Originally, the stairs of Hogwarts Castle would not move.

However, the wise Rowener?? Ms. Ravenclaw believes that a static learning environment can constrain people's minds and dampen the curiosity of young wizards. It wasn't long before the other three founders were surprised to find an unenchanted staircase at Hogwarts that was even more difficult than having a soundless bird sing all the time.

To add insult to injury, Ms. Rowener, who had finished tossing the stairs, had already begun to turn her attention to the door in the castle - fortunately, the three founders, who finally sensed that something was wrong, joined forces to stop her.

Since then, the common rooms of Slytherin and Hufflepuff have been moved to the basement floor of the castle, so that at least the students won't miss breakfast because they can't find their way. As for the culprit of all this, Ravenclaw College, it didn't live in the main castle at all.

Rather, it's Godric, who is full of adventure?? After experimenting with the ever-changing castle staircase several times, Gryffindor simply closed the entrance to the first floor of the Gryffindor Tower, so much so that Gryffindor House students had to enter and exit the common room through a hole in the castle's wall on the eighth floor.

After a long time, the Gryffindor cubs have finally become the group most familiar with the school's secret passages. Of course, there is a price, and the Gryffindor long table always has the highest absenteeism rate among the four houses at mealtime, and Gryffindor is also the one with the most absenteeism and tardiness.

Of course, these tedious old stories may only be recorded in the pile of historical documents in the library that no one has ever borrowed. However, most of the young wizards at Hogwarts don't know or care why the stairs of Hogwarts Castle move. To them, it seems as normal as the sun rising in the east every day.

Why do you suddenly say this, it's because-

"So where is this? I guess it's on the fifth floor...... Right?"

It's another somewhat familiar three-way intersection.

Elena looked around with some uncertainty, and stood on tiptoe on the edge of the hallway railing, carefully counting the floors below.

Why hasn't there been a single wise headmaster in all these years who has considered adding floor and classroom names to Hogwarts Castle?

It turns out that most of the portraits and apparitions in Hogwarts are not that reliable.

With the exception of the more self-aware characters who appear in the original books, the vast majority of ghosts and kinetic portraits are not so much a continuation of life as an echo of the traces of wizards who once lived in this world.

"Welcome to Hogwarts. I'm sure you'll have a very meaningful time here. ”

In the frame on the wall behind Elena, a middle-aged man dressed as a medieval aristocrat lowered the monocular in his right hand and nodded kindly, the third time he had said it. Compared to the portrait of the brute warrior who knew nothing but roaring, it was already very polite.

"Thank you, but I'm lost now, and I'd be very grateful if you could tell me where to get up the stairs to the sixth floor. ”

The silver-haired little Lori turned around and sighed helplessly, her eyes moving back and forth in the hallway. If she could one day become the headmaster of Hogwarts, the first thing she would do would be to introduce an "elevator" similar to the Ministry of Magic into the school. Then on each floor, at intervals, signs are placed to guide the way.

"Stairs? Oh, yes, moving stairs in Hogwarts are a lot of fun. The aristocratic man in the painting raised his eyebrows, smiled gently, and whispered in a tone similar to that of a story.

"Did you know that in this day and age, many buildings already have stairs that move on their own? According to their form, they are divided into elevators, escalators, moving walks...... Which one do you think is better suited to Hogwarts?"

Without complaining about the answer to the question of the person in the portrait, Elena made a distinction between the front and the back, the left and right, and made sure that the direction she was about to go was not the position she was in, and continued to ask absentmindedly.

"Excuse me, I don't understand what you're talking about. ”

The medieval aristocracy frowned, his face a little confused, and there was still nothing wrong with his demeanor.

"Then another question," Elena tilted her head, and suddenly said something unrelated to the previous topic, "the cat sits on the blanket because it's warm, and what's warm?"

"I think, of course, because the blanket is warm. The aristocratic man in the painting replied with a top hat.

"Congratulations, you passed part of the Turing Test. You're smarter than 30% of the portraits I've come across. (Click here to learn more about the Turing Test)

Elena shrugged her shoulders and complimented her in a formatted tone - unlike artificial intelligence, many portraits of people who seem to be alive can answer logical questions through some of the original "human" memories.

But......

The silver-haired little witch's beautiful lake-blue eyes blinked lightly and continued nonchalantly.

"In addition to blankets made of animal fibers, there are also many blankets made of acrylic and viscose. Acrylic fiber is a kind of fiber that is similar to wool in terms of appearance, feel, elasticity, warmth, etc., and is processed by spinning. Viscose fiber is a cellulose fiber obtained by extracting and reshaping fiber molecules from natural wood cellulose using "wood" as a raw material. ”

"Excuse me, which do you think is warmer, acrylic or viscose?"

