[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-hogwarts-john-wick":3,"chapter-hogwarts-john-wick-hogwarts-john-wick-chapter-577":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Hogwarts’ John Wick",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":12,"novelImage":21},{"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},1646361,2109,"Chapter 577 577: 577: The Bloody Baron's Story","hogwarts-john-wick-chapter-577",577,"\u003Cp>\"Draco, interested in going on an adventure?\" John asked as he looked at the quiet riverside in the painting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"An adventure?\" Malfoy said with a strange expression. \"I thought only Gryffindors went on adventures at school.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Uh... Draco, your insults are getting pretty sophisticated these days.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>John could not help his face darkening.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was starting to worry. If Malfoy kept developing at this rate, John suspected the entire wizarding world would end up hating him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Our first stop, Gryffindor Tower.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>John snapped his fingers, and all the paintings returned to their places before he strode toward Gryffindor Tower.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Malfoy had no choice but to follow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They headed toward Gryffindor Tower.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Fat Lady was dozing off.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The little lions had been much more well-behaved lately. Even Harry Potter, who was notorious for causing trouble, had stopped sneaking out at night.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, he had personally witnessed how Filch had kicked a giant flying with a single blow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A Harry who knew when to submit did not think his body was sturdier than a giant's.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Half-asleep, the Fat Lady noticed someone approaching.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Password,\" she muttered irritably.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That glaring light was shoved straight into her face, instantly waking her up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Raising a hand to shield her eyes from the piercing brightness, she saw two people standing there.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What muddle-headed wizard is this?\" she said angrily. \"Move that wand away, or I'm going to lose my temper.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Sorry, Fat Lady.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>John had Malfoy move his wand aside and smiled. \"I wanted to ask you something.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"J-John Wick?\" the Fat Lady shrieked. She turned around, grabbed a mirror from the neighboring portrait frame, and carefully checked her makeup.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yes, Fat Lady,\" John asked politely. \"I wanted to know about the riverside painting in Ravenclaw Tower.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The riverside painting, Mr Wick?\" After confirming that she still looked flawless, the Fat Lady held the mirror and said in confusion, \"You mean that empty painting?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That's right.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That thing's been around for a very long time,\" said the Fat Lady. \"Some say it might be the very first painting in Hogwarts.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Some people say it's connected to one of the four founders. As for which one, you'll have to ask Violet. She's downstairs, a wrinkled old portrait.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Fat Lady added to John, \"Though she's probably drunk.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Thank you for your help, Fat Lady.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No, I should be thanking you. You repaired my canvas before~ you remember, right?\" The Fat Lady threw John a flirtatious glance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Back in third year, when Harry's godfather Sirius Black had tried to break into the Gryffindor common room, he had still been a wanted criminal, so naturally the Fat Lady had refused to open the door.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As a result, Sirius had slashed her portrait a few times, badly damaging the canvas.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>John had happened to be grinding his Alchemy level at the time, so he repaired the Fat Lady's portrait for her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same time, he had also wanted to take the opportunity to study these moving portraits.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had not expected the Fat Lady to remember it even now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>John shuddered slightly and coughed twice before saying calmly, \"Draco, let's go find Violet.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Malfoy was getting sleepy. He yawned and complained, \"Why are we wandering around in the middle of the night looking for some painting?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Then would you rather go back and stay hanging there?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Then let's find Violet.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Malfoy felt that hanging there all night would probably make all the blood rush to his head, so he chose to keep searching for the painting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The two of them went from the 7th floor down to the 6th and found Violet among the corridor portraits.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She was a drunken witch, her portrait littered with barrels and bottles of unknown origin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"She's sleeping more deeply than Crabbe,\" Malfoy commented.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>John grabbed Malfoy's wand and pointed it at the portrait. The witch named Violet mumbled drunkenly in discomfort from the bright light before turning her face in the other direction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Looks like we'll need another method.\" Seeing that she would not wake up, John decided to try something a little rougher.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He snapped his fingers, and Violet's portrait frame floated into the air.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then it began shaking violently, causing the bottles and barrels inside to roll around and crash into each other.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Violet finally woke up with a terrified scream.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What is going on?!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing that she was awake, John had the portrait frame fly back and hang itself properly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hello, Ms. Violet,\" John said with a smile, as though he had nothing to do with what had just happened. \"I have something I'd like to ask you.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Oh, Merlin's beard,\" Violet said, sitting on the ground and clutching the spot on her head where a bottle had struck her. \"You can't be so rough.