Raven's Claw at Hogwarts

Chapter 226 The Starting Train

In the next few days, Mike started the busiest time of his vacation, because the school is about to start, and the two Weasley brothers who were the company's leaders and managed the factory, including Mike, all have to go to school, so Mike urgently needs a someone in his place.

Although the two house elves, Shuke and Beta, have enough ability to manage the factory well, and their loyalty is also very good.

But their social status is doomed that they cannot act as leaders in such a large factory.

Don't think that the employees in the factory are all Muggle-born wizards and they don't care about social class. In fact, many wizards here care more about blood and class than those pure-blood wizards.

In short, it is a sentence, whenever their interests are damaged, they will jump out and hold high the banner of blood discrimination, and whenever it is beneficial to their interests, they will become deaf-mute.

This is similar to some people in today's society.

So Mike needs an agent, and this agent must be human, even if he can't do anything, as long as he is a human wizard is enough.Otherwise, the workers below will definitely be dishonest.

Ever since, after careful consideration, Mike selected a few employees with the highest loyalty from each class to form the administrative department, with Harris Carter as the minister.

That's right, it was the good young man who acted bravely back then.

On the other hand, Mike is still taking every time to practice the Patronus Charm.

Having said that, I have to emphasize again that Mike is really busy now.

Sword training, meditation, spell practice, Occlumency practice, Transfiguration practice...

One thing after another almost left him no time to rest. In desperation, Mike had no choice but to compress his sleep time. Now he only sleeps four hours a day, which is far below the sleep index issued by the United Nations.

Fortunately, Mike is a wizard, and a wizard with extremely strong mental power. Let alone four hours, he can rest well with only two hours of sleep every day.

In terms of the Patronus Charm, Mike found his teacher, Flitwick, after practicing alone for two days and found that the effect was too low.

Flitwick had no doubts about Mike's motivation to learn the Patronus Charm. As a professor at Hogwarts, he had known and told Mike that the dementors were about to enter Hogwarts.

What surprised Mike was that Professor Flitwick knew the usage and tricks of the Patronus Charm like the back of his hand, as if he was a master of the Patronus Charm.

But when Mike looked down at Professor Flitwick with adoring eyes, and excitedly asked what his patron saint was, Professor Flitwick remained silent.

Mike asked a stupid question. Although Professor Flitwick knew the Patronus Charm, he hadn't practiced enough to release a complete Patronus.

This is hard.

But Professor Flitwick is not a stingy person, after a while of silence, he still told Mike the reason.

It turns out that Professor Flitwick has been learning the Patronus Charm since he was young, because the Patronus Charm represents high status and virtue in addition to its practicality.However, no matter how hard he tried, how many teachers he consulted, and how much information he collected, he couldn't release a complete Patronus.

This made Professor Flitwick very hurt. He even once suspected that he had no so-called talent for magic spells at all, and the Patronus Charm became a thorn in Professor Flitwick's heart.

So when Mike approached him for advice, he agreed almost without hesitation. He wanted to fulfill his wish on his apprentice.

It's a pity that Mike's situation is similar to that of Flitwick back then.

In the few days left of the holiday, Flitwick, the theory master, started a brutal hell-style training for Mike and taught him countless hearsay tips.

Under this intensity of training, Mike's Patronus Charm improved by leaps and bounds, and the brightness of the Patronus Charm released was directly upgraded from a flashlight to a white woven lamp.

But he still couldn't release the physical Patronus.

Finally, Professor Flitwick finally despaired.

Mike is also very guilty about this. He feels that he has let Professor Flitwick down. Although Professor Flitwick didn't say anything, Mike still feels very uncomfortable.

But he has no choice but to say that magic spells still require talent, especially for extremely difficult spells like the Patronus Charm, once you know it, you will be able to master it, no, it will be very difficult to master it in your lifetime up.

