Felix, wearing a dirty, wrinkled and pudding-wearing school hat, asked in a whisper: "Do you have something to tell me?" While speaking, he glanced at the picture frame on the wall. The portraits immediately closed their eyes and snored.

"I don't want to look for you, it's you who have been coveting me." A subtle voice rang in my mind.

"I'm very curious about the way you exist."

"What's curious about?"

"You have been there for too long, and your material is too ordinary."

"Think about the portrait of the principal on the wall, and think about the Pipi ghost." The branch hat said in a smooth tone.

"Portraits? Pipi ghosts? They" Felix was stunned, "Wait, are you also part of the school?"

"Yes, as long as the school is still there, I will continue to exist, even if I am just a hat of ordinary material."

After resolving a long-standing confusion, Felix was a little relaxed and confused. After thinking about it, he calmly asked in his mind: "By the way, why did he get me to Sleetling?"

"Oh, let me think about calmness, soberness, worshipping power, and setting the ambition to reach the magic world on the first day of school, losing my ambition, and I am bluntly speaking, I have a clear understanding of the darkness of human nature at a young age and have made sufficient preparations. This is very rare in my entire working life."

Felix smacked his lips, "I'm very consistent with Salazar Siderin's philosophy of selecting students?"

"Idea, what concept?" asked the branch hat carelessly.

"Of course it's the thoughts of the four founders of the school"

“So you think I had a small note full of requests sewn in my lining?”

"I thought there would be something similar," Felix said calmly: "For example, a fixed mindset or a standard process." The branch hat interrupted indignantly:

"Then isn't my job hiding behind the students' thinking and ticking them one by one on the note?"

"You seem to have different opinions."

"Of course there is! There is! It is much more important and more complicated than you think," shouted the branch hat. "Although I am just a hat, I have my own ideas and personality. I am smarter than most people, and I don't have the shortcomings of human beings. I don't have to eat, sleep, and my mouth is just for talking. I won't mix other uses. I'm obsessed with useful thinking. Well, most of the time I'm recalling the past and compiling new songs..."

"It's amazing." Felix said, although he didn't know much about what good memories were, was it because of the days when it eavesdropped on the office of the president of Hogwarts in those years? But is it a sense of participation? Or tasted nearly a thousand branch ceremony alone, the problem is that it really won't be confused?

The branch hat seemed to be choking, and it was silent for a while and said, "I'll take you to see it with your own eyes."

"good."

Felix closed his eyes and waited, but for a long time, there was no movement in the separating hat. He was surprised.

"Removing your brain's defense." said the branch hat in a coo: "I can't see anything except the superficial thoughts, it's like hitting a wall..."

"Sorry," Felix mumbled, he removed his protection, and after a few seconds, he felt an invisible force pulling his head up, as if to pull him to the ceiling, or into his hat, which reminded him of the workings of the Mind Lot, which he did not resist.

Then a flash in front of him appeared in the darkness. Gradually, colors appeared in the darkness. Felix stared at a string of light spots that appeared out of thin air and suddenly fell, splashing out gray-green and silver-white sparks. They formed a long mud pool of silver light and green foam, stretching into the distance.

A lonely figure wades through the turbid shallow water.

Salazar Slatering passed by Felix with a wooden stick for exploring the way. When the two passed by, his expression did not change at all. The simple robe seemed to be made of a whole piece of black cloth, and several small snakes followed him step by step.

The light and shadow flickered, turning into a wilderness. Felix saw a young man walking on a small country road, straight back, brisk steps, and red hair fluttering in the wind. The young Godric Gryffindor jumped on a stone, looked back at the small village when he came, and then resolutely walked towards the distance.

Naturally, he didn't know that his hometown would be named after him in the future.

On the quiet riverside, Luo Yinna Ravenclaw quietly watched the flowing river water;

In the golden valley, Helga Hufflepach twisted a wheat ear that shone in the sun.

Felix suddenly realized that this was the memory of the four founders of the school. Then new doubts arose. According to the saying of the branch hat at the previous branch ceremony, they jointly injected ideas into it. Felix always thought it was an idea, but the idea was always outdated. The moral concepts of the medieval era may not be suitable for the present, but the work of the branch hat has never stopped.

Now he understood a little. The four founders did inject ideas into the branch hat, but not shallow ideas, but the footprints they have walked through.

Felix walked in the darkness, and a new picture appeared every minute and every second. Gradually, he grasped a trace of the veins and peeked into a corner of history. Why did Gryffindor and Slaiterling become good friends? Because they both pursued powerful power; why did they finally part ways? When he saw Gryffindor learn swordsmanship from the Muggle Knights and Slaiterling mercilessly eliminate the threats that were blocked, Felix had the answer from Mohu in his heart.

This feeling becomes even stronger when meeting Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff.

