a certain scientific harry potter

Not long after Tonks's letter was sent, it was answered very quickly, and it was Podmore who answered it himself.

In the letter, the other party stated that they would come to Hogwarts in the nearest weekend; and after receiving the reply, Harry hurriedly asked Sir Nick to inform Patrick, and informed the other party of the exact time.

In this way, on the weekend a few days later, the ghost of the ancestor who had been dead for hundreds of years, and the wizard who was suspected to be his descendant finally met at Hogwarts.

Regarding the reunion of ghosts and human descendants, Harry didn't gossip too much, but provided them with a private classroom so that they could communicate alone.

However, when Harry arranged a meeting between the two Podmores, he ran into Ravenclaw's ghost in the corridor.

"Ms. Gray? Are you looking for me?" Harry asked curiously.

"Ah, yes..." Helena's ghost seemed hesitant to speak, "I want to talk to you, the girl next to you, the crown on her head..."

"So that's it. You came here for Ravenclaw's crown, so please come here."

After learning about Helena's intentions, Harry politely ushered her into another classroom.

Coincidentally, he has actually been waiting for an opportunity to tell the other party about this~

Chapter 330 Rowena May Leave a Spirit Behind

It stands to reason that the resident ghosts of Hogwarts are actually the main objects that Harry wants to conclude the life debt.

But the reason why he didn't take the initiative to do this was because he was waiting for the ghosts to bring it up.

This is also the point that Andros Spirit once gave him.

The essence of life debt is a kind of bond between people at the soul level. Whether it is active or passive at the time of conclusion, and the degree to which the psychological expectations of ghosts are met will affect the final strength of life debt.

Just like Myrtle, although she didn't ask Harry for help, because she was just a child when she died, her own emotions were relatively pure; therefore, even in an unintentional situation, she and Harry The life debt concluded by Harry also has considerable strength, and can even help Harry escape the pursuit of Voldemort's soul fragments.

But if they were replaced by ghosts who were adults when they died, they would still retain the complex thoughts of adults. If Harry rushed to help them fulfill their long-cherished wishes, they might not be really grateful.

Since ancient times, true feelings cannot be retained, only routines win people's hearts... The world of adults, whether life or death, is far more complicated than that of children.

"That crown... I want to know, where did you find it?" After arriving in an empty classroom, Helena asked Harry first.

"It was in the Room of Requirement." Harry responded bluntly, "When I found it, it had been made into a Horcrux by Voldemort..."

"What, you said Horcrux?" Helena suddenly screamed without warning, "That man... oh no, that damned bastard, how dare he do such a thing?!"

She didn't doubt the authenticity of Harry's words at all, after all, no one would be big enough to joke about the Horcrux.

"Ms. Gray, please stay calm." Harry persuaded softly, "I cleared Voldemort's soul fragments through certain methods, and it is no longer a Horcrux."

"You... what you said is true?" Helena asked in disbelief.

"Of course it is true," Harry nodded seriously, "Think about it, if it is still a Horcrux, how can I give it to Luna to use?"

"Oh, thank you! Thank you so much!" Helena hurriedly thanked Harry, but her tone gradually became pale and choked, "That man... I was bewitched by him at the time, That's how he ended up staining the crown. Looking back, I was really stupid."

"Voldemort's personality was quite good when he was young. You will be bewitched by him. You can only say that he is not bad for a while, so you don't need to worry too much." Harry comforted softly, but then changed to a straightforward attitude, "Ms. Gray, Are you looking for me today, hoping that I can return the crown?"

"If you want." Helena nodded hurriedly when she heard the words, "After all, it is my mother's relic. Of course I hope to get it back..."

"I'm sorry, Ms. Gray, if you want me to hand over the crown, then I can only refuse." Harry shook his head coldly, "I found this crown, and the process of clearing out the soul fragments can be called a narrow escape. , so it is now my spoils of war. Not to mention you, even if Ms. Ravenclaw is resurrected and asks me for it in person, I will still choose to refuse!"

"If...she can really be resurrected, then maybe I don't need this crown..." Helena said to herself in a sad voice.

