Raven's Claw at Hogwarts

Chapter 364 Pig's Head Bar
"tick-tick-tick-tick..."

The ward in the infirmary was completely silent, except for the sound of the hands moving in the huge clock in the corner, the only sound in the ward was the panting of Umbridge wrapped in a fresh mummy on the hospital bed.

Umbridge's breathing was so smooth that you could even hear a slight snoring if you listened carefully.

"tick~tick~"

The hands of the clock were still moving, and finally, with the sound of an obvious machine bracket, the thick hands representing the hour suddenly moved, pointing to a big I.

A small door at the top of the clock was suddenly opened, and then a purely mechanical golden bird flew out of it, whistling 'chee-chee-chee' while circling over the ward.

Umbridge on the hospital bed seemed to have been awakened, and she took a deep breath as if she hadn't breathed for a long time.

Her body was trembling slightly, and her head was shaking slightly, as if she really wanted to turn her head to look around her.

However, due to her neck immobilizer, her desire to turn her head was not fulfilled after all, so she could only try her best to deflect her eyes.

Suddenly, a bouquet of pure black roses appeared in her peripheral vision.

The spikes on the branches of this bouquet of roses have all been removed, and the tool to remove them from their original positions is a dagger on the edge of the roses.

Umbridge's body trembled more and more, and there was even the faint sound of teeth colliding intermittently from his mouth.

The sunlight outside the window shone on her bed through the window, as if someone had sprinkled a large amount of gold dust on it, but even so, Umbridge didn't feel any warmth at all.

At this moment, she even felt that her whole body was soaked in cold sweat, and because of the thick plaster cast on her body, she couldn't wipe the sweat at all, and she was extremely uncomfortable.

After a while, Umbridge's breathing gradually calmed down, and the trembling of his body became much smaller.

She clearly remembered that a strong man in a black robe and a strange white mask appeared in her ward yesterday after Mag left!

The masked man said that he would give himself a gift, and then he took out a dagger and put it on his neck.

The memory has been blurred here, and Umbridge thought it was just a nightmare at first, but now she really found the dagger!
All this is true!
Umbridge was still taking deep breaths, trying to calm himself down.

At this moment, her brain was running at high speed, and she felt as if she had broken through a big secret!

Dumbledore and his employees have formed a huge interest group, constantly extracting benefits from various aspects, and training Hogwarts students to become their armed forces.

And when their strength has accumulated to a certain level, then they will rush out of Hogwarts with an unrivaled momentum, and dominate the entire wizarding world of the country!Even the whole of Europe!The whole world!

That's right!It must be so!
The world-famous white wizard Dumbledore is the most evil black wizard!A careerist full of conspiracy!

It must be because their arrival made them uneasy, so they lined up people to attack themselves!

What kind of ordinary attack is this!
The attack that night was clearly a deliberate death threat!

I didn't even think about it at the beginning, so McGonagall sent someone to threaten me more directly!
Thinking of this, Umbridge felt his body began to tremble instinctively again, and the fear in his heart couldn't be restrained no matter what.

She admitted that she was really scared.

Who is not afraid of death?
She even had an urge to go back to the Ministry of Magic directly. Even if Fudge blamed her for failing in the mission, that would be better than dying!

Unfortunately, it is too late to say all this now.

Umbridge felt the plaster cast binding his whole body, and a wry smile flashed across his face.

I have lost my freedom and been put under house arrest, how can I escape back?
Now, I can only cooperate with those people's actions as much as possible, and hope that the other party will let me go without worrying about my status as the deputy minister of the Ministry of Magic!

"Crench!"

The door of the ward was suddenly opened, and a student medical volunteer in a white robe walked in.

Umbridge was startled by the sound, his pupils shrank suddenly, and he almost couldn't hold back his cry.

And the female volunteer who came in didn't seem to notice the change in Umbridge's demeanor. She had a warm smile on her face, and carefully helped Umbridge re-press the somewhat messy quilt, and then gently asked:

"Professor Umbridge, you're finally awake! You haven't had lunch yet, what would you like to eat?"

While talking, she suddenly found the rose beside Umbridge's bed, and the smile on her face became even brighter.
"Wow! Roses! Was it Professor Umbridge's friend who sent it? He is so considerate that he even picked off the thorns!"

Umbridge's lips on the hospital bed twitched slightly. The gentle smile on the girl's face seemed so evil to her. Facing the girl's questioning, she knew that Umbridge had to bow his head under the eaves. Qi could only reluctantly answer:
"Ok!"

……

At the same time, on the bustling main road of Hogwarts Village, Mike and a group of members of the Mutual Aid Society were walking mightily.

Today was the weekend, and it was also the day when he and Harry made an appointment to meet the new members of the cram school.

"Mike, look at that!"

While walking, George suddenly grabbed Mike, and the latter looked in the direction he pointed, and saw a shop that was already crowded with people, and on the wooden sign on the shop front, it was written in golden paint. There was a line of big characters - Zuo Ke's joke shop.

"We're going to open a joke shop that's much bigger than that someday!"

George gritted his teeth and said, while Fred next to him retorted:

"It's not just big! At that time, there must be more things in our store than there, and the quality will be even better!"

"Yes, you are so right, Fred!"

Looking at the two people who looked like they had been beaten to death, Mike shook his head helplessly, and didn't answer, but just continued to walk forward silently.

During this period of time, he often heard similar words. Mike's guess is that George and Fred's life in Umbridge was not easy during this period, and they could only rely on such thoughts to make themselves able to Hold on.

Not long after they continued walking, the Hogsmeade post office appeared in front of everyone.

This post office is the message center of the entire Hogsmeade village. It stores a large number of owls' letters, and the owls here are divided into different levels by various colors. The higher the level of the owl, the higher the level. The faster the speed, the higher the fee.

