Chapter 730: Nicolas Flamel’s Story
“Yes, it’s Raven’s Claw!” Flamel looked at Evan and continued. “To know this name shows that you have really worked hard in the history of ancient magic. This fanatical heretical organization was born more than six hundred years ago. The first members were all from Ravenclaw House in Hogwarts. They claimed to be Ravenclaw’s descendants and believed in the goddess of war, Morrigan. That was an extremely important deity in Celtic mythology, representing wisdom and war.”
The goddess of war appeared in different mythological systems. Although the names were different, the priesthood was basically the same.
In ancient times, Celtic warriors would pick up a stone representing themselves, mark it, and pile it together on the edge of the battlefield to form a hillock.
When the battle would be over, they each retrieved their own stones and left the others in place then gathered them like a small tomb. The warriors who died were considered sacrifices taken by the goddess of war, Morrigan.
Therefore, the appearance of this goddess of war was often accompanied by war, death and destruction…
Despite this, she was still a decent goddess, and it was difficult to imagine what cult organizations she would be associated with.
As for the relationship between Ravenclaw and the goddess of war, it had been said many times before. This ancient wizarding family was said to be a direct descendant of the Raven incarnate by Morrigan, also known as the greedy predator, describing their thirst for wisdom and knowledge.
In the memory of Rowena Ravenclaw, Evan had confirmed this.
“At the time, Beauxbatons was a newly established elementary school, but Hogwarts was already a very well-known school of wizardry. It was much larger than it is now. More than two-thirds of the wizards in the entire wizarding world graduated from there. “Nicolas Flamel recalled the past and continued, “One of the most prestigious was Ravenclaw House. Only the most brilliant were qualified to enter it. At that time, their wisdom could guide the development of the wizarding world.”
More than 600 years ago, the Muggle world was in the Renaissance period, which was considered the prelude of modern European history.
Great changes were also taking place in the wizarding world at that time. The old magic system was gradually abandoned. New magic theories and more practical casting methods were created and invented. It was the wizards represented by Ravenclaw House who led all that.
These emerging schools of wizardry and community organizations not only innovated in magic theory, but also advocated different ideas, including many that now seemed absurd and even wrong…
“I don’t know the specific process, but one day, a wizard from Ravenclaw House suddenly announced that he had found the revelation left by Rowena Ravenclaw in Hogwarts Castle. The core content of this revelation is that Morrigan, the goddess of war, will return to the world and carry out the final judgment on the world. Everything will be destroyed. Only the heirs of Ravenclaw and the followers of Morrigan can survive…”
What Flamel said, Evan had read it in a book, and thought it was absurd anyway.
“It’s ridiculous, isn’t it ?!” said Flamel in an old voice, looking at Evan. “Everyone thought so at the time, regardless of this wizard and the organization Raven’s Claw he had founded, but this organization developed faster than people thought. The wizard seemed to have really found the power left by Rowena Ravenclaw, which came from the powerful magic of ancient times.”
There was no doubt that the wizards of Ravenclaw House were very smart. Once they were fanatical and paranoid, they were much more terrible than ordinary people.
Raven’s Claw quickly became a huge cult organization. In the following decades, they frantically searched all over the world for relics left by ancient warlocks. No one knew what they were looking for or whether they had found it.
All they knew was that they had done a lot of crazy things and planned many terrible massacres.
Unlike Voldemort and the Death Eaters, Raven’s Claw didn’t want to rule the wizarding world. What they wanted was chaos and destruction.
At first, because of the relationship between Ravenclaw and Morrigan, the members of Raven’s Claw took the goddess of war as the only goddess they believed in, but later, the gods they worshiped gradually changed and became ancient gods older than anything else.
Those fanatical believers firmly believed that in the near future, the ancient gods they believed in would break the captivity that imprisoned them, return to this world, restore order to ancient times, and conduct a doomsday judgment on all souls in this world.
Using the ancient magic found, the members of this organization were very strong, far superior to ordinary wizards.
One of the most famous and craziest things they did was aggressively attack Hogwarts in its heyday.
They were trying to completely destroy the world’s largest school of wizardry, looking for more clues.
After the excavation of countless ancient magical ruins, the founders of Raven’s Claw firmly believed that the important clue left by Rowena Ravenclaw had not been found, and that it was somewhere in Hogwarts and was the key to usher in the Apocalypse day and start the doomsday judgment.
Therefore, they had to seize Hogwarts.
As a result, it was no surprise that an act that was almost hostile to the entire wizarding world, led to the destruction and disappearance of this fanatical organization.
That period of history was a must-have for ancient magic history. Unlike other wizards who scoffed at it, Evan doubted that Ravenclaw might really have left a clue to some evil god.
After this clue was discovered and used by those who came later, they got in touch with a terrible evil god…
Therefore, the ancient gods worshipped by Raven’s Claw were evil gods.
The doomsday advocacy they propagated was the destruction of the world by the advent of evil gods.
“I told you before that I got The Book of Abraham and the Philosopher’s Stone on an adventure trip to Egypt more than six hundred years ago, when I narrowly escaped from the Sphinx, and got deep in the desert. I struggled alone in the endless yellow sand for several days until that night,” said Flamel slowly, his voice as bleak as ever.
Evan had heard the story from Flamel last summer.
Knowing that he had seen the ancient prophet Abraham in his dream, he got the magic book from him, and started his own legend.
“Yes, that cold and biting night, when I exhausted my last physical strength, I fell to the ground suddenly. Life was rapidly disappearing from my body… I could feel death approaching… getting closer… it wanted to take me away,” said Flamel, looking at Evan. “When I closed my eyes, I saw the man with a strange crutch. He said his name was Abraham. He gave me the book and told me as long as I studied hard and understood thoroughly, I could get extraordinary power from it. My child, I told you this last time, but this is not the whole story…”
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