My classmate at Hogwarts is Voldemort

Chapter 149 The Disappearing Peeves
"Shh, don't talk."

Tom only felt a chill down his spine. It turned out that Helena passed through his body the moment the Illumination Curse went out, appeared behind him and pushed him.

Although the ghost's touch will not feel real, the biting cold still made Tom instinctively jump forward, and then, his hand pressed the bronze knocker of the lounge door, and the whole person threw himself on the piece On the big wooden board, with a muffled sound hitting the wooden board, Tom disappeared in place.

"Who?" Professor Sykes walked out of the office. She was wearing light makeup, and she didn't look like she was going to rest in the middle of the night. Instead, she was dressed neatly, as if she was going to attend some important meeting. She stuck her head out of the door, Looking at the door of the Ravenclaw lounge by the light of the office, there was a sound of flipping the robe, and asked sharply, "What are you doing at the door of the lounge so late?"

Helena fell from mid-air and stood quietly by the door knocker, staring in the direction of Professor Sykes.

"Luminescence." Professor Sykes found her wand, lit the corridor, opened his eyes in surprise, frowned and looked at the translucent woman in front of him, and said, "Ms. Grey, can ghosts also make sounds? ?”

"Of course, my lord." Helena said in a singing tone, "Listen, I'm talking to you right now."

"You know what I'm talking about." Professor Sykes raised his wand, shining it into the dark corridor behind Helena.

"Don't worry, professor, I'm a ghost, and I can't hide people or things behind me." Helena raised her hands, shrugged, and showed a complicated expression. This person who has lived in Ravenclaw for thousands of years The ghost doesn't seem to have a good relationship with the dean of her college, and even asked sarcastically, "Dean, why do you come out for night tours during the ghost's time?"

"Ghost time?" Professor Sykes raised his eyebrows and said, "Have you forgotten? Ghosts are not allowed to touch students. You shouldn't be here in the first place. 24 hours a day are the time of living people."

"This is my castle! My tower! My Ravenclaw!" Helena clenched her fists and shouted angrily, but because the ghost's illusory body couldn't interact with the outside world, it caused There was no movement as loud as a living person getting angry, only pale and feeble shouts.

"Yes, Ms. Gray." Professor Sykes walked out of the room, turned and closed the door, and said to Helena with his head tilted, "If you were still alive, I might have to bow to you, but— —”

She curled her lips, shrugged at Helena, and said nothing after that.

Helena watched as Professor Sykes strutted through the corridor and left by the stairs, cursing, "You despicable thief, sooner or later—"

"What did you say?" Professor Sykes' voice suddenly came from the end of the corridor, and then, a spell flew from the darkness at high speed, and hit Helena's mouth precisely. She clutched her throat with a painful expression on her face Floating into the air, the phantom of the ghost began to shake violently, Professor Sykes's voice became smaller and smaller from the stairwell, "It's not your turn to talk about these things, Miss Ravenclaw, I hope you You can have a long memory, ghosts can't do anything to wizards, but wizards have ten thousand ways to punish cowards who dare not face death."

Helena pinched her neck and struggled violently like a fish stranded on the beach. Her eyes of hatred fixed on the direction where Professor Sykes disappeared. The pain lasted for a long time, until the hole in the bronze door knocker suddenly became It was pitch black, and a hand holding a wand stretched out from within.

The next second, Tom fell to the ground with a "plop" and bounced on the carpet in the corridor.

"Good guy, it's actually quite tall," Tom got up from the ground, patted his dusty wizard robe, looked up at the door knocker above his head, whispered, then turned his head to see Helena with a ferocious expression, hurriedly He ran over and asked, "What's wrong with you?"

Helena took one hand away from her neck, pointed to her throat, and wagged her fingers.

"Can't you talk?" asked Tom.

"Hmm." Helena squeezed her voice out of her back and nodded.

Tom walked round her and asked, "Is this spell a jinx? Is there a cure for it?"

Helena nodded.

"Can you solve it?" Tom confirmed again.

Helena continued to nod.

"Is 'Curse Standing' okay? I only know how to unravel any curses."

Helena nodded like a pounding garlic.

"The spell stops immediately." Tom waved his wand, and Helena's expression eased visibly. Seeing that Helena had improved, Tom patted his chest with lingering fear, and asked, "Are you feeling better?"

"I...cough cough...I'm much better." Helena's weak voice came from the side, and Tom turned his head deliberately, not looking at her ugly appearance at the moment.

"Do ghosts cough too?... No, I mean, is the relationship between teachers and ghosts so bad? I thought everyone was neighbors at Hogwarts, and they even had parties together often." Tom looked The dark hallway was really hard to see through the distant windows and the dim light from Helena herself, so he lit his wand again.

"Of course ghosts can cough...cough cough, not only can they cough, but they can even die." Helena smiled wryly at herself, "You can turn around... As for the relationship between the teacher and the ghost, it has always been good."

"Really?" Tom turned around and glanced at Helena's chest, which was originally covered by tight buttons, but following Helena's struggle just now, a piece of fabric drooped to one side, revealing the hidden chest A dark, ferocious piercing wound, "I don't know if it's my illusion, I feel that you have become a little more transparent."

"Of course, I was hurt... Hogwarts has been a paradise for ghosts for a long time, and the previous headmasters also welcome wizards who choose to become ghosts to live in Hogwarts, at least, a castle full of ghosts Even more magical." Helena raised her hand to cover her chest to cover the hideous scar, shook her head, and continued, "Except for me and... your Slytherin ghost, the other ghosts came later. Came to Hogwarts."

