Ace hid behind the corner and saw the man coming out soon.

He glanced back, and the wand slipped from his sleeve to his hand. Ace felt a strong breath of dark magic. She covered her mouth nervously and watched Voldemort cast a curse and then left from the other side.

Ace immediately rushed in before the door completely disappeared.

This is a very huge room filled with all kinds of debris.Only the entrance was relatively clean, with some cleaning supplies piled up that looked like they were commonly used by Filch.Walking along the footprints, you will see huge cabinets, many old chairs, various books, some wine, and even some exquisite gift boxes, which look like they should contain jewelry. All of these things are covered without exception. dust.

The footprints disappeared under a pile of debris, and Ace looked up. A sparkling crown inlaid with gems hung on the legs of an upside-down chair at the top.She was immediately sure that the crown was what the man in black robe had brought in, because it was the only one that was spotless.

Ace used the floating spell to remove it. It was in the shape of an eagle, with a huge blue gem as the eagle's body. The hollow wings on both sides were studded with diamonds, and the bottom edge was engraved with - "Extraordinary Wisdom" It is mankind’s greatest wealth.”

Ace remembered that she had seen this sentence in the school history, Ravenclaw's famous motto, so she determined that it was Rowena Ravenclaw's missing relic - Ravenclaw's diadem. .Legend has it that Lady Rowena cast a spell on it that can increase the wearer's wisdom.

Thinking of the aura of dark magic he just felt, Ace felt that it was necessary to report this matter to Principal Dumbledore.Putting it away in his bag, Ace quickly walked out of the Room of Requirement.

"Oh, Merlin's beard!" Ace hurriedly walked to Principal Dumbledore's office and accidentally bumped into Professor McGonagall on the way. Professor McGonagall was knocked back and took a step back to steady herself, "Miss Foley, Did I remember correctly that it should be your class time now? You—"

"Professor McGonagall, I'm sorry, I have something very important to report to Professor Dumbledore. Can you take me there?" Ace quickly interrupted her, looked at her with pitiful eyes, and said anxiously.

Professor McGonagall pursed her lips and looked at Ace, as if she was thinking about what made this always excellent girl rude. After a while, she nodded and said: "...Okay, follow me, Miss Foley."

When he arrived at the principal's office, Dumbledore was holding a cup of hot cocoa, standing in front of the huge floor-to-ceiling window and looking down at something.

Hearing the sound of the door opening, he turned back to look at the door, "Professor McGonagall?"

"Principal Dumbledore, this lady said she has something important to ask you."

Dumbledore raised his eyebrows. What kind of special day is today? Why is there another unexpected guest?Walking to the desk, he put down the hot cocoa and asked kindly: "What's the matter, this lovely young lady?"

Ace pinched the corner of his robe and seemed to have made up his mind.She opened her satchel and took out a shiny object—Ravenclaw's diadem—and handed it to Dumbledore.

Professor McGonagall and Dumbledore both widened their eyes in surprise. Professor McGonagall took it, looked at the light outside the window carefully, slowly read the sentence engraved at the bottom, and then asked: "...Extraordinary wisdom is the greatest wealth of mankind...This, is this the diadem of Ravenclaw?"

"Where did you find it, Miss Foley?"

"Professor, I found this in the Room of Requirement..."

"The Room of Requirement? No wonder..."

"...But, it's not always there." Ace continued, with a solemn expression.

"Ok?"

"I just saw a man in a black robe put it in...put it in the Room of Requirement."

"A man in a black robe?" Professor McGonagall wondered.

"You mean Tom?"

"I don't know who he is, but," Ace said quickly, "but Professor, he cast a very strong curse at the door of the Room of Requirement. I felt a very strong breath of black magic! He also put this crown in there. , I suspected something was wrong, so I brought it over to you."

"Curse! Are you sure it's a curse!?" Professor McGonagall was shocked.

Ace nodded heavily, looked directly at Professor McGonagall with his gray-green eyes, and said, "I'm sure, Professor, that must be a curse."