As an extremely outstanding witch of his contemporaries and a pair of close friends, they have traveled hand in hand to help the weak. Hufflepach is full of love and treats everyone equally. Her eyes are willing to stay for the weak. Ravenclaw is obviously more willing to deal with people with a flexible mind because this will help solve problems. The two cooperate without interruption. The former eliminates many unnecessary disputes, while the latter is good at making suggestions and solving problems once and for all.

Felix saw the future culinary magic of the Hogwarts kitchen and the prototype of the castle building structure in the future.

Naturally, the experiences of the four founders of the school when they were young also laid the groundwork for future differences.

Among these four, Salazar Slettering was the most extreme, or the most closed in his heart. He was more similar to an ascetic, alone and walking through the troubled times. He pursued strength like Gryffindor, but was even more useless; he was as distant as Ravenclaw, and was more indifferent to himself; he also had sympathy for the little wizard with a bad living environment like Hufflepuff, but this sympathy was extremely stingy and would never be distributed to irrelevant people.

These four best witches and witches of the same era met. They had heard of each other. Not surprisingly, they exchanged magic knowledge with each other. What surprised Felix was that the three people except Hufflepuff were able to talk, and Slatering pointed out that the magic studied by Hufflepuff was "not worth mentioning and was useless in troubled times." Fortunately, the calm Ravenclaw and the enthusiastic Gryffindor reconciled it, and Hufflepuff's usual good temper, the conflict did not cause a storm.

As the communication gradually deepened, Hufflepuff proved with facts that she was also an excellent witch. She was not only good at cooking magic, but also excellent in identifying herbs and mixing potions.

Finally, the four decided to build a magic school together.

They came to the Scottish Highlands, which was remote, primitive and desolate. The ancient rocks were divided into canyons and lakes by water flows and glaciers. Ravenclaw chose a cliff with a lake, surrounded by emerald hillsides, wearing white snow caps, and deep canyons below, and the lake was surrounded by dense woods.

The four of them agreed that this was an ideal place for the establishment of the school.

Among them, only Ravenclaw had the experience of building a house by himself (with magic). She conceived a floor plan of the school, especially the spiral staircase that could be flexibly moved on the main building. The two men brought various materials, Hufflepuff looked for flowers and green plants to decorate the school, and unexpectedly found wild magic wand trees in the nearby primeval forest.

The castle gradually took shape, and the four of them worked together to arrange the most stringent defensive magic for the school at that time. When considering that the castle would be filled with students in the future, they even proposed a genius idea. This was a unique initiative at that time, relying on the castle to collect the dispersed magic power as the most important part of maintaining the magic castle and building a defense system.

Felix watched the scene intently.

He had never thought about what magic knowledge he could get from the branch hat. At first he was curious about its existence, but later he wanted to talk to the four founders in the branch hat, if possible. But the surprise came suddenly

The four school founders did the same thing without reservation and passionately, and performed their learning with all their hearts. The secret of Hogwarts Castle spread out little by little before his eyes, Felix's hand followed the movement, and the Book of Magic Text was hanging on his chest and began to turn the pages automatically. With him as the center, circles of Magic Text symbols spread around the ground, climbed up the wall, and extended outward along the crack of the door...

As a magic center in the castle, the magic channel in the house appears from the thin air and accepts the power symbolizing ancient magic texts. Soon this new force flows through the magic blood vessels like surging blood. When passing through Myrtle's abandoned bathroom, the passageway splits into a new fork and goes straight to the Slatering Secret Room.

In the magic class classroom, Professor Flevy had just made a wonderful demonstration for the students below, then he suddenly stopped, stretched out his hand, gently lifted the wand in the air, and the tip of the wand brought out a golden magic symbol.

The students raised their heads, and the walls and floors were like fine waves, and everything returned to peace in the blink of an eye.

Professor Flevy cleared his throat, "Students, let's continue to class..."

In the kitchen of the school, the domestic elves were busy preparing lunch for the students. A gust of wind passed by, and they seemed to feel something. They looked up and looked around, but found nothing. There was an ordinary portrait hanging in the kitchen, and the woman in the painting looked kind. This painting did not connect to the school castle, nor did it have any magic. It was just passed down from generation to generation among the group of domestic elves.

Every house elves has heard an ancient past since I can remember: "It was Ms. Hufflepuff who brought them into Hogwarts, who gave them shelter, respect and work, and who taught them personally the magic of cooking..."

Felix opened his eyes, and the last picture remained in his mind. It was when the four founders stood together and injected their thoughts and life trajectories into the school hat. Slatering wore a locket, Gryffindor held a sword, Ravenclaw wore a crown, and Hufflepuff held a gold cup in his hand. At least at that moment, their eyes were relieved.

Felix slowly stood up and put the branch hat back on the partition. His gaze was on the glass box next to him, which contained the locket, sword and gold cup. Except for the Gryffindor sword, the other two founder's relics were a little dull and dull.
Chapter completed!