My Hogwarts has a serious problem.

Chapter 232, page 229: Ravenclaw's Crown

This Mrs. Denise is clearly no ordinary person.

She knew too much, and she talked to herself too much.

However, her identity was not important to Lynn; what mattered was what she said.

After Lynn left the Owl Post Office, he immediately transformed into a raven and flew back to Hogwarts Castle.

Instead of going directly to anyone, he went to the House of Requirement and asked for a room to rest in.

Lynn certainly knew who the two oldest ghosts that Granny Daniels mentioned were.

Barrow the Blood, the resident ghost of Slytherin, and Lady Grey, the resident ghost of Ravenclaw, were both people who died and became ghosts in the early days of Hogwarts.

The real identity of the lady Grey is actually Helena Ravenclaw, the daughter of Rowena Ravenclaw, one of the four great masters of Hogwarts.

Wanting to surpass her mother in fame and wisdom, she stole Ravenclaw's crown and fled to Albania. Later, the ailing Rowena Ravenclaw wanted to bring her back to see her one last time, so he sent Sir Barrow, a noble wizard who was in love with Helena, to Albania to find her.

Later, the two had a dispute in the Albanian forest. In a fit of rage, Barrow accidentally killed her. After regaining his senses, overwhelmed with grief, Barrow picked up the knife that had killed her and committed suicide.

Because they still had a strong yearning for the world of the living, they did not enter the world of the dead. Their souls became ghosts and returned to Hogwarts, eventually becoming the Bloody Barrow of Slytherin and the Ghost Lady Grey of Ravenclaw, respectively.

I wonder if Ravenclaw saw their ghosts after they returned to Hogwarts, and what their reaction was.

Lynn had no idea what Rowena Ravenclaw was thinking; what he needed to think about now was how to get on Lady Grey's good side and ask her about the entrance to the dungeon built by the fairies.

Lynn has been at Hogwarts for two years now, not counting this semester, but he has never spoken to this Lady Grey.

Like Barrow the Bloodman of Slytherin, Lady Grey is a transcendent being among the ghosts. As the daughter of the Falcon Ancestor, she is proud and disdains to speak with students other than Ravenclaw, especially after Tom's emotional deception.

Yes, Tom Riddle, who was handsome and charming in his youth and had a charmingly faked personality, even deceived Ghost's feelings!

It's still a ghost of ancient origin.

Tom seduced Lady Grey into revealing that she had stolen her mother's crown and hidden it in a hollow tree in the Albanian forest.

Tom then took the crown from the forest and, after deceiving Lady Grey, turned the legendary crown, which was said to grant extraordinary wisdom when worn, into his own Horcrux.

Lady Grey was unaware of these things at first. In the original story, she was furious when she learned that Voldemort had done such a thing, believing that Voldemort had tarnished the crown.

Lynn felt that he could start from here. Didn't Lady Grey think that Voldemort was defiled by turning the crown into a Horcrux?

In exchange for helping her find and destroy the crown, he could ask her to tell him where the entrance to the cellar that the goblins built in Hogwarts was.

Ravenclaw's tiara is arguably the easiest of all the Horcruxes to find. It's hidden in the Room of Requirement where Lynn is currently staying. He doesn't remember some details from the early parts of the original book very clearly, but he only finished reading The Deathly Hallows after he became an adult in his previous life. He remembers exactly where Harry found the tiara in the final battle.

The Room of Requirement is a room where you can hide things. Inside, there is a dilapidated cabinet with a half-body statue of a wizard on top of it, and a crown is placed on the wizard's head!

After determining the strategy for the next move, Lynn finally slept soundly in the Room of Requirement.

The next morning, after Lynn woke up, she left the Room of Requirement and lingered by the wall.

"I need a place to hide things."

He silently recited it in his mind, and soon a door appeared on the smooth wall. Lynn pushed the door open and went inside.

This was a very large room, filled with all sorts of odds and ends. These were things that the young wizards who had once discovered the Room of Requirement had hidden here. Most of them had been there for a long time and were in a terrible state, making the room look like a huge junkyard.

Lynn even saw a giant specimen here, along with bottles, hats, boxes, chairs, books, weapons, brooms, baseball bats, and all sorts of other random things.

He kept walking deeper and eventually saw an old cabinet with a bubbly surface.

Above the cabinet was a half-body statue of a male wizard covered in pockmarks, wearing a dusty old wig and an old, faded crown-like object on his head.

That worn-out crown is Ravenclaw's crown, and also the fifth Horcrux created by Voldemort!

Without hesitation, Lynn took the crown directly into her hand.

Legend has it that wearing this thing can increase one's wisdom, but it looks no different from the trinkets that Lynn sold at the night market in his previous life. In fact, the street vendor items look more glamorous. This crown, on the other hand, has been placed in a tree hole for nearly a thousand years. After being made into a Horcrux, it was placed in the House of Requirement for decades without maintenance, so it looks no different from the garbage around it.

However, no matter how unattractive it may be, the tiara is indeed the only genuine relic left behind by Ravenclaw.

After receiving the crown, Lynn did not immediately go to see Ms. Grey; he was still struggling with what identity to use when he approached her.

At Hogwarts, he could no longer use his outsider identity, and because of the Time-Turner, he also couldn't meet Madam Grey using his original identity or Lockhart's identity. Lynn hadn't figured out how to solve this problem yet.

But that's not a big problem. At worst, he can just wait until the night he and Dumbledore agree to get the Time-Turner, when time will have been reset and he can openly go to see Lady Grey.

During this time, Lynn wasn't entirely idle; after all, getting the crown wasn't the end of it, he also had to find a way to destroy it.

The three known methods are the Basilisk's fangs, Gryffindor's greatsword, and the Fiendfyre spell. The first two are currently unavailable, but learning the Fiendfyre spell is easy for Lynn.

Hogwarts certainly wouldn't teach dangerous dark magic like the Fiendfyre spell, but the spells for the Fiendfyre spell were in the magic books that Rosier sent him in his second year.

Lynn had memorized the spell long ago, but he had never studied it, and now he had plenty of time.

(End of this chapter)