Harry Potter’s Raven’s Claw

Mike didn't pay much attention to the fact that Professor Flitwick wanted to lock himself up.

After all, although it was called confinement, Professor Flitwick would not really put him in confinement. If he died, he would just learn spells and drink tea with Professor Flitwick every day.

But what Mike didn't expect was that Professor Flitwick was so anxious that he dragged Mike into confinement before the new semester started.

This is not right, because although it is said to be confinement, it is more like retreat.

A retreat about spellcasting with only Professor Flitwick and Mike.

During the period when Mike was forced to retreat, many things happened outside.

One of the biggest disturbances is the change in the direction of public opinion.

Since Mike was released by the Ministry of Magic, all the mainstream media have changed their direction. From the beginning of grabbing the Ministry of Magic and spraying it to death, it has turned into a life-threatening wash.

For example, Mike was imprisoned as a hero at the beginning, and it was said that Mike took the initiative to cooperate with the investigation of the Ministry of Magic.

Those injured Muggles appeared in the camp because the staff of the Ministry of Magic responsible for maintaining the Muggle Repelling Curse near the venue sneaked away to watch the game, which caused the Muggle Repelling Curse to fail. Is it because the staff of the temporary workers are suspended and then it ends.

As for the most critical thugs in this incident and the follower of Voldemort who released the bones and cast the spell again, although the Ministry of Magic has not yet caught them, they still released a few scapegoats.

After those ghosts were executed for the dead, the grievances of the people gradually subsided.

After all, everyone has their own lives, and not everyone has nothing to do to complain about the Ministry of Magic.

It's just that this incident seems to have been handled well by the Ministry of Magic, but in fact the damage it caused still exists.

The first is the international image.

Foreigners don't care how many reasons you have. They only saw a terrorist attack at the Quidditch World Cup. Therefore, the Ministry of Magic of the corrupt country will probably be the object of ridicule by other countries for many years to come.

On the other hand, it is the influence of those thugs.

Those thugs are all high-ranking and powerful people, and the Ministry of Magic will naturally not arrest them all and make them public.

But with so many celebrities disappearing suddenly, people with a discerning eye have already seen the tricks in it.

In the eyes of these people, the majesty of the Ministry of Magic has long since disappeared.

Of course, none of these things had much to do with Mike.

At this moment, he had already finished his brief retreat with Professor Flitwick, and got on the Hogwarts Express train to go to school to start his new semester.

This time, Mike's treatment has also been significantly different.

The members of the Mutual Aid Association occupied the entire carriage early on, serving as Mike's exclusive carriage.

Mike was naturally not polite, and directly led by Benjamin and Penello into a box in the carriage.

And in the box, there were already people.

This is a boy (female?) who looks a little thin. From his skin color and hair, it can be seen that he should be an Asian.

But the somewhat long black hair and slightly feminine face made Mike really unable to tell his gender.

"Is he the one you said?"

Mike turned his head to look at Benjamin, seeing him nodding, he continued to ask:

"How did he appear here?"

"I don't know, I received a notice from Hogwarts out of nowhere at the end of the summer vacation." Benjamin said excitedly, dancing, "But it's a good thing, it's always good for children to read more books. "

After all, Benjamin stretched out his hand to touch the child's head, but the other party avoided him in disgust.

Benjamin was not annoyed, but just smiled awkwardly at Mike.

Mike didn't say anything, he could understand Benjamin, the kid in front of him was the faceless monster they caught in the East End of London before.

Originally, they planned to send him to Mike immediately, but after Benjamin discovered that the faceless monster was actually just a child, he had other ideas, such as letting the faceless monster help them hunt other black magic creatures.

There is no doubt that they succeeded, and achieved very good results.

Therefore, in Benjamin's eyes, this faceless monster is a treasure.

Or maybe, Benjamin may have raised this guy as a younger brother or a son.

The tortuous Mike here didn't care, he took Penello to sit opposite the child and asked:

"What's your name?"

The kid didn't seem to like to talk, and he didn't respond to Mike's questions. He just lowered his head so that people couldn't see his expression clearly.

"Hey, how did I teach you? Be polite, Lord Tangley is asking you something!"

Seeing this, Benjamin hastily stepped forward and nudged Faceless's arm, and then Faceless said in a very small voice with great reluctance:

"Zhou Hong."

"Zhou Hong? Are you from the Chinese country?" Mike was a little stunned when he heard the words. There were not as many Chinese people who went abroad in this period as there were more than ten years later, and there was only one Chinese person in Hogwarts, Qiu Zhang, " That's really rare."

Facing Mike's question, Zhou Hong fell silent again.

Benjamin originally wanted to remind him to be polite, but Mike stopped him.

A name is enough to say everything.

Seeing this, Benjamin didn't say anything anymore, and came to Zhou Hong's side to sit down.

And at this moment, Mike noticed that there was an excited smile on the face of the young man named Zhou Hong.

Before Mike had time to think about the meaning of that smile, Benjamin sat down. Immediately afterwards, Benjamin uttered a scream, and at the same time, he covered his buttocks and bounced up several times faster than sitting down.

"Hahahaha" Zhou Hong laughed loudly.

