I was expelled from Hogwarts?

Helena stared dumbfounded at Shirley and the silver pendant in her hand, she froze, and her heart was beyond shock.

This is the key to Gryffindor Castle, why is it on Shirley?

Hermione also looked at this scene with a puzzled face.

Only Rove is relatively calm... Of course, in comparison.

He did know that Shirley was related to Gryffindor, but he didn't expect that the string of pendants she wore since she was a child would be the key to the castle.

Rove suddenly remembered that he had brought the pendant back a thousand years ago, but it was a pity that he didn't take it out and let Gryffindor see it, otherwise it would definitely scare him!

After being in a daze for a long time, Helena finally came back to her senses and asked, "Xue Li, where did you get this key?"

"The nuns in the monastery said that it was on me when they found me." Shirley reached out and took off the pendant, holding it tightly in her palm.

"I wear it around my neck as a talisman all the time."

"Is that so..." Helena was a little disappointed when she heard this.

Back then, not long after her mother Ravenclaw died, Gryffindor disappeared, and Helena always suspected that he did it.

The reason is simple, after he refused Baro's pursuit, he was killed by Baro who would destroy him if he could not get it.

Gryffindor also liked his mother, but was also rejected by her mother.

With Barrow in front of him, it's hard for Helena not to suspect that the missing Gryffindor... did the same thing!

And Shirley has this key, and there is a high probability that it is a descendant of Gryffindor. Her parents and elders may know the truth back then.

But since Shirley was an orphan and had grown up in a monastery, nothing could be found.

But Helena believed that sooner or later, with her wisdom, she would find evidence to prove Gryffindor's crimes!

If Rove knew Helena's thoughts, he would probably sigh with emotion. There are only wrong names, but no wrong nicknames... The stupid beauty deserves its reputation.

Hermione on the side couldn't wait to say: "Shirley, come and see if you can open the door."

Shirley hummed, she walked to the door, aligned the key body with the key hole and inserted it in, then slowly pushed in, and stuffed the entire key body into the hole.

But there was no movement at the door. Just when Rove couldn't help wondering if he had guessed wrong, the door suddenly "buzzed" and slowly opened inward, revealing a spacious hall.

The corners of Helena's lips curled up slightly, and she reminded: "Before going in, you'd better use the bubble head spell."

Rove nodded. This castle may not have been entered for many years, and the air quality is extremely worrying. It is indeed time to use the bubble head spell to protect yourself.

Wait... When did Helena get so smart?

Rove didn't think much about it, cast a head-soaking spell on himself, and strode into the hall. He looked up, looked at the room, and was stunned for a while.

The foyer is covered by a large flat dome with sail arches, and eight Corinthian columns stand on both sides. The columns are exquisite, and the top is carved with exquisite honeysuckle.

Coupled with the huge daylighting windows, the foyer space is extremely spacious and magnificent.

But this is not the point, the point is the interior decoration of the hall:

The walls, floors, and domes are all covered with gold leaf; the columns are made of white marble, but they are also inlaid with gold leaf; the joints of the column capital, column base and column body are all inlaid with gold-coated copper hoops.

Even the windows are painted with gold powder, so that the up, down, left, and right complement each other, resplendent and dazzling.

There were also particles of gold flying in the air—the dust from the flaked gold.

The golden dust suspended in the air, combined with the bright sunlight pouring in through the large windows, creates an extremely luxurious atmosphere.

Rove couldn't help but take a deep breath. Although he had the head-bubbling spell, he still felt that his lungs were covered with gold.

Shirley and Hermione next to the boy were doing the same.

Rove sighed softly, no wonder Helena reminded them to use the bubble head curse, it turned out to be the reason.

I still have little knowledge.

It suddenly occurred to him that his old Scamander house on the Fertile Fields looked like a slum compared to Gryffindor Castle.

Their Scamander family is really a poor family!

But then again, Shirley owns the only key to the castle. Doesn't that mean that the castle belongs to her—rounded up, isn't this castle also considered Rove's?

Rove walked around in the foyer, near the arch, and found two majestic lion statues:

The whole body is made of gold, the teeth are ivory, and a pair of gem-set eyes are shining... It's worth a lot of money.

They visited the foyer, followed a doorway into the living room.

This place is not as luxurious as the foyer, and it can even be said to be extremely shabby:

There was thick dust everywhere, the wooden frame against the wall collapsed, the rotten wood broke and collapsed, the carrying utensils fell all over the floor, and the musty smell permeated the whole room.

Several portraits hung on the walls in large gilded frames, but the portraits in the frames had lost their magic with age, and could not move at all.

The names written in bold letters below are also blurred.

Just as Rove was looking around for valuable magic items, Shirley's urgent voice suddenly sounded.

"Rove, come here quickly and see what this is?!"

Rove immediately ran towards Shirley, and then he saw a large pool of blood on the ground from a distance!

Those bloodstains had dried up and completely solidified on the floor, as black as a dark night.

Next to the pool of blood, there was an open wooden box.

Rove picked up the box and found that there was nothing in the box, and there was no engraving of any words, only a simple pattern on the lid:

Triangular eyes with a vertical line in the middle of the pupil.

The Deathly Hallows... No, it should be said to be the symbol of the ancient wizard!

Rove squinted his eyes and stared at the box. For a moment, he remembered the death picture he saw about himself in Ravenclaw's death well!

Two wizards are standing opposite each other, one is the future self, tall, seems to be sixteen or seventeen years old.

There is also a wizard, her back is facing her, but judging from her curvaceous back, she can be sure that she is... a young witch

Then the young witch held a sword and suddenly stabbed deeply into Rove's chest. When the hand was removed, the sword remained inside, and he groaned and fell to the ground.

Right at their feet, there was an open box.

Rove stared at the box in his hand, it was exactly the same as the box he saw in the death well...

The boy looked at the pool of blood on the ground again, and for some reason, his hair stood on end.

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