"Then how did it become like this? A dean, the ghost who attacked his own house..." Tom was speechless, shook his head in amazement, and added, "How do you know that I belong to Slytherin?" ?”

"That little girl, named Myrtle Warren, often comes to the lounge with a cat in her arms. I heard the cat's owner and your name from her," Helena explained, "As for this A dean of Sykes... Well, I can only tell you that since she took office, some things have happened, which has caused the relationship between the school and the ghost to become tense, and even once banned the ghost from contacting the students. You should remember that you We were only allowed to take a look at it from a distance when we were in the first student sorting school."

"I remember," Tom nodded, and asked curiously, "You just said that Professor Sykes is a thief, does it have something to do with it?"

"No." Helena looked at Tom, pondered for a while, shook her head, and denied.

"Is it because she attacked the ghost like today?" Tom's thoughts began to diverge. "She thinks that the ghost has done something bad, so she advocates prohibiting the ghost from contacting the students? Then what did she do..."

"Well, don't think about it anymore," Helena bit her lip and said, "I can tell you what happened, but it's just hearsay without root."

"I see," Tom thought, looking up at the knocker, "you're always here, but the story is only once."

"Do you know how ghosts are created?"

"The deceased person is attached to the present world, so he chooses to become a ghost after death, but he can only walk in the place where he lived and left traces?" Tom thought for a while, and said the standard answer in the textbook he knew.

"Probably so." Helena nodded and continued, "Have you ever heard that Hogwarts has a ghost named 'Peeves'?"

"Who is that?" Tom asked curiously. "To tell you the truth, before today, I only knew 'Nearly Headless Nick' and 'Fat Friar'. I met them when I was drilling the tunnel."

"You really shouldn't know, but in the near future, he will come back." Helena sighed and continued, "Peeves is also a ghost that exists in the castle, but I think he has the same essence as the ghost. The difference is that he suddenly appeared in the castle on a certain day, but he has no memory of his own life, no name, and no proof of his own existence, but it can't leave the castle, it just roars in the corridor all day long. Yes, make a prank."

"Prank?" Tom raised his eyebrows, "Isn't it a Gryffindor student?"

"We have suspected that too, but it doesn't seem to be the case." Helena shook her head, "Every ghost has its own nostalgia, but it can only play pranks, and there are actually many pranks that are hard to call." mischief'."

"It's hard to call it a 'prank'? What is that?" Tom looked puzzled.

"Unscrewing the chandelier above the students during their Christmas dinner? By the way, it's also weird that it can touch things." Helena showed a look of reminiscence, "Many of its pranks are fatal, This made all the school leaders think he was dangerous, so—”

"So they evicted it?" Tom asked.

"They definitely wanted to do it at first, but it didn't seem to be working," Helena denies, "so in the end, they decided to get rid of it."

"Get rid of?" Tom raised his eyebrows. "Get rid of a ghost?"

"Yes, they thought so, and put it into practice."

"Think? In other words, they didn't succeed?"

"That's right, in order to get rid of Peeves from Hogwarts, the school has planned many attacks against it, spanning over hundreds of years... I don't have specific memories of these attacks, but without exception, in the For a while after the attack, Peeves will reappear in the castle, continuing his dangerous mischief."

"But what does that have to do with keeping ghosts away from students?" Tom wondered.

"The most recent attack was more than 60 years ago," Helena said with narrowed eyes, "that is also the one I remember most clearly. In that plan, the school's wizards tried their best to design a series of targeted The magic was used to kill Peeves, but those magics went disastrously wrong, which eventually led to the evacuation of the entire school."

"School evacuated?"

"That's right, but after that, Peeves also disappeared. It wasn't until Dean Sykes was inspecting the dungeon 20 years ago that he discovered that Peeves' favorite to use it at the Gryffindor Nick's death anniversary banquet A wrench for turning screws." Helena curled her lips, "Since then, there have been traces of Peeves' pranks around the castle, and Dean Sykes used the wrench that no one knew where it came from. , accusing the ghosts of resurrecting Peeves behind their backs... Although this groundless accusation is absurd to ghosts that don't even exist, it is undoubtedly a problem for the conservative school that is haunted by Peeves. The best breakthrough, do you know what kind of person Dippet is?"

"Sorry, I haven't seen the principal much."

"That's right, he's been outside... busy with his own affairs recently." Helena realized that she had slipped her tongue and stopped talking, "He is a man who pays attention to results. Peeves' rebirth is responsible, and that would be great."

"Well, I see what's going on." Tom shrugged, seeing that Helena didn't want to talk about it anymore, so he changed the subject and asked, "Where did you push me just now? The door knocker Inside? I can see and hear what's going on outside, but I can't seem to see me?"

"Hmm... roughly," Helena didn't seem to reveal too much, she explained vaguely, "The principle of the door key, the disappearing cabinet, and apparition is essentially the same."

Tom nodded, and suddenly asked, "So this is what Professor Sikes wanted to steal?"

"No, the door knocker is here, and it can be easily removed." Helena's words made Tom extremely excited. "What she wants to steal is another thing."

Afterwards, like a close friend, Tom accompanied Helena at the door of Professor Sykes' office, where only a pillar and a plank were blocked, attacking the dean's behavior, and once spoke righteously He needed Helena to persuade him to calm down.

"Don't worry, all she got in the souvenir showroom were decorations that my mother tried to make back then."

"Huh, it's okay!" Tom said with his eyes widened, "It's a good thing you replaced the thing with a fake!"

(End of this chapter)