But Mike hasn't given up completely yet. Although he didn't say it out loud, he still feels that there is something wrong with Professor Flitwick's teaching. After all, a person who can't cast the physical Patronus Charm will teach you the Patronus. Curse, this is hard to believe.

So he decided to wait until Hogwarts before going to ask the masters of the Patronus Charm in the school.

With this in mind, Mike, Harry, and the Weasleys walked through the pillars of the platform again to Ninety Three Quarters Station.

Today was the first day of school, and the platform was bustling with activity, full of little wizards pulling luggage and worried parents.

Harry looked at the surprised Muggle freshmen with big mouths looking around, and sighed to Mike, "Look, another freshman. Remember? Mike, we were like this back then."

Mike nodded perfunctorily, and walked towards the train without looking back.

Hogwarts will welcome a new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor this year, Remus Lupine.

The new professor is a powerful wizard, a master of the Patronus charm, and his Patronus is a wolf.

He is the Patronus Charm teacher that Mike found for himself. Mike is confident that as long as he has a good relationship with him, it should be trivial to ask him to teach him the Patronus Charm.

However, just as Mike was in a hurry to run on the train to find Professor Lupine, a voice suddenly sounded from beside him.

"Mike, is that you?" Lucius Malfoy's voice sounded, "What a coincidence, we are sending Xiaolong (Draco's nickname) to school."

Despite his impatience, Mike put on a smile and greeted the Malfoys.

"Good day, Mr. Lucius." Mike nodded.

"It's been so long since I haven't seen you. You're such a handsome young man. I don't know how many little girls will send you love letters in the future." Narcissa praised Mike with a smile, and then touched Germany. Laco's head, "Our little dragon is just too picky about food, otherwise it should start to grow taller."

"mom!"

Draco shrugged off his mother's hand uncomfortably, obviously uncomfortable with his mother doing this to him in front of Mike.

At this time, the Weasley family behind also noticed the situation on Mike's side. As the deadly enemy of the Malfoy family, Mr. Weasley's first reaction was that Mike was in trouble, so he led a large group of people around come up.

"Are you all right, Mike, are they giving you a hard time?"

"Don't worry about Mike, they can't do anything to you with us!"

Before Mr. Weasley could speak, the Weasley brothers were anxious to help Mike out.

And the smile on Lucius' face disappeared the first time he saw the Weasleys, and once again put on that arrogant and proud look to look at the Weasleys.

"Oh, look who this is, isn't this the poor Weasley family?" Lucius glanced at the Weasley family's luggage, and then laughed, "It looks like your useless father It’s still useful, at least he can afford brand new books this year. Congratulations, you finally don’t need to use second-hand books anymore.”

Noticing his gaze, Ginny quickly hid the book she had put on the top of the suitcase. She didn't like Lucius at all.

Mr. Weasley was directly angry, and stepped forward to grab Lucius' collar.

Seeing that a hand-to-hand fight was about to start, Mrs. Weasley quickly stopped him.

In other places, if the two fight, they will fight, but this is Hogwarts Station Nine and Three Quarters, and fighting here is likely to affect their own children.

And Lucius was secretly relieved when he saw this, he was really afraid that Weasley, a reckless lunatic, would fight him here.

This is not to say that Lucius is afraid of Weasley, but that there are so many people watching here, and their self-proclaimed noble Malfoy family mainly fights with others here, or fights hand-to-hand. What a shame.

Lucius was a smart man, and he knew the meaning of taking advantage of it, so he stopped entangled with the Weasleys too much, put on a smile again and turned to look at Mike.

"Mike, you are a smart person, but in my opinion, your understanding of this world is still too shallow. In fact, there are differences between pure-blood magic families. Some families have a pure-blood name but no pure-blood magic family. The strength and wealth of blood nobles. Regarding this, I think I can help you."

Although Lucius didn't name them, his eyes couldn't help but glance at the Weasleys. Some of the families he mentioned were already self-evident.

