Hogwarts: What are the four great masters doing?

School song?

Ryan was stunned - is there such a thing in Hogwarts now?

But soon, he noticed that the Weasley twins were quietly plugging their ears with tissues.

Some senior students raised their wands and chanted to themselves: "Close your ears and stop listening!"

Ryan was dazed for a moment, but the next moment he heard Dumbledore's cheerful voice.

"This song has no melody... sing it to any tune you like."

"Get ready, sing!"

So, the demons started to dance wildly.

The ghosts in the auditorium fled the hall one after another, and the flags hanging on the four tables fluttered without wind.

Ryan's ears were telling his brain about the violence committed against his ears, and he could have sworn that the tune the twins next door were singing was definitely "Funeral March."

What made Ryan speechless was that he saw Dumbledore wiping tears from the corners of his eyes when the school song ended.

"Music is so magical that even an old man like me can't help but be moved by it..."

Where is the touching thing?

"It's time to go to bed. The prefects are leading the freshmen to their respective dormitories. Oh, except for Mr. Elias... there will be an elf to take you to your dorm."

Dumbledore winked at Ryan again: "Then... may you all have a sweet dream."

Afterwards, the prefects of each college led the young wizards to their respective dormitories.

Ryan said goodbye to the twins, Hermione and others and stayed alone in the hall.

But he apparently didn't have to wait long.

"Mr. Elias."

Soon, he heard a shrill voice in his ear.

He lowered his head and saw a house-elf appear not far from him.

Its skin was a sickly pale color, its large, long ears stood up straight, and it wore dark gray clothing that seemed to be made of rags and looked very ill-fitting.

The elf bowed his head. "The great Headmaster Albus Dumbledore has asked me to take you to your dormitories - please follow me."

Ryan naturally followed suit.

He followed the house-elf out of the hall and began to wander around the castle.

The situation inside Hogwarts Castle was almost the same as Ryan remembered - the ever-changing staircases, the complex and changing terrain, the portraits hanging on the walls, and some secret passages that could be seen when passing by.

All of this made Ryan feel genuinely cordial.

He even wanted to hum some old tunes - and in fact, he did so.

When they were about to reach the dormitory, Ryan happily asked the name of the house-elf in front of him.

"My name is Jinzhen, sir."

He held his head high.

"Oh, that's a nice name."

Ryan said politely.

"Of course! My mother, my grandfather... our family has been called Jinzhen for generations - this is our pride. Oh, sir, we have arrived at your dormitory."

The two of them were chatting halfway when they arrived at Ryan's dormitory.

Just as Dumbledore had said—this was the fifth room on the south side of the sixth floor of the castle.

According to Jinzhen, this area used to be a storage room where some old items were stored.

"There's a stone pillar guarding the door. The password is 'open and aboveboard' - its hearing isn't very good, so perhaps you'll need to repeat it a few times, sir."

As he introduced himself, he opened the door.

Inside the room, the floor and ceiling were cleaned to a gleaming shine, and on the ceiling there was an exquisite, hand-painted school emblem.

On the gate hung a magic lock that constantly changed color and expression—right now, its expression was a smiling red.

There is also a standard-length bed in the room with a sky blue curtain hanging on it, and there are storage cabinets, tables and chairs, and a bay window on the side.

"not bad."

Ryan looked at the dormitory that would soon belong to him and nodded with great satisfaction.

The craftsmanship of the house-elves is truly impeccable. They managed to decorate such a beautiful dormitory in such a short time.

"I am very satisfied, thank you."

"It would be our pleasure, Mr. Elias."

Jinzhen bowed flatteredly, then stood up. "Well, I'll be on my way now. Your luggage and textbooks are in the locker, and the owl is in the tower shed... If you need anything else, feel free to call us."

After saying that, he snapped his fingers and disappeared from the spot.

"House-elf magic... is truly special."

Ryan looked at this scene and couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

Hogwarts has special magical restrictions, and normal wizards cannot use Apparition in the school.

But house-elves and some special magical creatures are exceptions.

He still remembered what Slytherin had said: "Their magic comes from their instincts. It's a special way of operating magic that exists in their blood."

Slytherin even studied the bloodlines of many magical animals and races, and he was fascinated by them.

"I wonder what results the teacher has come up with in the end?"

Ryan muttered softly, sat on the bed, and looked at the moonlight outside the window.

Before I knew it, the night had deepened.

“The bed was very soft and the pillows were good quality.”

Ryan made his bed and exclaimed in admiration.

"Well... in that case, it's time to go on a night out."

Chapter 22: Night Walk, Room of Requirement, Ravenclaw’s Diadem!

"If school rules aren't meant to be broken, they're meaningless."

"College life without night outings is incomplete. Night outings are a sign of respect for school rules."

The above remarks are from Godric Gryffindor, the founder of Hogwarts and a famous educator in the wizarding world.

As his disciple, Ryan deeply agrees with this.

So on the first night back at Hogwarts, he decisively chose to go out for a night tour.

At this moment, he was walking on the quiet corridor of the ancient castle.

The portraits hanging on both sides of the aisle had already fallen asleep, and Ryan's faint "fluorescent flicker" did not wake them up.

Ryan wore a pendant around his waist.

The pendant was an emerald of mediocre quality, and looked ordinary.

But only Ryan knew that this was a magical item called the 'Perception Pendant'.

This is one of the magical items left to him by his four teachers in the vault. Its effect is to detect humans who are about to approach it.

When someone is about to approach him, the pendant will flash green light and make the wearer calm and easier to deal with danger.

Ryan had studied this item before school started. He believed that it was likely that the alchemical method of the 'Looking Glass' was used, and that it had been enhanced with the 'Emotion Stabilization Spell' and the 'Humanoid Tracking Spell', and might even have included something soul-related - because this thing could detect not only the body but also the soul.

Based on the words on the pendant, he judged that the pendant should have been made jointly by Slytherin and Ravenclaw.

With it, Ryan could prevent some possible sneak attacks when he was wandering at night - especially avoid being caught by the patrolling Filch.

"I heard he even made people clean the dirtiest toilets...that doesn't sound good."

Ryan kept walking while muttering about the Squib in his mind.

The roads in Hogwarts are complex and ever-changing, and it may take an ordinary young wizard a whole school year to avoid getting lost.

But for Ryan, walking in the castle felt like coming home.

He could even clearly tell that there were 142 staircases in the castle, because he and Ravenclaw had designed them one by one.

He shuttled through various secret passages and soon arrived at the eighth floor.

The corridor on the eighth floor was shorter than that on other floors. Ryan saw a painting at a corner.

The title of the painting is engraved at the bottom of the frame - "The Giant Beats Foolish Barnabas with a Club."

The painting shows a wizard being beaten with clubs by six giant monsters wearing ballet shoes.

He threw his hands up, ran away screaming, and looked very funny.

Ryan just glanced at the painting, then turned and looked at the opposite side of the painting - it was an empty wall.

Ryan closed his eyes.

"The treasure that Rowena Ravenclaw left for Ryan Elias."

He concentrated and repeated it silently in his mind three times.

Then, on the wall in front of him, a smooth door appeared out of thin air like a painting.

"Sure enough...the Ravenclaw teacher succeeded!"

When Ryan saw this door, he was secretly amazed.

He knew this door and the room behind it.

He had heard from the Ravenclaw teacher that she wanted to build a room in Hogwarts to store some precious magic books or props of the Big Four.

"It's a room where everything in your mind can come and go as you wish."

“It has no key; what is needed to open it is wisdom and unique ideas.”

This is what she said at the time, and she told Ryan the method she had already thought of to open the room.