New Professor at Hogwarts

"Excluding Harry, the Horcrux made by accident, do the remaining three Horcruxes also follow a certain pattern?"

Xia Ran looked at the two people in front of her and said slowly: "We have talked about Voldemort's hobbies more or less in the past few months. He likes to collect trophies - this is Dumbledore's summary of Voldemort. The answer came out—the locket, the ring, that was all.”

"You mean...the remaining three Horcruxes are also the trophies of the mysterious man?" Snape asked.

"No! Not necessarily!" Xia Ran shook his head and said, "The trophy may be Voldemort's Horcrux, but the premise must be of great significance. In addition, some items that are also very special to him will also be It’s the object of his Horcrux creation.”

"for example……"

"Relics of the Big Four at Hogwarts!" Xia Ran said, "Gryffindor's sword is with Dumbledore. He obviously didn't find it: Slytherin's locket is indeed a Horcrux. Fortunately, it has been destroyed by us; Hufflepuff's golden cup may also be his Horcrux; Ravenclaw's diadem must be his Horcrux!"

He said it with confidence at the end.

"Xia Ran, why are you so sure?" Dumbledore asked slightly doubtfully. He had more or less made some assumptions about Xia Ran's conjectures in the past few months, but after all, there was no fact as a basis. You have to add words like "maybe" and "probably". Why does Xia Ran dare to be so sure?

Xia Ran replied: "Because I discovered Ravenclaw's diadem!"

He had actually known for a long time that the location of the Ravenclaw Diadem was in a form of the Room of Requirement at Hogwarts - because the Room of Requirement would take on different appearances according to the requests of the visitor - and he had also absorbed it before. He knew the Force points contained in the crown, but he had never found a chance to bring it up before.

Now is the best time.

"What, you found Ravenclaw's diadem?!" Dumbledore was slightly surprised.

Snape also looked very surprised.

Marvolo Gaunt's ring was discovered by Xia Ran. Is he so familiar with Voldemort's past?

Xia Ran said: "Yes, and the crown was not hidden elsewhere by Voldemort..."

"In Hogwarts??" Snape said in surprise.

Xia Ran nodded and said: "In the Room of Requirement on the eighth floor of Hogwarts Castle."

"Sorry, what room?" Snape asked confused. He had never entered the Room of Requirement, or it was possible that he had, but he did not realize it.

"Eighth floor, Room of Requirement?" Dumbledore was stunned for a moment, shook his head and sighed, "I once got up in the middle of the night to look for the toilet, and entered a bathroom in a daze. There were many very exquisite chamber pots inside. What happened to me afterwards? I couldn’t even find that room, it turned out to be the Room of Requirement, and indeed it was the Room of Requirement!”

Xia Ran led the two of them out of the principal's office and went directly to a blank wall on the eighth floor. Next to it was a portrait of a troll, looking at the three of them menacingly.

Xia Ran walked back and forth three times, thinking to herself that I need a place to hide things.

Sure enough, a door appeared in the center of the corridor, and he pushed the door handle and entered.

"This is a..." Dumbledore raised his eyebrows and said, "A place where countless things are collected?!"

"It seems that You-Know-Who thinks such a place is safe." Snape regained his composure.

Xia Ran smiled and said: "As long as anything has existed, it must have left traces! Voldemort still values ​​​​the sense of ritual too much. If he randomly found a few stones from the roadside, made them into Horcruxes, and then traveled around the world All continents and oceans, in that case...he will never be killed!"

Xia Ran shrugged her shoulders and said, "Because no one will ever find all his Horcruxes!"

"Yeah, so we have to thank him for this characteristic." Dumbledore smiled.

Xia Ran led the two of them to turn left and right, crossing the crumbling pile of debris while chatting: "I accidentally needed a room to hide things, and the Room of Requirement appeared. I was hiding things. At that time, I saw an ancient crown, but I didn’t realize what it was at the time. Later, when I thought about it accidentally, I realized something was wrong.”

"Come, come this way, have you seen that ancient crown?"

He pointed in front of him as he spoke. It was a very messy place filled with a lot of messy things. An ancient and dusty crown, like the crown of a king of an ancient secular kingdom, had been placed there for many years. It’s been months.

Dumbledore glanced at Xia Ran and walked over.

Snape said suspiciously: "Are you sure, Xia Ran?"

"I have to admit, that crown does not look like a Ravenclaw crown, but there is no doubt that... yes, I checked it." Xia Ran said.

"Yes, that's right!" Dumbledore touched the crown and sighed, "This is Ravenclaw's crown. I can feel the magic fluctuations inside. An ordinary crown will never have such a deep and evil black color." magic."

As if sensing Dumbledore, the crown began to tremble slightly.

Dumbledore narrowed his eyes slightly and said, "Well, it's a great confusion magic, but unfortunately, it doesn't work for me."

"Dumbledore, the crown should be destroyed." Snape reminded.

"Yes, Severus, you are right." Dumbledore nodded, retracted his right hand touching the crown, and said, "Like Riddle's diary, this crown also has the ability to seduce people's hearts."

Xia Ran was eager to try: "Dumbledore, we have to destroy it, let me do it, I have experience, I will destroy the ring, a fire... yes, a fierce fire! I still have the fire curse Very insightful.”

"I have never doubted this, Xia Ran." Dumbledore said, looking at the vast room and the messy piles of clutter, "But if the Fire Curse is used, this room may be destroyed. Destroyed together."

"Although Hogwarts has many special places and many deep-hidden secrets that even I don't know about - for example, I had no understanding or knowledge of the Room of Requirement before you mentioned it - But if we can preserve such an interesting place, it doesn’t matter if we work harder.”

Dumbledore came back with the crown and said briskly: "I remember that there are basilisk fangs in the Chamber of Secrets. That thing can destroy Horcruxes effortlessly."

"Okay, Dumbledore, it's up to you." Xia Ran nodded and put the wand he took out back into his pocket.

In the end, they used the basilisk's fangs to destroy Ravenclaw's crown in the secret chamber. A layer of thick black blood flowed out, as if the crown was a living life, and a faint howl came from a very far away place. It sounded in the ears of the three people.

At the same time, in the Gryffindor common room, Harry screamed, his body twitched violently, and he fell to the ground, foaming at the mouth, and his face was contorted in pain, frightening all the students in the common room.