Raven's Claw at Hogwarts

Chapter 230 Mike's Patronus
Mike could swear that this was the smoothest release he had ever made since practicing the Patronus Charm.

And the result did not disappoint him. When he shouted the Patronus Charm, the tip of the black prickly pear wand shone brighter than ever before.

That ray of light is so different in the dim environment of the office. Although its brightness is astonishing, it is surprisingly not dazzling, and Mike who is directly illuminated by it even feels a little warm all over his body, and his mood is also warm. More and more comfortable, very comfortable.

Gradually, as Mike increased the output of magic power, the ray of light turned into a mist of light, and then quickly gathered together, and the silhouette of a bird appeared.

"This is... a raven?"

Mike looked at the patron saint he had released in shock. Although it was still vague, it was indeed a raven very similar to Pappy in outline.

After successfully summoning his patron saint, Mike felt ecstasy in his heart.And this joy further strengthened the power of the Patronus Charm, and the raven slowly solidified its body!
Mike's feeling at this moment is very strange, this patron saint version of the raven gives him a very familiar feeling, as if they are a pair of old friends.

"You are amazing! Mike!" Lupine looked more excited than Mike, and changed his tired look from the side, "Merlin! What did I see!"

Mike ignored Lupine at all, and at the moment he was concentrating on controlling his Patronus to fly in the small office.And as time went by, the excitement in Mike's heart gradually dissipated, which made the patron saint Raven in front of Mike become thinner and thinner, and finally disappeared completely.

Mike put down his wand, stared blankly at the place where the raven disappeared, and a smile appeared on his face unconsciously.

My patron saint is the raven.

It's not bad, at least it's a creature that fits with Ravenclaw.

Mike thought so, and he had already guessed about his patron saint Mike, and the raven was one of them, and it was also the one that Mike liked but not the favorite.

His favorite is actually the eagle. After all, Ravenclaw's school emblem is an eagle, which is very beneficial for him to rely on the Patronus to recruit subordinates in Ravenclaw in the next step.

And now, the raven is not bad, at least it is not a snake or a lion or something.

Just like Dumbledore, a representative figure of Gryffindor, his Patronus turned out to be a bird.Although the bird is a phoenix, it is still a bird.

In everyone's impression, the people of Ravenclaw are most suitable for the image of creatures like birds, and only lions and tigers are worthy of them like Gryffindor.

Coincidentally, Mike once asked Professor Flitwick what the Patronus he wanted most, and the answer turned out to be a brown bear!
Mike was speechless. You are the head of Ravenclaw, and the Patronus you want the most is a tough creature like a brown bear?
Compared with the above two, Mike feels that his patron saint is already very good.

"You are amazing! I have never seen a genius as talented as you! You are simply stronger than Lily!"

"You won the prize, I just had better luck."

Faced with Lupin's praise, Mike responded modestly, but in fact what Mike said was true, he was able to summon the physical version of the Patronus just now. The luck did take a lot of credit, and now let Mike summon one. That is absolutely impossible.

And just now he cast the Patronus Charm in an absolutely safe environment, it's hard to say whether he can release it in actual combat.

Thinking of this, Mike remembered the trick that Lupine just said, associating ideas.

Yes, Mike called the technique taught by Lupine the association method, which is a very apt name.

In this way, Mike can quickly enter the state and release the Patronus Charm.

And the so-called association object Mike has already decided, that is the raven, the raven mentioned here is not limited to the living raven, the raven statue and the raven pendant are both acceptable.

Mike didn't choose this randomly. Looking at his journey in the past two years, the ravens have played a considerable role in it. Whether it's Raven Pappy or Raven's Nest, they have given Mike a lot of help. .

As long as Mike thinks of raven, he can associate many good memories and imaginations about the future.

For example, the establishment of an organization whose symbol is Raven defeated Voldemort and swept the world.

