[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-hogwarts-learning-panel":3,"chapter-hogwarts-learning-panel-hogwarts-learning-panel-chapter-7":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Hogwarts Learning Panel",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2250245,4210,"Chapter 7: The Sorting Ceremony","hogwarts-learning-panel-chapter-7",7,"\u003Cp>“Welcome to Hogwarts,”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Professor McGonagall said,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The start-of-term feast is about to begin, but before you take your seats in the Great Hall, you must first be sorted into one of the four houses.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The Sorting is a vital ceremony, for during your time here, your house will be your home at Hogwarts…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Professor McGonagall explained the four houses and the House Cup; as she left, she reminded the young witches and wizards:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“In a few minutes, the Sorting Ceremony will take place before the entire school.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I suggest you use the waiting time to tidy yourselves and compose yourselves.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her gaze lingered for an instant on Wizard Sean Green, and her sternness vanished for a moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He suits it well…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The Sorting Ceremony? Oh my god, I heard it’s a fight with a dragon!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A black-haired young wizard trembled as he shared with his companion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What?! We’re fighting a dragon?!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His golden-haired female companion looked like she was about to cry,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“No way! I’ve only learned Lumos!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This sparked a wave of panic among the young witches and wizards.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“A dragon?! Adult or juvenile?!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Anthony, why are you being so precise now?! I say even a baby dragon could breathe us all to death in one go!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“We’re doomed!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The young witches and wizards naturally accepted this rumor—clearly their families had prepared them well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Amid a chorus of sighs and groans,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wizard Sean Green continued reading *Magical Theory*.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was the only book he carried with him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though magic defied logic and ignored rules like conservation of matter,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>it had existed too long for wizards, even if they were all fools, not to have uncovered some patterns.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Among all the books costing two Jin Jin Jialong, this was the one Wizard Sean remembered most vividly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Every magical branch—charms, transfiguration, potions—found some explanation within its pages.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wizard Sean believed this might be the most underrated book on the first-year reading list.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was now on his third reading; each time, he gained something new.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, he was reading it for the third time, and each time he gained something different.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>is innate to the wizard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The strength of magic depends on the wizard’s emotions or mental power,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>but most wizards cannot control it directly, so they require spells and wands to Making Guide it,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>enabling conscious manipulation toward a purpose】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wizard Sean understood this.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Harry Potter was a perfect example.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before learning magic, he could move himself from the ground to the chimney and make glass vanish,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>but he could only do so when emotionally overwhelmed, and he had no idea how to control his magic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet with a wand and proper spells,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>wizards could gain near-total command over their magic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After two months of study, Wizard Sean had come to accept a view from his past life:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>that wizards in the Harry Potter world were blood wizards, their power derived from a magical lineage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That is, the wizards in Harry Potter are blood wizards, their power stemming from a certain magical bloodline.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【One truth of learning magic is to master as many spells as possible, including ancient ones—the more spells you know, the more you can accomplish;\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>another truth is that after mastering a spell, you must practice it relentlessly—proficient casting and clumsy casting differ vastly;\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>yet to truly unleash a spell’s full power, you must also possess sufficient mental strength】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What a concise and precise description,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>no wonder the author, Adbe Wolfen, dared to call his book *Magical Theory*;\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>from the title alone, you could tell its status was akin to *Theoretical Mathematics* or *Fundamental Physics* from his past life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Those books, after all, had stolen much of Wizard Sean’s joy—like Dementors in the magical world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Read them once, joy gone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I’m starting to believe you.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hermione’s face was pale; the topics the young wizards discussed were terrifying,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and their back-and-forth chatter felt unnervingly real,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>unsettling Hermione, who was new to the magical world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet beside her, Wizard Sean Green seemed oblivious, still absorbed in his book.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Should we ask Wizard Sean? He doesn’t seem afraid at all.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jia Jia Siting, trembling, recalled the equestrian test at Eton,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>perhaps wizards were meant to slay dragons?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Was this a noble tradition?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wizards,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>were terrifying.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Wizard Sean, I’m sorry to interrupt you, but…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Jia Jia Siting’s plea was cut short as the Great Hall doors burst open.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Sorting Ceremony had begun.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wizard Sean closed *Magical Theory* and rose,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>while the Sorting Hat still sat on its stool, he began considering his target house.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, the Sorting Hat seemed to listen to a student’s wishes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, the Sorting Hat seems to listen to the young wizard’s wishes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No, impossible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His primary goal was to win a scholarship;\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>to achieve top grades, his benchmarks were Hermione and Percy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the original story, both were shunned by Gryffindor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hermione, in her first year, merely excelled in class and pointed out others’ mistakes—and was driven to cry in the bathroom.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Most Gryffindors held the belief: “No matter my skill, I won’t stay beneath anyone.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were brave adventurers, yet always harmed others.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Like during the Chamber of Secrets, when rumors stirred them to isolate and ostracize Harry.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for Slytherin,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wizard Sean had no interest in scheming; he could perfect the Levitation Charm to silent-cast level in that time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The remaining houses—Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff—seemed better.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Wizard Sean leaned toward Hufflepuff.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Two steps from the dorm and you get free food?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That’s awesome.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hufflepuff: harmonious, never turned fists inward, always united outward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even J.K. Rowling once said she wished every child could be a Hufflepuff.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Imagine: a warm hearth, a kitchen just outside your door, and a headmaster who scolds you for fighting but still slips you a box of coconut ice cream.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Think of it: a warm fireplace, a kitchen by the front door, and a headmaster who would scold you for getting into fights or making mistakes, yet still secretly slipped you a box of coconut ice cream.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We come from the forest, we hold great love, we are loyal to nature, we are upright and faithful, we are resilient and honest, we fear no hardship,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>We come from the forest, we harbor great love, we are loyal to nature, we are upright and faithful, we are resilient and honest, we fear no hardship,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Harry Potter!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the center of the Great Hall,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>as Professor McGonagall spoke, the noise fell quiet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wizard Sean heard whispers around him: “It’s him,” “It really is him,” “Harry Potter.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Harry hurried forward, placed the wrinkled Sorting Hat on his head, and the hall fell utterly silent, awaiting the result.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The wait lasted four or five minutes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wizard Sean’s inner Sorting Hat song had already reached its second verse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Gryffindor!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At last, the result came.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Gryffindors went wild.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Potter!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Potter!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“We’ve got Potter!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even from far away, Wizard Sean could hear that voice.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soon—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Wizard Sean Green!”\u003C\u002Fp>",1156,"2026-06-19T10:00:40.768Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","6a0ac10bcd4d774e17404747a9b5b0a10a4c6ef2ea5782ed1cfc94de488cb7b4","hogwarts-learning-panel-chapter-8","hogwarts-learning-panel-chapter-6",526,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fhogwarts-learning-panel-cover.jpg"]