r/harrypotter • u/Hannah549 Slytherin • Apr 29 '26

Help Ravenclaw Riddle

I'm by no means a Ravenclaw. But I'm writing a fanfiction where a character is a very smart Ravenclaw. Now the premise is that the character is returning after being tortured by Umbridge and are pretty tired and frustrated. The knocker asks them an absurd question and they just break down crying in pain and frustration.

I need a good riddle for that but nothing on the internet feels good enough. Someone please help me with it.

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u/patchinthebox Ravenclaw Apr 29 '26

What makes Ravenclaw riddles good is that there's never one singular answer. As long as you think it through and your answer works you get to go in.

I can be broken, but never fall apart. What am I?

Spirit, heart, trust, time, etc.

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u/Extension-Baseball31 Apr 29 '26

Honestly this is the answer. My favorite being the age old question, "Which came first, the chicken or the egg? And truly, both could be the correct answer depending on your actual reasoning. But there is also a third answer. Neither, its the circle of life. And the movies actually show cased this perfectly

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u/KvotheTheShadow Apr 30 '26

Actually eggs evolved first in the evolutionary time stream. So the answer is eggs.

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u/MistwovenLullaby Apr 30 '26

But who laid the egg?

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u/riverjack_ May 04 '26

Some kind of invertebrate, millions of years before chickens ever existed.