Chapter 32: A series of questions
Ravenclaw College, a college that focuses on erudition and intellect.
When Maca first entered the school and performed the sorting ceremony, the first thing the Sorting Hat thought about was the house. This shows that he does fit well with Ravenclaw in some ways.
At this moment, after thinking about it carefully, he felt that he had to at least find someone to get some relationship first. If someone asks in the future, at least there will be an excuse.
Well, by the way, you can also pave the way for Luna before she enrolls in school.
If you want to say who is most interested in Maca in Ravenclaw College. This person was not Charms Professor Flitwick, who was also the dean, nor was it any of the other current students, but the ghost of Ravenclaw Tower, Lady Gray.
Not only because she's been at Hogwarts long enough, but also because she's sure to be able to tell a lot of old secrets about Ravenclaw House.
Lady Gray is the ghost of Ravenclaw, born "Helena Ravenclaw", and is the daughter of "Rowena Ravenclaw". She stole her mother's golden tiara, only to die at the hands of Barrow, who had a crush on her. Although she has committed the mistake of unfilial piety and injustice, she is always just a simple and vain person.
If you're looking for some secrets about Ravenclaw House, it's a good place to start.
As for Ravenclaw, Marka had read some of the books about the founders of Hogwarts shortly after she was in school. Truth be told, among the four founders of Hogwarts, Ravenclaw and Slytherin are probably the most magical.
Unlike Salazar Slytherin's applicationist bias, Rowena Ravenclaw was a true theorist.
As a magician, Ravenclaw completed many theoretical studies throughout his life, which was exactly what Maca was always after.
"Ms. Gray—Ms. Gray, please wait a moment!" Maca asked the Fat Monk ghost of Hufflepuff where she was, and searched for her all the way.
Helena inherited her mother's physiognomy and was a beautiful woman with long, curly hair. Although she is now a ghost, she still maintains the same appearance as she was when she was young.
Well, it's just that this beauty is a little transparent, but that's out of the way.
"Miss Gray, will you wait a minute?" Maca noticed that people didn't seem to be very willing to deal with people.
Helena was called out to him, but finally stopped. She turned, dangling a few inches above the ground, looking at Maca with a nonchalant expression.
"Beautiful Lady Gray," Marca quickly stood still, and bowed gracefully, "I don't know if I can delay you a little, but there is something I think I need to tell you. ”
She stared at Maca for a moment, then nodded with a slightly haughty look.
Maca leaned over slightly, expressing his gratitude, but even he thought it would be funny for a child to do these actions. But he knew that Helena was a woman who liked to be respected by others, and that her actions might win him some favor.
"That's right." "While I was looking up books in the library, I found some accounts about Ravenclaw College, and yes, I already know who you are. ”
Maca said, keeping an eye on Helena's expression. When he saw her frowning slightly, but not rejecting the topic, he understood that this was a good start.
"And about you, I overheard something from Barrow the Bloody......"
"I don't think you're wrong." "The pursuit of truth and glory is in the nature of every human being, and it represents superior wisdom and supreme pursuit. ”
"Oh, yes—" Helena chuckled suddenly, "do you think I'm going to say that?" ”
Maca was stunned when she heard this, this was something he didn't expect.
"Yes, you're right," she continued, "I've always thought so, but alas, I've heard the same thing before. ”
"And I don't want to hear it a second time." Helena put away her smile and looked at Maca coldly.
"Heard it once? Who said-" Maca pondered in her heart, and suddenly realized that she might have missed something.
"I don't know where you heard about that, but I'm sure there's none-"
"Is it Tom Riddle?" Maca said suddenly.
If it was said that Voldemort had found the crown back then, Maca hadn't thought much about it before. But now it seems that Voldemort, like him, probably chose Helena as a breakthrough.
Helena looked at Maca—she didn't know how she guessed it, she was the only one who knew about it.
"Ms. Gray, I think I mean something very different from that person." Maca changed her gentle tone just now and became a little intense.
"Tom Riddle just tricked you to get the crown, but I'm different." "I truly believe that your deeds deserve the praise of every wizard. And I, I don't have any need for a crown, I just want to have an intersection with a beautiful and intelligent woman like you. ”
Maca could see that Helena's expression had changed slightly, and that she had developed a sense of recognition with her fleshy praise.
