[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-hogwarts-john-wick":3,"chapter-hogwarts-john-wick-hogwarts-john-wick-chapter-574":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Hogwarts’ John Wick",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1646358,2109,"Chapter 574 574: 574: The Uncrowned King, Searching for the Secret Chambers","hogwarts-john-wick-chapter-574",574,"\u003Cp>It was obvious that when Voldemort was young, he had spent plenty of time flaunting his good looks.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What John had not expected was that the man had not even spared ghosts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Tom, you really are...\" John said speechlessly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Grey Lady knew Voldemort was dead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But after being deceived once, it became difficult for her to trust anyone again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Especially someone who looked just like the young Tom Riddle from that era, another handsome young man.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Believe me, Grey Lady,\" John said seriously, \"I am different from that person.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking at that face, the Grey Lady let out a cold snort.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Handsome men? I refuse to believe them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>John found this situation rather troublesome.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Voldemort being a scumbag had nothing to do with him, John Wick.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A thought suddenly crossed his mind. Maybe he should just use Priori Incantatem to interrogate the Grey Lady directly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But after glancing at her, he hesitated. She was still one of Hogwarts's veteran staff members. Wouldn't doing that be a little inappropriate?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Grey Lady, John is a good person.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>An airy voice rang out. It was Luna.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing those words, the Grey Lady's wariness toward John shifted into suspicion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"At least give me a chance,\" John said with a bitter smile. \"You can hear my question first before deciding whether to refuse.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After hesitating for a long time, the Grey Lady reluctantly agreed for Luna's sake.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No matter what you ask, I won't tell you anything.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She said that, yet she still did not leave.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing this, John said, \"I want to ask about Rowena Ravenclaw's secret chamber.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You want to find Ravenclaw's diadem?\" the Grey Lady sneered. \"Keep dreaming.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No, I have no interest in that thing.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Already possessing the diadem himself, John calmly replied, \"What I seek is Ravenclaw's knowledge.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Knowledge?\" The Grey Lady looked deeply at John.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You will never find it. Ravenclaw hid it too well. No matter how intelligent a wizard may be, they could never discover it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After saying that, the Grey Lady stood up and left.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>John, meanwhile, began pondering her words.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"She didn't deny it. Which means that chamber really does exist.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>John rubbed his chin thoughtfully.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Glancing at the departing Grey Lady, John walked over and looked at the book she had been reading.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Love Me, You Domineering Wizard\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"...There are books like this in Ravenclaw's library section?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>John looked as though his entire worldview had been shattered. He had thought the Grey Lady was seriously reading a book, but it turned out she was reading this.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After leaving the Ravenclaw common room, John confidently tried answering the bronze knocker's questions again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The result was that he walked away from Ravenclaw Tower once more, sighing with emotion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Sorting Hat, I really shouldn't have blamed you.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No wonder the Sorting Hat had once said John was unsuited for Ravenclaw.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Turns out it had been telling the truth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the way back, he ran into some Ravenclaw students leaving class, and they greeted him warmly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Battle of Hogwarts had made them realize that John Wick was not merely Slytherin's king, but Hogwarts's king as well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without John, all of Hogwarts would have been destroyed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even though John himself had never declared such a thing, they had already acknowledged him as their king.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Headmaster?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Slughorn would simply say that being able to lie back and relax felt wonderful.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His current life mostly consisted of holding small gatherings and chatting with his former students.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Life could not have been more comfortable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After arriving at the Great Hall, John sat there thinking about the clues related to the chamber.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No wizard, no matter how intelligent, could ever find it?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Grey Lady had spoken those words without the slightest hesitation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The way she had looked at John was as though he were an overconfident challenger attempting to conquer an impossible mountain peak.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What are you thinking about?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Malfoy sat down across from John and sneered, \"Classes were especially lively today. Potter doesn't have the same skills he did last year.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Last year, Malfoy had stolen Harry's copy of Advanced Potion-Making.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As a result, during the very first Potions class of the new school year, Harry had accidentally ruined an entire cauldron of potion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Snape had naturally seized the opportunity, causing Gryffindor's points to plummet dramatically.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>John glanced at the gleeful Malfoy. He truly could not understand how Malfoy managed to remain this obsessively fixated on Harry.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If Harry were a girl, John would have suspected there would be no place left for Astoria.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He glanced toward the House point hourglasses.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sure enough, the gap between Slytherin and Gryffindor was very small.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was no need to guess which professor had been deducting points.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You lost points?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That damned Black.