"Helena, think about it carefully, think about the time you spent with Ms. Ravenclaw, and think about whether she ever mentioned related topics?" Ted said to Helena.
"Thoughts, grouped thoughts..." Helena's eyes were empty and she was lost in thought.
For a ghost who has no concept of time, this contemplation lasts for two or three hours.
When Ted came back from dinner, Helena was still there, lost in thought.
It was until midnight that Ted couldn't stand it any longer and planned to talk about it tomorrow.
He wanted to advise her to rest first and think slowly, but he was interrupted before he could say anything.
"I, I may have remembered that my mother, she seemed to have said something similar..." Her expression was a little excited, looking sad and a little nostalgic.
She walked to the statue and called softly: "Mom? Mom! Mom, I'm back. Open the door for me. I'm Helena."
Suddenly, Ted felt the magic power of the statue fluctuate!
He quickly performed a magic detection, and sure enough he saw an increasingly brighter blue light on the statue.
I saw the Ravenclaw statue suddenly blinked, and then spoke: "Helena, my daughter, is that you?"
It was a gentle and clear voice, giving people the impression of a wise and elegant lady.
Pearl-white tears rolled down Helena's face, and she choked with sobs and stretched out her hands to hug her mother, but she could only pass through the statue - she was already a ghost and had been dead for nearly a thousand years.
"Mom! Mom, I'm sorry, I'm sorry..." she choked.
"Don't cry, Helena, don't cry. My poor daughter..." He looked at Helena.
"I was already in a very bad state at that time. I was worried that I wouldn't be able to see you, and I was also worried that you wouldn't be able to walk on. It was my fault. I shouldn't have let Barrow go find you. His mind at that time had been infected by black magic. It was very destructive..."
"Please don't blame me, Helena, don't blame me," she begged her daughter.
"No, it's my fault. Mom, it's all my fault. If I hadn't stolen the crown and distracted you, you definitely wouldn't, wouldn't have died. Mom, forgive my mom." Helena simply said I burst into tears.
The statue of Ravenclaw stretched out his hand and hugged his daughter. The mother and daughter were a statue that could not cry, and the other was a ghost that could not be touched. Together they expressed their apologies for being a thousand years late.
After a long time, Ms. Ravenclaw comforted Helena, and they finally calmed down.
"When I learned the tragic news, I couldn't bear it anymore. But I'm worried about you, Helena. I'm worried that you will be afraid of death and unable to go on."
"Now it seems that my worry was right. But it was too hasty at the time. I could only cast incomplete magic on this statue, which made it impossible for me to wake up on my own..."
"Fortunately, fortunately, I left enough magic power in the secret room. Helena, don't be afraid, come with me..."
As he spoke, a fist-sized ball of light floated out from the statue of Ms. Ravenclaw.
She floated ahead and led the way, Helena following behind.
After walking a short distance, Helena waved to Ted, "Ted, thank you, please come with me. I may have to continue walking, I hope you can help me be my final witness."
Ted bowed slightly, said nothing, and followed.
The light group floated in front, and the whole castle seemed to come alive.
The portraits seem to have lost their self-consciousness and remain motionless in the frame. The moving armors will actively salute, and the moving stairs will float by themselves to form a smooth path.
This is much more powerful than the usual castle, like a deformed building block.
Soon, they left Ravenclaw Tower and reached the main tower through the sky bridge.
In a corridor on the eighth floor, the light group stopped in front of a tapestry.
"This stall is quite interesting." Ravenclaw said.
It was a tapestry of a troll beating silly Barnabas with a club. It told the story of a wizard named Barnabas who tried to teach the troll how to dance ballet, but was beaten hard with a stick by the impatient troll.
Suddenly, a door appeared on the wall opposite the tapestry. The two-door solid wood door was three meters high, with gold-painted edges and a raven pattern in the door.
The door opened, the light ball flew in, and Ravenclaw's voice came: "Please come in, Helena and that little guy, this was my original research room..."
Ted did not expect that Ravenclaw would bring him to the Room of Requirement.
He knew this place, but he didn't plan to hang out here in the first grade.
Unexpectedly, Ravenclaw also had a "secret room" here!
