The number of newly enrolled young wizards this year was at least a third smaller than last year.
Following the usual Sorting Hat ceremony, however, the proportion of students sorted into Slytherin House was much higher than in previous years.
Since Wenxiu Lord had taken his O.W.L.s the previous academic year, he parted ways with Severus and the others right after the term began, taking his seat at the sixth-year head of table.
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