Harry Potter Raven's Claw

A few days later, the draw for the quarterfinals of the first Hogwarts Duel Competition began in the auditorium.

Mike, Cedric and others were waiting in a small room at the backstage of the auditorium to go on stage for the lottery ceremony. In the past few days, Mike had been following Professor Flitwick's instructions before leaving and kept a low profile. In addition to continuing to use the Marauder's Map every day

Aside from monitoring Percy, he did not continue to participate in the investigation of Percy.

Mike's original expectation that Percy would soon be caught by Dumbledore and destroy the Horcrux notebook did not appear. Hogwarts has been calm these days, just like Mike didn't at all

It was the same as not telling Flitwick and others about the Horcrux.

On the contrary, what happened in front of the Eagle's Head Knocker that day gradually spread throughout Hogwarts.

Most people are on Mike's side. After all, this incident was almost entirely instigated by Percy, and he deserves such a severe punishment. There are even many Slytherins.

He has been using this incident to criticize and ridicule Gryffindor students.

However, there was still a small group of Gryffindors who stood firmly on Percy's side. Even though they blocked the door to the Ravenclaw lounge, the punishment Percy received was too severe, so he took the first shot.

Mike, who was hurting others, had nothing to do with it. They thought it was very unfair.

But Mike didn't care about this at all. Even within Gryffindor, these guys who help relatives but don't help are a very small minority, and they can't cause any trouble. On the contrary, Professor Flitwick has been gone for so many days.

The lack of news made Mike very worried. Even the Charms class was taught by Professor McGonagall these days.

"What's wrong with you? Didn't you sleep well last night?"

Cedric on the side seemed to notice something was wrong with Mike's state, and asked aloud.

"Thank you, I'm fine."

Hearing this, Mike also slapped his face twice, forcing himself to cheer up.

"Ignore him, he just had a quarrel with his girlfriend." At this time, Carol suddenly appeared and said to Cedric.

"I never quarreled with Penello. Don't taint someone's innocence."

Facing Mike's denial, Carol crossed her arms and raised her head and said, "You still said no, Penelo told me that you never comforted her after the Percy incident.

Even if she deliberately ignored you, she didn't take any action. I've seen many men like you, cold and violent!"

Seeing Carol almost pointing her nose and calling him a scumbag, Mike was immediately speechless.

He admitted that lately, all his thoughts have been on improving his strength and Percy, and he has somewhat neglected Penelo, but things are not as bad as Carol said.

Just when Mike was extremely embarrassed and didn't know how to defend himself, Lockhart, who was wearing a feather crown and dressed very flamboyantly, suddenly opened the door to the room.

"Gentlemen and ladies, it's your turn!"

At this moment, Mike only felt that Lockhart's greasy voice sounded so beautiful at this moment, so he stood up and came to Lockhart's side, while Carol continued to look at Mike with the eyes of a scumbag.

Faced with such a big reaction from Mike, Lockhart was obviously a little surprised, but he thought that Mike just couldn't wait to appear on stage, so he laughed and patted Mike on the shoulder.

The other two Slytherin players were very dissatisfied with Mike's behavior of taking the lead, and finally Cedric followed suit with a bitter smile.

"Everyone! Let us warmly welcome the eight strongest players in this duel competition! The first one to come to us! It's...Mike!"

After Mike heard Lockhart calling his name, he stepped onto the stage. As soon as he appeared in the auditorium, he aroused cheers from everyone in the auditorium, but the cheers were also mixed with a small amount of boos.

, although it was still small, but Mike still heard it.

Mike didn't care about this, and after waving his hands to everyone, he stood at the corner of the stage, watching with his eyes, his heart, and his nose.

He didn't have to guess that those few anti-fans were all from Gryffindor. After all, he had eliminated Percy, the favorite to win, and lowered Gryffindor's probability of winning.

Today's auditorium did not have that kind of 'surprising' decoration. Lockhart's weird aesthetic finally aroused the dissatisfaction of other professors in Hogwarts, warning them not to do that kind of thing to Hogwarts Castle again.

A jaw-dropping transformation.

Lockhart, like Mike, ignored the boos from the audience and continued to call out the names of the remaining top eight.

Following Lockhart's roll call, one contestant after another took the stage, and the audience did not hesitate to applaud.

Among them, Carol and Cedric received far more enthusiastic applause and cheers than Mike. Not to mention Cedric, he is handsome and strong, and he is also a good person. Carol, because she was there

She gained a lot of fans in the 12-to-8 competition, and everyone was conquered by her heroic appearance of rushing towards the huge fireball.

Several other players received much less applause, especially the Slytherin player who came on last.

This player was originally eliminated, but because Percy was forced to withdraw from the competition, he became the new top eight through the additional loser group competition. Everyone did not recognize his strength.

And because of his joining, the staff ratio of the quarterfinals became: 2 people from Gryffindor, 3 people from Slytherin, 2 people from Ravenclaw, and 1 person from Hufflepuff. Slytherin because of Percy

The number of people who have withdrawn from the competition has surpassed that of Gryffindor, which is one of the reasons why Gryffindor students dislike Mike.

"Okay! All the top eight members have arrived, and the lottery has finally begun!" Lockhart waved his wand, and a huge gilt lottery box shining with golden light appeared in front of everyone. "The method of drawing lots is very special.

It’s simple. There are 8 slips of paper in this lottery box, with numbers from one to four written on them respectively. Those who draw the same numbers will become opponents! Okay! Let’s get started! Mike, you are the first.”

Mike expressionlessly put his hand into the lottery box. As soon as he put his hand in, Mike felt that an irregular strong wind was blowing inside the box, and each piece of paper was also wrapped in the lottery box by the hurricane.

Flying.

I randomly grabbed a piece of paper and opened it, only to see a big 1 written on it.

"Contestant Mike drew number 1!" Lockhart raised the note to everyone in the audience, "Next one! Carol!"

Carol also heard the sound and stepped forward, and the number she drew turned out to be the same as Mike's number 1!

After Lockhart announced the number, the audience immediately started talking.

"It's over! There's a civil war in Ravenclaw. I was still thinking that Senior Carol and Mike could meet up for the finals together."

"Great! Now no matter who wins, there will only be one Ravenclaw player left!"

Ignoring the comments in the audience and the weird looks in the other players' eyes, Mike and Carol's eyes collided. At this moment, there seemed to be sparks in the air.