Connor's Hogwarts

Hogwarts Castle, 8th floor, West Tower, below the spiral staircase leading to the Owlery.

Connor stood here alone, staring at the constantly changing suspended stairs below.

"17, 18,..., 21!" Connor murmured, his tone full of disbelief: "It's unbelievable, there is really an extra staircase."

As mentioned before, there are a total of 142 flight stairs in Hogwarts Castle, which are distributed in five towers. The remaining four towers have 30 and 31 sections of stairs, and only the west tower has 20 sections.

Moreover, the changing pattern of the stairs in the West Tower remains unchanged throughout the year, but now this sudden appearance of the stairs completely breaks the original pattern.

"I just discovered it. When I passed by here today, I noticed something wrong with the changes in the stairs. After careful observation, I discovered that there was an extra staircase."

In the frame behind Connor, Conan pushed up his reflective black-rimmed glasses and said: "This shows that the stairs in the west tower are actually part of the Hogwarts staircase changing system. The assumptions we had previously deduced by taking the other four parts of the stairs separately are all It can be overturned.”

Connor shook his head and said solemnly: "But the stairs at this time last year have not changed, right? Why is there suddenly an extra set of stairs this year?"

"It didn't happen last year. I can prove it. As for why there is a change this year, I think the answer is obvious."

"You mean the leap month?" Connor raised his eyebrows.

Yes, this year is 1992, and February has 29 days, which is a leap month every four years.

"Yes, this is obvious, isn't it? Only this reason can explain the sudden addition of stairs. I think the change cycle of this staircase system is not one year, but four years! The number of stairs in each tower and the overall change The pattern corresponds to the year and month one-to-one!”

"." Connor was silent for a moment, then shook his head: "No, no, the cycle may be four years, but if the month is really affected by the month, does that mean the other four towers? The number of stairs corresponds to the month?"

"Other months have 30 and 31 days. This is understandable, but this staircase." Connor pointed to the staircase below: "There are only 21 sections. How can we explain this?"

"." Conan didn't say anything. He was just an observation tool with no emotions. In fact, reasoning was not his strong point.

"And it's not February 1st anymore. Wait, what's today?"

"February 9th."

"Yes, it's the 9th! If the number of stairs is really related to the month, then why does it start to change now? Instead of starting to change at the beginning of the month? And this staircase only has 21 steps! Isn't this wrong? Shouldn't it be 28 or 29? ?"

"." Conan pushed up his black-rimmed glasses and didn't want to talk. He was just a tool.

Facing this strange staircase, everyone fell into deep thought.

"Forget it, Conan, go find Helena first. Maybe she knows something."

Conan nodded and left the frame. Soon a ghost slowly emerged from Conner's feet. Conan was a professional in finding people.

"What do you want from me?" Helena still looked cold and her tone was arrogant.

Connor pointed to the stairs below: "See for yourself."

Helena looked over, then frowned and said, "What are you looking at? Isn't it just an ordinary staircase?"

"...look at the number of stairs."

Helena looked over again, crossed her shoulders and said, "There are 21 flights of stairs, what's wrong?"

"." Connor looked at Helena deeply, as if looking at an Aqua: "Do you know how many sections this staircase used to have?"

"Ah? Who has nothing to do and counts the stairs? Are you sick?"

"." Connor opened his mouth and was at a loss for words. He didn't know how to complain. Indeed, if it hadn't been for the discovery of Tool Man Conan, who would have looked so distressed and ran to count the stairs?

In fact, when Connor first arrived, he didn't notice any difference between the stairs here. If he hadn't counted them one by one before and knew that there were indeed 20 flights of stairs, Connor wouldn't have believed that there were so many stairs out of thin air. come out.

"What? Is there something wrong with the number of stairs?" Helena finally noticed something was wrong in the atmosphere and asked with a guilty conscience.

Connor raised his forehead and said, "There used to be only 20 stairs here, but now there's an extra one out of thin air. Do you think there's any problem?"

"Have you solved the real mystery?!" Helena's eyes widened in excitement, not knowing how this ghost came to such a conclusion, Connor gave up struggling in despair.

Connor felt that the stupidest thing he did today was that he actually wanted to ask this ghost girl for help.

Connor turned his head, no longer paying attention to this stupid ghost, and asked: "Conan, do you know which set of stairs is new?"

"Well, there, it's the third section from the bottom. That section of stairs completely destroys the original movement pattern of the stairs."

Connor floated towards that section of stairs, followed by a noisy translucent ghost. Helena finally figured out the situation. She chased after him and said, "Did this staircase suddenly appear on its own? How is that possible! I have lived in the castle for hundreds of years without noticing this situation. Are you really lying to me? Have you discovered any other secrets? Can you find them?"

"Shut up!" Connor turned around and cursed angrily: "You useless stupid ghost. I'm not asking you to help me. Can you stay quiet!?"

"You!" Helena was so angry that she became transparent, but when she thought about relying on this man to find the treasure, she dared not speak out. After a long time, she whispered: "Rude men have no grace. You are not a qualified Ravenclaw at all."

Connor was too lazy to pay attention to this idiot. He floated to the newly appeared staircase and observed it carefully.

From a distance, there seems to be no difference between this new staircase and other staircases, but upon closer inspection, you will find that this staircase is indeed much "younger" (it seems to be rarely stepped on). The most obvious difference is that the staircase There is no trace of bird poop on it

The top of the West Tower is the Owl House. Wizards rarely come to this building because [Angels] often rain here. If you are not careful, you may be hit by the bombs of the Owl bombers flying back.

Although elves come to clean the stairs every night, it is inevitable that the stairs of this tower will leave some traces of being bombarded.

But this new staircase has no such traces, so it can be seen that this is indeed a new staircase.

Now that this has been proven, we need to find out what role this staircase plays.

Then Connor's claws became numb. What happened?

Connor walks up the stairs and jumps. Turns around and jumps. Walks down the stairs and jumps. Repeat x3

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"Conan. What's going on? There's no change at all."

"." Conan was also silent for a while, and then said: "There is indeed no change."

".When did you discover there was an extra set of stairs here?"

"An hour ago."

"Then when was the last time you went up and observed this staircase?"

"Ten: twenty-five the day before yesterday."

"." Connor was stunned. He turned his head stiffly and looked at Conan: "In other words, you don't know when this staircase appeared, right?"

".At present, it seems that it is indeed the case."

"..." Connor felt his head hurt. He rubbed the bridge of his nose and said, "It means this staircase may have appeared for a day or two, but nothing has happened until now, right?"

".At present, it seems that it is indeed the case."

"." Connor sighed: "Okay, okay, no matter what, this is a huge discovery. Maybe I can ask Dumbledore for advice. No, no, no, I can't just go to Dumbledore for everything." , He hasn’t mentioned this to me before, so telling him probably won’t be of much use. Let me think about it.”

Looking at Connor walking up and down the stairs, talking to himself, Conan and Helena looked at each other and neither of them made a sound to disturb him.

Obviously, the secret of Ravenclaw is close at hand, and Connor's mind will inevitably become restless. Several previous attempts have come back empty-handed, which makes Connor a little frustrated, but when he plans to put the treasure hunt on On the other hand, it suddenly became clear again unintentionally.

Now this sudden appearance of the stairs seems to remind Connor [The answer is already in front of you, can't you still see it? 】Like this, that's why Connor was a little excited.

Seeing victory in front of him, Connor felt that he could do it again. I will definitely be able to solve this secret alone and prove my ability! Don’t ask for help! I deal four!