"You may not know that decades ago, a wizard your size snuck into the tower one night and asked me the same question...... Helena said in a sloppy tone.

Ivan immediately guessed who Helena was talking about, and cursed secretly in his heart.

Damn Tom, he actually blocked the way he wanted to go!

Ivan silently made a note of Voldemort, but the expression on his face remained unchanged, and he pretended to be confused and spoke. "I know what you mean......"

"You're here for the Ravenclaw crown, aren't you?" Helena looked contemptuously at Ivan, who was pretending to be stupid, and spoke. "In fact, you're not the first student to salivate a crown......"

"No, Lady Helena, I think you're mistaken!" Ivan shook his head.

"Don't admit it? Hmph, it seems that we don't have much to talk about......" Helena said with a sneer, and was about to turn away.

At that moment, Ivan's voice came again.

"The Ravenclaw crown was destroyed years ago, what am I looking for that thing for?"

Helena's body paused as she walked forward, then turned her head sharply, stared at Ivan, and asked in dismay. "What do you say? The crown is ruined?"

"Haven't you heard? This happened three years ago, and it has to do with Tom Riddle......" Ivan pretended to be surprised, paused deliberately, and then spoke again.

"He defiled the relics of the founders, made the Ravenclaw crown into a Horcrux, and caused a riot in Hogwarts, and it took me a lot of trouble to deal with it."

Helena looked at Ivan suspiciously, but when she heard him mention Tom Riddle and Horcruxes, she didn't directly question it.

"So interested in hearing my story? Ms. Helena? Ivan snapped his fingers, and a flame rose out of thin air from the dry fireplace, dispelling the midnight wind.

Helena was slightly surprised by this wandless spell, and she was silent for a while before asking. "Can you tell me, what's your name?"

"Ivan Hals!" Ivan bowed slightly and spoke.

……

After dispelling Helena's doubts, Ivan would go to the Ravenclaw Tower every night to meet Miss Ghost for the next few days.

However, to Ivan's helplessness, Helena was still very cautious, so he had to knock on the side and try to move the topic into the mana storage room.

"Are you saying that the four founders were involved in the transformation of the castle?" Five days later, on the night, listening to Helena tell the story of a thousand years ago, Ivan couldn't help but ask.

"Yes, but most of it was done by Slytherin and my mother." Helena said in a fluttering tone.

Ivan nodded, not surprised.

According to Helena, Rowena Ravenclaw was very proficient in alchemy, and Salazar Slytherin was the owner of the castle, so it was natural that they would be in charge of the renovation.

It seems that her previous guess was not wrong, and Helena probably knew the clues to the mana storage room.

"You're such a special man, Hals!"

While Ivan was thinking, Helena suddenly floated to his side, whispering to herself. "It doesn't look like a Gryffindor at all."

"In fact, quite a few people have said that, and I think I might be a better fit for Ravenclaw College." Ivan shrugged his shoulders, if it weren't for the memories of the original, he would probably have lost his relationship with Gryffindor.

"No, you don't look like a Ravenclaw ......," Helena said ethereally.

"Why?" Ivan was very strange, he felt that he had a shrewd mind, a love of learning, and a strong desire to learn, and he should fit the Ravenclaw admissions standards.

"There's no why, it's just not quite like ...... If anything, it's intuition! Helena smiled happily.

Ivan's face darkened, and as if the ghost was deliberately making fun of himself, he shook his head helplessly and asked again. "By the way, Helena, why did you tell Tom about the whereabouts of the crown in the first place?"

After all these days of contact, Ivan discovered that the ghost lady was not easy to fool, and was not as easy to deceive as he expected.

Or did you learn to be obedient after being deceived by Tom?

"Tom he... Unlike others, he is very likable and empathetic...... Be compassionate...... For a thousand years, no one has been as ...... as he has been Got me. Helena sighed. And he promised me that I would come back with my mother's crown......"

"Well, that's right, Tom did bring the crown back, but put it in the Room of Requirement......" Ivan complained, and in a way Voldemort wasn't lying.

"Hmph......" Helena snorted, a little upset, but the thought of being deceived by Tom Riddle made her mood even lower and lower, and she sighed faintly. I thought of Tom as a friend to whom I could make friends, but he deceived me, and I told him the location of the Room of Requirement......"

"No wonder." Ivan muttered to himself.

The location of the Room of Requirement was very secret, even Dumbledore was able to enter it because of an accident, and he had always wondered how Voldemort knew about the Room of Requirement, and now he realized that it was originally from Helena.

Of course, compared to this, Ivan was more curious about the operation of the Room of Requirement, and it was beyond his comprehension to be able to manifest the magical place in his mind.

Helena didn't mean to hide it, and quickly explained. "The Room of Requirement is a miracle created by my mother, Rowena Ravenclaw, using alchemy combined with the vast magic of the entire castle!"

"The magic of the whole castle?" Ivan was stunned for a moment, then suddenly realized something.

Helena didn't notice the change in Ivan's expression, but continued to speak.

"On weekdays, the castle stores the mana you expend from your daily dispersion or practice of magic for secret passages, spiral staircases, and various protective spells.

But as the number of students increased, the remaining magic power became more and more considerable, so my mother took advantage of the situation to make a responsive house......

Of course, at that time, the stored magic power was no more than it is now, and it was not able to respond to requests, and it was just a research room. ”

Listening to Helena's words, Ivan was stunned, which means that the so-called magic storage room is the Room of Requirement!

He didn't expect that what he was looking for had always been under his nose, and he hadn't realized it at all for more than four years.

(End of chapter)