Raven's Claw at Hogwarts

Chapter 191 The Principal's Office

In the Forbidden Forest, Dumbledore was still studying the diary that had been soaked in black blood, and at the same time, his huge sea-like mental power was sweeping the entire open space over and over again.

Snape stood quietly beside Dumbledore, perhaps because he noticed that Dumbledore was sweeping the surroundings with mental power, Snape asked aloud: "Did you find anything?"

"Boy Mike is not lying, this is indeed a Horcrux." Dumbledore put away the diary and said lightly, "Let's go, we will talk about other things when we return to school."

After finishing speaking, Dumbledore walked towards Hogwarts Castle, taking Hagrid with him halfway.

It's just that he didn't undo the petrification on Hagrid, but used the Levitation Charm to make Hagrid float behind him.

Snape wanted to say something else, but after glancing at Hagrid who was still maintaining his original posture, he stopped talking and silently followed Dumbledore's footsteps.

"Oh, by the way, Severus." Dumbledore seemed to have thought of something, turned his head and blinked playfully at Snape behind him, "You first collect the acromantula venom here before Go back, I'm sorry for you."

Snape's face turned dark all of a sudden. Although he had scolded Dumbledore's family in his heart, he still obeyed Dumbledore's order and took out his wand without saying a word and began to collect the venom.

Compared with Mike, Snape's efficiency is much higher. I saw that with a light wave of his wand, a small transparent water column quickly floated out of the body of an acromantula, and finally fell into the water in Snape's hand. Disappeared in a glass container.

Snape swung his wand again and again, and it didn't take long to clean up all the acromantulas in the open space.

After finishing all this, Snape shook his robe vigorously, and left the open space without looking back.

After Snape walked away, the charred corpse of a centaur suddenly moved in the open space.

Immediately afterwards, an acromantula larva the size of an adult's fist suddenly emerged from the centaur's chest, shaking its body to shake off the ashes from its body, this acromantula turned its head to look at the direction Snape left , Those eight eyes shone with a humanized brilliance.

The next moment, as if it had seen enough, the giant eight-eyed spider withdrew its gaze and crawled towards the dense forest.

It seems that because it is very unaccustomed to this eight-legged crawling method, the crawling posture of this acromantula is very twisted, and the moving speed is also very slow.But this posture didn't last long. Adjusting its posture while crawling, the acromantula quickly adapted and disappeared into the dense forest.

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Mike followed Professor Flitwick all the way to Mrs. Pomfleur's infirmary. Because the battle was too intense, Mike didn't feel the pain in his chest and the powerlessness caused by excessive blood loss until now.

When the two came to the infirmary, Mrs. Pomfler was treating Percy. Percy's injury was very serious. Because Mike used white fresh on his severed arm, the wound had begun to heal, so the follow-up The arm creates a great hindrance.

Just as Professor Flitwick was about to ask, Mrs. Pomfleur gave him an annoyed look. Immediately afterwards, Mrs. Pomfleur lowered her head and continued to treat Percy, ignoring Mike and Professor Flitwick.

Professor Flitwick scratched his head in embarrassment, and he became even more anxious when he saw that Mike was already pale and weak.

"Hello, Professor Flitwick." The freckled Soraka said with some coyness, "Let me treat Mike."

Hearing this, a look of horror appeared on Mike's face, and he quickly shook his head like a rattle.

The treatment that Soraka had given him before had left a deep shadow in his heart. Now he would rather die than let Soraka treat him again. This was not because Mike was too weak, but because he suddenly woke up and found himself The scene of having been disemboweled is simply too horrifying.

But Professor Flitwick, who was so anxious that he didn't care about Mike's own opinion, agreed almost without hesitation.

So under Mike's horrified gaze, Soraka took out a bottle of purple potion with a smile, opened the lid and held it in front of Mike.

"Mike, come to drink the medicine." Soraka said softly, "This is the water of life and death with an increased dose. I guarantee that you will never wake up during the operation this time."

After finishing speaking, Soraka licked his lips, looking impatient.

Faced with such a Soraka, Mike naturally clenched his teeth, unwilling to drink anyway.

In this regard, Professor Flitwick made a move, and he relaxed Mike's facial muscles.

Soraka smiled and bowed to Professor Flitwick, and then poured down a large bottle of life-death water under Mike's desperate gaze.

After the medicine entered his body, Mike felt that what he drank seemed to be the cold wind from December, and an extremely cold force flowed down his throat, covering every blood vessel in him, almost instantaneously , Mike stopped thinking and lost consciousness.

Seeing that Mike had already fallen asleep, Soraka exhaled lightly, bowed to Professor Flitwick again, and moved Mike to a side operating room.

It was the evening of the next day when Mike woke up again. Unlike the last time, there was no one in Mike's ward this time, and Penello and the others did not come to see him.

Looking at the dim sunlight outside the window, Mike rubbed his drowsy head, trying to dispel all the drowsiness left by the water of life and death.

Yawning, Mike unbuttoned his hospital gown and looked down at his chest.

It can be seen that the wound that was torn open again due to excessive movements in the battle has been re-packed at this moment, and even the pain can't be felt.

Nodding in satisfaction, Mike got out of bed and was about to go to Dumbledore's office.

Although Dumbledore said at the time that he would go to the principal's office after his injury recovered, Mike still felt that the sooner he went, the better, otherwise he would not feel comfortable with this matter.

Perhaps because it was the time of meal, the infirmary was empty, so Mike easily walked out of the infirmary and arrived at the door of the principal's office.

The headmaster's office is located on the eighth floor of Hogwarts like the Room of Requirement. There is an ugly and hideous monster stone statue at the door. Visitors must read the correct password before the monster stone statue moves away, revealing the real entrance inside.

