Hogwarts: What are the four great masters doing?

"..."

Looking at this scene in his memory, Ryan understood.

At this moment, the Bloody Baron's soul may have been completely eroded by the curse - because of killing Helena, the despair and pain that erupted in his heart completely overwhelmed him.

This is what he deserves.

Or to be more precise.

At this moment, I looked at Helena who fell to the ground and was silent in my memory.

Ryan could hardly suppress his desire to curse the Bloody Baron.

But he forced himself to endure it.

Because he knew that things were not over yet.

And this is indeed the case.

After Bloody Baron's memory returned to darkness.

From a certain moment on, his memory began to return.

But at this moment, Ryan could feel the huge change in emotions in his memory.

His memory began to become blurry, and the scene of him killing Helena and all the scenes of his past kept echoing in his memory.

Every once in a while, a certain memory in his mind would become particularly clear.

Sometimes it was the memory of his pride in his bloodline since childhood - that represented 'pride'.

Sometimes it was the memory of him learning knowledge and improving his magic in school - that represented 'joy'.

Sometimes it was the memory of his exchanges with several students from Slytherin House who also came from extraordinary backgrounds - that represented 'friendship' and 'recognition'.

And in these memory fragments that keep flickering and switching between clarity and blur.

Occasionally, there seemed to be an almost unreal whispered conversation between two voices.

"Wrong, this emotion...curse..."

"Next experiment..."

"Seven days...external influence..."

"perhaps..."

"The joy grass is wrong..."

The two voices were deep, almost like the voice-overs Ryan occasionally heard when watching TV series on Muggle television.

It was impossible to hear clearly what they were discussing. The only thing that was relatively clear was that both voices were female.

But Ryan could naturally guess what was going on.

"It's Mr. Ravenclaw and Ms. Hecate... They're conducting experiments on the Bloody Baron."

Ryan was sure of this - the experimental records of this experiment were still in his hands.

But there is no doubt about it.

Ryan himself never thought that he would have the opportunity to observe the experiment from this perspective.

In fact, at this moment he already understood what Ravenclaw and the Blood Queen were doing - they made a similar choice to Ryan when he treated the Longbottom couple before, choosing to use happy and positive memories and emotions to influence Barrow's soul.

But obviously, the effect of doing so is not very good.

so...

"Ok?"

From a certain moment on, Ryan noticed that Bloody Baron's memory was once again clearly confused.

In memory, some names that had never appeared before appeared.

For example, in one of his memories, Barrow suddenly had a good friend. They spent almost every day together, talking about magic and a bright future.

For example, in one of his memories, Barrow suddenly learned a powerful legendary magic, which made him famous and successful.

These memories are obviously completely unrelated to the previous memories, and their falsity is obvious at a glance.

That is a memory created out of thin air.

In addition to memories being shaped out of thin air, Ryan can also see that Barrow's own personality is constantly changing in each memory.

This made his memory seem increasingly confused.

"Not only are his memories being modified, someone is even trying to reshape his personality and soul..."

Ryan, who also has his own views on soul magic, can see this.

And from these traces and methods, Ryan could even determine who did it.

"Ravenclaw teacher!"

That's right.

From those traces, Ryan could see traces of magic belonging to Ravenclaw.

He was sure that it was Ravenclaw who did these things.

This is exactly what makes Ryan feel uneasy.

As far as he knew, Ravenclaw's attainments in soul magic were certainly enough for her to completely transform a person's soul.

But Ravenclaw would never do that.

Even during magic experiments, she tried to remain gentle.

This witch possesses power, but she never uses it wantonly to destroy or torture others.

"Magic should be rational, not violent and angry."

She doesn't talk about kindness, but she is indeed a kind person.

But this time, she obviously did not hold back when performing magical transformations and experiments on the Bloody Baron.

Ryan was certain that these changes to Bloody Baron's memory and soul were absolutely irreversible.

In other words.

Even if the curse on Bloody Baron is truly completely removed, these memory modifications and soul transformations that exist deep in his soul will become a part of him.

"The Ravenclaw teacher... is very angry."

From this, Ryan could already smell the same anger from Ravenclaw as his.

obviously.

Faced with the sudden death of his daughter, even the calm Ravenclaw could no longer remain calm.

She performed her experiments on the Bloody Baron without reservation, not even caring whether the Bloody Baron could recover - she didn't care whether he lived or died.

Of course, Ryan also suspected...this situation might also be related to Ravenclaw's own state.

because...

"According to Ms. Hecate's records, the Ravenclaw teacher at this time may have already taken on the curse for Helena..."

That's right.

This is also a point that has never been revealed in Bloody Baron's memory.

Helena was also in the forest in Albania before she was killed.

She was also cursed - but perhaps because her magical ability was strong enough, her previous manifestations were not as obvious as the Bloody Baron's.

However, Ryan, who knew Helena very well, also knew it.

Judging from what Helena said to Barrow at the end, Helena's mood was obviously abnormal at that time.

But here comes the problem.

According to the Blood Queen's research records, Ravenclaw took on Helena's curse.

But according to the Bloody Baron's memory, Helena had already been killed by him in the forest of Albania.

So, the conclusion is simple.

1. Death cannot completely get rid of that curse.

2. Ravenclaw did not give up on saving his daughter.

This made Ryan think of Helena's current state - she became a ghost in Hogwarts.

And obviously, in the Bloody Baron's memory, there was no sign of Helena turning into a ghost after her death.

so...

"Did the Ravenclaw teacher use some means to turn Helena into a ghost and force her to stay?"

This is Ryan's guess.

This speculation obviously shocked him.

Because even to this day, the specific way ghosts are born remains an unsolved mystery to the magical world.

Wizards only roughly know that the birth of ghosts is related to their obsessions in life, but they have not found a specific way to convert them.

But now, Ravenclaw has apparently found that way.

and...

"Ghosts are supposed to be just afterimages of souls left in the mortal world, but a Ravenclaw teacher wouldn't be content with just leaving behind an afterimage... Helena's condition must be very strange!"

Ryan had no way of exploring the specific details of this matter - his research on soul magic was not enough for him to explore the details of this matter.

But at least he was sure.

After he left, Ravenclaw must have made another huge breakthrough in the research of soul magic.

Of course, when Ryan was thinking about a lot of things.

At this moment, Bloody Baron's memory and soul are still changing.

Until one moment, Ryan saw in Bloody Baron's memory that there was suddenly a younger brother in his family.

Among Barrow's newly acquired memories, he had a very good relationship with his 'little brother', and they had a deep bond since childhood.