Chapter 9 Bronze Door Knockers and Piano Songs (4,000-character Chapter) (Revised)
Because she was accompanied by the house elf Burleigh, although Elena was particularly interested in the legendary Room of Requirement located on the eighth floor of the castle opposite the tapestry where the troll beat Barnabas silly, she could only suppress her curiosity.
, and followed the normal road to visit.
If her previous understanding of the wizarding world can be deceived by her past experiences, then a little girl who has never been to Hogwarts has accurately discovered this kind of thing from the beginning that most students may not know until graduation.
place, it’s a bit too much.
Similarly, there is the prefect's bathroom located on the sixth floor of the castle, in the fourth door to the left of the statue of Boris the Fool.
A luxurious chandelier with candles casts a warm and soft light into the room. Everything is made of snow-white marble, including the large bathtub located in the middle of the room, sunken into the ground, like a rectangular swimming pool.
There are about a hundred golden faucets around the bath, and the handle of each faucet is inlaid with a gem of a different color. There is also a diving board. Snow-white linen curtains are hung on the windows; a pile of fluffy white towels are placed
In a corner.
As a girl, in Elena's imagination, the most ideal and luxurious bathroom template is roughly like this.
You must know that when she was in college in her previous life, the bathroom designed by the crazy school administration actually had a card-based water supply. One swipe of the card could only last for fifteen minutes. Can you imagine that in the cold winter, a hand covered with white bubbles would tremble?
The desolation of reaching out the door with a trembling hand and using your student card to renew your time?!
It was only then that Elena realized a problem in frustration. If she were not a student at Hogwarts, she would not be able to visit many secret rooms full of wonderful magic.
Whether it is the offices of various teachers, Filch's office, or the library where one hundred and thirty thousand magic books are stored, they are all sealed by magic and cannot be freely entered. This makes Elena want to borrow some from a certain half-blood prince.
The idea of snacks or seeing the forbidden toys of the naughty children in the magical world was not a possibility either.
Oh no, the door to Professor McGonagall's office, located on the second floor of the castle, above the marble staircase in the foyer, was ajar. But Elena was still very sensible and did not knock on the door - who knew this dangerous McGonagall
Professor, will you suddenly remember what happened before and take the opportunity to take revenge?
And the empty classrooms have no meaning in visiting. After all, except for the Potions classroom, from Elena's perspective, most of the classrooms seem to be the same. They are all just a wooden podium with a
There are about ten rows of empty tables and chairs.
Of course, even so, Elena is already satisfied.
Because even if all the ghosts do not appear, the entire Hogwarts Castle is still full of wonderful magic. Everything seems to be constantly moving, the people in the portraits are constantly visiting each other, and the stairs will also move.
During the entire visit, what made Elena happiest was the Ravenclaw Common Room located on the west side of the castle, above the Ravenclaw Tower. To be precise, it was the lovely eagle-shaped bronze door knocker.
Just like the philosophy followed by Rowena Ravenclaw, the founder of the same house, the door to the Ravenclaw lounge does not require a password like other houses. Anyone who can answer the right question can enter at will.
Elena stood at the smooth wooden door and knocked on the door. The eagle's beak on the bronze door knocker opened and asked in a gentle voice, "Which comes first, the fire or the phoenix?"
It seems that there are not too many question banks. Elena was lucky enough to get an original question from the original book, "This is a cycle with no starting point."
"The answer is correct." After the voice said, the door creaked and opened automatically.
However, Elena, who answered correctly, did not choose to rush into it.
"Dear door knocker, how can you ensure that the answers you prepare for questions like yours are the only correct ones?"
Elena narrowed her eyes cutely and shrugged at the eagle-shaped door knocker, "You know, language and words are the most likely to have multiple meanings, and all common sayings may be given new meanings at any time."
"..."
Eagle Head opened her mouth, but did not make a sound, but she vaguely felt that there seemed to be a magic power looking at her from the door knocker in front of her. Obviously, this magic door knocker had its own consciousness, just like the Sorting Hat.
Now that you have come to Hogwarts, you have to leave some traces, otherwise it will be boring.
The silver-haired little Luoli smiled evilly and said in a very seductive tone, "As far as I know, many mathematical problems, usually at a basic level, have a unique objective solution."
"Mathematical problem? Simple calculation cannot test a student's wisdom." The voice of the eagle-shaped door knocker was obviously confused.
"What about this?"
Elena recalled a little, and said slowly in a particularly excited tone, "Put chickens and rabbits in the same cage. Counting from the top, there are thirty-five heads, and counting from the bottom, there are ninety-four.
Feet. How many chickens and rabbits are there in the cage?"
After a pause, the silver-haired little Luoli continued to add, "Moreover, just by simply changing a few numbers, you can develop an infinite number of interesting questions like this."
"..."
After being silent for a few seconds again, the eagle-shaped door knocker nodded slightly, "What you said makes sense, I have to think about it carefully. Thank you."
After saying that, the door knocker stopped talking and turned back into the original bronze sculpture.
It actually worked!
Elena waved her fist secretly, turned and left happily.
"Burley, I think it's almost done. Let's go back."
May God bless the Ravenclaw students this year. However, as long as they are patient enough, they can still count the animals one by one and get the correct result.
…………
Soon, with a little unknown joy, Elena returned to the eighth floor of the castle with the house elf Burleigh.
"The next step is to meet Dumbledore."
Elena took a deep breath, looked at the stairs next to the giant stone beast, and was about to walk up.
Suddenly, I discovered that at the end of the corridor, there seemed to be a classroom that I had never entered before. It seemed that I had accidentally ignored it when I turned around and left.
