the lost castle

Hogwarts was a sensation. From the portraits hanging on the walls to the house-elves running around the castle, all the stone sculptures were trying to turn their stiff heads. Even the reliefs on the walls were twisting restlessly, and the changing stairs were even more disturbing. Amid the excited jumps, various whispers resounded through the castle.Professor Flitwick and even Professor Binns dared to swear by their years at Hogwarts. They never knew that there were so many talking things in the castle. This exclamation came from Professor McGonagall seeing the corner of the hall The figure on a vase standing near the center suddenly giggled and spoke to the serpentine relief that crawled near it, and Mrs. Pince heard the wooden library ladder whispering in Latin to the row of books that it reached at one end. arts.

1000 years ago, when Hogwarts was first established, many portraits and stone sculptures had not yet moved in, so for them, the four founders, unless the oldest sculptures and portraits are willing to say, otherwise This kind of gossip may only be known by two or three ghosts.

This morning was already normal, approaching the weekend of school.

The professors who have already arrived at the school have discovered the abnormal conditions inside Hogwarts, especially those house elves who can't wait to wrap themselves in rags. Any dust and stains that appear in their sights will rush to wipe them out nervously.

After the Death Eaters of the Order of the Phoenix disappeared, Professor Slughorn, acting as the school administrator, received a letter from Lucius from Malfoy's white eagle before he even had time to eat breakfast.

"Dear current Head of Slytherin, my former Potions Professor, Professor Slughorn:

From the same noble house of Slytherin, it is necessary for me to remind you that our four great founders of Hogwarts returned to the castle last night.

Lucius.Malfoy.

Also: Please prepare the calming potion and potion for stomach pain, you will need them. "

Slughorn repeatedly turned over the parchment written in Gothic ornate letters three times, finally determined that he was not dreaming, and rushed out the door with a scream, but Hogwarts is so big, he is not the headmaster, and even The previous principals may not know all the secret rooms, so where will he find them all of a sudden?

Half an hour later, all the professors in the school gathered in the hall with strange expressions.

The long tables of the four colleges are still empty, and the students will not start school until the day after tomorrow.

However, the banner usually embroidered with lions, snakes, eagles and badgers behind the long table seems to have become a new one overnight, and even the four animals on the shield-like school badge on the wall behind the principal's seat seem to be alive. The ones are stretching their bodies, and they are stretching their heads to each other across the letter H in the middle of the badge, as if talking about something. The copper eagle with a blue background in the lower right corner is a little listless and covers its head with its wings, while the heads of the other three animals are facing In that direction, it either whispers to each other, or makes different sounds to the eagle, which is very similar to comforting.

However, the professors were really not in the mood to think about these changes carefully, and all looked at the members of the Order of the Phoenix who had traveled long distances in the Middle Ages.

"Huh? Where's Professor Trelawney?" As soon as Madam Pomfrey sat down, she keenly noticed that there was one person missing.

"She can't hold on." Professor Sprout said sympathetically, "You know, since she came back with you last time, she was overly frightened and refused to speak for a long time. Now hearing this Hogg The news of the return of the founder of Woz made me so scared that I didn't know what to do, if she hadn't left Hogwarts with nowhere to go, she might be packing her bags and preparing to give up her position as professor of divination now."

The crowd was dumbfounded.

As for Trelawney, most people, just like Professor McGonagall in the past, knew that she was not capable. Nair was hired by Dumbledore, so it was not easy to raise objections.Later, I learned that after the war, I knew that the important prophecy was made by Trelawney, and she did have the ability to prophesy. It was very unlucky to go to the Middle Ages, but he was the luckiest of all, and he came back after staying in the Middle Ages for less than three days.

"Forget it, let's not mention her." If Professor McGonagall hadn't been swept away with the castle 1000 years ago by accident, then according to the situation in the later period of the war, she should have become the headmaster of Hogwarts. After more than 20 years, In addition to those children becoming excellent and outstanding wizards, it also made the magic power of the original Hogwarts deans stronger.The day they came back, Slughorn and the others couldn't believe it, because their strength was almost comparable to that of Dumbledore back then.They couldn't help feeling scared. It seems that life in the Middle Ages was not easy. If they hadn't protected the students and retreated to Hogsmeade, I'm afraid...

"Originally, we only needed to hire a Defense Against the Dark Arts and a Muggle Studies professor..." Slughorn paled and took out a handkerchief to wipe the sweat from his brow, "But now, our biggest problem is Yes, what are the thoughts about those four?"

Except for him, McGonagall, Sprout, and Flitwick were silent.

The reason is very simple. Even if they still teach in the school as before, they will definitely not be the deans of the four colleges. If nothing else, even they themselves would be ashamed to call themselves the deans.

Especially for those who have been to the Middle Ages, thinking of the teaching level of Hogwarts at that time, they were all wiped away from the calmness. Do you want children to learn unarmed combat?Learn black magic?Learn how to survive in the wild without a wand?Merlin, as well as alchemy, potions that have been studied seriously and advanced will not blow the crucible at all. Alchemy is just the opposite of potions. The higher the depth, the more accidents will occur, and the larger the scale of the explosion...

It’s not that these courses are not good. If possible, the professors themselves are very interested in doing research, but now those children are not used to this kind of difficulty and intensity at all. Except for a few with this kind of talent, for most children, There is no special benefit for them to learn these things. This is no longer the Europe where wars and plagues killed people wantonly 1000 years ago.

