Harry Potter’s Raven’s Claw

Facts have proved that the old saying from the ancient eastern country that good fortune and misfortune do not come singly is true.

The people at Hogwarts had not yet recovered from the news of Dumbledore's arrest, when they were shocked by another news.

The prisoners of Azkaban have escaped en masse!

Mike was holding a newspaper with ten black and white magical pictures, nine of which were wizards and the other one was a witch.

Some of them were laughing silently, while others were arrogantly tapping their fingers on the borders of their pictures.

Their names and the crimes they committed are marked below each photo. Although they are just ordinary words, the meaning revealed in them reminds Mike side by side that none of them are. Not a villain with blood on his hands!

And they also have a common crime, which is to join Voldemort's Death Eaters to serve the Dark Lord!

And the most striking of them, of course, was the only woman, Bellatrix Lestrange. Charges: Torture and torture of Frank and Alice Longbottom, resulting in permanent disability of the two...

Mike recognized the name almost instantly, Betatrix!

She's really the owner of the vault they robbed at Gringotts before, and she's Sirius Black's cousin and the one who sent Neville's parents into St Mungo's by hand.

Mike had seen Bellatrix as a young man, a wonderful woman, with the same handsome face as Sirius.

Mike is not surprised by this. It is normal for the rich to look better than the next, because they can always marry the most beautiful girls. It is not surprising that the pure-blood family that has been passed down for thousands of years is full of handsome men and beautiful women. .

What surprised Mike the most was that Bellatrix looked so much worse now than it did before!

Judging from the photo, Bellatrixner's long black hair looks tousled, and her thick eyelids stare at Mike, as if she wants to eat Mike alive, but there is a trace on her thin lips. A proud, contemptuous smile, from her eyebrows, Mike can even see some shadows of Sirius, but more, it is endless madness.

This must be the masterpiece of the Dementors.

Those terrifying and terrifying species can always make people feel hopeless, and living in such an environment for a long time, human beings will be driven crazy even if they survive.

Shaking his head, Mike continued to flip through the newspaper, and what caught his eye was the detailed report of the Daily Prophet on this collective escape.

"Azkaban Multi-Prison Break! What the hell are Fudge and the Ministry of Magic doing? ! 》

After reading only one headline, Mike closed the newspaper, because the next content was no longer necessary.

Mike can guess just by guessing that the following words must be all attacks on the Ministry of Magic.

I have to say that the Daily Prophet's behavior is really good.

Today's wizarding world has been panicked by the news of Voldemort's return. At this time, a group of Death Eaters headed by Bella escaped from prison again. It's really bad news that can't be more bad.

It would also be nice to have them scold the officials of the Ministry of Magic at this point to dispel some of their anger.

But the biggest question now is how to resolve the panic among the students at Hogwarts?

The students in Hogwarts are not all idiots, there are even a lot of smart people, and although these people don't say it, they have actually admitted that Voldemort has returned!

Mike looked up at the others in the auditorium,

As expected, everyone looked terrified.

Especially Harry, who now looks like he can't be described as terrified, just lost.

He had just gone to Snape's office last night for his first Occlumency class, and he must have had a bad experience last night.

Coupled with the fact that the Quidditch match is imminent recently, the training volume has increased greatly, and Umbridge is constantly finding fault with him. He must be in a bad state now.

Even so, Mike didn't mean to comfort him at all. On the contrary, he even pulled Franklin out of the auditorium immediately - class was coming!

What took up Mike's whole morning was the potions class, which made many people's faces look unsightly. After all, it was not a good experience to rush to the cold and damp basement when you woke up in the winter.

But not everyone's faces were ugly. When Mike and the others entered the Potions Classroom, they found that Professor Snape, who usually had a stinky face, was standing on the podium and snickering.

Although the smile was quickly suppressed, many people, including Mike, saw this scene in their eyes.

For a time, everyone was secretly relieved, Snape was in a good mood, then their life would be much better.

And only Mike thanked Harry secretly.

"Uh-huh! Hurry up and get back to your seats!"

Snape cleared his throat and said seriously, everyone didn't dare to look at him after hearing this, and quickly returned to his seat.

"Franklin! Why is your tie crooked!?" Snape snarled suddenly, "I think you're trying to be special on purpose! Five points from Ravenclaw!"

"I……"

Franklin looked bewildered and murmured as if he wanted to refute, but at the last moment he held back and did not speak.

Ever since Snape learned that the school rumors about him and Umbridge came from Ravenclaw (Ron didn't dare to betray Mike, he just said it was from Ravenclaw) Snape has been trying to retaliate since then.

After being the key target for a long time, everyone in Ravenclaw also understands a truth. Don't argue with Snape about the correctness of the deduction, because then he will deduct more points for you!

Therefore, Franklin was silent, staring at the desk with frustration and anger in his eyes.

Snape on the podium felt a little disappointed when he saw that Franklin didn't respond, he frowned and said to the students:

"Today we are going to learn the Scarpin Manifestation Charm. If you have previewed the text as instructed, you should know that this is a spell that can analyze the ingredients of potions. It is an extremely important spell for the whole potions study. , because it can display the composition of the potion in front of you in a clear and magical way, allowing you to analyze, add or subtract a certain ingredient more calmly. Therefore, the birth of almost any new formula throughout the ages are all related to it.

