Hogwarts Raven's Claw

Chapter 604 Reunion
The creation of the library brought about a huge change to Ravenclaw.

It is precisely because the Ravenclaw Library has a more complete and larger collection of books than the Hogwarts Library that the top students from other colleges come to Ravenclaw in an endless stream.

Of course, the books in the Ravenclaw Library cannot be taken out of Ravenclaw, so in addition to Ravenclaw students, you can see many students from other colleges studying hard in the Ravenclaw common room.

Professor Flitwick also maintained a tacit attitude towards this situation. Perhaps in his opinion, although so many books were nominally donated by Mike to Ravenclaw College, they actually belonged to the entire Hogwarts. It was certainly feasible for people from other colleges to come and take a look.

But things were not as simple as he thought.

With Professor Flitwick's indulgence, many poor students who could not concentrate on their studies also gathered in Ravenclaw.

But their purpose of coming here was certainly not to study hard, but to get close to the Ravenclaw students.

This was something Harry could not understand before, but as Michael became the Minister of Magic and Professor Flitwick became the headmaster of Hogwarts, all of this happened naturally.

Today, Ravenclaw has undoubtedly become the leader among the four major colleges.

Although Professor Flitwick did not go as far as Snape, his preference for Ravenclaw students is unquestionable.

Harry figured that in a few years the title of 'best house at Hogwarts' would move from Gryffindor to Ravenclaw.

Thinking of this, Harry shook his head with some disappointment. As a Gryffindor, he had mixed feelings about the decline of Gryffindor.

He stood up and walked outside. There were too many people here during the day and such an investigation was meaningless. He decided to come back and take a look at night.

Just as he was about to reach the eagle-head door knocker, perhaps because his low mood affected his perception or something else, Harry bumped into a familiar figure.

"I'm sorry..." Ron felt that he had bumped into someone and took two steps back, ready to apologize. But just as he said this, he saw that there was nothing in front of him. Then his expression became stunned, "WTF!"

Looking at Ron, who looked stunned, Harry suddenly panicked.

If it were anyone else, he could just knock them out with one shot, then hide them in his death cloak and walk away.

But facing Ron, he really couldn't do it.

While Harry was hesitating, Ron seemed to realize something. He stretched out his arms and groped in the air with his eyes fixed, while he kept muttering:

"Harry? Harry? Is that you?"

Harry wanted to run away directly, but looking at Ron's expectant look, he finally gritted his teeth, walked around behind Ron, covered Ron's mouth, and whispered in his ear:
"It's me. Don't talk yet. Keep quiet. Let's find a place where there's no one and talk."

Harry could clearly feel Ron's body tremble the moment his voice sounded, which made him involuntarily tense his muscles.

Fortunately, Ron quickly calmed down. He nodded seriously towards the empty space next to Harry, then tiptoed out of the Ravenclaw common room like a thief.

Seeing his funny look, Harry couldn't help but kick him on the PG, which made him return to normal.

The two of them left the Ravenclaw Tower and came to the bathroom on the second floor. Since this was the entrance to Slytherin's Chamber of Secrets, normally no one was willing to come here.

After carefully confirming that no one was following him, Ron gently closed the bathroom door, turned back to the empty bathroom and said uncertainly:

"Harry, are you still there?"

Harry didn't answer him, but took off the Death Cloak.

Ron was startled by Harry's sudden appearance. He instinctively took two steps back, but then moved closer and reached out his hands to touch Harry's body with a look of surprise.

"Is that you?"

"Of course it is me."

Harry said with a smile.

"This is really... great!"

Ron's eyes were wet, he spoke with a sob, and at the same time hugged Harry.

He held Harry so tightly that it made Harry uncomfortable.

But Harry had no intention of struggling to break free. Like Hermione and Ron, he missed his friends very much.

The two of them hugged each other like this. After an unknown amount of time, Ron suddenly let go of Harry, stared at him with a pair of red eyes and said angrily:

"Where have you been all this time? Do you know how worried we are about you?"

Faced with Ron's questioning, Harry remained silent.

He had experienced so many things since he came in that he really didn't know whether he should tell Ron, because this would inevitably involve them as well.

He even thought about erasing Ron's memory, which was very easy for him with the Flashlight of Forgetting.

But Harry was just an immature teenager after all. The long period of wandering and the high-intensity escape had put him on the brink of collapse.

Now he urgently needs a partner to vent his emotions.

So after hesitating for a long time, Harry finally spoke and told Ron everything about his experiences during this period and why he wanted to return to Ravenclaw, with some embellishments.

After saying that, Harry silently observed Ron's reaction. Now all his magic power had been mobilized. As long as Ron showed the slightest sign of telling on him, he would immediately take action and subdue Ron.

In his opinion, informing on others was a perfectly normal thing. After all, in the eyes of others, what he was doing was indeed very crazy.

Yet he still overestimated Ron's normality.

After listening to this, Ron said with envy:

"This is so cool! Why didn't you tell me about this earlier?"

"Yes...really?"

Harry stuttered a little when he spoke. Ron's reaction was really beyond his expectations.

"Of course! I believe George and Fred would think so too!" Ron said, waving his arms excitedly. "By the way, can the Deathly Hallows you mentioned really make wishes come true?"

"Of course! Of course! I spent a lot of time researching this to find out."

Harry answered a little panicked. As he had said before, he had embellished the course of events a little, and the so-called embellishment was about summoning the ancient gods after collecting the Deathly Hallows.

He portrayed the ancient god as a being similar to Aladdin's lamp.

