Harry Potter: Dawn's Light
Chapter 2682

The Melody of the Great Dream (Part One)

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In Celtic mythology, there was also a queen named Maeve. It was said that she was the most beautiful woman in all Ireland, and also a powerful warrior queen who ruled Connacht, a sparsely populated land of countless lakes and forests, for eighty-eight years.

She was the ideal woman beloved by Gaelic poets: strong, snow-white arms and an excellent shot who never missed. Her lands and peerless beauty attracted many suitors, and what she did was raise armies to fend off those princes and kings who came to "court" her.

In countless fairy tales, princesses were always saved by princes. But Queen Maeve could choose her own husbands and depose them whenever she wished. She had thick golden hair like ripened corn, and every morning she went to bathe by a lake.

One day, Cú Chulainn's master, Conor son of Nessa, discovered this habit of hers. He secretly lay in wait on the shore and struck Queen Maeve in the center of her forehead with a slingshot. The queen fell into the water, and the clear lake turned red with the blood flowing from her brow.

As for the legendary Queen Maeve's Crown, Pomona had heard Albus mention it while arranging the maze. "Queen Maeve" had been a witch from roughly the same era as Rowena Ravenclaw. After Hogwarts was founded, people began discussing which side was better.

Queen Maeve did not "waste" her energy on theory. She "placed" her memories, thoughts, and even some of her emotions into the crown. Students only needed to put it on, and they could project them into their own minds. In other words, they could skip reading, memorization, examinations, and the like, learn knowledge directly, and save that time for practical combat training.

After Rowena created the crown that granted her wisdom, the

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