Connor's Hogwarts

Chapter 289 The Staircase Appeared Suddenly

Hogwarts Castle, West Tower, eighth floor, below the spiral staircase leading to the Owl Hut.

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 that there is really an extra staircase."

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

Moreover, the changing pattern of the stairs in the West Tower remains unchanged throughout the year, but the sudden appearance of this section of stairs has completely broken the original pattern.
"I just discovered it too. When I passed by here today, I noticed that there was a problem with the change of the stairs. After careful observation, I found that there was an extra staircase."

In the picture frame behind Connor, Conan pushed the reflective black-rimmed glasses, and said: "This shows that the stairs in the west tower are actually part of the Hogwarts staircase change system. The assumptions we made on the other four parts of the stairs alone are all It can be overturned."

Connor shook his head, and said solemnly, "But the stairs at this time last year haven't changed, right? Why is there such an extra staircase this year?"

"Last year there was none, and I can prove it. As for why there is a change this year, I think the answer is already obvious"

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

That's right, this year is 1992, and there are 29 days in February, which is a leap month every four years.

"Yes, it's 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 sections of stairs in each tower and the overall change There is a one-to-one correspondence between the law and the year and month!"

"." Connor was silent for a while, and then shook his head: "No, no, the cycle may be four years, but if the month is really affected by the month, does it mean that the other four towers Is the number of stair steps corresponding to the month?"

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

"." Conan didn't speak, he was just an observation tool with no emotions, and reasoning was not his strong point
"And it's not February [-]st now, wait, what date is it today?"

"February ninth."

"Yeah, it's the 21th! If the number of steps really correlates to the month, why is it changing now? And not at the beginning of the month? And this staircase only has 28 knots! Isn't that right? Shouldn't it be 29 or [-] knots ?"

"." Conan pushed his black-rimmed glasses, he didn't want to talk, he was just a tool man
Facing the strange staircase, everyone fell into deep thought.
"Forget it, Conan, go find Helena first, maybe she knows something."

Conan nodded and left the frame, and soon a ghost slowly rose from Connor's feet. Conan was professional in finding someone.

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

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

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

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

Helena looked again, put her hands on her shoulders and said, "21 stairs, what's wrong?"

"." Connor took a deep look at Helena, as if looking at an Aqua: "Do you know how many knots this staircase used to be?"

"Huh? Who has nothing to do to count the stairs? Are you sick?"

"." Connor opened his mouth, he was at a loss for words for a while, and he didn't know how to complain. Indeed, if it wasn't for the discovery of Conan the tool man, who would look like a dick and run to count the stairs?

In fact, when Connor first came here, he couldn’t find any difference between the stairs here and before. If he hadn’t counted them one by one before, and knew that there were indeed 20 stairs here, Connor couldn’t believe that there would be more stairs out of thin air. come out.
"What? Is there a problem with the number of stairs?" Helena finally sensed that something was wrong with the atmosphere, and asked with a guilty conscience.

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

"Have you solved the real riddle?!" 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 actually wanting to ask this ghost girl for help
Connor turned his head, ignored the stupid ghost, and asked, "Conan, do you know which staircase is new?"

"Well, there, it is the third section from the bottom, and that section of stairs completely destroyed the original movement of the stairs."

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

"Shut up!" Connor cursed back angrily, "You stupid ghost, I don't beg you to help me, can you keep quiet!?"

"You!" Helena was so angry that she became transparent, but when she thought of relying on this old man to find the treasure, she dared not speak out, and it took a long time to choke out a sentence: "Rough men have no grace You're not a passing Ravenclaw at all."

Connor didn't bother to pay attention to this stupid ghost, he floated to the new section of stairs and observed carefully.

From a distance, there seems to be no difference between this new staircase and other staircases, but after careful observation, you will find that this staircase is indeed much "younger" (it seems that people rarely step on it), the most obvious difference is that the stairs No trace of bird poop
On the top of the west tower is the owl shack. This building is rarely visited by wizards, because there are often [angels] here, and if you don’t pay attention, 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 traces of being bombed more or less
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 proved, the next step is to find out what the purpose of this staircase is.
Then Connor got numb, what's wrong with this...?

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 here? It hasn't changed at all."

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

".When did you find out that there is an extra flight of stairs here?"

"An hour ago."

"And when was the last time you looked at this staircase?"

"Ten twenty-five in the morning the day before yesterday."

"." Connor was stunned, he turned his head stiffly, and looked at Conan: "That is to say. You don't know when this staircase appeared, do you?"

".So far, it seems that it is."

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

".So far, it seems that it is."

"." Connor sighed: "Well, well, anyway, this is a huge discovery. Maybe I can ask Dumbledore. No, no, I can't go to Dumbledore for everything. , he didn’t mention this to me before, so it’s probably not very useful to tell him. Let me think about it.”

Seeing Connor walking up and down the stairs, talking to himself, Conan and Helena glanced at each other, and neither made any further interruptions.

Obviously, the secret of Ravenclaw is close at hand, and Connor's mind will inevitably become agitated. The previous attempts have all come back empty-handed, which makes Connor a little frustrated, but now that he plans to put the treasure hunt on While on the sidelines, suddenly, unintentionally, the hidden flowers brighten up.

Now the sudden appearance of the stairs seems to remind Connor [the answer is already in front of you, can't you see it? ] That's why Connor was a little excited.

Seeing that the victory is just around the corner, Connor feels that he can do it again. I will definitely be able to unlock this secret alone and prove my ability!Don't ask for help!I send four!
(End of this chapter)