Harry Potter’s Raven’s Claw

After having lunch with Professor Flitwick, it was afternoon. Mike went back to the dormitory to rest for a while, but when he got back to the dormitory, he found an owl eagerly knocking on his window.

After putting the owl in, Mike opened a can of sardines for it, and then he took off the letter on the owl's leg and checked it.

‘Mike, the matter you asked me for last time has finally made some progress. An old friend of mine told me that the Flints had fallen since they had a fourteen-year-old patriarch. They have been shrinking their business recently. Apart from potions and some special alchemy materials, the Flint family now has no other sources of income. So your worries are completely unnecessary. Given the current situation of the Flint family, it is too late for other families to annex the Flint family's property, so how could they form an alliance with them? And according to my old friend's speculation, the Flynn family will be annexed by other families in the next three years. By then, no matter how strong Chris is, he will be powerless.

The above is the first thing. In addition, when I investigated this matter, I found another thing that made me very anxious.

Nowadays, many families want to put you to death.

I don't know why they did this, but there is no doubt that being targeted by so many big families at the same time will definitely put you in a very dangerous situation. Especially if you still have to participate in the Triwizard Tournament now, they are likely to tamper with the items of the Triwizard Tournament, please be careful!

If it comes to a pinch, the doors of the Foley family will always be open for you.

Your friend: Abt Foley. '

After closing the letter, Mike nodded with a smile.

The decline of the Flint family made him greatly relieved. What he was most worried about was that the Flint family integrated the power of the entire Slytherin family just like Chris did in Hogwarts.

This will make his subsequent actions very passive.

But judging from the information provided by Abbott's letter, his worries seem unnecessary. Although Chris has an amazing talent in magic, he is obviously not a good head of the family. Now the entire Flint family Almost defeated by him.

In this case, Mike can rest assured. After all, Mike also has absolute confidence in his own strength. Chris is improving, and he, Mike, is also constantly improving.

On the other hand, about the fact that those pure-blooded nobles would attack him, Mike had already expected it. After all, every big pure-blooded family that has been rich so far is very large in size, and their network of relationships is intricate. Many people who are not in their family at all are willing to work for them for certain things.

Therefore, the inviolable oath signed by Fudge and those new patriarchs is actually not very effective, because even these new patriarchs cannot fully control the power of the whole clan, and signing contracts with everyone in the family is not enough. It's unrealistic, so Mike's revenge will happen.

It's just that Mike didn't care about their revenge.

Not to mention that my own strength has surpassed most adult wizards, you must know that this is Hogwarts, where the strongest white wizard in the world sits, and those people want to kill themselves here It's just a fool's dream.

But people are so stubborn sometimes, and now Mike is almost sure that the reason why he was attacked in the Black Lake is most likely due to the hands and feet of those people.

This is a bit powerful. You must know that this is under the nose of Dumbledore, which is equivalent to slapping Dumbledore, the legendary white wizard, in the face. If the matter is revealed, all of them will be killed by Dumbledore or Tossed into Azkaban.

To be honest, Mike really admired their courage.

This is a group of true braves who would throw everything away for a chance at revenge.

These people can already be called dead soldiers.

Nevertheless, since the target of these people is him,

Then Mike will never show mercy to them.

As a result, a smile appeared on Mike's face. While writing the reply letter to Abbott, he made up his mind in his heart to tell Dumbledore all about it and let his old headmaster Go and help him get rid of those annoying ants.

...

In the evening, Mike walked briskly to the monster statue.

"Honeycomb Cake."

"The password is correct!"

There was a noise inside the monster stone statue, and then it moved to the side obediently, revealing the winding stairs inside.

Climbing up the stairs, Mike finally came to Dumbledore's office.

In the office at the moment, Dumbledore is entertaining a mermaid suspended in a huge water ball with his favorite sizzling honey and cockroaches.

This is obviously the mermaid king.

Judging from the bulge of the mermaid's chest, this should be a female mermaid, but Mike couldn't find anything that could be called beautiful on it, huh, the mermaid that Mike met in the black lake was more beautiful than the mermaid. It looks extraordinarily huge, and its shape is extraordinarily fierce.

