Harry Potter’s Raven’s Claw

Yesterday's conversation with the bloody Barrow made Mike understand a lot of things.

First of all, there must be some kind of peculiar mark on her body, which can make Ms. Gray perceive herself from a distance. At the same time, the two old ghosts, Lady Grey and Barrow the Blood, are very afraid of this mark.

Mike initially guessed that the mark was the crow's claw mark on his face that was not usually visible at all. Besides, Mike really can't understand what strange things are in him.

But if the thing that made Barrow so terrified was the claw mark, what was he terrified of? And what is the devil that Barrow is talking about?

What did Barrow mean when he said he killed Helena not because he hated her, but to save her?

After the last incident, the bloody Barrow is now like Ms. Gray, hiding from himself everywhere.

In desperation, Mike can only change the direction to investigate, that is, to find out the true identity of the girl in the dream.

With questions like this, Mike plunged into the Hogwarts library from the next day and began to look up all the history of Hogwarts since the establishment of the school.

Thankfully, Hogwarts, as the most famous wizarding school in all of Europe, has a part of its history-recording responsibilities. Therefore, there are many books about the history of the wizarding world in the rich collection of Hogwarts, among which the history of Hogwarts is recorded in the most detail.

So when Mike searched the Hogwarts student directory according to the range of 1870-1890, it was easy to find a suspect, Miriam Ravi.

The reason why Mike thought she was the one he was looking for was because there were two words written in dazzling dark red ink behind her name: Missing.

When he asked Professor Flitwick, he determined that the missing Ravi was the girl who had appeared in his dream.

Flitwick: "I am somewhat impressed by the Miriam you mentioned. Although I was not a professor at Hogwarts at the time, I was already a member of the Raven's Nest at that time. That Miriam's She has a great reputation because she is the one who has persisted the longest in the membership test in the past 100 years. I remember she was only 15 years old when she joined the membership. The elders of the Raven's Nest are very optimistic about her, but unfortunately..."

When Mike finished questioning Flitwick and continued to flip through the Hogwarts Directory, he also discovered a terrifying fact that made him horrified.

Ravenclaw girls have an alarmingly high rate of disappearance and death.

Since 1200 AD, the Ravenclaw chapter of the Hogwarts Student Directory has frequently included words such as disappearance and death, and most of these people are women.

This is actually not surprising. After all, the wizarding world was still relatively chaotic at that time, and the probability of young wizards dying was very high. There were also many records of disappearances and deaths in other colleges at that time.

But the more you turn the mic back, the more you can see what's wrong. The mortality rate of students in other colleges has steadily decreased year by year. Only Ravenclaw is different. The mortality rate of female students in Ravenclaw College has not declined over the years, but has increased. The worst time has even arrived. Several deaths a year.

This reminded Mike of the demon mentioned by the bloody Barrow. Could it be that there is really a demon hidden in the Hogwarts campus, who has been devouring the lives of those young girls for thousands of years?

However, this is not all anomalies in the directory. According to the records in the directory, the last Ravenclaw girl to be confirmed dead was named Myrtle Elizabeth Warren, who was hiding in the girls' bathroom in the original book. female ghost.

Since Myrtle's death, there has been no record of unexplained death or disappearance of a young girl at Hogwarts.

The cause of Myrtle's death, Mike, is very clear. She was killed by Voldemort using the Basilisk, so strictly speaking, she is not the last girl to die in the hands of the "devil".

The real last dead should be Ravenclaw 5th grader, Sheila Clinton, who died in 1935.

And after the death of Sheila Clinton, the "demon" disappeared as if it had been killed, which made Mike very puzzled.

Because according to his previous guess, the crow's claw mark should be the symbol of the "devil". Now that the crow's claw mark appears on his face, it means that the "devil" has not disappeared. During the years, there have been no more victims. What is the reason for this?

Mike sat on a bench in the library and stared blankly at him, thinking about the reason in his heart.

The two Slytherin freshmen walked past Mike chatting and laughing. The two of them were laughing and holding a small flag in their hands. This was a magical flag made by the Slytherin students for their Quidditch team. The whole body was made of green cloth, on both sides of the flag. With the Slytherin emblem painted, a silver-white python spit out a letter and walked on a shield. From time to time, the shield would be turned over to reveal the text on the back: Come on, Slytherin.

Mike just remembered that he had been investigating this matter for almost a month, the Quidditch league at Hogwarts had begun, and today was the day Slytherin played against Hufflepuff.

I have to say that these flags are very delicately done, and the silver-white pythons painted on them even bit him when the two Slytherin freshmen passed in front of him.

And Mike looked at the ferocious white snake in front of him, and there was a thunder in his mind, and a name emerged, Tom Riddle.

Excited, Mike hurriedly flipped through the Hogwarts student directory again and laughed when he saw a name on it.

From 1938 to 1945, Tom Riddle attended Hogwarts-Slytherin House.

Now everything is clear, Tom Riddle is Voldemort's original name, and since Voldemort entered the school, the "devil" of Ravenclaw disappeared, and it appeared on himself again today.

So what is the connection between Voldemort and Ravenclaw?

The answer is very simple, it is the crown!

Voldemort knew the location of the crown through Lady Grey during his school days, so he took out the crown hidden in the Albanian forest and made his own Horcrux, and then hid the crown in the Room of Requirement.

The crown must have a very close relationship with the demon, so the demon stopped hunting Ravenclaw girls after Voldemort made the crown into a Horcrux.

"No loud noise in the library!"

Mike's laughter not only attracted the attention of the young wizards around, but also attracted Mrs. Pince.

Mike, on the other hand, rushed out of the library without looking at Mrs. Pince.

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