Study Days at Hogwarts

  Chapter 154 Ravenclaw's Fortune

  PS: Warmly celebrate the 70th anniversary of the founding of the motherland and wish everyone a happy holiday.

   "Come in, the door is open."

  Professor Brod's voice came from the office.

   Albert's hand that was about to knock on the door froze in the air. Isobel next to him glanced at him, stretched out his hand and pushed open the wooden door and walked into the office.

   "You resigned?"

  After Albert entered, he found that this was no longer the Defense Against the Dark Arts office he was familiar with. Several large bookshelves along the walls have been emptied, and the expensive wool carpets and silk curtains are also missing. Everything on the desk was empty, except for a leather suitcase.

   "I resigned, and I will leave today." Professor Brod pointed to the sofa, motioning for a few people to sit down and talk.

   A few days ago, he was almost attacked by an acromantula in the Forbidden Forest, which made Brod feel that the threat of the curse was approaching him, so the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor simply submitted a letter of resignation to Dumbledore. He didn't want to get hurt by that **** curse, or lose his life inexplicably.

  Albert naturally knew the reason for Professor Brod's early resignation. The position of Professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts was cursed, and it was the wisest choice to voluntarily resign before he was injured.

   "It's good to resign." Albert said, "It's a wise decision to leave before the curse hits the door."

   "Shut up Anderson." Katrina couldn't help but glared at Albert.

"No, no, I actually agree with Mr. Anderson." Professor Broad raised his hand to appease Katrina, and said with a smile, "The curse of Defense Against the Dark Arts has always existed, and I don't come here to teach because I want to get hurt, or Died by the curse."

  Katrina was completely stunned, she could hardly believe that Uncle Bud would say such a thing.

   "But... if you resign, what will happen to the Defense Against the Dark Arts class?" The girl still expressed her doubts.

"The knowledge I can teach you has already been taught to you in the previous courses. The rest of this semester is the review and final exam." Professor Broad continued, "During the period before the exam, Dumbledore will find someone to take his place."

   "Could it be Snape?" Albert frowned slightly. Although Snape was an expert in the field of black magic, Albert really didn't like that guy.

   "It's Professor Snape." Professor Broad corrected.

   "Okay, Professor Snape." Albert remembered one more thing, "What about the third part of Mr. McDougal's "Advanced Rune Research" manuscript?"

   "Oh, you said that matter, it's temporarily postponed." Professor Brod's understatement seemed to be talking about what to eat for lunch today.

"Postponed?"

  Albert was also taken aback, he didn't expect to get such an answer.

   "Yes, postponed." Professor Broad looked at Albert, "The last part seems to have encountered some bottlenecks, and Mogg decided to postpone the third part."

With that said, Professor Brod brought the suitcase, took out a document bag from it and handed it to Albert, "You are also an expert in runes, and Mogg thinks you will be interested in it, what do you think after reading it?" You can write to him."

   "I see." Albert nodded, and got up tactfully to leave. He could see that Professor Broad had something to say to Sister McDougal.

  Isobel got up and followed to the door.

   "You don't have to come here to give it to me." Albert looked at Isobel and joked.

  The next second, the wooden door in front of Albert slammed shut.

   "What a guy without a sense of humor." Albert looked at the closed wooden door, shook his head involuntarily, turned and left the Defense Against the Dark Arts office. He was going to go to the library to finish the few remaining vacation homework, and come to study what Professor Broad had given him.

   "The guy is finally gone," Katrina muttered.

  However, Uncle Mogg seems to be very optimistic about him.

  Thinking of this, the girl felt a little depressed, the feeling of being crushed in all aspects was really terrible.

"From the very beginning, you chose the wrong target." Isobel sat back on the sofa, reached out and touched Katrina's head to remind him, "That is a real genius, destined to leave school with countless halos, you Competing with him is making yourself uncomfortable."

  Katrina is a little dissatisfied, is the gap between the two sides really that big?

   "Albert is very good." Professor Broad smiled, "He is the most talented wizard I have met."

   "Yes, it's just a bit of a bad taste." Isobel couldn't help shaking his head when he thought of what Albert had done.

