On the line where Hogwarts itself and Harris Castle stood perpendicular to the midpoint of the triangular base line between the university and the primary school, in the southern part of the area planned as a commercial district, the most striking of all the sights already taking shape in Hogwarts's expansion plan was this oval open-air plaza enclosed by walls at least two hundred and thirty feet high.
It looked like an enlarged Quidditch Pitch, and within the towering walls, just like a stadium, trapezoid, tiered structures divided the space into many shops of varying sizes. The closer the shops were to the ground, the larger their floor space was, while on the outer walls, there were also structures resembling docks suspended high in the air, connected to those arched openings.
In the center of the plaza, many awnings had been drawn up directly, with empty stalls beneath them. Although they looked rough compared with the surrounding shops, their scale was so large that the wizards building the place could not help suspecting Allen planned to have every wizarding family in the United Kingdom send someone here to do business...
At that moment, Dementors were constantly drifting up and down above the mostly completed plaza, because on the central axis with Harris Castle and Hogwarts, in the northern part of the plaza near the Black Lake, stood an enormous, majestic building dominated by deep blue and edged with bronze. It was slightly larger than an ordinary wizarding town in its entirety, and its existence proclaimed the status of the Ravenclaw Goddess at Hogwarts.
At that moment, Lenn, who had just finished inspecting the construction site, arrived atop the gatehouse of the huge southern arcade gate of what was known as Ravenclaw Square.
Under the garden pergola outside the top-floor room,