"I want you to know that a friend of mine will be enrolling next year. I think she will be sorted into Ravenclaw because of her similar beauty and intelligence to you. Maca decided to strike while the iron was hot, and continued to praise her, "You know, you are the daughter of Rowena Ravenclaw, and your qualities obviously represent the qualities required to enter Ravenclaw College. ”
This half-false and half-real compliment obviously moved Helena, but Maca herself already had goosebumps.
She smiled slightly and said haughtily, "What you said makes a lot of sense, but my past experience makes me unable to trust you. ”
"Unless—" She seemed in a good mood and dragged out her tone.
"Unless?" Maca echoed her attire with a curious expression.
"Unless you can make your own way through the Ravenclaw Bronze Eagle Gate to the common room tonight." She smiled, "My mother once said, 'Extraordinary ingenuity is the greatest treasure of mankind,' and I will be waiting for you in the lounge." ”
With that, Helena got up with a smile and drifted away.
"I think you haven't suffered enough!" Maca looked at her departing back and shook her head secretly.
The entrance to the common room in Ravenclaw is located at the top of a spiral staircase on the west side of the castle. There, there is an old bare wooden door with only an eagle-shaped bronze knocker on it.
Sometime in the middle of the night, there were two knocks on the door. As the voice sounded, a figure suddenly appeared in the doorway.
The eagle's beak on the bronze knocker opened, and it spoke in a soft, rhythmic voice.
"Where did the dead go?" "Reduced to nothingness."
Maca thought for a moment and quickly answered, but the door didn't open in the slightest.
After a while, the olecranon spoke again.
"What is born out of nothingness?"
"Isn't it just a question? Could it be that Helena did something? Maca thought to herself, and then calmed down and continued to think for a moment.
"Something out of nothing, deduce everything."
"What is the truth of all things in the world?" - After a while, the third question came again.
Maca thought carefully and gradually frowned.
These questions are clearly a series of advancing explorations, and they don't feel like questions to be asked of students at all. For the first time, Maca felt that her brain was a little underwhelming.
It took him a long time before he came up with his answer—he wasn't sure if it was right or not.
"Matter drives appearance, spirit deduces rules."
But the hateful hawk's beak apparently didn't want to let him go, and it raised a fourth question.
"Matter or spirit, which will be destroyed first?"
Gotcha! Who can answer this kind of question? Let's guess in a reliable direction!
"Complementary cycle, co-living and co-perishing!"
Maca reckoned that she must be looking constipated by now.
Suddenly, the eagle's eyes on the bronze knocker blinked, and it flew up vividly, landing on Maca's shoulder.
"That broken hat is rare to make a qualified judgment, you kid is not a bad candidate."
It's still the same voice just now, but the tone is no longer sluggish, and it sounds a lot smarter.
"Uh, excuse me...... Who are you? "Maca is a little confused, what's going on?
"Me? I am a key left by Rowena and a guide for the candidates. It groomed its feathers with its bronze beak and said, "You have passed the initial test and have been granted access to the Rowena Vault. Now, are you ready? ”
"Ready?" Maca was stunned, "No, I'm afraid it's not ...... yet"
The bronze eaglet spread its wings and flew above his head, and said with a quack smile, "I'm just asking." ”
After that, Makaton felt like the world was spinning for a while, as if his body had been flipped and compressed, which should be the feeling of apparition. But he didn't feel the great sense of oppression and suffocation that he felt when he was revealed with his retinue in the past.
In an instant, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he found that he had indeed arrived in a completely new location.
"The space within Hogwarts has been reinforced by Rowena, and no one can enter it without me." The bronze eaglet croaked.
Maca nodded, her gaze wandering over the large neatly arranged bookshelves in front of her.
It wasn't too spacious, or certainly not as big as the Slytherin room. Maca roughly visually inspected it, and it was at most half the size of a library.
But here, with the exception of a desk and a chair at the back, the rest of the space is almost entirely occupied by huge bookshelves that reach to the ceiling.
Here, you can smell a rich and unique fragrance of ink, which makes Maca, who has been vigilant since then, relax.