After stealing her mother's diadem and running away, Rowena Ravenclaw sent The Baron to retrieve her. Alas, it didn't go so well. The Baron, mad with jealousy at Helena's freedom, ended up stabbing her when she refused to return with him. Helena's ghost had a 'single dark wound' upon her chest as a result.
Daughter of Hogwarts founder, Rowena Ravenclaw, Helena was jealous of her mother's gifts, stole her diadem and ran away to Albania. When her mother sent The Bloody Baron to bring her home, instead, he fell in love with her, then murdered her when she did not return his feelings.
After Hogwarts, he fell in love with Helena Ravenclaw, but she did not love him in return. He was sent by Rowena Ravenclaw to find Helena in Albania, but Helena refused to return with him and so he killed her in a rage.
However, Rowena's own daughter grew jealous of her mother's incredible intelligence. Helena Ravenclaw stole her mother's diadem and ran away, a fact that Rowena kept hidden from her fellow founders even when she fell ill.
Slytherin's ghost, The Bloody Baron was terrifying in appearance. The silver blood on his clothes was a clue to his death, and the horrible crimes that preceded it. Sent by Rowena Ravenclaw to find and return her runaway daughter, Helena, tragedy struck when she refused to go home with him, ending in her bloody murder.
The Life of Helena Ravenclaw (+How to Become a Ghost Explained)
Can you save the Bloody Baron and the children?
Killed the Whispering Hillock- The Whispering Hillock died, Baron and Anna will live, the orphans will die, and Downwarren will be safe. Freed the Whispering Hillock before starting Ladies of the Wood- The Whispering Hillock is free, Baron and Anna will live, the orphans will die, and Downwarren will be destroyed.
Born in the late 1920s to Muggle parents, Myrtle Warren started her Hogwarts life in the early 1940s, where she was sorted into Ravenclaw. She had no friends, and was bullied relentlessly because of her glasses and acne. But she would soon have all of eternity to get her own back.
The Sorting Hat, now animated, was able to sort and divide the students into the Hogwarts Houses, and continued to do so for a millennium, passed down to each new Headmaster or Headmistress of the school. When not in use, it is placed on a shelf in the current Headmaster's or Headmistress's office.
After Hogwarts, he fell in love with Helena Ravenclaw, but she did not love him. He was sent by Rowena Ravenclaw to find Helena in Albania, but Helena refused to return with him and so he killed her in a rage. When he realised what he had done, the Baron stabbed himself with the same knife and died.
Desperate to see her daughter one last time, Rowena sent a man to bring Helena home. Unfortunately, that man was the Bloody Baron, who was in love with Helena, and stabbed her in a rage when she refused to come home. After Helena was tragically killed, legend tells us that Rowena Ravenclaw died of a broken heart.
Riddle chose to hide the diadem in this room the night he returned to the castle to request a position to teach Defence Against the Dark Arts. Unlike the other Horcruxes, Riddle did not put up heavy magical protections for the diadem, due to his lack of time to do so, along with his arrogance.
She was remorseful of what she had done, but also extremely angry at the defilement of the artefact and her mother's legacy, referring to the corrupted diadem as an abomination. Helena was serene yet somewhat taciturn.
Rowena became fatally ill, and hoping to see her daughter one last time, sent the Bloody Baron, a man who harbored an unrequited love for Helena, to find her. The Baron killed Helena when she refused to return with him, before killing himself out of regret for what he had done.
The same reason Gryffindor's animal is a Lion and not a Griffin. Ravenclaw was Rowena's surname and she either liked Eagles, or her family coat-of-arms had an Eagle in it. It is likely the latter - the Ravenclaw coat-of-arms had a Eagle in it.
Rowling revealed more information about Neville when she stated that he married Hannah Abbott, a Hufflepuff classmate, who became the landlady of the Leaky Cauldron. The couple live over the pub, a fact that Rowling thought people would find "particularly cool".
For unknown reasons, the Baron was one of the only beings that Peeves dared not cross. During his first year, Harry imitated the voice of the Bloody Baron to chase Peeves away so Harry could get around Hogwarts without Peeves in the way.
Why did Helena Ravenclaw give the diadem to Voldemort?
The sad story goes that Helena was jealous of her mother's great wisdom that comes with the diadem and stole it, then going into hiding. Distraught, Rowena sent The Bloody Baron to go and find her.
Loyalty. Penelope "Penny" Clearwater (born c. 1976) was a Ravenclaw student at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry from 1987 to 1994. In her later school years, she was a Prefect and Percy Weasley's girlfriend.
Harry was a "hatstall" during his sorting because the Sorting Hat could detect the shred of Voldemort's soul within him, but couldn't recognize what it was. Instead, the Hat could only discern the dominant traits of the souls he mistook as being wholly Harry.
Why did Harry Potter miss the sorting in his third year?
At the beginning of his third year, an unexpected run-in with a Dementor meant that Harry – and Hermione, who had to see Professor McGonagall about her packed timetable — missed the Sorting Ceremony. He did not, however, miss any of the courses.
Rumors have run rampant for years there are seven Sorting Hat mistakes, but J.K. Rowling maintains the Hat never made a mistake (via The Cut). However, Seamus Finnegan rarely comes up in those discussions. He didn't exhibit the same level of bravery his Gryffindor roommates did.
Peeves is a poltergeist, not a ghost, so he never died and was never a living person. A poltergeist in the Harry Potter universe is just a tangible manifestation of chaos/mischief. In Peeve's case, he's the manifestation of the chaos that results when you have a large group of students in one building.
He was a wizard of the royal court as an adult. He was executed by an improper decapitation, after he had a magical mishap with Lady Grieve. He tried to straighten her teeth but it backfired and she grew tusks. Since then, he became the resident ghost of Gryffindor Tower at the Hogwarts Castle.
