Harry Potter’s Raven’s Claw

To say that the players who participated in the duel competition this time are simply silly and cute.

The school uniform robes that can cover the feet are obviously not suitable for fighting, but the game has been going on until the finals, but none of them want to change their clothes. Mike really wants to laugh about this, although he has always been I didn't remember this until the finals.

Mike originally planned to buy a pair of body armor, but after careful consideration, he gave up the idea.

After all, a normal set of body armor generally weighs more than 3kg, that is, 6 pounds or more. Putting this weight on an adult man will affect his speed, not to mention on Mike.

In this way, Mike stepped on the corridor leading to the competition venue wearing a desert camouflage suit.

Mike has walked through this corridor many times, and it can be said that he is very familiar with it, so even if the lights in the corridor are very dim, Mike is not uncomfortable at all. On the contrary, Mike still feels that this dim environment makes his original Some nervousness eased.

"Ta~ta."

There was a crisp sound of the military boots stepping on the stone floor, and the sound echoed in the corridor.

With the echoing footsteps, the road in front of Mike's eyes became brighter and brighter, and a round arched door of light appeared in front of him.

The corner of Mike's mouth pulled an arc, and he kept moving forward.

"Shh!"

The moment he passed through the door of light, the world in front of Mike's eyes suddenly became brighter. Since this final was specially selected on a sunny weekend, the light that Mike saw this time was different from those emitted by magic lights in the past. Different from the cold light, the golden sunlight sprinkled on Mike, making his whole body warm.

Mike and Cedric arrived at the arena almost at the same time, which made the audience in the auditorium boil, and Lockhart in the suspended attic also started the pre-match commentary at the right time.

"Friends from the audience! The much-anticipated duel competition final is finally about to begin! You can see our two players, Mike and Cedric have also arrived at the arena, let's cheer for them!" Lockhart listened. The applause from the audience was very intoxicated, "In addition to President Dumbledore, we also invited two special guests this time, Mr. Ludo Bagman, Director of the Sports Department, and Cedric's father. , and also the head of the Department of Management and Control of Magical Creatures - Mr. Amos Diggory!"

As soon as this statement came out, the applause from the stands sounded again, but it was much weaker than when Mike and the two played before.

In fact, only the Hufflepuff students and a few students from other colleges were applauding in the stands. Many Slytherin students even laughed.

In their opinion, Bagman, the head of the sports department, is a villain who gets into the eyes of money. As for Cedric's father, sorry, he is the team leader of the Department of Magical Creatures. They really didn't pay attention. inside.

Lockhart and the others in the hanging attic obviously selectively ignored the mockery of the Slytherin students, only to see Lockhart continue: "Then first ask Mr. Diggory, do you think your son can beat Mike to become a player? Champion?"

"There is no doubt about it, I think my son is absolutely the best student in the whole of Hogwarts, both in terms of strength and character. Of course, this is not to say that the rest of the students are not, but Cedric really is so excellent.

Did you know Mr Bagman? This kid Cedric has been saying that Mike is a powerful little wizard at home, he is really a gentleman! "

"Of course, I'm also confident that Cedric can beat Mike. Also, just call me Ludo."

...

Listening to Diggory and Bagman touting each other in the hanging attic, many Ravenclaw students in the stands began to protest loudly. In fact, it was not only them, but also the students of Slytherin and Gryffindor. He also quickly joined the denunciation team.

Even many of Hufflepuff's students stopped talking this time, what Bagman and the others said was really disgusting.

On the field at this time, listening to his father's praise to him and the cursing of his classmates in the stands, Cedric only felt his face get hot, and he could not wait to find a seam to get in.

"Has he always been like this?"

Mike looked at Cedric strangely and asked.

"Yeah, he's just, uh, he's just a little bit of that," Cedric said awkwardly. "Mike, I'm so sorry, really, my father he, uh…"

While Cedric was still organizing the language, Lockhart and the others in the suspended attic finally stopped touting each other and announced the beginning of the duel etiquette.

Mike and Cedric had to stop talking and start saluting each other.

When the two saluted, Cedric wanted to say something to Mike, but was turned back by Mike.

"Don't say more, Cedric, let's see the real stamp under your hand."

Looking at Mike who turned and left, Cedric opened his mouth and finally didn't speak again. He only looked up helplessly at the hanging attic above his head, and finally shook his head and returned to his position.

To be honest, he has experienced this embarrassing scene countless times since he was a child.

His father, well, what to say.

To paraphrase a word Mike often says, emotional intelligence is very low.

At every class reunion or family reunion, his father would say something very embarrassing to both parties present, but he himself was very happy. That's why, with the wealth and power of the Diggory family, his father was only a team leader.

On Mike's side, it would be a lie to say not to be angry in the face of Cedric's father's undisguised demeaning remarks. You must know that although Mike is not the kind of person who will retaliate, he is definitely not a broad-minded 'daily'. good people'.

But he wouldn't just talk like Lockhart and Cedric's father, he chose to slap them in the face with actual actions.

Seeing that the two people on the field were already in their places, Lockhart in the suspended attic finally announced the official start of the game.

"Okay! We can see that Mike and Cedric are ready, so... let's get started!"

"boom!"

The moment Lockhart announced the start of the game, Cedric used polymorphism to turn the slate-paved ground on the field into a thick stone wall, protecting his entire being within it.

After creating more than a dozen stone walls in a row, Cedric probably had some sense of security, so he began to turn the surrounding rubble brought out by the stone walls into vicious beasts.

