Study Days at Hogwarts

  Chapter 245 Chance and Inevitability

  In the last week of the semester, the sky suddenly cleared up. The wind and snow that had lasted for several days seemed to be wiped away by a pair of invisible hands. The winter sun shined on the round table in front of the bed through the window covered with morning frost.

   Albert looked at the clear sky, and his heart became better. Holding back a yawn, he sat back in the armchair and read through the eagle ring riddle recorded last time by the sunlight outside the window. Albert is going to take advantage of everyone's spare time to go to Hogsmeade Village to complete the "Greedy Predator" task on the task panel, and try to answer more than a hundred eagle ring riddles, which is really not enough for Albert now. What a problem.

  Especially after drinking Buffy Brain Refreshing Potion, completing the task of "opening the brain" and gaining new skills and active thinking.

  Active thinking is another wonderful skill. Unlike other skills, it cannot be upgraded.

Yes, active thinking cannot be upgraded. To a certain extent, this is a tasteless thing, but it is undeniable that after getting active thinking, Albert's brain has indeed become more flexible, and his instant memory is super strong. Getting a better sense of smell is like taking a small dose of Buffy's brain booster.

  Perhaps, the so-called genius is like this!

  Albert always felt that one day, this fake genius of himself might be able to accumulate skills and become a real genius.

   "You really don't want to go to Hogsmeade with us?" Fred asked again. He felt that if the foursome lacked one person, they would lack a lot of fun.

   "No, I have some other things to do today, and I have two letters to write." Albert thought for a while and said: "When you come back, bring me a bottle of butterbeer and the candy on the list."

   "Okay, see you this afternoon, we'll bring you back a bunch of candies!" After greeting Albert, Lee Jordan began to count the coins in his purse.

   "There's more shit!" George said suddenly.

   "Thank you, I don't need that thing." Albert said angrily.

   "But we know who needs it!" Fred winked at Albert mischievously.

   "Who? Are you?" Albert asked back.

"No, it's Peeves. It doesn't have a good relationship with Filch. We don't mind providing Peeves with a few big dung eggs to make it trouble Filch!" George said mischievously: "We Already made an appointment with Peeves."

   "Why did you guys confront Filch again?" Albert frowned. Although he didn't like Filch, he would never take the initiative to make trouble for him.

"It happened a few days ago. The last time I finished Quidditch practice, I was met by Filch, and I was called to the office. The charge was to desecrate the castle." Fred had an unconcealable disgust on his face, and he couldn't help it. , It's fine to practice in the wind and snow, but when you come back, you will be troubled by others, how can you feel happy in your heart.

   "This crime is quite common." Albert nodded. The main reason is that Filch doesn't know magic, so cleaning up muddy footprints is very troublesome. If Filch was a wizard, it would only take three seconds at most.

   Unfortunately, he is not.

   "Peves promised us that he would send Filch some dung bombs at Christmas." Fred said cheerfully, "Okay, see you later."

  The three hurried to the secret passage behind the mirror on the fifth floor, and Albert also set off for the Room of Requirement.

   After skilfully entering the treasure house of Ravenclaw knowledge in the Room of Requirement, he moved an armchair for himself and sat in front of the eagle-shaped bronze door knocker, raising his hand and tapping lightly on the wooden board twice.

  The next moment, the eagle-shaped bronze door knocker asked:

  Two pairs of father and son were fishing together, each caught one fish, and a total of three fish were caught, why?

   "Grandpa, father and son, there are exactly two pairs of father and son, and three fish." Albert answered this riddle easily without much thought.

   "Makes sense."

In fact, Albert has heard many riddles about the eagle-shaped bronze door knocker before. The difficulty is not too high, and the "Greedy Predator" mission is not continuous. Now you only need to answer 96 more riddles to complete the mission. .

   "The difficulty is easier than I thought." Albert murmured. He raised his hand and continued to knock on the door to answer the riddles of the eagle-shaped bronze door knocker. He easily answered one question after another correctly. It took about half an hour and he had answered more than 50 questions correctly. These riddles basically did not cause him any trouble. .

Last time, Albert had firmly memorized Katrina's 100 riddles and answers. It's really thanks to Katrina. Otherwise, I wouldn't be able to answer them so easily now. She is such a good person. !

   Albert sent Katrina a good person card in his heart.

Just when Albert was about to continue answering the riddle, the door of the Room of Requirement was suddenly opened. When he realized that someone had broken in, Albert was also taken aback. He almost instinctively pulled out his wand and pointed at the door. By.

   "It's you, you scared me." Albert put away his wand and muttered.

   "What are you doing here?" Isobel glanced at Albert's wand, not paying attention at all, but curious why Albert appeared here.

  Although Isobel also knew that Albert knew about Ravenclaw's Chamber of Secrets, it still felt very strange to meet him in such a place.

   "What are you doing? Guessing riddles!" Albert pointed to the eagle-shaped bronze door knocker and said, "I'm challenging my limits to see if I can guess a hundred riddles right in one go."

  Isobel's eyes became weird when he heard this, as if he was looking at some kind of rare creature.

   "Interesting?" She said slowly.

   "Interesting." Albert nodded. This is related to panel tasks, how could it be boring?

   "By the way, what are you doing here?" Albert changed the subject.

   "Study Ravenclaw's Chamber of Secrets and find a way to open it." Isobel's answer was almost the same as Albert's guess, and it was undoubtedly for the treasure house of knowledge.

   "Are there any latest research results?" Albert asked curiously.

   "Yes." Isobel's answer was a bit unexpected to Albert, but he didn't care too much, and just asked casually, "What is it?"

   "Let's go in and talk about it." Isobel didn't tell Albert directly.

   "You go in first, I plan to continue to challenge the riddle!" Albert signaled Isobel to enter the secret room.

   "You're not curious at all." Isobel looked at Albert in surprise. She regretted teaching him Occlumency, and now she can't understand the person in front of her.

"Curiosity. However, don't be in a hurry. You won't run away, and it's the same if you ask later. I still have this patience." Albert was really not in a hurry, first put the "greedy predator" "Let's talk about the mission reward once we get it."

  As for the new discovery that Isobel said, he really didn't pay much attention to it. After all, he also has his own new discovery. By the way, there is also the matter of Professor Smith. Maybe he can get some information from Isobel.

  (end of this chapter)