Chapter 354 354. Watch, Ask, Sell

While everyone in Ravenclaw was waiting with slight dissatisfaction, finally, 8:00 pm arrived.

As Scott stood up and waved his wand, the looped images in the large mirror hanging on the wall gradually disappeared, and the mirror turned into darkness.

Everyone in the common room fell silent and looked at the mirror expectantly.

Soothing music sounded, and the emblem belonging to Ravenclaw House slowly emerged on the dark background, becoming increasingly clear.

A familiar song sounded.

Camera switch.

"If you are shrewd, you may belong to the wise Ravenclaws, where wise and learned people always meet their kindred spirits."

The first thing that caught the eye was a tattered wizard's hat. Although it was uncommon to see it, everyone present was extremely familiar with it.

It's the Sorting Hat!

It sang a line about Ravenclaw from The Sorting Hat Song on camera.

This video was "filmed" by Scott shamelessly going to the principal's office. Of course, Dumbledore had no objection.

"Why do I think it sounds better than during the graduation ceremony?"

"I feel so too."

Listening to the discussions among his classmates, Scott smiled and gave a thumbs up to Milton sitting next to him.

There is certainly a reason why the Sorting Hat's singing became better.

Who would have thought that Milton, who was once bursting with inspiration and had a particularly strong desire to create, would be so bored that he composed the soundtrack for "The Song of the Sorting Hat" the year they entered school.

After a short section of "The Song of the Sorting Hat", the scene of the Sorting Hat faded out, and a girl's figure appeared in the mirror.

"Welcome to Ravenclaw House."

Penelope Clivat, the prefect who is in seventh grade this year.

She was wearing a very formal school uniform, standing under the Ravenclaw Tower with a smile on her face, her soft brown hair shining in the sun.

The scene looked like she was welcoming new students to Ravenclaw.

The camera moves away from Penello, as if following the perspective of an eagle, circling up the tower.

Penello's voice returns, and at Scott's invitation she serves as a narration voice.

"The representative animal of our college is an eagle, soaring high to the peak that no one can reach."

There was an eagle call that shocked the sky, and a majestic eagle appeared in the camera lens. It spread its wide wings and hovered over the top of the tower.

“Our representative colors are sky blue and bronze.”

The flying eagle fell down and grabbed the top of the flagpole with its sharp claws. Under its wings, the sky blue and bronze flag fluttered on the top of the tower.

"Our common room is at the top of Ravenclaw Tower, hidden behind a door with a magic knocker."

"Through the arched windows of the Circular Common Room, you can see a panoramic view of Hogwarts: the Lake, the Forbidden Forest, the Quidditch Pitch and the Greenhouses, a view that no other Hogwarts house has the privilege of enjoying."

"Without any exaggeration, this is where the smartest witches and wizards live. Just like the founder, Rowena Ravenclaw, learning is the primary skill..."

Following Penello's long narration, the corresponding image always appears in the mirror at the right time.

"Oh, this is the most traditional welcome speech from Ravenclaw. In our era, every year when new students entered, the prefects would use this long fixed welcome speech to introduce the college."

Professor Flitwick, who was sitting in the front, said with emotion.

"Later, everyone felt that this was not new, so we stopped repeating it."

In the mirror, Penello's welcome speech continued. She introduced the Ravenclaw House's unique method of entering the common room - answering questions from the eagle-shaped door knocker.

The image at this time is of a group of students gathered around the eagle-shaped door knocker to discuss the answers to the questions.

Then, he talked about the alternativeness and self-tolerance of Ravenclaws in the eyes of others, and also introduced Professor Flitwick, the dean of Ravenclaw College.

When talking about this topic, the screen kept switching, showing many alternative sides of Ravenclaws.

One of them shows Luna wearing weird demon-like glasses and holding an upside-down magazine in her hand, looking at it carefully.

Luna, who was sitting opposite Scott, saw this scene and immediately began to laugh silently with her mouth open.

When Professor Flitwick saw the paragraph introducing himself, he blushed and said, "Oh, was this paragraph added on purpose? It didn't exist before. Of course, I was not the dean of this college at that time."

"Of course you are a very popular dean."

"A respected professor too!"

"We all like you!"

The students began to express their feelings to Professor Flitwick one after another. Professor Flitwick was so happy to hear the students' "confession" that his face became even redder.

"Ravenclaw has a glorious history. Most of the great wizarding inventors and innovators came from the House..."

