Ritual in the Chamber of Secrets

Ryan had little chance of not knowing about Hagrid and the others' conversation.

After all, Hagrid later even mentioned Ryan's parents' names.

So even after he and Luna returned to the Ravenclaw Common Room and were playing a pouncing game with the blue Kneazle named Pell, he still listened to the entire conversation in Hagrid's Hut.

This led him to discover something.

That was about the Chamber of Secrets and the Basilisk in Chamber of Secrets, something Riddle and Dumbledore didn't tell anyone else.

Hagrid only knew that it was the young Voldemort who reported him.

And Myrtle's death may be related to Voldemort.

It's interesting that this wasn't told to Snape either.

Even though Riddle gave Snape that thousand-year-old Basilisk skin as a Christmas present.

Neither of them provided any further information.

Snape didn't even ask Riddle, who was his former boss, anything like where the Basilisk skin, which was twenty feet long, came from.

Thinking this, Ryan's gaze traveled across the lounge floor, down to the third-floor washroom, the intricate network of pipes, and finally to the room filled with a mysterious, verdant mist.

The monkey-faced statue, which was as tall as the entire room, is still there.

But in a corner of a room that was originally an empty space.

But there was new decoration.

It was a shrine made of neat, dark Oak Wood.

Inside the shrine was a miniature statue of a deity, three feet tall.

The most common image is that of Jesus' crucifixion.

However, his face was sculpted to resemble Riddle's.

In Ryan's eyes, a golden clock flashed by.

The images in that room began to rewind.

The recording rewinds to last Saturday morning.

Tom Riddle, like an ordinary Muggle, crawled out of the pipe as if on a pilgrimage.

Upon entering this room, we came to the shrine.

He was dressed in the usual black priest's attire.

Wearing a silver cross.

He stood before the shrine, reciting sacred scriptures.

This is a wondrous magical ritual.

The Triune Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit are all referred to by Himself.

The simple patterns on his clothing, the idols, the cross, the adapted scriptures, and even his own body combined to form this magnificent and mysterious ritual.

Riddle's holy magic, stripped of original sin, vanished with scripture and was reborn from the idol, returning to his flesh as his gaze returned to the cross and along the patterns reflected in his clothing.

Each round felt like being forged in iron and fire.

Just like iron becomes tough steel through repeated forging.

The mystique within the magic, as pure as the devil, grew ever deeper.

"It's unbelievable that he abandoned science and turned to theology," Ryan couldn't help but exclaim in the Ravenclaw common room.

Luna keenly noticed Ryan's implication. "You mean Professor Riddle? He certainly does look like a devout priest."

"Oh, then tell me about your feelings for Dumbledore, and the man who looked at Dumbledore with such affection at the opening banquet."

Luna frowned slightly upon hearing this. "Dumbledore?"

He exuded a pure wizardly aura.

Even an ordinary person who doesn't understand anything can make the connection from the first glance.

As for that person?

He's more like a leader, a serious judge.

On the other side.

In Hagrid's Hut.

Harry and the others are having many new questions about Hagrid's age.

Ron: "So, my parents were dating under your watchful eye?"

Ahem. Let me ask you, were they really the two people my dad pursued my mom?

Draco: "This question might be a bit too much for me."

I know that my parents must have been disliked by you back then.

But, were my mom and dad really not a marriage of convenience?

I mean, my mom is so beautiful. My dad, on the other hand, went bald young.

Hagrid said he was just a kid in his thirties at the time.

I don't know much about matters between men and women.

By the time he became familiar with Arthur and the others, the two of them were already a couple.

Draco's parents, whom he always considered bad apples and looked down on, were completely misunderstood by him.

Seeing that Harry was about to speak, Hagrid quickly said, "I shouldn't say anything about Lily and James."

If I tell you, it might affect your image of your father.

But I can assure you, James really did become a good kid later on.

Harry was speechless.

He already knew about his parents' affair with Snape.

So he quickly said, "Wait, my question is different from theirs."

I wanted to ask if you and Myrtle were classmates?

Although she stopped secretly following me after my engagement to Ginny.

But I heard that she was crying and calling my name in the bathroom on the third floor.

What if she reverts to her old ways and becomes like me again—

In short, Hagrid, can you...?

"You might as well ask about your father and mother!" Hagrid said irritably, rubbing his beard. "She's Ravenclaw student."

I am Gryffindor.

As you all know, before sixth grade, Ravenclaw and Gryffindor never had a single class together.

I was expelled in Third Year, and she became a ghost.

I don't know her at all.

Furthermore, as a professor, is it appropriate for me to go to the women's restroom?

"If you want, it's not impossible," Harry said, squinting.

He no longer wanted to be bothered by Myrtle.

Especially now that Myrtle looks almost like a living person.

He is a boy who is developing normally.

What if Myrtle took something she shouldn't have while he was sleeping?

That would be terrible!

He wouldn't mind if it were Helena, but he'd rather not Myrtle.

As for Ravenclaw Tower, its defenses have been repaired, Myrtle can no longer enter.

He still had some doubts about this.

Before Myrtle spied on him taking a bath, Ravenclaw Tower wasn't known as a place where ghosts (except for Lady Grey) couldn't enter at all.

And what was the result?

Therefore, in order to eliminate this risk.

Even if Hagrid were to enter the girls' restroom, it wouldn't be a big deal.

"What you're saying—" Hagrid found it a bit unbelievable.

This doesn't sound like something Harry would say.

More like Ron.

At this moment, Ron spoke up, "That's right! Hagrid, you should help Harry too!"

I don't want Myrtle to ruin Harry's relationship with my sister.

"You guys—" Hagrid looked at Draco, the only one who hadn't spoken.

"You're asking me?" Draco pointed to himself. "I think Harry is overthinking it."

Didn't I say that before?

Myrtle was able to enter Ravenclaw Tower.

It's because she herself is Ravenclaw ghost.

The ghost of someone who died while still Ravenclaw student.

Wasn't that vulnerability patched a long time ago?

Ron: "As easy as you make it sound."

What if Harry gets dumped? My sister doesn't want secondhand goods.

Harry was speechless. "What nonsense are you talking about? NTR and all that stuff is utter rubbish!"