Raven's Claw at Hogwarts

Chapter 487

Mrs. Kent, this is a person Mike is very familiar with.

Of course, the reason why Mike is familiar with her is not because they have had any contact, but because this woman has appeared frequently in Clark's memory, and at the last moment, Clark's most precious meeting is almost all about this daughter. fragments of memory.

It's just that in Clark's memory, Mrs. Kent is far from the current appearance in front of Mike.

In Clark's mind, Mrs. Kent's hair will always be black, her eyes will never have wrinkles, her familiar black dress will always be as black and shiny as the night sky, and her face will always be full of warmth and happiness. smile.

This is normal, because in the eyes of most sons, the mother is always perfect, and this is what the son does not dislike the mother's ugliness.

When Mike saw this at first, he thought that Clark and Mrs. Kent should be a pair of mother and son with a very good relationship, but in fact, after continuing to read, Mike realized that the relationship between the mother and son was not so good.

It's a very sad story.

Mrs. Kent was also a decent person in Slytherin when she was in school. Although the Kent family had already declined at that time, Mrs. Kent still received a very good aristocratic education with the first lingering shadow, and she was never lacking in material things.

Obviously, Mr. Kent intends to train Mrs. Kent as a lady of the family. Although he also intends to use her as a family marriage in the future and sell her for a good price to restore the family's decline, there is no doubt that Yes, Mr. Kent was excellent to Mrs. Kent, better than any of his other children.

But it was Mr. Kent's love that made Mrs. Kent's character unruly and self-willed. She thought she was the center of the world and everyone had to look up to her. She is impeccable, which is one of the reasons why Mr. Kent loves her so much - Mrs. Kent is a talented witch and the hope of revitalizing the family.

And it was such a witch who was destined to be extremely bright in the future, but not long after Hogwarts, she fell in love with a Muggle who was ten years older than her.

And it was a pity that that Muggle didn't like her. He already had a happy and happy family, and it was impossible for him to abandon his wife and son and marry Mrs. Kent.

But Mrs. Kent didn't think much about it, as long as it was what she wanted since she was a child, she hadn't been unable to get it.

So, all the tragedies began. Mrs. Kent, who was very good at potions, used the love potion, and a few months later, Mrs. Kent, who was only 18 years old at the time, had a relationship with her without anyone in her family knowing. The Muggle man is married.

The next plot Mike is very familiar with. Under the influence of the love potion, Mrs. Kent and her husband lived a loving life for several years, and gave birth to Clark, but soon, her husband became obsessed with the love potion. Drug resistance developed.

Mrs. Kent's husband began to realize what had happened to him over the years, and because of the long-term influence of the love potion, he also had mental problems, became irritable, and finally vented his anger to Mrs. Kent and Clark.

This is a very typical wizarding tragedy. There are many witches who have the same experience as Mrs. Kent in the wizarding society. This is why Professor Slughorn called the love potion extremely dangerous. It has indeed caused countless tragedies the culprit.

According to the original direction of those plots, Mrs. Kent should raise Clark alone, and then struggle in Muggle society.

But Mrs. Kent is obviously an exception. She woke up at a certain moment when her husband beat her, and she realized that people like herself have been doing stupid things all the time.

So, she decisively took out her wand, killed Clark's father in front of him, and took Clark, who was already frightened, to defect to her father, Old Kent.

In Mrs. Kent's consciousness, old Kent has always been the one who loves her the most. As long as she can return to the Kent family, her life will definitely return to the original track, happy and fulfilled.

However, the reality is cruel. When Mrs. Kent returned home, she found out that her father, Old Kent, had already passed away. She has long since died of old age, and she has become a disgrace to the Kent family, and her brothers and sisters all regard her as a bandit.

If old Kent hadn't insisted on leaving the old house to her before his death, Mrs. Kent might have brought Clark to the streets.

After this, Mrs. Kent became devastated. She became addicted to alcohol, ignored Clark, had affairs with many wizards, and eventually gave birth to two daughters of unknown fathers.

Of course, this was already when she was still young.

Now she has no man who is willing to want her, and without the support of those lovers, this young lady who has been spoiled since childhood and has very weak ability to take care of herself has gradually fallen into the abyss of poverty.

This made Mrs. Kent suffer!

Mike looked at Mrs. Kent's old face that could still be seen as beautiful when she was young, and the corners of her mouth slowly raised. He has a lot of ways to deal with this kind of person.

On the other side, Dumbledore seemed to be a little impatient. He frowned and gave Mike a deep look, and then tapped the coffee table a few times with his knuckles:

"Okay, let's not waste any more time, let's all sit down."

As soon as this remark came out, Professor Flitwick, who had already stood up and was about to give Mike a blow on the head, sat down expressionlessly, and Mike sat opposite Mrs. Kent very naturally, and continued to stare at her with a smile.

Under Mike's gaze, Mrs. Kent suddenly felt pressure increased. Now she has clearly understood the horror of Mike's strength, and she can see the extraordinary identity of Mike from the reactions of Dumbledore and others, which makes her not at all. He dared to look at Mike, but he could only look down at his muddy shoes.

"Okay then, since everyone is ready, let's start." Seeing that everyone was seated, Kingsley took out a document from his pocket, took a deep breath and said, "First, let's Let's confirm the topic, today we are going to deal with McTownley's kidnapping of Clark Kent as the culprit in his previous assassination on the Quidditch pitch."

It was said that Mrs. Kent sobbed again, but the strange thing was that Mrs. Kent cried for a long time, but her eyes were red, and not a single tear fell.

