Hogwarts Raven's Claw

Chapter 70: Night Visit to Ravenclaw (Part )

Amid the students' laughter, the Hogwarts dinner finally came to an end. The prefects of each college led the students of their respective colleges back to the common room in an orderly manner.

Mike noticed that when the dinner was announced to be over, an unfamiliar Slytherin student said something in Snape's ear, and then Snape followed the student out of the hall.

"It looks like Harry and Ron have arrived." Mike thought to himself.

Without paying any attention to it, Mike followed the crowd back to the Ravenclaw common room.

The young wizards were exhausted after a whole day of revelry. After yawning and listening to the prefects explaining the rules of Ravenclaw to the freshmen, they said goodbye and returned to their dormitories to sleep.

Mike was not the same as them. The morning jogging training during the summer vacation had greatly improved his physical fitness. Today's activity was nothing to Mike.

The Ravenclaw Common Room was empty late at night, and the bright moonlight from outside shone through the arched windows inside the common room, illuminating the room. Mike stood in front of the celebrity wall in the Ravenclaw Common Room, carefully observing the portraits on it.

Not only was he observing the portrait, the portraits hanging on the wall of celebrities were also looking at Mike curiously, and some even asked Mike why he was not going to bed so late.

Mike ignored it and focused on looking at the portraits at the end.

There, Lockhart's portrait was posing in front of Mike, while in a portrait slightly in front of Lockhart, an old man was sleeping soundly.

Taking his eyes away from Lockhart's eye-catching portrait, Mike carefully looked at the old man. In Mike's memory, the portrait of this old man did not appear in that strange dream, which means that knowing the identity of this old man and the year and month when he was hung up, you can roughly know when the events in the dream happened.

The old man had messy brown hair and a pair of silver eyes. Mike didn't know if it was an illusion, but he always felt that he looked very familiar.

Right below the portrait, there is a row of small gilded characters, which read:

Urgot Ollivander (1813-1912) was a famous European wand maker who discovered many new wand materials such as teak and merlot. He was awarded the First Class Order of Merlin in 1890 and his portrait was hung here in the same year.

Now everything is clear. This old man is the father of Ollivander in Diagon Alley. Unexpectedly, his father is much more powerful than him and even won the First Class Order of Merlin.

The portrait in front was of a witch named Axia Fancourt, an astrologer. According to the portrait, her greatest achievement was the discovery of two new constellations. Mike really couldn't understand what kind of achievement this was.

This portrait was hung in 1870, which means that everything in the previous strange dream should have happened between 1870 and 1890.

After figuring out the time when the incident happened, the next thing to do was to investigate the identity of the female student. Fortunately, the time span between the two portraits was not very long, so it was relatively easy to investigate. If the time span between them was like the portraits at the top of the Wall of Fame, with a time span of hundreds of years, then Mike would have no way to check it at all, because the data was too huge.

Then, Mike cast his eyes on the statue of Lady Ravenclaw on the other wall. After carefully examining it for a long time, Mike could not see anything special about it. It was just an ordinary stone statue. The only difference was that it was slightly more refined than the monster statues in other places in Hogwarts.

After hesitating for a while, Mike decided to take a risk and try to see if he could open the light door. After all, the light door might be closely related to the heritage of Ravenclaw.

Mike imitated the girl in the dream and clasped his hands tightly in front of his chest, praying devoutly, and finally murmured: "You are the breeze from the quiet lake, you are a prophet exploring the truth, you are the most beautiful human being in the world, and your foolish student is begging you to open the door to wisdom!"

As Mike finished his prayer, he felt a burning pain on his face. At the same time, a light gate on the statue of Ms. Ravenclaw was slowly expanding. The light blue light released by the light gate merged with the moonlight outside the window, and the entire Ravenclaw lounge was blue and beautiful.

But Mike had no intention of appreciating the beautiful scenery in the Ravenclaw common room at this moment. The light door seemed to contain a kind of magic, attracting Mike to walk in.

Beads of sweat were dripping down Mike's forehead. As the beads of sweat fell, Mike's eyes gradually became dull. The blue claw marks on his face were emitting a dazzling blue light, which echoed the light emitted by the light gate. Finally, Mike began to walk towards the light gate involuntarily.

Mike felt like he was back in the blue ocean again, feeling light and warm all over. A woman wearing a crown and with a raven on her shoulder was waving at him not far in front of him. He couldn't see the woman's face or clothes clearly, only her light blue eyes were exceptionally clear in this blurry world.

Mike had never seen his biological mother in his past or present life, but the way those eyes looked at him made Mike feel as if his mother was looking at him lovingly, and he couldn't help but walk towards the woman. He could still hear the woman's whispers in his ears, and he couldn't hear clearly what she was saying, but it made Mike feel very happy.

"Ga! Ga! Ga!"

The raven standing on the woman's shoulder made an unpleasant cry at Mike. Mike frowned and reason returned to his body.

However, the woman's whisper in my ear suddenly became rapid. Listening to the whisper that sounded like the sound of nature, the rationality that had just returned disappeared in an instant.

Getting closer and closer, Mike found that he had unknowingly walked in front of the woman. At this moment, she had her arms open, as if a mother was waiting for her child to come into her arms.

Mike's face was filled with a happy smile, and he couldn't help but quicken his pace, wanting to throw himself into the woman's arms.

However, just as Mike was about to touch the woman, a bone-chilling coldness invaded Mike's body, causing him to shiver unconsciously.

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(End of this chapter)