Raven's Claw at Hogwarts

Chapter 450
"Mike, you are a famous person. I often heard about you when I was retiring at home. I have to say, you are really an amazing young man!"

As soon as Mike and Emma sat down, Professor Sgrahorn enthusiastically spoke to Mike.

It's just that Mike only responded politely. He knew very well that this kind of person only values ​​benefits, and has no value of deep friendship at all.

Professor Sgrahorn was not angry when he saw this, he turned around and started communicating with Emma.

He first praised Emma from head to toe, and then tentatively inquired about the affairs of Emma's family, showing great enthusiasm.

But when he knew that Emma's family had suffered from poor business due to Voldemort's return recently, and was almost going bankrupt, his attitude changed sharply and became neither cold nor indifferent.

At this time, other people also showed up one after another, so Professor Slughorn's attention was naturally shifted to others, and he began to extract information from them.

This behavior made Emma very dissatisfied, she pouted, approached Mike and whispered:

"This is such a snobby guy, no wonder my parents don't like him!"

"There's no need to worry about it." Mike shook his head with a smile, "This kind of person is just a clown."

Emma nodded vigorously when she heard the words, and then began to introduce the identities of the people who came behind to Mike.

"Look, that black-haired boy is called Belby Marcos, and he doesn't have much to say about himself, but his uncle invented the wolfsbane potion and won the Order of Merlin for it!
And that sissy-looking man, his name is Sabini, and his mother is the famous black widow!She had been married seven times, but every husband died extremely strangely, and only left her a huge inheritance!We're all saying that it was Zabini's mother who designed those poor souls to die, and she's a complete bastard!None of us wanted to play with him.besides……"

Mike felt a little speechless, and he found that Emma was like an omniscient intelligence commissioner, who could tell anyone about anyone's family situation.

But soon, Emma couldn't continue talking.

Because when everyone found out that Mike was here, everyone except the black boy who drove Slytherin gathered around Mike and started chatting with Mike, talking and laughing.

This made Professor Slughorn a little unbelievable, because from the information he learned, Mike was just a Muggle-born wizard.

Although Mike has won the Triwister Cup and won the Medal of Merlin Second Class, so what?
Mike won the Triwizard Cup with Harry, and Slughorn strongly suspects that he took advantage of Harry. As for the Merlin Medal, he was awarded for protecting a carload of classmates from dementors. of.

Slughorn felt that this was ridiculous, and even began to feel that the Ministry of Magic's standard for awarding the Merlin Medal was so low that it had no bottom line.

You must know that the dementors were still slaves of the Ministry of Magic at that time, even if they borrowed 1 of their courage, they would not dare to blatantly attack the students on the Hogwarts Express.

To sum up, in Slatghorn's eyes, Mike is just a kid with good luck and some strength and talent, so he didn't pay too much attention to Mike.

It's just that now Professor Slughorn suddenly felt that his judgment of Mike was a little too hasty.

Looking at the respectful way those who were invited by him treated Mike, it was hard for Slughorn to imagine that this would be a treatment that a mediocre person could get.

Slughorn nodded secretly, elevating Mike's status slightly in his heart.

And at this moment, the carriage door was opened again.

Ginny walked in timidly.

Seeing that it wasn't Harry, Slughorn's disappointment disappeared for a moment, and he greeted him with a smile on his face, and arranged Ginny on a seat in the corner.

Her arrival also attracted the attention of the others, and her conspicuous hair immediately betrayed her identity - Weasley.

Immediately, the brows of many people in the carriage frowned. No matter from which point of view, the Weasley family is not qualified to stay here with them. They really don't understand why Professor Slughorn would let this The little girl comes in.

Everyone's malicious gazes made Ginny very uneasy. She looked aggrieved, and continued to squeeze into the corner timidly, as if she wanted to squeeze herself into the wall to hide.

Seeing this, Mike got up quickly and sat next to Ginny.

"Hey Ginny, we meet again."

Ginny was startled by the person sitting next to her suddenly, but after hearing the familiar voice, the smile on her face bloomed again.

"Mike! How nice of you to be here!"

Ginny said happily, and then whispered into Mike's ear:

"People here are so weird, they're all looking at me. Is there something wrong with me?"

"No, you're fine, they're the ones with the problem."

Mike replied firmly.

Mike's answer gave Ginny courage, and she nodded heavily after hearing the words.

Everyone was a little puzzled when they saw that Mike had left them and sat next to Ginny.

They couldn't figure out why someone like Mike would have anything to do with the Weasley family's youngest daughter.

And Mike didn't deliberately lower his voice when talking to Ginny, so many people heard Mike say that they had a problem.

Embarrassed expressions appeared on many people's faces.

But this also explains why Mike accompanied Ginny, that is, he couldn't see a little girl alone in such an embarrassing environment.

After they figured it out, everyone looked at Mike with more admiration, especially Emma, ​​whose red eyes were about to pop out.

A man as powerful as Mike actually has a heart of gold!

This is exactly the same as the protagonist in the knight novel!
On the other side, perhaps due to the tense relationship, Ginny continued to talk to Mike over there:

"...It's really strange to say that I was practicing the Bat Spirit Charm in the carriage, and Professor Sgrahorn broke in suddenly. He said that my Bat Spirit Charm was very good, so he invited me to have lunch together. Yes By the way, do you know the Bat Spirit Curse? It is an ancestral curse in our family, it can..."

Listening to Ginny's chatter, the smile on Mike's face never disappeared.

When he read the original book in his previous life, he still hated Ginny, after all, the actress who played her was really not beautiful.

