Chapter Seven Hundred and Eighteenth Strange Carriage

Finally, the train slowed down slowly, and there was chaos and noise all around. Everyone was busy, packing their luggage and pets together and getting ready to get off.

They shuffled out of the box and merged into the flow of people in the aisle. The icy rain, mixed with the night air, stabbed people's faces for a while.

They slowly moved towards the door, the slow marchers in the queue, people could even smell the fragrance of the pine trees on both sides of the path leading to the lake.

"First-year freshmen come here, first-year freshmen come here."

A completely unfamiliar voice, a neat female voice, was shouting: "First-year students please line up here! All first-year students come with me!"

Harry forgot to use magic to block the rain, and he asked curiously, "Where's Hagrid?"

"I arranged for him to contact the giant, and he probably hasn't come back yet." George said slowly.

Before the summer vacation, Hagrid and Madame Maxime went to contact the giant, and have not returned until now. As for their specific situation, Dumbledore was taking care of them more, and George didn't pay much attention.

He raised his hand gently, a faint light, like opening a transparent barrier, the wind and rain could not enter in front of him, they were all blocked in front of him.

Only then did Harry react, and hurriedly added the protection of a magical barrier to himself, a foam-like barrier to block the cold wind and rain.

At this time, a lantern moved wobbly towards this side. In its light, George saw a scrupulous witch, Professor Grapland.

The witch had replaced Hagrid the year before and took a class on the protection of magical creatures for a period of time, and won unanimous praise from all the classmates. And this year, George has decided to let him replace Hagrid and officially become the teacher of the protection of magical creatures class.

However, in the form of this year, leisure courses such as the protection of magical creatures class cannot be taken several times a semester.

These courses that cannot improve the strength of students can only be used to relieve everyone's mood this year, just like extracurricular activities.

They continued to follow the flow of people when they came to the dark, rain-washed street outside Hogsmeade Station.

When they got there, many students shouted.

There are a hundred carriages in the streets, and every year they send students from the first grade to the castle.

Today, when many students saw the usual carriages, their faces changed drastically. They pointed at the carriages and exclaimed.

"What the hell is that?"

"It's terrible, there's no meat at all, it's all bones, what kind of monster is this."

"Why do you use this kind of monster to pull the cart? In the past, wasn't the carriage able to drive automatically?"

"What are you talking about? There's nothing there, and it's the same as usual?"

"No, you can't see such big monsters. They are bigger than horses and have wings. Can't you see them?"

"What's the matter, stop joking, it's still raining outside, the people in front hurry up and get in the car."

The students in the back urged the students in front to get on the bus quickly. Some of the students in front were like hell, their feet were rooted in the ground, and they didn't dare to move.

For a moment, the entire team stopped and became noisy.

"Quiet!"

There was a calming magic in George's voice.

"Have you forgotten your identities?" His flat voice was stern, "You are wizards, haven't you even seen magical creatures?"

"These Yejis have been pulling carts in previous years. The reason why you couldn't see them before was because the conditions were not met. The ones who can see Yeji now are because the conditions are met. Don't care about what you can see, and don't care about what you can't see."

He raised his voice a little and said sternly, "Now, get in the car and go back to school."

These Hogwarts carriages have always been pulled by Ye Ji.

Yeji is a special magical creature.

They look a bit like horses, but more like reptiles. There was no flesh on them, the black fur clinging to the skeleton, every bone clearly visible.

Their heads resemble those of dragons, their pupilless eyes are dead white like fish-eyes, and they have giant bat-like wings.

In addition to being terrifying in appearance, Ye Ji has a very special feature that only those who have seen death can see it.

In previous years, most of the students had never seen death, and naturally most of them could not see Ye Ji. They just thought that these cars would go away automatically using magic.

And last year, Cedric was killed in front of all the students, most of them witnessed the killing of their classmates.

So this year, most of the students were able to see Ye Ji, and the shock in front of them made them unresponsive.

As for the few people who couldn't see Ye Ji, it could only be said that their nerves were too big.

"Yeji, I've read it in the book, it's a rare and rare magical creature." Hermione looked at the terrifying monster in front of the carriage with surprise, "I didn't expect that they would be pulling the carriage here all the time. , we haven't seen it before."

With George's explanation, the other students slowly reacted.

Those students who couldn't see Yeji stared, trying to see something in front of the carriage, but they found nothing, so they had to enter the carriage under the urging of others.

As for those who could see Ye Ji, they carefully walked past this terrifying monster with a little bit of disgust and fear. They quickly climbed into the carriage and stopped looking at the terrifying monster.

Seeing that everyone else got into the carriage, and after making sure that nothing was missed, George got into the last carriage.

The carriages were lined up, crunching and wobbly walking on the road under Ye Ji's ticking footsteps.

Past the two rows of tall stone pillars leading to the gates to the school grounds, Hogwarts Castle loomed ever closer, the towering towers darker against the dark night sky.

Occasionally a window could be seen, shining a fiery red light above their heads.

The carriage clanked to a halt, beside the stone steps leading to the oak gate.

The students joined the crowd again, hurried up the stone steps and entered the castle.

The hallway was illuminated red by torches, and the footsteps of the students echoed. They walked across the flagstones to the two doors on the right that led to the auditorium, where the opening banquet was being held.

The auditorium was filled to the brim with four long academy tables, with a starless black ceiling, and it was raining lightly outside, and magic couldn't reflect the stars on a night like this. Browse and read the address: