Study Days at Hogwarts

  Chapter 327 Ravenclaw's Diadem

  Dumbledore didn't pursue the matter of Fred and George getting up to hang out in the middle of the night, and followed Albert into an alley among the garbage dumps. After the two passed the giant monster specimen, they walked a short distance and stopped in front of a large cabinet with blisters on the surface, as if it had been splashed with strong acid.

"Last time, I hid Mr. Hetok Dagworth's gold card here." Albert opened the cabinet door and pointed to the cage inside. The creatures in the cage had long since died. Judging from the skeleton Has five legs. "Later, I came to study this thing again. I think this creature should be the legendary five-legged monster."

   "I haven't seen a five-legged monster, and almost no one knows where Delia Island is." Dumbledore also looked at the bones in the cage, shook his head and said, "However, your guess may be right."

   "Where is the crown on the photo?" Dumbledore asked again.

"There!" Albert raised his finger and pointed to the top of the crate next to him. There was an ugly bust of an old wizard with a dusty old wig and a rusty dark hat on his head. crown.

   "So it's here." Dumbledore reached out to grab the crown, but Albert grabbed it.

   "What's the matter?" Dumbledore looked at Albert rather puzzled.

"I think it's best to take off the dragon leather gloves. I heard that many black magic items are very deadly. If they come into contact with the skin, it may cause serious consequences." Albert took out the dragon leather gloves from his robe pocket and handed them to Deng. Bullido: "Although it is not sure whether the crown is a black magic item, you should still be on the safe side, otherwise it would be really unlucky to lose your life."

  Seeing Albert's serious expression, Dumbledore couldn't help being stunned. He took the dragon leather gloves and said with a smile, "I was negligent."

  Although Dumbledore felt that Albert was too cautious, he was actually right. Many black magic items were indeed dangerous.

After he put on the dragon leather gloves, he reached out and took the crown off the bust of the old wizard, put it in front of him and looked at it carefully, nodded and said: "You are right, this should be a dark magic item, luckily You didn't touch it, or you don't know what terrible things are going to happen."

   "Is it dangerous?" Albert asked.

   "Very dangerous, very evil black magic item." The smile on Dumbledore's face had disappeared, and he narrowed his eyes, looking up and down at the crown, not knowing what he was thinking.

   Soon, Dumbledore's mood became cheerful again, and he took Albert out of the Room of Requirement. He smiled and said to Albert, "Your way of handling it is correct, Gryffindor adds fifty points."

   "Those, sir, I'll leave it to you, I'll go first!" Albert greeted Dumbledore, then turned and left.

   "Very good boy." Dumbledore murmured, looking at Albert's leaving back.

  After he returned to the principal's office with the crown, the portraits who had pretended to be asleep immediately gathered around.

   "Is this the diadem in the photo?"

   "It does look a bit like a Ravenclaw diadem."

   "Can you confirm its authenticity?"

"This... I can't be sure. After all, Ravenclaw's diadem has been missing for thousands of years. However, we have a simple way to tell." Dumbledore told one of the principals: "Armento , please go find Ms. Gray and ask her to come to the principal's office."

   "Ms. Gray? I see."

  Ammando left soon. He had a portrait of himself in the Ravenclaw common room. In the past, students who didn't go to class could help spread the word.

   "Dumbledore, do you need me?"

   It wasn't long before Ms. Gray arrived.

   "There is something." Dumbledore pointed to the crown on the table and said, "I found it, can you tell me if this is the legendary Ravenclaw's crown."

  Ms. Gray's face showed a moment of astonishment. She floated to the table, stared at the crown for a few seconds, and murmured: "It's very similar, but it's impossible. It can't appear in Hogwarts."

   "Where did you find it?" Ms. Gray asked.

   "In the Room of Requirement." Dumbledore added: "It is the magical room opposite the tapestry where the troll sticks and fools Barnabas on the eighth floor of the castle."

