Harry Potter’s Raven’s Claw

Mike could swear it was the smoothest release he'd had since he practiced the Patronus Charm.

And the result did not disappoint him. When he shouted the Patronus incantation, the tip of the blackthorn wood wand shone brighter than ever before.

That light is so different in the dim environment of the office. Although its brightness is amazing, it is not dazzling, and the microphone that is directly irradiated by it even feels a little warm and moody. More and more comfortable, very comfortable.

Gradually, as Mike increased the magic power output, the light turned into a mist, and then quickly gathered together, and the outline of a bird appeared.

"This is... a raven?"

Mike looked at the Patronus he released in shock. Although it was still vague, it was indeed a raven very similar to Papi in outline.

After successfully summoning his Patronus, Mike suddenly burst into ecstasy. And this joy further strengthened the power of the Patronus Charm, and I saw that the raven slowly solidified its body!

At this moment, Mike felt very strange. This Patronus version of the raven gave him a very familiar feeling, as if they were a pair of old friends.

"You're amazing! Mike!" Lupin looked even more excited than Mike, changing his tired look, "Merlin! What did I see!"

Mike didn't pay any attention to Lupin at all, at the moment he was concentrating on controlling his Patronus flying in the small office. As time passed, the excitement in Mike's heart gradually dissipated, which made the patron saint raven in front of Mike's eyes become thinner and thinner, and finally completely dissipated.

Mike put down his wand, staring at the place where the raven disappeared, and a smile appeared on his face unconsciously.

My patron saint is the raven.

Not bad, at least a creature compatible with Ravenclaw.

Mike thought about it this way. He actually had a guess about his own patron saint, Mike, and the raven was one of them. It was also the one that Mike liked but not the most.

His favorite is actually the eagle. After all, Ravenclaw's school emblem is the eagle, which is very beneficial for him to rely on the Patronus to recruit his men in Ravenclaw.

And now, the raven is not bad, at least not a snake or a lion.

Just like Dumbledore, a representative of Gryffindor, his Patronus turned out to be a bird. Although that bird was a phoenix, it was still a bird.

In everyone's impression, Ravenclaw people are the most suitable for the image of a bird, a fierce man like Gryffindor, only lions and tigers are worthy of them.

Coincidentally, Mike once asked Professor Flitwick what the patron saint he most wanted, and the answer turned out to be a brown bear!

Mike is speechless, you are the dean of Ravenclaw, and the most wanted patron saint is a fierce creature like a brown bear?

Comparing the above two, Mike feels that his Patronus is already very good.

"You're amazing! I've never seen a genius so talented as you! You're better than Lily!"

"You've won the prize, I'm just lucky."

In the face of Lupin's praise, Mike responded modestly. In fact, what Mike said was also true. Just now, he was able to summon the physical version of the Patronus. The credit for luck indeed accounted for a large part. Now let Mike summon another one. That is absolutely impossible.

And just now, he cast the Patronus Charm in an absolutely safe environment, and it's hard to say whether it can be released in actual combat.

Thinking of this, Mike remembered the trick Lupin just said,

Associated ideas.

Yes, Mike called the technique Lupin taught associative, a very apt name.

In this way, Mike can quickly enter the state and release the Patronus Charm.

And the so-called association object Mike has also decided, that is the raven, the raven mentioned here is not limited to the living raven, the raven statue and the raven pendant can be.

Mike is not a random choice. Throughout his journey in the past two years, the raven has played a considerable role in it. Whether it is Raven Papi or Raven's Nest, it has given Mike a lot of help. .

As long as Mike thinks of ravens, he can think of a lot of good memories and visions of the future.

For example, the establishment of a logo is the organization of the raven to defeat Voldemort and sweep the world or something.

Mike is a layman, and he doesn't have too lofty ideals. His desires are simple, wealth and power, and if he can, it is best to be able to conquer death.

But even though Mike has chosen to associate things, it is still relatively difficult to achieve the peak of joy in an instant. Although Mike has accumulated a lot of related self-hypnosis experience from the practice of emotion casting skills and Occlumency, But it still requires a lot of training.

In short, there is a long way to go, and comrades still need to work hard.

Lupin was overjoyed to see Mike successfully releasing the physical Patronus after receiving his own teaching for the first time.

Although he has just become a professor, he has already substituted himself into the identity of a teacher. Teachers always have a natural affection for students with excellent grades and talents.

Because of this, Lupin's attitude towards Mike is much better now.

The two chatted with each other for a while, and Mike was ready to leave. After all, it was getting late, and so many things happened today. Professor Lupin's body should be in urgent need of rest now.

However, just as Mike was about to leave, Lupin suddenly stopped him.

"Wait, Mike. What do you think would be better for my first class? You know, it's my first time as a teacher, and I've done some homework but I'm still nervous."

"You don't have to be nervous, Professor Lupin." Mike replied with a big laugh, "your ex was a standard embroidered pillow. With such a stone in front of you, as long as you play at your usual level, you can be called a jewel. already."

After hearing Mike's words, Lupin breathed a sigh of relief, yawned and said, "Thank you for your comfort, Mike. It's getting late, you should go back to rest early, and you can come to me to practice every day after dinner."

"Thank you professor, good night, and wish you a good dream."

"Have a good dream, too, Mike."

...

Lupin's blessing didn't work. After Mike returned to the dormitory, he slept directly until the next morning, without a single dream.

And when Mike woke up the next day, he received this year's class schedule.

Compared with the past two years, this year's class schedule is a bit special. For example, in addition to the required courses, Mike's class schedule has an additional elective course, Ancient Rune.

