Hogwarts Raven's Claw

Chapter 55: Claw Marks Reappear
Just as Mike was stunned, the light gate on the statue of Ms. Ravenclaw began to shrink after the girl entered. Seeing this, Mike hurried forward to enter, but he was still a step too late. Instead of entering the light gate, he bumped heavily into the statue.

Rubbing his red forehead, Mike couldn't help but feel distressed.

But complaining is of no use now; the most urgent task now is to figure out what exactly happened.

Based on the existing intelligence, the place where the light door leads to is most likely the Chamber of Secrets left by Ms. Ravenclaw. Since Slytherin can leave a Chamber of Secrets in Hogwarts, then Ms. Ravenclaw, who is also one of the four founders of Hogwarts, can certainly do it as well.

When Mike read the original novel, he had thought that the other three founders of the academy also left their own secret rooms, and he even figured out how to enter them.

For example, Ravenclaw's Chamber of Secrets may require a tiara to open.

Now it seems that Ravenclaw's Chamber of Secrets does exist, but the key to open it is not the crown, but the claw marks on the back of the girl's hand.

But Mike still had questions in his mind: why did he come here? What time is it now? Have all the treasures in the secret room been taken away by the girl just now?

"You brought me in, so please tell me what's going on." Mike repeated his guess to Raven who was still standing on his shoulder.

This raven's intelligence was obviously no less than that of humans. When it heard Mike's question, it gave him a sarcastic look, then pointed at the wall and mirror not far away with its wings.

Mike looked towards the wall that Raven pointed at, but didn't see anything unusual.

This wall is used by Ravenclaw to hang portraits of famous figures from Ravenclaw College. Mike can be said to be deeply impressed by this wall because their male student union president Abbott Foley likes to take the freshmen to stand in front of this wall and tell the stories of these celebrities whenever he has time.

After looking left and right for a long time, Mike finally discovered something strange.

It turned out that a few portraits on the wall were inexplicably missing. Mike couldn't remember the other portraits, but he remembered clearly that the portrait at the end was of Gilderoy Lockhart.

When Mike saw this man's portrait framed on the wall of fame in the Ravenclaw common room, he was stunned. Later, after asking Penelope, he learned that a previous female student union president from Ravenclaw was a fan of Lockhart and forced Lockhart's portrait to be hung up despite the objections of the male prefects at the time.

That tough senior has graduated for five years and is said to have started working at the Ministry of Magic. And since there is no portrait of Lockhart on this wall, it means that the image Mike is seeing now is at least five years ago.

Of course, it could be longer, after all, it's not just Lockhart's portrait that is missing from the wall.

Mike took note of the appearance of the last portrait on the wall so that he could compare it with Ravenclaw's current Wall of Fame and deduce a more exact time.

After collecting all the information on the Wall of Fame, Mike looked at the mirror again. It seemed that Raven was answering his questions in this way, so there might be some secrets hidden in the mirror.

I walked to the mirror and looked inside, only to see that the mirror that originally could not show Mike's figure had now returned to normal.

A blond boy stood in the mirror, wearing a plain wizard robe, with a terrified expression, and a black raven on his shoulder. He was looking at Mike at this moment.

Mike couldn't help but be terrified, because the person in the mirror was himself, and the most important thing was that there was a huge claw mark on his originally fair and handsome face that was emitting blue light.

Mike quickly moved closer to the mirror, stretched out his hands and felt the claw mark on his face. Mike in the mirror made the same move.

"Ga! Ga! Ga!"

The raven standing on his shoulder saw Mike's action and made an unpleasant noise that sounded like laughter.

The voice sounded extremely harsh to Mike's ears, not because it was unpleasant, but because he heard a sense of gloating in it.

Mike was so angry that he reached out and grabbed the raven on his shoulder.

Maybe because he was too absorbed in laughing, he didn't notice that Mike was being strangled by him. The ugly cry stopped abruptly, and the raven fluttered its wings in Mike's hands, struggling desperately, and its dark feathers fell one by one. "Don't think I can't recognize you just because you've become smaller, look at what you've done!" Mike grabbed the raven's neck with both hands and yelled, "Why do you grab the back of a little girl's hand, and you grab my face when you grab me? I think you did it on purpose, you flat-haired beast!"

Mike began to increase the strength in his hands. The raven obviously couldn't bear this force and began to roll its eyes (don't ask me why the raven rolled its eyes).

Seeing the raven in his hand struggling less and less, Mike quickly relaxed his grip. This raven was obviously related to Ravenclaw's Chamber of Secrets, and he didn't want to strangle it to death.

As the strength in Mike's hands weakened, the raven, which seemed to be dying, became full of energy again. It flapped its wings and broke free from Mike's hands. It flew lightly to the statue of Ms. Ravenclaw and looked at Mike triumphantly.

This cunning little guy was just pretending.

Mike was fooled by the raven again, and he felt like he was going to explode. He quickly stepped forward and stretched out his hand to catch the raven again.

The raven on the statue of Ms. Ravenclaw looked at Mike rushing towards it and flapped its wings calmly.

As the raven flapped its wings, a strong wind blew towards Mike. Mike felt a strong force coming and his body flew backwards uncontrollably.

The power of this strong wind was more than that. The tables, chairs, sundries and even the blue bricks on the wall in the lounge were blown down and hit Mike who had already been knocked down by the strong wind.

Mike was hit so hard that he held his head with his hands, curled up and turned his back to the direction of the wind. The wind did not stop, bringing all kinds of things to hit Mike's back. Mike felt that his back was in so much pain that he almost lost consciousness.

But the pain came and went quickly, and as the wind raged, the Ravenclaw common room slowly fell apart, and finally turned into a sea of ​​light blue again.

Mike was also teleported out, and only the raven was left in the sea of ​​light.

The raven looked at Mike's original location with a complicated expression, flapped its wings and flew back to the dead tree, closed its eyes and began to take a nap.

At this time in No. 210 Godric's Hollow, the house-elf Lolo was anxiously looking at Mike who was sleeping on the sofa, and muttering to himself.

"Lunch time has passed. Luo Luo should wake up the distinguished guest and eat."

"No! No! This is the host's distinguished guest. Luo Luo will be scolded if he disturbs the guest's sleep."

"Luoluo is indeed a waste. He is unable to complete the master's orders. No wonder the old master gave Luoluo to the new master."

Just as Lolo was feeling sorry for himself, Mike, who was sleeping on the sofa, suddenly sat up with a somersault.

Mike felt his face and found it was smooth, without any claw marks. But his back was still aching, reminding him that what happened just now was not just a dream.

Turning his head to look at Luo Luo who was sitting on the ground because of his fright, Mike ordered: "Go get me a mirror."

After hearing the order, Luo Luo ignored the tears that came from being scared, and after snapping his fingers, a round mirror appeared in his hand.

"Thank you."

Mike took the mirror and ignored Lolo who was excited to hear his thanks and began to observe himself in the mirror.

His face in the mirror was still as handsome as ever, and the horrible claw marks did not appear.

Mike heaved a sigh of relief. It seemed that the claw marks would not appear normally. This was good. If he was really disfigured by the claws, how would he find a wife in the future?

(End of this chapter)