Study Days at Hogwarts

  Chapter 226 What about knowledge?

   After finishing the riddle bet with Katrina, Albert did not go to the stadium to watch the Quidditch match between Gryffindor and Ravenclaw, but went directly to the Room of Requirement on the eighth floor. He planned to record the hundred riddles and answers proposed by Eagle Ring first, so as not to forget these things after a while.

  Fast memory cannot last long, unless Albert is often questioned by the eagle ring like Ravenclaw's students, otherwise it is impossible to remember the general content after a long time.

  As the saying goes, a good memory is not as good as a bad pen.

   This motto in my previous life is still very reasonable.

   It took Albert a lot of time to organize and record the hundred riddles and answers. By the time he put down his pen and stretched himself, it was already past twelve noon.

  Every Quidditch game, unless it ends early, a large group of people will basically skip lunch until the end of the game.

   As for dinner?

   Quidditch matches rarely last into the night, how bad must two Seekers be before neither can catch the Snitch within a few hours?

   Matches that last all day are only a minority after all.

   Albert put away his notebook, reached out and rubbed the muscles on his cheeks, and turned his gaze to the eagle ring on the old wooden board in the corner of the library. He took a deep breath, raised his hand and tapped twice on the wooden board, Eagle Ring spoke out a riddle:

  You are not in the past and future, now I can see you, where are you?

   "In the mirror." Albert replied immediately.

   "It makes sense." After Eagle Ring finished speaking, a door opened out of thin air.

   "Successful!"

   Albert shook his fist excitedly, raised his wand and walked into the door. He found himself in a great circular marble chamber, lit by burning blue torches.

   "Eternal fire?" Albert looked at the torch on the wall. At this moment, he suddenly had the urge to take a torch down and study it.

   "Where is the treasure of Ravenclaw's knowledge?" Albert murmured.

   This is a secret room without windows, the inside is very empty, in line with the so-called barren walls.

   There is nothing here, there are some strange characters carved on the marble walls.

   "Ancient runes?"

  Actually, the moment Albert entered this secret room, he had already noticed the ancient rune on the wall.

  No way, apart from the eternal fire here, only the ancient rune on the wall can attract Albert's attention. He walked towards the wall, stretched out his hand and brushed over the engraved marks on the wall, and began to translate the actual content of the ancient runes seriously.

  The ancient runes that Professors Broad and Smith showed him were indeed copied from here.

  However, in Albert's memory, the script used by wizards a thousand years ago should be the ancient rune. English, a script borrowed from Latin, was introduced to England later.

  Then... I shouldn't read the words on the wall from the perspective of translation, does it exist just to record something?

   Or are there any secrets hidden in the ancient runes?

  It took Albert a full half an hour to read the ancient runes carved on the wall in front of him, and to copy them in his notebook.

  The text on the wall probably talks about the establishment of Hogwarts, which is similar to the document records Albert saw in the library.

   Originally, Hogwarts was established to protect wizards from being persecuted.

   After all, Muggles are afraid of magic, and they persecute wizards for fear of magic, and to make matters worse, a thousand years ago, during the Dark Middle Ages, Britain was in the horrors of the Viking Age.

It can be seen from the fact that the castle where Hogwarts is located is located on a hill by the lake, and the exact location of the school cannot be plotted. It can be seen that when the Big Four established Hogwarts, they had already considered that there might be enemies. To attack Hogwarts, so a series of defensive measures were set up in the castle.

  Albert has not forgotten that the armor and knight statues of Hogwarts Castle can be driven by spells when necessary. This means that an army of hundreds or thousands who are not afraid of death, combined with the castle's terrain and defensive measures, at that time, even the notorious Vikings could not capture Hogwarts Castle.

  However, these long-known Hogwarts histories are not what Albert wants. There should be more than this in Ravenclaw's knowledge treasure house!

asshole!

  At least, you have to leave me some books, or other things.

   Was it emptied by others?

  Albert glanced at the task of "Finding Ravenclaw's Treasure of Knowledge" on the task panel, but he did not complete it.

   Could it be that this is not Ravenclaw's treasure trove of knowledge?

   Or is there any secret hidden in this secret room?

  Albert went around the secret room again. Apart from the runes on the wall, there was really nothing else.

  However, Albert made some new discoveries.

   Something like a puzzle. As for why it is called a puzzle? That's because the rune symbols on it were scattered.

  Albert felt that this might be a door, or something else, but he still couldn't understand it, it should be said that he couldn't understand it:

  Excellent ingenuity is the greatest wealth of human beings.

Then what?

  Albert pieced together its scattered runes and read them out with ancient runes.

  He felt that something was vaguely missing. As for what was missing, Albert himself couldn't tell.

  If this is a treasure trove of knowledge, what kind of knowledge does it hide?

  Albert couldn't figure it out for a moment. He felt that it must not be the ancient rune, because it was the text used in that era, and it certainly would not be the history of Hogwarts on the wall. So, what is left here?

   That sentence: Extraordinary ingenuity is the greatest wealth of human beings?

   Or eternal fire on the walls?

Albert took down a handful of Eternal Fire from the wall, put it in front of him, and looked it over carefully. It was somewhat similar to the Olympic flame, and there were indeed some ancient runes engraved on it. The difference in rings is not really that big.

  However, the effects of these ancient runes are quite surprising.

  Albert knew that this might be the power of magic words.

   Just, does this have anything to do with the repository of knowledge?

  If it is really related, then...what secrets are hidden in the treasure house of knowledge?

  Albert felt a headache. He really couldn't figure out what secrets were hidden here.

   "Forget it, write this down first!" Albert put the eternal fire back, and Professor Broad and Professor Smith probably didn't find the secret in the secret room.

  As for, a certain wizard who discovered the secret here took away the things that were originally placed in this secret room?

   This possibility should not be great.

  (end of this chapter)