"What do you mean by that, Mrs. Grey?"

Harry heard some other meanings from the other party's words. This Ravenclaw ghost, she didn't seem to simply want to ask for the crown from herself.

"Actually, I don't really want to get this crown. After all, I'm already a ghost, and even if I get her, I can't use it at all." Helena explained sadly, "What I really hope is to take another look at my crown." Mother, but I know this is impossible..."

"Back then, I stole the crown because of greed, and thought that my mother would never forgive me. But when my mother was seriously ill, she was still looking for my whereabouts... Unfortunately, I also died in Albania in the end. I didn’t even get to see my mother for the last time. That’s why I thought, if I could return the lost crown to my mother’s tomb, it would be a bit of atonement.”

"It's very touching." Harry nodded slightly to express his understanding, and then continued to ask, "Ms. Gray, I'm curious, have you ever been to your mother's cemetery before?"

"Of course I've been there. It's on the banks of a big river in Scotland. It's my mother's hometown." Helena nodded slightly at first, and then shook her head sadly, "It's just... I don't feel at all there. When you see your mother, you will only feel endless sadness."

"It's like this, Ms. Gray, I suddenly have some other thoughts, you may be quite interested." After thinking for a while, Harry looked at Helena's ghost seriously and said, "I think your mother Ms. Rowena Ravenclaw, she must have left at least one spirit in an unknown place. If I can find it, I can arrange a direct conversation between you mother and daughter."

"This...is what you said true?" Helena's dark eyes lit up all of a sudden, "You can really let me see my mother again...and be able to talk to her directly?!"

For Helena, Harry's proposal is definitely more interesting to her than the crown. After all, the crown is just a dead object for mourning, but the mother's spirit can communicate directly.

Of course, she has also dabbled in matters related to spirits, so she also knows that what Harry is looking for must not be a spirit that can only make a few simple expressions like the portrait of the founder of the fourth courtyard in the school, but a spirit that has truly preserved his mother's consciousness. The presence!

It's just... Will the mother really leave behind such a spirit?

"I have seen the spirit left by Salazar Slytherin before he left the school, it was attached to the stone statue in the Chamber of Secrets." Seeing that Helena seemed to hesitate, Harry explained aloud Said, "As the founder of the college as famous as Slytherin, I don't think the other three people have the power to pass on their own spirits. Besides, with Ms. Ravenclaw's intelligence, even if she doesn't have the crown in hand, I don't think the I also don't think she will leave behind to deal with her own death."

According to Helena, Rowena Ravenclaw was seriously ill at the time, so she sent people to the Albanian forest to find Helena, but it is unknown whether the trip will be successful. Do you just know how to wait?

As a well-known wise man, she should not fail to estimate that she died first, but her daughter still did not return.

Therefore, if she urgently wants to see Helena, the best way is to leave a spirit that can communicate with the other party!

Chapter 330 Three Emotions of Love Are Broad and Narrow

"Mother's spirit... That's right! Mother was the smartest wizard in the world at that time, how could she not have thought of what happened to me?!"

After carefully thinking about Harry's proposal, Helena couldn't help but beam with joy: "Mr. Granger... No, Harry, I sincerely beg you, you must help me find the spirit left by my mother!"

She begged Harry very excitedly, and even completely gave up her original restraint and dignity, and kept turning around Harry.

"It is my honor to be trusted by you, and I am happy to accept this entrustment." Harry nodded with a smile, but at the same time he also brought some words to the front, "But Ms. Gray, I still want to reiterate my previous position... The most I can do is to return the main body of the crown, but the important gem on it can only be used by Luna from now on!"

"Luna Lovegood..." Helena murmured the name, and suddenly asked Harry curiously, "I would like to take the liberty of asking, what kind of feeling do you have for Miss Lovegood?" Is it love?"

"Love?" Harry was taken aback when he heard the words, "Why did you suddenly remember to ask this?"

"I'm just curious..." Helena's voice seemed to be a little more sad, "I actually looked for that girl before I came to you, but she said that the crown is something you gave her, she You have no right to decide whether to give it back. And she also told me that you will definitely keep the crown for her... at least keep the gem."

