Raven's Claw at Hogwarts

As the self-hypnosis progressed, Mike's breathing became lighter and lighter. At the same time, Mike only felt that the magic power in his body was slowly flowing into his brain. This magic power was not as fierce as what Mike usually felt when casting spells, but gave people a gentle feeling.

This feeling was very strange. When the magic completely enveloped Mike's brain, Mike felt an unprecedented tranquility.

This kind of tranquility is not the kind of physical tranquility we usually call, but a kind of spiritual tranquility.

The human brain is a restless machine. Even during sleep, it will exercise through dreaming, let alone in normal study and life.

It can be said that our brains are thinking all the time and coming up with new ideas, although most of them are meaningless. Just because we haven't discovered it doesn't mean it doesn't exist, it's just because we're used to it.

Mike's mind was clear and clear at this time, without a trace of noise. There was no fear, joy, worry and other emotions, and I was completely immersed in a kind of tranquility that is difficult to express in words. Mike enjoyed this kind of tranquility very much. In the past forty years of his life, he had never been as comfortable as he was today.

And surprisingly, this state is different from coma. Mike's consciousness was very clear, and his thinking speed became faster without other thoughts to distract him.

Mike tried to move his fingers, wanting to test whether he could maintain this state while exercising. But to his disappointment, the special tranquility was broken as soon as he moved his fingers.

Suddenly, the fear of the future, the joy of mastering Occlumency, and doubts about the light door in the Ravenclaw lounge... all kinds of emotions returned to Mike's mind again, causing Mike to frown in pain. .

Now Mike finally understood why Snape had remained closed-minded.

I could have endured the darkness if I had never seen the light.

The tranquility of a closed-brain state is simply a supreme enjoyment for ordinary people, not to mention Snape's guilt for Lily, fear and hatred of Voldemort and Dumbledore. These emotions were tormenting Snape's heart all the time. If he hadn't maintained a closed brain state at all times, Snape might have been unable to bear it and did something extreme.

Of course, none of this has much to do with Mike.

In fact, he only felt uncomfortable for a while when he just exited the Occlumency state, and then fell into a kind of ecstasy. He actually guessed the secret of Occlumency training.

At first, Mike felt a little unbelievable, but he was relieved when he thought that the way to release the Patronus Curse, which is also a very difficult spell like Occlumency, is just to recall his happiest memory while reciting the spell.

Perhaps the essence of everything in the world is actually very simple principles, but people think of them too complicated.

In the days that followed, Mike fell into crazy practice.

Not only did he lock himself in his dormitory after school to practice Occlumency, he even practiced it during meals and classes. In order to prevent others from noticing, Mike also found a pair of sunglasses and put them on.

Ever since, there appeared in Hogwarts a weirdo who wore sunglasses every day and was unwilling to take them off even at night. Muggle-born wizards are very confused about Mike's behavior, but those little wizards who have lived in the wizarding world since childhood don't think so. They think Mike is very handsome like this.

So soon, sunglasses quickly became popular in Hogwarts. Mike, who was obsessed with practicing and couldn't help himself, didn't notice this at first. When he discovered it, almost everyone around him was wearing sunglasses. The most exaggerated thing is that many wizards who originally wore myopia glasses even changed their myopia glasses to sunglasses in order to keep up with the trend.

Mike didn't pay much attention to it. He laughed for a while and threw it behind his head when he first discovered it. At this time, he had more important things to do.

He discovered that Lady Grey, the ghost of Ravenclaw, was hiding from him.

Ms. Gray is Helena Ravenclaw, the culprit who stole the diadem of her mother, Ms. Rowena Ravenclaw, in the recorded history of Hogwarts, and ultimately caused her to die in depression. She is also the daughter of Rowena Ravenclaw.

When Mike was investigating Ms. Ravenclaw, he immediately thought of this ghost who had witnessed the history of Hogwarts, but what made him depressed was that Ms. Gray seemed to be deliberately hiding from him.

According to her classmates, she would stare at the statue of Lady Ravenclaw for a long time in the Ravenclaw lounge every evening. But whenever Mike was there, Ms. Gray wasn't there.

Mike knew that those classmates would not lie to him about this kind of thing, and he could often see Ms. Gray in the Ravenclaw lounge last year, but for some reason, starting from this year, Mike never saw her again. Saw her.

Could it be because of the claw marks? Mike couldn't help but think.

Fortunately, other ghosts did not avoid him like Ms. Gray, but after Mike asked about Nearly Headless Nick, Fat Monk and other ghosts, he was disappointed.

These ghosts are not very old, and Ms. Ravenclaw died long before they were born, so they know nothing about Ms. Ravenclaw's past.

However, the kind-hearted fat monk felt very guilty when he saw that he had not helped Mike, and told Mike that the oldest ghosts in this castle were Ms. Gray and Bloody Barrow, and they were the only ones most likely to know the past events of the four giants. .

At the same time, the fat monk also enthusiastically invited Mike to attend the death anniversary dinner held at the end of the month, and claimed that this dinner was particularly meaningful.

Mike refused without hesitation.

Mike, who has read the original work, certainly knows what they call the Death Day Dinner. A bunch of ghosts stay in a room and have fun, and the cold breath they exude makes the whole room as cold as late winter. The food and everything else was rotten and couldn't be eaten at all. For Mike to abandon the Halloween dinner at Hogwarts to attend such a shabby party is simply out of the blue. He is not Harry's kid who doesn't know how to refuse others.

Regardless of the fat monk's efforts to stay, Mike went directly to the eighth floor of Hogwarts where the Room of Requirement was located. That seems to be the permanent residence of Bloody Barrow. Almost every time Mike goes to the Room of Requirement, he will see Bloody Barrow wandering in the empty corridor, seemingly looking for something.

And when Mike came to the eighth floor this time, Bloody Barrow was indeed still there. But there is another ghost beside Barrow, and it is Ms. Gray who Mike has been searching for for several days.