A New Path to Hufflepuff

Professor McGonagall led the first-year students there, and put them in front of all the higher-year students in a row, with the professors behind them. The candlelight flickered, and the hundreds of faces watching them seemed like pale lanterns.

Then, Professor McGonagall gently placed a four-legged stool in front of the first-year students, and put a high-level wizard's hat on the stool. The hat was tattered, worn, and had some strange marks on the surface, as if someone had stretched it from the inside out.

Unintentionally, the room became silent and everyone looked at the hat. Then the hat twisted. There was a wide crack in the edge of the hat, like a mouth, the hat began to sing:

"You may think I'm not pretty, but don't judge people by their appearance..." (click for more lyrics)

After the magical hat sang the song, the audience applauded, and the magical hat bowed to each of the four tables, then stood still.

"See, as I said, it's just a simple personality test."

Elena turned her head and whispered to the young wizards around her, with an indescribable pride in her tone.

"Quiet now!"

Professor McGonagall stepped forward, holding a scroll of parchment in her hand.

"Whoever I call, put on the hat, sit on a stool, and listen to the Sorting."

As she said this, her sharp eyes looked back at Elena, who was standing in the first row, showing a strange expression, clearing her throat and pondering.

"Elena Caslana!"

It was not [Hannah Abbott]!

Indeed, Dumbledore kept his promise and specially adjusted the order of his list!

This indicates that at least the variability of this timeline will be much greater!

Elena's mouth twisted as she glanced at the rosy-cheeked girl with two golden locks beside her. She silently apologized and crossed the crowd to leave the line.

Under the attention of the teachers and students of the school, as she approached within two or three steps of the hat, Elena suddenly stopped and recalled a crucial matter.

The nature of the Sorting Hat does not seem to be exactly the same as the whims of human wizards.

As one of the most important magical objects at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, although the hat has always claimed that the four founders of Hogwarts injected their respective ideas into it, so that the hat could sort students according to their talents and qualities, assigning them to various houses. But from Elena's perspective, the most accurate statement is that it is actually a magical version of the personality testing program co-written by the four founders.

Obviously, an extremely powerful Perpetual [Science Fetching] has been hardened into the hat, used to read the ideas of young wizards, and then input the content read into the pre-set arithmetic program, that is, the selection parameters pre-set by the Four Greats, to match and divide the students according to the matching ratio.

In other words, for the traveler, this hat is more terrifying than Dumbledore or the Truth Agent because in theory, it is simply a process of simulated understanding. Capturing and forcibly matching data.

Elena never imagined that she is now strong enough to compete with the four founders.

One of the most serious issues draws near. Since it involves a type of behavior of reading magical objects, theoretically, there should be an exportable file record, which is much more terrifying than the idea of madness requiring self-understanding of the curse.

"Elena, do not be afraid, put on the hat."

Professor McGonagall lowered her head, looked at the silver-haired girl who had stopped, and said softly.

"No, I refuse."

Elena stared seriously at the crumpled hat, but then took a step back and shook her head firmly.

Amidst the general commotion of all the teachers and students in the hall, Professor McGonagall's smile suddenly froze. The seemingly similar response and seemingly similar expression suddenly reminded her almost a month ago, there was an ominous feeling in the witch's heart that this was not a very pleasant invitation to the school.

"What the **** do you want to do..."

Without waiting for Professor McGonagall to think it over. Elena then raised her voice and said word by word, the voice rapidly spreading throughout the hall.

"I'm sorry, I never believe anything that can think independently unless I can see where it hides my mind."

The girl's voice wasn't loud, but it was enough for all the students in the hall to hear clearly. Almost all students instinctively held their breath and looked with admiration and surprise at the center of the Great Hall, no one has done this for hundreds of years.

"Miss Elena Caslana, this is the long-standing tradition of Hogwarts, and there is no other way for house sorting."

Professor McGonagall's face began to look a bit ugly, she tightly pressed her lips, furrowed almost to her brows, and even her glasses shone with a fearsome light.

"So, all you have to do is to distribute the hat, isn't it? Then indeed, there is another way."

Elena shrugged, drew her black walnut wand from her robe's pocket, pointed it firmly forward, and said clearly and calmly.

"I say, Hufflepuff!"

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