Raven's Claw at Hogwarts - Chapter 607

c605 Visiting Ravenclaw at Night

Finally, midnight came.

The Harry trio gathered at the door of the Gryffindor lounge for the first time in a long time, preparing to go to Ravenclaw Tower.

As before, the three of them were still nestled in Harry’s death cloak.

It’s just that the experience of using it is far worse than before. After all, they have all grown up now. Although the Death Cloak itself is relatively wide, it is still somewhat difficult to completely cover the three of them.

Fortunately, the adaptability of the three Harrys is relatively strong, and the Death Cloak also has a certain extension ability after awakening, so after practicing for a while, the three of them still managed to achieve the effect of concealment for all.

After finally arriving in front of the Ravenclaw lounge, looking at the shimmering door and the eagle-headed door knocker, the three of them stopped again.

Among them, Ron’s expression was a little ugly.

After spending these days with the Ravenclaw students, he was deeply impressed by the door in front of him.

According to them, there are so many protective spells on this door that no one with ill intentions towards Ravenclaw can pass through this door, even if you answer the question about the eagle’s head knocker.

This made Ron a little uneasy.

However, Hermione didn’t care so much. Under Ron’s horrified eyes, she stepped forward and knocked on the eagle’s head knocker.

“What are the three key points in releasing the Illusion Curse?”

The cold voice of the eagle-headed door knocker rang, and Hermione raised her eyebrows and said directly:

“Calm, decisive and stable.”

As soon as he finished speaking, the door opened.

Ron swallowed and looked at Hermione with disbelief, while the latter rolled his eyes at him and said:

“I know there are a lot of protective spells on the door, but those are for people outside the school, and they are basically ineffective for us Hogwarts students.”

Ron still looked confused, but Harry looked thoughtful.

He knew very well that although Hogwarts was firmly opposed to the matter of students traveling at night, in fact it was acquiescing or happy to see it happen.

As a professional night traveler, he knows this very well.

Judging from the current situation, although the overall security of the Ravenclaw lounge has been strengthened, the attitude towards students traveling at night has not changed.

Otherwise, let alone them, even Ravenclaw’s own students came out if they wanted to go out at night.

With this in mind, the three of them finally walked through the door.

Compared with the day, the Ravenclaw lounge seemed very deserted at night, with no one around.

Through the faint moonlight coming from outside the arched windows, Harry could clearly see the huge black shadows reflected by the rows of bookshelves. Together, they made the atmosphere of the entire lounge somewhat eerie.

Despite this, the three Harrys gritted their teeth and began the search.

The library area in front was simply ignored by them.

If you think about it with your heels, you will know that the entrance to the secret realm of Freemasonry must be at a certain location where Ravenclaw originally existed. It is impossible for places like the library area to be extended later using the Traceless Stretch Charm. There is a secret entrance.

After bypassing the library area, the first thing that caught their attention was the statue of Ms. Ravenclaw lying between the library area and the rest area.

Harry was already familiar with this statue. To be honest, this statue no longer matched the current Ravenclaw lounge. It was too small.

But perhaps because it is an antique, it still stands where it originally was and has not been replaced.

This perfectly fits Harry and Hermione’s inference about the location of the entrance to the secret realm.

As a result, Hermione took the lead and began to inspect the statue.

This is not an easy task. You must know that this kind of inspection is achieved by a magic spell called universal observation.

This kind of magic spell is generally used in alchemy. It can quickly detect the magic residue on the observed items, thereby speeding up the enchantment progress and removing magic pollution.

With this move, Hermione undoubtedly treated the statue of Ms. Ravenclaw as an alchemical item.

However, Hermione had been observing there for a long time but still found nothing.

The statue was so clean that Hermione couldn’t detect any magic residue at all.

This is very unreasonable, because there will be some magic residue on normal items, and there are only two possibilities to achieve the situation like the current statue of Ms. Ravenclaw.

One is that a wizard regularly cleans the magic pollution on this statue every day, and the other is that there is a magic spell attached to the statue that can block protective spells such as observation spells.

Hermione personally thinks the latter is more likely.

However, despite seeing something wrong with the statue, Hermione and others finally gave up their investigation of the statue.

After all, they have too much work today, and they must first eliminate other questionable options.

So Hermione pointed her finger at other things on the side that agreed with the conditions, such as the fireplace, the semi-arched windows and even the sofa chair where Mike often sat.

Unfortunately, Hermione checked all these things and still found no clues about the entrance to the secret realm, which made her very frustrated.

After all, this was what she volunteered to help with, but in the end she couldn’t do anything.

Harry saw this and patted her shoulder quickly to comfort her:

“You’ve done a great job, thank you.”

Hermione shook her head in disappointment after hearing this, obviously not satisfied with her expression.

However, just when Harry was about to continue to comfort them, Ron suddenly covered their mouths and made a ‘shhhhhh’ sound at the same time.

Upon seeing this, Hermione and Harry quickly closed their mouths and nervously began to turn their heads to observe the surrounding scene.

As soon as Harry turned his head, he saw a blue figure unknowingly appearing in the Ravenclaw lounge, currently wandering in the library area in front of him.

That is the ghost of Ravenclaw – Lady Grey.

At this time, Ms. Gray seemed to be in a very good mood. She kept wandering back and forth among the huge bookshelves, and still stretched out her hand to slowly touch the dense books.

What’s even more rare is that Ms. Gray still has a smile on her face.

This is a rare sight in thousands of years. You must know that Ms. Gray also has another nickname – the sad ghost.

The reason why she has such a nickname is entirely because of her melancholy temperament and her face that is always full of sadness.

