Raven's Claw at Hogwarts

Chapter 233 Ancient Runes
Mike couldn't believe everything in front of him. He couldn't believe that the thing he was most afraid of deep down in his heart was a female version of himself.

The 'beautiful girl version of Mike' who came out of the closet gave a coquettish look at the surprised open-mouthed Mike, then walked up to Mike and began to twist his waist.

The dance she danced was very familiar to Mike. It was the dance performed by the dancers in the tow bar he often went to in his previous life.

To be honest, 'Beautiful Girl Mike' dances very well. Her pure face and shiny blond hair give her an angelic and pure temperament. A girl with such a temperament dances like a hellish succubus. Dance, quite a different flavor.

It's a pity that Mike is really not in the mood to appreciate such a dance at the moment.

In fact, the black prickly pear wand had appeared in his hands at some point, and it could be seen from his trembling right hand that Mike was trying to suppress his anger at the moment.

Raven Pappy had already burst out laughing.

As the Nightmare Raven who is inseparable from Mike, it is the person who knows Mike best in the world, so he naturally knows what's going on.

And Mike listened to the ugly crows in his ears, feeling very much like a Japanese fool (ah or).

He told himself over and over again, this Boggart is still useful, this Boggart is still useful...

Only then did it suppress the urge to send it to heaven with a killing curse.

Mike really didn't expect that Ms. Gray's threat of turning herself into a beautiful girl had caused such a big psychological shadow on him, even the fear of Dumbledore and Voldemort was not comparable.

Now Mike is very fortunate that he used Occlumency during class during the day. If 'Beautiful Mike' appears in full view, Mike can't guarantee whether he will go crazy on the spot and kill people to silence him.

Finally, before the 'Pretty Mike' took all his clothes off, Mike activated Occlumency.

Boggart, who couldn't read Mike's inner thoughts at all, had no choice but to retreat into the closet, and Mike also closed his eyes and began to brew emotions.

He didn't come here tonight just to see what he was afraid of, he also hoped to use this Boggart to practice releasing the Patronus Charm in actual combat.

After these days of frantic study, Mike is now able to summon the physical version of the Patronus 100% in a safe environment, which amazed Professor Lupine who taught him.

The reason why Mike's progress is so fast is entirely due to his superb Occlumency.

Occlumency, a state of pure sanity that allows the mind to empty its head, is theoretically opposed to the patron saint of curses, a spell that relies on strong emotions to cast, but Mike discovered the wonderful characteristics between the two.

Occlumency practiced to a high level can not only resist the invasion of the brain from the outside world, but also generate false memories and emotions in the brain to confuse opponents.

Mike has practiced Occlumency for so long, and basically practiced Occlumency every day before going to bed, and this accumulation has also made his Occlumency improve by leaps and bounds.

It is temporarily impossible for Mike to create false memories, which requires the assistance of Legilimency, but Mike can still create false emotions or hypnotize existing emotions.

Ever since, relying on this method, Mike accomplished almost impossible things.

It takes about a month to master the Patronus Charm proficiently!
Back again, Mike used Occlumency to confuse the Boggart, causing it to emerge from the closet as a Dementor again.

Looking at the 'Dementor' with teeth and claws in front of him, Mike frowned slightly.

To be honest, although the dementor transformed into a Boggart looks exactly the same as the real dementor, but aside from the psychological shadow on the dementor, this thing is just a look, Mike is facing it At that time, there was no feeling of coldness on the train at all.

However, the conditions were limited and Mike didn't dislike it. He raised his wand and after a short brewing, he softly shouted the spell.

"Call God for protection."

A burst of soft white light rose, and a huge silver-white raven suddenly appeared, opened its mouth and screamed, and rushed towards the 'dementor' that was covered in gold and jade.

The Patronus Charm is indeed one of the strongest defensive spells. Boggarts, creatures that theoretically have no effect on the Patronus Charm, retreated steadily when facing Mike's Patronus. Mike refused to come out no matter how tempting he was.

