impatient, this man who always liked to chatter and talk like a gossip did not dare to continue to challenge human patience.
"It's the attitude towards knowledge!"
Sorting Hat shouted out concisely.
"Every Ravenclaw little wizard has the desire and attitude to seek knowledge." Professor McGonagall was puzzled. She felt that this was not a very convincing reason.
Snape and Dumbledore obviously have similar ideas.
Just.
Compared to Snape who was becoming more and more impatient, Dumbledore was still waiting attentively.
"I'm not talking about the kind of mediocre pursuit and desire. Look at you, that's why I said you can't understand her. That's why she has lived in the loneliness of not being understood her whole life."
Sorting Hat's voice was a little sad, as if the timbre had become a little different at this moment.
"Although all Ravenclaw's students have been intelligent and agile academics for thousands of years, Ravenclaw's most unique trait has never been her desire and pursuit of knowledge."
Sorting Hat seems to be reminiscing, but also lamenting and regretting.
"Standing on the top of the mountain of wisdom, what you want to have is never hard work, pride, intelligence, and hard work, but... that kind of naked arrogance towards knowledge."
Its words made everyone slightly stunned.
But it didn't stop.
"Yes, Ian has this quality. He makes me seem to see Rowena in the past. They all have enough arrogance for knowledge..."
"It is knowledge that chases them and becomes the path under their feet."
"Don't question my judgment, my decision is absolutely correct!"
Sorting Hat's wrinkled face is facing Snape.
He uttered powerful words.
resounded throughout the Great Hall.
"Ian. Prince, he is the most correct Ravenclaw. I admit that Slytherin may lead him to glory, but only Ravenclaw can help him reach greatness!"
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