Kingsley cast her a glance, then looked at the others, and saw that no one objected before continuing:

"Then next, I want to ask you a question first, Clark Kent, where is he? Or, is he still alive?"

As soon as this remark came out, everyone in the office turned their attention to Mike, even the portraits of past principals hanging on the wall secretly looked over.

But Mike, who was under the spotlight of everyone, had a face of indifference. He shook his head slightly, and asked casually:

"Does it matter?"

"This is the most important issue today, bar none! In addition, please correct your attitude, Mr. Townley!" Kingsley raised his eyebrows and said sternly, "You have made a fatal mistake! Regardless of whether Clark has To assassinate you, he should let the Ministry of Magic handle it. This is the power of law enforcement, and it is the power only the Ministry of Magic has! It is illegal for you to take him away without permission. I can definitely sue you for kidnapping and premeditated murder !"

Mike squinted at Kingsley, his expression still so casual.

"No, it's not important at all."

Hearing Mike's indifferent tone and seeing the almost mocking expression on his face, Kingsley's breathing became short of breath. He had never seen such an arrogant prisoner in his many years of law enforcement. At this moment, he Really pissed off.

Kingsley opened his mouth slightly, instinctively wanting to reprimand loudly, but Mike looked at Mrs. Kent first and continued:

"The most important question today, in my opinion, is, how much do you want?"

Mike's words stunned everyone, especially Mrs. Kent, her expression was particularly exciting, full of surprise and astonishment, as if she never thought that Mike would ask such a question.

Immediately afterwards, she quickly realized that the expression on her face became indignant, as if Mike's attempt to bribe her with money was completely insulting her.

But Mike sat down as if he didn't see her expression at all, took out the check book and wrote a few things on it, tore it off and placed it in front of Mrs. Kent.

"How about a thousand gold Galleons?"

Mike asked slowly, but Mrs. Kent didn't hear what he was saying at all. At this moment, her attention was completely attracted by the thin check, and her expression became a little dull.

She instinctively wanted to reach for the check, but before her hand touched the check, Mike snatched the check back and added another zero on it.

"No, no, no! This is really too little. Clark is an outstanding person, and this price is far from worthy of him! Then... [-] Galleons!"

The check was put back in front of Mrs. Kent again. This time Mrs. Kent seized the opportunity and grabbed the check in her hand in just a split second.

She first confirmed Mike's magical signature and Gringotts' mark that the check was valid, and then looked at the astonishing number. Immediately afterwards, her body trembled violently, and her eyes slowly turned red.

"Oh! By the way, I forgot to introduce myself, Mrs. Kent." Mike stood up with a smile, "My name is Mike Townley, and I'm the CEO of the Los Santos Group, so don't worry, I'm totally fine. take the money."

"Then, what's your answer? Is this ten thousand gold Galleons enough?"

Mrs. Kent did not answer Mike, at the moment she was counting the numbers on the check over and over again.

Mike was not in a hurry, he sat back in his seat and drank the black tea that had already cooled down slowly.

But he was not in a hurry, but Kingsley next to him was in a hurry. Kingsley frowned, and said angrily:

"Are you pretending that I don't exist, Mr. Townley! Or do you think you can get away with it by this means?"

"I never feel that I have made any mistakes that need to be punished." Mike said with a smile, "The reason why I did this is because I know that I have to pay the money. The question is who to give it to?" That's all. Rather than giving the money to you or the lawyer, I would rather give it to Mrs. Kent directly, after all, you are the one who needs the money the most, right?"

Mike's words woke up Mrs. Kent, and then she held the check in her arms as if she had thought of something, and looked at Kingsley warily at the same time.

"No, no, no." Kingsley said sincerely, "Please don't do this, Mrs. Kent."

"But I still have two daughters to support." Mrs. Kent squeezed out a smile with difficulty, "That's it, I lied to you. Clark is not missing, he was just recommended by me to work abroad, so Your allegations against Mr Townley are totally unfounded."

This short sentence seemed to drain all of Mrs. Kent's strength. After she finished speaking, she slumped on the chair, still clutching the check tightly in her hand.

"Merlin! Mrs. Kent, there is no need for you to do this." Kingsley said almost desperately, "We are seeking justice for your son, do you want your son to disappear without any reason? "

Kingsley's original intention was to inspire Mrs. Kent's maternal love so that Mrs. Kent could continue to pursue Mike's responsibility, but this seemed to have the opposite effect.

The expression on Mrs. Kent's face suddenly became angry when she heard the words, she sat up straight and glared at Kingsley and shouted:
"Please stop saying these shameless words! Do you think I don't know what you are thinking? You are not trying to get justice for Clark, you are just trying to take this check from me!"

"No, I never thought of it that way."

"Stop talking nonsense, I've seen enough of the dirty things you guys do, you've always done it this way, arresting the criminals first, then forcing them to hand over their wealth in exchange for freedom, always! Otherwise, how could there be so many Death Eaters running rampant outside now? You must know that many of them should have been arrested and executed as early as ten years ago when the Mysterious Man fell for the first time!"

Kingsley opened his mouth slightly, as if he wanted to defend himself, but he didn't say anything in the end.

Because what Mrs. Kent said was completely true. This is how the Ministry of Magic operated when those Death Eaters were tried for the first time. The most typical example is Lucius Malfoy. From a death eater who did all kinds of evil, he was washed abruptly to a poor man controlled by Voldemort with the Imperius Curse.

(End of this chapter)