Harry Potter’s Raven’s Claw

Harry, who was watched by Cedric, had an urge to run away, and the current scene was too embarrassing.

'If I knew he was here, I wouldn't have come here! '

Harry thought, but forced a smile and said to Cedric:

"Hello, Cedric."

"Hello, did you miss lunch too?" Cedric replied and looked at Mike again and said, "Come and sit, we can just eat together."

Mike pulled out a chair calmly and sat beside Cedric, but Harry and the others still didn't move.

Upon seeing this, Mike spread his hands and said:

"Come on, everyone sit down. Harry, Cedric is not such a stingy person, he won't think that you robbed him of his place as a warrior."

Harry seemed a little moved when he heard the words, he put his hand on another chair and wanted to pull it away, but his eyes still glanced at Cedric from time to time.

"Who says I'm not angry! They turned a little wizard like Harry into a warrior, but let me sit on the bench!" Harry's hands froze, and Ron and Hermione behind him turned towards Se Derek glared at the past.

But Cedric didn't take it seriously at all, and continued:

"But I don't think so after seeing the first event. It's not good for you to be a warrior, it's too dangerous, Harry. It's obvious that someone is trying to kill you. You have to be careful at all times."

Harry breathed a sigh of relief, pulled out his chair and sat down.

But Ron behind him obviously didn't understand what Cedric meant, and said with a blushing face:

"Do I understand this as a threat, Digory?"

As soon as this remark came out, Hermione on the side nudged Ron with her elbow.

"Hey! Ron, don't be so stupid, we can all hear Cedric he doesn't mean that."

"You know again? Ah? Miss Know-It-All!" Ron said still reluctantly, "Answer me, Cedric."

Harry's already relaxed body tensed up again. In his opinion, a fight might be inevitable, and he didn't know which tendon was wrong with Ron recently.

However, to his surprise, Cedric didn't talk to Ron, but just cast him a contemptuous glance and said to Mike:

"Is this person your friend?"

"Yeah, but he's recently hit puberty, so he's a little too eager to show his manhood in front of someone."

Cedric glanced at Hermione and understood instantly.

At this time, Hermione also realized the meaning of Mike's words, her face flushed, and Ron subconsciously moved away.

Ron was about to explode with anger at this moment, but luckily he was still rational now, instead of rushing directly to Cedric, he turned around and left.

"Okay, the unwelcome person is finally gone." Cedric picked up the chicken leg and ate it again, "I can finally eat some more."

Hearing this, Harry instinctively wanted to refute, but in the end he still didn't speak.

Ron's recent state is indeed a bit strange, and even when he talks to him, there is a hint of sarcasm.

To be honest, he also has a lot of opinions on Ron.

"You can resist not doing it in this kind of situation." Mike tore off a chicken leg from a whole chicken in front of Cedric and said, "It seems that the sequelae of the last deformation accident have disappeared."

"It's better, but it's not gone completely," Cedric said. "Like right now I want to beat you up."

Mike: "?"

Seeing Mike's bewildered expression,

Cedric smiled.

"It's not because you ate my chicken leg just now. It's because you robbed me of my qualification as a warrior. Tell me, how are you going to compensate me? If I'm not satisfied with your compensation, I'll really beat you up."

"You can't beat me." Mike joked, and saw Cedric started to take out his wand before he said seriously, "Okay, okay. What do you want? I can give you as long as you don't go too far. Who told you It's my friend."

"Hmph, you're smart." Cedric put down his wand and said, "I won't make it difficult for you, just help me prepare a ring, an engagement ring."

"Engaged? Who are you going to marry?"

"Who else? Of course it's Qiu Zhang. As you know, I'm about to graduate, and I'm going to propose to Qiu Zhang at the graduation ceremony."

Mike slammed his mouth in astonishment, and said:

"I have a hunch that you won't succeed. Qiu Zhang is from the Celestial Dynasty. According to their customs, her parents would not allow her to marry so early."

"That's why I said it's engagement! I'm not planning to marry her now, at least I have to wait until she becomes an adult!"

"Okay, then I wish you good luck. The ring is on me, and I will use the most precious materials to make it. Then I am looking for someone to enchant it. No strong spells are needed, just It needs to be able to burst out a strong sound and light effect when it is worn, for example, a layer of shiny light clothing will appear on the wearer. I think this will greatly increase the success rate of your marriage proposal. After all, girls Like dragons, they like shiny things."

Cedric stared blankly at Mike with his mouth wide open.

Merlin, he really only wanted to find Mike to make an ordinary ring, but he didn't expect Mike to have such a big brain.

However, this seems to be fine.

At least Mike said something right. Girls like shiny things. Didn't you see the girl named Hermione next to her with sparkles?

If I really have such a ring, the success rate of the proposal may really increase greatly.

Although his heart was already full of joy, Cedric remained calm and said, "Well, I can do it, you can figure it out."

Cedric, a duplicity guy, Mike shook his head with a smile.

But neither of them noticed at the moment, when Cedric talked about proposing to Cedric, Harry's face beside him suddenly turned pale.

But then Harry lowered his head, hiding his gaffe well.

"Ladies and gentlemen, here comes the black tea!"

A somewhat old voice came over. Mike and the others looked back and saw that old house elf was holding a large wooden tray with four cups of black tea on it.

"Oh! Thank you, but only three glasses are enough, and one of our partners left beforehand."

"Damn it! We must have been poor in hospitality, and it's all our fault!"

The old elf panicked when he heard the words, and Mike said when he saw this:

"Don't blame yourself, this matter has nothing to do with you, your hospitality is very good, put down the tea and leave. By the way, the two elves named Robbie and Sparkle should be with you, right? Please call them over .”

