Chapter Eighty-Nine: The Black Raven
Exam week passed quickly, with the final exam being the history of magic, and the young wizards cheered when Professor Binns' ghost told them to put down their quills.
Maybe it was William's spoilers that played a role, Terry played a pretty good role, judging by the smile on his face, he should have done quite well in the exam, at least the boy didn't have to worry about failing or being poor.
In fact, Terry's magical talent is not bad, and he can be ranked at the top of the students in his grade, as long as he is not compared to William.
Because, if Terry's performance is not bad, then William's performance is like a monster.
During the Charms exam, he took control of a pineapple and performed a Mike Jackson space dance that almost stunned Professor Flitwick.
The professor, who has been active in the wizarding world for a long time, has never seen such a vigorous dance, not to mention that William is also very intimate with a piece of music.
The Transfiguration exam is even more impressive, after all, this is what William is good at. His excellent control over magic allowed him to conjure up snuff boxes that were more gorgeous than ever, and even Professor McGonagall, who was always strict, smiled with satisfaction.
During the Potions exam, Professor Snape's attention was focused on Gryffindor, and Harry, in particular, became the focus of Snape's observation.
He was basically standing behind Harry the whole time, watching Harry's every move. This put a lot of pressure on the Gryffindor students, but the students of other houses, like William, were much more relaxed.
What's more, although he doesn't have any special talents, William doesn't have any shortcomings in potions, so he is still the first to complete the refining of the Forgetting Potion.
When he handed the potion to Professor Snape, the latter's face seemed even darker.
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"William, thanks to you this time!" Terry, who walked out of the examination room, said gratefully to William, and Earl and Ike on the side also nodded in agreement.
You must know that William basically pressed some of the subjects in every subject, which made the final review of several people a lot easier, and now they are about to offer William as a test god.
"Little things, little things." William responded modestly.
Next, Harry and the others are going to break through the level, and they will also prepare to go to the Room of Request to take the crown. So he politely rejected Terry's plans and headed for the castle.
"Do you say geniuses are like this?" Terry looked at William's back and complained to his little friends around him.
"This semester is over, and he is still thinking about studying. Merlin, why does William always have so much to learn? ”
"So he's a genius, you're not." In Ike's words.
"Forget it, we don't understand the world of geniuses, let's go to the Weasley brothers, I heard that the two of them want to have a party."
Frustrated, Terry led the two of them towards the Weasley brothers by the Black Lake, who didn't want to think about anything but a full bottle of butterbeer.
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William waited quietly in an empty classroom, already in the forbidden area on the fourth floor, with the same magic sensors as on Halloween.
However, after a few months of improvement, the range of signal transmission has been significantly enhanced, and he no longer has to risk waiting for the receiver signal around the fourth floor.
He was waiting, and when Harry and the others were inside, William would immediately leave for the Room of Requirement and take the crown away.
After a while, a signal came from the receiver in William's hand, it should be Quirrell controlled by Voldemort, and he finally couldn't help but start acting.
Voldemort is finally going to be tricked, and Old Deng has been planning for so long, and it seems that Quirrell is about to get his lunch.
William continued to wait, and when the receiver signaled a second time, he immediately walked out of the classroom and walked briskly towards the Room of Request on the eighth floor.
Harry and the others finally got in, and he didn't know what kind of expression he would have when he saw Quirrell, but unfortunately he couldn't participate in the rest of the story.
William stood in front of the tapestry on the eighth floor, using brain occlusion to empty his mind, blocking out all the miscellaneous thoughts, and then concentrating on his thoughts.
I want a place to hide something. X3
After passing through the tapestry three times, William opened the door to the room that had suddenly appeared on the opposite wall and entered.
Following the markers, he walked through two large garbage heaps, past a row of broken statues, and stopped in front of the familiar large axe with dark red blood stains.
This axe looks really scary! I don't know what it came from, so I'll take it away for a while, take it back and study it well, and I don't know who put it in.
William thought for a moment and then continued his steps, soon finding the familiar dilapidated window. Further on, the Ravenclaw crown was still quietly seated, and it didn't look out of the ordinary.
William first carefully checked the vigilance magic around him, there was no sign of touching, and the small marks he made were still there, and it seemed that everything was normal.
Immediately after, he began to take out the spell casting materials that had been prepared long ago from the magic bag and arranged them on the ground around the crown.
William was going to set up an ancient circle, and he said it was old because it was at least a few hundred years old.
In an era when wizards were more inclined to use staffs, magic circles were once very popular.
Because although this kind of magic circle is complicated to operate, it generally has a far superior spell effect after being successfully arranged, which made it once sought after by ancient wizards.
However, what William wants to arrange is naturally not an offensive magic circle, what he wants to set up is a defensive magic circle used to calm the soul.
The main function of this circle is to avoid awakening the soul inside when transferring the crown, which is equivalent to giving an anesthetic to the soul inside the crown.
If all goes well, the soul inside may not know what is going on, and when it wakes up, it finds that its bed has changed places.
This was taught to him by William's father, who had a deep knowledge of soul magic.
As the materials in front of him were placed in specific positions one by one, William took out a few more bottles of dragon blood, he used his magic to manipulate these crimson liquids, slowly connected the various materials together, and then used it to write all kinds of complex runes.
Compared with dragon blood ink, this pure dragon blood has a more excellent magic transmission effect, and of course, the price is even more expensive.
And most importantly, the spirit grass given by his father, these blue roots were arranged in a circle by William around the crown, and in the event of an accident, William would quickly ignite the spirit grass roots.
It's something that is meant to save lives.
Because the gas produced by the combustion of this magical herb has the effect of suppressing the soul, it is the most feared thing for spirits such as ghosts. Prolonged exposure to this gas can even lead to the collapse of the spirit.
After William was ready, he checked the circle again, closed his eyes and felt the flow of magic, and after making sure that everything was okay, he slowly approached the crown.
William grasped his wand with one hand and aimed it at the blue tendrils, and with the other he lightly touched the crown.
Everything works fine and nothing happens.
That's right! That's it! There was some joy in William's heart.
However, what William didn't notice was that
As he entered the Room of Requirement, a black raven that had appeared out of nowhere, but which should never have been, was peering at William through the gap in the garbage heap.
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