Hogwarts on the Tip of the Tongue

At first, the stairs of Hogwarts Castle were still immobile.

However, the wise Ms. Roine Ravenclaw believes that a static learning environment will constrain people's thinking and wipe out the curiosity of the little wizards. So it didn't take long for the other three founders to be surprised to find that trying to find an unenchanted staircase in Hogwarts was harder than having a dead bird sing all the time.

What's even more desperate is that Ms. Roina, who has tossed through the stairs, has begun to turn her attention to the door in the castle-fortunately, finally found that the three founders who are not right have joined her to stop her behavior.

Since then, the common lounges of Slytherin College and Hufflepuff College have moved to the first floor of the castle, so that at least students will not miss breakfast because they can't find the way. As for the culprit responsible for all this, Ravenclaw College did not even live in the main castle.

On the contrary, Godric Gryffindor, full of adventurous spirit, after trying the changing castle stairs for several times, he closed the first floor entrance of Gryffindor Tower, so that Gryffindor College ’s Students had to enter and leave the common room through the hole in the eighth floor of the castle.

After a long time, the Gryffindor lion cubs finally became the group most familiar with school secrets. Of course, the cost is also there. Whenever there is a meal, the absence rate of the Gryffindor long table is always the first of the four colleges; at the same time, the most absenteeism and late arrivals are also Gryffindor.

Of course, these boring old things may only be recorded in the pile of historical documents in the library that no one has ever borrowed. But most of the little wizards at Hogwarts didn't know and didn't care why the stairs of Hogwarts Castle moved. In their view, this seems to be as normal as the sun rises from the east every day.

Why did you talk about this suddenly, it is because--

"So where is this place? It should be, the fifth floor ... right?"

It's another familiar three-way junction.

Elena glanced around with some uncertainty, tiptoed on the edge of the corridor railing, and carefully layered downstairs.

Why have n’t even a wise principal appeared for so many years, considering adding floor signs and classroom name signs to Hogwarts Castle.

It turns out that most of the portraits and ghosts in Hogwarts are not so reliable.

Except for those characters with obvious self-consciousness appearing in the original work, most of the ghosts and dynamic portraits are not so much a continuation of life, but rather the echoes of the wizards who have lived in this world.

"Welcome to Hogwarts. I believe you will have a very meaningful time here."

Just in the frame on the wall behind Elena, a middle-aged man dressed as a medieval noble put down the monocular in his right hand and nodded his head sympathetically. This was the third time he said it. By comparison, the portrait of the barbarian warrior who can do nothing but roaring just now is quite polite.

"Thank you, but I'm lost now. If you can tell me how to go up the stairs to the sixth floor, I will be very grateful."

Silver-haired little Lori turned around and sighed helplessly, her eyes moving back and forth in the corridor. If one day she could become the principal of Hogwarts, the first thing would be to introduce an "elevator" like the Ministry of Magic in the school. Then on each floor floor, labeling directions every other distance.

"Stairs? Oh, yes, the moving stairs in Hogwarts are quite interesting." The noble man in the painting raised his eyebrows, smiled gently, and whispered in a tone similar to storytelling. Talking.

"Did you know, in fact, in this era, many buildings have appeared stairs that can move by themselves. According to their form, they are divided into elevators, escalators, moving walkways ... Which one do you think Hogwarts is more suitable for? ? "

Without being answered by the characters in Tucao's portrait, Elena distinguished the front, back, left, and right, determined that the direction she was going to move was not the position when she came up, and continued to ask absently.

"Sorry, I don't understand what you are talking about."

The nobles of the Middle Ages frowned, a little confused, and there was still nothing wrong with their manners.

"So change the question," Elena turned her head, and suddenly said something that had nothing to do with the previous topic, "The cat is sitting on the blanket because it is warm, what is warm?"

"I think, of course, because the blanket is very warm." The noble man in the painting replied in hat.

"Congratulations, you have passed a part of the Turing test. Your cleverness has beaten 30% of the portraits I have encountered." (Click here to see more about the [Turing Test])

Elena shrugged her shoulders and praised a few words in a formative tone-unlike artificial intelligence, it seems to be a portrait of a living human trace, many of which can pass through some of the original "human nature" memories To answer the logical question.

but……

The silver-haired witch's beautiful lake blue eyes blinked lightly and continued casually.

"In addition to blankets made of animal fiber, there are many blankets made of acrylic and viscose. Acrylic is a kind of fiber that is similar to wool in appearance, feel, elasticity, and heat retention, and is processed by spinning. Viscose fiber Cellulose fibers are obtained by extracting and reshaping fiber molecules from natural wood cellulose using "wood" as the raw material. "

"Excuse me, which one is warmer, acrylic or viscose?"

