A ghost witch with a slender figure and waist-length hair floated towards him. She had a very delicate appearance, but a proud and cold expression lingered on her face.
As her figure moved, a floor-length cloak swayed gently behind her.
"Long time no see, Uncle Dracula." She bowed slightly and said softly to Dracula.
"Well, it's been a while, Helena. After hundreds of years, you've become more arrogant!" Dracula looked at her with a smile and teased, "If I hadn't asked you for something today, you wouldn't have come to see me, right?"
A trace of embarrassment appeared on Helena's pretty face, and she said without confidence: "It's not that I'm arrogant, it's just... I don't have the face to see you."
When facing Dracula, the proud and cold expression on her face suddenly disappeared, as if she had turned into a little girl who was caught by her parents for doing something wrong.
Looking at Helena's familiar and delicate face, Dracula's thoughts suddenly drifted back to more than nine hundred years ago -
Helena Ravenclaw is the daughter of Rowena Ravenclaw, one of the four founders. Rowena had always maintained a good relationship with Dracula at the time, and her daughter was naturally very familiar with Dracula.
Sometime after the construction of Hogwarts Castle, Dracula left his territory in Scotland and returned to Romania to reorganize the new vampire tribe. It was during this time that Helena and her mother got into trouble.
As the founder of Ravenclaw, Rowena has always upheld the motto "Extraordinary wisdom is the greatest wealth of mankind". Therefore, she was extremely strict with Helena, to the point of being harsh. However, due to the rebelliousness of young people and the disappointment of not being able to meet her mother's requirements, Helena secretly stole Rowena's crown and fled Hogwarts.
Helena left Scotland with the tiara. She believed that her mother's tiara could help her become as smart as her mother, so as to help her meet her mother's strict requirements. Rowena at Hogwarts was ashamed of her daughter's running away from home and stealing. She kept it hidden from everyone, including the other three founders and Dracula.
However, Rowena was still troubled by her daughter's escape and soon fell seriously ill. Before she died, she asked Barrow, who loved Helena deeply, to find her daughter and bring her back to her so that she could see her for the last time.
This was also the thing she regretted most before her death.
Helena refused to go back to Hogwarts with Barrow, and once again rejected his feelings for her - Helena, who was too familiar with Dracula, completely despised Barrow, who was not very good-looking and had a bad temper... Barrow lost his mind for a moment and angrily stabbed her with a knife -
… The final ending is that both of them have become ghosts of Hogwarts, one has become the aloof Ms. Grey of Ravenclaw College, and the other has become the Bloody Barrow, the nemesis of Peeves.
"It's been almost a thousand years since this happened, Helena. There's no need to keep blaming yourself." Dracula sighed and said softly, "Royina wouldn't want you to spend the rest of your life immersed in guilt and self-blame."
"But... Guilt, or bondage, is the foundation of ghosts' existence." Helena shook her head gently, "If I figure it out one day, maybe I won't exist in this world anymore."
Dracula fell silent.
"Professor Dracula, can't you comfort people?" In the frozen air, Dumbledore suddenly spoke with great interest, "I think you are not sincere, whether it is to Nico or Ms. Grey, you can change your behavior for those who care about you!"
Dracula could no longer remain silent.
He found that Dumbledore seemed to be happy to give him some social skills and add weight to his so-called bond theory.
"Don't talk about these useless things. We still have important things to do." Dracula changed the subject directly and turned to look at Helena. "There is a mentally unstable ghost over there. I need your help to control her emotions. Headmaster Dumbledore and I want to ask her some questions."
Helena nodded slightly and floated towards the toilet where Myrtle was.
At this time, Myrtle was still floundering in the toilet, trying very hard to create a tiny splash of water. She was trying to find a suitable position to drown herself in the water.
"Myrtle Warren, stop what you're doing!" Helena frowned, looking at the unpresentable Myrtle standing upside down with her face buried in the remaining toilet water, and said coldly, "Do you know that your behavior is tarnishing the image of Ravenclaw College!"
When not facing Dracula, Helena returns to her cold image.
Although no one knows her true identity as the daughter of Ravenclaw, Helena still enjoys a high prestige among the students of Ravenclaw College because of her cold and aloof image.
Myrtle Warren recognized Helena's voice and realized that the Ravenclaw ghosts were coming.
She shuddered all over and quickly got out of the water, turning her body over clumsily, while trying to straighten her image in the process.
"Okay, come here quickly. Headmaster Dumbledore and Uncle Dracula have something to ask you." Helena said sternly.
Myrtle nodded timidly and floated towards Dracula and Dumbledore.
The next second, she suddenly opened her eyes wide.
"Uncle Dracula?" Myrtle asked in astonishment, "That handsome professor is your uncle?!"
"Yes, Professor Dracula is my elder. Is there any problem?" Helena said.
Myrtle suddenly became depressed again, with a sad face, muttering softly: "Oh no, Professor Dracula is Ms. Grey's uncle. He has lived for so long, so he must not be very weak. It is probably difficult for him to die as a professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts..."
With his excellent hearing, Dracula easily heard what Myrtle was mumbling, and his face darkened.
Helena looked back at him with a smile on her face and couldn't help but teasing him, "You're still as charming as ever, Uncle Dracula!"
'As the culprit who raised her own aesthetic standards and made her completely unable to accept Barrow, Uncle Dracula is still the "blue-faced troublemaker" as always.'
Helena thought with a smile.
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