Let's rewind to half an hour earlier.
Victor had no interest in attending the end-of-term feast or lunch, as he had a much more important task to attend to. After getting ready in the morning, Victor wandered around the school grounds and finally found Peeves in a room next to the Hogwarts kitchen.
This was where the house-elves stored food for the feasts. On the surface, Peeves seemed to be there to cause trouble, but in reality, being banned from the feast, he just wanted to feel the festive atmosphere.
"Peeves, I found you!" Victor said, pulling back a long, white tablecloth. Peeves was hiding under the table.
"You found me!" Peeves said with a smile that was completely different from his usual mischievous grin. This was a sincere, joyful smile.
"You must know by now, I've destroyed the bad guy in the diadem." Victor took out the Ravenclaw diadem and showed Peeves the stone on it, which was now glowing with a holy blue light.
Based on his previous speculation, Peeves must have sensed his actions in the Headmaster's office last night when he destroyed Voldemort's soul.
Peeves crawled out from under the table, respectfully bowed to the Ravenclaw diadem, and then looked up at Victor with a smile. "Come with me! Come with me!"
Victor followed behind Peeves, watching it skip and hop in front of him. It was strange, but the stairs at Hogwarts were exceptionally quiet today. They didn't randomly change direction as they usually did, but seemed to be leading the way for someone.
After a while, Peeves led Victor to the door of the Ravenclaw common room. It quietly whispered to the bronze raven knocker on the door, "He's here…"
As soon as Peeves finished speaking, the knocker shook twice, just as it did when it asked the little eagles questions, and then it was silent for a moment before it asked, "What is the highest form of human wisdom?"
Just like many of the questions the knocker had asked before, this one didn't have a single, perfect answer. As long as Victor's answer was acknowledged by the knocker, he should be one step closer to the Ravenclaw legacy.
But to a young wizard from Earth, this question wasn't too difficult. The entire development of human civilization, from primitive times to now, was a concentrated manifestation of human wisdom.
As an ancient proverb said, "Using a bronze mirror, you can adjust your clothes. Using history as a mirror, you can know prosperity and decline. Using people as a mirror, you can know your own gains and losses."
So, thinking of this, Victor first answered, "The highest form of human wisdom comes from humanity itself."
"How is that achieved?" the knocker asked back.
"By swallowing the bitter fruit of history and not repeating past mistakes!"
"A piece of advice?"
"The only thing humanity can learn from history is that humanity never learns from history!"
"Noble and profound!"
The simple exchange between the knocker and Victor was like philosophers sitting together in ancient times, discussing some of the most basic and universal questions in the world.
And just like that, in the time it would take to drink a cup of tea, a few simple lines of dialogue between philosophers seemed to have illuminated the essence of some of the most fundamental existence in the world, and then they would offer a piece of advice that would warn the world.
After receiving a satisfactory answer, the sound of an ancient lock being undone suddenly rang out, and the old wooden door, sealed for thousands of years, was opened.
Victor gently pushed the door open and walked in. He found that the door no longer led to the Ravenclaw common room, but to an entirely new space.
Walking inside, the first thing that came into view was a long hallway.
There were candelabras hanging on the walls on both sides of the hallway, and the bright candlelight illuminated the exceptionally clean bronze carpet on the floor. The carpet was printed with a pattern of ravens flying around a bronze tree.
At the end of the hallway, Victor arrived at a spacious oval-shaped room. The carpet in the room was still bronze, but the pattern had changed to the stars, moon, and sun. Looking up, the mural on the ceiling was very similar to the pattern on the carpet in the hallway. Countless ravens perched on a tall bronze tree, and in the distance were mountain peaks that pierced through the clouds.
To the left of the room was a tall fireplace, and a fire had already been lit inside. The light from the fire also illuminated the entire room. On either side of the fireplace were massive bookshelves that were over ten meters tall. They were perfectly aligned with the floor and ceiling, extending along the edges of the oval room and filled with many ancient books.
Finally, on the right side of the room was a large table, which was also filled with books, except for an empty space in the middle where a few quills and dried-up inkwells were neatly placed.
"The greedy ravens stand on the sun, moon, and stars, and gaze at the mountain peaks!"
"And the number of books here could almost rival Hogwarts's collection of a thousand years!"
