Harry Potter’s Raven’s Claw

Just as Pansy was lying on the ground and apologizing in tears, the door of the prefect's carriage was suddenly opened, and two people, a man and a woman with the badge of the student council president on their chests, walked in, looking at the scene inside the carriage with surprise.

"How is this going?"

The girl president's eyes fell on Pan Xi and asked with a frown.

It's a pity that Pansy is now completely frightened.

Upon seeing this, the girl president once again turned his unkind gaze on Mike.

Mike looked at him without any fear.

Mike's attitude made the female chairperson furious. She instinctively reprimanded her, but the male chairperson next to her suddenly grabbed her and whispered in her ear:

"Don't worry about it! Who do you think you are? Who is he?"

The boy chairman's words made the girl chairman's body tremble and stopped talking.

Upon seeing this, a smile appeared on the face of the boy chairman, and he spread his hands to everyone and said:

"Okay, everyone, go back to your seats, and then we have to arrange the work for a while."

Unfortunately, there was no response to his words. Slytherin and the prefects of the other three colleges were looking at Chris and Mike with inquiring eyes, as if they were the most noble people here. .

Neither Mike nor Chris spoke. They looked at each other coldly for a while, and finally returned to their original seats without saying a word.

The other prefects also returned to their seats.

The boy's chairman's face was a little unsightly, and the fake smile on his face could hardly be maintained.

But he bravely walked to the middle of the carriage and began to announce the next work of the prefects.

At Hogwarts, the Student Union is an organization that helps professors manage students, and prefects, as the most basic part of this organization, enjoy certain privileges and must also undertake quite heavy work and responsibilities.

Just like on the Hogwarts Express today, the main duty of prefects is to maintain order and mediate disputes.

Mike didn't intend to do this. In his opinion, it would be better to read a book for a while instead of doing these boring jobs.

So, after lightly entrusting his work to another female prefect of the same grade as him, Mike left the prefect's carriage directly.

It is worth mentioning that the girl who became a prefect like Mike this year was Ron's previous dance partner at the Triwizard Tournament ball, the Indian girl, Padma Patil.

The girl was obviously very uneasy about Mike's entrustment. She frowned and caught up with Mike, and asked anxiously:

"Mike, I don't think I can do it alone. You know, those boys... they won't listen to me, and they won't care if I reveal my prefect status."

Patil's hands were clenched tightly. She was not a very good student in Ravenclaw, and those thorns would never listen to her orders.

And if she forcibly wanted to suppress them with the authority of the prefect, then she would only be humiliated by the other party.

"You can, Patil, I believe in you." Mike said without looking back, "If there are boys who don't want to obey your orders,

You just tell them I'm also one of the prefects this year. If they don't want me to go to them myself, it's better to be honest. understand? "

Hearing that, Patil's face looked much better. She lowered her head and seemed to want to continue to say something to Mike, but when she looked up again, she found that Mike had disappeared around the corner.

Biting his lip, Patil could only helplessly walk towards the freshman carriage.

Mike on the other side wanted to go directly to Franklin's carriage after getting rid of Patil's entanglement, but was blocked by two other people.

"Mike, thank you."

Ron lowered his head and muttered in a voice so soft that he could barely hear it.

Seeing this, Hermione, who was standing beside him, stabbed him with her elbow, and urgently cleared her throat and said:

"Thanks a lot just now, Mike!"

"Small idea." Mike waved his hand and said, "What about Harry, I haven't contacted him since the last time I left the magic department. How is he now?"

"he's good!"

As soon as he heard Harry's name, Ron raised his head and said to Mike in a deliberately amplified voice,

"He's been living in my house since then and Sirius thought he might be happier to have him with me. That's what happened, Harry was a little uncomfortable at first, but now he's totally fine. !"

Ron raised his head, and the expression looked like a general who had won a battle and was taking credit to the king.

Seeing this, Hermione bumped her elbow again.

This time Hermione used much more strength than the first time. Ron, who was hit, let out a painful exclamation, covered the part where he was hit, and kept breathing in cold air.

But although Hermione used more strength this time, it did remind Ron.

I saw Ron gasping for breath, showing a painful smile to Mike and saying:

"Mike, do you want to go find Harry with us?"

"Yes, Harry will be very happy!"

Hermione also agreed.

Mike frowned and thought for a while, feeling that he really had nothing to say with Harry, and finally refused:

"Forget it, I think we'll see you at school. Okay, I'll go first, and you should hurry up and go to work."

After saying that, Mike went straight through the two of them and walked towards his original carriage.

The two behind him looked at each other, and after a while, Ron gritted his teeth and roared at Mike's retreating back:

"Mike! Thank you!"

Mike didn't answer, he didn't even mean to stop, he just raised his hand and waved, indicating that Ron didn't need to care.

And it was just such an action that brought smiles to both Ron and Hermione's faces.

...

In a certain compartment of the Hogwarts Express, Zhou Hong and Benjamin are playing Gobstone, an ancient magic game similar to marbles. Every time a point is lost, the winner's stone will face the loser's face. Spit out a stinky liquid.

In this regard, Benjamin is obviously not Zhou Hong's opponent. With the crisp sound of a stone hitting, several red stone balls belonging to Zhou Hong suddenly sprayed out a thick, foul-smelling liquid. A straight jet hit Benjamin's face.

"Oh! Shet!"

Benjamin cursed instinctively.

But then, he quickly covered his mouth as if he had remembered something terrible, and looked at a compartment door not far away with a look of horror.

And just behind that door, Mike was looking at a big book as thick as a dictionary by himself.

