Hogwarts Raven's Claw

Chapter 91 The Demon Devouring the Girl

Yesterday's conversation with Bloody Baron made Mike understand a lot of things.

First of all, there must be some strange mark on his body, which can allow Lady Grey to sense him from a distance. At the same time, both Lady Grey and Bloody Baron, the two old ghosts, are very afraid of this mark.

Mike initially guessed that this mark was the raven claw mark on his face that was not visible at all normally. Besides that, Mike really couldn't figure out what other strange things were on his body.

But if the claw marks were what frightened Barrow so much, then what was he afraid of? And what was the demon that Barrow was talking about?
What did Barrow mean when he said he killed Helena not because he hated her, but to save her?

After the last incident, the Bloody Baron is now hiding from me just like Ms. Grey.

In desperation, Mike could only change the direction of investigation, which was to find out the true identity of the girl in the dream.

With all these questions in mind, Mike plunged into the Hogwarts library from the next day and began to look up all the history of Hogwarts since its founding.

Fortunately, as the most famous magic school in Europe, Hogwarts itself has a part of the responsibility of recording history. Therefore, in Hogwarts' rich collection of books, there are many books about the history of the wizarding world, among which the history of Hogwarts is recorded in the most detail.

So when Mike searched the Hogwarts student list in the range of 1870-1890, he easily found a suspicious person, Miriam Lavery.

The reason why Mike thought she was the person he was looking for was because behind her name there were two words written in glaring dark red ink: Missing.

After asking Professor Flitwick, he was sure that the missing Ravi was the girl who had appeared in his dream.

Flitwick: "I have some impression of the Miriam you mentioned. Although I was not a professor at Hogwarts at that time, I was already a member of Raven's Nest. Miriam was very famous at that time because she was the person who persisted the longest in the initiation test in nearly a hundred years. I remember that she was only 15 years old when she joined the order. The elders of Raven's Nest were very optimistic about her, but unfortunately..."

When Mike finished questioning Flitwick and continued to look through the Hogwarts directory, he discovered a horrible fact that made him shudder.

The disappearance and death rates of Ravenclaw girls are alarmingly high.

Since 1200 AD, words such as missing and dead have often appeared in the Ravenclaw section of the Hogwarts student list, and most of these people are women.

This is actually not surprising. After all, the wizarding world at that time was still relatively chaotic, and the probability of young wizards dying was very high. There were also many records of disappearances and deaths in other academies at the time.

But the more he flipped through the pages, the more he could see something was wrong. The mortality rate of students in other colleges had been steadily decreasing year by year, except for Ravenclaw, where the mortality rate of female students had not decreased over the years, but had actually increased. At its worst, the rate had even reached the point where several students died each year.

This reminded Mike of the demon that the Bloody Baron had once mentioned. Could it be that there really was a demon hiding in the Hogwarts campus, devouring the lives of young girls for thousands of years?
However, these are not all the anomalies on the list. According to the records in the list, the last Ravenclaw girl confirmed dead was named Myrtle Elizabeth Warren, the female ghost hiding in the girls' bathroom in the original book.

Since the death of Myrtle, there has been no record of a girl dying or missing without reason in Hogwarts. Mike knew the cause of Myrtle's death very well. She was killed by Voldemort using the basilisk, so strictly speaking, she was not the last girl to die at the hands of the "devil".

The real last person to die should be Sheila Clinton, a fifth-year Ravenclaw student who died in 1935. After Sheila Clinton's death, the "devil" disappeared as if he had been killed, which made Mike very confused.

Because according to his previous guess, the raven claw marks should be the symbol of the "devil". Now that the raven claw marks have appeared on his face, it means that the "devil" has not disappeared, but there have been no victims in the decades since 1935. What is the reason for this?

Mike sat on a bench in the library, looking forward with empty eyes, wondering the reason in his mind.

Two Slytherin freshmen walked past Mike, chatting and laughing. As they talked and laughed, they held a small flag in their hands. This was a magic flag specially made by Slytherin students for their Quidditch team. It was made of green cloth, with the Slytherin emblem painted on both sides. A silver-white python was spitting out its tongue and moving on a shield. From time to time, the shield would turn over to reveal the words on the back: Go Slytherin.

Mike then remembered that he had been investigating this matter for almost a month. The Hogwarts Quidditch League had already begun, and today was the day when Slytherin played against Hufflepuff.

I have to say that these flags were made very delicately. The silver-white python painted on them even made a biting gesture towards Mike when the two Slytherin freshmen passed by him.

As Mike looked at the ferocious white snake in front of him, a thunderbolt flashed through his mind, and a name emerged, Tom Riddle.

Excited Mike hurriedly flipped through the Hogwarts student list again, and when he saw a name on it, he burst into laughter.

Tom Riddle attended Hogwarts Slytherin House from 1938 to 1945.

Now everything is clear. Tom Riddle is Voldemort's real name. Since Voldemort entered school, the "devil" of Ravenclaw has disappeared until today when it appeared on him again.

So what is the connection between Voldemort and Ravenclaw?

The answer is very simple, it’s the crown!
While at school, Voldemort learned the location of the Tiara from Ms. Grey, so he took the Tiara hidden in the Albanian forest and made it into his own Horcrux, and then hid the Tiara in the Room of Requirement.

The crown must have a very close relationship with the demon, so the demon stopped hunting the Ravenclaw girl only after Voldemort made the crown into a Horcrux.

"No loud noises allowed in the library!"

Mike's loud laughter not only attracted the attention of the little wizards around him, but also attracted Madam Pince.

Mike didn't even look at Madam Pince and rushed out of the library.

PS: The group number of the book club is 103767471. Everyone is welcome to urge for updates.

(End of this chapter)