Looking at the monster stone statue in front of him, Mike couldn't help but think of a legend about Dumbledore and the Room of Requirement.

According to legend, Dumbledore once attended a reception and was about to return to his office, but he suddenly had an urgent need to urinate on the way, so Dumbledore happened to enter the Room of Response while half drunk and half awake.

Because all Dumbledore was thinking about at the time was to find a place to urinate, so the Room of Requirement turned into a room full of spittoons, and finally Dumbledore started with an extremely ornate spittoon in his arms. He even took it back to his office, only to find out the next day.

Shaking his head to get his wild thoughts out of his brain, Mike tidied up his clothes, silently entered a state of brain closure, and then spoke the password.

"Vanilla ice cream!"

"The password is correct."

The monster stone statue protruded faintly, and moved to the side, revealing the wall behind it.

Then the wall suddenly cracked, and a spiral staircase appeared in front of Mike.

Mike walked up the stairs for a while, before he saw a shiny oak door with a brass knocker in the shape of a griffin.

Mike reached out to knock on the door, but before his hand touched the door, the oak door opened automatically.

Walking slowly into the principal's office, what appeared in front of Mike was a spacious circular room. In the center of the room was a huge eagle-foot table, which was covered with miscellaneous parchments.

The closet on the side of the room was filled with all kinds of silverware, most of which were tableware such as forks and knives, but there were also some exquisite silver statues. It seemed that Dumbledore had the habit of collecting silverware.

Behind the oak door is a wooden shelf, and a beautiful bird with a red body is standing on the shelf and looking at Mike curiously.

You don't need to guess Mike to know that this must be the phoenix Fawkes raised by Dumbledore.

I didn’t look carefully enough in the amphitheater before, and when I got closer, Mike realized that the phoenix looked very old. Mike couldn’t help reaching out his hand to touch Fox, but a hoarse voice suddenly rang out. cut him off.

"Don't touch it, you wild boy from the country."

Mike was so frightened by the sound that he almost got out of the closed state of his brain. He patted his chest twice before looking up to where the sound came from.

I saw five magical portraits hanging neatly on one wall of the headmaster's office. These are all the previous headmasters of Hogwarts.

It was a chubby, somewhat bald old wizard who was speaking, and he was staring at Mike viciously at the moment, as if Mike had done something terrible just now.

Mike recognized him, he was Phineas Black, from the Black family, one of the 28 pure-blood families, known as the most unpopular headmaster in the history of Hogwarts, bar none.

Mike didn't know what he did to get such a title, but judging from what he did just now, it's not surprising that he could get such a title after his death.

"Phoenix, you are really annoying!" In a picture frame not far away, an old witch with long curly silver hair suddenly opened her eyes and said with a frown, "No wonder everyone doesn't like you."

After finishing speaking, he looked at Mike again, his originally frowning brows quickly relaxed, and he put on a smile and said, "It's okay, kid, don't be afraid of that bald, fat old man."

As soon as this remark came out, all the other portraits around burst into laughter, and Mike couldn't help but cast his gaze on Phoenix's shining forehead.

I don't know which wicked guy, when he painted Phoenix's portrait, he even specially added some white paint to make his forehead look sparkling.

Amidst the ridicule of the crowd, Phoenix's face in the portrait immediately darkened. Just as he was about to say something, an old and familiar voice came over.

"Well, it looks like you already know the previous headmasters of Hogwarts."

Hearing Dumbledore's half-joking words, the portraits hanging on the wall immediately stopped moving, closed their eyes and began to pretend to be asleep.

Mike looked at Dumbledore speechlessly. He couldn't understand why these portraits were so afraid of Dumbledore. They were all Dumbledore's predecessors, and they should have a higher status than Dumbledore.

"I'm sorry Mike, I just went to get some food." Dumbledore put a traceless stretching spell bag on the eagle foot table, "Don't be dazed, sit down and eat together, I guess you Must have not eaten yet."

Mike watched Dumbledore take out bags of candies and cakes from the bag, and couldn't help swallowing. He also loves sweets.

"Thank you, Professor."

Mike came to the eagle foot table, took a big bite of a piece of cake that Dumbledore handed over.

The moment it entered his mouth, a sweet aroma of cake and the wonderful aroma of chocolate filled Mike's mouth, making Mike squint his eyes.

Dumbledore laughed out loud when he saw Mike enjoying himself, looking very happy.

"How about it? It's not bad." Dumbledore said, "This is the traditional chocolate cake of the Duke of Bees. I also asked them to add double honey on top. It is simply the best!"

"Yeah, delicious. Principal, you are such a gourmet!"

After Mike praised Dumbledore, he wolfed down the cake in his hand. He hadn't eaten for a whole day. He just woke up and didn't feel it. Now he felt the hunger in his stomach instantly after taking a bite of the cake.

Perhaps infected by Mike's eating, Dumbledore also picked up a large piece of cake and ate it.

As a result, there were only two people chewing in Dumbledore's office.

After 10 minutes, Mike collapsed on the soft chair and patted his stomach contentedly. He ate three pieces of cake before he was completely full.

Dumbledore, on the other hand, looked at him with a grin. He had already ended the fight when Mike started the third cake.

"Try this Mike again, cockroach pile, a wonderful candy!"

Seeing that Mike had also ended the battle, Dumbledore smiled and took out a large bag from the drawer and put it in front of Mike.

And Mike was shocked when he heard the cockroach pile. He had heard the name of the devil candy for a long time.

Carefully opened a small opening on the bag, and saw that the bag was full of huge dark brown cockroaches, most of which were still alive, and rushed towards the mouth of the bag when Mike opened the bag.

(End of this chapter)