I pulled the hoop and to my surprised the stone of the wall seemed to stretch with it and I lifted it after that watching as a door appeared out of nowhere with the hoop sitting at it's top.
"Well go on lad, open it up." the portrait encouraged.
Pulling the handle of the door it swung open with a small rush of dusty air coming to smack me in the face making me cough. Waving my sleeve to clear the air I soon was able to breath normally as the dust started to settle.-
Walking into the room I was surprised by what I found. Besides dust and darkness I could see various items of different types.
"Lumos." I spoke a bright white glow rose from the tip of my wand that I had drawn out.
'Hides, books, weapons, armors and vials of stuff. What is all this?' I thought curiously as I walked through the clearly forgotten room.
"Magnificent isn't it? This room houses various trophies I collected in life when I taught here at Hogwarts." the portrait said proudly as he appeared on a dusty canvas in the room.
"Who are you?" I could help but wonder out loud.
"Sir Arnold Gervain at your service. In life I admired Godrick Gryffindor and sought to copy his life as best I could. Hence my appearance. Towards the end of my life I even taught Transfiguration and left my collection here for future generations of young wizards and witches to find." he spoke with a nostalgic smile.
"Is that why you told me about this place?" I asked and he laughed awkwardly.
"Well in truth it was a coincidence. I had actually forgotten about this place until I spotted you snooping about the display it was hidden behind. I happened to be patrolling nearby as well so I could let you rediscover this old pile of history." he said honestly.
I ignored the rest and moved to the books neatly lined on the small bookshelf against the wall to the right of the doorway. I frowned however as I not only couldn't understand the titles on the covers but the language they were written in was totally foreign to me.
"Ah. As expected of a Ravenclaw, drawn immediately to the books. Unless you are well learnt in old Germanic and Greek you'll be unable to learn much from those. I myself never read them while I was alive but kept them as trophies from when I raided one the grave robbers that desecrated Gryffindor's tomb. I was taken to believe they were tomes belonging to the founder himself that he was buried with. Same applies to that sheath on the wall there." he said motioning to the silver and gem encrusted sheath mounted on the wall at the side of the room.
"I'm surprised you didn't try and get the matching sword." I said genuinely shocked to see the sheath.
In the books the sword itself was housed in the sorting hat and it was widely believed that it didn't have a sheathe but in truth that was ridiculous. Gryffindor was famous for wielding the sword and carrying it with him everywhere and it made no sense he'd do that using a bloody hat of all things to keep it. This was one of those things that the books left unexplained but that in a real world like this made perfect sense. Naturally a special sword like that also had an equally special sheath to compliment it. Appraising the sheath proved this immediately.-
{Item name: Sheath of Gryffindor
Class: Treasure
Value: 200,000 system coins- 2,000,000 system coins if paired with the sword of Gryffindor
Condition: Excellent
Description: The matching sheath to the legendary sword of Gryffindor. Crafted by master goblin smiths to house and feed the magic of the sword. Made of goblin silver and mithril and encrusted with mana conducting gems this sheath adapts to is paired blade to maintain perfect storage conditions while slowly feeding the blade the ambient mana strengthening it.}
I had to stop my jaw from cracking the floor with how hard it dropped at that appraisal.
Forget the description my eyes were glued to the value of this thing. Two hundred thousand coins by itself or TEN TIMES that with the sword as well. To put that into perspective that was enough to buy out some really unfair abilities from the shop, mark up be damned. Unfortunately I wasn't nearly foolish enough to try and sell the sheath or sword at the earliest time possible. Canon REALLY needed the sword around for at least a few more years so until that time passed I couldn't take the thing next year when Harry drew it out of the hat.-
"I tried while I was alive but besides finding out only a true Gryffindor in need could draw the blade from the hat I never got even a glance at the blade. Still I did at least manage to have a similar enough blade forged by the goblins if inferior to the true sword of Gryffindor in all ways." he said seeming to not notice my loss of composure or simply deciding it was appropriate and ignoring it.
I looked around eagerly at that however and quickly found the sword in question. It was a one and a half hand silver arming sword four feet in length from point to pommel with a cross guard that held two sapphires at the ends and a large emerald at the center of the pommel that was enclosed around it. The blade was sheathed in a silver ornate sheath with three emeralds and a ruby carefully encrusted into it's face. Appraising it I had to admit the portrait was right about it being inferior.
{Item name: Sword and Sheath of Arnold Gervain
Class: Treasure
Value: 20,000 system coins
Condition: Excellent
Description: The sword and matching sheath to the wizard Arnold Gervain. Crafted by master goblin smiths in a failed attempt to replicate the sword of Gryffindor. Made of goblin silver and mithril and encrusted with mana conducting gems this sword and sheath has all the material properties of the sword of Gryffindor but lacks the refined potential of a magical catalyst due to a loss in the techniques that forged Gryffindor's sword originally.}