Hogwarts: A little lion in the skin of the Eagle School

"Hey, John."

After the banquet began, everyone started eating, and the atmosphere in the hall became lively again.

Titus, carrying a plate of chicken legs, went to John's table in Eagle Courtyard and sat down right next to John.

"Didn't we agree to go to Badgerhouse together? Why did you come to Eaglehouse by yourself?"

Titus ate his chicken leg while speaking to John with dissatisfaction.

"Huh? Did we agree on that?"

"I winked at you on stage, and you nodded!"

Titus, seeing John's dismissive attitude of pulling up his trousers, immediately questioned him.

?

"You call that a good agreement?"

John looked completely bewildered.

"Then why did you nod?" Titus asked in a tone that suggested, "What else could I do?"

"I thought it was just a very ordinary exchange of glances, without any meaning."

John responded just as naturally.

"..."

"traitor!"

Titus paused for a moment, then spoke harshly.

Despite his words, he still sat next to John and silently ate his chicken leg.

Seeing that the chubby boy who had been chattering away with him all the way was now throwing a tantrum, John had no choice but to pick up a chicken leg and put it on his plate.

"I admit I was wrong, okay? I'll definitely be in the same college as you next time."

Seeing John admit his mistake and even give him a chicken leg, the chubby boy finally broke into a simple smile.

"It's a deal then, you must be assigned to our Badger Courtyard next time."

After saying that, he picked up the plate and left.

Titus paused halfway through his journey.

Wait a minute, where's the next time? The next life?

......

After the dinner, Robert, the prefect of Eagle House, led his Eagle House freshmen to their common room first.

The Ravenclaw common room, located in the tower on the west side of the castle, is also known as the Ravenclaw Tower.

They followed the prefect out of the meeting hall and came to the spiral staircase they had seen in the book.

These staircases change direction from time to time, and the surrounding area is covered with dense murals of portraits, in which the figures can talk and move.

The freshmen were all stunned by what they saw.

Following Prefect Robert's steps, they headed up the stairs on the right, then turned into the castle corridor, eventually arriving at the Ravenclaw Tower.

The group stopped in front of a huge bronze eagle-shaped gate.

"This is the entrance to the Ravenclaw lounge."

"Unlike other colleges, we don't need a password to enter, but we do need to answer the Bronze Eagle's questions."

"Of course, you don't need to line up and answer one by one; just one person answering is enough."

"Go forward now."

After saying that, Prefect Robert gave up his spot at the main entrance so that the freshmen could go up and experience it.

As they approached the bronze eagle, the eyes on its head gleamed.

"If prophecies are destined to come true, then do the warnings of a prophecy actually contribute to its fulfillment?"

The bronze eagle emitted a deep sound.

Upon hearing this question, John began to think, but not about the question itself.

Instead, I was thinking that these philosophical questions don't seem to have a single answer. Is it enough to just answer "yes" or "no"?

In any case, Bronze Eagle did not demand an explanation.

Just as John was about to give it a try, another eaglet spoke up first.

"If a prophecy is destined to come true, then it will happen regardless of whether there is a warning or not. Therefore, it is not the warning in the prophecy that causes the prophecy to come true."

After he finished speaking, Bronze Eagle did not answer whether it was right or wrong. Instead, with a muffled thud, the Bronze Eagle door slowly opened, revealing the passage to the lounge.

Hmm, judging from this setup, this way of entering is probably just to keep the eaglets rational and focused at all times.

Incidentally, it can also train their thinking and logical abilities from time to time, and even release unsolved mysteries to see if any geniuses can come up with answers.

Forget it, I'll try again when I come back on my own.

John was very curious about everything at the school, and he was already looking forward to his future academic life.

The Ravenclaw lounge is located at the top of the tower, which has several floors of dormitories and two floors of common lounges.

The lounge area is circular, decorated with vases, sofas, tables and chairs, two rows of bookshelves, and Eagle School flags hanging everywhere. There is also a statue embedded in the wall at the entrance to the lobby staircase.

Moreover, the circular wall is full of windows, and many of them are equipped with astronomical telescopes and planetariums.

There is also a small observatory on the top of the tower.

Although he hadn't seen the decorations of other lounges, John felt that the Ravenclaw lounge must be top-notch.

Upon arriving at the assigned dormitory, a four-person room, the room was quite large, with two bunk beds draped in blue starry sky curtains, four large desks and chairs, and a huge starry carpet spread out in the middle of a large open space.

There are some old books in the corner, probably left behind by a senior student.

Because not many people were assigned to Eagle School this year, there were only six boys including John, so they shared dorm rooms in groups of three, all on the same floor, making it easy for them to visit each other at any time.

......

After packing my luggage and making my bed, it was almost 10 o'clock. I have to go to class early tomorrow, so I should go to sleep.

However, the freshmen were all in a very excited state of mind, so it wasn't easy for them to fall asleep.

After John and his two roommates got to know each other briefly, they sat on the floor and started chatting. They were all around the same age, so there weren't many complicated details.

"John, I heard you fought a three-hundred-round battle with a Dementor on the train today?"

The speaker was a blond boy named Ryan Gray.

"Oh, the rumor I heard is that John beat the Dementors to a pulp?"

Another man, Ethan Holder, with curly hair and a much larger build than them, asked with a puzzled look.

"Is it possible that I'm the one who's been beaten and crawling on the ground...?"

John, somewhat speechless, said this as he heard their increasingly outrageous rumors.

"Besides, it only stopped for less than five minutes, so how could there have been a three-hundred-round battle?"

"I heard someone scream, so I went to check it out. The shadow was dark and I thought it was some kind of robber, so I pounced on it. But it turned out to be a Dementor."

"If Professor Lu Ping hadn't arrived later, I would have been a complete waste of time."

John briefly recounted the scene. Although he hadn't played any role, Ryan and Ethan still admired John for daring to go up and save people in that situation.

"You're so brave, maybe you should be sorted into Gryffindor."

Ryan said with a look of admiration.

"...The Sorting Hat said that wasn't bravery, it was recklessness..."

Ryan and Ethan were taken aback, then burst into laughter. The Sorting Hat seemed to be right after all.

Ryan comes from a pure-blood family, so he was diagnosed with magical talent at a very young age and knows far more about the wizarding world than Ethan and John.

Under his parents' guidance, he also learned some simple spells, such as the Flash and Levitation spells, which were taught in first grade. He learned them ahead of time and even demonstrated them to the two of them.

Ethan, being of mixed race, knew more about the wizarding world than John, but only a little more, since he only learned many things after his magical talent was detected.

They were assigned to Eagle School, and naturally they shared some common characteristics, namely, curiosity.

Ryan suggested that they explore the mysterious castle together when they had time.

John, who had also attended boarding school in his previous life and even sneaked out to go online at night, suddenly had a flash of inspiration and held up one finger.

"Eh!"

"How about we take a night tour of the castle tonight?"