Harry Potter and the Secret Treasure

"En!" Ivan nodded, seeing the troops scattered in front of the castle gather again and march towards the lake.

He followed the ghost into the gate of the castle, and the former appearance of the Ravenclaw family castle was displayed in front of Aiwen.

The ancient decorations are beautiful, but the combination of real ruins and illusory light and shadow always gives people a particularly unreal feeling.

After Ai Wen walked by, the door slowly closed, and everything outside seemed to disappear into nothingness.

"This is the banquet hall. The old master likes to hold banquets very much. Nearly [-] people attended our largest banquet, and almost all the great wizards have been here." Through the foyer, Marcus pointed to the spacious auditorium hall and Ivan asked Introduction, there are two huge long tables like the Hogwarts auditorium, and a stage in the center, "go this way, master, if you want to go to the library, we have to go around the corridor on the second floor, singing The theater and magic practice, the central tower is where we're going..."

Chapter 1681 Towers and Statues

Under the guidance of the ghost, Ivan walked deep into the castle.

Marcus introduced the history here to Ivan as he walked, continuing the exterior decoration style, and the interior structure and decoration of Ravenclaw Castle were quite complicated and luxurious.

Unlike the simple and clear architectural layout of Hogwarts Castle, when entering the foyer, you can see the central staircase connecting the aisles on each floor. The interior of Ravenclaw Castle is like a maze, with many doors that do not know where they lead, Passages and stairs.

Corridors stretched in all directions, leading into deep darkness.

The castle is very quiet, and it seems that there is a mysterious atmosphere in the air. Although many actual decorative items have long since disappeared, under the influence of magic, the phantoms of the past have emerged in front of Aiwen's eyes one by one, recreating the past of the castle. of brilliance.

If you don't consider the blue magic lights and shadows that appear on these phantoms from time to time, they seem to be no different from real items.

If Ivan still has any doubts about the whole thing, it is this magic that makes ghosts and objects reappear.

There is no doubt that Ravenclaw's crown activated the magic, but Aiwen didn't quite know the reason.

In his opinion, this magic is incredible.

Let’s say it’s an illusion, but it’s not all, at least ghosts have entities, they can act according to their own ideas, and the most important point is that to complete magic of this scale requires huge magic power, and this energy comes from where?

It's certainly not the power of the diadem, Ravenclaw's diadem is not that magical.

Aiwen has been wondering, and the ghost doesn't seem to know about it. It wasn't until he walked into Ravenclaw Castle that he felt the magic around him become more active, and a powerful energy attracted him in the center of the castle. It is the source of the whole magic.

The Ravenclaw diadem just activates the magic, the magic itself is on something in the center of the castle.

"Wait, Marcus, this direction..." Ivan felt it, pointed to a corridor and asked, "What's there?"

"That direction is the central tower, master, the library is over there!" Marcus said, "Please go this way, this corridor does not lead directly to the central tower, there is a secret passage on the third floor of the banquet hall, otherwise We're going to make a big detour to West Tower."

"Can't you just go through it?" Ivan asked, he thought the castle was designed strangely.

It's really strange, obviously there is a simpler and more direct passage to abandon, but it is so complicated to build such a complex.

The point is that in Aiwen's view, such a construction does not make sense.

"Yes, except for a few secret passages, there are only five high towers connected to the central tower, and we will have to go around for a long time to get there." Marcus explained, "The original designer arranged magic in the castle. , so the internal structure of the castle is designed in the form of spell runes, and many passages are strictly restricted by magic. Every newcomer here will not know the direction, but if you live here for a long time, you will be familiar with it... ..."

"Well, what is the magic laid by the ancestors of the Ravenclaw family?"

"It's a powerful defensive spell. It's said to be able to resist invaders. I don't know what the specific magic is, because this magic is only used when the Ravenclaw family is in crisis." Marcus said, "In fact, As far as I know, no one has ever used this magic. This may just be a rumor. You have also seen that when the family is really in crisis, this so-called magic does not work. The powerful power of the god of death is not the magic of mortals able to resist."

"Well..." Ivan nodded casually.

He felt that this magic was not as simple as Marcus said.

Regardless of whether it is defensive magic or not, it is amazing that so many ghosts and scenes from the past can be reproduced.