Mike is a common man, he does not have too high ideals.His desire is very simple, wealth, power and lust. If possible, it would be best to be able to defeat death.

But even though Mike has chosen to associate things, it is still difficult to achieve the peak of joy in an instant. Although Mike has accumulated a lot of related self-hypnosis experience from the practice of emotion casting skills and Occlumency, But it still takes a lot of training.

In short, there is a long way to go, and comrades still need to work hard.

Lupine was very happy to see that Mike successfully released the Patronus with a physical body for the first time after accepting his own teaching.

Although he has just become a professor, he has already replaced himself as a teacher.And teachers always have a natural affection for students with excellent grades and talents.

Because of this, Lupine's attitude towards Mike is much better now.

The two exchanged business again for a while before Mike was about to leave. After all, it was getting late and so many things had happened today. Professor Lupine's body should be in urgent need of rest now.

However, just as Mike was about to leave, Lupine suddenly stopped him.

"Wait, Mike. What do you think should be better for my first class? You know, this is my first time as a teacher. Although I have done some homework, I am still nervous."

"You don't have to be nervous, Professor Lupine." Mike replied with a big smile, "Your predecessor was a standard embroidered pillow. With him in front of you, as long as you perform at your usual level, you can be called a jewel." gone."

Hearing Mike's words, Lupine breathed a sigh of relief, yawned and said, "Thank you for your comfort, Mike. It's getting late, you should go back and rest early, and you can come to me to practice every day after dinner."

"Thank you, professor, good night, and good dreams."

"Sweet dreams for you too, Mike."

……

Lupine's blessing didn't work. After returning to the dormitory, Mike fell asleep and slept until the next morning without having a dream.

But when Mike got up the next day, he received this year's class schedule.

This year's curriculum is a bit special compared to the past two years. For example, in addition to the compulsory courses, Mike's curriculum has two more elective courses, Ancient Runes and Muggle Studies.

The reason why Mike chose ancient runes and Muggle studies as his electives was after careful consideration. There are 5 elective courses, namely divination, protection of magical creatures, Muggle studies, ancient runes and arithmetic divination.

Among them, Muggle Studies was completely chosen by Mike to make up the number, because everyone must choose at least two elective courses.

The reason why he took this class and not the others was simply because Mike wanted to be lazy.

After all, he himself was born as a Muggle, so I believe it would save much effort to turn around and study Muggles again.

Here, divination and arithmetic divination come from the same family. Strictly speaking, arithmetic divination should be regarded as a category under divination. The difference between the two is that arithmetic divination uses numbers for divination, and complex digital tables and a large number of tables are often used. data.

This is a bit like the big data of later generations, all of which use a large amount of data to predict the future, but arithmetic divination becomes more powerful with the intervention of magic power.

It is hard to say which of the two is stronger and weaker. Big data has an extremely exaggerated amount of data, while top arithmetic fortunetellers have magical blessings.

The pure divination relies on props such as tea crystal ball tarot cards for divination. Compared with rigorous arithmetic divination, pure divination is more mysterious, and it seems more like nonsense to outsiders.

Another point is that simple divination requires talent more than arithmetic divination, and talented people can display unimaginable talents in divination.

Just like the professor of divination at Hogwarts today, her highest achievement is to successfully predict that Harry will kill Voldemort.

This achievement also earned her a long-term meal ticket as a professor at Hogwarts.

Mike, on the other hand, is not interested in these two courses.

Not to mention divination, Mike doesn't believe in prophecy at all, but the seemingly rigorous arithmetic divination...

Sorry, the thing Mike hates the most is math.

And the Protection of Magical Creatures class...

To be honest, Mike really wanted to take it. After all, although the professors in this class often brainwash you into loving magical creatures, generally speaking, it is very interesting to be able to get in touch with some new magical creatures.

It's a pity that the professor of the protection of magical creatures class has changed this year, and it has been replaced by Hagrid.

On top of that, Hagrid had issues with him.

