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Chapter 9 Bronze Door Knockers and Piano Songs (4,000-character Chapter) (Revised)

Accompanied by the house elf Burley, although Elena was particularly interested in the legendary house of the house where the monster stick beats Sabanaba on the eighth floor of the castle, she could only suppress her curiosity and visit the normal road in disappointment.

If you can fool your previous understanding of the magic world with her past experience, then it would be too much for a little girl who had never been to Hogwarts to find such a place that most students might not know until graduation.

Similarly, there is also the senior bathroom located on the sixth floor of the castle, in the fourth door to the left of the statue of the Mutton Poris.

A luxurious chandelier with candles casts a warm soft light into the room. Each item is made of snow-white marble, including a large bathhouse located in the middle of the room and trapped into the ground, which is like a rectangular swimming pool. There are about a hundred golden faucets around the bathhouse, and each faucet handle is inlaid with a different color of gemstone. There is also a diving board. Snow-white linen curtains are hung on the windows; a pile of soft white towels are placed in a corner.

As a girl, in Elena's imagination, the most ideal and luxurious bathroom template is roughly like this.

You should know that when she was in college in her previous life, the crazy school-designed bathroom was actually a check-in and water supply. One card could only last for fifteen minutes - can you imagine the desolation of a hand covered in white bubbles tremblingly stretching out the door and using the student card to renew the time in the cold winter?!

It was not until this time that Elena was depressed to realize a problem that if it weren't for the students of Hogwarts, she wouldn't have been able to visit many secret rooms full of magic.

Whether it is the offices of each teacher, Felch's office, or the library where 100,300 magic books are stored, they are blocked by magic and cannot enter freely. This makes Elena's idea of ​​borrowing some small snacks from a mixed-race prince, or seeing the banned toys of the naughty kids in the magic world cannot be realized.

Oh no, the door of Professor McGonagall's office, located on the second floor of the castle, above the marble staircase in the foyer, was hidden. But Elena was still very rational and did not knock on the door - who knew whether this dangerous Professor McGonagall would suddenly remember what had happened before and take the opportunity to take revenge.

The empty classroom has no meaning to visit. After all, except for the Potion Classroom, in Elena's opinion, most classrooms seem to be no different. They are all wooden podiums and a dozen empty tables and chairs.

Of course, even so, Elena was already satisfied.

Because even though all the ghosts did not appear, the entire Hogwarts Castle was still full of magical power, everything seemed to be moving constantly, people in the portrait kept visiting each other, and the stairs would move.

During the entire tour, what made Elena happiest was the Lavenclaw common room located on the west side of the castle, above the Lavenclaw Tower, to be precise, the cute eagle-shaped bronze door knocker.

Just as the philosophy followed by the founder of the college, Royna Ravenclaw, the door to the Ravenclaw lounge does not require passwords like other colleges. Anyone who can answer the right questions can enter at will.

Elena stood at the smooth wooden door and knocked on the door. The eagle beak on the bronze door knocker opened and asked in a gentle voice, "Which one is fire or phoenix?"

It seems that there are not too many questions. Elena was lucky enough to draw the original title in the original work, "This is a cycle, no starting point."

"The answer is correct." After the voice was said, the door creaked and opened automatically.

However, Elena, who answered correctly, did not choose to rush into it.

"Dear door knocker, how do you make sure that the answers you have prepared are the only correct answers to your questions?"

Elena narrowed her eyes cutely and shrugged at the eagle-shaped door knocker, "You know, language and words are the most likely to produce multiple meanings, and all common sayings may be given new meanings at any time."

“…”

The eagle opened its mouth and did not make any sound, but she vaguely felt that there seemed to be a magic power looking at her from the door knocker in front of her. Obviously, the magic door knocker had her own consciousness, just like the branch hat.

Since you come to Hogwarts, you have to leave some traces, otherwise it will be boring.

The silver-haired little luoli smiled badly and said in a very tempting tone, "As far as I know, many mathematical problems, usually at the basic level, have the only objective solution."

"Mathematical problems? Simple calculations cannot test a student's wisdom." The voice of the eagle-shaped door knocker was obviously a little confused.

"What about that?"

Elena recalled a little and said slowly in an extremely excited tone, "Please lock the chicken and rabbit in the same cage, count from the top, have thirty-five heads, and from the bottom, have ninety-four legs. How many chickens and rabbits are there in each cage?"

After a pause, the silver-haired little luoli continued to add, "And, you only need to simply change a few numbers to extend infinitely many interesting questions like this."

“…”

After the eagle-shaped door knocker was silent for a few seconds, he nodded slightly, "What you said makes sense, I have to think about it carefully. Thank you."

After saying that, the door knocker did not speak anymore and turned into the original bronze sculpture again.

It actually succeeded!

Elena waved her small fist secretly and turned around and left happily.

"Berley, I think it's almost done, let's go back."

May God bless the students of Ravenclaw this year. However, as long as they are patient enough, they can still count the correct results one by one.

…………

Soon, Elena, with a little unknown little joy, returned to the eighth floor of the castle with the house elf Burley.

"Next, I'll go see Dumbledore."

Elena took a deep breath, looked at the stairs beside the huge stone beast, and was about to walk up.

Suddenly I found that at the end of the corridor, there seemed to be a classroom that I had never been in before. It seemed that I had accidentally ignored it when I turned around and left.

Elena looked ahead curiously and carefully. In her impression, there should be no other special scenes on this floor except for the house that meets the request.