Aiwen became more interested in the central tower of the castle. Apart from the library, what kind of secrets are there.

Under the guidance of the ghost, Aiwen walked up the white marble stairs to the third floor of the banquet hall.

The side walls of the entire third floor were replaced by hollow hanging windows, from which you can see the garden on the inner side of the castle outside.

The garden is sandwiched between the outer layer of the castle and the main tower, and there are many statues of various shapes scattered among the withered grass.

Ivan stopped again. He looked at the soaring central tower, and his eyes quickly moved to the statue in the garden.

The shapes of these statues are all monsters whose shapes are difficult to describe...

For example, the humanoid statue of the mythical creature "Medusa" near the pavilion. The hair of this woman is composed of countless snakes. Its body is distorted. It is not clear whether it is originally like this or is caused by the long-term weathering of the rock. Damage, it has eight arms on its body, and a snake-tail-like body underneath.

Ivan has never seen this kind of weird creature before, it is like a product of some kind of black magic transformation failure.

Although I haven't seen it before, Ivan has an inexplicable sense of familiarity when looking at the statue.

The images were not exactly the same, but he almost immediately thought that these were the creations of the evil gods he had seen in the centaur temple before, but the monsters he saw at that time were patterns carved on the walls, and the statues in front of him looked even more majestic. Three-dimensional and vivid.

Are these statues created by evil gods?

If so, then things seem to be getting more and more interesting.

"There is the central tower, master, the top of the stars...it looks majestic, doesn't it?" Marcus thought Ivan was looking at the central tower, and introduced in a proud tone, "The tower is a thousand feet high , it is the tallest building I know, you can't imagine standing on it overlooking the entire territory, especially climbing to the top, it's like being among the stars..."

"Well, it's remarkable." Ivan nodded, and praised insincerely. For those who are used to the towering buildings of Muggles, the height of this tower is actually not a big deal, but considering the tower building It was 1000 years ago or earlier, and it was indeed a miraculous building at the time.

But Ivan will not be shocked by this height, and of course he will not refute Marcus.

As a ghost thousands of years ago, many of Marcus's understandings and worldviews are still in the Middle Ages, telling him about things in modern society might scare him.

Just like Professor Binns, the history of magic teacher at Hogwarts, he can't accept anything modern.

Anything and news that has nothing to do with the courses he teaches seems to frighten him.

After listening to the ghosts praise the central tower, Aiwen asked the question he cared about, "Who built those strange statues in the garden below?"

Chapter 1682 Squibs

"Statues?!" Marcus also seemed surprised, as if he had just noticed those statues because of Ivan's reminder.

He looked at the monster statue in the garden suspiciously, lost in thought.

Ivan frowned and observed the expression on his face, feeling strange.

Marcus seems to have noticed the statue just now. It was just like this when Ivan mentioned the black magic that the black witch was casting. This ghost did not see the green magic light rising into the sky. It is strange to notice such obvious things next time.

This feeling……

It was as if there was something, some kind of magic, blocking Marcus's vision, making him blind to what was in front of him and what was happening. The scene he saw was different from what Ivan saw. When Ivan After reminding him, the magic was immediately lifted, and he saw what Ivan said.

Considering that the existence of Marcus itself is also a kind of magic, this possibility is very high. What he saw was the scene left by the caster at that time.Or Marcus was pretending not to see it, so that Ivan would not notice these things, but it was like this just now, and it is like this now, whether it is the traces of the black witch's spellcasting or the statues in the garden below are obvious things , If Marcus hoped that Ivan hadn't seen them, it would be too unreasonable to ignore them.

"Those statues..." Marcus said dryly, without the pride in his voice, "Those statues have always been there."

"But you didn't seem to see them just now?"

"I didn't pay attention, Master." Marcus said, "I didn't expect you to be interested in them. These scary statues have been there for a long time, so long that others can easily ignore them. In fact, I can't remember exactly when they were there, but it must have been done by the man who likes to play with strange things and surprise people when everyone is not looking. The old master was always very special about his eccentric behavior. Tolerance, he must have put the statue..."

"Wait, Marcus, who are you talking about?" Ivan asked.