Naturally, he heard the movement outside the carriage, but he didn't say anything. These noises didn't affect his reading.

The book he is reading at the moment is a book titled "Self-Defense and Counterattack - Details to Remember 1990 Revised Edition".

This book is a professional book used by the Ministry of Magic to train Aurors. The Ministry of Magic almost regards it as a family heirloom, and it is very well protected. Unless you become an Auror, you will not even find this book on the black market. Book shadow.

Even Mike obtained such a book through the relationship of the Foley family, which is an old version from several years ago!

But it was such an old book that made Mike fascinated by it.

This book records a lot of seemingly trivial, but it is the experience summed up by countless people with blood and life.

For example, don't use Explosion Charms (Thunderbolts) in narrow spaces like rooms or caves, because Explosion Charms have a fatal disadvantage, that is, when it touches an object, it will bounce aimlessly. If you are in the above If you use explosive spells in these terrains, you will have a high probability of injuring yourself.

As if to make this warning more mindful for readers, a plethora of magic pictures have been attached below the description of this item.

Most of them are disabled people who lack arms and legs, and some are horrific corpses, or simply a puddle of minced meat.

And the annotations of these pictures are unified: I was injured by my own explosion curse!

I don't know how long it took, a whistle suddenly woke up Mike, who was addicted to the book.

Urgently, along with a crisp knock on the door, Benjamin's familiar voice also came from outside the door.

"Mike, the train has arrived, we should get off."

"understood."

Surrounded by the crowd, Mike stepped off the train.

As in previous years, the new students had to leave with the old students on the platform and go to the pier to take a boat to the school.

It's a Hogwarts tradition, every year.

The only difference from previous years was that the leading teacher who was in charge of guiding the freshmen this year was no longer Hagrid, but a strong female professor.

Harry was obviously very concerned about Hagrid's disappearance, and kept chasing after the professor, while Mike and the others followed the army to the camp of the Yeqi carriage, and took the carriage to Hogwarts.

Today's weather is very good, the ceiling of the auditorium is full of stars, and there are thin clouds drifting slowly from time to time.

Below the ceiling, there are countless burning candles floating, illuminating the entire auditorium.

When Mike and the others sat down on the long table covered with the colored tablecloths of their respective colleges, Professor McGonagall also put on Hogwarts's treasure, the Sorting Hat, as in previous years.

As the clock struck the hour, the auditorium doors slammed open.

The freshmen lined up neatly in two rows according to men and women. While looking at the magic auditorium curiously, they walked briskly towards the Sorting Hat under the leadership of the professor.

Compared with previous years, the number of new students this year is only about 70% of previous years. Mike knew that this should also be affected by the news of Voldemort's return.

After all the freshmen entered the auditorium, the teachers and students of the whole school held their beards and waited.

Immediately afterwards, on the old-fashioned wooden chair in the center of the auditorium, a slit suddenly opened beside the long brim of the Sorting Hat, and then the very characteristic voice of the Sorting Hat came from it:

"The students we teach must be brave and fearless... I have sounded the alarm for you... Now, let's start sorting. (No water, please see the next chapter for the detailed lyrics.)"

After the song was over, there was applause from all around, but there were still whispers in the middle.

The song of the Sorting Hat this year is very strange. Generally, the school song of the Sorting Hat is only to introduce the characteristics of the four colleges to the freshmen, but this year's school song has a sense of encouragement.

Mike, Benjamin and the others looked at each other, and they naturally knew what the Sorting Hat meant when they sang this song.

It is nothing more than wanting to unite the students to face this disaster together.

And with the end of the sorting ceremony, Dumbledore, like in previous years, came down to the podium in anticipation of everyone's expectations and prepared to preach this year's speech.

"Welcome to our new students." Dumbledore's voice was very loud. He opened his arms and smiled brightly on his mouth. He also welcomed our old students and welcomed you back! There is much more time for speeches, but not now. Eat happily! "

Dumbledore's simple opening speech once again won warm applause from all the teachers and students, and as Dumbledore sat upright and threw his long beard over his shoulders, the originally empty table in front of everyone was on the table. Suddenly there were chunks of meat, pies, platters of vegetables, bread, and various drinks.

"Great!"

A freshman sitting not far from Mike couldn't help cheering out. After so long on the train, they were already starving.

And Mike frowned, looking straight at Dumbledore on the teacher's bench.

In Mike's conjecture, Dumbledore's speech this year should also be a chicken soup quote with the same positive energy as the Sorting Hat song, so as to further stimulate the morale of the students.

But Dumbledore didn't do this, but chose to say a few words just like in previous years and end the game for a long time.

This made Mike really puzzled.

At the same time, the sharp-eyed Mike quickly discovered the abnormality of this year's Hogwarts teacher lineup.

Moody, who taught last year's Defence Against the Dark Arts class, didn't appear in the auditorium, replaced by the Ministry official who had met Mike in Harry's trial court.

Dolores Umbridge.

That's right, the woman who looks like a toad.

The moment he saw this woman, Mike's eyes narrowed.

The appearance of this woman means that the Ministry of Magic has begun to take action on the internal affairs of the Ministry of Magic.

In the bright auditorium, everyone's faces were filled with excited smiles, and the freshmen happily enjoyed their first meal in Hogwarts.

The old students mingled with the new students, and while stacking the plates in front of them with various steaks, they introduced everything about Hogwarts to the new students.

And the name they mentioned the most was Mike Townley.

The praise of the old students made the new students full of curiosity about the legendary Senior Townley, which led to a lot of curious eyes gathered around Mike.

Under these gazes, Mike was looking at Umbridge on the faculty seat.

"It looks like this year will be very interesting!"