Bronze door through time and space

Chapter 771 Peggy Carter's Sorting Ceremony

The Great Hall is one of the most magnificent places in Hogwarts and is the venue for various banquets and important events. The ceiling is enchanted and looks like the sky outside, with twinkling stars. Thousands of candles float in the air, illuminating the entire hall as bright as day.

"It's not bad here, you can take a break, have a drink, and recover at the same time. Butterbeer is good. The academy doesn't provide this kind of drink to students, but we can have it." No one knew what Schubert was so proud of, but after he knocked on the table, two cups of warm butterbeer appeared on the table.

"Is this magic?" Peggy Carter picked up the retro wooden wine glass and took a sip out of curiosity. Apart from the rich foam and a little bit of alcohol, this thing had little to do with beer. However, the rich taste of toffee and butter refreshed her and restored some of her strength.

Everything she experienced tonight was a bit too exciting for a 90-year-old woman like her.

As for why she didn't use the issue of age to confront Schubert, it was purely because she considered that the other party was an elf and God knew how many years he had lived.

"It's not magic, at least not pure magic. It's the house-elves of Hogwarts. They are responsible for taking care of all the professors and students in the academy, such as delivering food and drinks, washing dirty clothes, cleaning rooms, maintaining the castle and so on." Schubert took a big sip of butterbeer, licked the foam on his lips, and explained casually.

The name "elf" is quite confusing. After all, who would have the nerve to call a child who looks like a goblin an elf? However, Schubert did not break Peggy Carter's awakened girlish fantasy.

When Peggy Carter recovered some of her strength, Schubert took her to the principal's office. The floating and moving stairs and the portraits that appeared everywhere shocked her greatly, and she was filled with deep regret. If everything was true, what did she miss back then?
As if sensing the strong resentment of his students, Schubert involuntarily quickened his pace and soon arrived in front of a tall stone statue of a gargoyle at the end of the corridor.

"Pile of cockroaches."

Peggy Carter was no longer surprised to see the gargoyles jumping away, so she followed the teacher up the spiral staircase into the principal's office.

The principal's office is a spacious and beautiful round room. The walls are covered with portraits of former principals. They are all snoring softly in their respective frames, indifferent to the outside world, unlike the other portraits in the castle that are as active.

There are also spindly tables with odd assortments of silverware, a tattered Sorting Hat on a shelf, and a phoenix named Fawkes that regenerates in the form of a fireball.

These were all told to her by the teacher, and it was not until now that Peggy Carter acknowledged the other party's identity as a teacher and began to try to accept it all.

As for whether these are scams, she, an old lady who is retired and waiting to die, is not worth that much.

Even if she is one of the founders of S.H.I.E.L.D., so what? She has been retired for nearly twenty years and the secrets she holds have long lost most of their value. As for her identity as a founder, it's not only in the East that people get cold when they leave. Coffee in the West gets colder even faster because they drink iced American coffee.

"Oh, this is our Ms. Carter who is almost a century late. I am the headmaster of Hogwarts, Albus Dumbledore. You can just call me Dumbledore. Also, would you like some cockroach piles? It's a new dessert and tastes pretty good." Although Dumbledore is old and his hair and beard are all white, he is still tall and straight. His face is kind and he has a gentle smile, which gives people a sense of intimacy and security. His deep blue eyes contain the wisdom brought by rich life experience, as if they can see into the secrets deep in people's hearts. Peggy Carter seemed to become a real little girl in front of him. She felt a little bit of uneasiness and awe in front of her elders, until he took out a cockroach pile, picked up one and stuffed it into his mouth that was almost covered by his long whiskers, and then bit it gently. The milky syrup was squeezed out of the cockroach's body, which made her eyelids jump.

"No, thank you. Desserts are not very friendly to my age." Peggy Carter really couldn't accept this kind of dessert that challenged the bottom line of human psychology, and quickly refused.

"What a pity! In fact, you are still young and can try more new things. This is a little advice from an old man over a hundred years old to young people." Dumbledore said with a mischievous wink.

Peggy Carter was speechless after hearing this, but if the principal was really over a hundred years old, then she was indeed a young person in his eyes, so she had nothing to say.

"Okay, come on, you weren't so talkative when you were young. I really don't know what you have been through over the years." Schubert yawned, obviously feeling bored, and interrupted their conversation.

"Haha, Professor Schubert, it's been a hundred years, and your mentality is still so young. It seems that time has stopped flowing for you. It's really enviable." Dumbledore said with a smile.

"As a legendary wizard, if you don't want to grow old, time can't do anything to you. Besides, I heard that the Philosopher's Stone is in your hands." Schubert said straight to the point.

"Yes, Nicolas Flamel was tired of his long life and planned to start a new journey. Death is not the end, right? So he gave the Philosopher's Stone to me." Dumbledore had no intention of keeping it secret in front of Schubert, he said with a smile.

"I really don't understand what you humans are thinking. You try every possible means to seek immortality, but after getting it, you regard it as a curse. Moreover, you feel bored after only living for a few hundred years. My God, this amount of time is just enough for elves to reach adulthood." Schubert complained.

Dumbledore smiled but said nothing. Peggy Carter, who was standing by, also realized how different the concept of time was between elves and humans, and felt helpless about being decades late for school.

"After the entrance ceremony, let me use the Philosopher's Stone." Schubert said after complaining.

"It's for Ms. Carter." Dumbledore looked at Peggy Carter knowingly and said.

"Now she is my student and a member of the Clock Tower, so some restrictions can be ignored." Schubert said calmly, and Peggy Carter also realized something and suppressed her inner excitement.

"Let's begin. Let's hold the nearly century-late admission ceremony for Ms. Carter. Now, Ms. Carter, please sit down and put on the Sorting Hat. It will assign you to one of the four colleges based on your personality and characteristics." Dumbledore nodded and pointed to the old wizard hat.

(End of this chapter)