A Riddle

[silent_scholar]

As a whole, I am both safe and secure.
Behead me, and I become a place of meeting.
Behead me again, and I am the partner of ready.
Restore me, and I become the domain of beasts.
What am I?

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[_terry]

What do I get if I find the solution?

[silent_scholar]

The joy of knowing you managed something clever.

It's not as if I'm desperate for someone to answer it, after all. I don't need to offer a prize.

But the idea seems rather entertaining. What would you like?

[_terry]

The joy of knowing you managed something clever.
I do hope that most of us don't need riddles of this kind to experience that joy.

What would you like?
Whatever you want. I don't know what you can offer. It's up to you.

[silent_scholar]

I do hope that most of us don't need riddles of this kind to experience that joy.
Some do. I've posted this out of charity.

Whatever you want. I don't know what you can offer. It's up to you.
I don't know what you would want. So since I'm not in a hurry to give anything away, I'll offer nothing.

[millicide]

I'll have to get back to you on this one.

[silent_scholar]

Do.

And tell me why on earth I should be offering rewards for answering riddles. Aren't they their own reward?

[millicide]

People like prizes.

[silent_scholar]

...yes, I figured, since Terry wanted one. You wouldn't happen to have any ideas, would you?

[mr_bzabini]

I thought you were a Ravenclaw, not a stable. But if you want to be a stable. YOU BE A STABLE!

[silent_scholar]

It is a stable.

[mr_bzabini]

See I'm sharp. Oh yes I am a clever bugger. Or maybe I have a father that is obsessed with pub quiz riddles.

I shall pretend it's all to do with the being a clever bugger.

[silent_scholar]

I won't let the secret out.