Honestly, there was no way for him to justify WHY he was HERE of all places... but curiosity had begged him to take the trip. It was a short trip, considering his own common room was not far from here, and he rather liked stairs.. so... yeah.

Here he was in all his glory, and here too was the knocker that was apparently a riddler and was going to test his smartness before permitting him entrance to Ravenclaw. HA!

Would you believe their only safeguard was a knocker?! They were practically INVITING people to visit. Ravenclaw's weren't the ONLY smart ones in the school after all.

There was no point in being shifty about this, because there was nowhere for him to hide as such, so without ANY hesitation, he gave the knocker a prod with his finger. Very technical indeed. Or was he suppose to knock with it? RIDDLE HIM!

Always studying. Always. Except not. He HAD been studying just now though. Kyroh hopped up the steps happily, potions books in hand. He was technically looking at books for sixth years and it was complicated but he liked being ahead. At least when it came to potions.

....He would have to study Astronomy sometimes though.

Turning toward the common room, Kyroh stopped in his tracks as he noticed someone by the hocker. Oooh Zeke? He wasn't a Ravenclaw. Sneaking up behind the boy, the fourth year watched with interest.

He was thinking the door was broken, but then the eagle knocker SPOKE!

IT SPOKE!

"Which came first, the phoenix, or the flame?"

... "Uuuhhhhhhh............"

Well.

That was a bit of a doozy.

What KIND of flame? It hadn't quite specified. Was FIRE itself OLDER than Phoenix's???

He figured it might be.

...

"The flame!" he announced, chest puffed out with pride.

...

Why wasn't it letting him in?

"I said, the FLAME," he repeated, arms straight at his sides. "THE FLAME!"

No? Not the flame?

"The phoenix! It was the phoenix then!"

Needless to say Zeke was a little preoccupied with the door that was OBVIOUSLY dumb.

Was the knocker going to give him an easy one or a hard one? Probably a hard one because Zeke wasn't a Ravenclaw and didn't belong. But did the knocker know that? Titling his head Kyroh watched the scene unfold before him.

Ahhh, the phoenix, or the flame question.

He had gotten this one night in his second year. It didn't take him long to come to a conclusion that the knocker seemed to accept but that was because he was excited by the trick question.

Zeke didn't seem to be TOO excited though. "You can't just change your answer like that!"

For a split second he thought the knocker had barked back at him, but he quickly realised that the voice had come from behind.

Uhhhh... whoops?

It wasn't necessarily a scathing voice, it didn't sound as if he'd be getting detention or anything, so slowly... SLOWLY... he turned to face whomever it may have been.

A Ravenclaw. A Kyroh.

"Heyyy!" he beamed, thrilled it was just the fourth year and not some stuck-up seventh year or Professor person. "I don't see why not, I mean, if you realise your error you should get to make up for it." No? Wasn't that the whole point in being smart, EVENTUALLY GETTING IT RIGHT?

He hadn't meant to expose himself but now that he had-"Hey!" Kyroh grinned back, before taking a few steps so he was right beside the younger boy. "Nothing's really wrong with it. But that's sort of why you're suppose to think about the answer before you say it out loud." At least that's what he did, especially when a question had him stumped. Run the question through is brain, think of all the possibly solutions, then proceeded to do process of elimination. Then usually that didn't work at all. So that only resulted in more elimination.

It was really an important checklist. Eyes twinkling he glanced at Zeke. "Do you need my help?"

Thinking before speaking?............ Where was the fun in that? But in all seriousness, he didn't see why it was better than putting faith in your gut feeling/thought. Actions spoke louder than words, did they not? So... confidence, needed to be a thing.

"I guess I must be a Gryffindor then," he decided with a small shrug, the whole speaking/acting before thinking, though in all fairness he HAD thought about the question, he just got the wrong answer, and apparently the right answer wasn't good enough either. When Kyroh suggested he might be able to help, Zeke realised he had an ally. "You're going to help me break into your common room?" he questioned skeptically, "Sure."

Zeke was funny. For a Gryffindor. "Uhuh. Thought you knew by now by the colour of your robes."

