Harry Potter’s Raven’s Claw

Inside the Burrow, everyone was still circulating Mike's report card.

This report card can almost be said to be the best result in this year's OWLS exam. After checking it, everyone showed a surprised expression, but after being amazed, they became a little regretful.

Mike's electives were really bad. Ancient Rune is okay. After all, it is a practical subject in alchemy and translation archaeology, but Muggle Studies is too useless. Generally speaking, only those Students who want to dawdle will choose this course.

In their opinion, an outstanding student like Mike should take some more useful courses, such as arithmetic divination or protection of magical creatures.

The former can be combined with other subjects to predict the general trend of many things, such as predicting the weather with astronomy, while the latter can help Mike, a Muggle-born wizard, to better understand the magical and extraordinary creatures in the wizarding world.

After discussion, everyone agreed that Mike must have been tricked when he took elective courses, so he chose Muggle Studies. In order not to delay the future of Mike, Dumbledore even proposed that if Mike If so, he can ask Mike to change the elective courses and directly accept the protection of magical creatures or arithmetic and divination courses.

In this regard, Mike felt very speechless.

He took the Muggle Studies class in order to fish in the water. Now that you let me change the class, don't you deprive me of the right to paddle?

Thinking of this, Mike immediately began to change the subject.

"Let's talk about this later." Mike said with a smile, "Principal Dumbledore, I heard from Harry that you hired a new Potions professor for us, can you introduce him to us?"

Hearing this, the attention of everyone at the scene immediately shifted from Mike to Dumbledore.

This is not surprising, since these people in this room are either students or parents.

Dumbledore, who was watched by everyone, smiled and shook his head, and said helplessly:

"Many of the people present here should know the professor I invited. His name is Horace Slughorn."

Hearing that Black and others were shocked, Mrs. Weasley shouted in surprise:

"Merlin! It turned out to be Professor Slughorn. I remember he has retired?"

"Yes,

He has retired. "Dumbledore said with a smile, "However, considering the severe situation recently, I still invited him to teach, and he agreed very happily. "

Speaking of which, Dumbledore also winked at Harry. In fact, only the two of them knew how difficult it was to invite Professor Slughorn.

On the other hand, Ron, Hermione and the others were stunned, they had never heard of this name at all.

"Mother, do you know this Horace Slughorn?"

"Of course, he used to be our Potions professor."

"And what kind of professor is he, I mean, how is he compared to Snape?"

Listening to Ron's question, Mrs. Weasley was silent for a while, and then said slowly:

"Snape is a genius in Potions, but Professor Slughorn should not be inferior to him in terms of knowledge mastery and teaching level. After all, he has been studying this area all his life, and when it comes to dealing with people, Professor Slughorn is also more gentle, at least he won't target Gryffindor students like Snape did."

A gleam of joy flashed in Ron's eyes, and he couldn't help cheering, because he could already foresee how enjoyable their Potions class next term would be.

It's just that Ron obviously overlooked a problem, that is, his Potions OWLS score was only a pass, and it is estimated that Slughorn would never give him the opportunity to take potions.

"Don't be too happy." Seeing that her son was getting carried away, Mrs. Weasley immediately added, "Professor Slughorn is better than Snape, but he still has one biggest shortcoming, That's vain, and very partial."

"You're right, Morrie!" Black went on, "Professor Slughorn is very vain, and likes to hang out with famous people, successful people, and important people. When we were still at Hogwarts, he He often came to curry favor with me and James, because we are the heirs of the Black family and the Potter family respectively, and we will definitely be big shots in the future. In addition, the student he valued the most at the time was actually Lily, that is, your mother, Harry. You His mother was arguably the best student in Hogwarts at the time. No matter how difficult the spell was, she would always master it, and she would always get full marks in potions. Eun thinks she must be a great big shot! But when it comes to Lupine, he's less enthusiastic."

Lupine frowned, and said a little excitedly:

"You call that not so enthusiastic? Merlin's beard, he wouldn't look at me at all at the time. At first I thought it was because he saw my identity as a werewolf, but then I found out that he was serious about getting rid of you guys. It was only when I realized that everyone except the Chosen One looked down on me, that he looked down on me simply because I was a worthless waste."

The more Lupine talked, the more emotional he became, and in the end even his eyes started to turn red. Obviously, that Professor Slughorn had a great psychological shadow on him.

Seeing this, Tonks was not happy. She glared at Black first, and then comforted Lupine:

"Remus, you are the best in my eyes."

"Thank you dear."

Seeing the two people who became affectionate again in a blink of an eye, Black and others all looked helpless, only Harry still bowed his head in silence, looking autistic.

All this Mike saw in his eyes, he pulled the corner of his mouth and said with a smile:

"You mean, this Professor Slughorn is a guy who really likes being a celebrity teacher?"

Black and Lupine nodded one after another. Mike summed it up very well. In fact, the reason why Slughorn got close to those students who were famous or might become famous in the future was only to get the title of "famous teacher" in the future. This is to set off your own greatness.

In fact, his behavior is indeed very effective. Over the years, Professor Slughorn has accumulated a lot of contacts. Today, many celebrities in the country and even the entire European wizarding world maintain good relations with him, which makes Although his ability is not very good, he has become a benchmark figure in the potion industry.

"Oh, since that's the case, then I can probably understand why he would be the Potions professor at Hogwarts at such an old age." Mike said to Harry with a smile, "After all, we have a The Savior. Harry, I'm afraid this Professor Slughorn will try his best to curry favor with you when school starts."