"That's right..." Harry couldn't help laughing when he heard the words, "Luna really understands me as always~"

"That's why I wonder if the relationship between you and her is the so-called love. If so, why is there a big deviation from the love I understand?" Helena asked in a trembling voice Said, "I am very afraid of love. Baron of Slytherin, he kept saying that he loves me, but in the end he brutally killed me because of my refusal and jealousy of my freedom... he Your body is still stained with my blood!"

As she spoke, Helena raised her cloak, allowing Harry to see the black knife wound on her white chest.

"I see..." Harry understood at this moment what kind of entanglement there was between the bloody Barrow and Helena.

Rowena wanted to see her daughter when she was seriously ill, so she sent Helena's suitor, Baron, the blood man of Slytherin, to the Albanian forest to look for it.

In the end, the bloody Barrow turned out to be a violent guy. He couldn't lose his mind because of love, so he stabbed Helena directly, causing the latter to die in the end.

So, Barrow's cause of death should be...

"After killing me, Baro, who came to his senses, was too remorseful, so he also picked up the weapon that took my life and committed suicide. For hundreds of years, he has been wearing shackles to atone for his sins... But he is simply Serve it right!"

By the end, Helena was full of resentment.

"So, he really deserves it." Harry followed Helena's words, and then patiently explained, "Ms. Gray, the so-called love has many meanings. But in general, we can It is divided into broad sense and narrow sense. Bloodman Baro's love for you is the narrowest one in the narrow sense, a strong desire for exclusiveness that cannot be obtained by love. 'What I can't get, others can't even imagine' or 'I love you so much, why don't you love me', with such insane moods that he committed the unforgivable crime against you."

"But in fact, love should be a beautiful emotion that is willing to actively pay for others. You asked me whether my feelings for Luna are love, and I can clearly say that in a broad sense, yes. I care about She, and I don't want her to suffer any harm, and I can even bear a lot of things for her. But in a narrow sense, my love for Luna has not yet reached the level of love, because the lover I believe is Hermione Ge Lan Jie, this is an absolutely indisputable fact!"

"This…"

At this moment, Helena felt Harry's extremely sincere emotion, a strong emotion that would move even ghosts!

So she hurriedly stood up and bowed respectfully to Harry.

"Mr. Granger, thank you very much for clarifying my doubts. I think, in terms of understanding of love, you can even compare to my mother."

"Ms. Grey, you're flattered." Harry smiled and waved his hands, "Ms. Ravenclaw is absolutely wise, but I can only be regarded as a result of my personality."

In this conversation, Harry and Helena had a very happy conversation, and while Harry successfully kept the crown, he also received Helena's commission as a ghost...and two of them.

Wanting to see his mother again, and wanting to completely let go of the matter of the bloody Barrow, these two are obviously Helena's obsessions, and they are definitely two great jobs for Harry~

...

"Hey, when did you come?"

After sending Helena's ghost away, Harry was surprised to find that Hermione and Luna also came to this corridor at some time.

"We just arrived, hee hee~" When responding, Hermione's eyes were directly bent into crescent moons, and she was whistling leisurely, looking like she was in a good mood.

On the contrary, Luna's face was so indifferent that no expression could be seen at all.

But before Harry had time to wonder for a long time, Sir Nick also floated out from another classroom.

"Haha! Mr. Granger, it's settled. The person you found is confirmed to be Patrick's descendant. The two of them chatted happily at first, but then..."

"Later?" Harry raised his eyebrows in confusion.

"Patrick asked me to tell you, thank you very much for your help, and you will become his and the Headless Hunter team's permanent friends. It's just that he is in a bad mood now, so he is rude and won't say goodbye to you, and I will formally tell you later. Thanks."

Sir Nick explained the reason, but a smirk immediately appeared on his face: "Patrick's original words before he left were, 'I didn't expect my descendant to be an old, ugly, and unmarried guy', Haha, he was so angry that he didn't throw his head directly in the opponent's face~"

"This...understandable~" Harry also nodded in pretended agreement.

