Even after more than three years in the wizard world, Harry still could not help marveling at the wonders of magic.
There were still four long tables in the Great Hall, and they looked no longer than before. Yet the additional hundred and twenty people from the six schools easily found seats without making it seem any more crowded.
The staff table at the front was the same. More than twenty professors from other schools had arrived, yet the table did not seem any wider. Still, everyone had simply sat down.
Amazing. Truly amazing! Harry marveled inwardly.
Over the past few years, he had digested quite a bit more of Neil's memories. His impression was that the wizards of that magical world seemed considerably more powerful than those of this one.
The high-level magic of the mages there could even move mountains and fill seas. A single forbidden spell could directly destroy a great city with a population of a million. At least in the wizard world he had encountered so far, there was no magic that terrifying.
Yet in that world called Aegean, spatial magic was exceedingly rare.
Here on Earth, however, Apparition, Portkeys, Floo Powder, and all sorts of space-folding spells had already become part of everyday life for wizards.
How truly extraordinary, Harry marveled inwardly.
The students from the six magic schools around the world sat at the four house tables according to their own preferences. This made it clear that students from different magic schools had quite different tastes.
Almost all the students from Ilvermorny Magic School chose Gryffindor. Almost all those from Durmstrang Institute chose Slytherin.
The Beauxbatons students were evenly spread across all the houses, though comparatively more chose Ravenclaw. This might have had something to do with Ravenclaw having more girls.
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