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Though the reporters were somewhat disappointed that they had not won Ravenclaw's favor, even setting aside the far-too-fantastical news that Hogwarts founder Rowena Ravenclaw was somehow still alive and might even have become a true god, the mere fact that tonight, at St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries, Allen Harris had received a Phoenix bestowed by Ravenclaw was already news enough to shake the entire magical world. Before this, there had only been two Phoenixes in the world in this era that had been tamed by wizards. After tonight, there would now be a third.

They hurriedly set up their video cameras, and many thrust their microphones in front of Allen, firing off questions all at once.

"Sorry, everyone." Allen politely waved them off and said, "Let's talk outside. Accepting an interview here would be rather disrespectful to Lady Ravenclaw."

Having witnessed all those "miracles" just now, everyone agreed at once. A crowd surged outside in a rush. Allen walked straight to the landing connecting the fourth and fifth floors before stopping, and the reporters immediately surrounded him again, endless questions flying at Allen.

The ruddy-faced wizard from earlier had not followed the others out. He stayed indoors, looking somewhat forlorn and lonely as he gazed at Ravenclaw's shrine, his eyes deep. Ravenclaw's miracle had indeed been real. The power he had just sensed was entirely different from magic, and that made him even more displeased...

"Only just now did you truly believe in my existence." An ethereal yet stern female voice rang out, and the shrine once again gave off a faint blue glow.

At the sound, the red-faced wizard's gloomy pupils suddenly widened. He jerked his gaze toward the shrine, and abruptly realized, from the trembling of his own body—at some unknown point having yielded to