HP North Star's Radiance

Praris ate breakfast in a daze, then sat in the rocking chair and rocked for an hour, trying to shake out Voldemort's hiding place.

By nearly noon, she still couldn't figure it out, and finally decided to do all her homework today.

Ultimately, there are only three answers: Voldemort carried it with him, entrusted it to Voldemort's confidants for safekeeping (like a diary, which Potter said was placed there by Mr. Malfoy), or placed it in Hogwarts—the most dangerous place is the safest place.

But over the years, none of the Hogwarts students have found the crown, indicating that the hiding place is well-hidden.

Around 3 p.m., Praris finished all her holiday homework and began to pack up her piles of assignments and books.

Snapped!

A long strip of wrapping paper slid out from the parchment scroll of potions homework.

Praris shook it, but there wasn't a sound from inside the wrapping paper—there were no gaps. Praris then squeezed it; it was hard and solid.

Praris immediately took out his wand and placed it within easy reach, just in case.

With everything ready, Praris took it apart.

When she unwrapped the paper, Praris was completely stunned—the entire wrapper was filled with Gallon!

Praris instantly realized what it was. She quickly flipped the wrapping paper over to the inside, where it was written in flowing handwriting:

To Miss Prince,

Wishing you a happy Christmas.

Half-blood prince

Ha! Praris almost burst out laughing.

What a plain and unoriginal gift!

You really didn't change a single letter!

Praris raised his wand, lit the wrapping paper, and watched it disappear into the flames.

The professor will give her the next Christmas present, and the one after that, and the one after that.

She will receive the next Christmas card, and the one after that, and the one after that.

Leaving behind a piece of wrapping paper that might reveal a secret out of momentary affection is the most foolish thing to do.

She's already memorized it!

She hid this year's greeting card in her memory palace, and the emotions she felt upon receiving the gift in the emotional pocket watch Draco gave her.

The flames ignited the physical packaging paper, but it was never actually burned.

Praris hummed a song as she walked briskly out of the dormitory.

She was going to find where the mysterious person had hidden things.

The first two possibilities of hiding things are beyond Praris's control; only the last possibility is one she has a chance to influence.

Prareas is determined to try to hide things in Hogwarts using the Mystic's method.

There are two options. If Ravenclaw's tiara hasn't been found by the end of the holidays, it means the tiara wasn't hidden at Hogwarts in the first place. At that point, she'll pass the clues to Dumbledore and let him search for it.

A place to hide something... no one can find it...

That must be a place that ordinary students can't go to, and professors and school staff can't go to either.

It wouldn't be in any of the student dormitories—Voldemort couldn't go to other student dormitories, nor would it be in the Slytherin student dormitories—this place was all too familiar to her.

That wouldn't be in any classroom or office, otherwise the professors might find out.

It would not be in any washroom, including the prefect's washroom and Myrtle's washroom (which is the entrance to the secret room and the secret room itself).

Voldemort wouldn't be foolish enough to put all his eggs in one basket.

He also wouldn't be in the canteen or the owl shed. Firstly, it wouldn't fit Voldemort's character, and secondly, there was the risk of being cleaned out by the house-elves.

Praris eventually deduced that there were two sufficiently concealed places: the tunnel of the One-Eyed Witch statue and the place where the DAs trained: the Room of Requirement.

The former was ultimately rejected by her as well.

Potter traveled between Hogwarts and Hogsmeade multiple times, and if the crown were in a dark tunnel, it would have been impossible for it not to be discovered.

Nevertheless, just to be on the safe side, Praris climbed into the tunnel once.

"Separate left and right!"

In order to retrieve the Invisibility Cloak and save Buckbeak, Hermione had "demonstrated" in front of her how to enter the One-Eyed Witch Queen's tunnel.

She spent an hour conducting a thorough search of the tunnel, but found nothing except to get covered in dust.

Only one goal remains—the House of Requirement.

Hermione once said, "We walked back and forth three times across from the tapestry where the trolls beat Barnabas, silently asking ourselves which room we needed."

What would Voldemort be thinking?

Praris had a sudden inspiration: "I need a place where I can hide things without anyone finding out?"

No, there are too many prefixes.

Prarese adjusted his wording.

"I need a place to hide things."

"I need a place to hide things."

"I need a place to hide things."

A door appeared before Praris.

Whoa, whoa, whoa!