The reason why Mike chose Ancient Rune as his only elective course was after careful consideration. There are 5 elective courses in total, namely Divination, Protection of Magical Creatures, Muggle Studies, Ancient Rune and Arithmetic Divination.

Divination and arithmetic divination are in the same family. Strictly speaking, arithmetic divination should be regarded as a category under divination. The difference between the two is that arithmetic divination uses numbers for divination, and complex digital tables and a large number of divinations are often used. data.

This is a bit like the big data of later generations, which uses a large amount of data to predict the future, but arithmetic divination is more powerful with the intervention of magic.

It is hard to say which of the two is stronger or weaker. Big data has an extremely exaggerated amount of data, while top arithmetic fortune-tellers have magical blessings.

Simple divination relies on props such as tea, crystal ball and tarot cards. Compared with rigorous arithmetic divination, simple divination is more mysterious, and to outsiders, it is more like nonsense.

Another point is that compared to arithmetic divination, pure divination requires more talent, and talented people can display unimaginable talents in divination.

Like today's Hogwarts professor of divination, her crowning achievement was successfully predicting that Harry would kill Voldemort.

This achievement also earned her a long-term meal ticket for the Hogwarts professorship.

Mike, on the other hand, is not interested in either of these courses.

Not to mention the divination, Mike does not believe in any prophecy at all, and the seemingly rigorous arithmetic divination...

Sorry, Mike hates math the most.

Among the remaining courses, Muggle studies need not be said more and go straight to the pass. Mike is a pure-bred Muggle himself, so he knows all about Muggles so he doesn't need to study any more.

And the Conservation of Magical Creatures class...

To be honest, Mike really wanted to take it. After all, although the professors in this class will often brainwash you into loving magical creatures or something, it is still very interesting to be able to get in touch with some new magical creatures in general.

It's a pity that this year's professor of Conservation of Magical Creatures has been changed to Hagrid.

On top of that, Hagrid was at odds with him.

In the end, Mike was only left with the optional course of Ancient Rune.

But even if there are other options, Mike will definitely take this course. The reason is that he firmly believes that this course will be of great use.

In fact, the ancient rune is actually the ancient rune. The ancient rune mentioned here is very different from the rune in the Muggle world, but strictly speaking, the two are actually from the same family.

They are all divine inscriptions in Germanic mythology, and they are the words of wisdom obtained from the sacrifice of the Father God Odin to the World Tree, also known as Rune words.

The Rune or Rune script has been handed down completely in the wizarding world, and the wizards have developed and used the power buried in this script.

Used in alchemy, the special technique of enchanting was born, which made modern alchemy prosper again.

Used in body modification, many terrifying monsters were born.

...

In addition to this, not to mention that many ancient books are written in runic script, and the treasures left by these ancients cannot be obtained if you do not know the ancient rune.

It can be said that if your ancient rune scores in the ultimate wizard exam can reach excellent or above, then you will never worry about employment problems after graduation.

No matter what your background is!

The most important reason for this, apart from the role of the ancient rune, is that the ancient rune is so difficult!

Mike remembers that the United Nations once conducted a survey and said that Chinese is the most difficult language to learn in the world, and the dialects in Chinese are jokingly called "the devil's language".

But these are trivial in the face of ancient runes. Rune is the language of gods, and the language of gods is much more difficult to learn than the 'language of the devil'.

Although it is difficult, Mike still intends to learn.

After all, the effect of ancient rune is too great, so he would not hesitate to lose all his blond hair!

Going back to Hogwarts, since there is no ancient rune class today, Mike plans to go to the Requirement Room for regular training after a boring day of classes.

But as he passed the hall he ran into a frowning Harry.

"Hey, Harry. What's wrong with your face?"

Harry obviously didn't expect to meet Mike here. He was a little stunned to see Mike greet him before replying: "It's nothing, it's just... I just don't feel well. I fainted on the train, obviously everyone else is a problem. , but I..."

After Harry said this, he was also a little surprised that he had just told Mike what was in his heart.

And Mike also thought of something when he heard the words. Harry's fainting on the train has indeed become the laughing stock of many people, especially Draco. He must be madly mocking Harry with this thing today.

After thinking for a while, Mike put a bright smile on his face and said, "Don't worry about it, Harry. Draco and they don't understand your feelings at all."

"Dementors are extremely evil creatures, they will evoke the worst nightmares in your memory, and people like you and me who have experienced tragic encounters face them a hundred times worse than ordinary people. "

Harry looked at Mike in amazement. He was no longer surprised that Mike could always point out what was on his mind. What he was surprised was that Mike said 'people like you and me'.

Did Mike...

"That's right, I'm the same as you, and I know that feeling. I almost fainted on the train last time." Mike paused and said solemnly, "Do you know why I didn't pass out?"

Harry looked at Mike eagerly and shook his head, desperate for answers.

"It's a strong body! The exercise I did during the summer vacation gave me a strong body, which allowed me to quickly recover from that state." Mike, like a big speaker on stage, used the most bewitching way Li's voice said, "Also, I will also protect the divine spell!"

"Is it the kind of spell that Professor Lupin used before?"

Before Mike could finish speaking, Harry asked eagerly, and Mike was not annoyed when he was interrupted, and replied: "Yes, that is the spell. The Patronus Charm is known to resist Dementors' attacks. The only spell, it can be said that as long as you learn this spell, then the Dementors will no longer be your troubles."

Harry opened his mouth wide and looked at Mike with admiration. He didn't expect Mike to be so knowledgeable, even spells that were not in textbooks.

And Mike looked at Harry's reaction with a meaningful smile on his face and asked:

"Want to learn? I can teach you."