Raven's Claw at Hogwarts

Chapter 91 The Demon Devouring the Girl

The conversation with the bloody Barrow yesterday made Mike understand many things.

First of all, there must be some kind of strange mark on her body, which can make Ms. Gray perceive herself from a long distance.At the same time, the two old ghosts, Ms. Gray and Bloody Baron, are very afraid of this mark.

Mike preliminarily guessed that this mark was the raven's claw mark on his face that usually didn't show up at all.Besides, Mike really couldn't figure out what else was strange about him.

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

After experiencing the last incident, the bloody Barrow is now hiding away like Ms. Gray.

In desperation, Mike could only investigate in another direction, that is, to find out the true identity of the girl in the original dream now.

With these and other questions, Mike plunged into the Hogwarts library from the second day and began to look up all the history of Hogwarts since its establishment.

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

So when Mike searched the list of Hogwarts students from 1870 to 1890, he easily found a suspicious object, Miriam Lavie.

The reason why Mike thinks she is the person he wants to find is because there are two words written in dazzling dark red ink behind her name: Missing.

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

Flitwick: "I have a little impression of the Miriam you mentioned. Although I was not a professor at Hogwarts at the time, I was already a member of Raven's Nest at that time. At that time, Miriam's She has a great reputation, because she is the person who has persisted the longest in the membership test in the past hundred years. I remember that she was only 15 years old when she joined the membership, and the elders of Raven's Nest were very optimistic about her, but it's a pity..."

When Mike finished questioning Flitwick and continued to look through the Hogwarts directory, he also discovered a terrifying fact that made his hair stand on end.

Ravenclaw girls have an astonishingly high disappearance and death rate.

Since 1200 AD, words such as disappearance and death have often appeared in the Ravenclaw articles in the Hogwarts student directory, 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 that time.

But the more you turn Mike back, the more you can see that something is wrong.The mortality rate of students in other colleges has been steadily decreasing year by year. Only Ravenclaw is different. The mortality rate of female students in Ravenclaw College has not declined over the years, but has a tendency to increase. The worst time has even come There are several deaths a year.

This reminded Mike of the demon mentioned by the bloody Barrow. Is there really a demon hidden in the Hogwarts campus, which has been devouring the lives of those young girls for thousands of years?
However, these are not all the anomalies on the list. According to the records on the list, the last Ravenclaw girl confirmed dead was named Myrtle Elizabeth Warren, who was hiding in the girls' bathroom in the original book. female ghost.

Since the death of Myrtle, there has been no record of a girl dying or disappearing for no reason in Hogwarts.The cause of Myrtle's death was very clear to Mike, she was killed by Voldemort using the basilisk, so strictly speaking, she was not the last girl who died at the hands of the "demon".

The real last person to die should be Sheila Clinton, a Ravenclaw fifth grader who died in 1935.

And after Sheila Clinton died, the "demon" disappeared as if killed by someone, which made Mike very puzzled.

Because according to his previous guess, the raven's claw marks should be the symbol of the "devil". Now that the raven's claw marks appear on his face, it means that the "devil" has not disappeared. In the past few years, there have been no more victims. What is the reason for this?

Mike sat on a bench in the library and stared blankly at him, wondering why.

Two Slytherin freshmen walked past Mike talking and laughing.The two of them were talking and laughing, while holding a small flag in their hands. This is a magic flag specially made by Slytherin students for their Quidditch team. The coat of arms of Slytherin was painted, and a silver-white boa constrictor was spitting out a letter and walking on a shield. From time to time, the shield would be turned over, revealing the words on the back: Come on, Slytherin.

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

It has to be said that these flags are very delicately made. The silver-white python painted on them made a gesture of snapping at Mike when the two Slytherin freshmen passed in front of him.

And Mike looked at the ferocious white snake in front of him, as if a thunder flashed across his mind, a name emerged, Tom Riddle.

Excited Mike hurriedly looked through the Hogwarts student directory again, and laughed out loud when he saw a name on it.

From 1938 to 1945, Tom Riddle studied at Hogwarts-Slytherin House.

Now everything is clear, Tom Riddle is Voldemort's original name, and since Voldemort entered school, the "demon" of Ravenclaw disappeared, until today he appeared again on his body.

So what is the connection between Voldemort and Ravenclaw?

The answer is very simple, that is the crown!
Voldemort knew the location of the crown through Ms. Gray during his school days, so he took out the crown hidden in the Albanian forest to make his own Horcrux, and then hid the crown in the Room of Requirement.

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

"No loud noises in the library!"

Mike's loud laughter not only attracted the attention of all the young wizards around him, but also attracted Mrs. Pince.

Mike, on the other hand, didn't even look at Mrs. Pince, and rushed out of the library in one stride.

PS: The group number of the book friends is 103767471, everyone is welcome to come and remind me.

(End of this chapter)