"Merlin's beard! Dumbledore, what does Tom want to do!?"

Dumbledore looked at the exquisite crown carefully again, and stroked the sapphire with his rough fingers. "I didn't feel anything wrong with it, and there was no trace of dark magic. But thank you, Miss Foley, We will investigate this matter."

Ace closed the door to the principal's office, and through the last crack in the door, he could still hear Dumbledore and Professor McGonagall discussing something.Dumbledore stroked his long beard and thought, while Professor McGonagall walked around uneasily.

……

When we got to the astronomy tower, the astronomy class was already halfway through.Professor Sinister looked at Ace who was late and did not blame her. He just motioned for her to return to her seat and continue the class.

She is a very popular professor among students because she never leaves students with too much homework and rarely deducts points from them.Even when naughty children like James and the others made trouble in her class, they only received a slightly condemning look from her. For this reason, she simply became James and the others' favorite professor.

The little badgers were whispering because of Ace's rare lateness.

"Esperance Foley?"

"Oh my God, she's late? It's unbelievable."

...

"Quiet, children, now can anyone tell me which constellation this trajectory is..."

After finally waiting until get out of class was over, Asta couldn't wait to question Ace: "Ace, what have you been doing? You are never late."

"Asta, I'm sorry, I'm doing experiments in the Room of Requirement." Ace smiled at Asta and didn't tell Asta about the man in black robe.

"Alecto, do you know who that mysterious man is?"

"Of course, he is one of the best students we have ever had in Slytherin—Mr. Tom Riddle!" Alecto Carrow raised his head proudly, with a very proud look on his face.

Hearing the name Tom, Ace turned to look at Alecto: "Tom? Riddle?"

Alecto glanced at Ace, not expecting her sudden interruption, but continued: "Yes, Mr. Tom Riddle, my parents agree with his views and often attend his banquets. I think , a family like Miss Foley’s that often hangs out with Muggles will not receive such an invitation.”

"Alecto! You..." Asta glared at Alecto, but Alecto obviously didn't bother to talk to people of Asta's blood. She didn't even give Asta a look and went with a group of Slytherins. left.

Asta stamped his feet angrily, and headed to the restaurant with Ace and a group of Hufflepuffs on his arm.

"Ace, don't you know? Slytherin has been talking about that mysterious man all day today. Slytherin has never been like this."

"What did they say, Asta?"

Several little badgers heard this and came over to chatter with Ace: "I know, Ace. He is from Slytherin and I heard he was very good while studying at Hogwarts."

"Privately everyone calls him Voldemort."

"Yes, the professors commented that he is very studious, humble and polite. It seems that he has friendships with many Slytherin families at present."

"I heard that he looks like the most beautiful rose in spring and the coldest pine in winter. He is extremely handsome!"

"What the hell kind of metaphor is this, Mina? You're not attracted to Slytherin's senior Carlo, are you? Hahahaha."

"No! Don't talk nonsense!"

"Is that Senior Lanto of Ravenclaw? He does have the temperament of a green pine, Mina."

"Hersha!"

……

When Snape sat down at the Slytherin table to eat, Avery and Mulciber soon sat next to him.Snape often suspected that they should go to Hufflepuff instead of Slytherin because of the amount of gossip they heard.

"Snape, do you know that mysterious man?"

Snape answered while cutting the steak covered in sauce on the plate: "Mysterious man, you mean the man in black robes who appeared in school today?"

"You're lucky you saw him, Snape!"

"You don't know him, Snape. Even Prefect Malfoy works for him! Snape." Avery lowered his voice and whispered into Snape's ear, while looking around vigilantly to make sure No one heard what he said, "I heard that Principal Dumbledore brought him back from the orphanage."

Snape stopped what he was doing, holding the knife and fork in both hands on both sides of the plate. He quickly glanced at Lucius, and then asked: "Really?"

"Well, I heard that Prefect Malfoy will recommend some students with excellent academic performance to join him."

"Yes, serving him will bring us rich rewards, Snape."

"Ok?"

