Chapter 49: Riddle!

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"He had it all set up so when he spoke the food would appear, clever."

I could see a couple of older students start to shake their head in disbelief and I smirked, I must have been the first one to put that together for them, guess the house of the smart isn't as smart as it thinks.

As I was eating another voice spoke, "Are you really a Black?" It was a male voice this time and I looked to see it was a blond boy my age who had been sorted a little while after.

"Yes, I am," I replied, "I'm sorry but I didn't catch your name?" I asked, I felt like I recognised him but I couldn't place him.

"Anthony Goldstein," the Boy replied to my question, "But aren't Blacks always in Slytherin?"

I shrugged, "Well Mr Goldstein. That may have been the case in the past with my ancestors, but I wasn't raised a Black so it makes sense that I wouldn't have the same values as most of them, and thus I wouldn't be sorted the same."

I stated, but I could see that others were getting ready to ask questions now that the first one had been asked.

'I'd betted nip this in the bud now before the flood gates open', I thought before speaking.

"Now I would thank everyone if they could keep such questions about myself and my family till we get to the dorm room, I don't know about the rest of you but I'm hungry after the train ride and I want to enjoy my dinner."

I said and I could see others nodding in agreement as they started back to their meals and idle chatter with each other.

I continued to eat my meal keeping my eyes down and away from the staff table, to prevent any chance of a passive legilimency probe from either Dumbledore or Snape, both of whom I knew were likely both glancing at me or Harry.

But right now they weren't the only problems in the room given what I knew was under Quirrell's turban.

Fact is I was a little nervous and it was only thanks to my occlumency training that I was appearing as calm as I was.

I knew not to misjudge the dark lord just because he was a shade.

He was still in possession of Quirrell, and I knew that the whole stuttering show was just an act, Quirrell was a threat and a dangerous one, one that I intended to keep an eye on.

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Eventually the feast wound down to a close and each of the groups of the first years were lead out of the great hall and started into the grand staircase.

I followed along with Daphne, Tracey and the other Ravenclaw first years as we were led by a blond prefect which if I recalled correctly was Penelope Clearwater, Percy Weasley's girlfriend, that was if they had started dating already.

I was never clear on when they did.

As we all walked I did my best to memorise the path, it would definitely take some time to get used to the castles huge layout, and then the absolute insanity of the changing stairs in the grand staircase.

It was another five minutes before we all began to come to a halt in front of a wall with a large door with a large bronze eagle knocker in its front and the prefect, Penelope turned to us.

"Here we are, now unlike the other houses who use regular single word passwords as their security, in Ravenclaw we have to answer a riddle to enter, a way to prove our intelligence."

"If you get it wrong you will have to wait for another to come along before you can come in as the riddle will only be asked once to each person and only they may answer," Penelope explained to us and there were a number of murmured responses to that from around myself.

"Now let's see what the riddle for this evening is then," Penelope said before she turned back to the bronze eagle as we all watched.

We all watched on as the eagle's eye opened and it flexed its neck as its head turned to Penelope before its bronze beak opened and it began to speak in a rather metallic voice.

"You are in a room with no windows, doors or any exit. The only items are a mirror and a table. How do you escape?"

I smirked hearing that realizing the answer straight away but that smirk fell when I looked around and saw others looking confused, even Daphne and Tracey looked like they didn't get it.

And Penelope looked deep in thought for a couple of moments before speaking, "Do I have my wand?"

The eagle knocker shook his head, "No"

Penelope sighed looking a little embarrassed to have gotten the puzzle wrong before she turned back to us, "anyone want to give it a try then?" she asked, no one immediately stepped forward, I sighed and did so.

I could feel everyone looking to me as the eagle head looked down at me before speaking again. "You are in a room with no windows, doors or any exit. The only items are a mirror and a table. How do you escape?"

I smirked, "You look in the mirror to see what you saw, you take the saw and cut the table in half, two halves make a whole then you climb through the hole!" I stated much to the murmured confusion behind me.

The eagle knocker knocked its head, "your logic is sound, you may enter," it spoke before it retook its original pose and the door clicked open and swung inward revealing a winding staircase leading up to the tower.

I turned back to my confused looking housemates and I smirked, "it was a word play riddle, words that sound the same but have different meanings," I said as I could see it started to dawn on some of them.

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