Chapter 325: Diadem

Chapter 325: Diadem

"Like I told you, Madam, if you keep interacting with people with that attitude, sooner or later you're going to run into a rough patch like Jon, he's not one of those students you met when you were at Hogwarts Castle before."

Nick shrugged and smiled slightly gloatingly at Lady Grey who was frozen in place, her face obviously looking a little uncomfortable.

Hearing his words, Lady Grey then snapped back to her senses, the proud expression on her already transparent face seemed to fade a little, and instead of answering Nick's words, she simply turned around and left the place.

Nick looked at the young lady, who had been a ghost for five hundred years more than him, but still looked like a young girl, and made a comical face.

Then, he silently crossed the wall to Jon's dormitory room without a second thought.

Neville and others were travelling with the Weasleys through Toulouse, so Jon was now the only one in the dormitory.

Jon was brushing his teeth when Nick arrived.

He had been keeping the leaf of mandrake in his mouth for a month, and although the magical herb itself was partly self-cleansing, it still gave Jon quite a strange psychological feeling, and now even though the leaf had been spat out it gave his saliva a strange taste.

"Hey, I thought you'd wait until the day school started to come back, why didn't you play two more days?"

Given the relationship between Nick and him, there was certainly no need to be so formal.

Jon gargled to spit the foam out of his mouth and said casually.

"There's a tournament to prepare later on no matter what, and can I take it that you're changing the subject?"

Nick rubbed his hands together with some embarrassment.

"Just to be clear, I didn't tell her about your Patronus, she got the word from over in Britain and came to me."

Jon hadn't intended to hold him on anything regarding the Patronus, it was already known to all of Voldemort's men, and it didn't really matter at all whether it was hidden or not.

"So, she actually came on this trip mainly for me?"

Jon asked as he wiped his mouth clean and sat down on the edge of the bed, looking at Nick.

Nick nodded his head.

"Then why didn't you get them back then?"

Jon tossed the clean-eaten kernel into the bin.

"Come on, be serious Nick, if you are the Dark Lord, would you leave four valuable artefacts like that in plain sight just on your desk in the Headmaster's office for no reason? If he didn't want anyone else to find them, there are so many places in the world to hide them, but why did he have to put them in a place where his enemies were most likely to go?"

"Are you saying that there must have been a curse cast on those four relics by the dark lord?"

"I am not sure whether there was a curse or not, but they were all certainly not normal, and my main goal at the time was not to take those relics, there was no need to risk an accident by trying to take them away while I didn't get the book and quill, and left the school with muggle students."

Jon rubbed his chin as he redirected the conversation back to Lady Grey.

"Which means that this Lady Grey, knows the diadem is in Hogwarts Castle, and she wants my help to retrieve it? Then why doesn't she go and find it herself? Wouldn't a ghost be better suited to move around inside the castle, and none of the Dark Lord's men could do anything to her."

Nick spread his hands.

"Gabrielle following you around every day has given you the wrong idea, Jon. Normal ghosts have no way of touching a physical object, and she couldn't take it out at all even if she could find it in the castle."

Jon slapped his forehead, he had indeed forgotten about it.

"That's not a good attitude to have when you're asking for something, and why should I get it back for her when she's the one who foolishly gave it away."

His voice was vague on the last two words and Nick didn't hear them.

"Here's the thing about ghosts, even though you might think we've been surviving in this world since we died, our mentality and personality have actually always remained the same as it was before we died, there's no way for time to affect our souls and naturally there's no way for us to grow much more than we did before, Lady Grey is a prime example of that."

Nick asked with a wink as he looked at Jon.

"So, are you going to help her?"

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