HP: Hogwarts, but pro-generation

Xia came to the corridor and was torn between going to the other rooms on the third floor and taking the stairs to other floors. After much hesitation, she decided to go upstairs first.

The stair handrails at Priest Manor were different from the smooth handrails at Hopes' house. There were many patterns carved on them. Xia stopped at the corner between the two floors. She carefully observed the patterns and put her hand on it to touch it carefully. It took her a while to realize what was carved on it.

"Unicorn? No wonder I always feel like I've seen it somewhere." Xia said to herself.

After knowing that the pattern above was a unicorn, Xia looked at the patterns again and felt that everything looked very easy to recognize. She went upstairs while groping, "This is a human-shaped pattern, oh! There is also a tree, and then four people? But what is dripping here? Merlin, what does it mean? It can't be a random pattern, right?"

She walked upwards along the pattern, skipping the fourth floor and arriving at the fifth floor, which was the end of the stair railing and also the end of the pattern.

Xia sat on the top step, thinking about the patterns. She pondered for a long time but still couldn't figure out the connection. Finally, she stood up and straightened the folds of her skirt, and decided to put aside her thoughts for the time being. She thought it would be more interesting to explore the manor.

For example, here——

Xia stood in front of a dark door that looked very heavy and much taller than her. It was also carved with ancient patterns. This time, Xia really couldn't recognize what was on it. She wanted to reach out and push the door open, but strangely, before her hand touched the door, she saw ripples like water waves rising from the center of the door, and accompanied by a burst of light, the door opened.

"Wow." Xia exclaimed. It was amazing. It was a pity that Ander was not there. Why didn't she and Ander think of going upstairs to play before?

Xia couldn't wait to enter the room. She looked around and found that everything was neatly arranged. Her intuition told her that the layout here had not changed since the room was arranged. It was like some magic, the place was very clean, different from the cleanliness that Carl had cleaned. It felt as if no one had ever been in here.

The two sides of the room were occupied by sculptures and picture frames covered with black cloth. Xia saw that the black cloth was not covered with dust. She wanted to lift the black cloth to see what kind of portraits were on it. Why were they not hung on the stairs and corridors like other portraits?

However, Xia's attention was first attracted by these sculptures. She looked at them and commented from time to time:

“Is this a monkey?”

"Hey, there's a turtle!"

"Wow, this lion looks really majestic. Oh, and there's a snake here! Wait, is that a little badger and an eagle next to it? Could it be that the ancestors of the Priest family were crazy fans of the founder?"

Before Xia could continue to explore her ancestors' hobbies, she was attracted by another statue.

"It's so beautiful." Xia stood in front of a unicorn statue and sighed sincerely. She noticed that behind the unicorn, there was a statue of a bird. She couldn't tell what animal the statue was, but she felt that the person who carved the statue must have had a lot of opinions about the bird. It was not in the same style as the other statues - it could barely be considered in the same style as the monkey and the turtle.

After admiring these statues, Xia thought that perhaps the owners of the statues were in these portraits. She didn't know what the tempers of these portraits were like, but, "Sorry, I'll just open it and take a look. Don't be angry."

She apologized in advance before lifting a black cloth. After all, each of the portraits she had seen had a different personality. Some liked to chat with people, some liked to be alone, and some were always complaining...

"Oh! I've seen you!" Xia lifted the black cloth, and unexpectedly saw a familiar face in the portrait. She opened her eyes wide in disbelief.

"Really? But this is our first meeting. Let me introduce myself. My name is Gordy. Just call me Gordy."

The portrait was of the knight that Xia had met at Hogwarts. Although they had interacted at Hogwarts, it was the first time Xia knew his name.

"Hello, Gordie, I'm Sylvia. I've seen you so many times in Hogwarts, but this is the first time I know your name."

"Is that so? It seems that the me in Hogwarts was really not that good. I didn't even exchange names." Gordie said. Suddenly, his eyes were fixed straight ahead. He asked sharply, "What is that?!"

Xia followed his gaze and saw the monkey statue. She answered uncertainly, "A monkey statue, I think? But what's the matter?"

"Oh, nothing, nothing." Gordie said, but he didn't look like nothing happened. "Can you open the other portraits for me? Thank you."

He pleaded with Xia, his eyes full of expectation. After getting Xia's affirmative reply, he smiled and said, "Thank you so much, Sylvia!"

Xia pulled open the other canvases and was shocked to find that the people in the portraits were all the ones she had seen in Hogwarts, such as the "knight" Goldie just now, and now she saw the "quiet" person, the kind brown-haired lady, and the lady who appeared last and was reading under the tree.

However, the last two portraits she opened were of two people she had never seen before. One looked like an ancestor of Priest's family. Her white hair and blue eyes were very recognizable. The other was a man with black hair and green eyes. Well, Xia guessed, he couldn't be the ancestor of the Hopes family, right?

Although Xia had some suspicions in her mind, she did not show them. After she opened the canvas of the white-haired lady, she heard Gordie squeeze out a sentence from between his teeth: "I really need to question her."

Then Xia sat in the open space in the middle of the room, quietly watching Gordie get into the picture frame of the person who was suspected to be the ancestor of the Priest family, and then the two began some "friendly" exchanges.

"Lillian!" Gordie gritted his teeth and said, "What does that mean?!"

He pointed at the monkey statue angrily. Looking in the direction of his finger, the white-haired lady named Lillian suddenly understood, "Why, don't you understand? That's what the statue means."

"Monkey!? That's a monkey! Do you understand?"

"what happened?"

"Who is the monkey? Is there anyone among us who is a monkey?"

"Let me think about it, it seems that there is no such thing, but there is one with a similar color scheme, called a Griffin?"

"It's just the same color scheme! Also, please call me Griffin. Griffins are not monkeys. I can't imagine how you made the connection!"

"Hey, that was just my practice piece, and I didn't say it was you."

Gordie was frustrated to find that he couldn't refute Lillian's words. He angrily returned to his own frame, imitated Xia and sat down cross-legged. He said to Xia with a very serious expression: "See, making friends is a cautious matter, otherwise--" He pointed his mouth in the direction of Lillian, "You will have these annoying companions."

"Oh, but I already have annoying companions." Xia thought of the scenes where she usually quarreled with James and Ender or any of them, and she answered Gordie's words honestly.

"Poor little guy," Gordie sighed.

The remaining few people who had just been immersed in the quarrel between Gordie and Lillian only now found the energy to pay attention to the little witch sitting in the middle of the room.

"She's so much like you, Lillian."

Everyone was saying the same thing.