Chapter 103: Traveling with You to the End of the Universe (Additional Chapter 13 for Alliance Leader 'Panda Mountain Man')
"We should go."
Katoom stretched out his wings, "Go back to reality."
Bruce nodded and also extended his hand, shaking hands with Katoom.
"Katum, it suddenly occurred to me what my happiest memory is."
"What is it?"
"That is--"
Bruce wiped away his tears and smiled, "When you took me away from Gotham!"
To save Gotham, leave Gotham.
From outside the world, gain the power to deny the world.
"Really..." Katum muttered a few words, "Then we might as well travel further."
"What?" Bruce asked.
"Nothing, let's go!"
Katoom and Bruce's clenched hands suddenly emitted a dazzling light.
Bruce blocked the light, and his consciousness broke away from the dream and returned to reality.
……
"Cough cough cough-"
Bruce opened his eyes and saw feathers flying in the sky.
Countless owls stood on him, burying him completely.
Bruce started coughing.
"Go away, go away!"
He waved away the flock of owls and then breathed normal air.
"what's the situation!"
Bruce stood up, confused as to why these owls were standing on him.
Why not stand with others?
At this time, Katum suddenly flew over from a distance, and no one knew what he had been doing just now.
"You're awake!" said the owl. "Now it's time to get to work!"
Bruce twisted his stiff neck and asked, "What's the situation now?"
"Everyone in the castle has been infected." Katum said, "It seems that they will not wake up unless the heir of Ravenclaw is dealt with."
Or wake up one or two at most.
Bruce nodded, perhaps understanding the severity of the situation.
But he had just woken up from such a dream and was still a little shaken.
"Katum, I suddenly realized something."
The more Bruce thought about it, the more he felt something was wrong. "Did my subconscious mind just kill my parents?"
"Hey! Don't think like that!"
Owl quickly corrected him, "You are a good child, how could you subconsciously want to kill your father!"
"But--" Bruce still felt very strange.
"That has nothing to do with you!"
Owl thought of a good reason, "Just think of it as having a second personality inside you. Those things just now were all done by another personality!"
what?
Bruce was speechless. Even Katum could come up with such an excuse.
Forget it.
Bruce decided not to think about it anymore and just treat it as a dream.
Some things cannot be delved into too deeply, it is best to keep things vague.
He returned his attention to the present problem.
"Who could be the heir of Ravenclaw?" he said. "I have thought about it for a long time, but I can't come up with an answer."
"It doesn't matter who she is. What if we just treat her as Ravenclaw herself?"
Katum said, "The important thing now is, where is she now?"
Bruce thought this was true.
No matter who the Heir of Ravenclaw is, he will be beaten the same.
Katum had already sent the owl to search the mountains and seas and turn the entire castle over.
After all, there was no trace of Ravenna.
This is probably a puzzle she posed to everyone.
Even if someone really wakes up from the dream by his own ability, he must deduce the location of the secret room before he can face her directly.
But where could Ravenclaw's Chamber of Secrets be?
Bruce couldn't think of it for a moment, and it could even be said that there was no clue about the Ravenclaw Chamber of Secrets in his memory.
Never appeared.
"This is when our magical tools come into play."
Katoom took the crown of thorns from the feathers and put it on his head.
Then a light bulb flashed in his mind, and the clue about Ravenclaw's Chamber of Secrets appeared in his mind.
"So that's it."
He sighed and said, "If we want to find Ravenclaw's Chamber of Secrets, we have to start from two aspects, namely 'Ravenclaw' and 'Chamber of Secrets'."
"Are you sure you're not talking about some bullshit literature?" Bruce asked back.
"of course not!"
Katum didn't have the heart to argue with Bruce about this now, he had become smarter.
“First, we need to understand the life of this old woman from Ravenclaw.
"Bruce, you should know that in addition to being a powerful wizard and alchemist, Ravenclaw is also a very good architectural designer."
Bruce nodded, he did know.
It's no secret, either, that in almost any text about Ravenclaw it's mentioned that she was the one who came up with the ever-changing floor plans for the castle.
The moving stairs between the different floors of Hogwarts are her masterpiece.
"In that case, if she wanted to sneak some private goods into the construction of Hogwarts, it would be easy."
Catum continued, "Unlike that old Slytherin, who wanted to build a chamber of secrets, he had to occupy the sewer pipes, and the entrance could only be in the women's bathroom."
Ok?
Bruce frowned, as if Katum had just casually revealed some incredible secret.
"Now let's look at the word 'chamber of secrets'."
Katum said, "What is a secret room? It refers to a room used for secret activities, and most of the rooms are closed.
"Bruce, you have been in this school for almost two years, so you should have heard about it to some extent.
"Is there a sealed room in Hogwarts that is filled with a mystical power that can transform into anything anyone wants?
"And it's extremely secretive, so ordinary people can't even find the entrance?"
It would be rude of Bruce to not guess what he was talking about. "It's the Room of Requirement."
