94 Diagon Alley

Rush into the principal's office.

"Professor." Gwen released his disillusionment spell and appeared in front of Snape.

The terrifying potions professor is thinner than before he became the headmaster, he looks haggard, and his eyes are sunken like a skeleton.

"Why are you here? Ollivander." He asked in a low voice.

"I think you need to know this—Harry is at Hogwarts," said Gwen.

Snape was not surprised, just exchanged glances with the portrait of Armando Dippet.

"He's in the castle now, do you understand?" Gwen was a little anxious, she stepped forward, reached for Snape's robe, and closed it again under his cold gaze came back. "Ravenclaw Common Room."

The headmaster's chair creaked harshly, the new headmaster with a dim face was about to rush out, and the portrait of Armando Dippet on the wall said, "Severus, you All preparations have to be made.”

Snape paused, turned away, and said with his back to Gwen, "Go back. Don't come back to the principal's office - no matter how you got in, I'm going to change my password now."

Gwen knew that her first task had been completed, she did not dare to delay Snape's actions, ran out of the headmaster's room, and went to find the troll stick to beat the tapestry of silly Barnabas.

Snape in the principal's office closed his eyes, changed the entry password, and glanced at the Pensieve in the originally locked cabinet. As if thinking of something, he waved his wand and unlocked the lock hanging on the cabinet. Then he walked out of the office without looking back.

The Ravenclaw Common Room.

"This way, Harry," Luna whispered, pulling Harry by the sleeve and dragging him up a spiral staircase.

They made their way up in dizzying little circles. Harry had never been here before. At last they came to a door. There was no handle or keyhole on the door, just a polished, aged plank with a bronze knocker in the shape of an eagle.

Luna held out a pale hand, which moved in mid-air, not connected to her arm and body, looking very strange. She knocked on the door, and in the silence Harry thought it sounded like a cannonball. The eagle's beak opened immediately, but instead of making a bird call, he said in a gentle, musical voice: "Phoenix or fire, which comes first?"

"Um... what do you think, Harry?" Luna said thoughtfully.

"What? Not just a password?"

"Oh yes, a question has to be answered," Luna said.

"What if I got it wrong?"

"Then you'll have to wait for someone else to get the answer right," Luna said. "That way you can learn something, understand?"

"Understood... the problem is, we can't wait, Luna."

"Yes, I understand what you mean." Luna said earnestly, "Well, I think the answer is a cycle with no starting point."

"It makes sense." After the voice said, the door opened.

The empty Ravenclaw common room was a large circular room, more ethereal than any room Harry had seen at Hogwarts. Elegant arched windows open on the walls, hung with blue and bronze silks: during the day, Ravenclaw classmates can see the surrounding mountains and the scenery is beautiful. The ceiling is domed and painted with stars, and the dark blue carpet below is also full of stars. The room had tables, chairs, bookshelves, and a tall white marble statue in an alcove opposite the door.

Harry recognized it as Rowena Ravenclaw because he had seen the bust at Luna's house. Next to the statue was a door, which he guessed led to the dormitory above. He strode up to the marble statue, and the woman seemed to be looking at him, with an indistinct teasing smile on her face, beautiful, but somewhat intimidating. At the top of her head is a delicate ring reproduced in marble, kind of like the kind of tiara Fleur wears at her wedding. It has small writing on it. Harry got out from under the Invisibility Cloak and climbed to the base of the Ravenclaw statue to read the words.

【Extraordinary ingenuity is the greatest wealth of mankind. 】

"Makes you a pauper, fool!" said a voice with a shrill laugh.

Harry turned sharply, slid off the base and fell to the ground, and in front of him stood Alecto Carrow with his shoulders shaved. The instant Harry raised his wand, her stubby index finger held down the skull and snake branded on her forearm.

As soon as Alecto's fingers touched the Dark Mark, Harry's scars throbbed like fire, and the star-studded room disappeared from his sight. He was standing on a rock jutting below the cliff, surrounded by surging waves, and there was a surge of ecstasy—they caught the boy.