After seeing it, Mike even began to wonder whether the mermaid kingship was determined by a duel, or how to explain why the mermaid queen in front of him looks so fierce.

But despite her ferocious appearance, the mermaid queen still loves beauty, which can be seen from the dazzling array of luxurious jewelry and a large number of shell ornaments on her body.

Especially the sapphire necklace it wore around its neck. The sapphire on it was so huge and gorgeous in color that it made Mike lose his mind.

"Mike! You came just in time, we are enjoying dessert!" Dumbledore warmly invited, "Sit down and eat together, you must know that you are growing your body now, and you are always hungry. It's extra fast, so instead of braving the cold wind in the middle of the night to bother those house-elves in the kitchen, why don't you eat more at my place!"

Mike was so kind, he thanked him and stuffed a pile of cockroaches into his mouth.

He actually likes this kind of coffee chocolate flavored cockroach pile, but the shape of this kind of candy is really weird. In order to maintain his own image, Mike never buys it, and only eats some when Dumbledore is here.

And the smile on Dumbledore's face when he saw Mike agreeing to his invitation was even brighter.

He enthusiastically poured another cup of hot water for Mike, and then pushed a plate with a honeycomb-shaped cake in front of Mike.

"Just drink hot water for drinks. You won't be able to sleep at night if you drink tea at this time." Dumbledore smiled kindly, "In addition, I would like to recommend this honeycomb cake to you solemnly! This is a good thing, my recent crazy love Get the taste of it!"

The corner of Mike's mouth trembled, and he suddenly remembered a rumor.

It is said that Dumbledore always used to use the food he thought was the most delicious recently as his office password until he encountered something more delicious.

Now it seems that there is a high probability that this rumor is true.

After cutting a small piece of cake and chewing it in his mouth, a strong aroma of honey swept over Mike's taste buds, but the cloying sweetness that followed made Mike frown.

"I thought maybe it wasn't for me, it was too sweet."

"Well, I can tell, you like the pile of cockroaches more than it." Dumbledore said with a smile, "You can take some with you when you leave later. You know, I never lack candies here."

"Thank you so much Professor!"

Mike replied pretending to be surprised, but his eyes couldn't stop staring at the mermaid next to him.

"Oh! Look at my memory!" Dumbledore patted his head and said, "Let me introduce you, this is the Queen of the Black Lake Mermaid, Ms. Mercus."

Mike saluted the huge mermaid politely, and the mermaid queen in the big water polo didn't look angry at being ignored before, and also made a strange courtesy to Mike.

"We invited you here precisely because you were attacked by mermaids in the Black Lake today." Dumbledore said solemnly with his hands clasped together, "Ms. Mercus and I confirmed after a detailed investigation. What you said is true, there are indeed some mermaids who were bewitched by some wizards and attacked you. But it is a pity that all the mermaids involved in this incident have died in the hands of the lake monster, so we The real culprit has not been found yet. But you don't have to worry, I promise you, Mike! No matter who is behind the scenes, I will make him pay the price!"

The mermaid queen on the side lowered her head wearing the crown, and saluted Mike again apologetically.

Mike pretended to be flattered and hurried back, before saying to Dumbledore:

"As for the information about the man behind the scenes, I think I can provide some clues."

The astonishment on Dumbledore's face flickered, and then he stretched out his hand for Mike to continue.

"As you know, I accidentally killed a lot of terrorists wearing white hoods at the Quidditch World Cup. I believe you also know their identities. Now that I have received reliable information, someone wants to pay for these The black wizards took revenge, so I suspect that this incident is also their work."

"Where did you get the news?!"

"My good friend Abt, he is the heir of the Foley family, he just sent me a letter today explaining this matter." Mike said, "I'm sorry I can't show you my letter, but you can personally Confirm this with Abbott."

"I see, I will confirm this matter."

After saying that, Dumbledore looked at the mermaid queen in the water polo with complicated eyes, and said:

"Then the next thing is another matter. Hogwarts has a contract with the mermaids. The mermaids cannot attack any Hogwarts students who fall into the water. This time the mermaids violated the contract. According to the regulations, they will be kicked out." Out of the Black Lake."