Bruce said calmly, "Ravenclaw's Chamber of Secrets is the Room of Requirement."
"Huh? Why aren't you excited at all?" Katum frowned, "My reasoning just now should be very logical!"
Bruce could only sigh at this time.
"Katum, I admit that what you said makes sense, but have you ever thought about one thing?"
He said, "We don't even know where the Room of Requirement is!"
"madness!"
Katum said bluntly, "This secret room is said to be able to answer any request. Do you still need to find it?"
In fact, Katoom knew the location and entry method of the Room of Requirement very well.
After all, that's where he picked up the Ravenclaw diadem.
But this time, he had to open Bruce's eyes and tell him what the imagination of the magical world was.
Katoom flew past Bruce and came to the wall he had been leaning against.
Just like when he first came to Hogwarts and wanted to open the Room of Requirement, he silently said in his heart -
"Yingzi, ah Yingzi, yes, it's me again, the owl that everyone loves.
“Bruce and I are in trouble right now and need you to open up here.
"If you are still alive, please answer my wish!"
Bruce had been watching Katoom's movements.
He was very sure that what he was leaning against just now was just an ordinary wall.
Bruce admitted that he was not so lucky as to be leaning against the door of the Room of Requirement.
However, just when he was sure that he was not wrong, something magical happened before his eyes.
Suddenly, several silver lines appeared on the wall, forming the shape of a door.
Immediately afterwards, a very smooth door appeared in front of Bruce.
The Room of Requirement actually appeared!
"How did you do it?" Bruce couldn't help but ask.
"Faith, Bruce, faith!"
Katoom pressed his wings against his temples—if owls had temples.
"This is the charm of magic, full of wild imagination. As long as you believe, there will be a response!"
This is how Katum believes in the magic of the Room of Requirement.
For no other reason than because he had read the original novel.
In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the Room of Requirement once opened a passage directly to the Hog's Head Inn, bringing Harry back to Hogwarts.
The Hog's Head Inn outside the castle is within reach, let alone a wall inside the castle?
Now, the Room of Requirement was behind the door, and as long as they pushed it open, they would face the Heir of Ravenclaw.
"Are you ready?" said the owl. "You won't be surprised by who you see next, right?"
"Of course I'm not surprised, because I've thought it through."
Bruce suddenly said, "The heir of Ravenclaw is Ravenna Royale."
Oh?
Katum turned his head 180 degrees: "Have you removed the spell?"
"What spell?" Bruce asked.
"It's nothing, don't worry about it."
Katum shook his head, because he had already turned his head behind him, and shaking his head looked extremely strange.
"Then how did you find out?"
"Logic, Katoom, logic!"
Bruce imitated Katum's previous move and placed his index and middle fingers against his temples.
Finally got the place back.
He expressed his thoughts: "Didn't the explosion of the power of dreams start from the diary? We couldn't figure out how the other party did it before, after all, the diary had been in Professor Gale's hands before.
"Now it seems that through the Room of Requirement, it is easy to reach any part of the castle, so anyone can have access to the diary."
Katum thought for a moment and said, "You said it could be anyone, so why are you sure it was Ravenna?"
"Because Voldemort told us himself!"
Bruce said, "Do you remember him mentioning how Professor Gale played a trick on him?"
This reminded Katoom that Voldemort did once say that a first-year female student at Hogwarts had deceived him.
At that time, including Katum, they all thought that Professor Gale was stinging the law.
Now it seems that it shouldn't be.
There really was a little girl who came to see him.
Although strictly speaking, inside the body of this little girl is a thousand-year-old woman.
However, this is still just speculation, right?
Katum wanted to ask Bruce if he had any more evidence, but Bruce kept silent.
He had a mysterious smile on his face, as if saying, you, Owl, always keep me in suspense, so now it's my turn.
There is indeed another reason why Bruce thinks there is something wrong with Ravenna.
Bruce had met Ravenna the night of the attack on Gryffindor and Lockhart.
It's already very problematic for a little witch to be running around alone late at night.
Moreover, Ravenna was walking from the direction where Lockhart was attacked, heading towards where Gryffindor was.
Although the whole reasoning and logic are still a bit imperfect, it is enough for Bruce.
He can already suspect others based on this.
"Since you guessed it, let's go in."
Katum said, "Once we open this door, there is no going back."
"Let's go!" Bruce nodded.
The owl used its head to push open the door to the Room of Requirement.
……
Bruce stood at one side of a long, dimly lit room.
There was wind blowing in the closed room.
A figure was standing in the middle of the room, with his back to them.
Whoever he was, Bruce had already seen that he was definitely not Ravenna Royle.
Because that was a grown man.
And at his feet, lying a small figure in a black robe, Bruce recognized it as Ravenna.
Ravenna fell to the ground, who was standing there?
There is no need to say more.
The familiar figure, the exquisite attire, and the faint scent that floated to Bruce's nose all revealed the other person's identity.
Gilderoy Lockhart.
(End of this chapter)
