Raven's Claw at Hogwarts

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

First of all, there must be some kind of strange mark on her body. This mark can allow Ms. Gray to perceive herself from a long distance. At the same time, the two old ghosts, Lady Gray and Bloody Barrow, are very afraid of this mark.

Mike initially guessed that this mark was the raven claw marks on his face that were usually not visible at all. In addition, Mike really couldn't figure out what else was strange about him.

But if what terrifies Barrow so much is really the claw mark, then what is he afraid of? And what is this demon 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 experiencing the last incident, Bloody Barrow is now hiding away like Ms. Gray.

In desperation, Mike could only change his investigation in another direction, that is, to find out the true identity of the girl in the dream.

With questions like these, Mike plunged into the Hogwarts library from the second day and began to look up all the history of Hogwarts since its establishment.

Fortunately, Hogwarts, as the most famous wizarding school in Europe, has a part of its responsibility to record history. Therefore, there are many books about the history of the wizarding world in the rich collection of books at Hogwarts, among which the history of Hogwarts is the most detailed.

So when Mike searched the Hogwarts student directory from 1870 to 1890, he easily found a suspect, Miriam Ravi.

The reason why Mike thought she was the person he wanted to find was because there were two words written in dazzling dark red ink behind her name: Missing.

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

Flitwick: "I have some impression of the Miriam you mentioned. Although I was not a professor at Hogwarts at that time, I was already a member of Raven's Nest. That Miriam was She has a great reputation because she is the person who has persisted the longest in the initiation test in the past hundred years. I remember that she was only 15 years old when she joined the association. The elders of Raven's Nest are very optimistic about her, but it is a pity..."

When Mike finished questioning Flitwick and continued to look through the Hogwarts directory, he also discovered a terrifying fact that made his hair stand on end.

The disappearance and death rate among Ravenclaw girls is alarmingly high.

Since 1200 AD, words such as missing and dead have often appeared in the Ravenclaw chapter of the Hogwarts student directory, and most of these people are women.

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

But the further back I turned the mic, the more I could see something was wrong. The mortality rate of students in other colleges has been steadily declining year by year. Only Ravenclaw is different. Instead of declining, the mortality rate of female students in Ravenclaw College has been increasing over the years. The situation has even reached its worst point. Several people die a year.

This reminded Mike of the demon that Bloody Barrow once mentioned. Is there really a demon hiding on the Hogwarts campus that has been devouring the lives of young girls for thousands of years?

However, this is not all the anomalies in the list. According to the records in the list, the last Ravenclaw girl confirmed to be 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 an unexplained death or disappearance of a girl in Hogwarts. Mike knew very well the cause of Myrtle's death. She was killed by Voldemort using a basilisk, so strictly speaking she was not the last girl to die at the hands of a "devil".

The real last deceased person should be Sheila Clinton, a fifth-year Ravenclaw student who died in 1935.

After Sheila Clinton died, the "devil" disappeared as if it had been killed, which made Mike very confused.

Because according to his previous speculation, the raven claw marks should be the symbol of the "devil". Now that the raven claw marks appear on his face, it means that the "devil" has not disappeared, but dozens of years since 1935 There have been no more victims in the past year. What is the reason?

Mike sat on a bench in the library and stared blankly, wondering why.

Two Slytherin freshmen walked past Mike talking and laughing. The two of them were talking and laughing while holding a small flag in their hands. This was a magical flag specially made by Slytherin students for their Quidditch team. It was made of green cloth and had two sides on both sides. On the emblem of Slytherin, a silver-white python spits out letters and swims on a shield. From time to time, the shield will turn over, revealing the words on the back: Come on, Slytherin.

Only then did Mike remember that he had been investigating this matter for almost a month, the Hogwarts Quidditch League had begun, and today was the day when Slytherin played against Hufflepuff.

I have to say that these flags are very delicately made. The silver-white pythons painted on them even made a biting motion towards Mike when the two Slytherin freshmen passed by him.

When Mike looked at the ferocious white snake in front of him, a thunderbolt flashed through his mind, and a name emerged, Tom Riddle.

The excited Mike quickly 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 was clear, Tom Riddle was Voldemort's original name, and since Voldemort entered school, the "demon" in Ravenclaw had disappeared, until he reappeared in his body today.

So what is the connection between Voldemort and Ravenclaw?

The answer is very simple, it is the crown!

When Voldemort was at school, he learned the location of the diadem through Lady Grey, so he took out the diadem hidden in the Albanian forest and made it into his own Horcrux, and then hid the diadem in the Room of Requirement.

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

"No loud noises in the library!"

Mike's loud laughter not only attracted the attention of the surrounding little wizards, but also attracted Mrs. Pince.

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

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