Rove walked out of the office and down the hallway towards the Ravenclaw common room.

He was about to go to Cassandra and ask her to help him figure out where Ravenclaw had left the key, but after walking a few steps, he stopped.

Rove suddenly remembered Professor Binns.

Professor Binns had told Helena that her mother had been killed by other wizards while fighting others.

Rove had asked about it in class before, and Professor Binns said that a student had told him about it, but it was too long ago for him to remember who it was.

Rove didn't ask any more questions at the time, after all, no matter which student it was, they had been dead for a thousand years, and their bones had turned into slag, so there was no need to delve into it.

But now it's different, Rove was a thousand years ago, just in time to look into the matter and see if the student who had told Professor Binns had anything to do with Slytherin.

Thinking so, the boy immediately turned around and walked briskly to the faculty lounge, and when he reached the door, he looked inside.

Professor Binns was alone in the room, sitting in a soft chair by the fireplace, his head down and his eyes closed.

Rove knocked lightly on the door, and seeing that Professor Binns was not moving, as if he was asleep, he was about to turn away, when Professor Binns suddenly opened his eyes.

The old man raised his head, looked at the young man at the door with cloudy eyes, and said in a hoarse voice:

"Scati...... Is there something wrong? ”

"Professor Binns, I'm sorry to wake you up, I'd like to ask you some questions." Rove asked apologetically, "I don't know if it's convenient for you now?" ”

Professor Binns shifted his old body from his seat, and he nodded, "Well, come in." ”

Rove walked into the room, he hesitated for a moment, and said with concern:

"Professor, I'm not in a hurry, I see that you just fell asleep, why don't you help you back to the office and sleep for a while?"

"No, you don't." Professor Binns rubbed his eyes and replied, "I'm just taking a nap, and the older I get, the more I do...... When I went back to bed, I couldn't sleep. ”

Professor Binns was indeed very old, his skin was as thin as parchment, a few strands of white hair hung from either side of his already bald forehead, wrinkles at the corners of his eyes, and loose skin on his chin.

Rov walked over to the fireplace, picked up the teapot, and poured himself and Professor Binns a cup of tea.

Binns moved his buttocks, he took the thin porcelain cup, took a slow sip of tea, and said:

"Scati, do you have anything to do with me?"

"Professor Salazar Slytherin, do you remember him?"

"Slytherin? Of course I remember! Professor Binns snorted coldly with a look of disgust, "

"Son, you may be unhappy with my next words."

"Slytherin, he was a short-tempered, snarky, and arrogant fellow who always looked down on Muggle-born students and refused to teach them magical ......"

Slytherin later seemed to want to ask Professor Ravenclaw for something, but was refused...... Gryffindor fights with him, and then he leaves the school. ”

"If you want me to say that Slytherin left well, it's better never to come back......"

The old man complains about Slytherin's past, but there are basically no good words.

In Rove's mind, Slytherin's self-portrait soon came to mind, which was a combination of Snape and Voldemort.

"Oh, Scati, you're not here to listen to me ramble on some bad Slytherin history." Professor Binns said in an old voice:

"You bear with me, the old man, so what do you want to know?"

"I want to know ......," Rove politely sipped his tea, "are there any students in this school who are close to Slytherin?" ”

Professor Binns thought for a moment and said, "Barrow, seventh year, but I haven't seen him lately, and there is another student ......."

Rove hurriedly asked, "Who is it?" ”

Professor Binns stared at Rove with his pale eyes and said:

"You!"

"Me?" Rov's face was stunned.

"yes." Professor Binns nodded, "I heard that the students said that you have a parseltongue, you must be related to Slytherin, aren't you his son?" ”

“……”

At this moment, the deafening bell suddenly rang, and the bell was deep and loud, and the slow and long aftersound filled the room, and the sorrow was like an elegy.

"It's the bell of the collection...... Summoning all teachers and students to go to the auditorium immediately. Professor Binns squinted suspiciously:

"It's only when something big happens, what's going on?"

Rove didn't speak, he was afraid that the sudden news of Ravenclaw's death would be too much for Professor Binns to bear.

But the old man had already stood up tremblingly, and he slumped over to the door, where he heard the commotion outside.

Someone shouted, "Go to the auditorium...... Professor Ravenclaw passed away......"

The students rushed to the auditorium desperately, some crying, some stumbling, their pale faces filled with fear and sadness.

Professor Binns walked out of the room, grabbed a student by the collar, and asked, "Who are you talking about...... Who died? ”

"Professor Ravenclaw has died." The student whimpered and replied:

"Professor Binns, Professor Ravenclaw's body is in the auditorium, and Professor Hufflepuff says she died of a serious illness......"

After the student had run away, the old man walked back to the room with his body bent, his face pale, and he muttered:

"Seriously ill? I also met Professor Ravenclaw the other day, where did he get seriously ill, there must be something strange about this! ”

Professor Binns suddenly looked at Rove and said, "Skaty, I've never seen you before. And not long after you appeared, Professor Ravenclaw died......"

"Professor, you don't think I did it, do you?" Rove was a little speechless.

"But you know the Parseltongue, you must have something to do with Slytherin, is this something to do with Slytherin?"

“……”

"Slytherin must have done it! It was he who killed Professor Ravenclaw! ”

Professor Binns became more and more convinced of his thoughts, and he felt a little dizzy, and his heart pounded in his chest, and he leaned on his chair and panted:

"Scati...... Take me to the auditorium...... Scati ...... Scati! ”

Rove was about to hold Professor Binns when the old man's face turned red and he suddenly collapsed in his chair.

Rolf was so frightened that he quickly released the Patronus, went to inform Hufflepuff, and then administered human first aid to Professor Binns.

He struggled to recall the methods and steps of first aid for heart disease, placing his palm in the middle of Binns's chest and pressing his other hand against it, pressing down vertically.

But Professor Binns' heart had stopped beating.

A few minutes later, a pearly white, translucent ghost suddenly appeared.

The ghost binns stared at Rove, as if trying to remember the appearance of the boy, and he let out a ho-ho sound:

"Scati...... Skati......"

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(Thanks to the two bigwigs of "Lonely Snow A745" and "Book Friend 20220902141219636" for their tips.) ）