Based on Elena's incomplete experiments along the way, as well as JKR's description in the original book, in her opinion, the magical images that have appeared in Hogwarts Castle can be roughly divided into four categories.

The simplest category is the GIF that was common in later generations.

They just keep repeating a scene, like a portrait of a beheaded goblin, or a picture saved by a magic camera.

The characters don't actually interact much with the outside world, and as the "playback progress bar" resets, some behaviors will start again and again. The whole act is an independent closed-loop display window, no matter whether it is noisy, shaking, provocative, or even tempting on the side, it cannot affect the characters in it.

This kind is not too many in the castle, but Elena guesses that maybe the Chocolate Frog card should also use this kind of magic - after all, if the characters on the Chocolate Frog card can answer the question, then it is estimated that all wizards will walk the rivers and lakes like in [Yu-Gi-Oh] or [The Witcher 3 - Gwent], each person carries hundreds of wizard cards with them.

The second type is much more common, like a simple piece of artificial intelligence.

You can ask them simple questions, and according to some mysterious magical principle, they will respond with simple ones: blinking, smiling, angry, and some answers stored in their question bank.

Elena estimates that this may be a bit similar to Siri, which has not yet come out at this time, to be precise, in most cases, not to mention Siri, even QQ Xiaoice or the magical [human] customer service of the goose factory is far inferior.

Not to mention the Turing test, even a slightly more difficult math problem or a brain teaser can cause them to cause all kinds of errors.

And the third, and most common, is the presence of the aristocratic man in the portrait in front of her, which Elena calls "memory echoes".

In Elena's opinion, they are somewhat similar to the memories that Professor Dumbledore extracts from the meditation basin in the original books - to some extent, they retain the character of the original character, a small amount of memory, and perhaps a little bit of a mysterious being between soul and memory, known as "human nature".

Among them, the part of the portrait of "human nature" that is relatively intact can even pass part of the Turing test smoothly, and at least in some questions that require common sense or moral values of human society to answer, it can make correct answers.

Of course, it is quite common for people to answer questions like this.

After all, they don't really think like humans, and if they're unlucky, a lost half-breed baby will often need to ask for several portraits to get guidance on the path to the upper levels.

And the easiest way to tell the difference is to......

"Excuse me, I don't understand what you're talking about. ”

Hearing Elena's question about using acrylic and viscose fibers as keywords, the aristocratic man in the portrait repeated the sentence he had just said a few minutes earlier—even though the girl had already explained the meaning of these two terms in the previous sentence.

"It's okay, I'm just passing the boring wayfinding time. Sorry, anyway, thanks for your help. Elena smiled and waved her hand, without explaining much, and with the intuition of the ancestral woman of the Kaslana family, she chose a direction to move forward.

Yes, they are nothing more than an intercepted "echo of memory" after all.

No matter how time goes back, no matter how new things come into contact with again, they can no longer learn and understand, and integrate into the original "echoes of the past" like encapsulated precision instruments.

For the world as a whole, from the moment they begin to move in the painting, or even earlier, time stands still forever, never moving forward even a microsecond.

The same applies to the portraits of the headmasters and boys in Dumbledore's office. What they left behind was nothing more than the precious experiences and ways of thinking of people who had passed by, not the so-called immortal souls that Elena had imagined in the first place.

Of course, there is a fourth ......

In the true sense of the word, all the sciences of that previous life have not yet been touched, and it is only a mysterious realm through some fragmented inferences and conjectures.

The silver-haired little witch's eyes flickered, and when she thought about it, the treasures in Hogwarts were not necessarily hidden in secret rooms. However, more conjectures can only be verified one by one after the official start of magic learning.

The most important thing now is to find your way to the principal's office quickly.

If you accidentally let that spicy old radish know this Achilles' heel of hers, God knows what terrible moves she will come up with.

While thinking, the mixed-race little Meiwa raised her head, looked at a new portrait next to her and asked politely.

"Hello, I'm lost, can you tell me how to get to the stairs to the sixth floor?"

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Ahhhh Just buy fruit next to your own house and then want to cut corners...... I think the main thing is that you will get lost when you walk while coding words.

Fortunately, there is mobile phone positioning, thanks to scientific and technological progress, thanks to modern society.

In fact, in my opinion, according to the description of the original book, there is actually a fifth form of magic portrait to be precise.

In the evening, there is also a chapter of ...... Right?

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