Everyday Players at Hogwarts.

Chapter 346 At Luna's House
To this day, there is a folk song circulating in the UK: "Lose a nail, lose a horseshoe; lose a horseshoe, break a warhorse; break a warhorse, lose a king; lose a king, lose a war."

This story comes from Richard III, the last king of the House of York in England.

Initially, this was used to warn people that they should pay attention to details.

Now, it is more used to illustrate the butterfly effect - that a small and insignificant thing can cause big consequences.

And Ron's story of saving the Ravenclaw Phoenix and the Invisible Beast was the missing nail in Ryan's eyes.

"This 'iron nail' almost killed my little Luna!" Ryan couldn't help but think, and began to wonder whether he should bring Ron with him next time he tormented Harry.

"Ryan, what are you thinking about?" Luna puffed up her little face and poked Ryan's waist.

"No, I'm just worried about one thing."

"What's the matter?" Luna asked quickly after Ryan replied.

She always felt that Ryan was thinking about that annoying Granger.

"Some unscrupulous merchants always like to use the horns of the Erumpenthorn instead of the Snorklehorn."

"I was worried that your father might have bought the wrong one. After all, the Scimitar-Horned Snorkeller is so rare."

"I suggest you be careful when you go back and test it." Ryan touched Luna's head with a worried expression.

"You must promise me this!" Seeing that Luna didn't care, Ryan pinched Luna's little face hard.

"Okay, okay, I get it!" Luna nodded hesitantly, indicating that she had taken it to heart.

Just as Luna nodded, Ryan stretched out his left hand into the air and made a gesture.

It was a breezy hillside with the beautiful village of Ottery St. Catchpole just beyond—a cluster of little toy houses scattered among the great beams of light that slanted down from the clouds.

A white, slender hand appeared in the air, but disappeared the next second, leaving only a wisp of white smoke.

The cloud of smoke was carried by the breeze and floated on and on, probably covering several miles.

It slowly stopped in front of a huge black cylindrical house, and a pearly white, transparent shadow appeared in its place.

"Is this the ghost's body?" Ryan stroked the now cold body curiously.

After coming to his senses, he looked at the strange house again.

Its entrance is an overgrown gate with three hand-painted signs nailed to it.

Section 1: The Quibbler Editor-in-Chief: X. Lovegood
Second piece: Pick your own bunch of mistletoe
The third piece: Don’t touch the airship Li

Ryan walked through the gate and saw a winding path.

Various exotic plants grew on both sides, and there was a bush full of orange-red radish-shaped fruits.

There was no doubt that this was Airship Lee.

Logically speaking, Ryan, who consciously did not learn about herbology (for the sake of novelty), should not recognize it, but it has another identity - Luna's earring.

When Ryan was playing with it, Luna introduced it, which would hang upside down on the bushes, and she also said that it could enhance the ability to accept abnormal things.

Her father had added the plant as part of his headdress when he was attempting to replicate Rowena Ravenclaw's lost diadem.

To be honest, this garden looks like the work of a Hufflepuff student.

In addition to the airship, there is a knotty vine on the dead roots not far away, and on both sides of the black door at the end of the garden, which is the entrance to the house, there are two old crabapple trees bent by the wind. The leaves on them have fallen off, but they are still full of small red fruits and large canopies of mistletoe wreaths decorated with white beads. This makes the Ravenclaw-style gate with iron round nails and an eagle-shaped door knocker out of place in this garden.

Ryan's illusory figure began to slowly emerge from dense white mist, which began to entangle the garden.

Then, the images of Luna playing in the garden in the past were reproduced and entered Ryan's mind one by one.

Luna happily picking the blimp, Luna with red marks all over her body reaching into the hole of the stump to take out the pods of the knotweed that looked like beating hearts, Luna hiding under the tree with tears on her face.
This is a girl who grows wildly like a weed, lonely but independent, neurotic but cute.

The girl was so charming that Ryan even forgot why he came here.

It wasn't until the last ray of sunlight disappeared that Ryan came to his senses.

The white mist that no one else could see returned to Ryan's body, and with the last rays of light, Ryan walked through the door.

Luna's house was really strange. The kitchen was the first thing you saw as soon as you entered the door. The room was a standard circle and it felt like being in a giant pepper shaker.

Everything is curved to match the walls: the stove, sink, and cupboards, and all are painted with flowers, insects, and birds in bright primary colors.

In the middle of the room, a cast iron spiral staircase leads to the upstairs. There are clattering and ping-pong sounds coming from upstairs, which should be Luna's father's workshop.

But it’s a pity that Ryan was actually prepared to meet Mr. Lovegood.

Although Luna's father cannot see him now, meeting Luna's father face to face in advance is completely different from using perception.

But it seemed that at this time, Luna's father was not ready to eat yet and was still working hard upstairs.

But what was strange was that the horn of the Scimitar-Horned Snorkeller that Luna mentioned was placed in the living room was not there at all.

You know, it was Ryan who first discovered that Luna's house had a Scimitar-horned Snorkeller's horn, and at that time the horn was placed on the cupboard.

Ryan was almost scared at the time.

"Luna, does your living room refer to the pepper-shaker-like room as soon as you enter the door?" Ryan suddenly asked Luna in his arms at Hogwarts.

"Ryan, are you sick?" Luna stood up and touched Ryan's head.

"The entrance must be the kitchen!" Luna said seriously.

kitchen?

A flash of inspiration came to Ryan, and he suddenly thought of something.

Like Ron's house, the kitchen is right at the entrance.

Are all entrances to wizard houses the kitchen?
Or are all the houses in St. Catchpole decorated in this style?
"But how do you know what my kitchen looks like?" Luna blinked her big eyes suspiciously.

"You once said that."

"Oh, Luna, the horn of the Scimitar-Horned Snorkle." As expected, as soon as Luna heard Ryan mention the Scimitar-Horned Snorkle, she forgot everything.

And Ryan finally guessed what Luna meant by the living room - the workroom upstairs.

Ryan floated up, and sure enough, there was a huge gray spiral horn mounted on the wall, somewhat similar to that of a unicorn.

There is no doubt that it is Ryan's goal today.

(End of this chapter)