You wander up the staircase to the fifth floor, looking around as you do. You spot what you were looking for and make your way towards a spiral staircase. You climb up it, trailing your hand across the stone as you ascend. When you finally reach the top, you are faced with a door lacking a doorknob and keyhole. The only thing on this bare door is a bronze knocker in the shape of an eagle.
You gently touch it.
"I speak without a mouth and hear without ears.
I have no body, but I come alive with wind.
What am I?"
I have no body, but I come alive with wind.
What am I?"
You jump when it speaks. When you've collected yourself, you calmly recite the answer.
"An echo."
The door swings open and you venture inside to a circular room in which there is a midnight blue carpet. This room is airy and feels roomier than the other Common Rooms. There are arched windows which are draped with soft, blue silks and a domed ceiling painted with stars. Outside the windows, you can see the mountains clearly and you gaze at those before you turn your attention to the furniture of the room. There are chairs, bookcases, and tables at which to work at. Everything is colored either blue or bronze, which are your House colors.
There is a door which leads to both the girls dorms and boys dorms. The staircase splits halfway up; girls go left, boys go right. Any boy who tries to get to the girls' dorms will go up an endless flight of stairs, not making any progress upward.
Beside the door to the dorm staircase, is the tall statue of Rowena Ravenclaw made of white marble.
There is also a bulletin board which students may post announcements, report lost items, school notices, ads, and etc. upon.
Please be sure to think about the answer to the riddle before you say it so that you're not locked out! Those who answer incorrectly will be locked out until another student answers the riddle correctly.
"Or yet in wise old Ravenclaw,
If you've a ready mind,
Where those of wit and learning,
Will always find their kind."
-The Sorting Hat
If you've a ready mind,
Where those of wit and learning,
Will always find their kind."
-The Sorting Hat