Chapter 12: Ravenclaw Dormitory

"Hey, John."

After the banquet started, everyone started to eat, and the atmosphere of the Great Hall became active again.

Titus hugged a plate of chicken legs and came to the Eagle House table side, and even sat directly beside John.

"Didn't we agree to go to the Badger House together? Why did you run to the Eagle House by yourself?"

Titus said to John with dissatisfaction while eating chicken legs.

"Ah? Did we agree?"

"I gave you a wink on the stage, didn't you nod!"

Titus looked at John's attitude of not recognizing people after pulling up his pants and questioned him immediately.

?

"You call that agreeing?"

John had a black question mark face.

"If not, why did you nod?" Titus had a tone of "what else."

"I thought that was just a very ordinary eye contact, without any meaning."

John also responded as a matter of course.

"......"

"Traitor!"

Titus was silent for a moment and said fiercely.

But saying is saying, he still sat beside John, eating his chicken legs sullenly.

Looking at this little fatty who had been chattering with him all the way, he was in a bad mood. John was also helpless, picked up a chicken leg, and put it on his plate.

"I was wrong, okay? Next time, I will definitely be in the same college as you."

Seeing John admit his mistake and even get him a chicken leg, the little fatty finally revealed a silly smile.

"Then it's a deal. Next time, you must be assigned to our Badger House."

After saying that, he picked up the plate and left.

Halfway there, Titus was stunned.

That's not right. Where is the next time? In the next life?

After the banquet ended, the Eagle House prefect Robert took their Eagle House new students to leave the table first and head to their common room.

The Ravenclaw common room is in a tower on the west side of the castle, also said to be the Ravenclaw Tower.

They followed the prefect's footsteps out of the Great Hall and came to the place where they had seen the rotating staircase in the book.

These stairs would change direction from time to time, and all around were dense portrait murals. The characters in these paintings could all talk and move.

Every new student was shocked by the scene in front of them.

Following the pace of prefect Robert, they walked toward the right staircase, all the way up, then turned into the castle corridor, and arrived at Ravenclaw Tower all the way.

Everyone stopped in front of a huge bronze eagle-shaped door.

"This is the entrance to the Ravenclaw common room."

"Unlike other colleges, we don't need a password to enter, but we need to answer the bronze eagle's question."

"Of course, you don't need to answer one by one in line. Just one of you needs to answer."

"Now go up and experience it."

After saying that, prefect Robert gave up the position at the gate, letting these new students go up to experience it.

When they approached the bronze eagle, the eagle's eyes shone.

"If a prophecy must be true, does the warning of the prophecy instead contribute to the prophecy coming true?"

The bronze eagle made a low voice.

Hearing this question, John started to think, but he wasn't thinking about this question.

Instead, he was thinking, this kind of philosophical question doesn't seem to have a unique answer, right? Is it enough to just answer "yes" or "no"?

Anyway, the bronze eagle didn't ask for an explanation.

Thinking of this, John just wanted to try, but another little eagle spoke ahead of time.

"If the prophecy is necessarily true, then it will happen regardless of whether it is warned or not, so it is not the warning of the prophecy that contributes to the prophecy coming true."

After the words fell, the bronze eagle didn't answer whether it was right or wrong. After a muffled sound, the bronze eagle door slowly opened, revealing the passage to enter the common room.

Well, looking at this posture, this way of entering the door is estimated to be just to keep the little eagles rational and thoughtful at all times.

By the way, exercise their thinking ability and logical ability from time to time, and even release unsolved mysteries to see if any geniuses can answer them?

Forget it, wait until the next time I come back, I'll try it.

Everything in this school made John very curious, and he had already started looking forward to his future learning career.

The Ravenclaw common room is at the top of the tower, with several layers of dormitories, as well as two layers of common rest areas.

The rest area is circular, with some vase decorations, sofas, tables, and chairs. Flags of the Eagle House were hung everywhere. There was also a statue embedded in the wall at the entrance of the hall staircase.

And these ring-shaped walls were all windows, with quite a few astronomical telescopes and planetariums set up by the windows.

There was also a small observatory at the top of the tower.

Although he hadn't seen the decorations of other common rooms, John felt that Ravenclaw's common room should be considered top-notch.

Arriving at the assigned dormitory, a four-person room, the room was quite large, with two bunk beds, covered with blue starry curtains, four large desks and chairs, and a huge star map carpet spread in the middle of the large empty space.

In the corner, there were some old books, which might have been left by former seniors.

Because there weren't many people assigned to the Eagle House this year, there were only six boys including John, so they were in a three-person dormitory, all on the same floor, which was convenient for visiting each other at any time.

After packing up the luggage and beds, it was almost ten o'clock. There were morning classes tomorrow, so they should sleep.

However, the new students were in a very excited state, so it wasn't easy to fall asleep.

John got to know the other two roommates simply, and they sat on the ground and started chatting. They were all the same age, so there weren't so many twists and turns.

"John, I heard that when you were on the train today, you fought the Dementor for three hundred rounds?"

The speaker was a blonde boy named Ryan Gray.

"Ah, the rumor I heard is that John beat the Dementor until it ran around?"

Another sturdier curly-haired Ethan Holder asked with a strange face.

"Is there a possibility that the person who was beaten and crawling around was me..."

John, hearing these rumors that were becoming more and more outrageous, said speechlessly.

"Besides, it only stopped for less than five minutes, so where did the three hundred rounds come from."

"I heard someone screaming, so I went over to take a look. Seeing that shadow was black, I thought it was some kind of robber, so I went up and knocked it down. As a result, who knew it was a Dementor."

"Later, if it weren't for Professor Lupin arriving in time, I would have been pure food."

John simply retold the scene at that time. Although he didn't play any role, Ryan and Ethan were still very impressed by John's courage to go up and save people in that situation.

"You are so brave, maybe you should have been assigned to Gryffindor."

Ryan said with admiration.

"... The Sorting Hat said that wasn't brave, but reckless..."

Ryan and Ethan were stunned, and they all laughed loudly. What the Sorting Hat said didn't seem wrong.

Ryan was from a pure-blood family, so he detected magical talent when he was very young, and his understanding of the wizarding world was far more than Ethan and John.

Under his parents' teaching, he also learned some simple spells. For example, Lumos, Levitation Charm, these spells learned in the first year, he had learned in advance and showed them to both of them.

Ethan was a half-blood, so his understanding of the wizarding world was also more than John's, but only a little more. After all, he also knew many things only after detecting magical talent.

They were assigned to the Eagle House, naturally because they had some common characteristics, that is, curiosity.

Ryan suggested that they could explore this mysterious castle together when they had time.

And as John, who had also attended boarding school in his previous life and even climbed over the wall to go online at night, had a flash of inspiration at this time and raised a finger.

"Eh!"

"How about we have a night tour of the castle tonight." ===== CHAPTER 13 =====