Chapter 55 55: The beginning of a heinous crime
The stars are bright.
The silvery moonlight pours down from the windows of the towering tower, penetrating the night like a trickle, illuminating a corner of the room, and coating the ancient stone walls and wooden structures with a soft silver glow.
“Don’t crowd, the senior students should give way to the junior students in the lower grades.”
“It was almost, just almost, I would have fallen and died. School When can we expand the stairs? Those rigid professors really don’t know how to adapt! ”
"My father is right, Hogwarts is indeed dangerous!"
...
The two Ravenclaw prefects led the students back to the lounge.
When walking through the long corridor, everyone's queue was relatively neat. However, as they were going to the highest level, the constantly rotating stairs caught the freshmen off guard.
Ever since.
The originally neat line turned into a crowd of people traveling during the holidays. Everyone squeezed in and squeezed out, for fear that they would miss the time for the stairs to rotate and not be able to go to the college lounge smoothly.
"Damn it! Prefects, please take care of it! There is an old witch from the senior class touching my butt!"
All the way up.
Due to his thin stature, Ian only dared to squeeze into the front position. Unexpectedly, he encountered several attacks from unknown people from behind.
Maybe.
The little boy who is more handsome than Leonardo sometimes has a hard time protecting his innocence when he goes out.
“It’s just the beginning of school, what are you people doing, calm down!”
As the female prefect, Penello sternly rebuked the senior girls in the team, while the male prefect Dieter Rick quickly pulled Ian to his side.
"Students in our college have always been bolder than other colleges." Dietrick explained to Ian in a low voice, and used his eyes to warn the witches and...individual wizards behind him.
The queue continues to climb.
soon.
Under the leadership of the two prefects, everyone came to the top tower. This is a lounge unique to Ravenclaw students. Some Ravenclaw students believe that this location represents the wisdom of overlooking all living beings.
"Welcome everyone to join Ravenclaw again. This will be the place for everyone to study and live in the future." The two prefects led everyone to stop in front of a bare wooden door.
There is no handle on the door, and there is no place to insert the key. It looks like a bare wooden board with a bronze door knocker inlaid in the middle.
The decoration of the door knocker is an exquisitely crafted eagle, with many traces of time on it. After all, it is an ancient school with a thousand years old, so it is absolutely reasonable to say that it is a cultural relic.
"The gates of all colleges require a password to pass. Only our Ravenclaws are different from other colleges. If we want to pass the gate, we must answer a question."
"This is a test of our wisdom. "
said.
The female prefect Penello knocked on the door.
Soon.
The bronze eagle head sculpture seemed to come alive.
It did not make a bird call, but spoke human words in a soft and gentle tone.
“Which one can change the world more, knowledge or power?” is a very obvious philosophical proposition.
The sound of this alchemy creation is very gentle, a bit like Mizuki Nana's. After receiving the question, prefect Penello did not give an answer immediately.
“Start with you first.”
Prefect Penello named Qiu Zhang.
“Me?”
Qiu Zhang looked a little nervous, but he still stood up from the crowd and gave his answer after thinking for a moment.
"I think it is knowledge, because knowledge can enlighten people's hearts and is the foundation of the development of the world, while rights are just derivatives that rely on the development of the world."
Although she behaved more restrained , but the answer was still loud and clear.
"It makes sense."
The bronze eagle's voice fell, and the door to the lounge opened immediately. The female prefect Penello motioned for Qiu Zhang to walk in, and then immediately closed the door to the lounge.
“???”
Ian was also standing near the front and wanted to follow but was stopped.
“This is our welcoming custom.”
Penello knocked on the door again with a smile.
"If you could choose a wise man in history as your mentor, who would you choose?" The soft voice came from the mouth of the bronze eagle again.
"Rowner Ravenclaw." Ian looked around. In this place, could he give the second answer?
“What’s the reason?”
The bronze eagle-headed man spoke doubtfully.
"This has to be considered the second question. You can ask why when I come next time."
Ian shrugged.
"It makes more sense."
The bronze eagle head thought for a while and then the door opened again.
Ian quickly dragged his luggage in.
The door is closed again.
“You are so fast.”
Qiu Zhang was originally looking at the decoration of the lounge, but the next moment he saw Ian who was released.
“I was lucky, I came across a simple question.”
Ian also began to look around.
The interior of the lounge is dominated by blue and bronze tones.
Silk curtains of these two colors are hung on the walls, and stars are painted on the dome ceiling, which contrasts with the stars on the dark blue carpet.
Beside the door leading to the dormitory stands a tall statue of Rowena Ravenclaw made of white marble, lifelike, and there is an introduction to the life of this lady next to it.
“In fact, sometimes the questions can be difficult. I heard that some people once went in and out of the lounge dozens of times a day just to compete with the bronze eagle head in a question and answer interaction.”
As a member of a pure-blood wizard family, Qiu Zhang seems to know a lot about Hogwarts.
"Then I think this senior will definitely be depressed after graduation." Ian stood in front of the Ravenclaw statue and read the text next to it.
"Huh? Why?"
Qiu Zhang, who was studying the sofa, turned his head in confusion.
“Because his love probably ended at the moment he graduated.”
Ian responded with a smile.
Qiu Zhang was stunned for a while before he understood the meaning of Ian's words.
"Who would fall in love with a gate."
She couldn't help laughing.
At this time.
Outside the gate.
I saw another classmate pass through the gate smoothly.
The other little wizards also showed eager expressions.
As Qiu Zhang said.
For Ravenclaw students, thinking and answering questions is not torture but a kind of fun. As the grades increase, it may even evolve into a kind of enjoyment.
"What kind of door doesn't have a leaf?"
Ian put the bronze eagle head in a different way and asked in a different way.
“Goal.”
The Q&A continues.
The door opens again.
Watching another young wizard being let in.
Ian was a little surprised.
The door knocker problem is actually a brain teaser?
“The question bank is indeed a bit too messy.”
Ian was thoughtful.
He felt that the Bronze Eagle Head in his academy was too lax. Perhaps, he should spend some time in the coming days to convince the Bronze Eagle Head to improve.
For example, it would be good to use more advanced math questions.
After all.
There is no room for ambiguity in mathematics.
(End of this chapter)