Penello's narration began to briefly describe the glorious achievements of the Ravenclaws in the past.

In this part, Scott specially provided photos or portraits for every celebrity mentioned in the welcome speech.

These photos and portraits were all taken from the wizard cards given by Bibi's Braised Beans. Fred and George, who had collected the entire set of cards, helped Scott a lot at this point.

"No wonder the traditional greeting words are abandoned." Roger said softly, "Although it is still interesting, it sounds a bit too long if it is not accompanied by pictures and music."

Scott nodded, "Now we advocate that freshmen take the initiative to understand the history of the college and integrate into the atmosphere of the college on their own. It is better to let them understand it on their own than to directly indoctrinate them."

If he did not need to make a promotional video, he would not have found this long welcome speech that is now only recorded in a book in the college library and adapted it.

At this time, the camera in the mirror switched again, aiming back at Penelope standing in front of the tower.

"... Congratulations on becoming a member of Ravenclaw, the smartest, most agile and most interesting college of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry."

The welcome speech she was responsible for ended.

Many students who watched this scene couldn't help but whispered: "The prefects were not so friendly when we entered school."

Especially the first-year students, they still remembered the scene of Keira and Scott "threatening" them during the welcome.

The screen turned dark again.

The soothing music also became mysterious.

"Extraordinary wisdom is the most precious wealth of mankind."

A gentle and firm female voice sounded, saying the motto representing Ravenclaw College.

At the same time, the words that made up this sentence appeared on the dark screen.

The dark screen was slowly lit up, and a portrait hanging on the wall was reflected in the eyes of everyone present.

The witch in the painting had long black curly hair and wore an exquisite eagle-shaped gem crown on her head. Her eyes flashed with wisdom and her mouth was smiling kindly.

She sat on a high-back chair decorated with bronze eagle wings and looked at the people outside the camera. She was beautiful and noble.

"Hiss..."

There were gasps in the common room.

"Ravenclaw?"

"Is this a portrait of Ravenclaw?"

Almost everyone reflexively glanced at the statue of Ravenclaw standing at the entrance of the college library for comparison, and then confirmed their guess.

"It's really her!"

"It's true!"

"Where is this portrait? Why haven't we seen it before!"

"Scott, where did you find it?"

"Did you draw it yourself based on the statue?"

The appearance of the Ravenclaw portrait made the students a little too excited.

"Ahem, let's finish watching it first." Professor Flitwick, who was sitting in front, waved his hand.

When the students heard him speak, they all quieted down obediently, but they kept looking at Scott and Eddie, the producers of the promotional video, with curious eyes.

At this moment, Ravenclaw in the painting began to work, instantly attracting everyone's attention.

Ravenclaw's eyes softened a little, and she smiled and said: "I hope to recruit students whose intelligence must be superior to others."

As soon as this sentence fell, many students subconsciously straightened their chests, as if proudly stating -

"I'm talking about me!"

The screen turned black again.

Ravenclaw's portrait only appeared for a few seconds in total, which triggered a sigh of regret.

[Seeking Knowledge]

Words appeared in the screen, and then the camera switched.

The background music became soothing and beautiful again.

Quiet reading in the library, lively experiments and discussions in the common room, listening carefully in each classroom, until the figures of Ravenclaw students in every corner of the castle.

The camera kept switching quickly, vividly showing the serious study of the Ravenclaws.

"I'm on camera!"

"That's me!"

The students came back to their senses from the shock of seeing the portrait of Ravenclaw and began to look for their own figures in the camera.

Every time the camera switched, the students on camera couldn't help but proudly claim it.

"Everyone is happy." Milton whispered to Scott.

Scott nodded slightly, "Because everyone feels involved."

Next, several different words appeared.

More and more instruments were mixed into the background music, becoming more passionate until it stopped abruptly.

[Exploration]

[Obsession]

[Precision]

[Freedom]

Each word was accompanied by some pictures that showed the characteristics of Ravenclaw in this aspect, and almost all Ravenclaws appeared, including Helena, the ghost stationed in the college.

At this time, Helena was also quietly floating in the corner of the common room, watching the promotional video with everyone, with a smile on her lips.

When the music changed from passionate to soothing again, the promotional video was coming to an end, and Scott's private goods began to appear.

Scott himself appeared on the screen. He stood on the viaduct and said to the camera casually: "Ravenclaws like to focus on what they are interested in and habitually keep a cold eye on other things."