After a while, three cheetahs and two lions appeared on the field. Following Cedric's order, these beasts howled and rushed towards Mike on the opposite side of the field.

However, at this time Mike's attack also arrived.

I saw a purple compressed fireball that was still stirring and melted through a dozen stone walls with the whistling sound of the wind. Finally, the last and thickest stone wall in front of Cedric exploded with a bang. .

With the sound of a huge explosion, a miniature mushroom cloud rose up. Cedric's original location immediately became a deep pit, and dark red magma flowed freely in it.

"Cedric!"

Mr. Diggory in the suspended attic has completely lost his calm and confident appearance. He shouted and stood up from his seat, looking at the mushroom cloud below for a long time, speechless.

"Uh, there seems to be some accidents at the scene. The power of Mike's flame spell is amazing." Lockhart stammered, "But since none of the professors on the side of the field have intervened, then Cedric should There's no danger, right?"

Hearing the uncertain tone of Lockhart's words made Mr. Diggory want to die. It's not just him, many spectators in the stands are also wide-eyed at the moment, no one would have thought that Mike would use the magic spell of the nirvana level of compressing fireballs from the very beginning!

Unlike the others, there was no relaxed expression on Mike's face at this time. On the contrary, he was even more vigilant.

The use of compressed fireballs at the beginning was originally a tactic that Mike came up with after thinking about it. Cedric's magic capacity is higher than Mike's, plus Cedric's superb metamorphosis, if the game time is blindly prolonged. There's a good chance that Cedric will use Polymorph to turn the entire arena into a swamp, an environment that isn't suitable for Mike to fight at all.

It can be said that the longer the fight with Cedric drags on, the worse it is for Mike.

So instead of being slowly exhausted, it is better to enlarge the move directly from the beginning and defeat Cedric. Even if Cedric cannot be defeated, he must be injured in order to quickly end the game.

And what Lockhart said is actually not wrong. The professors on the sidelines have not yet shot, which means that Cedric is not in danger. Now Mike only hopes that the one that consumed nearly half of his magic power and released it. A compressed fireball can severely wound Cedric.

Just when everyone on the field thought that Cedric was already fierce, the dark smoke suddenly rolled up, and then countless feathers drilled out of the smoke and attacked Mike.

Faced with the feathers like raindrops, Mike was not in a hurry. The armor protection spell blessed by multiple casting skills was quietly released, and in just an instant, several layers of translucent shields shrouded Mike.

Hearing the crisp sound of the feather hitting the upper shield, like an arrow hitting a shield, Mike's eyes were fixed on a corner in the thick smoke. There seemed to be some creatures in that thick smoke that were vigorously moving. After a while, the thick smoke there was blown away, revealing Cedric inside.

But Cedric looked completely different from his usual appearance.

I saw that its originally upright body was completely covered with feathers, a pair of long legs had now become a pair of sharp eagle claws, and a pair of arms had become a pair of huge wings with a wingspan of 7 meters. Ke turned into a monster with a human head and a bird body!

Perhaps because he was injured in the explosion, Cedric had countless wounds, both large and small, not only his originally white feathers were dyed gray by the thick smoke, but even the pair of huge wings. There were also wounds all over, and there were faint drops of blood falling when he kept fanning. Just look at the painful expression on Cedric's only human-shaped head to know how much he was injured at this time.

"Animagus? No! No! It's Transfiguration!" said Professor McGonagall. "He's crazy! How dare he deform his entire body! As long as he's not careful, he'll stay like this forever. It's gone!"

Listening to Professor McGonagall's exclamation, the other professors nearby also showed shocked expressions, especially Pomona Sprout, the dean of Hufflepuff College, the kind old lady's face at the moment. Worries are already written on it.

Looking at Cedric's figure hovering in the air, Mike was startled at first, but he quickly adjusted his mentality. No matter what kind of monster you become, raising your hand is a bone-shattering spell. shot.

The mobility and movement speed of Cedric, who has transformed into a bird's body and a human head, have become very amazing. With just a violent fan of his wings, he can move out for more than ten meters, avoiding the magic spell shot by Mike, but from his The look on his face that even his facial features were twisted together and the large amount of blood falling in the air judging from the fact that Cedric's current physical state cannot continue such a high-intensity displacement for too long.

Mike on the ground looked at Cedric's movements in the sky, and a smile appeared on his face. At the same time, when he thought about it, he saw that the curse that had been avoided by Cedric suddenly turned his head in mid-air. Continue to shoot at Cedric with exaggerated speed.

Cedric was shocked when he saw this, and hurriedly flapped his wings to continue moving, but the red glowing curse bit behind him like a bone-encrusted maggot.

As time went on, the wound on Cedric's wings became bigger and bigger under his constant fanning, blood kept falling, and Cedric's movement speed became slower and slower. In the end, the smashing spell finally Under Mike's manipulation, he caught up with Cedric.

I saw that the smashing spell in the air suddenly split into two slightly thinner beams of light, hitting Cedric's wings severely.

Immediately, blood splattered.

Cedric's gray-stained wings snapped open, and he fell from the sky with a cry of pain.

"Do not!"

Mr. Diggory in the suspended attic exclaimed and rushed towards the exit of the suspended attic, while Professor Sprout on the edge of the arena was faster than him. With a wave of his big hand, he saw the center of the arena without even using his wand. A vine man quickly grew and drilled out of the ground, just like the legendary Tongtian Teng, which could reach the sky, and grew to a height of tens of meters in an instant, stably catching the falling Cedric.