The Shopkeeper of All Worlds in the British Wizarding World

Chapter 9 The Gryffindor Lounge

Under the leadership of Prefect Percy, the freshmen walked through the noisy crowd, out of the dining room, and up the marble stairs.The people in the portraits in the roadside corridors murmured and pointed as they passed, and twice along the way Percy led them through doors concealed behind sliding panels and hanging draperies.

Ryan felt that the Hogwarts school history said that the castle was a refuge in the dark ages. It should be true. Only when the castle was repaired as a military fortification would there be so many inconveniences that were used to stop the invaders. Baffles and covert passages.

Everyone was yawning, even Ryan. It seemed that the 11-year-old's body was still not fully developed.Otherwise, Ryan, who was good at cultivating immortals in his previous life, wouldn't be so sleepy after nine o'clock.

When he dragged his heavy feet and climbed many more stairs, feeling as if the stairs were enchanted and might never finish climbing, the person in front suddenly stopped.

It turned out that Peeves was making trouble in mid-air.Fortunately, Percy chased him away.They walked on again, and when they reached the end of the corridor, Percy told everyone that they had arrived.

At the end of the corridor hung a portrait of a very rich woman in pink.

"Password?" she said.

"Dragon scum," said Percy.I saw the painting staggering forward, revealing a circular hole in the wall.They all crawled through the hole in the wall - Ryan pulled Neville into it - and then they found themselves in the Gryffindor common room.It was a cozy circular room, all in shades of gold and red, filled with plush armchairs.Near the wall, there is a burning fireplace, which makes the cold feeling in the ancient castle dissipate a lot.

Clearly, the freshmen are sleepy.The senior knew this too, they didn't say much, Percy guided the girls through one door to their dormitories, and then led the boys through another door.At the top of a spiral staircase, Lane found his bedroom.

It's a good thing that Harry and Harry are not in the same dormitory, otherwise, in the third grade, there would be a 1/5 chance of being drawn at [-] o'clock in the morning, and the scary single elderly man staring at the spree with a knife on the bedside.

There were five four-poster beds in the bedroom, hung with crimson flannel hangings.The luggage has already been sent up.Everyone was exhausted after a day of train travel and dinner parties, and they all fell into bed and fell asleep without wanting to talk.

Because of the habit he had developed before, Ryan woke up from his dream the next morning and found that he woke up a little early, and the sun had just risen.He was the first to wake up, and the roommates were still sleeping.

A first-grade timetable was placed on the bedside. Ryan was a little surprised, because he had never been a light sleeper and would wake up when someone was next to him.This school schedule can appear on the bedside without him responding, it can only be said that the house elves are really powerful.

Looking at the schedule, there are a total of eight courses in the first grade.Basically, the class time is Monday to Friday from 03:30 am to [-]:[-] pm, and from [-]:[-] pm to [-]:[-]. Only astronomy class will be held between [-]:[-] pm and [-]:[-] pm.Seriously, this is much shorter than the study time in Chinese junior high school.

After washing up, thinking about the lack of class in the morning, he gave up his plan to wake up his roommate, and walked down the stairs to the common room.

Hermione was already sitting on a sofa, reading a book.

"Good morning, Hermione." Ryan waved his hand.Afterwards, he sat on a sofa next to Hermione and asked, "Although there is no class this morning, we still have to eat breakfast. It's not a good idea to skip breakfast."

Hermione turned the book in her hand to a certain page, pointed to the content and said, "I learned from the book "A Piece of Hogwarts History". There are a total of 140 stairs in the castle. Some are wide and big; some are narrow and small and rickety; some lead to a different place every Friday; some go halfway up and a step disappears suddenly."

"To make matters worse, there are doors that won't open if you ask them politely, or poke in exactly the right place; and doors that aren't really doors at all, just a Block the solid walls that appear to be doors. It is not easy to remember what is where, because everything seems to be constantly moving. The people in the portraits are also constantly visiting each other, and it is certain that even Armor can walk."

Hermione closed the book and spread her hands: "So now I can only wait here to see if any seniors can drop me off... Now we are going to the restaurant."

Fortunately, after a short wait, footsteps were heard on the stairs, and a girl with black hair and a twisted ponytail came down the stairs.

Ryan immediately stepped forward to ask for help, and the senior who claimed to be Angelina Johnson enthusiastically extended a helping hand, and asked Ryan and Hermione to follow her to the auditorium, explaining to Ryan and others how to pass the special stairs and secret doors along the way method.

Finally, when she arrived at the auditorium, she told Ryan that these things change regularly, and if you pay attention, you can quickly remember the characteristics of these stairs.

During the meal, Ryan couldn't help but envy Hufflepuff, because their dormitory is the closest to the dining room, and it's next door to the kitchen.

After dinner, Ryan originally planned to take a look around the castle while there was no class in the morning.After all, I was a Harry Potter fan in my previous life and went to Hogwarts.How can you not go to those familiar places described in the book to have a look?
Unfortunately, this plan was disrupted by Hermione.She thought the self-study before class was very important, so she decided to go to the library and extended an invitation to Ryan.

He thought that if he didn't go to the library, he might be looked down upon by Hermione with the eyes of a scumbag, and he couldn't hold back his face.Plus the library is also an important location in the original novel.Lane abandoned her original plan of wandering the castle and went to the library with Hermione.

The library is located on the second floor of Hogwarts Castle and has a high dome.There are thousands of bookshelves inside, storing thousands of books.

It may be because it was morning, Ryan and the others found that there were not many students in the library.Hermione came to an empty table and sat down, opened the textbook and read it, and occasionally jotted down something in the notebook beside her.

Ryan selected a few books that introduced the status quo of the magic world and read them.After all, the information I got before was not comprehensive, and the novels I read in my previous life could only give me some hints, but these comprehensive introductions to the magic world are the cornerstone of survival in this wonderful world.

More than an hour later, it was time for Hogwarts to dismiss its morning classes.A large group of students were busy looking up materials and writing homework in the library.

Obviously, the environment of people coming and going made Ryan feel a little annoyed. He saw that Hermione was immersed in studying, so he didn't disturb her.After checking out a few books from Mrs. Pince, Ryan left the library with the books in his arms.

Ryan still didn't remember the route to go upstairs. Fortunately, he met Nick who was almost headless on the way, which made him return to the Gryffindor Tower smoothly.

(End of this chapter)