Study Days at Hogwarts

  Chapter 227 Insider

   Empathy.

  If you are the designer of Ravenclaw's knowledge treasure house, you will naturally hope that more students can gain knowledge from it, and there will be nothing left in the treasure house that can be easily taken away.

   There is no guarantee that the students found here will all be of high character.

  Then, the real treasure must still be in that secret room.

   But what about things?

   Albert guessed that he must have hidden it.

   Ravenclaw selects smart students through screening. The first hurdle is the eagle ring, and only those who answer the riddles are eligible to enter, so why can't there be a second or even a third hurdle?

   There should be a secret door in the secret room, or something like that, but what would be the key to open it?

   Albert was thinking about problems while eating, tapping his fork lightly on the plate, thinking carefully about clues that he might have missed.

  There are only two things in the chamber of secrets, the eternal fire: the ancient fire of immortals, and the ancient runes.

   What if the eternal fire was used for lighting?

  Then the possibility lies in the ancient runes.

  Professors Broad and Smith probably also had such doubts, so they asked themselves to translate those things.

  However, the previous wizards used ancient runes.

  What did I overlook?

   Albert felt as if he had touched something.

  What is so special about ancient runes?

  By the way, runes are magical words.

   There is also the phrase that extraordinary ingenuity is the greatest wealth of human beings, and perhaps this is the key to unlocking the secret door.

  However, it is not easy to reach that level. Albert once guessed that when the magic text skill reaches the third level, he may be able to get in touch with that level initially.

  If that's the case...

  Albert was just about to open the skill panel when a voice suddenly sounded in his ears. It was the house elf Kara, who looked at him anxiously.

   "Carla, what's the matter?" Albert asked looking up.

   "Sir, don't these foods meet your appetite?" Kara asked slightly uneasy.

   "No, it's delicious, I'm just thinking about it." Albert's eyes fell on the dinner plate in front of him, and he basically didn't eat much food, so it's no wonder the house elf would say that.

   As he spoke, he wiped out most of the food in two or three bites.

  Carla was relieved when he heard Albert's answer, and smiled at him.

  However, being interrupted by the house elf, Albert stopped checking his skills in a hurry. He finished his food in a hurry, got up and left the kitchen.

  The castle is still empty, and the Quidditch match is not over yet.

  It's already three thirty in the afternoon.

  Albert put away his pocket watch, walked to the window next to him, and looked out of the castle through the glass. The heavy rain had stopped.

   "Do you want to go?"

  He hesitated for a moment, but walked towards the Quidditch pitch alone.

Due to the rain, the road was muddy. As soon as he approached the Quidditch pitch, Albert could feel a lively atmosphere rushing towards his face. He opened the door and walked quietly along the stairs. His eyes fell on On the several figures intertwined above.

   After a while, Lee Jordan shouted from a distance, "Gryffindor scored, the current score is 140:180, and Ravenclaw is temporarily leading."

   The two sides actually fell into a tug of war.

   However, the difference in points is not that big, as long as Charlie can catch the Snitch, Gryffindor wins.

   "I thought you wouldn't come to the game."

  Albert turned his head and looked in the direction of the sound. It was Isobel, who was walking this way, holding a pair of binoculars in her hand.

"Um."

   Albert responded and turned his gaze back to the top of the court.

   "It seems that you also discovered that secret." Isobel was not angry because of Albert's attitude, but just said something unpredictable.

   Albert suddenly turned his head and stared at Isobel.

   "You used Legilimency on me? No..." Albert didn't think that Isobel could break through her Occlumency. Even if she really used Legilimency on herself, she couldn't be unaware.

   So, that means... she knew about that?

   "What secret." Albert pretended not to understand.

  Isobel glanced at Albert and didn't answer.

   "Are you referring to the Room of Requirement?" Albert would not silence the two parties, because that would mean that it would be difficult for him to obtain other information.

   "En." Isobel nodded subtly.

   "I didn't find what I wanted." Albert frowned. He felt that Isobel could provide him with some information.

   "No, I just found relevant records in the literature."

   "Don't say you haven't been in?" Albert frowned.

   "My ancient rune is not as good as you!" Isobel glanced at Albert and said lightly. "It is very difficult for me to understand the ancient runes in there."

"Perhaps, Ravenclaw never thought that runes will eventually become a thing of the past!" Albert suddenly said with emotion. He felt that the knowledge in the knowledge treasure house was reserved for students. After all, only students and professors could It is possible to be at Hogwarts, and discover its secrets.

   "It seems that you have nothing to gain!" Isobel's tone was filled with disappointment that could not be concealed.

   "Where did you know that secret?" Albert asked curiously.

"And you?"

  The two sides fell silent again.

In the end, the strange atmosphere was broken by the cheers from the field. Seekers from both sides were fighting for the Snitch. The audience on the field all stood up, and their eyes fell on this competition. Whoever catches the Snitch will win for their own. The team brings the win.

  However, there seemed to be a force in the dark that kept the game going. While the two Seekers were fighting each other, the Snitch actually slipped away again.

  The people who were already preparing to cheer for the winners could only turn all their emotions into boos of dissatisfaction.

   "Professor Broad and Professor Smith came to Hogwarts for it?" Albert felt that Isobel should know something. She knew these two professors and had a close relationship.

   "You don't know?" Isobel put down his binoculars and looked at Albert with a strange tone in his tone.

"what do you know?"

   "Nothing." Isobel didn't seem to intend to answer Albert's question.

   Albert looked deeply at Isobel, and he found that he couldn't see through the guy in front of him.

   Is there anything that I didn't notice?

   "You mean an invitation to join a certain loose organization?" Albert thought of the invitation at Easter last year and the circle that Dagworth said.

   "You will know later." Isobel didn't answer, or she was not going to answer, she turned and left.

   "Guess right? At least part of the guess is right." Albert looked at Isobel's leaving back and couldn't help muttering, "She really is a woman full of secrets."

  (end of this chapter)