Chapter 90
"Professor Green, what are you doing? in this box......？"Peter asked in surprise.
Professor Green did not expect to meet students so late. His eyes were a little wandering, and then he calmly explained:"Here is a Boggart I caught! I will use it to teach third-grade students next week."!"
Then asked:"Why are you here? It's very late now!"
Peter looked at Professor Green in confusion. He smelled a trace of blood. Will he be injured if he catches the Boggart? But he didn't think much and replied:"We went to Professor Flitwick's Charms Club, and we just came back now!"
Green looked at Peter with some surprise, and couldn't help asking,"You are a first-year student Well, you've been invited to the Charms Club by Professor Flitwick now?" Peter was not very active in the Defense Against the Dark Arts class, so he didn't have a deep impression of Peter.
"Peter has a talent for magic, so he was spotted by Professor Flitwick! Chris answered for Peter, then glanced at Professor Green's box and said,"Professor, your Boggart seems to be too active. Do you need my help?""
"No, no need!"Green moved the suitcase slightly behind him, blocked it with his robe, and said seriously,"It's almost curfew time. You should go back quickly. If I see you still outside, I will deduct points from you!", and then hurriedly left with the box in hand.
"There's a ghost!"Peter looked at Professor Green's retreating figure and said with narrowed eyes.
"Hogwarts Defense Against the Dark Arts has to change its professor every year because of the curse! And the people who will apply for jobs now are either reckless fools or people with bad intentions! But apparently Professor Green is no fool!"Chris looked at the figure that had disappeared in the distance and said faintly. Then the topic changed,"But this has nothing to do with us. It will be fine if we don't participate casually!"
Peter nodded. No matter what Professor Green is doing, as long as it doesn't affect him, he doesn't bother to care about it. After all, the curse of this position is very powerful, and almost never ends well!
Studying time passes very quickly, Apart from class time every day, Peter spent the rest of the time in the library reading books and accumulating points.
Time flew by in the blink of an eye, and it was Halloween.
All the students were discussing tonight's Halloween party and finished the last class of herbal medicine in the afternoon. class, students poured out of the greenhouse to watch and excitedly discussed their Halloween costumes
"Peter! Cedric, who was taking the Herbology class with him, chased him out and said excitedly,"I just heard from our dean that Principal Dumbledore invited the Skeleton Band to perform!""
"The Skeleton Band? Are they famous?"Peter was not concerned about these and asked curiously.
"Of course it’s famous! They are the second best band after the Weird Sisters. My mother likes their style very much. She said that the Weird Sisters' rock songs give her a headache, but the Skeleton Band's songs are soothing! Cedric said excitedly
"I'm really looking forward to it. I've never heard the music of wizards before!"Peter was also full of curiosity. After he came to Hogwarts, he focused on magic and didn't know much about wizard life.
Peter had never had a wizard's Halloween, so he was looking forward to it, especially in the castle. The ghosts were very happy and thought that today was their holiday, so they all dressed up grandly.
"Good afternoon, Mr. Barrow! Are you going to the Astronomy Tower again today? Peter asked politely when he met Bloody Barrow.
Bloody Barrow is the ghost of Slytherin. He is usually silent, his eyes are dull, and he looks haggard. His robes are stained with silver blood. I don’t know it’s him. His own or someone else's. He also wears a pair of shackles on his hands. He always likes to be alone on the astronomy tower, looking at Ravenclaw Tower and mumbling to himself.
Bloody Barrow looks very scary, so even Slater Lin's students are all very afraid of him. Usually, wherever Bloody Barrow sits, a seat will be automatically vacated.
However, Peter knows something about him. He knows that Bloody Barrow is one of the first students of Slytherin. Learned magical skills from Salazar Slytherin. During school, fell in love with Helena Ravenclaw (Ms. Grey), but she did not love Barrow.
Later Helena Ravenclaw stole the crown , fled to the Albanian forest. Barrow was sent by Rowena Ravenclaw to find Helena, but Helena refused to return to school with Barrow and was killed by the angry Barrow. Then he realized that he had killed the most The man he loved, Barrow, stabbed himself to death with the same knife that killed Helena!
After their death, both of them returned to Hogwarts, and Helena became the Gray Lady; Barrow was also killed because of the blood all over his body. Known as Barrow the Bloody. Ms. Gray hated Barrow so much that she refused to see him. Barrow also put a pair of shackles on himself out of remorse to express his repentance.
"Peter York?"Bloody Barrow focused his eyes and looked at the only Slytherin student in the first grade who was not afraid of him. Then he shook his head and said in a hoarse voice:"All the ghosts will gather together on Halloween. Gryffindor's ghost Nick is preparing to go underground. There's a party in the classroom and I need to be there!"
Peter looked at this ghost with dull eyes and full of pain, and couldn't help but ask:"Mr. Barrow, the book says that the ghost is the mark left by the wizard because he is afraid of death and is unwilling to continue. What about you, are you afraid of death?"
"Am I afraid of death? laugh..."Barrow smiled contemptuously, and then said painfully,"I chose death myself! But death does not accept my sinful soul! I live in eternal regret and cannot board the train of death!"
"Therefore, the ghost does not appear because of the fear of death, but because of the death of the obsessed wizard!"Peter murmured to himself after thinking.
"My teacher will definitely be very happy to see you!"Barrow the Bloody looked at the handsome boy in front of him and couldn't help but said,"You are talented and eager to learn. I have heard many professors and ghosts talk about you!"
"Um? Are you talking about Salazar Slytherin? Peter asked in surprise,"Didn't you say that Mr. Slytherin hates Mug wizards?" At first, he argued with the other three founders because of his bloodline, and finally left Hogwarts!"
"So how did you get into Slytherin?"Barrow asked rhetorically.
"because.....Ambition?"Peter got stuck and couldn't answer.
"Time is a wonderful and cruel thing, it changes many things! Barrow said hoarsely,"At that time, the wizards had a very difficult time! Muggles were chasing wizards frantically, and many little wizards suffered hardships! Seeing this situation, the four giants decided to build a school to teach and protect the little wizards!"
"But when it came to selecting students, Slytherin had differences with the other three. At that time, Muggle beliefs were so terrifying that some Muggle wizards even believed that their magic was possessed by the devil! Extremely repulsive to his identity as a wizard!
Until one time, because of the betrayal of a young wizard, the Muggle army rushed into the castle! After this incident, Slytherin was extremely distrustful of Muggle wizards because he believed that these people were very unreliable and would betray them at any time! At that time, Hogwarts could not afford such a risk!"
"But the other three founders believed that they could not kill everyone at once. If they were not taken in, these little wizards from the Muggle world would have nowhere to go, and they would even be burned to death by crazy Muggles!"
"Because of their differences, the four founders decided to use their surnames as the name of the college and divide students into different colleges to study."
"So, Mr. Barrow, are you saying that what Slytherin cares about is the identity of the students, not their bloodline?"Peter was a little surprised.
Barrow didn't speak, and floated there quietly, staring blankly at the tower in the distance, muttering"Helena".
Seeing Barrow immersed in his own world again, Peter felt a little bit Helpless, Peter guessed that the reason why Bloody Baron refused to deal with his death was probably Helena Ravenclaw! His guilt and obsession with love made him wander in the castle for nearly a thousand years, praying for Helena. Helena's forgiveness! But obviously, it is impossible for Helena to forgive the man who killed her. So there will never be a day of relief!