   "Ravenclaw students are eccentric," Professor Broad said, "and geniuses are often out of step with ordinary people."

  Isobel's face twitched, she thought that Albert's bad taste had nothing to do with him being a genius.

   "Uncle Bud, Albert Anderson is in Gryffindor, not Ravenclaw." Katrina reminded.

   "Oh, of course I do."

   "Is there anything you want from us?" Isobel brought the topic back.

   "This is what your father left with me." Professor Brod took out an exquisite wooden box from the suitcase with complicated patterns on it.

   "It can't be opened." Katrina tried it, but found that the wooden box couldn't be opened.

   "There is magic protection on it, and it cannot be opened by ordinary methods."

  Professor Broad drew out his wand, touched the wooden box, said a series of strange spells, and then said to Sister McDougal, "Put your hand on the box and it will open."

  Katrina and Isobel put their hands on the box one after another, and heard a faint clicking sound, and the wooden box opened automatically, revealing the items inside.

  A letter, and... a key.

   "Is this father's relic?" Katrina picked up the key and looked it up and down in confusion. She remembered that her father died in a magic experiment when they were very young.

  Isobel picked up the letter, opened it and began to read the contents of the letter.

  The content of the letter is very simple, introducing the key and the relics left to the sisters.

   That was the key to Gringotts. The item in the treasury was not Gallon, but the archives and records of the magic experiment that year.

   "Why did father give those to us?" Isobel looked at Professor Brod puzzled, "Does he want us to continue his research?"

"No, after his death, Mogg sorted out some of the relics. He believed that these things were the inheritance left by your father, so...he sealed up the original research materials." Professor Brod explained to the two of them. The source of the key.

   "Thank you for your kindness, Uncle Bud, but we don't want those things." Isobel declined decisively.

   After all, it was the magic experiment that caused them to lose their father, and Isobel instinctively rejected these things. But she also understood what Uncle Mogg meant.

  With Isobel's talent, he can continue to study in the future and complete the magic experiment. This is why Professor Broad gave the things to the two sisters.

   "I can understand." Professor Broad nodded, "If you don't want it, I will handle it myself."

   "Isobel." Katrina was very dissatisfied that her sister didn't ask her opinion, so she directly refused.

  Isobel didn't pay much attention to his sister's dissatisfaction, and asked, "Who are you going to give it to? Anderson?"

   "Anderson is a good candidate." Professor Broad thought for a while and said, "Rowena is also fine."

   "Rowena Smith?" Isobel frowned slightly. This is also a well-known wizard. He is a friend of his father, and it is said that he once worked together.

   "Can't you listen to my opinion?" Katrina protested dissatisfied.

   "Your opinion?" Isobel looked at his sister, "I don't want you to make the so-called choice out of anger."

"I'm not a child, how could I do that." Katrina couldn't help protesting, "Since it was left to us by my father, I think we should keep it instead of giving it up, maybe... maybe I can do it in the future Continue father's magic research."

  The office fell into an eerie dead silence.

   "Okay!" Isobel bowed slightly to Professor Brod, "We will take the things away, thank you, Uncle Bud."

   "You're welcome." Professor Broad said.

  …

  Albert, who had just walked into the library, stopped suddenly, turned and left under the astonished gazes of others.

  Albert was flipping through his notebook just now, and happened to turn to the page predicting Ravenclaw's secret treasure, and was going to try his luck in the Room of Requirement on the eighth floor.

  He went straight to the corridor on the eighth floor, casting the Disillusionment Charm on himself in a secluded place on the way to avoid being found wandering near the tapestry where the silly Barnabas taught the troll to dance the ballet.

   Walking to the entrance of the Room of Requirement, Albert closed his eyes and thought intently: Enter Ravenclaw's Secret Treasure... Ravenclaw's Secret Treasure... Ravenclaw's Secret Treasure.

  After walking past that place three times, Albert immediately opened his eyes and looked towards the entrance of the Room of Requirement. There was still an ordinary white wall in front of him.

   "Failed?" Albert looked at the plain white wall in front of him and murmured, "My way of expressing it was wrong...or that room isn't called Ravenclaw's secret treasure."

