During the holidays, Hogwarts was quiet, and the plants in the courtyard grew lushly, like a series of colorful and rich oil paintings.
But without the chattering students holding books, it always felt that the picture lacked some vitality.
This made the ghosts, which originally had a low sense of presence, suddenly conspicuous. Felix could always catch a glimpse of a silvery transparent shadow flashing by on the way to the library.
In addition to these ghosts who lived in Hogwarts for a long time, some professors also stayed. For example, Professors McGonagall and Flitwick, as well as Sybil Trelawney.
The empty school made the interaction between professors more frequent. At a small gathering, the drunk Trelawney insisted on making a prophecy for Felix,
"Ominous, I saw ominous..."
Felix looked at her quietly, and Trelawney stared with big eyes, staring at a bottle of sherry, looking at it carefully.
"Sybil, you are drunk." Professor McGonagall's face was ruddy, and she also drank some wine.
"No, I didn't! I saw... a big black dog! It was a black army that covered the sky and the sun, and completely enveloped you." Trelawney's arm was on McGonagall's body, and she tapped Felix's chest with her other hand, hiccuping and saying, "This is a turning point in your life. Forecast, forecast details, 3 Galleons."
Professor McGonagall mouthed: "Before joining the company, you will be fortune-teller." She waved her wand and threw Trelawney on the sofa, and a small blanket flew over to cover her. A
big black dog? Felix thought about it, was it Fang, or the three-headed dog Fluffy?
He did have the idea of going with Hagrid to see the three-headed dog, but he didn't tell anyone.
Professor Flitwick on the side used magic to turn the cups into various small animals, and soon, Professor McGonagall and Felix joined in. They played a table Quidditch game with their wands.
When they came out, a summer breeze mixed with the strong fragrance of Osmanthus fragrans blew by, making Felix's eyes clear.
A week had passed since the holiday. He had returned to his cottage in London a few days ago. After visiting a few ordinary friends, he returned to Hogwarts.
At this moment, he came to the top of the spiral staircase on the west side of the castle and stood at the entrance of the Ravenclaw common room.
A bronze eagle knocker blocked his way. Apart from that, there was no door handle or keyhole.
This is the characteristic of Ravenclaw College. There is no password at the entrance of the common room. Instead, there is a riddle given by the door knocker. As long as you answer it correctly, it will make way and welcome you in.
Felix knocked on the door knocker lightly, and the eagle's beak opened immediately, but it did not make an eagle cry. Instead, it said in a gentle, musical voice: "Which will come first, tomorrow or an accident?"
Felix said seriously: "It depends on how much preparation you have made today."
"Makes sense." The voice said, and the door opened.
The Ravenclaw common room was empty. Felix looked around the round house. The interior decoration was very fairy-tale style, mainly in blue and bronze tones, with stars painted on the dome and dark blue carpet, and brightly colored silk hanging on the elegant arched windows.
Felix came to the window. The viewing position here is excellent. He can clearly see the school's Black Lake and Forbidden Forest from a high place, and the surrounding mountains in the distance.
There are tables, chairs and bookshelves in the room. In the niche opposite the door stands a tall white marble statue.
It is a statue of Rowena Ravenclaw. He looked at it for a moment, and then his eyes fell on a bookshelf.
On a partition inside the bookshelf, there stood a one-foot-tall statue. It was a slender woman who raised her head slightly and looked forward leisurely and calmly.
The statue was a little rough, and even the face of the figure was very blurry. Fortunately, there was a gold-plated nameplate in front of her, with a line of introduction text on it, 'In memory of Ms. Grey, the ghost of Ravenclaw College, a student memorial on March 7, 1993.'
Felix couldn't help but smile.
After a while, he came back to his senses and thought about the purpose of his trip. He began to check the traces of magic on the bookshelf. In the Room of Requirement, Ms. Ravenclaw's memory mentioned that she left some secret magical inheritance in the Ravenclaw common room for later discovery.
Felix held a try-and-see attitude to see if he could find something interesting.
His communication with Ms. Ravenclaw was too brief, and it had to be said that it was a pity.
Felix stroked the patterns on the bookshelf, but found nothing. He went to other bookshelves to check carefully, and finally on the third bookshelf, he sensed a very secret magical fluctuation.
He tentatively used magic to touch the magic restriction, and there was no danger. But it seemed to be hidden in the air, and Felix took a lot of effort to drag it out. A
milky white light bloomed from the air, and the next second, his eyes blurred, and then everything returned to normal.
He was still standing in the Ravenclaw common room, as if the light just now was just an illusion.
But the books on the bookshelf suddenly had a fatal attraction to him, and the voice in his mind told him: I want to read all the books on the bookshelf, I can do it.
This emotion came inexplicably, as if it was suddenly inserted into the brain.
"What is this?"
As a newly promoted master of memory magic, Felix quickly blocked the strong desire in his heart. He carefully analyzed and pondered this magic.
"It is very similar to my mind cabin, which also pulls people into a world of thinking, but Ms. Ravenclaw's method is much more clever than mine, the time ratio is longer, and the side effects are smaller..."
He casually flipped through the books on the bookshelf. They were ordinary and there was nothing profound, so he turned to study the illusory Ravenclaw common room where he was. He
couldn't see any flaws at all.
"It's really interesting. I didn't expect that I would be pulled into the mind cabin by others." Felix smiled softly, his fingers danced quickly, and magic symbols appeared out of thin air.
"Well, Ms. Ravenclaw also has a very in-depth study of ancient magic runes. This is normal. The era she lives in is the transition between the old and the new."
Ten, one hundred... Soon, the number reached five hundred, and it was still increasing... This was Felix's harvest in the Hogwarts library in a year.
Then, Felix stretched out his hand, and as he thought, more than a dozen magic symbols instantly flew to his hand, forming a mysterious pattern, and blazing flames bloomed from his fingers.
The whole world suddenly shook violently.
Felix put away this ancient magic and waved his hand to make all the ancient magic runes disappear. "It was a close call. I almost destroyed this place."
Then Felix tried carefully and repeatedly, testing the magic treasures left by Ravenclaw.
Time passed little by little.
After an unknown amount of time, he was kicked out by the magic restriction.
Felix looked up at the window, and it was already evening. "I may have stayed in there for several days, but I am not very tired..."
"Very good, it points out the direction for my thinking cabin to move forward."
"And this method of suddenly pulling people in is also very clever, I didn't even notice it, memory magic, memory magic..."
"There is a lot of potential."