But now Mike has changed his mind. Ginny is such a cute girl that people can't help but want to take care of her.

Time passed little by little, and the guest that Sglahorn cared about most today finally arrived.

"Harry! Here you are at last! Oh! I guess this is Mr. Longbottom?"

Sglughorn greeted Harry and Neville warmly, but Harry and Neville looked very embarrassed, being led away by Sglaghorn like a robot.

After Harry arrived, the originally harmonious and lively atmosphere in the carriage became deserted. Everyone stopped talking and looked at Harry indifferently.

Sgrahorn obviously wasn't aware of the situation inside the carriage, he pulled Harry and introduced the people in the carriage and their family backgrounds to him one by one.

After a round of introductions, Sgrahorn took Harry's hand again and introduced with a smile:
"I don't think I need to introduce this one? This is a heavyweight celebrity. We have known each other during the summer vacation. The famous 'Savior of the World'! Harry Potter!"

After Professor Slughorn finished speaking, he took the lead in applauding. He thought that since he invited such a famous person, everyone should applaud like him.

However, the reality was that no matter how Slughorn encouraged him, no one at the scene welcomed Mike except Ginny and Neville.

Everyone was so quiet, looking at Professor Slughorn and Harry mockingly.

A few people even let out a mocking laugh that made Harry flush.

At this time, the scene in carriage C became somewhat similar to the previous prefect carriage.

The people at the scene were roughly divided into three groups, most of them gathered around Mike and looked at Harry hostilely, while Ginny, Neville and others gathered around Harry, as for the Slytherins. He hid in a corner and watched coldly.

At this time, Slughorn also noticed the abnormality. His eyeballs rolled around, and he immediately understood.

His previous assessment of the situation at Hogwarts had been wrong.

Harry Potter's reputation at Hogwarts is obviously not as high as that kid named Mike!And [-]% of the relationship between the two is still hostile!
Professor Slughorn has been retired for so long that he doesn't understand what's wrong here, but it doesn't matter. His strategy is to make friends with both ends, and he doesn't care whether Mike and Harry have any problems. No contradiction yet!
Thinking of this, Slughorn coughed, and continued:

"Well, it's very pleasant. Sit down, everyone, and our lunch is about to begin."

Slughorn arranged for Harry to sit next to him, then took lunch boxes from his basket and distributed the napkins inside.

"I'm sorry, gentlemen and ladies. The licorice wands on the food trucks always smell too strong. I, a poor, elderly guy, can't digest these things." Slughorn said Commanding the magic wand to open the lunch box, he said, "So I brought the food for this dinner myself. Of course, if any of you are willing to share the lunch you brought, you can also take it out. We will treat it as a kind of lunch that is quite special this time. A fun picnic where everyone shares the food they brought.”

The food that Professor Slughorn brought this time is very delicate, but perhaps he arranged the scale of the food according to his own food intake, which is a little different for half-sized children like Mike who are in the period of development. Enough to see.

As soon as this remark came out, everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, with a somewhat astonished expression.

To be honest, people who bring lunch on the train are either those whose families are too poor to afford lunch on the train, or those whose families are so rich that they dislike the bad lunch on the train.

Few of the people present belonged to these two types of people, so everyone was a little dissatisfied when they heard it.

They didn't quite understand why Slughorn didn't prepare enough food when he invited them over. Was he trying to make them hungry?

But Ginny's eyes lit up when she heard the words, but quickly dimmed. Out of past habits and love for her children, although the family was no longer short of money, Mrs. Weasley still gave Ginny and Ron Each brought some sandwiches.

But, are those shabby sandwiches really worth it?

Ginny was in a deep tangle.

After struggling for a while, Ginny still gritted her teeth, took out the large sandwich wrapped in oiled paper from her schoolbag, and placed it on the table.

"My mother made this, if... If you don't mind, please use it."

Ginny's voice was so soft that everyone could hardly hear it. It could be seen that the girl was very nervous now, as if she was afraid that everyone would think that the food she brought was not good enough.

It's just that the situation she was afraid of didn't happen. Everyone had clearly seen Mike's attitude towards Ginny before, so at this time, everyone, including Slytherin, didn't give Ginny a shabby sandwich. To express sarcasm, of course, they will not touch the sandwich, after all, it doesn't look very tasty.

Ginny looked a little disappointed, she could tell that these people didn't like her sandwiches very much.

She instinctively wanted to take the sandwich back, but Neville, who had quick eyes and quick hands, snatched the sandwich and stuffed it into his mouth while muttering something delicious, thank you and so on.

Seeing this, many people present, including Slughorn, showed contemptuous expressions. In their opinion, the sole heir of the Longbottom family may not be very smart.

There was only Ginny, who was looking at Neville in surprise.

And all of this was seen by Mike, he chuckled, and then snapped his fingers under the surprised eyes of everyone, calling Shuke and Beta, and asked them to prepare some food.

Slughorn's eyes almost straightened. He never thought that a Muggle-born wizard like Mike would have a house-elf, a rare animal that almost only existed in the hands of ancient families!

"Mike, are these two house elves... yours?"

"Yes."

"Really? This is really enviable. I've always wanted to have a house-elf, but it's a pity that this thing is too precious." Slughorn said with a look of envy, "Can you tell Where are you from me?"

"Of course. Shuke and Beta were given to me by the seniors of Raven Scratch." Mike said with a smile, "These two house elves have special meaning to me, so they cannot be transferred to you. But I have two other house-elves in my hand. If you want, I can give you one. It's just that they all have a history of betraying their masters. I don't keep them with me, but put them in the company Do some rough work here."

(End of this chapter)