The screen switched to Eddie standing in the dormitory. He continued: "But only we ourselves know what we are pursuing."

On the side of the Quidditch field, Roger, wearing a jersey, said to the camera: "The name of our college means the claws of the raven. We are extremely greedy for knowledge, but we often disdain power and fame."

In the classical music club, Milton, who was holding a cello, said: "Our representative element is wind. The wind in the four elements represents change, rationality, abstraction, wit, sociability, language, and also represents disputes, lack of emotion, lack of foundation, and impetuousness."

In the office, Professor Flitwick sat behind his desk and said with a smile: "We admire extraordinary wisdom."

In the common room, Luna, who was sitting on the window sill with her knees in her arms, turned her head and said in an erratic voice: "Extraordinary wisdom."

At the Black Lake Pier, Jacob stood on the stone steps and whispered, "Extraordinary wisdom."

In the corridor, Kayla and Dylan, holding hands, said together: "Extraordinary wisdom."

Eva, "extraordinary wisdom."

Ethan, "Extraordinary wisdom."

Autumn, "extraordinary wisdom."

Andre.

Chambers.

…

Many students took turns again and said the title of the promotional video.

Finally, the portrait of Ravenclaw appeared again, and the background music stopped.

Ravenclaw looked outside the portrait and said——

"Wisdom is only a prerequisite. I hope that all Ravenclaws will be like eagles in the sky and on the top of the tower. You may not participate in the battle on the ground, but I believe that your keen eyesight can see everything clearly from high places. ”

"Not participating is just because you are unwilling. I hope that no one can influence your stance and actions. I hope that you will become free wizards."

"At the very least, your minds are free."

The picture gradually darkened and returned to darkness again.

A new piece of music played, half of the mirror screen turned into the flag of Ravenclaw House, and half of the screen began to scroll subtitles, listing the list of people involved in the production.

coax!

Everyone in the common room started clapping and cheering.

"Looks like you succeeded!"

Roger yelled and patted Scott's shoulder hard, making him stunned.

"It's well done. This is the first time I've seen the finished product. It's great!" Milton clapped his hands and praised without hesitation.

Eddie, who had been standing in front of the crowd, looked very proud. He had raised his fat chin and smiled widely.

Jacob came back to his senses at this time, and said to Scott with a sudden realization: "So it turns out that when you asked me to say that sentence, you were filming?"

"I don't know what I was doing at that time." Luna blinked, then laughed again, "But it was fun."

This girl has been laughing non-stop today. She laughed silently when everyone was watching quietly, and now she is laughing loudly.

Scott didn't know what she was enjoying.

However, he didn't think about this problem, not only because he knew that Luna was often confusing like this, but also because more and more people gathered around, completely surrounding the sofa where he was sitting.

"Scott." Penelo, the leader, said with a smile, "Although I knew what you were doing in advance, I didn't expect you to do it so well."

"Thank you for the compliment." Scott thanked him quickly.

However, he also knew that the promotional video he made for fun was not actually a good work. Although he lacked skill in this aspect, he still had a certain level of appreciation due to his previous life experience.

It's just that this form is too novel for the magic world, which arouses everyone's favor.

"You're welcome." Penello smiled meaningfully again, "But we still have some questions to ask you."

Scott smiled and said: "You can also ask Eddie about the promotional video. He and I produced the promotional video together, and he is more eloquent than me and is more willing to answer your questions than me. ”

Ethan on the side sneered, "Eddie? Who doesn't know that boy is full of nonsense and doesn't have a word of truth?"

"Who said that! My greatest advantage is honesty! Don't slander my good reputation, Ethan!" Eddie's dissatisfied protest came from outside the crowd, "Also, I am just Scott's assistant, so let him Let me answer you!"

Penello clapped his hands and said to Scott: "Okay, don't bother us, you know what I want to ask."

Ethan also bent down and patted Scott on the shoulder, and said with a smile: "You kid is hiding very deep. Tell me, where is the portrait of Ravenclaw, the portrait that can communicate?"

Facing several circles of curious eyes surrounding him, Scott had a smile on his face, but was not prepared to tell the answer.

"Where's Professor Flitwick?" He looked left and right.

Soon a classmate standing on the periphery replied, "Professor Flitwick has left!"

"..."

The professor has become unkind too!

