The Hogwarts Emerald

Chapter 651 The Lost Crown

Every autumn, the leaves of the Whomping Willow fall down, only to sprout again in the spring.

It was autumn again, and the air was a little chilly in the morning. The leaves of the Whomping Willow were gradually turning yellow. It shivered like anthropomorphic, and a large number of leaves fell like last night's rain.

Ada crawled out of the secret passage under the Whomping Willow and walked towards the castle amid the Whomping Willow's impotent rage.

The grounds were wet from the rain, and shoes and robes would get wet as you walked past them. When Ada entered the castle hall, her fetal leather boots were covered with a layer of fine water droplets.

Today is the weekend, and the students seem to have not yet broken free from the soft and comfortable beds. The hallway is deserted and the whole castle looks like it has not woken up yet.

Following the ever-changing stairs, Ada came all the way to the eighth floor of the castle, where Harry was waiting for her under the tapestry of the troll beating Barnabas silly with a stick.

Harry thought that the tiara might be hidden in the Room of Requirement, but the Savior did not act rashly, but sent a letter to Ada, inviting her to join him. Harry still remembered the situation in the cave. Although this was a school, Voldemort should not be able to set up traps like in the cave, but it was better to be careful.

Harry was sad again when delivering the letter. He would never see Hedwig, who had been with him for many years, again, and could only use Ron's piggy.

Harry was not the only one under the tapestry. His good friends Ron and Hermione were there, as well as Sirius and Lupin.

The two Defense Against the Dark Arts professors stared at the opposite wall. They claimed that they knew the castle well, but they never knew there was such a magical place in the school.

"Concentrate on the space you need and walk through that wall three times... and a room you need will appear!" Sirius said excitedly, "It's incredible!"

At this moment, Sirius was like a country boy who had never seen the world. The Room of Requirement did not appear on the Marauder's Map, not because of its unmarkable nature, but because the four plunderers really didn't know about this place.

Otherwise, when Harry organized the DA, Sirius would not have recommended the secret passage behind the mirror on the fifth floor. It would have been better for him to directly recommend the Room of Requirement to Harry.

Lupin, who was standing by, was in a much better mental state than before. He was also looking at the wall and said with a smile, "Why didn't we notice it then?"

"Perhaps it's time for you to consider some 'fluffy' little issues?" Ada said, walking towards the tapestry.

Lupin smiled bitterly and shook his head. He said, "Okay, okay, I already know I was wrong. Let's not dwell on this matter anymore."

In English, lupin means lupine, and in Greek, it means "sorrow". The seeds of lupine are extremely bitter, and when you put them in your mouth, you frown and look very painful. Therefore, its flower language is "bitter".

Moonface's past life was as bitter as his last name. Now that he has Tonks and an unborn child, he hopes that his future life will be filled with sweetness.

Seeing the main players coming, Harry didn't waste any more time and walked straight to the wall. Behind the wall was the hidden Room of Requirement.

I need that hiding place, Harry pleaded in his mind, and as he ran past for the third time, a smooth wooden door appeared in the previously bare wall.

The Room of Requirement responded to Harry's plea.

Grasping the door handle, Harry pushed the door open and was the first to enter the room.

Ada and others followed him in. When everyone crossed the threshold, they were stunned by the scene before them.

The Room of Requirement grew to the size of a cathedral, and the surrounding landscape looked like a city, its walls made up of the hidden possessions of thousands of students who were no longer alive.

Ada picked up the old books piled up nearby and flipped through them. She found that several of them dated back centuries. This was a good place for "treasure hunting." "He never knew that others could come in?" Ron said, his voice echoing in the silence.

"He thought he was the only one allowed in," Harry added, "but he didn't know how familiar we were with this place, and it's his bad luck."

Ada looked at the mountains and seas of old things in front of her, and she made the same mistake as Voldemort.

Voldemort didn't know that anyone could find this place. She thought that Voldemort didn't know about this place, so she subconsciously skipped the Room of Requirement.

Even the wisest man can make mistakes. Everyone can be careless sometimes.

Voldemort's pride made him ignore the magic of the house-elves, exposing his secret to Regulus, which led to the theft of the Horcrux; Ada's negligence made her ignore the Room of Requirement and she almost missed the tiara, but fortunately no bitter consequences resulted.

The room that the Room of Requirement transformed into this time was very large, and there were many old things piled up. The six people dispersed and searched on their own. After they separated, they heard the sound of Hermione using the Spell of Flying.

Of course the crown would not fly to Hermione, in order to prevent someone from using the Sling Curse to steal, the Intercepting Curse and other spells came into being. Otherwise, Ada would have been rich without waiting for the return of her ancestors.

Passing through a passage full of garbage, Ada began to search carefully, trying to find the crown hidden here. But what appeared in front of Ada were either damaged furniture, old books thrown here, and prohibited items thrown here by students over the years.

Some of the furniture looked very familiar to Ada. They must have been moved from the Shrieking Shack by Winnie the house-elf and dumped here.

Walking deeper and deeper into the maze of old things, Ada's footsteps echoed among the garbage. Bottles, hats, boxes, chairs, books, weapons, brooms, bats...

Finally, Harry's voice was heard in the Room of Requirement: "Here it is! I found it! The crown is right up there!"

The room was soon filled with the sound of hurried footsteps, and the people who had been searching for the Horcruxes stood beside Harry again, looking in the direction of his finger.

It was an old, blistered cabinet with a pockmarked bust of a wizard standing on top of it, with an old, grey wig and what looked like an old, faded crown on its head.

Ada raised her wand, and a thin golden ribbon shot out from the tip of the wand. The ribbon wrapped around the crown and brought it back to Ada.

"Extraordinary wisdom is the greatest wealth of mankind." Ravenclaw's famous motto is engraved on the bottom edge of the crown.

That's right, this old crown-like thing is the lost crown of Ravenclaw. It is exactly the same as what Ada saw in her memory, but it has added many traces of time.

"We found the Ravenclaw Diadem. If we destroy it, Voldemort will have one less Horcrux!" said Harry, looking very excited.

The same was true for the others. Ron and Hermione's faces were filled with smiles, and Sirius and Ron high-fived to celebrate. They were one step closer to turning Voldemort back into a mortal body and defeating him.

Ada handed the crown to Harry, saying that he had found it and it was up to him to keep and destroy it.

But when Harry reached out to take the crown, his hands suddenly retracted as if they had touched a hot pot.

Ada looked at Harry suspiciously. She couldn't understand Harry's situation. The crown was in Ada's hand, and it wasn't hot at all. Why did Harry react like that just now?

(End of this chapter)