Connor's Hogwarts

The empty Ravenclaw common room.

It is already midnight. There are only a few scattered candlelights at the entrance of the passage in the lounge. The stars painted on the dome on the ceiling emit light blue light, which matches the stars on the carpet. Even if the light is not too bright, it is enough to see Clean the appearance of the lounge.

Connor stood alone in his pajamas under a white marble statue. He tilted his neck and looked at the statue.

The statue seemed to be responding to his gaze, with a faint smile on her face, as if she was teasing or mocking.

Beautiful yet formidable, she was Rowena Ravenclaw, one of the four founders of Hogwarts.

"Extraordinary intelligence is mankind's greatest wealth."

Connor's mind wandered for a while as he read the words on the ring above her head.

Exploring the secret of the stairs has reached a bottleneck. This clue is basically broken. To be honest, Connor is not very concerned about finding treasures, otherwise he would not leave this matter to Conan for more than a year. Not much to ask.

But he was always lucky. It didn't take much effort to find Gryffindor's secret. He subconsciously believed that the secrets left by the four people were not difficult to find, but they were not discovered because they were not noticeable. That’s all.

But now it seems that it is not that easy to find the answer.

Why don't we wait until the Chamber of Secrets opens next year to find Slytherin's treasure. This is definitely the easiest to find. Connor quit.

But he was not very willing to do so. He felt that the real secret was already very close to him, as if a thin layer of veil could be broken when poked, but he could not get in.

This feeling was so unpleasant that it caused him to lose sleep.

"you again."

There was a sudden sound in the empty room, which was quite creepy. Connor was startled and turned around to see, hiss - there was actually a ghost in the middle of the night.

This is really a ghost. A translucent figure appeared in front of the door of the lounge. She was a very beautiful woman with long hair reaching her waist. She was graceful and luxurious, with a cool face. She was very tall and had an icy aura. What a pity. It's a female ghost.

"Hello, Ms. Grey." Connor saluted the ghost of Ravenclaw. She is Ravenclaw's daughter Helena Ravenclaw, but few people know this, as the little wizards call her. She was called Ms. Gray, because she didn't refute it, and everyone who came and went accepted this title.

"Connor Lake." The beautiful female ghost lady floated towards Connor, stopped in front of him, looked at Connor, then looked at the Ravenclaw statue, and said: "You are also coveting it. My mother’s crown?”

It was obvious that she had listened to Connor's muttering just now.

Connor smiled and said, "Your mother?"

"When I was alive, I was Helena Ravenclaw." Helena easily revealed the secret that was not a secret: "Generation after generation of students are looking for my mother's crown, and you are not the first to covet it. Its people.”

"Is it really okay to tell me this kind of thing so easily?" Connor tilted his head and observed Helena with interest.

"I have been observing you for a long time, Connor Lake." Helena flew around Connor: "You are a true Ravenclaw, and I think you are worthy of the crown of Ravenclaw. I think you can get it back."

"Get it back?" Connor's expression became more and more weird. If I remember correctly, didn't Voldemort hide the diadem in the Room of Requirement? And wasn’t it Helena who told Voldemort the secret of the diadem? Now it seems that she doesn't know that the crown was brought back to school by Voldemort?

"Yes, I stole my mother's crown back then." Helena's voice became trembling, as if she was recalling something terrible: "The crown can give people wisdom. I once wanted to be better than my mother. Smarter, more famous, so I stole the crown. But then my mother got sick, very sick, and she desperately wanted to see me one last time, so she sent someone to find me—"

"Bloody Barrow?" Connor followed her words.

"Yes, Barrow the Bloody, you know he -" Helena lifted up her cloak, revealing a black wound on her white chest, she said angrily: "Barrow is a bad-tempered person, he Loved me, but I rejected him, and he hated my freedom, so he stabbed me to death."

