94 hp Diagon Alley

rushed to the principal's office.

"Professor." Gwen lifted her Disillusionment Charm and appeared in front of Snape.

The dreaded Potions Professor was even thinner than before he became Headmaster, looking haggard with hollow eye sockets like skeletons.

"Why are you here? Ollivander." He asked word by word in a low voice.

"I think you need to know this - Harry's at Hogwarts," said Gwen.

Snape wasn't too surprised, just exchanged glances with the portrait of Armando Dippet.

"He's in the castle now, do you understand?" Gwen was a little anxious, she took a step forward, reached for Snape's robe, and retracted it under his cold gaze. "The Ravenclaw common room."

The headmaster's seat creaked harshly, and the new headmaster with a dark complexion was about to rush out. The portrait of Armando Dippet on the wall said, "Severus, you have to be ready for everything."

Snape paused, turned around, and said with his back to Gwen, "Go back. Don't come to the headmaster's office anymore - no matter how you got in, I'm going to change the password now."

Gwen knew that her first mission had been completed, she didn't dare to delay Snape's action, ran out of the principal's office, and went to find the troll stick to beat Silly Barnabas' tapestry.

Snape in the headmaster's office closed his eyes, changed the entry password, and took a last look at the Pensieve in the locked cupboard.As if thinking of something, he waved his wand and opened the lock hanging on the cabinet.Then he walked out of the office without looking back.

Ravenclaw common room.

"This way, Harry," Luna whispered, pulling Harry by the sleeve and dragging him toward a spiral staircase.

They went up in dizzying little circles.Harry hadn't been up here before.At last they came to a door.There was no handle or keyhole on the door, just a bare old board with a bronze knocker in the shape of an eagle.

Luna stretched out a pale hand, which moved in mid-air, unconnected to the arm and body, looking very weird.She knocked on the door, and in the silence it sounded to Harry like a cannonball going off.The eagle's beak opened immediately, but instead of making a bird cry, it said in a soft, musical voice: "Phoenix or fire, which one comes first?"

"Well... what do you think, Harry?" said Luna thoughtfully.

"What? Not just a password?"

"Oh yes, a question has to be answered," said Luna.

"What if the answer is wrong?"

"Then we have to wait for others to answer correctly," Luna said. "This way you can learn knowledge, understand?"

"Understood...the problem is, we can't afford to wait for others, Luna."

"Yes, I understand what you mean." Luna said seriously, "Well, I think the answer is a cycle with no beginning."

"That makes sense," said the voice, and the door opened.

The empty Ravenclaw common room was a large circular room, more ethereal than any room Harry had seen at Hogwarts.There are elegant arched windows on the wall, hung with blue and bronze silk: during the day, Ravenclaw students can see the surrounding mountains, and the scenery is beautiful.The ceiling was domed and painted with stars, and the dark blue carpet below was also covered with stars.There were tables, chairs, bookshelves, and a tall white marble statue in an alcove opposite the door.

Harry recognized Rowena Ravenclaw because he had seen the stone bust at Luna's house.Next to the statue was a door, which he guessed led to the dormitory above.He strode up to the marble statue, and the woman seemed to be looking at him, with a faintly teasing smile on her face, beautiful, but somewhat intimidating.On top of her head was a delicate hoop replicated in marble, a bit like the kind of tiara Fleur wore at her wedding.It has tiny text engraved on it.Harry emerged from under the Invisibility Cloak and climbed onto the base of the Ravenclaw statue to read the words.

【Extraordinary ingenuity is the greatest wealth of human beings. 】

"Will make you a pauper, fool!" a voice shrieked.

Harry turned sharply, slid off the plinth and fell to the floor, facing the shoulderless Alecto Carrow.The moment Harry raised his wand, she pressed her stubby forefinger to the skull and snake burned to her forearm.

As soon as Alecto's fingers touched the Dark Mark, Harry's scar burned like fire, and the room full of stars disappeared before his eyes.Standing on a ledge of rock at the bottom of the cliff, surrounded by rough seas, he felt a surge of ecstasy—they had the boy.