Faced with this kind of shame, the Weasley brothers reached the limit of their patience, and when they were about to go up and beat Lucius in front of them, Mike stretched out his hand to stop them.

"Mr. Lucius, I think I can tell who is the best friend for me. Thank you for your kindness."

Upon hearing these words, the faces of the Malfoy family turned black. Narcissa and Lucius were a little bit better, after all, they were adults, but Draco was different, he was even so angry that his whole body trembled.

Mike thought it was a little funny, Draco and Lucius are indeed father and son, they even said the same thing when trying to win over someone.

That's right, what he had just said to Lucius was exactly what Harry had said to Draco in first year.

"let's go!"

The black-faced Lucius felt that he had no face, and he couldn't do anything to Mike and others now, so he pulled Draco away.

But as soon as they left, the Weasleys and Harry cheered.

"Mike, you are so cool!"

"Did you see the expressions of the Malfoy family just now, my God, it's so funny!"

……

They didn't suppress their voices at all. Hearing the cheers behind him, Lucius tripped suddenly and almost fell to the ground.

Delayed by this little episode, the train was about to start when Mike and others checked the tickets and got on the train.

Looking at the crowded carriages, Mike shook his head in embarrassment. It seemed that it was difficult to find Professor Lupine today.

But what should be found is still to be found. Mike searched for each car, but Lupine didn't find it but let him find Hermione and Penello who was maintaining order next to Hermione's car.

At work, Penello changed from the delicate and soft voice she had when she was alone with Mike, her sonorous and powerful voice showed the aura of a strong woman in her gestures.

Seeing this, Mike suddenly had an idea, thinking that maybe Penello, an official, would know where Lupine was, so he asked, "Penelo, do you know where the new Professor Lupine is?"

"Lupine? You mean the new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor?"

"Yes."

Penello thought for a moment, and then said apologetically: "I'm sorry Mike, I didn't see him. But I can ask other students, and there should be results."

Mike nodded in satisfaction, found a random seat and sat down, watching Penello busy, feeling very emotional.

It would be great if there is a secretary like Penello, who is capable and beautiful. When the time comes, there will be a secretary to do it, and it will be fine hehehe.

Thinking about it, Mike suddenly felt a furry creature in his arms, and when he looked down, he found that it was Hermione's flat-faced ugly cat.

Perhaps noticing that Mike was looking at him, the big ginger cat meowed twice at Mike.

Although the cat was a bit ugly, Mike didn't dislike it at all, and picked up the cat with a smile.

"Crookshanks!"

Hermione ran out of the box in a hurry, and saw Crookshanks who was being rolled over by Mike at a glance.

"His name is Crookshanks? What an odd name."

Seeing Hermione froze in place suddenly, Mike took the initiative to say hello to avoid embarrassment.However, his words offended the kitten in his arms.

Crookshanks rolled his eyes in a very humane way, then jumped off Mike's arms, and even grabbed Mike's hand before leaving.

"Oh! I'm so sorry! I said the wrong thing."

The interaction of one person and one cat made Hermione laugh out loud, and the atmosphere between the two became much more harmonious.Hermione hugged Crookshanks again and asked:

"Do you like pets too?"

"Of course, I like pets very much. My favorite is dogs, especially black dogs."

Mike stopped suddenly when he said this, and swallowed a mouthful of saliva.

"Then why don't you have a pet?"

He stopped Mike from asking this question. He couldn't tell her that he was afraid of having feelings for her after a long time, right?
Mike thought for a while, and finally said: "Actually, I have a pet."

"Oh? What is it? Can you show me?"

Hermione's eyes lit up all of a sudden, she just loves furry animals very much.When Mike saw this, he stopped the ink, touched the pendant around his neck, and said softly: "Come out, Pappy."

A black light flashed, Raven Pappy flew out of Mike's jacket, and landed on Mike's shoulder with precision and grace.

(End of this chapter)