"028" The Serpent of the Eagle Courtyard

Of the four college lounges, the Ravenclaw common room is undoubtedly the most special, as it never requires a password, and the question must be answered to enter it - from the enchanted eagle-shaped bronze knocker on the door.

And the content of the questions is mostly logical riddles.

In the wizarding world, there seem to be very few wizards who are good at logical reasoning, and it is precisely because of this that Lady Ravenclaw chooses riddles instead of passwords, which are safer than certain words.

Even too safe -

Almost all the freshmen and many of the junior eaglets couldn't get in.

Of course.

This kind of embarrassing thing is not known in the outer courtyard, no little eagle will be stupid to publicize things that make them embarrassed, it doesn't matter if you can't get in, sooner or later there will be seniors who can answer correctly, and no matter how bad someone comes out from the inside, they can rub into it anyway.

- although occasionally this "morning and evening" lasts all night.

But now it's even more humiliating.

In addition to the seven freshmen at the door of the common room, including Petill's sister, there were five or six seniors, and in terms of height, it was probably more than the second and third grades, and one of the senior girls was standing under the knocker before Ringo came, as if answering questions.

But obviously......

She seems to be in some kind of agitated atmosphere, not like a wise eaglet, but like a robot: "1432, 1433, 1434......"

When the others saw Ringo coming, they all blushed and tried to run away, but she just glanced at it and continued to count it.

"What's the problem?"

Ringo was a little curious, he wanted to enter the Ravenclaw common room, this eagle-shaped bronze knocker was a must, he thought it was not difficult to know its logic, but now he saw the eaglet who fell into a state of madness in order to answer the question...... He muttered a little in his heart.

Sister Patil on the side heard this.

He immediately sighed and said, "The question is how many angels can stand on the tip of a needle. ”

???

Ringo thought he had misheard, but when he looked back and saw the bitterness on the faces of the other eaglets, and Sister Petil shaking her head frantically, he could only ask, "How did you answer?" ”

"Countless of them."

"I answered nine."

"Seven."

β€œβ€¦β€¦β€

The first-year eaglets had a good relationship with Ringo, and they said a bunch of answers, but soon sighed collectively: "It's a pity that everything is wrong, we can only wait for the senior students, but there are several who can't answer, until this-"

They secretly pointed to the girl who was answering the question:

"Marietta Ekmo, a second-year student, laughed at us when she came over and saw that we couldn't answer, and now it's her turn...... It's a pity that she can't answer, even if she counts from 0 to 1400, none of them are right. ”

Ringo looked at this Ekmore, and saw that she seemed to have heard the conversation here, and his face was very ugly.

Ben immediately changed the subject: "I saw the information of the eagle-shaped bronze knocker in the library, which said that its answer does not seem to be the only one, as long as it is reasonable, it will let it pass, when you answer the number, did you make up the reason?" ”

"Do you still need to make up for the reason?" The eaglets were taken aback, and even the senior students next to them looked at them and seemed to be puzzled, "But what could be the reason?" We're all guessing. ”

said.

Their gaze at Ringo suddenly changed: "Ringo, do you know the answer?" ”

"Surely you know, right? You're so smart, even Dean Flitwick compliments you on the wrong Sorting Hat, you should be a Ravenclaw! ”

"Ringo, go try it......"

"We've all been waiting here for half an hour! You should help......"

I have to say.

The eaglets are very impressed with Ringo.

At this time, they didn't care about losing face, and looked at them one by one with pleading eyes - it was very cold at night, and they couldn't bear it anymore.

Ringo did not refuse.

He had to go through this door to find Penelope, and as he had just said, the problem with the knocker was a logical riddle, as long as it was logical, it was not difficult, and he had a few thoughts in his mind - the main thing was that so many people were wrong, and he was not ashamed to answer wrong.

"I can try, but don't get your hopes up." He nodded in agreement, then looked at Ekmo, who was still answering the question and counting to 1521.

"You can!"

Sister Patil believed him very much, and immediately said to Ekmo, "Ekmo, you...... Why don't you take a break and let Ringo try? ”

Ekmo ignored her: "1522, 1523......"

"Ekmo!" One of the seniors also spoke, "Let Shelby try!" ”

Ekmo finally stopped, she glanced at Ringo with red eyes, and said coldly, "The genius of the Muggle world doesn't work in Ravenclaw. ”

"Shut up, Ekmo!" Sister Patil glared at her.

The other eaglets looked at Ringo with embarrassment: there were people in the Eagle Courtyard who discriminated against Muggle wizards and made them feel ashamed.

But Ringo was baptized by the Snake Courtyard.

Immune to this, he just glanced at Ekmo and knocked on the door.

The next moment.

The eagle on the eagle-shaped bronze knocker seemed to come to life and asked his own puzzle: "How many angels can stand on the tip of a needle?" ”

"150." Ringo said, "Because there are only 150 names of angels in the Book of Enoch, and angels have no substance, they stand on it all." ”

"The answer is incorrect."

As soon as the door knocker's voice fell, a sneer came from the side, but it was Ekmo: "Haha, others praise you a few words, you really think you are talented?" Sorry, but the last thing we lack in Ravenclaw is genius, and ...... I just said 150. ”

"301655722." Ringo continued, "This is what some believers believe is the total number of angels, including fallen angels. ”

"The answer is incorrect."

"Think you'll be fine if you don't say what I've said? I think you're talking nonsense. ”

β€œ0……”

"Why do you talk about what I said before? You think you can't do itβ€”"

"For there are no angels in the earth."

"Correct."

Click.

The closed door staggered a gap.

The eaglets let out a cheer, and the freshmen patted Ringer on the shoulder:

"Good Ringo, worthy of you!"

"This question is too much, looking back on it, it is so simple!"

"It's just deceptively simple, and it involves logic...... But in short, the dean is right, Ringo, you are very much like Ravenclaw, unlike some people, Ravenclaw identity has a Slytherin heart......"

"Come in, it's cold......"

"Ignore her......"

The eaglets swarmed Ringo inβ€”Sister Patil was the last to enter, grimacing at Ekmo before entering, and then slammed the door shut.

Obviously, they want Ekmo, a Ravenclaw "genius", to answer the questions and get into the ......

……

The Ravenclaw common room is a large circular room with stars on the vaulted ceiling and the dark blue carpet below, and tastefully vaulted windows on the walls, decorated with blue-blue silks, because of the high position, from which you can look out over the beautiful scenery outside.

Of course.

When Ringo entered, the first thing he saw was the white marble bust of Rowena Ravenclaw in the alcove directly opposite.

There are many desks, chairs, and bookshelves around.

It's like a small library.

A lot of eaglets are here drinking hot cocoa while quietly reading a book.

But as Ringo and his party entered, the silence was broken in an instant, and many eaglets facing the door were instantly startled in an inadvertent glance: "Look, a Slytherin!" ”

As soon as this remark came out.

Suddenly, dozens of eyes looked at him.

Look at......

Hostile......

Indissoluble......

Even some of the eaglets drew their wands, thinking that Slytherin had come to invade.

Seeing this, Ringo hurriedly spoke: "Hello, I'm here to ask Prefect Krivat for advice, not to fight!" ”