\" Malfoy's smile immediately disappeared as he gritted his teeth. \"He's deliberately targeting me!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The biggest difference this year was that the annual revolving-door professor had actually lasted into a second year.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It seemed that with Voldemort's death, the curse on the Defense Against the Dark Arts position had finally been lifted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sirius Black had successfully remained in the position and continued teaching Defense Against the Dark Arts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, according to rumors, Sirius had originally only planned to teach for a single year.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This year, he had apparently forgotten to resign and simply continued teaching.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After going through the war, forgetting something like that was perfectly understandable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Still, this also proved to everyone that the terrible curse had truly been broken.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From now on, Hogwarts probably would not keep changing Defense Against the Dark Arts professors every year.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though poor Malfoy had suffered because of it. Earlier today, Sirius had deducted ten points from him because he swung his wand too forcefully.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A new round of point deduction warfare was about to unfold at Hogwarts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Malfoy looked indignant. \"This year, I'm going to humiliate Potter properly in Quidditch.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Right, the Quidditch nightmare season was about to begin again as well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>May the players rest in peace.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A flock of owls flew into the Great Hall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A barn owl cautiously flew to a spot about five meters away from John, while Basil flew over and proudly nodded in approval.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The barn owl dropped the newspaper and flew away as though it had just been pardoned from execution.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Basil picked up the newspaper and flew down to land in front of John.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You really should control your temper a little,\" John said as he picked up the paper and glanced at it. \"Do I seriously need to find you a mate?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Basil became visibly angry the moment she heard that. Clearly, she had not plucked enough of that giant's beard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Daphne placed down a serving of colorful fruit fried rice and reached out to stroke Basil's smooth feathers as she asked, \"Basil needs a mate?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I always thought Riddle was her mate.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That's actually not a bad idea, but unfortunately Riddle is the same sex as her,\" John said with a shrug. \"They're both female birds.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Daphne's mouth fell open in surprise. She had always assumed Riddle was male.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, that cold and aloof demeanor made it easy to think so.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wait.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Daphne suddenly became confused. She remembered Basil being very attached to Riddle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Could it be...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No, stop.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She absolutely could not continue thinking about that.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Daphne adorably shook her head, throwing those thoughts out of her mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Astoria was the last to arrive. She had just gone to the library a moment earlier.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After arriving, Astoria sat down beside Malfoy and said curiously, \"This lily bloomed?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A lily that Malfoy had given Astoria was sitting in a cup on the table. He had probably picked it from some unlucky person's flowerpot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The lily had fully bloomed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>—German Ministry of Magic: High Alert as Grindelwald Appears in Berlin—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Grindelwald had returned to Germany?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>John stared at the contents of the newspaper.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Grindelwald had reappeared in Germany and openly shown himself in Berlin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His followers had gathered around him, instantly wiping away the celebratory atmosphere that had followed Voldemort's death.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Compared to Voldemort, Europe feared Grindelwald far more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Back then, Grindelwald had nearly plunged the entirety of Europe into chaos. Even after half a century, people still remembered just how terrifying the man wielding the Elder Wand had been.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Now, he'll only be even stronger.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Having personally faced the young Grindelwald before, a trace of caution flashed through John's eyes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Back then, Grindelwald had nearly destroyed Paris. Now, after decades of accumulation, his once-aging body had been restored to its youthful state.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A century's worth of magical power, combined with the body of a man in his prime, and the Elder Wand in his hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If the current Grindelwald were sent back to the legendary battle of 1945, history itself might be rewritten. Grindelwald would likely win that war.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Germany...\" John narrowed his eyes, recalling something Barty Crouch Sr. had once mentioned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>During the amusement park's opening ceremony, the German Minister for Magic had seemed disappointed that no werewolf attack had occurred.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was almost as though he had known in advance that werewolves would appear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Could the German Ministry of Magic have already fallen?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking at the photograph of Grindelwald in the newspaper, John felt deeply uneasy at how openly the man was acting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without even looking, John scooped up a spoonful of the brightly colored fried rice and put it into his mouth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"How are things going in France?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had left the affairs in France to Heinrich and Kim.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Kim had happily spent the holidays talking about how many tourist attractions they had visited, though he never mentioned the branch store business.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With the abilities those two possessed, preparations for the branch should probably be nearly complete by now, right?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>____\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>o(*￣▽￣*)ブSupport and Read 12 Chapters ahead: Patreon\u002FDragonel\u003C\u002Fp>",1633,"2026-06-06T11:46:15.854Z",1,"novelbin.me","2a4a58b06dc7b14a61b7405cb7e03d8564c2ec7c1bdef0aeb7ee1072d38fd1c1","hogwarts-john-wick-chapter-575","hogwarts-john-wick-chapter-573",577,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fhogwarts-john-wick-cover.jpg"]