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I'll make sure to educate him properly,\" John said, pointing at Malfoy. \"He knows he was wrong.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Malfoy: \"?\" What did I do wrong?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the end, John got another name from Violet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Adalbert Waffling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was quite famous, the author of Magical Theory.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When John found him, the wig-wearing wizard in the portrait was not asleep like the others.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Instead, he had wandered into another painting and was sighing with emotion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The moon has always been beautiful. I prefer the night. It gives me more inspiration.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Perhaps that was a common flaw among creators.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That painting?\" Leaning against the frame, Adalbert Waffling said, \"That goes back a very long time. It depicts Rowena Ravenclaw's hometown.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"A quiet riverside. Supposedly, there was once meant to be a girl in that painting, but she ran away from home and never returned.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"A girl?\" John paused. \"Who was she?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Perhaps Ravenclaw's daughter,\" Adalbert Waffling said. \"Rowena Ravenclaw's death was caused by illness. Historians speculate it was because she lost her daughter.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The four founders of Hogwarts had all been powerful wizards, and Rowena Ravenclaw had been the wisest witch of them all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For an illness to take her life, she must have already been extremely weakened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"A wise person does not fall in love,\" John murmured.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not merely romantic love. Her love for her daughter had weakened the witch just the same.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After thanking Adalbert Waffling, John headed toward the Slytherin common room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So we're going back?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I think I can ask an acquaintance about it.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing Malfoy struggling to keep his eyes open, John added, \"I doubt Daphne is still waiting for you at this hour.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That's wonderful.\" Malfoy was so sleepy he could barely keep his eyes open.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They still had classes the next day. Staying in this condition was definitely not ideal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Power supremacy.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After giving the password, he walked back into the Slytherin common room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>John turned a corner and arrived at a corridor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There, he saw the Bloody Baron floating motionlessly in the air.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Admiring the moonlight?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"No. Remembering.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Bloody Baron noticed John. The ghost, stained with silvery blood, said, \"I thought you would come looking for me.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"There really isn't anything happening in Hogwarts that escapes your notice.\" John was very curious about where the Bloody Baron got his information from.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Sir Cadogan likes wandering everywhere,\" the Bloody Baron said expressionlessly. \"He has a very big mouth.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Well, I should've guessed.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>John shrugged and asked, \"So you know what I want to ask?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Rowena Ravenclaw,\" the Bloody Baron said heavily. \"Her daughter.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Looks like you knew her.\" John noticed his expression becoming grim.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Bloody Baron nodded, his voice low. \"Deeply.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It was I who killed her.\" As he said those words, even the ghost's body seemed to tremble.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"She pursued wisdom just like Rowena Ravenclaw.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"In order to become wiser than her mother, she stole Ravenclaw's diadem. A grieving Rowena Ravenclaw came to me and asked me to bring her daughter back.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The story was both complicated and bizarre.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Bloody Baron had once been a nobleman, Sir Barrow, a wizard of great magical power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had always been in love with Ravenclaw's daughter and eventually found her in Albania.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The two had argued, and when Barrow confessed his love to her, she rejected him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Blinded by anger, Barrow stabbed the woman he loved to death.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After regaining his senses, Barrow was overwhelmed with regret. He ended his own life and became the Bloody Baron of Hogwarts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Ravenclaw never saw her daughter Helena one last time. Before she died, she seemed to have something she wanted to say to her.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Bloody Baron's body gradually faded away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That painting was something Rowena Ravenclaw painted for her daughter. Helena hated it and drove her own image out of the painting, which caused Ravenclaw to grow weaker and weaker.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"When Helena was little, the two of them used to spend time there together. But as Ravenclaw became increasingly busy, they never returned to that riverside again.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The ghost vanished.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>John stood there in thought.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Ravenclaw, who pursued wisdom....\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He stepped to where the Bloody Baron had been floating moments ago and looked ahead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Grey Lady was sitting there.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>____\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>o(*￣▽￣*)ブSupport and Read 12 Chapters ahead: Patreon\u002FDragonel\u003C\u002Fp>",1507,"2026-06-06T11:46:15.854Z",1,"novelbin.me","6bfbeca878d8b057ac23b96854b03184acce6300a1656182506019f7d92b54c9","hogwarts-john-wick-chapter-501","hogwarts-john-wick-chapter-576","https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fhogwarts-john-wick-cover.jpg"]