Wrinkling his nose, the fourthh year shook his head. "Helping you break into the common room' sounds so loaded. Like you're doing something bad. I prefer......accommodating your visits." That made sense right? Yeah? Even if it wasn't they would go with that. He didn't see a problem with visiting other peoples common rooms anyways. Wasn't house unity a good thing? "I figure it's all right as long as you don't start a fire. We have loads of books and that wouldn't be good."

"Now i'm gonna help you, but i'm not gonna tell you the answer." It was an old trick he had learned from his 2.5 hours of being a Professor back in the day. Ahem. "First things first, riddles more often then not don't have the answer in the question."That would be toooooo easy.

Not literally, he didn't mean literally.... OF COURSE HE WAS A GRYFFINDOR. Bah!

"No, I mean like, how we're more one thing than another, I guess I really am more Gryffindor than.. well... any of the other house traits." GEDDIT? Or did little young him have to draw the Ravenclaw a diagram? Cause he could probably figure out how to.

But then, why he had to teach a Ravenclaw who spoke about LOADED things, was beyond him. "I.... guess...." OKAY. WE ACCPET YOUR TERMS RAVENCLAW! "Accommodate my visit then." No pressure or anything. "And why would I draw attention to myself like that? I'd rather use those books to build a cubby house." A much better use of outdated musty books, no? And sssssiiiiggghhhh ... he wasn't interested in being helped, he wanted answers, answers meant he COULD go in.

But apparently that wasn't going to happen, he was being prompted about the riddle.

"So what? A unicorn came first?" he asked, unsure of what Kyroh was getting at.

It was, unfortunately, time for Sophie Brown to get her Charms homework done. It wasn't a difficult task by any means - she'd mastered the charm just fine and it wasn't like he wanted them to do anything insanely difficult in the first place. They were just charming the colors of objects to be their own house color, and... Sophie was pretty grateful that her house color was blue. Of all the colors she could be changing things to, blue was absolutely the best.

Though purple or pink would've been even COOLER. If only.

Blue was okay, though, and as Sophie left her common room, she kept her eyes wide open for things that'd look cool blue. And... what better than THE bronze knocker? Hahaha. The thought struck her as hilarious, so Sophie faced the knocker and pointed her wand at it as she cast, "Colovaria!"

The infamous bronze knocker was now a dark navy blue knocker - the eagle was still bronze, but now the actual knocker part was blue, so blue AND bronze were now represented. WOOP WOOP. It actually looked way cooler like that anyway, so Sophie hoped Quiggles would let that stay in tact for the future.

One artifact down, FOUR TO GO.

Putting off homework until the last minute was something AJ was obviously really good at. It was lucky for her than she had mastered the spell because hopefully this would be a breeze. There wasn't anything worse than homework taking forever. Homework in general was pretty sucky, but some of the assignments weren't so bad.

Okay. So where to start?

AJ sort of wandered around aimlessly looking for something worthy to be the color red. That was the color of Gryffindor, but it was actually AJ's favorite color as well. RED. It was a in your face kind of color, and she could really dig that. All of the house colors were pretty awesome. The Hufflepuffs kind of got the short end of the stick though. Yellow was so bright and too much sometimes.

Anyways...

As she sort of floated along the hallways, she ended up close to the Ravenclaw common room. You know what would be really funny?

Heheheeee.

The lion made her way over to the bronze knocker. Oh, apparently somebody had the same idea she had because it was blue. This only meant that a Ravvie had done the changing and that wasn't as cool as a lion doing it.

"Colovaria!" Now the knocker was a nice shade of red. Perfect. She was off to make the rest of the castle have some lion flair.

For charms homework she needed to charm things to be blue, her house color. Penelope still hadn't figured out where she should do her charms homework. Everything in Ravenclaw tower was already blue. The omework assignment had implied that Professor Quigley would be going around and checking their homework, so she couldn't really do it in her dorm anyway. Could Professor Quigley get into the girls dorms in cat form? Penelope really didn't want to find out. There were plenty of places in the castle that she could do her homework. After getting a few books from her dorm she would go and find something to change the color of. As Penelope looked at the knocker, she noticed that something was wrong. The knocker was red. RED. A Gryffindor had been all the way up to the entrance of the Ravenclaw common room and changed the knocker to Gryffindor colors. No, she couldn't leave the knocker red. Aiming at the red knocker she cast, "Colovaria!". There, it was blue now. It wasn't the same as being bronze, but at least the knocker didn't have Gryffindor colors all over it.