Mike's words startled Harry slightly.

He is not a fool either. When he and Dumbledore went to negotiate with Slughorn's house before, he could see that the other party wanted to be his teacher very much, and for this reason he agreed to Dumbledore to go to Hogwarts as a teacher. professor.

But at the beginning, he didn't take this matter seriously, because theoretically, every professor at Hogwarts is his own teacher, and as long as Slughorn arrives at Hogwarts, he will be considered as his master. purpose.

It's just that if things are really like what Mike and the others said just now, then Slughorn will definitely give himself some special treatment when the school starts.

For example... making an exception to allow myself to accept a level of Potions course!

Thinking of this, Harry's eyes suddenly brightened, and the previous haze was swept away.

Just then, he suddenly remembered a question.

Harry frowned again, looked at the smiling Dumbledore and asked:

"Principal Dumbledore, if Slughorn becomes our new Potions Professor, what will Professor Snape do?"

As soon as this remark came out, it immediately attracted the attention of everyone present, especially Ron, who had been curious about Snape's whereabouts for a long time.

"Oh? Ha ha! You don't need to worry about this, Professor Snape has been placed very well." Dumbledore said with a smile, "He will get a long-awaited position, that is, Professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts .”

"What? Dumbledore! You let that slug be Harry's Defense Against the Dark Arts professor!?" Black suddenly growled, "You will kill Harry by doing this! You know that guy was a foodie before. Dead Apostles!"

Black was not the only one who was dissatisfied with this decision. Although the reactions of Lupine and the Weasleys on the side were not as violent as Black's, they should also have a lot of opinions on this matter from the frowning expressions.

Dumbledore raised his eyebrows and shook his head:

"Severus is the best candidate."

"What are you kidding? Why can that snot be Harry's Defense Against the Dark Arts professor? Just because he used to be a Death Eater and knows a lot of dark magic?" Standing up on the chair, he looked directly at Dumbledore, "No matter what reason you have been being that slug to the new Snape before, you should know what period it is now, and you should also know what kind of person Snape is. Man! He's such a sloppy piece of shit that could turn back on Voldemort later! I want you to just fire Snape, understand, Dumbledore?"

"No, don't be like this Sirius." Dumbledore said slowly, "You and I should know very well that there is absolutely no way that Severus would hurt Harry. After all..."

"Go to hell!"

Before Dumbledore could finish his sentence, Sirius Black roared, and then pulled the confused-looking Harry and ran out of the restaurant, leaving only the confused-looking Ron, Hermione, and Others with not so good-looking expressions.

Today's protagonists were all taken away, so the birthday party couldn't go on. Although the Weasleys still tried their best to maintain a good atmosphere at the scene, the party ended not long after.

Lupine and Tonks left first. They obviously didn't understand Dumbledore's decision, but their gentle personality prevented them from turning their faces like Black, but they didn't give Dumbledore, his former boss, any good looks. .

Looking at Dumbledore's slightly hunched back in the sun, Mike's heart was a little touched.

He quickened his pace and followed, and said to the old man:

"Professor Dumbledore, let me see you off."

The old man glanced at Mike unexpectedly, then patted Mike on the shoulder with a smile, and continued to walk outside the house.

...

In the Masonic villa area, Mike, wearing only a pair of beach shorts, was lying on a sun lounger by the pool, enjoying his rare leisure time.

There are not many days left before the start of school, and almost a week has passed since Harry's birthday party. Although Black strongly opposed Snape's appointment as the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor, in the end he still couldn't twist Dumbledore's arm. thigh.

This was all within Mike's expectation. People like Dumbledore, Black, couldn't resist the decision made by Dumbledore. At best, they could only congratulate him.

Shaking his head, Mike smiled and raised the wine glass on the side and took a sip before letting out a long sigh of relief.

'This is the life of man! '

Thinking of this, Mike lay back on the sun lounger and put on his sunglasses.

He decided to take a good rest today and not care about anything.

Unfortunately, not long after Mike lay down, Benjamin came to Mike's villa.

Looking at Mike who was relaxing on the sun lounger, Benjamin suddenly had the urge to hit someone.

During this period of time, I was born and died, and I was busy with the wind and rain for the work assigned by Mike every day, but Mike, the hands-off shopkeeper, was here leisurely enjoying the sunbath?

Benjamin's breathing became a little short, and his loose hands clenched into fists.

But after hesitating again and again, Benjamin gave up the urge to beat Mike.

You must know that you are not a student now, since you graduated from Hogwarts, your social attributes have become a social person, and a social person must maintain reason!

'This is a blessing! This is good news! ...'

Benjamin kept hypnotizing himself in the depths of his heart, and finally succeeded in changing his expression from full of indignation to happy, and then quickly approached Mike.

"Boss, I have already done what you told me."

"Huh?" Mike, who was interrupted to rest, was a little upset. He lifted his sunglasses, frowned and looked at Benjamin with some dissatisfaction, and then asked slowly, "What did I tell you?"

Hearing that the blue veins on Benjamin's forehead suddenly popped up, he still kept a smile on his face and said:

"It's about negotiating with the Muggle ZF, boss, have you forgotten?"

"Oh! It's this matter, what do they say?"

Looking at Mike who jumped up from the sun chair, Benjamin nodded and said:

"The attitude of the other party is still respectful, but they want to arrange for you to meet with Prime Minister Ying."

"Is the king against the king?" Mike's mouth curled up, "Interesting."