As soon as this remark came out, the mermaid queen in the water polo suddenly became agitated. She twisted her body and lay down on the surface of the water polo, begging in a stuffy, strange English tone:

"Please, Mr. Dumbledore, don't drive us away! More than a hundred of our clansmen died in this attack, and there are many more wounded. If you drive us away, we won't be able to survive , we will all die by then!"

When the Mermaid Queen spoke, her eyes were looking at Dumbledore, but her body and mouth were facing Mike, which made her posture look extraordinarily weird, but it allowed Mike to clearly see the expression on her face. A pitiful look and its pair of round peaks.

Mike was naturally not interested in the dominatrix-like mermaid queen, so he quickly looked away and looked at Dumbledore.

However, Dumbledore was unmoved in the face of the mermaid queen's entreaties, and still had that expressionless and cold look.

But suddenly, Dumbledore asked:

"Mike, what do you think?"

"what?"

Mike was taken aback for a moment, but then he understood.

The old guy Dumbledore didn't want to drive the mermaid out of Hogwarts at all. The reason why he put on this look now was completely acting for himself.

This is really a good strategy. On the one hand, he is both the party and the victim.

If he didn't speak up, Dumbledore couldn't let the mermaids stay in Hogwarts.

On the other hand, this incident can also be regarded as a test for Mike. If Mike still wants to let the mermaids leave under the premise that the Mermaid Queen said those words, then there is no doubt that Mike will be impressed in Dumbledore's heart. will be cleared directly.

'What an old fox! '

Cursing secretly in his heart, Mike immediately put on an anxious expression and said:

"I also don't agree with driving the mermaids out of Hogwarts. They are also intelligent beings. It's too cruel to just drive them out of their homes and let them die! Besides, I didn't suffer any injuries. No, let’s forget about it?”

After all, Mike silently praised himself in his heart.

This wave of my acting skills has exploded, not only the expression and tone are all in place, but even the vocabulary to address the mermaids has been changed from the usual it to him.

On the other side, Dumbledore pondered for a moment before saying in a hoarse voice:

"However, the mermaids did make a mistake, and it's too unfair to you."

Just as Mike was about to answer that it was okay, the mermaid queen on the other side said first:

"I would like to compensate Mr. Townley!"

As he said that, he took off the sapphire necklace around his neck with a painful face, and handed out the water polo.

"This is our treasure that has been handed down for thousands of years. I call it the Heart of the Ocean!" The Mermaid Queen looked at the necklace reluctantly and said, "It can keep people young forever, and they won't grow old until the moment of death."

Hearing this, Mike turned his eyes away from the necklace and turned to the face of the mermaid queen, and he found that there were some wrinkled lines on the half-man, half-fish face.

Looking at the sapphire necklace and Dumbledore with a blank face, Mike decided to act to the end, so he looked at the necklace pretending to be fascinated, and then hurriedly moved his eyes away, with a firm and unshakable look. said loudly:

"No! I can't have it! This is your family heirloom! Besides, Aunt Mercus needs this necklace even more, as soon as she takes it off, wrinkles appear!"

Mercus had a joyful smile on her face at the beginning, she was really unwilling to give away the Heart of the Ocean, this thing is priceless for any woman, but when she heard the second half of the sentence The smile froze, what Mike said was too much to be beaten.

Dumbledore on the side finally showed a smile on his face when he heard the words. He laughed loudly, pulled out the Heart of the Ocean from the Mermaid Queen's hand, stuffed it into Mike's hand and said:

"Just take it, you deserve it!"

"Can I really take it? Do the mermaids still have to move?"

Mike clutched the necklace tightly, pretending to be half-joyed, half-concerned.

Seeing this, Dumbledore smiled even more happily.

"Don't worry! The mermaids won't be driven out of the Black Lake!"

Hearing this, Mike pretended to be relieved again, looked at Dumbledore and laughed together.

Although the mermaid queen on the side lost the heart of the ocean, she couldn't hide her joy in keeping the group.

For a moment, the principal's office was filled with laughter, and even the old principals in the portraits on the wall opened their eyes curiously.