029- Welcome Party!!

Dumbeldore likely didn't think there was anything wrong with Ivan's story. When he heard that Ivan used the iron thorns he "coincidentally" carried and when he described the final transfiguration spell within ten seconds. Dumbledore clapped his hands and expressed with admiration, "A wonderful battle! That was better than I thought. I think Severus was right. Hogwarts has an extra genius this year!"

A student who had entered Hogwarts just a few months ago was so calm when suddenly facing a giant troll for the first time. He also cleverly used what limited magic he possessed to easily defeat the troll. He has not seen such an excellent student in decades.

After hearing Dumbledore's praise, Ivan felt a little uncomfortable. After all, this meant that he will be watched by Dumbledore from now on if he already wasn't.

After that, the conversation became more relaxed. There was no back and forth interrogation to clear his suspicions as Ivan imagined. Except for the initial attack, Dumbledore acted like a grandfather who was chatting with his family.

This made Ivan suspect that maybe Dumbledore was using Legilimency right now?

However, in the course of the conversation, Dumbledore once mentioned Ivan's mother, Elisia Halls, which caught Ivan's interest.

"Professor, do you know my mother?" Ivan pretended to be curious.

"Yeah, when your mother went to school here, she was really impressive." Dumbledore blinked at Ivan and motioned pointedly. "No matter what aspect of magic it was..."

Dumbledore's half-sentences made Ivan feel frustrated, maybe it was because of his lack of intelligence, or maybe it was simply a way of communication between smart people but he was stumped... he really didn't understand it!

Ivan had to squeeze out an awkward and polite smile...

In the end, under Ivan's questioning, he found out that his mother was sorted into Slytherin House, Ivan didn't ask about his father's affairs, because there was nothing relevant about him in his messy memory. Although he wanted more information, it was not good if he made a mistake rashly here.

Dumbledore also seemed like he was avoiding this topic deliberately, and after a short chat, he smiled at Ivan. "Okay, Ivan, you can go back, I believe there will be a surprise waiting for you later."

Ivan didn't hold any hope for the surprise that Dumbledore mentioned if it wasn't grade points, it won't help him much, but hearing that he could return to the common room surprised him.

Ivan left the office in an elegant and swift manner. Dumbledore, who was sitting in his chair, comforted Fawkes with one hand and looked at Ivan's departing back, no one knew what he was thinking.

...

"Pig Snout!"

In front of the entrance to Gryffindor common room, Ivan said the password, and the fat lady who was in charge of guarding the passage nodded, her portrait swung to reveal a circular passage.

Every time Ivan climbed, he couldn't help but complain about the design of this passage. Something was seriously wrong with the designer, couldn't he have made a simple doorway?

Even though it wasn't that late, the Gryffindor common room was completely dark, the dark brown fireplace on the right that was always burning was extinguished, and the magic lights around the common room were also turned off, and the silence was a little abnormal.

Ivan's expression remained unchanged and he slowly walked forward, his right hand had gradually slipped into his robes and he held the wand pinned to his waist.

Bang~

Just when Ivan walked to the middle, flames suddenly rose to the sky from the fireplace, the magic lights around the common room burst out with dazzling white light, and the red lion flag representing Gryffindor was hung in mid-air. Along with that, there were a series of colorful unidentified objects like crackers slowly falling down.

The Weasley brothers were dressed in strange uniforms as they rushed out of their dorm and threw large groups of festive ribbons made from torn colored parchment onto Ivan's head, as they shouted, "Let us welcome the return of the Hero of Gryffindor!"

'The hero of Gryffindor? What happened?'

Ivan, who first thought it was a special celebration because of Halloween according to wizards traditions, was stunned after hearing the Weasley twins, and before he could react, dozens of younger students swarmed the entrance of the common room.

Lead by Harry and Ron, they worked together to lift Ivan up, and the Weasley twins soon joined, smirking slightly, they threw Ivan into the air...

"Cheers for the return of the Hero of Gryffindor!" Fred yelled.

The little lions of Gryffindor next to them roared excitedly.

"Hero Halls~"

"Troll Killer!"

.....

And before long, Ivan was thrown around by everyone, he was starting to feel a little dizzy. After a long time, the students whose excitement had subsided let Ivan down.

Taking advantage of the reprieve, Ivan somewhat predicted what could have happened after the interrogation. Harry and Ron must have returned to the dormitory, Ron with his big mouth, and jealousy must have started talking about the adventure, and the tale of how he rescued Hermione and killed the troll must be told.

Because of the troll incident, the students, who were were sent to the common room earlier, were given such intense gossip material, the news then traveled from one to ten, ten to a hundred, the more the story was told, the more exaggerated it became, and somehow it ended with Ivan bestowed as the hero of Gryffindor. As for this welcome party, it was organized by the Weasley twins who were famous to do this kind of thing.

Even though Ivan reached a logical conclusion, Ivan was still a little unsure about the party, after all, Harry and Ron, who had defeated the troll in the original book, were not treated like this.

However, Ivan had overlooked what he had achieved was fundamentally different from Harry and Ron. Although the two of them also succeeded in defeating the troll, their method was a little embarrassing, and the means of defeating the troll was really not very glorious, It was a coincidence generated by pure luck.

In the eyes of the rest of the students, Ivan looked like a textbook hero, the method of killing trolls was simple and neat and could be appreciated by the students of Hogwarts.

In addition, the giant troll whose death happened to be through a giant spike that went through the head of the troll was also very legendary. After Ron's added enthusiasm and his tone of jealousy, it caused such a big response!

Ivan could even see some witches from 2nd and 3rd year in the crowd secretly sending appreciative glances towards him, and some daring ones even took the initiative to ask him about the details of killing the trolls.

'yeah girls do mature sooner'

The extremely energetic Gryffindor cubs partied until midnight before they returned to their respective dormitories considering that they still had classes tomorrow.

As the protagonist of the welcome party, Ivan was exhausted and sleepy.

"The surprise really was something..." Ivan couldn't help but recall Dumbledore's last words.

Even though he complained in his heart, a small smile tugged at the corner of his lips