Connor's Hogwarts

Hogwarts Castle, West Tower, eighth floor, below the spiral staircase leading to the Owl Hut.

Connor stood here alone, staring at the constantly changing suspended stairs below.

",...,21" Connor murmured, his tone full of disbelief: "It's unbelievable, there is really an extra staircase..."

As mentioned before, there are a total of 142 flight stairs in Hogwarts Castle, which are distributed in five towers. The other four towers are all section staircases, and only the west tower has 20 sections.

Moreover, the changing pattern of the stairs in the West Tower remains unchanged throughout the year, but now this sudden appearance of the stairs completely breaks the original pattern...

"I just discovered it. When I passed by here today, I noticed something wrong with the changes in the stairs. After careful observation, I discovered that there was an extra staircase..."

In the picture frame behind Connor, Conan pushed up his reflective black-rimmed glasses and said: "The stairs in the Mingxi Tower are actually part of the Hogwarts staircase changing system. The assumptions we previously deduced using the other four parts of the stairs separately are all It can be overturned.”

Connor shook his head and said solemnly: "But the stairs at this time last year were unchanged, right? Why is there suddenly an extra set of stairs this year?"

"It didn't happen last year. I can prove it. As for why there is a change this year, I think the answer is obvious..."

"You mean... leap month?" Connor raised his eyebrows.

Yes, this year is 1992, and February... has 29, which is a leap month every four years.

"Yes, this is obvious, isn't it? Only this reason can explain the sudden addition of stairs. I think the change cycle of this stair system is not one year, but four years. The number of stairs in each tower and the overall change pattern. The year and month are in one-to-one correspondence.”

"..." Connor was silent for a moment, and then shook his head: "No, no, the cycle may be four years, but the month... If there is really an influence of the month, then isn't it? This means that the number of stairs in the other four towers corresponds to the month."

"It's the same in other months, that's understandable, but this staircase..." Connor pointed to the stairs below: "There are only 21 sections, how can we explain this?"

"..." Conan was speechless. He was just an observation tool with no emotions. In fact, reasoning was not his strong point...

"And it's not February [-]st anymore. Wait, what day is it today?"

"February ninth."

"Yes, it's already the 21th. If the number of stairs is really related to the month, then why does it start to change now instead of at the beginning of the month? And this staircase only has [-] sections. Isn't it right? Shouldn't it be a festival?"

"..." Conan pushed up his black-rimmed glasses and didn't want to talk. He is just a tool...

Facing this strange staircase, everyone fell into deep thought...

"Forget it, Conan, go find Helena first. Maybe she knows something..."

Conan nodded and left the frame. Soon a ghost slowly emerged from under Connor's feet. Conan was a professional in finding people.

"What do you want from me?" Helena still looked cold and her tone was arrogant.

Connor pointed to the stairs below: "Look for yourself."

Helena looked over, then frowned and said, "What are you looking at? It's just an ordinary staircase."

"Look at the number of stairs."

Helena looked over again, crossed her shoulders and said, "There are 21 flights of stairs, what's wrong?"

"..." Connor looked at Helena deeply, as if looking at an Aqua: "Do you know how many sections this staircase used to have?"

"Who has nothing to do and counts the stairs? Are you sick?"

"..." Connor opened his mouth and was speechless for a moment. He didn't know how to complain. Indeed, if it hadn't been for the discovery of Tool Man Conan, who would have looked so distressed and ran to count the stairs?

In fact, when Connor first arrived, he didn't notice any difference between the stairs here. If he hadn't counted them one by one before and knew that there were indeed 20 flights of stairs, Connor wouldn't have believed that there were so many stairs out of thin air. come out...

"Why is there a problem with the number of stairs?" Helena finally noticed something was wrong in the atmosphere and asked a little guiltily.

Connor raised his forehead and said: "There used to be only 20 stairs here, but now there is an extra one out of thin air. Do you have any questions?"

"You have solved the real mystery." Helena's eyes widened in excitement. She didn't know how this ghost came to such a conclusion. Connor gave up struggling in despair.

Connor felt that the stupidest thing he had done today was to actually want to ask this ghost girl for help...

Connor turned his head, no longer paying attention to this stupid ghost, and asked: "Conan, do you know which staircase is the new one?"

"Well, there, it's the third section from the bottom. That section of stairs completely destroys the original movement pattern of the stairs..."

Connor floated towards that staircase, followed by a noisy translucent ghost. Helena finally figured out the situation. She chased after him and said, "Did this staircase suddenly appear by itself? How could I be here?" I have lived in the castle for hundreds of years and have not discovered this situation. Are you really lying to me? Have you discovered any other secrets that you can find..."

"Shut up." Connor turned around and cursed angrily: "You useless stupid ghost. I'm not asking you to help me. Can you please stay quiet?"

"You..." Helena was so angry that she became transparent, but when she thought about relying on this man to find the treasure, she dared not speak out. It took a long time to hold back a sentence: "Rude man. ..No grace...You are not a passing Ravenclaw at all..."

Connor didn't bother to pay attention to this stupid ghost, he floated to the new section of stairs and observed carefully.

From a distance, this new staircase seems to be no different from other staircases, but upon closer inspection, you will find that this staircase is indeed much "younger" and seems to be rarely stepped on. The most obvious difference is that there are no What traces of bird poop...

The top of the West Tower is the Owl House. Wizards rarely come to this building because missions are often carried out here. If you are not careful, you may be hit by the bombs of the Owl bombers flying back...

Although elves come to clean the stairs every night, it is inevitable that the stairs of this tower will leave some traces of being bombarded...

But this new staircase has no such traces, so it can be seen that this is indeed a new staircase...

Now that this has been proven, we need to find out what role this staircase plays...

Then... Connor's claws became numb, what... what happened...

Connor walks up the stairs...jumps...turns...jumps...goes down the stairs...jumps...repeat x3

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"Conan...this...why hasn't it changed at all..."

"..." Conan was also silent for a while, and then said: "There is indeed no change."

"...When did you discover there was an extra set of stairs here?"

"An hour ago."

"Then when was the last time you went up and observed this staircase?"

"Ten:25 a.m. before."

"..." Connor was stunned. He turned his head stiffly and looked at Conan: "That is... you don't know when this staircase appeared, right?"

"...At this point, it appears that is indeed the case."

"..." Connor felt his head hurt. He rubbed the bridge of his nose and said, "It means... this staircase may have appeared once or twice, but nothing has happened until now, right?"

"...At this point, it appears that is indeed the case."

"..." Connor sighed: "Okay, okay, no matter what, this is a huge discovery... Maybe I can ask Dumbledore... No, no, no, I can't just go to Dumbledore for everything. He hasn't mentioned this to me before, so telling him probably won't be of much use... Let me think about it..."

Seeing Connor walking up and down the stairs, talking to himself, Conan and Helena glanced at each other, and neither made any further interruptions.

Obviously, the secret of Ravenclaw is close at hand, and Connor's mind will inevitably become agitated. The previous attempts have all come back empty-handed, which makes Connor a little frustrated, but now that he plans to put the treasure hunt on While on the sidelines, suddenly, unintentionally, the hidden flowers brighten up.

Now this sudden appearance of the stairs seems to remind Connor that the answer is already in front of you, oh, can't you see it yet? This is why Connor is a little excited.

Seeing victory right in front of him, Connor felt that he could do it again. I will definitely be able to solve this secret alone and prove my ability without asking for help.