In the end, Mike only had the elective course of Ancient Runes left to choose.

But even if there are other options, Mike will definitely choose this course.The reason is that he firmly believes that this course will be of great use.

In fact, the ancient runic script is actually the ancient runic script. The ancient runic script mentioned here is quite different from the runic script in the Muggle world, but strictly speaking, the two are actually from the same family.

They are all divine scripts in Germanic mythology, and they are the scriptures of wisdom obtained by Father God Odin as a sacrifice to the World Tree, also known as runic scripts.

Runes or runes have been handed down intact in the wizarding world, and wizards have developed and utilized the power buried in this text.

Used in alchemy, the special technique of enchanting was born, making modern alchemy flourish again.

Used in body modification, many terrifying monsters were born.

……

In addition, not to mention that many ancient classics are written in runes. If you don't know the ancient runes, you won't be able to get the treasures left by these ancients.

It can be said that if your ancient rune scores can reach above excellent in the ultimate wizard exam, then you will definitely not have to worry about employment problems after graduation.

No matter what your origin is!
The reason for this is that apart from the role of the ancient rune, the most important point is that the ancient rune is really too difficult!

Mike remembered that the United Nations once conducted a survey, saying that Chinese is the most difficult language in the world to learn, and the dialects in Chinese are even nicknamed "the language of the devil".

But these are trivial in front of the ancient runes. Runes are the language of the gods, and the language of the gods is much more difficult to learn than the 'language of the devil'.

Although it is difficult, Mike still intends to learn.

After all, the role of the ancient rune is too great, so he would not hesitate to lose all his blond hair!

Let’s talk back to Hogwarts. Since there is no ancient rune class today, Mike plans to go to the Room of Requirement to do some regular training after a boring day of classes.

But when he passed the hall, he bumped into Harry who was frowning.

"Hey, Harry. What's the matter, you're looking bad?"

Harry obviously didn't expect to meet Mike here, and when he saw Mike greet him, he was taken aback for a moment before replying, "It's nothing, it's just... I just don't feel well. I actually fainted on the train. , but I..."

After Harry finished speaking, he also felt a little surprised that he just told Mike what he was thinking.

And Mike also thought of something when he heard the words. The incident of Harry fainting on the train has indeed become a laughing stock among many people, especially Draco. He must be crazily using this incident to mock Harry today.

After thinking about it for a while, a bright smile appeared on Mike's face, and he said, "Don't take it to heart, Harry. Draco and the others don't understand your feelings at all."

"Dementors are horribly evil creatures that bring back your deepest nightmares, and people like you and me who have been through them deal with them a hundred times worse than normal. "

Harry looked at Mike with a look of surprise, he was no longer surprised that Mike could always point out what was in his mind, what surprised him was what Mike said 'people like you and me'.

Could it be that Mike...

"That's right, I'm the same as you, and I know that feeling too. I almost passed out on the train last time." Mike paused, and said solemnly, "Do you know why I didn't pass out?"

Harry looked at Mike eagerly and shook his head, desperate for an answer.

"It's a strong body! My exercise during the summer vacation has given me a strong body, which allows me to recover from that state quickly." Mike used the most bewitching words like a great orator who is giving a speech on the stage. A powerful voice said, "Also, I will also use the Patronus Charm!"

"Is it the same spell that Professor Lupine used before?"

Before Mike finished speaking, Harry asked eagerly, and Mike was not annoyed when his speech was interrupted, and replied: "Yes, it is the spell. The Patronus spell is known to resist the attack of dementors." The only spell, it can be said that as long as you learn this spell, then the dementors will no longer be your troubles."

Harry opened his mouth wide and looked at Mike adoringly. He didn't expect Mike to be so knowledgeable that he could even spell spells that weren't in the textbook.

And Mike looked at Harry's reaction, and asked with a meaningful smile on his face:

"Want to learn? I can teach you."

(End of this chapter)