"He knows advanced black magic, has countless gold galleons, and has power. Half of the 28 holy tribes are under his command. Snape."

There was a trace of yearning in Snape's eyes, and they stopped talking about this topic.

Lily also heard Gryffindor's evaluation of Voldemort. Unlike the Slytherins' praise, Gryffindor simply hated him, especially the four James.

"Sirius, look at those Slytherins, when have you ever seen them so excited?"

"I think it's all because of that Voldemort, James."

"Voldemort?" Lily couldn't help but ask after hearing this strange name.

The four members of James sat across from each other. They all looked at Lily and lowered their voices and said mysteriously: "That's Voldemort, Lily."

"The person who came to Hogwarts today is a pure-blood idiot!" This was obviously Sirius's answer.

"An evil dark wizard, just like those Slytherins."

"Oh my gosh, he looks so scary, I saw him in the courtyard."

"That person, I know, Snape and I met him on the way to the library. He..." Lily realized that they were talking about the person they met today, with that kind of coldness like a maggot attached to the bone. It came up from her back again, and Lily rubbed her shoulders uncomfortably, "He looked at me, which made me very uncomfortable."

"I knew it! I knew he was an evil dark wizard!" James excitedly hit the table with the handle of the knife, making a "bang" sound, which attracted everyone around him to look over.

Peter Pettigrew shrank his neck, lowered his head and continued eating, while Lupine gave everyone an apologetic smile.Only Sirius nodded in agreement and answered him: "He is, James. You don't know, my sister often attends his banquets. Those annoying guys must be secretly plotting something big."

James looked at Lily, looked directly at her with his hazel eyes, and said seriously: "Lily, you shouldn't hang out with Snotlout, he will join them in the future!"

Lily was very dissatisfied with his stubborn prejudice and the word "snot-nosed" in his mouth. She held a fork and said viciously: "James Potter! Stop being childish! You are like an annoying brat!"

James asked Sirius in disbelief: "Where did I provoke her? Sirius?"

"She just likes being around that snot-nosed guy, James, leave her alone."

"B-but she's a Gryffindor and she's not a bad person, Sirius."

Sirius shrugged unimpressed.

……

After dinner, Ace was going to the library to check out the strange Ravenclaw diadem, but Astara stopped her and refused to let her go.

"Ace, how long has it been since you stayed with me! You must be with me tonight!"

Ace recalled that since the first month of school, he had been in the Forbidden Forest, the Alchemy Professor's place, and the Room of Requirement. He really didn't spend much time with Asta, so he had no choice but to wander around the castle with her.

Asta can only see Ace in class this month. Ace spends very little time in the dormitory. He goes out very early every day and comes back only after curfew at night.Of course she fully supported Ace's career development, but seeing that her friends were losing weight after being busy for a month, she felt that Ace needed to take a good rest and balance work and rest was the best, so she stopped Ace from going to the library today. pavilion.

I also met Diane on the way, and the three of them walked together on the open grass between the covered bridge and the Quidditch pitch. The last rays of the sun were obscured by the forbidden forest.

"Ace, I haven't seen you much lately?" Diane asked. Her hair has grown much longer this year and is no longer a cute bob.The black hair is spread on the back of the head, and the bangs are also pushed back, revealing the dark blue eyes hidden underneath.

Ace walked backwards and looked at Diane after hearing this, "I've been doing experiments. You'll find out when Easter comes, Diane. Your eyes are so beautiful."

Diane showed a shy smile and said reservedly: "They are the same as my mother's eyes. I also like them very much. Thank you, Ace."

"Look, is that Mrs. Pomley?" Asta interrupted the conversation between the two people. She pointed in the direction of the Whomping Willow, where there were two figures, one large and one small.

Ace squinted his eyes and answered, "It seems to be Mrs. Pomley and Remus Lupin?"

"It must be Sirius and the others who pranked some poor kid again." Asta understood.

A few people did not continue to pay attention there. They only enjoyed the breeze and the bright moonlight on the grass, and did not go back until the curfew time.

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