Ancient Wizards Return to Hogwarts...

Chapter 118 Talking with Old Friends

Rice was stunned when he heard Ravenclaw's words.

Helena stole Ravenclaw's crown. After Ravenclaw fell seriously ill, he sent Barrow to find Helena. As a result, Barrow and Helena clashed and both died.

This news had a huge impact on him, and he couldn't react for a while.

But then he realized something was wrong: the scene was strange and suspicious, and most importantly, where was the crown?

"Even if you put a seal on it, you shouldn't let Helena carry it around all the time, Rowena. You should understand the dangers of the things we made—I myself don't dare to hold my wand for long now."

"My spell is foolproof." Ravenclaw's tone was extremely firm. She glanced at Rice and added, "If you had listened to my advice, you would be free to use your wand now."

Rice choked for a moment.

Indeed, how could someone as proud and confident as Rowena possibly admit that her spell had a problem? In her view, the crown was foolproof—if Helena was able to break the seal on the crown, then her magical skills had already inherited eight-tenths of her mother's true knowledge, and she could naturally deal with the crown's influence.

He took a deep breath, hoping that it was all just a coincidence as Ravenclaw had described: the hot-tempered Barrow accidentally killed Helena and then committed suicide out of shame.

Ravenclaw didn't want to dwell on the topic any longer, and instead continued to tell Rice about the changes in the school after Barrow's death.

After establishing Hogwarts, the four founders each recruited many students according to their own preferences. Their plan was that once the students had grown up and were capable of handling things independently, they would hand over the responsibility of managing the school to them and then enjoy a peaceful retirement.

As students grow, their aspirations, character, and talents are gradually revealed to the founders. Like gold being sifted from sand, some talented and virtuous young people are favored by the founders and given special attention and nurtured.

Aside from Hufflepuff, the other three houses have produced outstanding talents, such as Helena from Ravenclaw, Barrow and Adrian Dragonheart from Slytherin, and Mary de la Motte, the Scarlet Witch from Gryffindor.

According to Slytherin and his group's plan, these students, whom they had brought to their "secret chamber" for training, would inherit their will and make Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry the best magic school in the world. Of course, they were also the main candidates to suppress the seal deep within the castle's dungeons, a difficult task that no wizard could easily handle.

An unexpected event occurred.

First, a conflict broke out between Gryffindor and Slytherin, which directly led to Slytherin's departure. This chain reaction then triggered Gryffindor's departure as well.

This turn of events has had a tremendous impact on the school.

After Slytherin's departure, Slytherin House, which had previously held a leading position among the four houses, suffered a severe blow, creating a rift with the other three. Gryffindor's departure further escalated the conflict between Slytherin and Gryffindor, with Adrian and Mary even engaging in a physical fight outside the castle. Ultimately, both left Hogwarts—both, like their teacher, vowed never to set foot in the castle again as long as the other was alive.

After that, Adrian went home to inherit the Greengrass family business, and Mary was never heard from again.

With the subsequent deaths of Barrow and Helena, Ravenclaw faced an extremely dire situation before her death: of the four founders, only she remained on her deathbed, and the next generation of heirs was completely cut off. Left with no other option, Ravenclaw could only perish within the seal, allowing her ghost to suppress it in her place.

Becoming a ghost in pursuit of immortality was a method of achieving eternal life she had considered before her death, but she ultimately applied it in the wrong way. According to Ravenclaw's original plan, she should have traveled the world as a ghost, not become a "ghost bound to the dungeon."

After listening to Ravenclaw's story, Rice could only sigh at the capriciousness of fate. He suppressed his unease and turned to talk to Ravenclaw about another topic.

"Now that I'm back, Rowena, why don't you consider taking a break and going back to the castle? It's changed a lot in the last thousand years. For example, their budget has become much more abundant, and the food is much better than it was back then."

"Ah!" Rice couldn't help but curl up his lips. "I remember now, ghosts can't sense taste. No matter how delicious the food or how sweet the dessert, it will taste like cardboard to them. That's such a shame!"

Ravenclaw glanced at him. "I did some special treatment on myself. I didn't lose my sense of taste even after becoming a ghost."

Rice: !

Ravenclaw: Didn't expect that, did you? With the Ghost's drawbacks being so great, how could I be completely unprepared?

However, she quickly changed the subject, saying that she couldn't go to the ground.

"I cast a spell on my body to prevent her from leaving the dungeon's seal—I'm well aware of the corruption within the dungeon, and I'm afraid that if I lose control, I might unconsciously wander into the castle."

"Can't it be canceled?"

"No, this is the safest measure to avoid any accidents."

Ravenclaw glanced at Rice: "How could I have imagined that someone who swore never to return would come back to cleanse my soul of its pollution?"

Rice immediately explained, "I'm called Rice Lint now, and Slytherin hasn't come back."

"Ha." Ravenclaw sneered.

Reston then changed the subject.

"But it seems the pollution in your body hasn't been completely removed?" He pointed to the remaining filth on Ravenclaw's spirit body.

"This thing's absorption capacity must have reached its limit, right?" Ravenclaw glanced at Voldemort, who was now twisted and deformed on his shoulder, a hint of disgust in his eyes. "Couldn't you have thought of another way? Why did you have to put this thing on me..."

Rice glared fiercely at Ravenclaw: "Royna, you can guess what you did to me before? There's no better solution!"

"There's nothing I can do; cleaning up trash is my instinct. You should reflect on why you were chosen as someone to be cleaned up."

Rice: I regret waking you up. What a wonderful witch, it's a shame she only has a mouth.

The two old friends chatted for a long time before Ravenclaw finally brought up the topic of Daphne, who was playing chess with herself outside the passageway.

"So who is that little girl outside? It couldn't be...?"

Sigrún has taught at the Iceland University of the Arts as a part-time lecturer since and was Dean of the Department of Fine Art from -. In – she held a research position at Reykjavík Art Museum focusing on the role of women in Icelandic art. She studied fine art at the Icelandic College of Arts and Crafts and at Pratt Institute, New York, and holds BA and MA degrees in art history and philosophy from the University of Iceland. Sigrún lives and works in Iceland.

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(End of this chapter)