After walking in, Ted was not filled with bookshelves, lab tables and the like as he had imagined. Instead, it was a bit empty - only a large curved table and a few chairs. An old-style sofa and a bookcase.
However, on the opposite wall, there are many blue lines with a faint golden light, which converge into an extremely complex geometric pattern.
The ball of light flew into the wall, and then all the blue lines connected and began to spread rapidly, towards other directions of the house, towards the invisible magical veins in the wall...
Dumbledore, who was sleeping soundly, suddenly opened his eyes. He took off the pointed nightcap on his head, picked up the moon-shaped glasses on the table and put them on. He looked around uncertainly, and then reached out to do something, but there was no response.
He looked at his hands. He quickly got out of bed without even having time to change into his star pajamas, and quickly walked down the steps to the principal's office.
He looked at the portraits of past principals on the wall that were so sleepy that their noses were bubbled with snot, and his heart sank - his authority as principal had disappeared!
However, before he could make his next move, the authority suddenly came back.
From the time he was awakened from his sleep until he confirmed that his authority had been "usurped" and planned to do something, and then the authority came back inexplicably, it took less than a minute in total.
"What happened?" he muttered.
…
At this time, in the Room of Requirement and Ravenclaw's secret chamber, a powerful group of blue magic energy gathered, and finally formed the image of a middle-aged lady - Ravenclaw in a blue robe.
She reached out and gently took Helena's hand!
She comes into contact with a ghost!
Both Ted and Helena were surprised.
Ms. Ravenclaw chuckled: "Don't be too surprised. Although ghosts cannot be contacted by ordinary means, some high-end magic can affect ghosts. I just temporarily borrowed the principal's authority to mobilize the magic of the castle and created for myself this magical creature that can touch the sea. It’s just Lina’s temporary body.”
Ted was just listening to the bible, what about contacting ghosts, what high-end magic, what principal's authority, what shaping the body?
Is it so powerful?
"Then you, are you now..." Ted swallowed and asked with difficulty.
"I'm not resurrected, or even Ravenclaw herself. I'm just a thought she injected into her emotions. No one can live for a thousand years, let alone be resurrected after a thousand years."
She looked at her daughter in her arms, "We don't have much time, Helena, are you ready?"
Helena looked up at her mother and nodded: "Mom, I'm not afraid anymore."
After saying that, she turned to look at Ted again, "Ted, thank you."
Ted leaned slightly and saluted: "I wish you a safe journey."
Helena smiled and nodded.
Ms. Ravenclaw also smiled, "Thank you, little one, for your help. I hope this will be helpful to you..."
A book appears on the curved table, and then the pages automatically turn to reveal countless fonts and even drawings.
The light came on, and a non-glaring white light enveloped the mother and daughter.
Helena waved to Ted, "Bye Ted, bye."
Ted waved his hand: "Goodbye, goodbye Helena, goodbye Ms. Ravenclaw."
After the white light dissipated, everything disappeared.
In this secret room, although it still remains the same, the blue lines on the wall have disappeared.
Ted briefly looked around the house, looked at the bookcase, and flipped through the book left by Ms. Ravenclaw - it was ten centimeters thick and had a bronze edge that could kill someone.
He looked at the direction where Helena disappeared, and he didn't expect that one of his friends would be separated from the world so quickly.
Although I should be happy for Helena, I have very complicated emotions.
At this time, the system also joins in the fun.
"Ding~ Complete the hidden mission: [Ravenclaw's Chamber of Secrets (Purple)]. Reward 3000 experience, random cards..."
"Purple mission? 3000 experience, random cards?!" This was a big surprise.
Ted glanced again at the spot where Helena and the Ravenclaw lady had disappeared.
He planned to calm down and not move here for now. Go back and calm down first, and then decide what to do with this place.
Based on Ms. Ravenclaw's last actions, Ted had gained access to the secret room.
Then come back later. Now go back and be quiet.
Ted opened the door and left the Room of Requirement, and within a few steps he bumped into Dumbledore in pajamas and a nightcap in the corridor.
There was an inquiring look behind his moon-shaped eyes.
"Mr. Epiphany, what happened?" he asked.