   "This thing is really Ravenclaw's crown?" Amondo was shocked, knowing that Ravenclaw's crown had been missing for thousands of years.

   "It's impossible!" muttered Lady Gray. "It should be in a hollow tree in the Albanian forest."

   Now, as long as you are not stupid, you can guess Ms. Gray's identity from this sentence.

   "Someone brought it back to school."

  Actually, Dumbledore had already guessed what it was, and even guessed who brought Ravenclaw's crown back to the school.

   "Ms. Grey, I regret to inform you that this Ravenclaw relic has been defiled by evil black magic."

"He... is very likable. He is... very understanding... Compassionate." Ms. Gray was stunned, looking at Ravenclaw's diadem in disbelief, and murmured: "How could he do such a thing?" things."

   "Tom is very good at deceiving others with rhetoric." Dumbledore said softly, "You are not the only one who was deceived by him..."

   "Is there a strong black magic on the crown?" Amando asked, "Can it be restored?"

   "Tom most likely made the crown into a Horcrux." Dumbledore said softly, "This is a very evil black magic, and ordinary magic can't even harm it! I need to find some special methods."

   "Horcrux!"

   This time, all the principals of the past generations were blown away!

"Fortunately, Mr. Anderson was very vigilant, and when he found this thing, he made the right way to deal with it, otherwise he might be in big trouble!" Dumbledore raised his wand, trying to remove the black magic on it, however, he The magic had no effect.

   "Even you can't help it?"

   "Destroying a Horcrux requires a very powerful destruction, so powerful that the black magic on the Horcrux cannot be resisted." Dumbledore murmured, shaking his head.

   "Use black magic, don't tell me you can't use it!" Phineas suddenly shouted, although Dumbledore had hardly used those black magic, but he believed that Dumbledore would definitely use it.

   "The Fiercefire Curse, or the Avada Kedavra Curse should be able to destroy it!" Dumbledore naturally has ways, and if there are other better options, he doesn't want to use them very much.

   "Use the Killing Curse, it's not for people anyway, don't tell me you can't use it!" Phineas couldn't help curling his lips, he really didn't like Dumbledore's hypocrisy.

   "Shut up Phineas." An old witch waved her crutch at Phineas in a demonstration, and if he said another nonsense, she would hit him on the head with the crutch.

   "Destroy it, don't leave this evil thing here, it will make us feel uncomfortable."

  Other principals also said that things like horcruxes are too evil, and no one knows what will happen if they keep them.

   "Alright, Avada Kedavra!"

  The next moment, green light filled the principal's office.

  After the green light dissipated, the crown seemed to vibrate violently, and then it split open on the table under the eyes of everyone. Blood-like, black and sticky things seeped out of the crown, and there was an extremely weak scream of pain from the crown.

   "How could this be, how could..." Ms. Gray was shocked, Ravenclaw's diadem was ruined, all because the boy used evil black magic to defile it.

   "It seems that I need to give Mr. Anderson another special contribution award!" Dumbledore said easily.

  He raised his wand, waved it lightly at the broken crown on the table, and the liquid disappeared completely. He reached out and picked up the damaged crown and put it in a box, and said seriously to the others, "By the way, please don't say anything about finding Ravenclaw's crown and Horcrux. This matter needs to be kept secret, which is very important. Very important. As for the diadem, I will have someone try to restore it, but I can't guarantee it will be fully repaired."

   "Mr. Anderson?" Ms. Gray murmured, "Perhaps, I should thank that child. Thanks to him, I was not deceived."

   Ravenclaw's crown was eventually ruined, which made her very regretful, regretting that she should not have trusted that boy in the first place.

  …

  At this moment, Albert, who was listening to the class, suddenly raised the corners of his mouth happily. On his task panel, three more tasks were completed, which is really a bumper harvest!

  It seems that the Horcrux has been destroyed, and the principal is really acting resolutely!

  (end of this chapter)