Raven's Claw at Hogwarts

Chapter 460 A Week

Mike ignored Franklin, but walked straight towards the Ravenclaw lounge.

In the Defense Against the Dark Arts class just now, he did such excessive things that he was not locked up. Pu suddenly remembered this.

However, when he came to the entrance of the Ravenclaw lounge, he found that the three of Harry had already been waiting here.

"Mike!"*3
"Is something wrong? Everyone."

Harry and the others looked at each other, and finally Hermione gritted her teeth, stood up and said:
"That's right, Mike. Where did the "Advanced Potion Making" you gave Harry come from? Why are the potion formulas on it all modified?"

After all, before Mike could answer, Ron asked again:

"Oh! The point is, are the recipes above really better than those taught by Professor Slughorn at the beginning?"

As soon as Hermione said this, she immediately rolled her eyes at Ron, but Ron didn't care. At this moment, he was waiting for Mike's answer with his eyes wide open.

"First of all, what I want to say is..." Mike said with a smile, "Ron, you guessed it right, the modified formula in the "Advanced Potion Making" is indeed better and more convenient than the original formula in the textbook! "

Hearing this, bright smiles broke out on the faces of Ron and Harry, and then they cheered and hugged each other.

Mike understood their feelings very well. For anyone, this "Notebook of the Half-Blood Prince" is a precious treasure, let alone scumbags like Harry and Ron.

Hermione, who was on the side, had a displeased face when she heard the words. She crossed her arms and stared at Mike indignantly, as if she was blaming Mike for giving the book to Harry.

"Don't look at me like that, Hermione." Mike said, spreading his hands, "I'm doing this for your own good, this is a good book, and even though I gave it to Harry, you can read each other, can't you?" ? It's good for both of you."

"That's right! You're so right!"

Before Hermione answered, Ron said excitedly.

Hermione glared at Ron again, and then said to Mike:

"You haven't told us where this book came from?"

"It's a pity that I can't tell you the origin of this book, but you should have noticed the signature on the book, right? Half-Blood Prince."

The crowd nodded.

"What I can tell you is that you all know this half-blood prince, and he is already an old acquaintance of yours."

Mike said with a smirk.

Now even Hermione showed a curious look on her face. She frowned and thought for a while before saying:
"You used 'he', which means that the original owner of this book is a boy."

"Please! Hermione!" Harry said, rolling his eyes, "He already calls himself 'Half-Blood Prince', how could he be a girl? If you ask me, he must be a half-blood boy."

Hermione smiled awkwardly.

"If I had to guess, since the half-blood prince was able to make so many improved formulas when he was a student, he must be very talented in potions, so he should be a big shot now! It's easy to guess, after all We don't know many people who have an outstanding talent for potions."

"Are you talking about Dumbledore?"

"Did Dumbledore do very well in Potions when he was a student?"

"Uh, I don't know, but I really can't think of anyone else. After all, it can't be Snape, right?"

"Thank you for your joke, I was laughed at."

……

Hermione and Harry had a heated discussion about the identity of the half-blood prince, while Ron was indifferent. He didn't care who the original owner of the book was. The main thing is that this book can help him in class. Cheat then it's a great book!
"By the way, everyone, maybe you should study the contents of this book again. Apart from potion formulas, there are some more useful things in it that are worth learning."

Ron's eyes lit up all of a sudden, and he looked straight at Harry, as if he wanted to go back and start researching immediately.

It's a pity that Harry didn't think so. He glanced at Hermione who was still sulking, and said to Mike:
"Mike, did you go to Defense Against the Dark Arts class just now?"

As soon as Hermione said this, she also reacted. She opened her eyes and asked curiously:
"By the way, when we passed the hall earlier, we found that Ravenclaw's house point hourglass was missing a lot of gemstones, and it was almost empty. What's going on? Did Snape also deduct points from you?"

"Oh, you guessed it right, Snape did. He deducted 20 points from Franklin and put him in detention, just on Saturday."

"That's not right, there are more than 20 points missing from the Ravenclaw hourglass."

"It's more than that." Mike said, spreading his hands, "He also deducted 50 points from me, just because I made him look bad in class."

"This is not good!" Hermione said with a frown. "You have already been deducted 70 points just after the start of school. You have to work hard for this year's Academy Cup."

Mike shrugged his shoulders and didn't answer.

He is completely indifferent to things like the Academy Cup now, in fact, if Hermione hadn't mentioned it, he would have almost forgotten about it.

On the other hand, Ron and Harry were very excited. They were very interested in Snape's embarrassment, and they wanted to hear Mike talk about the specific situation at that time.

It's a pity that Mike didn't want to do this. In his opinion, this is really nothing to be proud of.

"I was put in confinement by Snape too! Just because he wanted to cast a jinx on me in class, and I happened to block it with my armor!" Harry said happily, "It's just that I don't need to Really going to detention, because I'm going to Dumbledore's on Saturday night."

As soon as this remark came out, Mike raised his eyebrows. He grasped the key point of Harry's words very sensitively, and asked softly:
"Did Dumbledore say what to do with you?"

"Well, he didn't say anything in the letter to me, but I guess it should be about teaching me to learn Occlumency." Harry said hesitantly, "After all, he had already started teaching me some spells during the summer vacation. , also mentioned it to me.”

Hearing that Hermione and Ron both cast envious eyes at Harry, it seemed to them that it was a great honor to be personally taught by a legendary wizard like Dumbledore, while Mike bowed his head and fell into deep thought.

Dumbledore's choice to teach Harry himself just shows that his remaining time is running out, and his current strength may have declined to a rather exaggerated level, so he is so anxious.

