Snake hair: Fighting for freedom (Draco x F!Reader) (Book 8)

The Ravenclaw diadem

I silently rushed up the stairs toward the Ravenclaw common room with Harry behind me. "Wait," I hear a voice call after us. I stop and look over my shoulder. It was Luna. She was running up the stairs, yelling for us to wait.

"I need to talk to you." She cries. "We're a bit preoccupied." Harry calls over his shoulder. "You'll find nothing where you are going. You're wasting your time." She yells. "Look Luna, we'll talk later." Harry passes me and runs further up the stairs. "Harry, wait," I call to him. "Let's hear what she has to say. Maybe she's right. We could be wasting our time." I tell him. He looks at me reluctantly. 

I look back at Luna, waiting for her to speak. "Do you remember what Cho said? There's no person alive who's seen it. It's obvious, isn't it? We have to talk to someone who's dead." She smiles.

"I know who you are talking about, Luna. We are actually on our way to see her." I tell her. "She isn't in the common room. She barely comes there anymore. Follow me, I know where she is." Luna turns around and starts running down the stairs before Harry or I could say another word.

I look back at Harry. He shakes his head. I shrug in response and run down the stairs, trying to find Luna back between the hoards of students.

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"You'll find her down here." Luna says softly. "Aren't you coming?" I ask her. Luna shook her head. "It's best if you talk alone. She's very shy." Luna pointed towards the corridor in front of us. That's where we could find her.

I waved for Harry to follow me. We silently walked side by side through the corridor. It was a corridor that lead to one of the smaller courtyards we had around the castle. In all my timeat Hogwarts I may have been here once or twice.

A blue flash of light colored the horizon, followed by some rumbling. I looked towards the place where the light had come from. Something was forming a bubble around the castle. Shields.

We stepped out of the corridor and into the courtyard. A grey silhouette was floating in the corner of the courtyard. It slowly turned when it heard our footsteps. The silhouette was a grey lady, in a long dress and dark curls over her shoulders. Her face was slim, with high cheekbones. She was pretty.

"You're the grey lady, the ghost of Ravenclaw tower." Harry gasped. "I do not answer to that name." She wanted to fly off, but Harry stopped her. "I'm sorry. It's Helena, isn't it? Daughter of Rowena Ravenclaw?" Helena appeared again. She was hiding behind one of the stone pillar.

"Are you friends of Luna's?" She asked. "Yes, we are." I smiled. "She thought you might be able to help us." I told her. "You seek my mother's diadem." Helena said. "Yes, that's right." Harry said. "Luna is kind. Unlike so many others. But she was wrong, I cannot help you." She quickly flew past us and into the corridor.

"Wait, please," I cried out. "It needs to be destroyed." I told her. "You want it destroyed too, don't you?" I asked her. "Another swore to destroy it, many years ago. A strange boy, with a strange name," She said. "Tom Riddle." I stated. "But he lied." She continued.

"He's lied to many people. Including us. Everything he touches just rots until nothing is left except death and darkness. And that's why we are here. That's why I'm here." I told her. "Helena? Do you remember the son you had closely before you died?" The expression on Helena's face turned cold.

"Philip." She whispered. "Yes. You see, Philip is my great-great-great-great grandfather. I'm the last living blood of the Ravenclaw family. But I'm not here to bribe you with some sad story about our family. Because I, along with my dad, am the last living blood of the Hufflepuff and Gryffindor family. And I'm also a part of the Slytherin family. Ever since I came here, I've been seen as the great descendant of the founding Hogwarts families. I've always wanted to do my family's names proud, but truth be told, I can't and I will never be able to. I can never be as great as my ancestors, but what I can do is clear their names off the bad things. And I can only do that if Voldemort dies. And that diadem and other things are the key to doing so. So please, I beg you, help us, help Hogwarts."