Victor said in awe as he looked at everything in front of him. He guessed that this must have been Rowena Ravenclaw's office when she was alive. However, just as he was thinking that these books in front of him were the Ravenclaw legacy he was looking for, Peeves tugged on his clothes and pointed to the center of the room. "Go there!"
Victor was stunned for a moment, and then he realized that the Ravenclaw legacy might be more complicated than it seemed. So he followed Peeves's instructions and walked over.
As soon as Victor reached the center of the room, the ravens in the mural on the ceiling suddenly started to twist. They began to flap their wings and flew out of the mural. Countless black ravens flew down from above and circled Victor once before transforming into a white marble statue in front of him. This statue was identical to the statue of Ravenclaw in the common room.
At the same time, behind Victor, the little eagles of Ravenclaw had just arrived.
"Where are we? This isn't our common room!" Ivanna said in shock, looking at the scene in front of her that was completely different from what she remembered.
"Ivanna, look! Is that on Victor's hand…" Penelope pointed her finger in Victor's direction, not far away. Everyone looked over and instantly saw a gleaming diadem.
"Could that be… the Ravenclaw diadem that disappeared thousands of years ago?!" one of the little eagles said with a trembling voice. And the words he said were just heard by the little eagles who had arrived later.
In the room, Victor looked up at the statue of Rowena Ravenclaw in front of him, then looked at the Ravenclaw diadem in his hand. He then walked forward and carefully placed the diadem on the statue's head.
However, contrary to Victor's expectations, the diadem didn't have any reaction after being placed on the statue. He looked at Peeves next to him with a confused expression.
Peeves, in turn, looked at the little eagles gathered in the hallway of the room and said, "The true legacy requires the acknowledgment of all the ravens…"
The acknowledgment of all the ravens?! Victor didn't quite understand what Peeves meant. But when Penelope heard Peeves's voice, her eyes suddenly lit up, and she said, "The oath!"
"The oath carved under the statue of Rowena Ravenclaw in the common room!" With that, she immediately ran forward in Victor's direction. When the other little eagles heard what Penelope said, they also suddenly remembered something and quickly followed behind her.
Nearly two hundred little eagles poured into the room one after another. They surrounded Victor and the statue of Rowena Ravenclaw in front of him and began to chant in unison:
"Clever of mind, sharp of wit, and bound by ambition — we take wing as the ravens of greed."
"Calm of heart, composed in spirit, and gentle in word — we ascend the silent peaks where wisdom dwells."
"Steadfast in will, patient in trial, and rich in knowing — we thirst for knowledge without end."
"Exact in thought, peerless in craft, and graceful in bearing — we seek the one truth that stands above all."
"From the still waters of a tranquil shore we have risen."
"We are scholars cloaked in shadow, yet our eyes pierce the dark."
"We are ravens of the boundless sky, yet we never cease to watch the earth below."
"Truth is our compass, study our voyage."
"Curiosity is the tide that pulls our hearts toward the open sea."
"We are faithful to ourselves, steadfast to reason, and sworn to wisdom."
"We are Ravenclaw!"
At that moment, the statue of Rowena Ravenclaw under the diadem suddenly emitted a warm white light, and at the same time, the bronze raven knocker outside also transmitted a force to the Ravenclaw diadem, causing the gem embedded in it to burst forth with a dazzling blue light.
On the other side, Helena Ravenclaw, who was still in the Ravenclaw tower, also looked at the direction where Victor was with shock and said in disbelief, "Mother!"
The oath in the room continued:
"Here, before all, we swear in the name of Rowena Ravenclaw herself.
Victor Dreyar — Ravenclaw shall crown you with the Diadem of Wisdom.
Your wisdom shall be our eternal glory, our unyielding faith.
We shall walk in your footsteps and rise as the foremost scholars beneath the sky."
"Thus is the oath bound, thus is the vow sealed."
The solemn chanting spread throughout every corner of Hogwarts. Dumbledore and the professors around him, as well as the young wizards, all looked in the direction of the Ravenclaw common room in shock.
Professor McGonagall was so shocked she couldn't speak. She looked at the person next to her and asked cautiously, "Albus, could this be…"
"I think so. After a thousand years, we have finally found someone worthy of having the Legacy Oath read for them…"
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