HP - Shadow Monarch!

Chapter 09 - Returning to Hogwarts 02.

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Third Person POV

Hogwarts.

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Albus Dumbledore had started another year at Hogwarts, he was pleased as he first sat in his chair in the Great Hall, while the teachers began to arrive.

"Good evening, Dumbledore!" Horace Slughorn appeared and greeted him, and Dumbledore nodded to the potions professor.

"Good evening, headmaster." Another teacher called out, Filius Flitwick, the Charms Professor.

"Good evening to all." Rolanda Hooch, the flying instructor, said with a smile as she took her seat.

"Hello, excited for another year?" Pomona Sprout, the Herbology professor, said.

"I feel this year will be quite different from the others..." Sybill Trelawney, the divination professor, said, but without giving away much about her thoughts.

"Hello, Albus, hello everyone!" Minerva McGonagall appeared and continued. "Should I fetch the first-year students that Hagrid must be bringing?" She said and left the high part going towards the door of the empty hall.

As soon as she left, while Albus exchanged some conversations with the professors, the subject turned grim. "The war does not seem to be going well..." Slughorn commented with a gloomy look.

"I know, my dear friend... He is gathering more and more followers..." Dumbledore commented with the same look.

"The magical world is in danger... we need to do something..." Flitwick let his thoughts flow while listening to the conversation.

"Let's talk about this later, now we must greet our students, who are arriving." Albus cut the subject, and at that moment the door to the hall opened, and the seventh and sixth-year students began to enter at that exact moment.

The students, as every year, wearing their house uniforms, quickly reached their tables while chatting and pointing at the teachers seated at the main table gossiping among themselves.

Soon the fifth and fourth-year students entered at that moment, Dumbledore was pleased looking at his favorite students like Lily Evans, James Potter with his group who made many pranks around the school.

He thought for a moment that someone was missing from that group, but still did not know who, the third and second-year students entered soon after and all the students except the first years were now seated in their places, waiting for the initiation ritual for the first year.

Some time had passed, and the students were still gossiping among themselves, talking about topics they saw during the holidays and how they spent them, then the door opened with the Transfiguration professor, Minerva.

"Now, let's welcome the first years!" She announced, and the door opened with children at their 11 years entering while looking amazed at the magical hall, especially those who came from non-magical families.

Dumbledore nodded with joy as they lined up with everyone clapping for them, the Sorting Hat was announced, and the children began to go to it, while the hat commented on their thoughts, before shouting. "Gryffindor!" He announced the first child, and everyone at the Gryffindor table began to clap for their junior.

The children continued going one by one, and the hat choosing their houses, after being selected for Gryffindor, the home of the brave and bold. Slytherin houses the cunning and ambitious. Ravenclaw is the dwelling of those who stand out for their intelligence and prioritize learning. And Hufflepuff, where the most loyal and fair reside.