  Albert took out his pen from his pocket, recorded the attempt just now in a small notebook, then closed his eyes again, concentrated his thoughts, and continued to walk.

   I need Ravenclaw's Chambers...I need Ravenclaw's Chambers...I need to enter Ravenclaw's Chambers.

   After walking by three times, Albert opened his eyes again.

  The door appeared!

   "Successful!"

  Albert felt his heart beat a few beats faster. After looking around to make sure there was no one around, he quickly opened the door and walked into the Room of Response.

  There is indeed a secret room inside the door, a narrow secret room without windows.

   What caught Albert's eyes was a wooden table, an armchair, and... a vertical banner with a Ravenclaw eagle hanging on the wall in front of him.

   Other than that, there's nothing... so clean it's annoying.

  Albert stepped forward and lifted up the vertical banner with the Ravenclaw eagle, looked at the solid wall, and murmured: "Well, it is indeed the 'Ravenclaw's Chamber of Secrets', you are so cruel!"

   "It's not a secret room, so..."

  Albert left the Room of Requirement, looked at the gradually disappearing door, frowned again, and strode away.

   I need you to become a Ravenclaw Vault... a Ravenclaw Vault... a Ravenclaw Vault.

   Albert opened his eyes again and found that the door appeared again.

When Albert walked into Ravenclaw's treasure house, he found that it was a bit like the treasure house he entered last time. It was filled with items hidden by former Ravenclaw students, such as old books, newspapers, boots , a worn broom, an old robe...

  Treasure house? Are you sure this is not the place to dump garbage? Or is the House of Requirement wrong about the "treasure house"?

  The corner of Albert's mouth twitched. He knew he had failed, so he didn't try to search, but obediently withdrew from this so-called Ravenclaw treasure house.

  After three failures, Albert was a little discouraged, and expressed doubts that Ravenclaw's secret treasure was really in the Room of Requirement.

  If the secret treasure of Ravenclaw is really here, why is there no related task on the panel?

  Just as Albert was about to leave, he noticed a new task popped up on his task panel.

  Find Ravenclaw's treasury of knowledge.

  You're keenly aware of where Ravenclaw's legacy lies, so why not try to tap into Ravenclaw's treasury of lore?

   Reward: Unknown.

   Another unknown reward.

   But, is Ravenclaw's treasury called the treasury of knowledge?

  This name is quite appropriate.

  However, when Albert tried to enter the treasure house of knowledge, he still failed.

  Albert was a little dazed immediately, this can still fail, the task prompt is fake!

   In the following time, Albert continued to try, what Ravenclaw's room, what Ravenclaw's private library.

Well, the private library was successfully entered. It is a circular room. There is only a round table and an armchair in the room. The surrounding walls are all covered by curved bookshelves, and the skylight above the head is full of sunlight. , but... the task was not completed.

  So, this is not the so-called treasure trove of knowledge at all.

  If even a library is not a treasure house of knowledge, then what can be called a treasure house of knowledge?

  Albert was a little confused immediately. He sat on the armchair, put his feet on the table, and thought about the way to enter the treasure house of knowledge.

   "Could it be that my guess was wrong from the beginning?" Albert sighed lightly. Since the task on the panel can be activated, it means that Ravenclaw's treasure house of knowledge is in the Room of Requirement.

  Maybe, he should ask a Ravenclaw student if there are any legends about Ravenclaw.

When Albert was about to leave the Room of Requirement, he happened to catch a glimpse of an old wooden board with an eagle-shaped bronze door knocker, and beside it was written Ravenclaw's famous quote: Extraordinary ingenuity is the greatest wealth of human beings .

   Could it be that only Ravenclaw students can find the so-called treasure house of knowledge?

   Albert suddenly remembered something, Ravenclaw's eagle-shaped bronze door knocker:

   When you knock on the door, the eagle ring will ask you a question.

   If you can answer correctly, you will be allowed in.

   In the past thousand years, no one but a Ravenclaw student has been able to pass this simple barrier.

   Albert walked to the eagle-shaped bronze door knocker, raised his hand and tapped lightly on the wooden board twice.

  The next moment, something unexpected happened. The eagle-shaped bronze door knocker in front of him actually asked a question.

  (end of this chapter)