Helena closed her eyes: "Later he came to his senses and was so filled with hatred that he committed suicide with the dagger that stabbed me. After all these years, he still wore shackles in order to repent of his crime, but he deserved it!"

"." Connor was silent. What Helena said was almost the same as what he knew. But why did Connor feel that none of these words were true?

"I know you have been exploring the secret of the stairs recently. You are almost close to the truth, but you are still missing one crucial thing -" Helena's beautiful eyes looked at Connor: "You still need a crown, La Vinclaw's crown, without which you cannot learn the true secret."

"Why are you telling me this?" Connor didn't feel the excitement of learning the big secret at all, which made Helena a little confused, but she didn't think much about it.

"Because I think you can get it."

"Have you told anyone about this?"

"Of course not. Not everyone deserves me to tell the truth. Connor, you are different."

Conapy twitched his lips with a smile: "Then where did you hide the crown?"

"In order to escape Barrow's pursuit, I hid the crown in a hollow tree when I was escaping."

"A hollow tree? Where?"

"In a forest in Albania, in a desolate place, I thought my mother was whipping."

"Pfft"

Helena's performance wasn't over yet, but Connor laughed first, which made her angry: "What are you laughing at?"

"Nothing, I just thought of something funny." Connor suppressed laughter and rubbed his belly.

"What's so funny-"

Connor waved his hand and said in a tone that didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Ms. Grey, you don't really think I'm the kind of kid who's easy to deceive, do you?"

"What do you mean! If you don't like hearing these secrets, I will turn around and leave!" Helena looked very angry.

"Ms. Grey, do you know where Albania is?" Connor didn't react at all, but said with a smile.

"Isn't Albania in the Principality of Albania-" Helena's voice stopped suddenly, and she obviously realized something.

"Ms. Gray, I have to tell you with regret that the Principality of Albania perished hundreds of years ago, and the Republic of Albania today is just a very small country." Connor shrugged: "Not to mention the hollow tree, you really Do you know how many years have passed since you died? You actually asked me to find a hollow tree that was thousands of years old? Are you making me laugh?"

"But as long as you are willing to look for it."

"Voldemort must have told you about this place."

The air suddenly became quiet. Helena took a few steps back and stuttered: "How do you know?"

"Let me guess." Connor stared into Helena's somewhat panicked eyes and said unhurriedly: "Back then, you also told many [outstanding young people] like me this so-called secret. You should be Hide the crown in a more secret place, let's think of it as the so-called Albanian forest. You encourage those people to look for it, but that place has very powerful protective magic, and no one can successfully come back with the crown. Maybe it's not at all Can’t you come back?”

Helena's eyes widened in horror, and her pale face was bloodless (although it was not there in the first place).

"But...a student really came back alive decades ago, but he didn't bring back the crown you wanted. Instead, he told you that he hid the crown in another place. A hollow tree in the Albanian forest. ?" Connor grinned: "Haha, what a liar. No one would really believe such stupid talk, right?"

"You!" Helena pointed at Connor in shame and anger. Wasn't this a roundabout way of scolding herself for being stupid? If you think about it seriously, that person may have really lied to himself. He must have found the crown and hid it himself to use! And I actually foolishly believed him.

Yes, Connor guessed it right. Helena's previous remarks were all lies. She was a ghost in Hogwarts and had no way to leave the school. For nearly a thousand years, she had been secretly keeping this "secret" "Revealed to those outstanding students, hoping to retrieve the crown of Ravenclaw through their hands.

But no one succeeded. The only person who came back alive just brought her a piece of news that she didn't know was true or false. She had indeed observed Connor for a long time. Connor was an outstanding Ravenclaw, and his intelligence made her feel... Jealousy, she originally wanted him to prove the authenticity of this information, but now it seems

"Ms. Grey." Connor didn't even smile. He looked at the ghost in front of him seriously and asked, "Why do you want to get the crown of Ravenclaw? If you are willing to tell me the truth, I can agree. Help you find the crown"

"Just give me three days."