Chapter 586: Peeling off the cocoon

In the interview room transformed by the Room of Requirement, the two people were still chatting.

Spring has not yet arrived, but the sun is already warm and pouring in through the glass window conjured by the Room of Requirement. The soft light clearly illuminates the thin down on Hermione's lips.

"Then did you find that room?" Suer sat up straight and became a little interested. He understood Hermione's character. She would not come to him to talk about this matter before fully investigating it.

"Of course." Hermione smiled proudly. "I asked a lot of ghosts, including Professor Binns."

As she spoke, Hermione took out a piece of parchment that looked very ancient from the satchel beside her. She carefully unfolded the parchment. The parchment was so large that it covered the entire small coffee table in front of them. The pure black ink on it has been oxidized and faded into emerald color due to the passage of time. Countless combinations of lines outline the entire castle, and thin words indicate various parts of the castle.

Sur squinted his eyes and looked over, comparing it with the uses of each room in his mind's memory. In fact, the positions of the rooms on this map have changed a lot, and many of them no longer correspond to what he remembered, such as the current black magic. Defense is taught on the fourth floor, but it is marked on the second floor.

There are also things that have not changed for many years, such as the kitchen, which is a mysterious place for many students. It has always been under the castle, in the corridor on the same floor as the Hufflepuff lounge. Of course, it is marked, but Whether they can find it or not depends on the students themselves.

For example, the auditorium and the astronomical tower have not changed.

"Is this from Professor Binns?" Soul asked.

"Yes, Professor Binns generously lent it to me. It is a magically processed map." Hermione pulled out her wand, "Look."

She carefully placed the tip of the wand on the spot marked---'Gryffindor', and whispered--

"Show me"

As soon as he finished speaking, the monotonous line of text suddenly spread out, swimming like a fish, domineeringly pushing other lines aside, quickly forming a new flat map.

This is the specific layout of the Gryffindor lounge.

"End Show"

The lines suddenly contracted again, gathering back to their original shape.

"Professor Binns said that this map is a legacy from the era of the Big Four. It is the original appearance of this castle. Look here." Hermione followed the same pattern and pointed to the location of the Ravenclaw lounge.

The lines expand again.

"Remember what we saw when we went to the Ravenclaw lounge?" Hermione moved her wand all the way up the spiral staircase, positioned it at the door of the Ravenclaw lounge, and then walked straight forward.

Suer moved closer, observed carefully, and compared it with the position in his mind.

"The boys' dormitory is on the left, and the girls' dormitory is on the right. It is indeed marked here." Soul nodded, stretched out his finger and clicked on the center of the two positions representing the boys and girls' dormitories, and sneaked into the Ravenclaw lounge as he did some time ago. The impression left by the time was that this should be a cross section representing a wall, but on this map, it was replaced by two parallel lines. At the end of the line, there is a small square, which means that this is a room.

"I remember this should be the statue of Lady Ravenclaw, right?"

"That's right." Hermione nodded and lowered her voice unconsciously, "There are obviously rooms marked on the map, but no Ravenclaw knows that there is a secret room here. Combined with the fact that Bloody Baron told me Yes, Lady Ravenclaw likes to look up at the stars in a room in the common room."

Hermione also came over, her furry head touched Soul's, and she tapped the square with her slender index finger.

"If Lady Ravenclaw did leave something behind, it would most likely be here."

Soul felt a little ridiculous. Haven't all the Ravenclaw students discovered this secret room over the years? Instead, he was discovered by a Gryffindor who was not Ravenclaw?

But if you think about it from another angle, the Sorting Hat actually wants to sort Hermione into Ravenclaw, which is reasonable?

Discovery is discovery, whether you can get in is another matter.

"Then I guess, this room might not be that easy to enter." Suer asked.

"It's really not that easy to get in." Hermione nudged Soul with some frustration, straightened up, and was a little discouraged, "I went to the Ravenclaw lounge again..."

Soul blinked, and then remembered that on the second Saturday in January, Hermione returned to the common room very late. At that time, strictly speaking, it was already a time period that violated school rules.

"You actually took the initiative to violate the school rules?" Sule's words were full of ridicule, "Hermione Granger, it is rare to take the initiative to violate the school rules."

Hermione rolled her eyes at Soul cutely, "In your words, if you don't get caught, it won't be a violation of school rules."

"Haha, that's not what I said." Suer chuckled, "It's the wise words of wisdom told to me by Principal Dumbledore himself."

"By the way, did you find the entrance to this room over there?"

"It's a pity." Hermione shook her head, "I searched for a long time and couldn't find where the entrance is. However, I suspect that the statue is the entrance."

"It's very possible." Sule touched his chin, "If Ms. Ravenclaw has left something for future generations like us to inherit, then it shouldn't be a very difficult test. You found it on the statue. Something strange?"

"Something strange? No..." Hermione frowned slightly, tilting her head cutely in thought. Suddenly, she seemed to have thought of something, and her eyes suddenly lit up.

"correct!"

"You know that thing Lady Ravenclaw always says?"

Sur nodded,

"ravenclaw'sextraordinarywisdomisthegreatestwealthofhumanity"

[Extraordinary wisdom is mankind’s greatest wealth]

"Yes, that sentence was engraved on the marble slab under the sculpture. There are two depressions of different shapes on both sides of the sentence..." Hermione suddenly paused mid-sentence and began to think deeply again. , murmured, "It seems familiar. Where have I seen it?"

Suer did not interrupt her thinking, but focused on the map on the coffee table between the two of them.

After a while, Hermione suddenly made a fist with one hand and smashed it into her palm.

"By the way, I know." She stood up with a swish, "That knocker, the knocker at the door of the Ravenclaw common room! It is a relic left by Ms. Ravenclaw."

"The other one is Lady Ravenclaw's diadem!"

"Yes, the crown must be one of the conditions for opening the room. The crown worn on the head of the statue of Lady Ravenclaw has that sentence engraved on it."