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"Alright, Draco. Stop pretending, your dad's already gone."

Zicomo's words relieved Draco, who immediately sat up in bed.

He breathed a sigh of relief because Lucius did not blame him for his failure.

Sitting up in bed was somewhat unbelievable; his father had seen him fall off the broom and simply walked away without a word.

As a member of the Board of Governors, Lucius is entitled to enter Hogwarts to watch Quidditch matches.

Moreover, this was his son's Quidditch debut, so naturally he came back to support him.

He then witnessed his son falling off the broom, right in front of the other school board members.

Feeling utterly humiliated, Lucius naturally didn't want to stay at Hogwarts any longer, fearing the other board members would laugh at him.

"Why did Father just leave like that?" Draco asked dejectedly.

At this moment, Draco was like a child who had suddenly lost the love of his parents in Zicomo's eyes.

Yet this is indeed the case.

As the only son in his family, he was pampered from a young age, and everyone around him revolved around him.

Upon arriving at Hogwarts, he discovered that everyone's attention was drawn to Harry.

He thought that outstanding people should be friends with other outstanding people, so he reached out his hand to Harry.

He was rejected without hesitation, and that's how he came to hold a grudge against Harry.

At school, he discovered that he was not the best student, and his grades were surpassed by Zicomo and Hermione, among others.

Even before the start of the school year, Zicomo shattered his pride as a pureblood.

He thought that as long as he defeated Harry, everyone's attention would be back on him.

So he had his father donate new brooms to Slytherin, allowing him to join the Quidditch team as an exception and compete against Harry.

As a result, he messed everything up.

What he found most unacceptable was that his father didn't care about him at all.

Actually, he wasn't injured at all; he was just lying in bed hoping for some comfort from his father.

However, Lucius had already left Hogwarts.

"Why did things turn out this way?" Draco looked at Zicomo with some confusion.

“Sigh, do you remember what I said to you at Flourish and Blotts?” Zicomo sighed.

Draco thought for a moment: "Only by becoming strong can one earn the respect and attention of others?"

Zicomo nodded and looked at Harry, who was surrounded by a crowd not far away.

"Now I'd like to add that only successful people receive a lot of attention."

"Then, can you teach me?" Draco looked at Zicomo hopefully.

However, this time Zicomo shook his head mercilessly.

"You and I aren't even friends, so I have no reason to teach you. I may have a way to become stronger quickly, but you can't afford the price. Go find Snape; isn't he your godfather?"

Zicomo gave Draco a final piece of advice.

The only reason he talked so much with Draco was because he was Snape's godson.

Draco took Zicomo's words to heart and decided to go to his godfather to learn from him, at least to defeat Harry and vent his anger.

Chapter 89 Ravenclaw's Legacy, Dobby Reappears

Late at night, Zicomo arrived at the Ravenclaw lounge.

It's quiet here. The Ravenclaw students are all good students; they're all asleep at this hour.

Only one ghost stood in the hall, silently watching the Ravenclaw statue.

Hearing the noise behind him, the ghost turned around and revealed its true form.

She is the ghost of Ravenclaw, Lady Grey.

Besides that, she also had another name, Helena Bonham Carter.

She is the daughter of Ravenclaw, one of the four founders of Hogwarts.

In her youth, she longed to be better than her mother, Rowena.

So she stole the Ravenclaw crown, a symbol of wisdom, and hid it in a hollow tree in the Albanian forest.

Later, Ravenclaw fell seriously ill and wanted to see his daughter one last time, so he sent Barrow, the blood man who had admired Helena since he was young.

When Barrow the Blood Man met Helena, he repeatedly begged her to return to Hogwarts, but Helena refused each time.

Finally, the hot-tempered Barrow lost his patience and killed Helena in a fit of rage.

When he came to his senses, he was filled with remorse because he loved Helena.

Finally, overwhelmed with grief, Barrow picked up the knife that had killed Helena and committed suicide.

There are two conditions for the formation of a ghost: first, the person must be a wizard; second, the person must be afraid of death and dare not 'go on'.

Both men, who were equally afraid of death, dared not 'go on' after they died, so they returned to the place they cherished most.

That is, Hogwarts.

Compared to the love-hate relationship between the two, Zicomo was more concerned with what the so-called 'moving on' meant.

Is it the Road to the Underworld?

If you don't dare to go any further, you'll have to come back and become a ghost-like existence.

It does bear some resemblance to the evil spirits of the East.

Even after death, they still cling to their beliefs, unwilling to return to the underworld and lingering in the mortal realm.

The difference is that these ghosts seem to have fewer restrictions; there's no rule saying that staying too long will cause their souls to be scattered.

“You don’t seem to be a young Ravenclaw wizard. How did you get in?” Mrs. Grey asked Zicomo as she saw him.

Before Zicomo could answer, she seemed to remember something and continued, "Oh, I remember now. I heard that a little witch broke the bronze eagle ring a while ago, and now you only need a password to enter and exit the lounge."

Her words made Zicomo feel a little guilty, because the little witch who broke the bronze eagle ring was his fiancée.

Fortunately, not many people know that Lani is his fiancée.

Well, his friends and Hogwarts professors should know that.

But at least this isn't common knowledge, otherwise Ravenclaw would definitely put a sign on it.

The sign read: "The Zikomo family is not allowed inside."

"So, what are you doing in Ravenclaw?"

Ms. Grey was a little curious that a young wizard from another house would come to Ravenclaw so late at night instead of sleeping.

Could it be that they're here to steal something?

As is widely known, Ravenclaw is the house with the most female students among the four houses.

It's not uncommon for her to be the object of attention for boys from other colleges.

"To verify one of my conjectures."

After Zicomo finished speaking, he ignored Ms. Gray.

He went to the Ravenclaw statue next to the bookshelf and took out the Ravenclaw crown.

He retrieved this when he last visited the 'House of Requirement'.

This is probably the most harmless of all Horcruxes.

Voldemort tricked Graves into revealing the location of Ravenclaw's crown, then crafted it into his fifth Horcrux and hid it in the Room of Requirement.

He didn't cast any powerful magic on it because he felt that only he knew about the 'House of Requirement'.

Many years later, Zicomo found the crown.

As for the remnant soul inside, it was not difficult for Zicomo, who was capable of creating Soul Stones, to extract the remnant soul.

Zicomo merely moved Voldemort's remnant soul to a different location; he did not destroy it.

He hadn't figured out what to do with the remnant soul yet, so he decided to leave it for now.

As mentioned before, Zicomo believes that all four founders left their legacy at Hogwarts.

He came here to verify his conjecture.

"This is... Ravenclaw's tiara?!"

Ms. Gray was somewhat surprised, never expecting to see it again after so many years.

"But wasn't it Tom? (The sentence is incomplete and lacks context.)"

She was puzzled. She looked at the huge emerald on the crown, which shimmered in the moonlight and did not look like it had been tainted by Voldemort's corrupted remnant soul.

Ignoring Ms. Gray, Zicomo used a levitation charm on his shoes to reach the same height as the Ravenclaw statue.

The crown was placed on the statue's head.