Looking at the dilapidated wardrobe, Mike was a little worried. This Boggart was obviously frightened by him. However, Lupine will have to teach students from other colleges tomorrow and the day after tomorrow. If the Boggart refuses to come out by then, it will affect the plot. Not good.

But at present, Mike doesn't have a good remedy. In fact, the above idea has been swayed in Mike's mind for a while before being washed away by joy.

His Patronus Charm is basically Mahayana.

At least pretending to be tough in front of others is definitely enough.

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The next day, Mike got up early as usual and came to the venue of the flight lesson to start exercising.

The human body is really a treasure trove, especially Mike's current puberty body. Mike can feel that his strength has grown a little more when he wakes up from bed almost every morning.

Thanks to the Mahayana relationship with the patron saint last night, Mike was in a good mood. When he came to the lobby for breakfast after exercising with a smile, he got news one by one.

Drake is out of the hospital.

I have to say that Drake is indeed a villain. He is the kind of person who can't help you get things done, but can definitely trip you up on your way to get things done.

Mike didn't know why he had to use means to deal with Hagrid, a big fool. Maybe it was because of the harm Buckbeak had done to him, maybe it was pure disgust for Hagrid and Harry, or maybe it was pure It's a pain in the ass.

As an adult, Mike really can't understand Draco's motivation for doing this. After all, doing so will not gain any benefits other than fighting with others.

But in any case, as one of the twelve school trustees of Hogwarts, the energy of the Malfoy family is still very strong.

The Hogwarts school managers are not simple characters. They all have certain privileges for Hogwarts. For example, the children of the school managers have a special exclusive compartment on the Hogwarts Express.

I believe that Draco has the support of a school manager like his father, and Hagrid will definitely have a hard time in the future.

Of course, none of this has anything to do with Mike, and now he is preparing for his first Ancient Runes class with great anticipation.

To his surprise, Hermione was in the same classroom as him.

After many days, Hermione was visibly haggard compared to when she first started school. Her hair, like a lion's mane, was stretched wantonly, and many places were still knotted. It seemed that she hadn't taken care of it for a long time, but There were also two light dark circles on her face.

"You don't look very good." Mike took the seat next to Hermione and said, "Is it because you are too tired from studying?"

Hermione, who was working hard to review her textbooks, was taken aback when she heard Mike's voice, and continued following what Mike said.

"Ah? Ah! Yes, I'm a little tired recently."

Seeing Hermione instinctively touched his chest, Mike raised his eyebrows.

Of course he knew what was going on, Hermione had taken all the courses, including many with time conflicts.

Of course, it is impossible for human beings to appear in two different classrooms at the same time. If you want to do this, you must reverse time, or you must have the clone technique.

And Hermione has a Time Converter in her hand that allows people to travel through time, and it is hanging around Hermione's neck at this moment.

Time and space can be said to be the two most profound knowledge in the world, and the time converter that can reverse time has become the most precious artifact of the Ministry of Magic.

Mike didn't understand how Professor McGonagall got this kind of thing. You must know that the Ministry of Magic's control over Time Converter is far more powerful than black magic like the Killing Curse.

He also didn't understand why McGonagall would give this kind of thing to Hermione. Didn't she know that the Time Converter was very dangerous?A little carelessness will form a time paradox and even change history.

Perhaps Professor McGonagall is really optimistic about Hermione and wants her to learn as much knowledge as possible, but in Mike's view, this is undoubtedly counterproductive.

Mike looked at Hermione distressedly, but didn't speak.

He really wanted to persuade Hermione not to continue using the time twister, but he knew that Hermione would definitely not agree.

So, Mike took out a bottle of Dolphin Magic Drink from his pocket and handed it over.

"Come on, drink this, it will cheer you up."

"Oh, thank you!"

Hermione watched Mike take the drink in surprise, she thought Mike would persuade her not to be so tired.

"Come on!" Mike said, looking at Hermione with burning eyes, "You are the best!"

Hermione felt that her eyes were a little sore. To be honest, the high-intensity study these days really made her very uncomfortable and tired.