With a loud bang, Harry returned to where he was, raising his wand blankly, but the witch in front of him had already fallen forward. She fell to the ground hard, making the glass of the bookcase rattle.

"I haven't used a stun spell in a long time," Luna said, slightly surprised in her voice, "forget it can make such a loud noise."

Sure enough, the ceiling began to tremble. Behind the door leading to the dormitory came the sound of running louder and louder: Luna's spell woke the Ravenclaw students sleeping on it.

"Luna, where are you? I need to get under the invisibility cloak!"

Luna's feet suddenly appeared, and Harry hurried to her side. She had just put the Invisibility Cloak over the two of them when the door opened and a group of Ravenclaw students in pajamas swarmed into the common room. They all gasped and screamed in surprise when they saw Alecto lying unconscious on the ground. Slowly, they huddled around her, watching the beast that would wake up at any moment and attack them. Then, a brave freshman rushed over and smacked her big toe in the back.

"I think she might be dead!" he exclaimed happily.

"Oh, look," Luna whispered happily, seeing Ravenclaw's classmates surrounding Alecto, "how happy they are!"

"Yeah...great..."

Harry closed his eyes, the scars throbbing in pain, he took the initiative to fall into Voldemort's mind again... He was walking in the tunnel leading to the first cave... He decided to check the pendant first The box comes again...that won't take long...

There was a knock on the door of the common room, and the Ravenclaw classmates were stunned. Harry heard the soft, musical voice of the eagle knocker outside the door again: "Where did the disappearing thing go?"

"I don't know! Shut me up!" a gruff voice shouted, Harry knew it was Alecto's brother, Amycus. "Alecto? Alecto? Are you there? Did you catch him? Open the door!"

The Ravenclaw classmates were horrified and gathered together to whisper. Immediately, there was a sudden series of loud noises, as if someone had fired a shot at the door.

"Alecto! If he came and we didn't catch Potter - do you want the same fate as the Malfoys? Answer me!" Amycus roared loudly He shoved the door desperately, but the door didn't open. The Ravenclaw classmates backed away, and the most frightened began to rush back to the upstairs bedrooms. Harry was debating whether he should blow the door open, knock Amycus out, and keep him from doing anything else. Just then, a very familiar voice sounded outside the door.

"What are you doing, Professor Carroll?"

"I want to—go through—the damn—door!" cried Amycus. "Go get Flitwick! Get him to open the door, quick!"

"But isn't your sister in there?" Professor McGonagall asked. "Didn't Flitwick let your sister in at your urgent request earlier this evening? You open the door? You don't have to wake up half the castle."

"She doesn't make a sound, you old woman! Open the door for me! Quickly! Quickly open it!"

"No problem, if you like," said Professor McGonagall, a terrifying chill in her voice. The door knocker rang softly, and the musical voice asked again, "Where did the disappeared thing go?"

"Into nothingness, that is to say, into everything." Professor McGonagall replied.

"Well said," said the eagle knocker, and the door swung open.

Amycus rushed through the door waving his wand, and the few Ravenclaw classmates who stayed behind hurried towards the stairs. Amycus was hunchbacked like his sister, with a pale doughy face and small green pea eyes. Those eyes immediately saw Alecto lying motionless on the floor. He let out a cry of anger and horror.

"What did they do? These little brats!" he shouted. "I'm going to put Cruciatus on them so they can tell me who did it - what will the Dark Lord say?" Amycus stood in front of his sister, smashing his head with his fist, screaming, "We didn't catch that kid, they killed my sister!"

"She just got knocked out," Professor McGonagall crouched down to look at Alecto, and said impatiently, "She'll be fine."

"Bah, she's in big trouble!" Amycus snarled, "It's over if the Dark Lord catches her! She even summoned him, I feel my mark burnt Get up, the Dark Lord thought we had Potter!"

"'Caught Potter'?" said Professor McGonagall alertly. "What did you say, 'Caught Potter'?"

"He told us that Potter might break into Ravenclaw Towers, and that he would be summoned as soon as we caught him!"

"Why did Harry Potter break into Ravenclaw Tower? Potter is me