"That person..." The expression on Marcus's face became dull again, and he seemed to have fallen into a long memory again, and he said after a long time, "It's Master Dalyan, master, please forgive me for a while Don't remember his name, Master Dalyan is the youngest son of the old master, a eccentric guy with no sense of existence. As you can see, he always does some nasty pranks, as if he thinks it is funny, but in fact But it's a headache for everyone. No one in the castle likes him, and Master Dalyan is not as talented as his siblings, nor does he inherit the gifts of the Ravenclaw house. In fact, he has nothing, he is a Squib. "

"A squib?" Ivan said, thinking of Filch, the Hogwarts janitor, who was a squib.

A Squib is a person born into a wizarding family but unable to use magic, that is, a wizard-born Muggle.

Generally speaking, Squibs and Squibs are looked down upon by some wizards as second-class citizens of the wizarding world.

Especially in those pure-blood wizard families who believe in bloodism, this kind of discrimination will become particularly obvious. Many pure-blood wizards will think that the presence of squibs in the family is a shame, and they will remove the squib members from the family tree. Like the Malfoys or the Blacks have done it.

Even a wizarding family like the Weasleys who are friendly to Muggles and do not believe in the supremacy of pure blood can hardly accept the squibs in their own family.As far as Ivan knows, Ron has an uncle who is a Muggle accountant, but his existence is almost a taboo topic in the Weasley family, and it is basically not talked about.

Thousands of years ago, the status and situation of Squibs was much worse than it is now.

They are existences that are not easily talked about in the wizard family, and they are the forgotten ones.

A very few pure-blood wizard families who value blood above all else will even directly kill the Squibs within the family, so as not to be known by others.

"That's right, Master Dalyan is a squib. He has never shown any spellcasting ability since he was a child." Marcus paused for a while before continuing, "He is a disgrace to the Ravenclaw family, people Basically he is rarely talked about, usually pretending that he does not exist. The old master was too kind to expel him from the family. But it is strange, it must have been too long, the memory of Master Dalyan in my head Always intermittent, seems to have forgotten a lot of things, but it's nothing, isn't it? You can completely ignore him, master, except for doing some strange things to destroy the castle, Master Dalyan hasn't done anything."

How could it be ignored, this Dalyan is too suspicious.

Was it really just a coincidence that he was able to carve these statues that looked like creations of evil gods?

And Marcus, is it also a coincidence that the old ghost's strange reaction and that he's forgotten a lot about Dalyan? !

"Are the statues below carved by Dalyan himself?" Ivan asked softly.

"probably."

"Then he came up with the images of these monsters himself?"

"Yes, he must have intended to scare everyone, so he carved these scary things on purpose." Marcus said, "There is no such monster in the world, these are all his own imagination, even if he followed other people Say, these monsters are roaming around the castle..."

"Wait, Dalyan said those monsters in the statue below are roaming around the castle?"

"It's a prank, master, no one but him has seen these monsters, they don't exist." Marcus continued, "It's no surprise that he can say that, Master Dalyan always does that Some nasty pranks, such as drawing pictures on the walls of the castle that no one can understand, or a person whispering there, pretending to have someone by his side, etc. He probably wanted to arouse in this way Others noticed, but it just made them hate him even more."

"Okay!" Ivan asked after thinking for a while, "What happened to this Dalyan?"

"When the god of death came, everyone on this land died, and I think he was no exception." Marcus replied, "But he was not qualified to go to the gate of death to witness the opening ceremony, so he It should still be in the castle, but I haven't seen him, his soul may have dissipated, after all, he is just a squib with no magic power..."

Chapter 1683 Ivan's Guess

Squib?

A Ravenclaw squib?

This Squib is a pure Ravenclaw descendant, and appeared a thousand years ago when the blood was very pure.

This kind of thing is incredible no matter how you think about it.

There are reliable data to prove that the frequency of squibs has gradually increased in recent centuries. The main reason is the intermarriage between wizards and Muggles, and the fusion of blood between the two parties. This matter is usually written as an example. Among those books or magic research related to "Pure Blood Supremacy".

In the library of the Black family, Ivan found a lot of magic books like this, which he read as a pastime.

