Chapter 70: Night Visit to Ravenclaw (Part 1)
The Hogwarts dinner finally ended amid the students' laughter. The prefects of each college led the students of their respective colleges back to the common room in an orderly manner.
Mike noticed that when the dinner was announced to be over, an unfamiliar Slytherin student whispered something in Snape's ear, and then Snape followed the student out of the hall.
"It looks like Harry and Ron have arrived." Mike thought to himself.
Without paying attention to all this, Mike followed the crowd back to the Ravenclaw common room.
The young wizards were exhausted after a whole day of revelry. After yawning and listening to the prefects telling the freshmen about the rules of Ravenclaw, they said goodbye and went back to their dormitories to sleep.
Mike was not like them. The morning jogging training during the summer vacation had greatly improved his physical fitness. Today's activities were nothing to Mike.
The Ravenclaw Common Room was empty late at night. The bright moonlight outside shone through the arched windows in the common room, illuminating the room. Mike stood in front of the celebrity wall in the Ravenclaw Common Room, carefully observing the portraits on it.
Not only was he observing the portraits, but the portraits hung on the celebrity wall were also curiously looking at Mike, and some even asked Mike why he was not going to bed so late.
Mike ignored them and focused on the portraits at the end.
There, Lockhart's portrait was flirting with Mike, and in a portrait slightly in front of Lockhart, an old man was sleeping soundly.
Turning his eyes away from Lockhart's eye-catching portrait, Mike carefully looked at the old man. In Mike's memory, the portrait of this old man did not appear in that strange dream, which means that knowing the identity of this old man and the year and month when he was hung up, you can roughly know when the events in the dream happened.
This old man has messy brown hair and a pair of silver eyes. I don't know if it's an illusion, but Mike always feels that he looks very familiar.
Right below the portrait, there is a row of small gilded characters, which read:
Urgot Ollivander (1813-1912), a famous European wand maker, discovered teak, merlot and other new wand materials. In 1890, he was awarded the Order of Merlin, First Class, and his portrait was hung here in the same year.
Now everything is clear. This old man is the father of Ollivander in Diagon Alley. Unexpectedly, his father is much more powerful than him and even won the Order of Merlin, First Class.
The portrait in front is a witch named Asiya Fancourt, an astrologer. According to the portrait, her greatest achievement is the discovery of two new constellations. Mike really can't understand what kind of achievement this is.
The portrait was hung in 1870, which means that everything in the strange dream should have happened between 1870 and 1890.
After figuring out the time when the incident happened, the next thing to do is to investigate the identity of the female student. Fortunately, the time span between the two portraits is not large, so it is relatively convenient to investigate. If the time span between them is like the portraits at the top of the Wall of Fame, and the time span is hundreds of years, then Mike has no way to check it at all, because the data is too huge. Then
, Mike cast his eyes on the statue of Ms. Ravenclaw in front of another wall.
After carefully examining it up and down for a long time, Mike did not see anything special about the statue. This statue is just a very ordinary stone statue. The only difference is that it is slightly more refined than the monster statues in other places in Hogwarts.
After struggling for a while, Mike decided to take the risk and try to see if he could open the light door. After all, the light door is likely to be closely related to the heritage of Ravenclaw.
Mike imitated the girl in the dream and clasped his hands tightly in front of his chest, praying devoutly, and finally murmured: "You are the breeze from the quiet lake, you are the prophet who explores the truth, you are the most beautiful human being in the world, your foolish student here asks you to open the door to wisdom!"
As Mike finished the prayer, Mike felt a burst of burning pain on his face. At the same time, a light gate was slowly expanding on the statue of Ms. Ravenclaw. The light blue light released by the light gate merged with the moonlight outside the window, reflecting the entire Ravenclaw lounge in blue and beautiful.
But Mike didn't have the mind to appreciate the beautiful scenery in the Ravenclaw lounge at this time. The light gate seemed to contain a kind of magic, attracting Mike to walk in.
On Mike's forehead, beads of sweat were sliding down, and as the beads of sweat fell, Mike's eyes began to gradually become dull. The blue claw marks on his face were emitting a dazzling blue light, which echoed with the light emitted by the light gate. Finally, Mike began to walk towards the light gate involuntarily.
Mike felt that he had returned to the blue ocean again, and his whole body was light and warm. A woman wearing a crown and a raven standing on her shoulder was waving at him not far in front of him. He couldn't see the woman's face and clothes clearly, only her light blue eyes were particularly clear in this blurry world.
Mike had never seen his biological mother in his past life or this life, but the look in her eyes made Mike feel that his mother was looking at him lovingly, and he couldn't help but walk towards the woman. The woman's murmurs kept coming to his ears. He couldn't hear what she was saying, but it made Mike feel very happy.
"Ga! Ga! Ga!"
The raven standing on the woman's shoulder made an unpleasant cry towards Mike. Mike frowned and reason returned to his body.
However, the woman's whispers suddenly became urgent. Listening to the whispers like the sound of nature, the rationality that had just returned disappeared in an instant.
Getting closer and closer, Mike found that he had walked in front of the woman unconsciously. At this moment, she was opening her arms, as if a mother was waiting for her child to fall into her arms.
Mike's face was filled with a happy smile, and he couldn't help but speed up his pace, wanting to fall into the embrace of the woman.
However, just when Mike was about to touch the woman, a bone-deep coldness invaded Mike's body, causing Mike to shiver unconsciously.
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