Ravenclaw's Diadem

Chapter 694: Ravenclaw's Diadem

Silvan looked at the diadem before him. A filthy gemstone sat in its center, with the pattern of a bronze eagle's wings spreading out on either side. It lay there quietly, as though it had been waiting for centuries.

On the surface, it was completely rusted, oxidized into an ugly dark gray. Yet from certain angles, its original soft silvery-white sheen could still be seen.

Ravenclaw's Diadem.

Though he had expected it, when the thing truly appeared before him, Silvan still found it somewhat unbelievable.

He had turned into a cat and come in earlier only because he did not want to interfere with Harry's actions. While Harry had been looking for a place to hide his potion book, he had watched from a table behind him.

Silvan could swear that he had not seen which corner Harry had pulled that wig and the diadem hanging from it out of. The two things seemed not to exist at all, yet the moment Harry reached out to grab them, they appeared.

But no matter what, he had found it—and saved himself a bottle of Felix Felicis.

Silvan took several deep breaths. Once he was fully prepared, he reached out and grasped the dusty diadem.

In an instant, the room vanished. Silvan felt as though he had been transported into a bottomless abyss, or the deepest depths of the Black Lake.

Countless voices suddenly exploded beside his ears. Screams, pleas for mercy, and the howls of some magical creature—

Where Silvan could not see, wisps of black smoke rose from the diadem and gathered into a gigantic skull in midair, trying to swallow him whole.

But the next second, a blue unicorn charged over from the side. The skull let out a piercing shriek before vanishing with a