After Mike finished speaking, he turned his head to drink black tea, but the old elf did not leave as he expected, but said to Mike after hesitation:

"Why did Mr. Townley seek them?"

"Is there a problem?" Mike asked back.

"No problem! Only, if you need us to serve you, maybe two elves should be replaced. IMHO Winky and Dobby are not very good things!"

Mike replied with a smile: "Don't worry, I just want to ask them something."

Speaking of which, the old elf had no other reason to refute Mike, so he could only retreat, and came over with two house elves after a while.

"Mr. Harry Potter! You came to see me again! I'm so... woo woo... I'm so touched! Dear Mr. Harry Potter, you came here again to visit me, a humble house-elf !"

With a teapot warmer full of colorful badges on his head and two socks of different sizes on his feet, Dobby hugged Harry's leg and began to cry bitterly.

The old house-elf was almost dying, and Dobby's behavior seemed to him extremely disrespectful.

And behind him, followed by a house elf in a small skirt.

That should be the female house-elf named Shiny. Mike noticed her the first time she appeared, but she seems to be in a very bad state now, not to mention her haggard face, her eyes are still red, I just cried.

"Oh! God, Dobby! You don't have to do this, get up, let me introduce you to a new friend." Mike pulled Dobby off his trouser leg in a panic and said, "This is Mike , McTownley. He'd love to be your friend."

"Harry Potter's friends are my friends! Hello, Mr. Townley! My name is Dobby, nice to meet you!"

"I'm very glad to meet you, too." Although Mike spoke to Dobby, he kept watching Winky next to him from the corner of his eye, "I heard about your experience with Winky from Harry before. , so much sympathy for you. So if I might, I thought I might be able to give you a job. I mean, you could be my house elves, just like you were."

Mike's last words were actually addressed to Winky, and he also noticed that Winky's big ears trembled visibly after he said this.

"No! This is absolutely not possible!"

screamed the old house-elf.

"What's the matter? Why haven't you left yet, aren't you very busy now?"

"Winky and Dobby are not good house-elves! You must never take them in, or you will regret it later!"

Shining on the side burst into tears.

"That's right, Dobby is a bad elf, and he still wants a salary." Dobby said with his head held high, "But Dobby doesn't regret it! Because Dobby is now a free house-elf! "

The old elf couldn't take it anymore, he pulled his ears desperately as if he heard the most unpleasant sound in the world.

And Hermione touched Dobby's smooth forehead with a smile, and said:

"You're right! Dobby! You're free, no one can enslave you anymore! Mike, if you want to hire Dobby you have to pay him! And don't try to fool him about the amount, I'll I talked to you as his lawyer the whole time!"

Dobby looked up, watching Hermione's eyes welling with moving tears.

"These are minor issues, and I'm glad I have a special employee like Dobby." Mike laughed, "You can come with me now if you want!"

"Contract! You must sign a contract with Dobby!"

Mike nodded to the excited Hermione, and then turned his gaze to Winky who was still crying beside him.

"And you, Winky, would you like to be my house elf?" Mike said, "Don't worry, I won't pay you, and I have countless jobs for you to do, and it will be a long time to come." You won't even be able to sleep for a while."

"Really...Really?" Winky's drooping ears perked up again, looking very happy, but immediately she began to slam her head on the floor hard, "No! No! Winky is a woman who was kicked out by the previous owner The bad elf! Winky doesn't deserve a new owner, Winky should die!"

"Okay, Winky, stop what you're doing, if you want to be my house-elf!"

Winky stopped immediately, and tremblingly came to Mike, looking at Mike with eyes full of hope.

Mike smiled, snapped his fingers and said, "From today onwards, you are the house elf of the Townley family! I will make arrangements for the school, and you can just follow me later!"

"Thank you! Thank you! Master!"

Shining's condition suddenly became much better. House elves like her who were kicked out by their master would be labeled as inferior products. Generally, no one would be willing to take them in, so she is really happy now.

But at this moment, Hermione suddenly roared at Winky:

"No! You can't just say yes! You deserve better treatment like Dobby! I can..."

"Shut up! You bad woman! Don't try to teach Winky bad!" Winky interrupted with a scowling face. "Winky is not Dobby's shameless bad elf! Winky has a new master now!"

After all, she gave Dobby a disdainful look, and then stood beside Mike, with her head held up and her face proud.

Hermione was so pissed off that she stood there pointing at Winky but couldn't even say a word.

At this time, Cedric had finished his late lunch, and Mike had just achieved today's goal, and the four of them left the kitchen with Dobby and Winky.

On the way back to the waiting room, Hermione realized that Winky would not listen to her, so she changed her strategy and started targeting Mike.

Mike, who was annoyed by her and couldn't stand it, could only say perfunctorily:

"Don't worry Hermione, I will treat Winky and Dobby well. As for Winky's treatment, you don't have to worry too much. She hasn't changed her mentality yet. Let her get along with Dobby for a while. You too It should be understood that any intelligent life will instinctively pursue better treatment."

'Except for the house-elves. '

Mike added inwardly.

Twinkle explodes at this statement, screaming denial that she'll never be like Dobby.

Hermione didn't say anything else after hearing that, and returned to Gryffindor with Harry.

Mike watched the back of them leaving and shook his head. Seriously, Hermione is really similar to those extreme animal protectors now.

He could have tried to persuade Hermione to return to her normal train of thought.

But why bother?

Everyone is not a child anymore, and they all have different ideas. If Mike forces Hermione to accept his ideas, then what is the difference between himself and the group of extreme animal protectionists?

What's more, Mike himself really didn't have the confidence to convince Hermione.

At that time, it would be bad if he failed to use his verbal skills and affected his relationship with Hermione instead.