And what better way was there to demonstrate ones superior skills with colour changing, than by changing another houses common room entry thing into a different house colour.

i.e. Changing the Ravenclaw knocker RED.

So with great enthusiasm he hurried up the stairs that led to the knocker and the common room beyond. Strategically it was a stupid place to do it, because any Ravenclaw could just change it back, BUT, he could at least try.

When he finally reached the door, he was disappointed to see the knocker was BLUE. Really? The Ravenclaws were marking their territory? LITERALLY?

AHAHAHAHAHAH...

Ahem.

Wand out, and with a smirk on his face, Zeke looked around him briefly before doing the unthinkable.

"Colovaria," he cast, wand pointed at the once-upon-a-time bronze knocker, thus turning it red. As bright bright red as he had imagined it to be. It was perfection. PERFECTION.

And without another moment to spare, Zeke turned and headed back down to the seventh floor corridor. He still had to leave his mark on some other places, this homework task was keeping him active for sure.

The knocker had been turned red again. This was the second time that she had found that the knocker had been turned red. Either someone had bothered to come up here two times just to change the color of the knocker, two different Gryffindors had had the idea of changing the color of the knocker, or a Ravenclaw had done it. Considering that the homework was to turn things your house color, it was probably a Gryffindor. Who would come all the way up here just to change the color of the knocker? Penelope found it really annoying that not just one, but two Gryffindors had decided to make the knocker red. It seemed as though the Gryffindors were determined to claim the knocker as their own. The Gryffindors couldn't have the entrance to the Ravenclaw common room. She couldn't let the knocker stay red. Pointing her wand at the knocker she cast, "Colovaria!" There, now the knocker was Ravenclaw blue, and it should stay that way until it was changed back to the original color.

Slightly out of breath from the trek upstairs, Lux made her way up to the Seventh Floor. Normally the trip didn't tire her out this much, but she hadn't eaten in a while and was starting to feel hungry. Maybe she would stop to get something to eat something from the kitchens after she was done putting up the posters... Unless someone she knew stopped by and had some food on them.

At least the last two common rooms were on the same floor.

Lux decided to stop by to see the Ravenclaws first. Saving the best for last and all that jazz. Besides, she was closer to their common room anyway. She only knew where the entrance was located because she had spotted the bronze knocker ages ago when she had first explored every area of the castle that she could.

Climbing up a spiral staircase, Lux reached the bronze knocker. She could have left the poster at the bottom of the staircase, but she wanted to place it right at the entrance where people were sure to see it. There was method to her madness. She placed the poster right beside the eagle knocker. Using the Sticking Charm, she set it in place.

Now to hit the Gryffindor common room then she would be done.

Oooooooh THERE was another poster!!! It was like a scavenger hunt!

Omg. They should have a scavenger hunt around the school. THAT would be a cool homework. Or birthday present. Someone should give her that. Now she only needed to drop subtle hints that that was what she wanted. Next question was who would do that for her. Or rather, who would be ALLOWED to do that for her. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

.......meanwhile she could put up her poster though. Ooh. Only one to go.

Maggie stepped closer, looked around to make sure nobody was watching her, then raised her wand to put her poster right above the other poster (Lux'). Yes. Hers was so much better anyway. Also maybe whoever had made that one wouldn't get points now seeing as you couldn't see it. It didn't seem like a Slytherin had made it so she didn't exactly care. The opposite really.

Ooookay. And she was off. Lalalalalalalalala.

Searching for a quiet place to complete another entry in her History of Magic journal, kate exited the common room and sat just outside of it in the corridor. There weren't any others around that she could see, so this was just perfect. She got herself comfortable then pulled out a quill and her journal.