According to Elena ’s incomplete test summary along the way, as well as the description of JKR in the original book, in her view, the magic portraits that appeared in Hogwarts Castle can be roughly divided into four categories.

The simplest category is the common animations of later generations.

They are just repeating a certain scene, such as a portrait of a goblin that has been beheaded continuously, or a photo saved by a magic camera.

The characters inside do not actually have much interaction with the outside world. With the reset of the "play progress bar", some behaviors will start again and again. The entire behavior is an independent closed-loop display window, no matter whether it is noisy, swaying, provocative, or even tempting, it can't affect the characters in it.

This category is not too much in the castle, but Elena speculates that maybe the chocolate frog card should also use such magic-after all, if the characters on the chocolate frog card can answer the question, then it is estimated that all wizards When walking in the rivers and lakes, it will be the same as in [Game King] or [The Witcher 3-Quinte], each person carries hundreds of wizard cards.

The second category is quite common, as if it were a simple artificial intelligence.

You can ask them some simple questions. According to some mysterious magic principle, they will make some simple responses: such as blinking, smiling, angry, and some answers stored in their question bank.

Elena estimates that this may be a bit similar to Siri, which has not yet come out at this time. To be precise, not to mention Siri in most cases, even if it is QQ Xiaobing or the magical [manual] customer service of the goose factory Not as good.

Not to mention the Turing test, even a little more difficult mathematical problem, or a brainstorm can cause them to report various errors.

The third, and most common, is the existence of a noble man in the portrait in front of what Elena calls "echo of memory."

In Elena ’s opinion, they are a bit similar to the memory drawn by Professor Dumbledore in the original book when using the meditation basin-to some extent, the character of the original character, a small amount of memory, and perhaps a A little bit between soul and memory, the mysterious existence called "human nature".

The part of the portrait of "human nature" that is relatively complete can even pass a part of the Turing test smoothly. At least some questions that require common sense or moral values ​​in human society can be answered correctly.

Of course, it is quite common to answer questions that are not asked in this way.

After all, they do n’t really think like humans. If you ’re unlucky, the lost half-breed baby girl often needs to ask for several portraits to get the path to the upper level.

And the easiest way to distinguish this is ...

"Sorry, I don't understand what you are talking about."

Hearing Elena ’s use of [acrylic] and [viscous fiber] as keywords, the noble man in the portrait repeated again, just a few minutes ago the sentence he just said-even in the previous sentence The girl has already explained the meaning of these two nouns.

"It's okay, I'm just passing the boring pathfinding time. Sorry, in short, thank you for your help." Elena waved her hand with a smile, without explaining much, thanks to the ancestral woman of the Kaslana family Intuitively, choose a direction to go forward.

Yes, they are nothing more than a "memory echo" that was intercepted after all.

No matter how time goes back, no matter what new things they are exposed to, they can no longer learn and understand, and integrate into the original "echoes of past memories" just like the packaged precision instruments ~ www.ltnovel.com ~ For the whole world, from the moment they started to move in the painting, even earlier, time has stopped forever, and will never move forward even for a microsecond.

This applies even to Dumbledore's office, a portrait of the former male and female principals. What they leave behind is nothing more than the precious experience and way of thinking of the passing people, not the so-called immortal soul originally imagined by Elena.

Of course, there is a fourth ...

In the real sense, the level of the soul is involved, and all the science of that previous life has not been touched, but only through some mysterious realms of incomplete inference and conjecture.

The silver-haired witch's eyes flickered, and when you think about it, the treasures in Hogwarts are not necessarily hidden in secret rooms. However, more conjectures can only be verified one by one after the formal start of magic learning.

The most important thing now is that the road to the principal's office must be found quickly.

If you accidentally let the spicy old radish know her fatal weakness, God knows what terrible moves will come up.

Thinking about it, the mixed-race little Meiwa raised her head and perseveredly looked at a new portrait beside him and asked politely.

"Hello, I'm lost. Can you tell me how to get to the stairs to the sixth floor?"

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Ahhh, I'm lost again. Just buy fruit next to my house, and then want to take a short cut ... I think it's mainly because you walk while coding and then get lost.

Fortunately, mobile phone positioning, thanks to technological progress, thanks to modern society.

In fact, in my opinion, according to the original description, there is actually a fifth form of magic portrait.

At night, there is a chapter ... right?