The Admiral of Hogwarts

That afternoon, Hugo and his friends spent almost all their time in the library. Besides doing homework, they also needed to use the knowledge in the library to preview all the courses for the week.

Therefore, by the time they left the library, there wasn't much time left before curfew.

Because previewing a week's worth of courses wasn't easy, even though they only completed less than half of their plan today, they still felt a little tired. So, after chatting for a few words, they quickly ended the conversation and returned to their respective bedrooms to wash up and rest.

Just as Hugo finished washing up and lay down on his bed, his roommate Michael Corner walked in from outside. Then, looking at Hugo, who was half-lying on the bed, he asked, "Hugo, did you see the new notices posted on the bulletin board downstairs today? The Ravenclaw Quidditch team will be holding tryouts this Saturday."

"Sounds good. I remember you were praised by the professor in flying class last year." Hearing his roommate say this, Hugo immediately understood why a group of Ravenclaw students had been surrounding the bulletin board.

"But I guess I can only be a spectator on the ground, cheering you on. After all, you know my performance in flying class last year was limited to being able to fly."

"Uh—sorry." Corner smiled a little embarrassedly. He suddenly remembered that Hugo's performance in flying class was also limited to being able to fly, far from being skillful.

"By the way, where's Miss Veneto?" Soon, Corner changed the subject and said. "The scene of her taking down the troll last year was really amazing, and she flew well in flying class too. I think with her strength as a beater—"

"Then I believe that before a game is over, our opponents might not have anyone left," Hugo interjected.

"I think if you can use an ordinary wooden stick to shatter a troll's hard kneecap, then when she swings the bat, she should be able to easily break the bones of those participants with the Quaffle."

"What you said—that's indeed quite possible." Thinking about how easily Veneto had taken down the troll last year, Corner shivered as if he had been blown by a cold wind.

After all, Quidditch is just Quidditch, and it's not worth it to lose lives for this kind of thing, especially since there have been unfortunate victims who died in competitions in the history of Quidditch and its predecessor flying sports.

Next, everyone quickly turned the topic back to their respective vacation lives. Michael Corner was very interested in the fact that Hugo and his friends were able to go to Hawaii for vacation, and as a result, the late-night talk lasted until 10:30 PM.

Perhaps because they had been chatting for a long time, Michael Corner quickly fell into a dream after ending the conversation.

Around 12 o'clock at night, Hugo quietly climbed out of bed and tiptoed into the common room. After he entered the common room, he found that it was quiet, and only Veneto was sitting on a sofa in the corner of the common room with ginger and fish cakes, waiting for Hugo.

"Is my sister asleep now?" Hugo asked after seeing Veneto sitting there. "Hermione is already asleep, and in order to prevent her from discovering our actions, I also sprayed some calming potion that Unyielding gave me in the dormitory before I came," Veneto replied.

"Of course, the hypnotic function of that potion is just a side effect. The real function is to put people into a state of deep sleep. So, not only is it not harmful to the body, but it also makes people more energetic than usual when they wake up the next day." Knowing that Hugo was worried about his sister, Veneto explained the effect of the potion to Hugo.

"If that's the case, then that's great." Hugo nodded and said, then walked out of the common room with Veneto. Then, they went straight to the Room of Requirement on the eighth floor along the corridor.

The reason for choosing to go to the Room of Requirement was also very simple. That is, after not knowing who exactly has Voldemort's Horcrux notebook this year, Hugo decided to take Ravenclaw's diadem out of the Room of Requirement first to avoid some unexpected situations.

Of course, this preparatory work was prepared after Hugo and his friends went shopping with the Weasley family before. Although the ship girls didn't think that Voldemort's Horcruxes would bring them any bad results.

However, at Hugo's strong request, Unyielding and St. George still specially made some targeted props for this kind of thing.

Soon, the two of them avoided the professors patrolling at night and came to the entrance of the Room of Requirement on the eighth floor. Then Hugo walked three times in front of that wall, thinking about needing a place to hide things in his mind. Then Veneto stepped forward and yanked open the door of the Room of Requirement and walked in.

What appeared in front of Hugo and his friends was a room as large as a cathedral, filled with a strange city made up of items hidden by generations of Hogwarts people.

Because it was night, those piles of debris looked gloomy, like ghostly claws reaching into the sky.

"This is simply a treasure trove." Veneto looked at the hats, jewelry, cloaks, and a few pieces of what looked like dragon eggshells piled together and said, "I've decided to come here whenever I have time in the future to see if there's anything good."

"You're right, this is indeed a treasure trove. But it's also full of dangers." Hugo glanced at a few glass bottles flashing with evil light and a large blood-stained axe and said.

"But whether it's a dangerous zone or a treasure trove, let's put it aside for now. Today we're here to find the diadem."

Because they knew some important information, they quickly found the diadem using the giant troll specimen as a landmark: an ugly bust was placed on a crate, and the diadem was worn on the head of this ugly old wizard statue, which was rusty overall. If you didn't say it, you wouldn't be able to tell that this was the treasure left by Ravenclaw, one of the four giants.

It seems that Voldemort hid each Horcrux with different characteristics, so as to prevent someone from analyzing his habits and wiping out all the Horcruxes in one fell swoop.

The diary was placed on the surface for causing trouble, Harry was just an accident, the locket and the resurrection stone ring used a series of evil mechanisms to hide, the golden cup and the diadem were mixed with a large number of similar things, it was pure concealment. Nagini was a living thing, which was a blind spot in many people's thinking.

So the diadem's hiding in the pile of debris was also intentional by Voldemort, and this kind of hiding was very successful. Even Dumbledore didn't analyze that this thing was hidden there.

In the original text, if it weren't for Harry's protagonist halo, he had accidentally seen this diadem, it is estimated that no one would have thought that this thing was hidden there.

"You step back a little first." Veneto said to Hugo, then took out a pair of silver-white gloves and a silver-white box from the ship's equipment space.

These boxes have mysterious patterns and emit a soft white light to the surroundings. Even two or three meters away, Hugo could feel the holy taste contained in these white lights.