"Merlin! A week ago, we were still worrying about the lack of Transfiguration spell classes and where should we hire the two dean positions?" Sprout pinched the tip of her worn hat in distress, "Now you come back After that, the problem derailed in the opposite direction and became more serious.”

"The admission notices to students and the receipt of their replies are over. Can we still prevent Hogwarts from starting? Take heart, everyone, for those four lords, Hogwarts is equal to their lives important."

Madam Pomfrey's words finally made everyone look better.

But thinking about their future life, half of them still consider whether they should retire.

Slughorn loves to stay in the school by nature, getting along with those talented and promising students, building relationships, maybe doing nothing, but this is his lifelong hobby and glory, and he resigned because he was afraid of being forced to join the canteen. Dead Apostle, he really doesn't want to let him go now.So he secretly decided to go back to the office to boil the potion. Lucius' suggestion was very good.

Everyone in the hall downstairs was worried, but in fact, the founder they feared and feared in the principal's office on the eighth floor was not much better than them.

"How is Rowena?"

"As always, just refuse to open the door. I tried to persuade, but it was useless." Helga walked to Salazar and stopped, overlooking the Black Lake from the window on the eighth floor. The Forbidden Forest was still immersed in the morning mist and had not woken up , everything seems to have not changed, and it seems that it has changed a lot. The outer wall of the castle is densely covered with mottled traces, and vines climbed up the outer tower and side hall along the wall. When the wind blows, it rustles.

Helga sighed slightly, turned her head and said softly:

"It's not your fault, Salazar, nor Godric's. It's because we ignored the child's thoughts too much. If we had explained to her..."

Slytherin clenched his right hand on the window sill suddenly, but he didn't say anything.

Helga also paused and did not speak again, she knew who Salazar had in mind.

Speaking of which, Mia's vicious mind can be said to be caused by neglect of discipline and laissez-faire, but what about Helena, is it true that they don't understand the child's heart?But which of the four students they taught was not outstanding?

"It's because we gave too little." As if seeing through Helga's thoughts, Salazar left the window and leaned back on the chair with a tired and sad expression, an emotion that rarely appeared in his eyes.

"Yeah, we pay too much for our students, even if it's different for Helena, but a child is lonely, and she will ask for more," Helga echoed in a low voice, "She apart from us, Without relatives, naturally she doesn't want to stay in Hogwarts alone, and others say that she is Ravenclaw's daughter."

There was silence for a while, only the blood man Baro floating in the corner was crying silently.

"When you disappeared, Helena was only five years old. From that day on, she felt that she was not everything in her mother's life. At that time, Godric's condition was very bad. We did our best and spent a year I can't remember the time, whether I ate or not, and the house elves remind me when I go to class..."

What does this mean to a child who is just five years old, she is afraid, she can't find her mother when she is alone, and her mother has no time to pay attention to her, for a child of this age, house elves can take care of them very well alright.

"Later Godric left, and for seven years, in addition to selecting the students we had taught and handing over the school to them, we devoted ourselves to studying the secrets of time magic. You know, Rowena's enthusiasm for the unknown .”

Children in the Middle Ages became adults when they were teenagers. Unlike modern children who did not go to school until they were 11 years old, they were already very sensible and independent wizards. Helena had already become withdrawn when she was about eight or nine years old. , An angry child, when he was 13 years old, he was even more resentful for his mother's special farewell.

But when you get older, you will eventually be compared by the world.

For Helena, she is the daughter of Ravenclaw, the death curse that she can't get rid of in her life.

She is not a powerful wizard, and she is not even as good as most of the students at Hogwarts at that time. First of all, Rowena's blood is from the royal family of Lorraine, and a wizard will only appear every few generations. , even though her father is an Irish alchemist, Helena still only possesses ordinary magical powers, and then there is experience. Helena grew up in a place without any danger, without life-threatening tribulations and setbacks, which is to a large extent It determines her ordinaryness, and her talent for alchemy is instinctively disgusted because she hates her mother and only cares about those who often leave her alone.

But a person's pride, anger, and resentment will only intensify with the ordinary.

This was the result of what the bloody Barrow said hesitantly last night.

——Stolen the crown that is said to condense wisdom and left Hogwarts, was hunted down by wizards who came to fight after hearing the news, and fled into the forest of Algeria, where Barrow caught up with her, Helena was in an abnormal mood, and the two argued , Barrow accidentally killed Helena.In the more than 1000 years of being a ghost, Helena hated everything related to knights, just because in her first and deepest memory, her mother used to be very good to her, but one night when she was five years old, Godri Ke rushed over and knocked on the door, after taking away Rowena.

"... Helena didn't know that we planned to come 1000 years later. Rowena was afraid that she would think too much, so she just told her that it might take a long time to go out... Actually, after we decided to look at the situation between you and Godric, we planned to Find a way to go back." Even though it was an era shrouded in clouds of death and only plagues and wars, it still belonged to their lives.

"Godric will think about it, and Rowena will...everything will be fine." Helga can only say this, maybe she should worry about Barrow first, this child who she thinks is quite smart, now he is stubborn After this happened, he felt ashamed to see Ravenclaw again, let alone his headmaster. If the four of them spoke more harshly, Barrow would have to find a way to completely disappear the ghost tomorrow.

"Helena became a ghost because of the deepest wish in her heart. If she really didn't forgive Rowena, why did she choose to return to Hogwarts?" Helga seemed to be telling Barrow, and then As if comforting myself and Salazar,

"Because when we left, Rowena told her that we were just going away for a long time, but we will definitely come back, so..."