Raven's Claw at Hogwarts

Chapter 25 Doubt and Suspicion
After successfully killing the troll, Mike felt that he had no strength in his whole body. He struggled to stand up against the wall, put his back in a comfortable position, and waited for the professors to arrive.

The first one to rush to the scene was Professor Flitwick. It's hard to imagine how he rushed to the scene ahead of all the professors with his short legs.

But this is also understandable, Mike is a student he is quite optimistic about, if he dies in the hands of a stupid troll for no reason, he will blame himself for a long time.

When he rushed to the scene, what he saw was not the scene he expected Mike to be chasing around by the troll.

Instead, Mike was sitting in the corner panting for breath with a black prickly pear wand in his hand. Not far from him was the troll that caused them to suspend the Halloween dinner.

It's just that this giant monster can no longer move, and its entire upper body has been roasted.

Especially the head and neck, almost burnt, leaving only charred bones.

Its hands were still firmly fixed behind its back by the imprisonment spell, and its entire body was arched in an extremely twisted posture.

The right thigh has been broken, and the exposed bone spur can be clearly seen outside the wound.There was a large pool of dark red liquid on the ground, which was the coagulated blood of the giant monster.

The air is filled with a strong stench, and there is also a little smell of barbecue. This mixed smell guarantees that people will never want to eat barbecue again for the rest of their lives after smelling it.

McGonagall and the others who arrived later were shocked by the scene. They also thought that maybe Mike, a first-year freshman, could defeat the troll with his own wisdom.

But what I didn't expect was that the giant monster would be killed in an almost brutal way.

As for Hermione and Harry, they were already throwing up.

"Are you not injured?" Professor Flitwick loved Mike the most. When everyone else was shocked by the death of the troll, only Professor Flitwick reacted and began to ask Mike's status.

"It's okay, Dean, I'm just a little bit out of strength."

"It's fine! You've done a great job! Beautiful flame spell, I was far worse than you when I was your age."

It seems that Flitwick doesn't care about the life and death of the troll at all, he only cares about Mike's safety.

But some people don't think so much.

"How dare you! How dare you do this!" Professor McGonagall burst into anger, "Do you know how dangerous this is! A troll can easily crush you to death with one finger!"

Hearing Professor McGonagall say this about Mike, Hermione was not happy. She suppressed her nausea and said, "It's all my fault! Mike ran into the troll because he took me to the auditorium. It's also because he protects me. Leave the one that holds the troll in."

Professor McGonagall was a little embarrassed by Hermione, but fortunately, Professor Flitwick rescued her at this time.

"Okay, it's enough that everyone is safe and sound." Flitwick helped Mike up, "In addition, in recognition of Mike's bravery and wit, Ravenclaw will add 20 points!"

Mike was a little moved. He had been in this world for so long, and Professor Flitwick was the first person who really treated him well.

He could feel that Flitwick looked at him as if he was looking at a promising junior of his own.He had never felt that kind of gaze in his two lifetimes combined.

"Okay, it's not suitable to stay here for a long time, let's go back quickly. Mike needs to go to Madam Pomfrey's to check." After speaking, Flitwick and Hermione helped Mike leave the stinky women's toilet.

McGonagall has mixed feelings in her heart. Hermione is a student she likes very much, and her personality is very similar to when she was young.

Looking at Hermione, who was supporting Mike together, Professor McGonagall felt like his cabbage was being crushed by a pig.

Looking at Mike and Hermione, and then turning to look at Harry and Ron who were still vomiting, McGonagall became more and more angry, picked up their ears and walked towards Gryffindor.

Snape was left alone at the scene. He didn't say a word just now, and he even had a pitiful low sense of presence. This didn't fit his personality.

At this time, he did not choose to leave like the others. His eyes scanned the field round after round, trying to restore the entire process of the battle just now, which was not difficult for him.

In the end, his gaze stayed on the troll's hands that were still bound behind him and the broken right leg that was still tightly attached to his left leg, and he didn't leave for a long time.

Madam Pomfrey was eating pumpkin pie when Hermione and Professor Flitwick sent Mike to the infirmary. The dinner just ended hastily because of the troll before she was full.

It was already late at night when Madam Pomfrey helped Mike finish the examination. Although Mike was just out of strength, Madam Pomfrey decided to let Mike rest in the infirmary for the night just to be on the safe side.

After confirming that Mike was fine, Hermione reluctantly left the infirmary under the escort of Professor Flitwick and others.

At this time, in the headmaster's office at Hogwarts, Snape was reporting what he had just seen and heard to headmaster Dumbledore.

"Our dear Mr. Townley is a ruthless character, not only has amazing talent in combat, but also has a cruel heart." Snape said in his trademark deep voice.

Headmaster Dumbledore, who was sitting on the desk across from him and was writing something, didn't speak, but raised the hand holding the pen to signal Snape to continue.

"He first used the Leg-locking Curse to limit the troll's movement speed, which is very clever." Snape walked to Dumbledore's table, "Only those wizards with rich experience in hunting monsters understand this method of dealing with giant creatures." method."

"Mr Townley would have been able to get away with the Leg Lock, but he didn't.

He chose to use the Imprisonment Curse to immobilize the troll, and finally used the Fire Curse to burn the troll to death.

Do you know what this means?

This means that Mr. Townley still chose to kill an enemy who was completely incapable of resisting.This is not what a first-year wizard should have thought. "

Dumbledore finally stopped what he was doing, raised his head and said to Snape expressionlessly: "Thank you for your hard work, go and rest."

Snape turned and left after hearing that, without any ambiguity at all.

The office became very quiet, and even the crackling sound of the firewood burning in the stove could be clearly heard.

Dumbledore did not continue his work at hand, he stood up and walked to the side of Phoenix Fawkes who was preening his feathers on the corner bracket.

He gently scratched the back of Fox's head, Fox was scratched very comfortably, narrowed his eyes and tilted his head back hard.

"It seems that we need to find time to talk to Little Mike." The voice was so soft that it was almost inaudible from Dumbledore's mouth.

Fox didn't seem to hear what Dumbledore was just saying, and opened his eyes and stared at Dumbledore with doubts.

(End of this chapter)