Especially the divination class, the weird old woman is really annoying.

But her competitive spirit made her unable to say the words of giving up. Harry and Ron persuaded her to give up every day, and no one told her to cheer her up, except Mike.

Hermione's emotions exploded, and she felt that she had a thousand words in her heart that she wanted to tell Mike.

But at this moment, the professor of ancient magic text came in.

"Sorry guys, I'm late."

Hermione was taken aback by the female voice, and hurriedly sat down and concentrated on the class, but those eyes kept looking at Mike from time to time.

And Mike saw all these in his eyes, smiled and opened the book.

He can still tell which is more important, picking up girls or learning.

To Mike's surprise, the professor of ancient runes turned out to be a young woman.

This woman has long, thick black hair and a pair of glasses with lenses as thick as the bottom of a beer bottle, giving her a nerdy air.

Mike thought that the professors of esoteric courses like ancient runes should be old men with silver hair.

However, although the professor Bathinda Babling in front of her is young, her professional knowledge is not bad at all.

Starting from "Magic Word Phonics" and "A Simple Introduction to Ancient Runes", she slowly taught Mike and others the pronunciation of ancient runes.
Although what Professor Babling taught today is superficial, equivalent to learning English phonetic symbols, there are still many people in the class who are confused, and it seems that it will take a while to understand.

However, Mike was surprised to find that his talent in ancient runes was so high that it was unprecedented.

No matter how convoluted or anti-human the pronunciation of the symbols mentioned by Professor Babling is, Mike can read them out and firmly memorize them after training a few times. .

This can no longer be described by talent, it is simply the degree of innate knowledge.

In fact, as early as when he was previewing his homework, Mike felt that the ghost symbols in the "Ancient Runes" looked very familiar. At first, he thought it was due to his talent, but now it seems that there must be something strange in it.

Just kidding, Mike is confident, but not to the point of arrogance.

That level of language talent simply cannot exist, and even if it exists, it cannot appear in him.

The only possibility is that someone has tampered with it.

While Professor Babling deliberately stopped to ask the students to take notes, Mike thought about this question carefully.

After retrieving his own memory, he finally found the only possibility.

Legacy of Ravenclaw.

When I killed Ravenclaw's soul in the secret realm, part of Ravenclaw's memory was integrated into my brain. Mike originally thought it was just Ravenclaw's understanding of magic power. There should be other knowledge.

Ancient runes are part of it!

Mike, who felt that he had guessed the truth, was overjoyed. The ancient rune text is really a book of profound knowledge, and this sudden cheating was of great help to him.

Aside from the excitement, Mike did not relax, and still listened attentively to Professor Babuling's lecture.

Time always flies when you are concentrating. When Professor Babling announced that the get out of class was over, Mike's textbook was full of notes.

Although the handwriting on it is really unbearable to look at, Mike still cherishes it very much. He even couldn't bear to close it after writing it, and left it open to wait for the ink to dry.

Hermione on the side glanced at Mike's notes curiously, and couldn't help curling her lips when she saw the crooked text on it.

But then Hermione realized that she was unreasonable, and handed her textbook to Mike with a little guilt: "Um, Mike. If you need me, I can lend you my notes."

Mike, who reacted from the excitement, glanced at Hermione's beautifully handwritten notes, and shook his head without hesitation.

"No, I feel that my notes are very well done." As if thinking of something, Mike said again, "If you need to review, I can lend you my notes. I can guarantee that this is the entire Hogwarts Best notes ever."

"Emm, thank you very much, but I don't want it." Hermione suddenly patted herself on the head and said, "Oh! That's right. I remembered that I still have to go to arithmetic divination, so I'll go to Mike first!"

Seeing Hermione fleeing the classroom, Mike smiled and shook his head.

Mike didn't know what Hermione was thinking, it was nothing more than dislike for his ugly handwriting.

"Oh! Woman! You don't understand what you missed just now. This is the note of the chosen one!" Mike looked at the mysterious code-like handwriting on the textbook and murmured, "Although probably only I can understand it. "

(End of this chapter)