The Suddenly Appearing Diadem

Crack! Crack!

The crisp sound pulled Harry and Helena out of their eye contact and the strange atmosphere.

The other students in the lounge also looked in that direction.

That's the same exquisite ring replicated in marble from the Ravenclaw statue.

At this moment, the white marble, like a shattered eggshell, was peeled back layer by layer by a beam of light as bright as the moon, revealing its crystal-clear, pure white interior.

Harry looked in surprise at the source of the light, which was shaped like a Y, with its two ends originating from his own and Helena's hearts.

Strangely, Harry felt nothing at all, yet rays of light were being born from his heart.

When facing Voldemort, a strange power would surge through his heart, but he was aware of it at that time.

But now, these lights seem like an illusory dream, as if they exist in another world.

Perhaps his conversation with Helena activated a mechanism left behind by Ravenclaw.

However, Harry didn't know the specifics of this mechanism.

He could only guess that it might be related to Helena's name, the time, and perhaps even her long-lost smile.

The light emanating from him may also be related to this.

Because that smile was ultimately meant for him.

Harry was deep in thought, but only a few seconds had passed in the outside world.

The strange ring floated up from above Ravenclaw's head, moving along the light at varying speeds toward Harry and Helena.

"Is this it?" Harry guessed.

"How could that be?"

"I stole it; it should be in a hollow tree in Albania."

"No, no, he clearly knew about this—he put this here himself?" Helena said, trembling.

At first, she wanted to be smarter and more famous than her mother.

He then fled with the Ravenclaw's Diadem.

Her mother never admitted that the Ravenclaw's Diadem was missing, always pretending that Ravenclaw's Diadem was still there, and even concealed her loss from the other founders of Hogwarts, hiding her terrible betrayal.

Even when she was seriously ill, her mother still wanted to see her, the daughter who had betrayed her.

But she refused to go back, even knowing her mother was dying.

Self-esteem was more important to her than her own mother!

And so, she died.

He died at the hands of a crazed suitor.

After her death, she finally understood what she truly wanted, and as a ghost, she returned to Hogwarts.

Even so, her mother had already passed away.

There was only one suitor who would rather become a ghost than leave her alone.

She closed her heart, with only one thought in mind: to remain in the Ravenclaw Tower and guard her mother's house.

She has maintained this state for a long time. Over the centuries, people who have learned of her identity and wanted the Ravenclaw's Diadem have come one after another, but no one has ever been able to make her speak.

But then a boy appeared; he was so handsome and charming.

Moreover, he is a descendant of Slytherin.

They were also hampered by the prestige of their predecessors.

Like himself, he wants others to see him as himself, not as someone else's descendant.

So she opened her heart to the boy named Tom Riddle.

He told Ravenclaw's Diadem.

Then came the neglect; the boy she had finally fallen in love with left her before she even graduated, except for unforeseen circumstances.

She finally realized she had been deceived.

Not long ago, he reappeared, and time had left no trace on his face.

He still refused to get close to her.

The resentment and the renewed guilt kept her by her mother's statue.

Until a naive and ignorant teenager approached.

He may be very remarkable.

He even defeated Voldemort in his first year of high school.

But in her eyes, that boy named Potter was no different from the other ordinary people.

However, Harry Potter's words and the way he greeted her were almost identical to Riddle's.

This reminded her of the past and the time she had met Riddle.

The only sunshine in that long, cold winter.

However, this time, Harry Potter is in her former position.

She is more like Riddle.

This was not her imagination.

She knew this boy named Harry Potter.

She observed the child.

Because it can make the Peeves stay away on its own.

And she understood the true nature of Peeves.

Harry Potter was a kind and humble child.

Completely different from Riddle.

Like her, Riddle possessed an ingrained pride.

Knowing Harry well, she thought this conversation would only bring her a long-lost friend.

A close junior.

However, she never expected that her mother's Ravenclaw's Diadem would reappear.

That Ravenclaw's Diadem was actually in the sculpture she had seen for thousands of years!

Although her first thought was that this might be a surprise Riddle had prepared for her.

But that magic, the magic from her mother, cannot be faked.

She realized something.

"I don't know who 'he' you're talking about is?"

"However, this must have been left to you by your mother," Harry said softly, looking at the Ravenclaw's Diadem that was now in his hand.

"I think it's been waiting for you, waiting for your smile—a genuine, relaxed smile," Harry said softly.

He thought of his mother.

She protected him with her death and left him with a spell of love.

The spell flowed in his blood, enabling him to defeat Voldemort.

Just now, when he touched this Ravenclaw's Diadem, he clearly felt that love—a mother's love for her child.

This Ravenclaw's Diadem definitely has nothing to do with the "he" that Helena mentioned.

Helena's mother may have already retrieved the Ravenclaw's Diadem and hidden it inside her statue.

"Yes, Harry, I think you're right."

"Really, it's been over a thousand years, and you still don't trust me."

"Does my smile really matter that much?" Helena said, her voice choked with emotion.

She looked at the marble statue and it seemed as if she saw her mother.

The mother who was still thinking of him even when she was seriously ill.

The mother's death may also be related to this Ravenclaw's Diadem.

She's such an idiot. The Ravenclaw's Diadem is just another Ravenclaw creation.

Ravenclaw's greatness has absolutely nothing to do with Ravenclaw's Diadem!

After she stole the Ravenclaw's Diadem, her mother may have created a new one.

He hid it inside his own statue when he was seriously ill.

He waited for his daughter to return and take it away.

"I can—I'm such an idiot, I'm just a ghost." Helena looked at the new Ravenclaw's Diadem her mother had made for her.

I want to touch it with my hand.

"This is yours, you can do whatever you want with it." Harry handed the Ravenclaw's Diadem to Helena.

However, a miracle occurred: when the Ravenclaw's Diadem touched Helena's pale fingertips, a pearly white, invisible Ravenclaw's Diadem appeared from within the tangible Ravenclaw's Diadem.

The next second, the ghost Helena put on the Ravenclaw's Diadem.