The Tendency of the Sorting Ceremony

One of the new school year's Defense Against the Dark Arts professors was Eulalie Hicks? Then who would the other Defense Against the Dark Arts professor be?

Newt Scamander?

No, no, no. He would be more suited to teaching Care of Magical Creatures, and Newt's relationship with Dumbledore seemed somewhat... complicated.

By comparison, Theseus Scamander seemed more likely...

They continued chatting, but Lily did not know much else about the new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor. She was merely surprised that a wizard not from Britain had been invited to teach at Hogwarts.

Lily was also very curious about Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in the United States. Unfortunately, Hicks had not said anything related to Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and had simply taught them as usual.

Only during the brief time after class did Hicks, under everyone's questioning, talk about Ilvermorny a little. Then the pressed-for-time third-years had no choice but to hurry over here.

"Professor Hicks said that Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry also has four Houses. I wonder whether they use a hat for Sorting too?"

"Ilvermorny's Sorting ceremony is the Gordian Knot Ceremony. New students stand beneath the Gordian Knot, and the statues representing the four Houses around it react to the students they favor."

Manus knew a little about Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. He had read an introduction to Ilvermorny, something like Hogwarts: A History, and had even bought an Ilvermorny Charms textbook in Albania before.

Come to think of it, Hicks had taught Charms at Ilvermorny before. Perhaps he could ask her about the spells in that book when the time came.

"Huh? All four statues react at once, rather than one statue giving different reactions? Then what if none of the statues react, or several statues