Although these books try to explain that the assertion that pure-blood wizards are superior to others is worthless, the data itself does not lie. The frequency of squibs is indeed related to the degree of blood purity of both parents, both parents are wizards, and The purer the blood, the more likely the child will be a wizard.Based on this, in the era thousands of years ago, a direct descendant of a wizarding family like Ravenclaw would actually be a squib. The probability of such a thing is undoubtedly as low as a comet hitting the earth.

"Wait, if this young master Dalyan is not a squib..." Ivan thought so, "Then he wouldn't be silent?!"

Compared with him being a squib, this reason seems to be more convincing and acceptable.

Darion Ravenclaw is not a Squib, he is Silent!

It's not that he has no magic power, his magic power has just been contained, or parasitized by some dark magic power, making him lose the ability to cast spells.Although the number of Moran is also rare, even much less than the squib, but considering Dalyan's identity, this is obviously more credible than him being a squib.

Thinking along this line of thought, what would be the reason why Dalyan became silent?

Could it be that someone abused him and caused him to lose control of his magical powers?

Or was he bewitched by the evil god, and his heart was parasitized by dark magic power?

Considering that the Gate of Death is in the center of the lake next to the castle, where it is connected to the world of the evil god, Ivan thinks the second possibility is very strong.

With the clues he found so far, he quickly came up with a story: At first, the guardians sealed the gate of death and the evil god inside the gate. The seal they left was very powerful, but as time went by, the power of the seal became stronger and stronger. Weaker and weaker, the spirit of the evil god gradually penetrated from the alien space into the real world.

By a certain coincidence, it bewitched the young Dalyan, parasitized in his heart, and then used Dalyan to cast evil black magic, and gradually affected the wizards of the entire Ravenclaw family, making the They lost their minds and opened the door of death, leading to the ultimate destruction...

As for why it was destruction instead of the arrival of evil gods, it was most likely related to the magic left in the castle by the ancestors of the Ravenclaw family.

The castle, when it was still intact, the overall architectural structure and interior setting constituted a powerful guardian magic.

As the ghost Marcus said, the final designer arranged magic in the castle, connecting the five outer towers and the central tower "Top of Stars" as the gathering point, and the internal structure of the castle was also built for this magic , in order to ensure the integrity of the spell runes, many channels are restricted.

Although the light and shadow did not show these, Ivan still found some traces on the remaining stone walls of the castle. It was an unrecognizable ancient rune, drawn by golden threads, and now he can only vaguely see the past. Traces, but it did exist, and those traces are part of the magic.

This proves that powerful magic has indeed been arranged in this castle, not the kind of magic arranged by waving a wand, but a powerful spell left by ancient alchemy. This magic is the ancestors of Ravenclaw or the original Left behind by the Guardians, it was triggered to take control when the Death Gate was opened.

Although there are still some things that Ivan can't explain, such as how this powerful magic works, and what happened on the day when the door was opened, but compared with the initial confusion, the current things have changed. Gradually there is an outline.

Of course, all of the above are Ivan's guesses, but the possibility is very high.

This conjecture explained a lot of things he thought were strange before, for example, why the ghost Marcus couldn't see the black witch's spellcasting trace at the death gate in the center of the lake, and he didn't seem to notice these strange things under the garden before Ivan's reminder It is very difficult to recall the statue and the things about Master Dalyan, as if there is a force in the dark that prevents him from recalling.

It wouldn't be surprising if these were all influenced by the dark arts of Dalyan himself.

Aiwen was thinking, carefully observing the stone carvings below, looking for clues that might be left behind.

To date, these stone carvings are the only thing directly related to Darion Ravenclaw in the castle.

Perhaps it was carved by him during the process of being parasitized or bewitched by the evil god. After all, losing his mind is a gradual process, and it cannot be accomplished overnight.

Through the huge hanging window, Ivan carefully observed that the statues on the outside of the garden near the banquet hall were mostly extremely abstract and indescribable things, or monsters such as Medusa that appeared in myths and legends. It vaguely gave him a familiar feeling.

It was like the creation of the evil god he saw in the centaur temple, but there were many differences, and there was an inexplicable sense of disobedience.

As it approaches the "Top of Stars", the central tower of the castle, the sense of disobedience on the statue becomes stronger and stronger.

They seem to become more abstract, but this kind of abstraction is not as untraceable as it was at first, but gradually began to have a certain pattern.

Ivan can't say what the law is, but he has such a feeling.