It's just that Dumbledore's situation should be pretty good compared with the original book. After all, in this world, Dumbledore didn't fight against other traps set by Voldemort just because he wanted to destroy the Horcrux, such as the terrifying infernal corpse cave.

Without these hardships, Dumbledore's current physical condition should be enough for him to fight.

Of course, it is estimated that there will be only one battle. After all, excessive use of magic spells will make his injuries worse.

Thinking of this, Mike had no intention of continuing to chat with Harry and the others.

After saying goodbye to Harry and the others, Mike hurried back to the secret place of the Freemasonry and participated in the work of the Freemasonry.

Before the next action begins, he must concentrate all the power of the current Freemasonry in the secret place of the Freemasonry, only in this way can his plan be carried out smoothly.

……

Time flies, and it has been a week since I left school in a blink of an eye.

During this week, although the Death Eaters outside were still making troubles, and even worsened, Hogwarts was peaceful.

I don't know if Dumbledore's Order of the Phoenix and the Ministry of Magic were too powerful, or Voldemort consciously avoided Hogwarts. In short, the lives of the students were not affected in any way.

If it weren't for the daily Prophet reporting news from all over the country, the students at Hogwarts would have almost forgotten the fact that Voldemort had come.

In this short week, Franklin also realized how outrageous his thoughts were when choosing courses.

After abandoning many elective courses, he did have a lot of free time, but at the same time, the number of assignments and the difficulty of the assignments assigned by the professors also increased exponentially.

At the same time, not only the Defense Against the Dark Arts class, but also Professor McGonagall's Transfiguration class and Professor Flitwick's Charms class began to require students to use silent spells in class.

This can embarrass everyone.

Today's Ravenclaw lounge is full of sixth graders sitting there motionless with their wands in their hands, their faces flushed.

The young wizards in the lower grades once thought that Slughorn, who was in the potions class, gave these seniors some kind of constipation potion. After some questioning, they learned that these people were practicing silent spells.

The combination of all these things made Franklin not only lose the so-called free time, but also need to squeeze out some time from his meal and break time to practice silent spells, and it also made him have no time to participate in Quidditch training. .

This was really a tragic thing for Franklin, and it also made him admire the seniors in the seventh grade.

The sixth grade alone is already so hard, isn't the seventh grade a life like hell on earth!
Harry's situation is similar to that of Franklin's. No, it should be said that Harry's situation is more miserable than Franklin's, because Harry is the captain of the Gryffindor Quidditch team this year, and he is also in charge of a part of the team. A series of matters, including the selection of newcomers and daily training.

This made Harry's rest time greatly compressed, and deep dark circles appeared on his face.

And Hermione was more serious than Harry's dark circles.

This little girl had a lot more courses than Mike and the others, which made Hermione study almost 24 hours a day, but even with such many subjects, Hermione still couldn't keep up with the learning progress.

There is no way around this, Hermione is not a genius, or in other words, Hermione is a hard-working genius.

Her learning efficiency is actually not high, and she was relying on hard work to make up for her lack of talent.

This approach might have been very effective in the past, but it was useless when the study load increased greatly. After all, there were only 24 hours in a day, and no matter how hard Hermione tried, she couldn't squeeze out No. 20 for five hours.

Mike guessed that Hermione must miss the time twister very much, but unfortunately, including the one that Professor McGonagall lent Hermione, all the time twisters in the whole country were destroyed in the Ministry of Magic war at the end of last semester. destroyed.

What made Hermione even more angry was that Harry and Ron relied on the 'Half-Blood Prince's Textbook' to achieve excellent results in Potions, better than Hermione and second only to Mike.

Now Slughorn is almost going to confess the three of them as his ancestors. Not only does he often praise the three of them for their talent in potions, but he also gives them extra points at every turn. Mike and Franklin were deducted from Snape. Slughorn's score has already been doubled here to make up for it.

This was something Hermione couldn't tolerate. In her opinion, the three of them, Harry, Mike, and Ron, relied entirely on cheating to win Professor Slughorn's favor.

After all, she was the one who worked the hardest, but her efforts did not get any rewards. Instead, opportunistic people like Harry and Mike gained the upper hand.

For this reason, she almost broke up with Mike and the others.

Harry also once persuaded Hermione to use the 'Half-Blood Prince' formula with them, but it's a pity that Hermione didn't listen to the advice at all, and insisted on using her old method.

Mike was very speechless about this, he couldn't understand Hermione's thoughts at all, he could only blame it on Hermione's endocrine disorder due to staying up late for a long time, which led to emotional agitation, and maybe there was also a sexual disorder.

For this reason, Mike even consulted Professor Slughorn about the relevant treatment steps, and told Hermione very cryptically through chatting and telling jokes.

As for whether Hermione listened or not, he didn't know.

However, Mike had a good life this week. Since he had already mastered the release of a large number of silent spells, the spare time in the eyes of others became a real rest for him.

However, he didn't let himself live too comfortably. As long as he had free time, he would dive into the secret realm of the Freemasonry, either to deal with the work of the Freemasonry, or to meditate in the meditation room.

Especially the latter, the time Mike spent on this is amazing, because he has a hunch that as his body grows, the bottleneck that restrains his magic power and spiritual power is gradually loosening.

And what he has to do now is to practice hard, in order to break through as soon as possible, so that his strength can be improved to a higher level.

Therefore, although Mike has a lot of time, he still looks listless every day. For this reason, Professor Flitwick has taught Mike a lot, but Mike still insists on going his own way.

Because there is not much time left for him, he must destroy Voldemort before Dumbledore completely falls!
(End of this chapter)