Scott twitched his lips speechlessly, and he was ready to throw all these people's questions to Professor Flitwick.

"Don't change the subject, just talk!"

"Yeah, I think the Ravenclaw portrait should hang in our common room."

"Did you take the photo in the principal's office?"

"No, there is no portrait of Ravenclaw in the Headmaster's Office."

"Did Scott discover Ravenclaw's secret room?"

"Really?"

"I wonder what the difference is between Ravenclaw's Chamber of Secrets and Slytherin's Chamber of Secrets."

"It's up to Scott to tell us."

"Yes, tell me quickly!"

People were asking questions, arguing, and shouting. For a while, Scott was surrounded by sounds.

"Okay!" Scott raised his voice, "I filmed it in the principal's office!"

Penello immediately retorted, "Are you lying? I have been to the principal's office and there is no portrait of Ravenclaw there!"

"Yeah, I've been there too."

"The portraits there are all portraits of recent principals."

"How do you know there is no portrait of Ravenclaw in the headmaster's office?" Scott said confidently, "Is the headmaster's office really just like what you see? How do you know there is no secret room hidden in it?"

Because he said it with confidence, most people couldn't help but believe it, which made Scott couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief in secret.

When the people around him left one after another, Luna, who was sitting opposite him, looked at him and laughed non-stop.

Before she spoke, Scott winked at her and made a "hush" gesture.

Luna also blinked in understanding, and was no longer prepared to expose him on the spot.

At this moment, Eddie suddenly jumped onto the table in the middle of the common room and waved to everyone.

"Everyone, Ravenclaw students, please listen to me."

His cheerful action immediately attracted everyone's attention.

"What do you want to say, kid?" Penelope looked at him, "No one will believe your nonsense!"

Eddie quickly retorted, "I'm not talking nonsense! And I'm not talking about this!"

"What do you want to say? Get down from the table quickly." Penelope waved her hand.

"No, I want to ask everyone." Eddie raised his voice again, "What do you think of this college promotional video?"

Ethan laughed, "Do you want us to praise you? But you said yourself that you are just Scott's assistant."

"No!" Eddie waved his hand vigorously, "I want to ask, don't you want to collect a copy of such a fun and beautiful promotional video?"

Someone asked, "How to collect it? Steal this big mirror back to the dormitory?"

"Of course not!" Eddie took out a mirror the size of two palms from his pocket, "It's this!"

"What is this?"

"Is it the same thing as that big mirror?"

Everyone asked.

"Almost." Scott nodded, "This is a low-cost alternative to the [Magic Mirror], the [Magic Crystal Player]. You can also use it to watch the promotional video just now!"

As he said that, he pointed at the "player" in his hand.

The music sounded, and the promotional video began to play in the [Magic Crystal Player] in his hand, attracting everyone's attention.

Eddie smiled and said, "The [Magic Crystal Player] has the first promotional video of Ravenclaw College built in, which can be watched repeatedly. If you are interested, please place an order with me!"

Someone was immediately tempted, "How much?"

Eddie raised a finger.

"One gold galleon? Too expensive!"

"I can't afford it!"

"I can't afford it either."

"No!" Eddie said quickly, "[Magic Crystal Player] is 10 silver Sickles."

"10 silver Sickles? Can you really buy what you have?" Ethan looked at Eddie suspiciously, "You won't cut corners, right? Judging from the name of the so-called player, it is made of crystal, but crystal is not that cheap."

"Of course, we just used some worthless crystal powder. Besides, we are not doing this for money!" Eddie said righteously.

"Then tell me, why?" Ethan asked jokingly.

"Of course it is to better promote our college!" Eddie said confidently, "What's wrong with charging you a little cost? Do Scott and I have to pay for this kind of thing out of our own pockets?"

Some classmates who are familiar with Eddie twitched their mouths fiercely.

"Although I believe Scott is not doing this for money, let's forget about Eddie."

"Who doesn't know how much Eddie loves to make money?"

"He must have relied on his relationship with Scott to get the right to sell this player."

"What player? It must be a defective product made by him imitating Scott's [Magic Mirror]."

Eddie was so angry that he glared at Scott from a distance.

He raised the player in his hand to face everyone, and shouted, "Look, this effect, the clarity is no worse than the big mirror on the wall, 10 silver Sickles for one, can you still be fooled?"

He worked hard to promote, and boasted about the player in his hand.

For a while, many people really started to sign their names on the reservation list.