Greedy Plunderer

"What is the beginning of eternity? Is it the end of time and space, or the beginning of every end?"

After posing the question, the Eagle Bronze Door Knocker fell silent again, seemingly waiting for the person being questioned to answer.

Albert frowned, muttered the riddle of the Eagle Bronze Door Knocker to himself, and complained, "I hate riddles."

At a crucial moment, Albert was blocked by a riddle, which made him feel very uncomfortable.

Albert knew he probably couldn't guess the answer, at least not for the time being.

Solving this puzzle is actually quite simple; you just need to understand all the riddles. The questions asked by the Eagle Bronze Door Knocker will inevitably be repeated.

After all, not all Ravenclaw students are brilliant geniuses who can answer questions because they already know the answers from others.

Knowledge is meant to be learned.

When someone cannot answer the question posed by the Eagle Bronze Door Knocker, they can only wait for someone else to answer it, thus learning knowledge they do not yet understand.

Not being Ravenclaw student, one naturally wouldn't have the opportunity to learn the answer to getting past the Eagle Bronze Door Knocker from other upperclassmen, and thus wouldn't be able to pass through this simple barrier.

Even for a genius, it is not easy to immediately arrive at the answer when they have never encountered a similar riddle before.

Albert never considered himself a genius, so he didn't expect to be able to answer the question about the Eagle Bronze Door Knocker immediately.

Should I really use the Disillusionment Charm to stake out the entrance to the Ravenclaw Common Room and eavesdrop on the riddle and answer to the Eagle Bronze Door Knocker knocker?

This is absolutely absurd!

Even if I get some riddles and answers from Ravenclaw students, the riddles will definitely be different the next time I come.

"This is really a headache!" Albert muttered to himself.

He has temporarily given up answering the question about the Eagle Bronze Door Knocker, unless it happens to ask about the Phoenix and fire.

But the chances of that are extremely slim.

Albert wrote down the riddle and got up to leave the Room of Requirement. Anyway, he already knew how to get in; he could come back another time to answer the question about the Eagle Bronze Door Knocker.

After leaving the Room of Requirement, Albert went straight to the library.

"Where did you just go?" Fred asked, looking up. "I heard from others that you stepped into the library and then turned around and left."

"I suddenly remembered something." Albert sat down in the empty seat that Lee Jordan and Fred had reserved for him.

"What is it?" Fred asked again.

Albert took out his notebook, turned to the page with the riddles, and showed it to Fred.

"What?" Lee Jordan leaned closer and was stunned when he saw the contents of the notebook.

"A riddle, can you guess the answer?" Albert asked the group.

"How much free time do you have!" Lee Jordan pulled his head back and continued to do his holiday homework, clearly unable to guess the answer either.

George also came over out of curiosity, but after glancing at him, he went back to doing his holiday homework.

This guy always likes to study those weird and strange things.

The three of them lamented how ridiculous their roommates were; instead of wasting time thinking about riddles, they should have done more practice problems.

Albert didn't expect anyone to help him solve the problem, so he began to read the riddle carefully.

What is the beginning of eternity? What is the end of time? What is the end of space? What is the beginning of each end?

"There should be something in common between them."

Albert pondered carefully and wrote down the information he had analyzed on a draft paper.

First, that thing must be eternal and related to time and space? "Moment?"

If time is eternal, then the very first moment of time is the beginning of eternity, and the last moment of a period of time is the end of that period, right? Is it the beginning of each end? If time is divided into segments and linked together, then each end point is the beginning of another period of time? But... what's with the end of space?

Could it be referring to four-dimensional space?

People have speculated that four-dimensional space refers to time.

Well, it seems barely acceptable.

What a joke!

Albert didn't believe that was the answer the Eagle Bronze Door Knocker was looking for; he even doubted whether the wizard knew what four-dimensional space was.

Even though wizards far surpass Muggle in their research on time.

So... this definitely can't be the right answer... which means...

"Could I be falling into a cognitive bias?" Albert stared at the riddle.

"The answer here is not to replace something else, but to refer to the commonality of eternity, time, space, and the end."

What do eternity, time, space, and the end have in common? Albert ran his finger over the word "eternity," murmured it, and then froze.

Eternal? At that moment, Albert suddenly felt that he knew the answer to the riddle: the word for time is time, the word for space is place, and the word for end is End.

So... the answer to the eagle-shaped bronze door is actually E?

Is this a common alphabet riddle in Britain? Albert looked at the 'e' in his notebook and thought it was a better answer than 'time' for the Eagle Bronze Door Knocker.

"Looks like I'm not so stupid after all; at least I guessed the answer."

Are you deliberately mocking us?

Upon hearing Albert's words, Fred couldn't help but roll his eyes at him.

If you still call us stupid, then what are we? Troll?

"Why aren't you doing your holiday homework?" Angelina looked up from the parchment and couldn't help but ask.

"Albert is enjoying the thrill of solving the riddle!" Lee Jordan asked, turning his head. "What's the answer?"

"The letter 'e'".

"Where did you get this riddle?" Angelina glanced at it and muttered, "It doesn't seem too difficult."

"That's because you've already heard the answer, so it's not difficult." Lee Jordan looked at Angelina speechlessly. He had just seen the riddle and hadn't thought about it at all.

"You wouldn't be thinking of trying to solve the Ravenclaw Eagle Ring Riddle, would you?" Aylia looked at Albert suspiciously and continued, "It's said that some Ravenclaw students have solved over a hundred Eagle Ring Riddle correctly."

"That's a good idea," Albert nodded. "I'll try it out when I have some free time."

"I'm curious how the Ravenclaw students will react when they find out," George said, looking up. "When you're going, remember to call me."

"You'd be lucky if you could answer a few?"

"We have faith in you," Fred said to George. "We believe you are certainly smarter than the students of Ravenclaw."

"I don't even have confidence myself, where do you two get your confidence from?" Albert glanced at the Task Panel and saw a new task: The Greedy Plunderer.

You'll discover the fun of the Eagle Ring challenges, trying to answer a hundred Eagle Ring Riddle in one go, letting the Ravenclaw students know that they're not the only ones who can solve Ravenclaw Eagle Ring Riddle.

Current progress: 0/100.

Rewards: 10,000 experience points, 1 Skill Points, +100 Magical World Reputation, and gain a specified Panel Skill.