From Hogwarts to Strixhaven.

Chapter 17 Common Room

The fruits and desserts on the golden plates disappeared, and it seemed that the dinner had come to an end.

Ivy looked towards the long faculty table. Dumbledore had already stood up and the originally noisy auditorium had become quiet.

"Now that everyone has eaten and drunk enough, I want to say a few more words to everyone. At the beginning of the semester, I want to give you a few points of attention." Dumbledore's white beard trembled, and his voice echoed in the hall. "First of all, for first-year students, no students are allowed to enter the school's Forbidden Forest. And some students who are not coming to Hogwarts for the first time should also remember this."

Ivy knew that Dumbledore was talking about the Weasley twins, but for him, who always regarded the Forbidden Forest as his home, the warning from Dumbledore was still somewhat deterrent.

"Secondly, Mr. Filch, the caretaker, also asked me to remind everyone not to perform magic in the corridors between classes."

Ivy could understand Squib's anger.

"Then, the review of Quidditch players will take place in the second week of this term. Students who are interested in joining the house team should contact Madam Hooch."

It was a high-risk sport of personal heroism, and Ivy would just sit back and watch; he wouldn't participate in it himself.

"Finally, I must tell everyone that anyone who does not want to suffer an accident and die in pain should not enter the corridor on the right side of the fourth floor."

Oh, Ivy remembered this. Inside was the Philosopher's Stone, the crowning achievement of alchemy.

It can also be called the Philosopher's Stone or the Philosopher's Stone. It can turn base metals into precious metals and can also make people immortal.

The creator is Nicolas Flamel, who is also very famous in the Muggle world. He is usually called Nicolas Flamel. It is said that he left behind quite a lot of alchemical works, and even Newton studied his manuscripts.

Although Nicolas Flamel and his wife are currently alive thanks to the elixir made from the Philosopher's Stone, they can only be said to be still alive.

A body that has lost its youthful vitality is powerless in everything, and Ivy doesn't intend to fall into the same situation as him.

Besides, he is already 144 years old now. As long as he figures out the principle of ancient magic that allows him to regain youth, immortality is not a dream at all. He can even stay young forever.

Isn't this much better than Nicolas Flamel, who had such osteoporosis that he couldn't even shake hands?
"Now, before everyone goes to bed, let's sing the school song together!" Dumbledore raised his wand and said loudly. The smiles on the faces of the professors who had just eaten at the same table with him froze.

Dumbledore tapped his wand, and a long golden ribbon flew out, twisting and winding like a snake over the dining table, writing lines of text. Those were the lyrics of the Hogwarts school song.

"Everyone chooses a tune he likes." Dumbledore said, "Get ready and sing!"

Hogwarts×4
Please teach us knowledge, even if we are bald old men,

We were still children with broken knees, and our heads could have taken in some interesting things. For now our heads are empty, and full of air, dead flies, and trifles,

Teach us some valuable knowledge, return to us what we have forgotten, you just need to do your best,
The rest is up to us, and we will study hard until it turns into dust.

"Oh! Great!" Ivy exclaimed lifelessly, "They can sing the school song like a fight. Fortunately, there is only one school in the whole UK, otherwise Hogwarts will definitely get last place in the school song chorus competition."

Dumbledore used his wand to direct the Weasley twins to sing the last few sections of the song according to the melody of "Funeral March". He then wiped away the tears that filled his eyes, perhaps because he was so moved, and said emotionally: "Music is more charming than anything we do here! It's time to go to bed now. Everyone go back to the dormitory."

Dumbledore's words marked the end of the collective activity of the opening dinner, so Ivy immediately changed his school robe back to the Slytherin relic robe.

Led by the prefects of the four colleges, the young wizards returned to their respective common rooms.

Ivy, Malfoy and his two bodyguards, Cassandra, and a few other Slytherin first-year students whom Ivy didn't pay much attention to, led by the head girl Gemma Farley, walked through the crowd and into a staircase leading underground.

Slytherin's common room and dormitories are underground, next to the castle's dungeons.

The entrance looks like a featureless stone wall, but when Slytherin students approach, a giant stone snake statue will wriggle out of the wall. Only when the correct password is given will the giant snake turn into the door to the common room.

"Glory." Head girl Gemma Farley read out the password, and the giant snake statue arched its body and turned into the door to the common room. Before entering, Gemma turned back and told the little wizards, "'Glory', this is the password to the common room. It is usually changed every two weeks and will be announced on the notice board in the lounge. You must remember to check it and don't forget the password, otherwise you will have to wait for others to open the door for you."

The first years nodded silently, and Gemma then led everyone into the Slytherin common room.

This place looks like a long, narrow, low dungeon, and in fact it is. Even the students' dormitories are mostly converted from prison cells.

There are some lights tied with chains hanging from the ceiling. Because of the green lampshades, the whole lounge has a cool and gloomy atmosphere.

However, the furniture in the common room was very luxurious. As the college with the most pure-blood nobles among its alumni, Slytherin received a lot of furniture as gifts from various pure-blood families every year. Sometimes it was velvet cushions, and sometimes it was various tables and chairs with exquisite carvings.

In short, Slytherin’s decoration style may not be the most cozy and comfortable among the four colleges, but it is definitely the most luxurious.

There is a huge French window in the lounge, and the Black Lake of Hogwarts is outside the window. Since the Slytherin lounge is located underground, the light that can shine through the window is really limited even during the day, not to mention that it is night now, and there is only dark lake water outside the window.

Waiting for Ivy and other first-year students in the lounge was another wizard. From the badge on his chest, it was not difficult to see that, like Gemma Farley, he was also a class leader.

"Welcome! Welcome to become a member of Slytherin." The male prefect said, "You should know that before you entered the school, Slytherin had won the House Cup for six consecutive years. Therefore, our mission this school year is still to keep it in Slytherin."

(End of this chapter)