Wait, is it possible that you will be able to meet your request?! The silver-haired little luoli's eyes suddenly lit up and she asked with interest.

"Berley, where is that? Is it..."

"That..."

Burley, who was walking behind Elena, looked up, looked in the direction of the girl's arm, and replied in a plain tone, "It seems like a classroom that has been abandoned and deactivated."

"No, I didn't see it just now."

Elena shook her head seriously, told herself to herself, and ran towards the classroom without hesitation.

"Hey? Alas..."

The silver-haired little luoli pushed open the door with hope, looked inside carefully, and her little face suddenly collapsed, and she sighed.

As Burley said, this is indeed an abandoned classroom.

Wooden desks and chairs were piled up in a mess at the back of the classroom. Judging from the dusty empty bottles and wooden racks, it seemed that this place was once regarded as a classroom such as potions or herbal medicine.

"Well, what is that?"

Elena glanced at her last moment and was about to turn around and leave, but her eyes suddenly stopped.

Right in front of the classroom, there is a strangely shaped dark grand piano.

Unlike the messy behind the classroom, judging from the shiny piano cover, someone should come here regularly to play or take care of this expensive piano.

"I didn't expect that there would be a professor in Hogwarts who loves piano? This is something that was not mentioned in the original work." Elena searched in her memory and did not remember that any professor in Hogwarts had this interest.

Standing at the door, Elena happened to be able to see the logo on the side of the piano - STEINWAY &SONS - Logically speaking, in this era, it should only be seen in Germany and the United States, one of the top pianos in the world.

Each Stanway handmade piano is no less attractive to drugs for most piano enthusiasts. From Tokyo to New York, all major concert halls around the world use Stanway grand pianos.

Elena couldn't help but play her fingers in the air a few times. She was engaged in the financial industry in her previous life, and her usual way to relieve stress was to play the piano. However, she often had a sky-high price of Stanway pianos, and she just glanced at them a few times at the concert.

After a moment of silence, Elena suddenly remembered that if she had to leave Hogwarts forever later, there was something very memorable that had not been done.

"Can I play a song with this piano? Then take me to see Professor Dumbledore."

The girl turned her head and asked at Burley, the house elf behind her.

"I think there should be no problem, ma'am." Burley replied gracefully, raising his arm to lead the piano. "Professor Dumbledore has instructed you to visit most of the public areas of the entire college, which also includes touch and use."

"That's it...thank you."

Elena nodded, and did not sit directly in front of the piano, but walked to the open window first, looking out through the window, the sparkling lake water of Hogwarts, the quaint tower of the castle, and the corridor covered with vines by the lake... Her face showed an angel-like innocent and satisfied smile, even Burley couldn't help but lose his mind for a few seconds under this bright smile.

Opening the cover of the piano, her butt was one-third of the leather sofa stool. Elena stood up, put her feet near the pedal, took a deep breath, and her tender white fingers, like scallions, gently slid over the black and white piano keys. The ding-dong sound of the cold steel balls sprinkled on the ice echoed in the classroom.

I finally came to Hogwarts. If I didn’t have the classic “Hedwig’s Theme” song, I always felt that something was missing.

After all, it would be perfect to use this theme song that has been throughout the entire Harry Potter film series for seventeen years as the end of her Hogwarts journey.

The difficulty of the song "Hedwig's Theme" is not low. After self-charge, Elena, who has never touched the piano again, thought she could not complete the difficult score afterwards.

However, with the leaping of her fingers, a magical magic seemed to be generated in the castle to support her to continue playing, so that in the second half of the song, Elena even closed her eyes and jumped smoothly on the black and white keys with the rhythm.

The whole five and a half minutes of the song was played flawlessly. She felt as if she had transformed into a bird, passing through the calm lake, passing through the stone walls covered with vines, and hovering between the towers, grasslands, and squares of Hogwarts.

As the last sound on the keys dissipated in the air, Elena breathed a sigh of relief, feeling that this was the most perfect performance in her life.

Before she could carefully savor the melody that was still hovering in her ears, a gentle applause rang out from behind her.

"I seemed to see the sparks bursting out from the potion jar."

Elena stood up in panic as if she had woken up from a dream, and the stool rubbed against the wooden floor.

Behind her, an old man wearing a blue wizard robe, tall and thin, with long silver beard and a pair of bright blue eyes appeared at the door of the classroom at some point, applauding in anger.

“What’s the name of this song?”

Albus Dumbledore asked curiously, for some reason, when he heard this song, he suddenly had a wonderful feeling--the child in front of him, she was born to belong to Hogwarts.

"Hedwig's Theme, a song that starts with dreams and miracles. Thank you for your piano, Professor Dumbledore."

"Oh. To be precise, I'm not good at piano. This is just for a friend to keep it temporarily." Dumbledore blinked flexibly, and his half-moon glasses showed a naughty look. "If you like, you can come here to play anytime, and I promise to keep the secret for you."

Elena stood up and had a figure on the back of the piano cover, which looked like a triangular eye, with a vertical line in the middle of her pupils. When she saw this pattern, she already understood who the real owner of the piano was.

Looking around reluctantly, Elena showed a relieved smile, it was time to say goodbye.

She looked at the world's greatest white wizard with calm eyes, shook her head and said softly, "I'm sorry."

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Almost finished writing~~~ Fortunately, I caught up. I stayed at home and went to seclusion tomorrow to write~~~~Yeah~~
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