Perhaps to justify himself, Harry continued:

"Dumbledore and Michael were both deceived. They mistakenly believed that the ancient god was a being that would destroy the world, so they did not take the initiative to collect the Deathly Hallows!"

"cool!"

Seeing Ron's confident and excited look, Harry turned his head humbly and changed the subject:

"Don't talk about this. Why did you go to the Ravenclaw common room? Could it be that... you also went there to get close to Ravenclaw students?" "Of course not!"

Ron jumped up as if he was insulted and said:

"Hermione is studying in there, I'm just going to bring her lunch..."

"Oh!" Ron's expression suddenly turned horrified. "What time is it now, Harry?"

"It's almost 2pm."

"It's over! I forgot to bring Hermione lunch!"

Ron roared in fear and rushed out of the bathroom. Harry didn't have time to stop him. In the end, he could only put on the death cloak and followed him.

The two ran all the way to the Ravenclaw common room, but even though it was still crowded, Hermione was nowhere to be seen.

So the two of them had no choice but to return to Gryffindor, but they didn't expect that Ron's face turned pale as soon as they entered the common room.

Harry followed his gaze and saw Hermione with her arms folded, staring at Ron unkindly.

"Mr. Weasley! Could you please explain where you have been?"

Hermione said word by word.

Hearing this, Ron became even more flustered. His eyes were wandering, as if he was looking for something, and at the same time he was saying something that no one could understand.

Hermione sneered, shook her hair, turned around and ran away.

Ron and Harry immediately chased after her. The former seemed to have finally regained some of his sanity and approached Hermione and said something quickly.

Hermione stopped in her tracks immediately, her eyes widened, she covered her mouth with her hands and looked around, looking frightened.

Harry knew without guessing that Ron must have told Hermione about his existence.

Reluctantly, he gently touched Hermione's arm to indicate his presence.

Hermione's body shrank suddenly, and she was directly frightened.

The three of them remained in a stalemate in the lounge for a while before finally deciding to find a place where no one was around to talk it out.

On the way, looking at the nervous Hermione and Ron, Harry felt a little uneasy.

He wasn't actually too surprised that Ron would support him.

After all, Ron is his best friend, and to be honest, his intelligence is a bit unfortunate, or he is a bit naive, so it is normal for him to believe in his own lies.

But Hermione was different.

Hermione was originally an old-fashioned person. Not to mention whether Hermione would believe his clumsy lie, Harry suspected that Hermione would drag him to see Black the moment she saw him.

This was something Harry saw from nowhere.

Therefore, the magic wand hidden in his sleeve is already in place, and if the situation starts to develop in a bad direction, he will strike without mercy.

However, the development of things was beyond Harry's expectations. After experiencing a similar long-awaited reunion scene with Ron, Hermione did not show much doubt about the lies he told. She didn't even say anything to persuade Harry to go back.

This took Harry a little by surprise.

"Hermione, won't you persuade me to go back?"

Harry asked cautiously.

Hermione rolled her eyes at him and said:
"Professor Snape died in battle and so many other things happened. If I ask you to go back now, will you go back?"

Harry was silent, and this silent response was obviously what Hermione expected.

She sighed and said:
"Harry, I'm sorry about what happened to you. But I think you'd better give Black a hug from time to time. He's been missing you like crazy lately."

"I want to contact him too." Harry said with a gloomy expression, "But I can't. It will implicate him."

"Because of Mike? With all due respect, Mike is a good man. Black had gone directly to the Ministry of Magic to question him before, and he said that the guy who attacked you had been dealt with by him."

"What!?"

Hearing Ron's answer, Harry jumped up from his chair.

He was well aware of the close relationship between Victor and Mike, so he was surprised by Mike's actions.

To be honest, Harry was still somewhat happy. After all, Victor was the enemy who killed Professor Snape. But when Harry thought about it carefully, he found something wrong.

Now his goal is no longer to protect the Deathly Cloak, but to collect the Deathly Hallows.

So if we put aside emotions and look at it from a completely rational perspective, Victor, the guy who wants to collect the Deathly Hallows, is the friendly force that Harry should fight for, while Michael is the hostile force.

Thinking of this, Harry felt a headache.

Although he had made up his mind to do anything to save those who died, Harry still couldn't do something that crossed his bottom line.

At this time, Hermione had completely digested the information Harry had given her. She raised her head and said to Harry:

"So, the purpose of your return to Hogwarts this time is to find the entrance to the Masonic secret realm, right?"

Harry also came back to his senses and said:
"Yes, I'm sure it's in Hogwarts..."

Harry quickly told Hermione and Ron his idea, and also told them the places he guessed might be the entrances.

"I also think that the Ravenclaw Common Room is the most likely location. As for places like the Room of Requirement, I think you don't need to explore them."

"why?"

Harry said confusedly, he couldn't understand what Hermione was saying.

"Remember that Hogwarts was occupied by Chris for a period of time?" Hermione continued, "During that time, his men had already conducted a thorough inspection of the entire Hogwarts. Those hidden places and secret passages were their key inspection targets, and the Room of Requirement was the focus of the focus. Even the elite of the Ministry of Magic couldn't find any clues there, so I don't think we can."

Ron grumbled in dissatisfaction when he heard this, but fell silent after being glared at by Hermione.

On the other side, Harry also thought for a while and said:
"What you said makes sense. The only possible location is indeed the Ravenclaw Common Room. So I will go and take a look tonight as planned."

"Wrong!" Hermione blinked and said, "It's not you, it's us!"

"You...you guys are going with me too?"

Harry said in disbelief, but what answered him were two bright smiling faces.

(End of this chapter)