Hogwarts: What are the four great masters doing?

Ryan took a casual step and jumped down.

After passing through the dark cave under the castle, Ryan quickly entered the secret room.

Then, Ryan saw the whole picture of the secret room.

The towering vault is covered with snake-shaped reliefs on both sides of the entire chamber, making it look ancient and mysterious.

But Ryan noticed that the surrounding snake reliefs, the ground, and even the ceiling all showed signs of damage.

Those were traces of some giant creature crawling and fighting with the wizard.

Even after decades, Ryan could still feel the power and evil of some of the spells.

"Voldemort..."

Ryan murmured - with his magical attainments, he could almost complete the battles of the past in his mind.

A despicable, premeditated attack.

Everything seemed to be exactly as Tamh had said.

But it only seems so.

"..."

His gaze turned to the end of the chamber.

There stood a huge statue - it was a statue of Salazar Slytherin.

At this moment, there were traces of magic on the statue, and it looked very new.

But Ryan wasn't surprised.

He had already heard from Ron that Voldemort seemed to have returned to the Chamber of Secrets after returning to school this year.

He cast a spell on Slytherin's statue in retaliation for the curse that Slytherin had placed on him in the past.

At this moment, what attracted Ryan's attention was not these traces of magic, but the ground in front of the statue.

There were only a few black spots on the ground there.

They sunk deep into the floor, as if bearing the weight of time.

Vestigium

Ryan waved his finger slightly.

Then the next moment, he saw the black spots that had been worn out by time begin to spread.

Piece by piece... In just a moment, the black spots spread to almost all the areas in front of the statue.

Their color continued to spread and turned into a dazzling red.

That is the color of blood.

And in the center of the bloodstain, the shape of a human body slowly emerged - judging from the marks, it seemed to be a young witch.

"Myrtle..."

So, Ryan naturally knew the answer.

Myrtle Elizabeth Warren – the only victim of the 1943 Chamber of Locked Chamber incident.

Ryan had long guessed that her death must be related to Tom Riddle.

And at this moment, the traces that appeared in front of him proved this.

"After Tamh escaped from the secret room, she was brought here and subjected to a terrible ordeal..."

Ryan looked at the bloodstains on the ground: "She was bled dry, but this is by no means the whole story of the torture."

Ryan's expression became solemn, and there was a coldness in his light blue eyes.

"Tom Riddle."

He murmured the name under his breath and once again recognized the other person's true nature.

There is no doubt that from that time on, Tom Riddle had become a complete madman!

But then, more problems arose.

As far as Ryan knew, Myrtle's body was eventually found in the bathroom - Hagrid's testimony would confirm this.

“Put aside your emotions and think carefully.”

Ryan murmured quietly to himself—he began to outline the information he knew.

"Why was Myrtle attacked? It's not hard to guess. She probably saw the open entrance to the Chamber of Secrets..."

"Will she choose to go down alone... No, of course not. She's not a Gryffindor, and from what Hagrid described, she's quite timid and crybaby."

"So she might have been caught by Tom when he left the secret room, and was forcibly taken into the secret room."

"Tom tortured and killed her here, and then... took her back to the bathroom?"

Ryan's brow furrowed.

A problem occurred.

"Why did he do that?"

It's not surprising that Tom wants to silence the witness.

It's no surprise that he put Myrtle's body back in the bathroom.

The disappearance of a young wizard would inevitably trigger a full-scale search in the school, and the Chamber of Secrets would most likely be discovered.

But if a young wizard died in the bathroom, then the key question becomes 'who is the murderer', and the Chamber of Secrets is not easy to be discovered - especially when there is a scapegoat like Hagrid who is easy to be framed.

But there is one strange thing, that is...

"Why did he specifically bring Myrtle into the secret room and then kill her? He could have killed her directly in the bathroom... and why did he go through this level of torture?"

Ryan murmured.

Then, his eyes fell on the statue of Slytherin not far away.

The answer, then, seems obvious.

"Not just a murder, but a ritual?"

Ryan guessed the truth.

"He got the knowledge about Horcruxes from the Slytherin teacher... He got the method he had always dreamed of, the method to leap over death, and he was ecstatic about it."

"At that time, he obviously didn't realize that there was a deadly trap hidden in the Slytherin teacher's knowledge, so he wanted to complete the ceremony under the 'witness' of Slytherin... He created his first Horcrux here!?"

That's right.

Ryan knew very well that the creation of a Horcrux was very complicated. It not only involved some extremely occult rituals and spells, but also required the killing of innocent people.

The more cruel the process is and the more intense the victim's pain is, the better the effect of making the Horcrux will be!

Myrtle's death may have created Voldemort's first Horcrux!

When Ryan realized this, he couldn't help but say in his heart what a pity!

"What a pity Myrtle's spirit didn't become a ghost—otherwise Tom would have been caught red-handed."

The birth of a ghost requires a strong obsession.

Myrtle's parents both became ghosts because of her death, which is enough to show that the relationship between them was very good - deep feelings and regrets are part of obsession.

In addition, she suffered such painful torture before her death, and the strong unwillingness and pain were also part of her obsession.

So logically speaking, the possibility of Myrtle becoming a ghost is actually quite high.

Once she becomes a ghost, normal spells will be powerless against her.

As mentioned before - the essence of ghosts already belongs to the 'other side of the curtain'.

They are the souls of the dead, but not entirely.

To be precise, they are more like the part of the deceased that is unwilling to die, the projection of the deceased's soul - and their true essence has been thrown into the other side of the veil.

Even the killing curse that can kill the soul cannot kill the ghost... After all, how can something that is already dead die again?

Of course - if it was the Killing Curse that Ryan had seen on Voldemort, that blow that touched the essence of 'death' magic, then perhaps even the ghost would be 'killed'!

But obviously, this is impossible.

Ryan was certain that Tom Riddle in 1943 would never be able to master that level of the Killing Curse!

So, once Myrtle becomes a ghost, Voldemort's fate may have ended in 1943.

But unfortunately...Myrtle didn't become a ghost in the end.

After sighing in my heart for a while.

Ryan left the secret room and bathroom thoughtfully and walked towards his dormitory.

Soon, he saw an acquaintance in the corridor in front of the dormitory.

"Neville?"

Looking at Neville, who was pacing back and forth in front of the stone pillar of his dormitory with a nervous and anxious look on his face, Ryan called out to him with some confusion.

"Ryan...Ryan?!"

Then Neville seemed startled.

"What are you doing here? Nighttime?"

Ryan looked at the other person with some confusion.

As far as he knew, Neville was a very honest Gryffindor - he seldom went out at night.

And then again...even if it was a night stroll, why would he wander in front of his dormitory?

"I...I...I..."

Neville said nervously, "I want to ask you something, but I forgot the password to the stone pillar in front of your dormitory door. I'm afraid that shouting loudly will wake you up or attract Filch, so..."

He stammered, but managed to make almost everything clear.

"Oh..."

So Ryan thought of the time when Neville and Simodian came to visit him when he returned to school not long ago.