As soon as Praris pushed open the door, he was choked by the dust inside.

After wiping away the dust, the room revealed its true state: a garbage room filled with piles of miscellaneous items.

A desk with missing limbs, a dirty carpet, a broken cabinet, unfinished homework—potions homework, no less—empty bottles, a Quidditch bat, dusty textbooks…

Chapter 119 The Crown

The Room of Requirement is filled with so many things, from the era of the four giants to the present, things that have been lost and cannot be found, things that have been deliberately hidden away, are all here.

Praris pondered for a moment, her first thought being to use the Summoning Charm.

But a very real problem is that she has never actually seen what the Ravenclaw tiara looks like—she hasn’t even seen the portrait on the Ravenclaw Tower.

Praris could only search for the crown according to Helena's description, and could not summon it using the Summoning Spell.

If she were Voldemort, she would have used a counter-summoning charm on the tiara, or used other methods to ensure that the tiara could not be summoned.

In that case, the only option left is the simplest and most direct method: a thorough, human-based search.

Don't talk to her about luck; she doesn't think she has it!

Prarese began her search from the classroom doorway, quickly running around each "garbage dump," memorizing their appearance before moving on to the next.

These "garbage heaps" were all too big, so she could only choose to "scan" the parts that were within sight first.

There are hundreds of books here, some of which are obviously banned, and some of which are not even in the Hogwarts library.

If Praris is definitely not there, then it absolutely is not there.

That is authority.

Praris suppressed the urge to look through them and continued walking.

Some potion bottles in the "junkyard" glowed with an eerie green light—some kind of extremely vicious poison, but the moisture inside had evaporated, causing the poison to solidify into a viscous semi-fluid.

Silver cutlery and candlesticks, with the Slytherin house insignia on them—who did this?

Rusty longswords and armor, a dusty wooden harp, an apricot-yellow sash, a silver-gilt incense burner and long chain clip, a Ravenclaw-patterned seal, a silver, rusty iron swift sword, a gold-plated, gem-encrusted Ottoman dagger, a brass Hebrew astrolabe and hourglass, a bloodstained, chipped axe...

In addition, there were crowns… she meant, all kinds of crowns: silver set with emeralds, silver set with sapphires, gold set with rubies, and silver set with diamonds and pearls.

With the same gemstones and the same texture, there are different designs: wave-shaped, vortex-shaped, shield-shaped, curved, tassel-shaped, Gothic... Praris sat cross-legged on the ground, looking at this pile of crowns pulled out from different "junkyards", and sighed heavily.

If Hogwarts were to go bankrupt due to mismanagement, Dumbledore could simply take a crown from the Room of Requirement and sell it.

—The only thing to be careful about is not to sell the wrong one, as it contains a Ravenclaw tiara.

Prareus shook his head; this was a problem Dumbledore needed to consider.

She had only one question: Which one is the crown of Ravenclaw?

Even more terrifying is that if Ravenclaw's tiara is still missing, she will have to search her memory for any omissions, or even rummage through the "junkyard".

"The Ravenclaw portrait features a magnificent crown inscribed with the motto of our house's founder. We felt that it best represented Ravenclaw."

These are the words spoken by the timid Ravenclaw boy Barron. Prareus extracted the key information: ornate and engraved with the Ravenclaws' motto.

Praris closed his eyes and recalled each crown he had picked up, tracing the patterns on each crown in his mind.

She suddenly opened her eyes and pulled out a rusty silver sapphire crown from among a pile of crowns.

At the very bottom of the crown, a familiar line of text is prominently engraved: Extraordinary wisdom is the greatest wealth of mankind.

Praris squinted and pondered for a moment.

She immediately put down her crown, ran quickly to her left, and pulled a wooden box from an abandoned, broken cabinet.

After receiving the box, she quickly returned, tightly wrapped the crown with the silk inside, and then stuffed it into the wooden box.

Praris decided to retract her statement that she was unlucky.

Who says she's unlucky?

That's incredibly lucky!

In her mind, the most troublesome thing was that the crown was lost outside the school and its location could not be determined; the worst thing was that the crown was in Voldemort's hands.

But fate took pity on her and allowed her to find a crown at school!

Outside the principal's office.

Praris lingered before a massive stone beast with the body of a griffin and the head of a lion.

Alas! In her excitement, she completely forgot that she had no idea what the password to the principal's office was!

Is it related to Gryffindor?