Rowena Ravenclaw

"Good..."

The cool voice came again, "Your Occlumency is much better than when we last met, which is why you were able to regain consciousness in such a short time."

Upon hearing this voice, Kyle gradually calmed down. He then finally remembered that he hadn't removed his Ravenclaw's Diadem to escape that strange state of knowing everything.

This is certainly partly due to Ravenclaw.

"The Grey Lady?" Kyle asked tentatively.

It's me.

Although he already knew the answer, Kyle still found it somewhat unbelievable after hearing it with his own ears.

It felt as if Ravenclaw himself were here.

"How is this possible..." Kyle said instinctively, "Sorry, I mean, more than a thousand years have passed, and there's no Time-Turner around."

"Salazar's Time-Turner is just a medium," Ravenclaw patiently explained. "Once they know of your existence, time isn't so difficult to traverse... That's why Godric warned you not to touch the Time-Turner."

"But..." Kyle was still a little confused. "Mr. Slytherin ...didn't he promise to help me resolve the time-related issues?"

"That's right," Ravenclaw said. "Salazar inscribed a forgetting circle in the room, so when we leave, we'll forget we ever met a student from a thousand years in the future."

"But..." she paused, "This kind of magic array doesn't work on the Ravenclaw's Diadem. When I realized I had forgotten some things, the Ravenclaw's Diadem helped me regain those memories."

Kyle nodded. His recent experience had given him a sense of the Ravenclaw's Diadem's magic, and he believed it possessed that power.

"But hiding the memory was something the four of us agreed upon..." Ravenclaw continued, "So, to avoid any unexpected changes, I sealed this memory inside the Ravenclaw's Diadem."

"So you know about everything that has happened in the last thousand years?"

"If you're talking about someone turning the Ravenclaw's Diadem into Horcrux... that's not the case."

Unlike Helena Ravenclaw's fury upon hearing that the Ravenclaw's Diadem had been turned into Horcrux, Ravenclaw's tone was as calm as a frozen lake, completely unchanged.

"Aren't you angry?" Kyle couldn't help but ask.

"I already guessed it, I already know it, so why should I be angry?"

Ravenclaw said, "When I mentioned the Ravenclaw's Diadem the first time we met, your expression changed. At that moment, I knew that my Ravenclaw's Diadem must have also been made into Horcrux, as must the things representing Salazar and Helga."

"That Mr. Gryffindor..."

"You didn't look at him," Ravenclaw said. "After I mentioned the Ravenclaw's Diadem, you glanced at us instinctively, but you ignored Godric."

Can you guess so much just from their expressions?

Kyle's lips twitched. He remembered that Ravenclaw was the last to speak, and then, just a second or two later, the screen disappeared.

How could Ravenclaw figure this out in such a short time? Does he have some kind of mind-reading magic?

Kyle then asked a few more questions, Ravenclaw seemed very patient, answering each one like a professor answering a student's questions.

Until the very end, Kyle mentions why she appeared, or rather... this memory awakens from the Ravenclaw's Diadem.

"Because of you."

"Me?" Kyle frowned.

"Indeed, in order to find the right time, I put this memory into slumber."

"And that young alchemist, he has memories of you, which just happens to meet the conditions for awakening me."

Kyle found it a little strange; this was probably the first time someone had ever called Nicolas "the young alchemist."

Of course, if this person is Ravenclaw, then there's nothing wrong with it.

"Why are you doing this? I don't think I'm anything special that would warrant such a long and complicated process, even spanning a thousand years."

"Two reasons."

Ravenclaw said, "Even though I already know, I still don't want to see my Ravenclaw's Diadem turned into Horcrux. You just happened to destroy one of their Horcrux, and you'll definitely continue to do so in the future."

"If you cannot resist the temptation and don the Ravenclaw's Diadem, which is now Horcrux, this memory of mine can save your life."

Kyle clicked his tongue.

He had always thought that Ravenclaw's current state was like that of the Magical portrait in the castle—able only to chat and unable to do anything else.

But it's not hard to tell from what she just said that she's not completely helpless; in fact, she still retains some of her original abilities.

That's a bit scary.

Kyle resisted the urge to remove the Ravenclaw's Diadem and continued, "And the second thing?"

This time, Ravenclaw did not answer immediately, but remained silent for a long time before softly saying, "My daughter, Helena Ravenclaw."

"While trying to recover this memory, I attempted to make a Prophecy, and then I saw... a ghost."

For the first time, her voice changed, trembling slightly.

"Only wizards who fear death, or who still harbor deep-seated obsessions, can become ghosts and return to the deepest recesses of their memories. I hope you can convey to her that whatever she may have done in the future, she doesn't need to punish herself in such a cruel way."

The future? Kyle paused for a moment.

Oh, by the way, when Ravenclaw sealed this memory, Helena Ravenclaw hadn't yet stolen the Ravenclaw's Diadem.

But how should I put it? They truly are mother and daughter.

Helena Ravenclaw him to pass on a message, as did Ravenclaw, and she went even further, waiting for over a thousand years.

"The Grey Lady, if this is all you require, then I won't bring those words..."

"I can pay you a price that will satisfy you, provided you can find her." Ravenclaw's tone held a hint of anxiety.

"Whether it's knowledge or wealth, I can give it to you."

"No, you misunderstand." Kyle shook his head. "I think it's better if you two say some things yourselves."

As he spoke, he took out his suitcase, placed it on the table, and opened it.

A pearly white ghost floated out from within... Lady Grey, also known as Helena Ravenclaw.

"This is where the Ravenclaw's Diadem is kept..." Helena Ravenclaw suddenly stared at Kyle's head. "I suggest you take it off, or you'll go crazy one day."

"I'd like to, but the problem is I can't get it off." Kyle shrugged helplessly. To prove his point, he reached out, grabbed the Ravenclaw's Diadem, and pulled it up forcefully... and removed Ravenclaw's Diadem from his hands.

The atmosphere was a little awkward, how to put it... The Ravenclaw's Diadem that had seemed like it was permanently attached to his head just moments before had now been easily removed.

"Believe me, it really couldn't be taken off just now," Kyle explained dryly.

Helena Ravenclaw didn't speak, but looked at Kyle with a strange expression. "Even Peeves wouldn't use such a clumsy lie."

"Really, I just... never mind." Kyle sighed, offering no further explanation, and stepped forward to place the Ravenclaw's Diadem on Helena Ravenclaw's head.

"It's no use, ghosts can't touch anything," Helena Ravenclaw said. "As long as I can still see it, that's enough."

Kyle was aware of this, but he wanted to do it anyway, and a voice inside him told him it was okay.

Sure enough, the Ravenclaw's Diadem landed steadily on Helena Ravenclaw's head, and it didn't fall off even when Kyle let go of her hand.