Of course, it has another function, which is to push back the potion formula! Many people in history have done this. They parsed out those unique recipes and made big profits! I don't recommend you do this unless you want to spend the rest of your life in Azkaban. But I think it's because I'm overthinking it. After all, you're all just a bunch of stupid trolls. With your brains, I'm afraid you can't do things like reverse the potion formula! The vast majority of you may not even be able to cast this spell, it is so hard for you after all. So, now, please open the wooden box in front of you! "

Snape sprayed the crowd with venom without any scruples, but everyone had been used to Snape's way of speaking for so many years, bluntly ignored the ugly words inside, and opened the box, and saw the box. Inside was a vial of unidentified liquid without any label.

"This is the water of life and death that I prepared by myself! Your task today is to use the xx analysis method to completely parse the ingredient list of this bottle of water of life and death!" Snape said in a strange tone, "I think the formula of the water of life and death. Even if your brain is only the size of an apple, you should remember it clearly. So I added some other things in it, and before the get out of class, if anyone can't see what I added in it. Then...hehehe~"

Snape's speech ended with a chilling sneer. Although he didn't clearly say what would happen if he didn't complete the task, everyone raised the spirit of twelve points and took that as fast as they could. The bottle of special life and death water poured some in front of him.

Afterwards, many people started scratching their heads. Most of these people have not previewed, because as long as they have previewed, they should have found that the detailed casting steps of the Scarpin Manifestation Charm are printed in their textbooks - " Advanced Potions" book.

Like them, Mike didn't do any preliminaries, but Mike had the help of Benjamin, a potion genius, so in fact, Mike had already mastered the release skills of the Scarpin Revealing Spell long before this class.

I saw that he poured some water of life and death into a beaker just like the others, then took out his wand and waved it lightly at the beaker.

Then, a miraculous scene happened.

All the transparent liquid in the beaker disappeared, replaced by a thick fog.

The fog floated in front of Mike for a long time, and at the same time, the configuration of the fog in front of him automatically appeared in Mike's mind:

Narcissus root, wormwood...and lastly, lavender and icing!

Mike's pupils suddenly dilated a little, and at this moment he really admired Snape's accomplishments on the way to the potion.

He could even think of adding lavender and icing sugar to the water to change the taste and smell of the water, making it a hypnotic drink with the aroma and sweetness of lavender!

And according to the test results of the Scarpin Revealing Spell, the effect of this water of life and death has not been weakened in any way after the addition of these two materials. On the contrary, its hypnotic effect has become stronger!

This is kind of scary!

You must know that potions can be said to be a rigorous science, and it is extremely difficult to improve those formulas that must be fixed!

But Snape had an improved formula at his fingertips, and depending on the situation, it seemed that the formula was invented by himself!

"Professor," Mike said, holding up his hand, "you put extra lavender and icing on it, right?"

Hearing that, Snape's expression instantly became extremely ugly. He stared at Mike in a daze, and nodded slowly after a while.

Everyone else in the classroom exploded.

In the time just now, many of them have also tried, but only Mike succeeded!

"Is this a genius? I'm stupid!"

"I'm stupid too, but did you see Snape's expression just now? I think he's really stupid! But this is too funny, Snape also said that we can't do the reverse push formula, Backfoot Mike pushed the formula backwards, hahaha!"

Hearing the whispers coming from the surroundings, Mike's brows furrowed together again.

He found that what Snape had just said was actually true in a sense.

Some of the students in this classroom are really troll heads, and they even think they have come up with the formula for life and death water.

People like that are really stupid, because they don't even know what the Scarpine Manifestation Charm does or the essence of the potion formula.

To know that a complete potion formula is not just a list of ingredients, it must also be marked clearly about the process of making this potion and what may happen.

However, the Scarpin Revealing Spell can only parse out the most basic ingredient list, so it is indeed extremely difficult to reverse the formula of the potion.

Snape also heard the whispers of those people, and his face instantly darkened.

And the students who were whispering also noticed Snape's expression and closed their mouths immediately.

Unfortunately, it's too late!

"You two, lock down tonight!" Snape yelled. "And Hufflepuff deducts 10 points for making a fuss in class!"

The two of them were obviously old fritters, and instead of chatting with Snape, they silently agreed to punish them.

Franklin on the side also snickered when he saw this, but unfortunately he was named by Snape again before he was happy for a long time.

At this point, Snape finally let out a bad breath and began to explain the tricks about the xx observation method. As for Mike's first successful analysis, Snape completely ignored it.

After class, Franklin regained his energy immediately, grabbed his bag and ran out of the basement, so he was deducted five points by Snape for the reason that students were not allowed to run in the hallway.

But Franklin obviously didn't care about this, and Mike even suspected that he didn't even hear Snape's voice, because his running speed didn't seem to slow down at all.

Mike also knew why Franklin was so anxious. The first official Quidditch match of the year was about to start at noon today. The two sides were two old enemies, Slytherin Academy and Gryffindor Academy.

As an avid Quidditch fan, Franklin could not let go of such a game.

Shaking his head, Mike packed his things and walked out the door.

Of course, he didn't go to Quidditch, he wasn't interested in that sport.

Mike has only one destination, and that is Professor Flitwick's office.