Harry held his breath reflexively, and at the same time shrank down to avoid being noticed.

But soon, his movements froze.

Because an idea suddenly occurred to him.

As an ancient ghost of Ravenclaw, will Lady Gray know any clues about the entrance to the secret realm?

He did it as soon as he thought of it, and without even the slightest hesitation, Harry directly lifted the Death Cloak under the anxious eyes of Hermione and others, and began to walk towards Ms. Grey.

At this time, Ms. Gray had already arrived at the bar. She touched the exquisite alchemical coffee machine and the various drinks placed on the shelves, her eyes full of longing and joy.

As one of the original Ravenclaw students, although she was at odds with her mother, the great being who founded Ravenclaw House, she still had feelings for Ravenclaw House.

So she was very happy about the current situation of Ravenclaw.

Harry’s sudden appearance startled him, and she screamed almost instinctively, but quickly covered her mouth with her hands.

The expression on his face also became angry.

It was so embarrassing to be caught in such a self-absorbed moment.

“Who are you? Why aren’t you resting so late? I’m going to tell Flitwick!”

Ms. Gray said shyly and angrily, but Harry continued to walk forward as if he didn’t hear her. At the same time, a wand quietly appeared in her hand.

“Call the gods to protect you!”

Following Harry’s deep voice, an elk with a faint divine light suddenly sprang out of its wand and knocked Ms. Gray to the ground neatly.

At this moment, Ms. Gray finally understood that the little wizard in front of her had bad intentions.

She really wanted to scream and warn others to be careful, but under the suppression of the patron saint, she was in a state of weakness, and even the strength to shout loudly was deprived of her.

This is the suppressive power of the high patron saint over ghosts!

This scene shocked both Hermione and Ron. They quickly lifted off the Death Cloak and caught up with Harry in front.

“Harry! What are you doing? That’s Ms. Grey!”

Hermione lowered her voice and spoke anxiously, but Harry did not answer. He just gave her a reassuring look and pulled a bright silver cross pendant from his neck.

This is also a mysterious object, and Harry named it the Holy Cross.

Its function is very simple, that is, to cause harm to spiritual beings.

Harry had stolen it from an abandoned church.

With almost no pause, Harry held the Holy Cross directly towards Ms. Gray.

As the cross came closer, the expression on Ms. Gray’s face changed visibly, beginning to shift from anger to fear.

This change caught Hermione’s attention, and she frowned without questioning:

“Harry! What are you doing? She looks in pain!”

“This is just some small tricks.” Harry lowered his voice and said, “Don’t worry, she will be fine.”

After saying this, Harry stopped, placed the cross in front of Ms. Gray, then put it away and asked:

“I ask, you answer, do you understand?”

Harry’s patron saint, the elk, raised his body slightly, which allowed Ms. Gray to regain some strength.

Her body was still shaking at this moment, and the pain that the cross had just inflicted on her was something she would never forget.

“Okay…ok.”

Ms. Gray’s trembling answer made Harry nodded. He looked at the other party and said word by word:

“Do you have anything to tell us about the secret entrance hidden in the Ravenclaw common room?”

“Secret…secret realm? What is that?”

Harry was stunned for a moment after hearing this. He soon realized that the other party couldn’t understand what he said, so he continued:

“In that case, do you know if Mike Townley did anything weird in this lounge during his school days?”

“McTownley? Your target is Mike Townley? That outstanding little wizard?” Ms. Gray’s voice instantly raised several levels, “You want to harm him? Stop dreaming, I won’t… ah !”

Ms. Gray’s words were interrupted by screams, because Harry directly attached the Holy Cross to Ms. Gray’s arm.

The squeaking sound of barbecue was instantly accompanied by a rising stream of green smoke. Under the influence of the Holy Cross, Ms. Gray’s originally somewhat illusory body began to become more and more transparent.

Fortunately, Mike had no intention of killing Ms. Gray, and he took the cross back after a while.

At this time, Ms. Gray suddenly collapsed on the ground, her body still twitching intermittently.

Seeing this, Harry asked the question again, and this time, Ms. Gray said without hesitation:

“I know! I know! It was several years ago. Mike Townley, that little wizard once said a spell to the statue of Ms. Ravenclaw, and then he disappeared completely!”

Harry’s eyes lit up and he continued to ask:

“Is that the spell?”

“I…I forgot. I’m sorry, wuwu! Please don’t torture me anymore!”

Facing the crying Ms. Gray, Harry’s expression was very ugly. He gritted his teeth and took out the Holy Cross and said:

“I think you won’t cry until you see the coffin!”

However, just when he was about to continue teaching Ms. Gray some lessons, a cold hand grabbed his arm.

“Harry, stop it! She’s not lying. Ghosts will only remember what happened during their lives. And they usually gradually forget what they saw after death, so Ms. Gray may really not remember it!”

Hearing this, Harry paused, and then Ron came over and said with some confusion:

“What’s wrong with you Harry? How could you treat Ms. Gray like this? You were not like this before!”

Looking at the horrified expressions of Hermione and Ron, Harry couldn’t help but turned his head away and said with some guilt:

“I…I don’t know, I’m just…a little excited.”

After saying that, he shook off Hermione’s hand, quickly took out the forgotten flashlight from his pocket, pointed it at Ms. Gray and pressed the button.

Following the flash of a faint blue beam of light, the painful expression on Ms. Gray’s face quickly faded, replaced by a look of dementia.

This strange scene startled Hermione, and Ron took several steps back in fear, fearing that he would accidentally be illuminated by the unknown light.

What they didn’t know was that at this time, Harry was really debating whether to give them a shot or not.