Godfather and Godson

Chapter 107: Wild Reception

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After the exhilarating spectacles prepared by the student committee was over, Dumbledore smiled at everyone and spoke up cheerily. "Now why don't we head back inside. I am sure you all want to come in from the chilly autumn wind and keep warm and toasty where the fireplace is nearby!"

Shuffling into the castle's front gates, Harry recrossed the entrance hall with the rest of the Hogwarts students and heading for the Great Hall where the welcoming feast awaited.

At this point, everyone was part of a milling crowd as they moved at a snail pace with the Headmasters and mistresses chatting at the far back of the crowd alongside with the Hogwarts Professors.

Once they walked inside the Great hall, everyone saw that things had been changed up. The room was magically expanded out to fit the large increase in number. The tables were also rearranged, instead of the usual four long tables that each respected house sat at; now there were 11 large tables of varying shapes and sizes.

In the center was of course the Hogwart's table which was the largest of them all to fit the whole student body. It was circular in shape and had a yellow cloth laid on top of it with the four house animals animatedly moving about magically.

What had most Hogwarts students in a twist was that they never broke the house barriers in place built up since its conception. So this was a total new first for them all. However Harry knew that they need to present a strong unified front with the arrival of the other schools, so what better way than to be seated at the same place for a meal.

Slowly someone followed by another and then another broke off from the hesitant and frozen crowd, and took a seat in the center of the Great Hall. Harry was first to lead by example, then soon his friends followed behind him, and slowly more and more people trickled in as before long even the most adamant had to take a seat or just be left standing there like an idiot.

The other school had much smaller tables encircling the main Hogwarts table since they only had a fraction here. Each of them was of different shape from triangular, square, star, heart, cross, and so forth with each of them having a cloth laid on top with each school's respected crest inlaid on it.

As the foreign students took their seats Harry heard plenty of moaning and complaining, especially from some boys who wished they could dine with the lovely Beauxbatons girls, or others who wished that they could have cozy up to the Quidditch star Krum who was a student of Durmstrang. Plus the ambitious lot that wanted to bootlick that princess that has arrived within these halls.

Harry noticed that some foreign students looking up at the starry black ceiling with expressions of interest while a couple of them were picking up the golden plates and goblets and examining them, apparently impressed.

Others he saw, looked at the place with an unmistakably derisive look as if they got treated to much better things at their own school and saw this as nothing more than peasant fair.

When all the students had entered the Hall and settled down at their respected School's tables, the Professors entered, filing up to the top table and taking their seats. Instead of seated on the head table they were instead on a second-tier a bit lower.

Last in line were the Headmasters and mistresses who came in very regally and imposing.

When they appeared, some of the pupils from Durmstrang, Shanghai, Uagadou, and Mahoutokoro leapt to their feet. The other students stared up at them as they stood to attention rigidly and respectfully. They all appeared unembarrassed as this must have been a regular thing to do, and only resume to take their seats until their schoolmaster sat down on at the head table.