Elena looked at the front carefully with curiosity. In her impression, except for the Room of Requirement, there should be no other special scenes on this floor.
Wait, is it possible that this is the Room of Requirement?! Silver-haired little Luoli's eyes suddenly lit up, and she asked excitedly.
"Burley, where is that place? Is it..."
"that……"
Burley, who was walking behind Elena, raised his head, looked in the direction of the girl's arm, and replied calmly, "It seems to be an abandoned classroom."
"No, no, I obviously didn't see it just now."
Elena shook her head seriously, muttered to herself, and ran towards the classroom without hesitation.
"Huh? Alas..."
The silver-haired little Luoli opened the door full of hope, looked inside, her face suddenly fell, and she let out a sigh.
As Burley said, this is indeed an abandoned classroom.
Wooden desks and chairs were piled up in a mess at the back of the classroom. Judging from the dusty empty bottles and wooden shelves, it seemed that this place had once been used as a potions or herbology classroom.
"Well, what is that?"
Elena took one last glance and was about to turn around and leave when her eyes suddenly froze.
Right in front of the classroom, by the window, is a strange-looking jet black grand piano.
Different from the clutter at the back of the classroom, judging from the shiny piano cover, someone should come here regularly to play or take care of this expensive piano.
"I didn't expect that there would be a piano-loving professor in Hogwarts? This was never mentioned in the original book." Elena searched in her memory and did not remember that there was a piano-loving professor in Hogwarts.
Which professor has this interest?
Standing at the door, Elena happened to be able to see the LOGO on the side of the piano - STEINWAY &SONS (Steinway Piano) - logically speaking, in this era, it should only be seen in Germany and the United States. The most popular piano in the world
One of the top pianos.
And every Steinway handmade piano is as attractive to most piano lovers as drugs are to drug addicts. From Tokyo to New York, Steinway grand pianos are used in all major concert halls in the world.
Elena couldn't help but flick her fingers in the air a few times. In her previous life, she was engaged in the financial industry, and her main way to relieve stress was to play the piano. However, she often played Steinway pianos that cost millions, and she only played music.
I took a few longing glances at it from a distance at the meeting.
After a moment of silence, Elena suddenly remembered that if she was going to leave Hogwarts forever later, there was still one very memorable thing she had not done.
"Can I play a song on this piano? Then take me to see Professor Dumbledore."
The girl turned her head and looked at the house elf Burley behind her and asked.
"I think there should be no problem, ma'am." Burley bowed gracefully and replied, raising his arm to lead in the direction of the piano, "Professor Dumbledore has told you that you can freely visit most of the entire academy.
Common areas, that includes touch and use."
"That's it...thank you."
Elena nodded, and did not sit directly in front of the piano. Instead, she walked to the open window first, looking out through the window at the sparkling lake of Hogwarts, the simple and towering towers of the castle, and the lake.
Along the long corridor covered with vines... there was an angelic smile of innocence and contentment on her face. Even Burley couldn't help but feel slightly absent-minded for a few seconds under this bright smile.
Opening the cover of the piano, her butt rested on one-third of the leather sofa bench. Elena straightened up, placed her feet near the pedals, took a deep breath, and gently lifted her white and tender fingers like green onions from the black and white piano keys.
Sliding across, the cold sound of steel balls hitting the ice echoed in the classroom.
After finally arriving at Hogwarts, without the classic "Hedwig's Theme", I always feel like something is missing.
After all, it would be most appropriate to use this theme song that has run through the entire Harry Potter series of movies over the past seventeen years as the ending of her Hogwarts journey.
"Hedwig's Theme" is not a low-level piece of music. Elena, who had never touched a piano since time travel, thought she would not be able to complete the next difficult piece of music.
However, as her fingers moved, a magical magic seemed to be generated in the castle to support her to continue playing, so that in the second half of the song, Elena even closed her eyes directly, and her hands flowed along with the rhythm.
jumping on the black and white piano keys.
A full five and a half minutes of the song was played flawlessly. She felt as if she had transformed into a bird, flying across the calm lake, passing through the stone walls covered with vines, and hovering in the towers and lawns of Hogwarts.
between squares.
As the last note on the keyboard disappeared into the air, Elena exhaled. She felt that this was the most perfect performance in her life.
Before she could carefully reflect on the melody that was still lingering in her ears, a burst of gentle applause sounded from behind her.
"Incomparably imaginative music, I seemed to see sparks bursting out of a potion jar."
Elena stood up in panic, as if she had just woken up from a big dream, and the stool made a scraping sound on the wooden floor.
Behind her, a tall and thin old man wearing a blue wizard robe, with a long silver beard and a pair of bright blue eyes appeared at the door of the classroom at some point, applauding in amazement.
"What's the name of this piece?"
Albus Dumbledore asked curiously. He didn't know why, but when he heard this piece of music, he suddenly had a strange feeling - the child in front of him was born to belong to Hogwarts.
""Hedwig's Theme", a song where dreams and miracles begin. Thank you for the piano, Professor Dumbledore."
"Oh. To be precise, I'm not good at the piano. I'm just keeping it for a friend temporarily." Dumbledore blinked flexibly, with a naughty look on his half-moon glasses, "If you like
, you can come here to play at any time, I promise to help you keep the secret."
Elena stood up. On the back of the piano cover, there was a figure that looked like a triangular eye with a vertical line in the middle of the pupil. When she saw this pattern, she already understood that the real owner of the piano was
who.
Looking around reluctantly, Elena showed a relieved smile, it was time to say goodbye.
She looked calmly at the greatest white wizard in the world, shook her head and said softly, "I'm sorry."
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