Hogwarts Raven's Claw

Chapter 89 Ghost
As the self-hypnosis progressed, Mike's breathing became lighter and lighter. At the same time, Mike felt that the magic power in his body was slowly flowing into his brain. This magic power was not as fierce as Mike usually felt when casting spells, but gave people a gentle feeling.

The feeling was very wonderful. When the magic completely enveloped Mike's brain, Mike felt an unprecedented tranquility.

This kind of tranquility is not the physical tranquility we usually talk about, but a kind of spiritual tranquility.

The human brain is a machine that cannot sit still. Even when we are asleep, it exercises through dreaming, not to mention in our daily study and life.

It can be said that our brains are thinking all the time, and new ideas are emerging, although most of them are meaningless. The fact that we haven't discovered it doesn't mean it doesn't exist, it's just because we are used to it.

Mike's mind was clear at this moment, without a single noise. He was free of fear, joy, worry, and other emotions, and completely immersed in a kind of tranquility that was difficult to describe in words. Mike enjoyed this tranquility very much. In the past forty years of his life, he had never felt as comfortable as he did today.

And the amazing thing is that this state is different from a coma. Mike's consciousness is very clear, and his thinking speed has become faster without other thoughts distracting him.

Mike tried to move his fingers, wanting to test whether he could maintain this state while exercising. But to his disappointment, the special tranquility was broken as soon as his fingers moved.

Suddenly, the fear of the future, the joy of mastering the art of occlumency, the doubts about the light door in the Ravenclaw common room... all these thoughts came back to Mike's mind again, making him frown painfully.

Now Mike finally understood why Snape had remained in Occlumency.

I could have endured the darkness if I had never seen the light.

The tranquility of the closed-brain state is simply the supreme enjoyment for ordinary people, not to mention Snape, who was constantly tormented by guilt towards Lily, fear and hatred towards Voldemort and Dumbledore. If he had not maintained the closed-brain state all the time, Snape might have been unable to bear it and would have done something extreme.

Of course, none of this has much to do with Mike.

In fact, he only felt uncomfortable for a while when he just came out of the brain closure state, and then he fell into a kind of ecstasy. It turned out that he had guessed the trick of practicing brain closure by accident.

At first Mike felt it was a little unbelievable, but he felt relieved when he remembered that the method of casting the Patronus Charm, which was as difficult as the Brain Occlumency, was just to recall one's happiest memory while reciting the spell.

Perhaps the essence of all things in the world are actually very simple principles, but people just think they are too complicated.

In the following days, Mike fell into a frenzy of practice.

Not only did he lock himself in his dorm after school to practice Occlumency, he also practiced while eating and attending classes. In order to avoid being discovered by others, Mike even found a pair of sunglasses and put them on.

As a result, there appeared a weirdo in Hogwarts who wore sunglasses every day and refused to take them off even at night. The Muggle-born wizards did not understand Mike's behavior, but the little wizards who had lived in the wizarding world since childhood did not think so. They thought Mike looked very handsome. So soon, sunglasses became popular in Hogwarts. Mike, who was obsessed with cultivation, did not notice this at first. By the time he found out, almost all the little wizards around him were wearing sunglasses. The most exaggerated thing is that many wizards who originally wore myopic glasses even changed their myopic glasses into sunglasses in order to keep up with the trend.

Mike didn't care too much about it. He laughed for a while when he first discovered it and then put it behind his mind. He had more important things to do at this time.

He discovered that Ms. Grey, the ghost of Ravenclaw, was hiding from him.

Ms. Grey is Helena Ravenclaw, the culprit who stole her mother Rowena Ravenclaw's crown and eventually caused her death in Hogwarts history. She is also the daughter of Rowena Ravenclaw.

When Mike was investigating Ms. Ravenclaw, the first person he thought of was this ghost who witnessed the history of Hogwarts, but what made him depressed was that this Ms. Grey seemed to be deliberately avoiding him.

According to her classmates, she would stare at the statue of Ms. Ravenclaw for a long time every evening in the Ravenclaw common room. But as long as Mike appeared there, Ms. Grey would not appear.

Mike knew that his classmates would not lie to him about such things, and he often saw Ms. Grey in the Ravenclaw common room last year, but for some reason, Mike had never seen her again since this year.

"Could it be because of the claw marks?" Mike couldn't help but think.

Fortunately, the other ghosts did not hide from him like Ms. Grey, but Mike was disappointed after asking Almost Headless Nick, the Fat Friar and other ghosts.

These ghosts are all young, and Ms. Ravenclaw died long before they were born, so they know nothing about Ms. Ravenclaw's past.

However, the kind-hearted fat monk felt very guilty for not being able to help Mike, and told Mike that the oldest ghosts in the castle were the Grey Lady and the Bloody Baron, and they were the only ones most likely to know the past of the four giants.

At the same time, the fat monk also warmly invited Mike to attend the death anniversary dinner to be held at the end of the month, and claimed that this dinner was of special significance.

Mike refused without hesitation.

Mike, who had read the original novel, certainly knew what the Deathday dinner was. A bunch of ghosts were playing in a room, and the cold air they emitted made the whole room as cold as winter. The food was all rotten and inedible. It was simply a fantasy for Mike to abandon the Hogwarts Halloween dinner and attend such a lousy party. He was not like Harry, the kid who didn't know how to say no to others.

Regardless of the fat monk's pleading, Mike went directly to the eighth floor of Hogwarts where the Room of Requirement was located. It seemed that the Bloody Baron was always there. Almost every time Mike went to the Room of Requirement, he would see the Bloody Baron wandering in the empty corridor, as if he was looking for something.

When Mike arrived at the eighth floor this time, the Bloody Baron was still there, but there was another ghost beside Baron, and that was Ms. Grey, whom Mike had been searching for for several days.

(End of this chapter)