There was a loud bang, and Harry was back where he was. He raised his wand blankly, but the witch in front of him had already fallen forward.She fell to the ground so hard that the glass of the bookcase jingled.

"It's been a long time since I used the Stunning Charm," Luna said, with a hint of surprise in her voice, "forgot it could make such a loud noise."

Sure enough, the ceiling began to tremble.There was a growing sound of running behind the door leading to the dormitory: Luna's spell woke the Ravenclaw students sleeping above.

"Luna, where are you? I need to get under the cloak!"

Luna's feet appeared suddenly, and Harry hurried to her side.She had just draped the Invisibility Cloak over them both when the door opened and a group of Ravenclaw students in pajamas flooded into the common room.They all gasped and screamed in surprise when they saw Alecto lying unconscious on the ground.Slowly, they huddled around her, watching this beast that would wake up any moment and attack them.Then a plucky first-year man rushed over and tapped her on the back with his big toe.

"I think she might be dead!" he exclaimed happily.

"Oh look," Luna whispered happily, seeing the Ravenclaws surrounding Alecto, "how happy they are!"

"Yeah... that's great..."

Harry closed his eyes, his scar throbbing with pain, he voluntarily fell into Voldemort's thoughts again...he was walking in the tunnel leading to the first cave...he decided to check the locket before coming back...then It won't be long...

There was a knock on the door of the common room, and the Ravenclaw students were all stunned.Harry heard the soft, musical voice of the eagle-shaped knocker outside the door again: "Where did the disappearing things go?"

"I don't know! Shut up!" yelled a gruff voice that Harry knew was Alecto's brother, Amycus. "Alecto? Alecto? Are you there? Have you caught him? Open the door!"

The Ravenclaw classmates were all terrified and gathered together to whisper.Immediately, there was a series of loud bangs suddenly, as if someone had fired a shot at the door.

"Alecto! If he comes and we don't catch Potter—do you want to suffer the same fate as the Malfoys? Answer me!" Amycus snarled, pushing desperately opened the door, but the door did not open.The Ravenclaws backed away, and the most frightened began to scurry back to the upstairs bedrooms.Harry was debating whether to blow the door open, knock Amycus out, and stop him from doing anything else.At this moment, another extremely familiar voice sounded outside the door.

"What are you doing, Professor Carroll?"

"I want to - go through - this damned - door!" cried Amycus. "Go and fetch Flitwick! Tell him to open the door, quick!"

"But wasn't your sister in there?" asked Professor McGonagall. "Didn't Flitwick let your sister in at your urgent request earlier this evening? Perhaps she could open the door for you? You don't have to Half the castle woke up."

"She doesn't answer, you old woman! Open the door for me! Quick! Open it!"

"No problem, if you like," said Professor McGonagall, with a terrible chill in his voice.The door knocker rang lightly, and the musical voice asked again: "Where did the things that disappeared go?"

"Into nothing, that is to say, into everything." Professor McGonagall replied.

"Well said," said the eagle knocker, and the door swung open.

Amycus rushed through the door, waving his wand, and the few Ravenclaws left behind hurried towards the stairs.Amycus, like his sister, was hunchbacked, with a pale, doughy face and small mung bean eyes.The eyes immediately caught Alecto lying motionless on the floor.He let out a cry of anger and terror.

"What did they do? The boys!" he yelled. "I'll give them the Cruciatus Curse and tell me who did it—what will the Dark Lord say?" Amycus stood beside him. In front of my sister, she hit her head with her fist and screamed, "We didn't catch that kid, they killed my sister!"

"She was just stunned," Professor McGonagall knelt down to check Alecto, and said impatiently, "she will be fine."

"Bah, she's in big trouble!" Amycus snarled. "It's over if the Dark Lord catches her! She actually summoned him, and I feel my mark burn, and the Dark Lord thought we were Got Potter!"

"'Caught Potter'?" said Professor McGonagall alertly. "What do you mean, 'Caught Potter'?"

"He told us that Potter might break into Ravenclaw Tower, and told us to summon Potter as soon as we got hold of him!"

"Why did Harry Potter break into Ravenclaw Tower? Potter is me