In terms of appearance alone, Sturgis Podmore is indeed an ordinary-looking wizard with no characteristics, and he is already 36 years old, but he has not yet married. It is only natural for Patrick, an ancestor, to be anxious and disgusted.

"Okay, Nearly Headless Nick, why are you here to arrange my affairs? That inexplicable Patrick, he actually urged me to get married quickly... Really, how can such a thing be as light as he said? ~"

At this time, Sturgis Podmore, who had been scolded by his ancestors hundreds of years ago, also pushed open the door of the classroom. Seeing his sad face, everyone present knew that he and his The ancestors should not have had a pleasant chat.

But when he saw Harry, he changed his previous look of decadence, approached in three steps at a time, and held Harry's hand excitedly.

"Haha! The famous Harry Potter... no, it's Granger, it's such a pleasure to meet you~"

"It's also an honor for me to meet my parents' former comrades in arms." Harry responded to the other party with a smile, and gave Sturgis some suggestions, "Mr. Podmore, I think Captain Patrick's respect for you The teaching is actually just a good wish from the ancestors driven by love. You really don’t have to be so entangled, you can accept it first, and then just let nature take its course.”

"After agreeing... let nature take its course? That's right, why didn't I think of it just now, I was scolded by him for so long in vain! Mr. Granger, your proposal is really full of wisdom~"

After hearing Harry's words, Sturgis Podmore's eyes lit up immediately, and he hurriedly thanked Harry.

"Uh...Mr. Granger, are you really okay with this?" Sir Nick asked, dumbfounded, "You are teaching Podmore to deceive ghosts, and you have deceived his own ancestors~"

"It's called humbly accepting, never changing after repeated admonitions~" Hermione stepped forward to retort with a smile, and even took Harry's arm, "He used to use this trick to deal with my parents before, and the effect was quite good. According to Harry, Dad Mother's 'love' sometimes needs a smarter way to catch it."

"Uh... When you know that I often fool Mom and Dad, aren't you very upset?"

Harry looked suspiciously at the smiling schoolmaster girl beside him, feeling that she was inexplicably happy today.

Hmm... Could it be that you just drank happy water?

Chapter 330 Four The British Magic World Has Completely Changed

In mid-December, the continuous torrential rain finally stopped.

And at the same time it came to an end, there was also an undercurrent that was constantly surging in the entire British magic world.

Lucius Malfoy wins big, Dumbledore's ideas fall flat...

Harry was not surprised by this result, and he hadn't paid much attention to this matter before, until Luna happened to discover some signs.

The leak came from her father's magazine, The Quibbler, and in recent issues, Luna found many problems.

The content of the article is not right, and some of them are simply written in order to cope with it... It looks like the author who can't update in time before the deadline~

And the most important thing is, when she managed to convince Hermione and the other party agreed to order a sample magazine, her father Xenophilius said that there were no extra magazines on hand until a few days later. Send new magazines by mail.

But it should be the same edition of the magazine, but Luna found many obvious printing differences in it.

So after some investigation and comparison, Luna finally knew that the few magazines she got before were not redundant, but that Xenophilius only printed one for her!

After that, Luna kept writing letters to press her, and her father finally told the truth.

The Quibbler magazine was suspended, and the Ministry of Magic came to confiscate all the equipment and manuscripts, and Xenophilius was completely unemployed half a month ago.

Because he didn’t want Luna to worry, his recent magazines were all produced by himself privately. Suddenly, Luna asked him for a second copy. Xenophilius, who didn’t have a photocopying board, of course couldn’t make it exactly the same. .

After getting the news, Harry couldn't help but feel apologetic.

What he was most worried about happened after all, Xenophilius and "The Quibbler", which made it clear that he was troubled because of the publication of his breaking news.

However, Luna didn't seem particularly sad.

"My dad's magazine was suspended, which shows that those annoying guys are really afraid of his power, which is a good thing. And I believe that you will win in the end, and my dad's magazine will definitely be able to restart, and It will be better than before.”

While saying these words, Luna kept looking seriously into Harry's eyes, with trust on her face that never hesitated.

"Well, I promise!"