It's a pity that the people who manage this post office don't seem to have any sense of cleanliness, which leads to bird droppings everywhere inside the post office, which is very disgusting.

Everyone turned a corner in front of the Hogsmeade post office, entered a small path, and walked for a while, and a dilapidated two-story tavern appeared in front of them.

This tavern is located at the intersection of this path, and Mike felt that the owner of this tavern must have been kicked in the head by a donkey, because unlike the main road of Hogsmeade village not far away, there is no one on this path, presumably it Business should be very poor.

There was a tattered wooden signboard at the door of this small building, with a picture of a pig's head that had been chopped off, and the blood seeped through the white cloth that wrapped it, which looked a little scary.

"Pig's Head Bar, let's go in."

Following Mike's command, everyone followed him and poured into the bar.

As soon as he entered the bar, Mike noticed a strong smell of lamb, which made him instinctively cover his nose.

Then he turned his head to observe again, and found that this bar was like a dump compared to the Leaky Cauldron in Diagon Alley!

The space inside it is very small, and there are many tables and chairs placed in a mess, which makes the originally small space even smaller.

And the windows inside are still thick with dirt, and the outside light can hardly penetrate, which makes the light in the tavern very dim. Even in the daytime, there are some candle stubs on the rough wooden table for lighting. .

The floor of the tavern was dusty. Mike originally thought it should be compacted mud, but after stepping on it and feeling it himself, he was surprised to find that it turned out to be the stone-paved ground. Centuries of dirt!

Everything here disgusts Mike, you know he is a very clean person.

It is said that Hagrid is a frequent visitor here. When Mike and others were in the first grade, when he was drinking here, Quirrell used a dragon egg to set out the secret of the three-headed dog.

For this reason, Mike originally thought that even if the Pig's Head Bar was a little dirty, there would at least be a limit, but now it seems that he really overestimated the lower limit of Hagrid's tolerance for the environment!
"What do you want!"

While Mike was frowning and looking around, a rough voice suddenly came.

Mike turned his head to look at the bar counter, and saw a fat man with a big beard who looked somewhat similar to Dumbledore's, staring at him angrily with his round eyes. Looking at his posture, he seemed to be I am very dissatisfied with Mike and others who dislike the environment here.

Mike immediately remembered the identity of the other party!
Aberforth, Dumbledore's younger brother, is also the owner of this tavern.

But according to the information in the original book, the relationship between him and Dumbledore is very bad, and the two will quarrel and even fight each other when they meet each other.

Mike didn't know the deep-seated reason for this. The original book only said it was because of their little sister, but the specific things were not written in detail.

It is said that the detailed content should be checked in other materials, but it is a pity that Mike has only read the original work.

"Mike, you are finally here!" Harry shouted excitedly, but after seeing a group of senior students behind him, the surprise smile on Harry's face suddenly froze, "They are..."

Mike didn't find Harry and the others hiding in the corner until this time. He took a deep look at Aberforth, and then said to Harry with a smile:
"They are all my friends, and they came here when they heard that I was going to give them extra lessons."

"Really? This is really good!"

"Now we finally don't have to worry about the embarrassing scene where no one will come... Woohoo!~"

Ron was only halfway through his words when Hermione and Harry covered their mouths together, and could only make a whining sound.

At this time, George and Fred had already sat down in front of the bar. It was obviously not the first time they had come, and they raised their hands very skillfully and shouted to Aberforth:
"Boss, give us a bottle of butterbeer each! My treat!"

What George said was so arrogant, and now the secret of their wealth has been exposed, so they simply spent money and lavished money.

Aberforth at the bar twitched his eyebrows and beard violently, and stood there staring at George angrily, as if he was angry that George had increased his workload.

It wasn't until George's scalp became numb that Aberforth took two big boxes of butter beer from the cabinet under the bar and piled them in front of George:

"All the inventory is given to you, 50 bottles, a total of 6 Gold Galleons!"

"What? Do you think we are fools?" Fred shouted, "Your butter beer here is clearly 2 Sickles a bottle, 50 bottles are 5 Gold Galleons and 15 Sikels, and the extra 2 Sickles But where did it come from?"

"Huh!? You don't want to buy it?"

Aberforth was even more exaggerated than Fred, with anger in his voice.

Hearing that George hurried out to smooth things over.

They are regular customers of this tavern, and the reason why they often come to this tavern for consumption is because the owner of this tavern doesn't care about the 'underage prohibition' at all, as long as you have money here, even if you are just a student He will also sell you alcohol.

It is also for this reason that the Hog's Head Bar has become an important source of goods on Hogwarts' liquor smuggling network, and almost all the liquor in Hogwarts comes from here.

So they didn't seem to be too stiff with the boss, and at the same time they didn't care about Aberforth's forced buying and selling.

Because they can transport the excess wine here to Hogwarts to buy slowly, so what's the high price?They can also raise the price after they go back!

In the end, under George's deliberate flattery, Aberforth finally gave Fred the whole two boxes of Butterbeer.

Then Fred skillfully opened the box and distributed the wine inside to everyone present.

Mike was also given a bottle of butterbeer, but he had no intention of drinking it.

There is no other reason, it is too dirty!
Aberforth's brows had been knitting together since he brought out all the butterbeer.

The two large wooden boxes had been covered with dust and dirt, and their original color could not be seen at all.

The butter beer taken out of it is similar, the place where the logo pattern should have been covered on the bottle is already blurred, and a lot of grease and dust adhere to the surface of the glass bottle, which makes the whole bottle look terrible, and at the same time Very doubtful if these butterbeers are past their expiration date!
For such dirty things, unless it is absolutely necessary, Mike will never eat them!

(End of this chapter)