"You...you are really going too far!" Benjamin pulled a thin needle from his buttocks, and said to Zhou Hong, "There must be a limit to pranks! You even used a murder weapon this time! You! I want You will be fined not to eat sweets for a month!"

Zhou Hong's laughter stopped abruptly, he hugged Benjamin's head and rubbed it against his chest with a frightened face, and kept saying:

"I was wrong! I was wrong! I'm sorry! I'm sorry!"

Zhou Hong's accent is very strange, and the words he uses are also very monotonous. It seems that he has not learned English well.

Seeing Zhou Hong's sincere attitude of admitting his mistakes, Benjamin's expression softened, and he patted Zhou Hong's head and said:

"Forget it this time, if you do it again next time, it won't be so easy."

Zhou Hong didn't react when he heard the words, but continued to rub against Benjamin's body.

At this time, Benjamin also sensed that something was wrong, and forced Zhou Hong to pull away, only to find that his white shirt had been soaked with snot and saliva in a large area.

"Zhou Hong!"

Benjamin roared angrily, and stretched out his hand to catch the culprit.

However, Zhou Hong had already laughed and ran out of the box.

Penello on the other side couldn't laugh anymore, and even Mike had a smile on his face.

Seeing this, Benjamin scratched his head in embarrassment, took out a magic wand, used one to clean himself, and said:

"I made you two laugh. Zhou Hong is a kid who likes to play tricks, but everything else is fine."

Mike shook his head with a smile, he had already seen it.

The kid in front of him named Zhou Hong doesn't like to play pranks, he is clearly a brat!

The train was still moving fast, and the previous turmoil did not affect Mike. After laughing, he started talking and laughing with Penello again.

And Benjamin, when he found that Mike didn't have much nature to chat with him, he quit the car and left this somewhat small box to Mike and Penello as a two-person world.

After exiting the car, he didn't find another place to sit down, but stood guard not far from the door of Mike's box like a door god to ensure that no one would disturb Mike.

It was precisely because of Benjamin's hard work that Master Mike arrived at Hogwarts very smoothly without any other accidents.

After getting off the train, Mike, accompanied by a group of mutual aid members, went to the storage location of the Thestral carriage, preparing to take the carriage to the castle.

But Benjamin was the main force that had left, like an old woman, he told Zhou Hong over and over again not to mess around when he was on the boat, it would be bad if he fell into the black lake and caught a cold. (Freshmen need to take a boat when they come to Hogwarts for the first time)

Before leaving, she still put the Ravenclaw scarf around her neck on Zhou Hong's neck under Zhou Hong's disgusted eyes.

This move made other freshmen around envious. The scarf with blue and white stripes and the Ravenclaw badge on it may not seem like a big deal to the old students, but for these freshmen who have not yet been sorted , but possesses great attraction.

"Wow! Your brother is so kind to you!"

"Well, my brother is from Gryffindor, but he never lets me touch his clothes and wand!"

"This is too beautiful! Can I touch it?"

...

After Benjamin left, the surrounding freshmen gathered around, chattering non-stop, and many of them reached out their hands, wanting to touch the legendary Ravenclaw badge.

"He's not my brother!"

Zhou Hong stuck his neck and said in poor English.

His expression is still extremely disgusting, but his hands have been protecting the scarf from the beginning to the end.

None of those who tried to touch the scarves succeeded.

...

The Hogwarts auditorium was brightly lit, and the professors and classmates who had been reunited for a long time gathered together, talking and laughing about the interesting things that happened during the holiday.

Among them, the Quidditch World Cup was mentioned most frequently.

But when everyone was talking about the Quidditch World Cup, they couldn't stop looking at Mike.

Apparently Mike is well known for stepping up to beat the mob at the World Cup.

Mike always ignored these gazes. At this moment, he was concentrating on searching the teacher's seat. After checking back and forth several times but not finding the familiar figure, he retracted his gaze and sighed deeply. .

Lupine left after all.

This is not surprising, because of Snape's continuous hints, in fact, many students in Hogwarts have already guessed Lupine's identity, but because of the intervention of Mike and the members of the mutual aid society, everyone is silent.

But paper cannot contain fire. Although this problem was not exposed last year, it may be exposed this year.

So Lupine was replaced smoothly.

The crux of the matter is who his successor will be.

Just when Mike was thinking about the problem, the door of the auditorium was pushed open, and a group of young wizards with curious eyes shining and probing their brains, led by Mag, walked in like an old hen leading a group of chicks.

"Every time I see a freshman enrolling, I will think of that year, and you walked in like this."

Penelope said next to Mike's ear, and couldn't help but sniggered after that.

"I... didn't seem so ashamed back then, did I?"

With a confused look on his face, Mike pointed to Zhou Hong and another boy in the crowd who still had some water plants hanging from their heads.

"But you were very nervous back then, more nervous than everyone else, making you look like a duck when you walk, hahahaha! My sisters and I were still laughing at you! Hahaha!"

Mike touched his nose in embarrassment and had nothing to say.

Can this be my fault?

Is nervousness something people can control?

On the other side, Benjamin slapped himself on the forehead.

He urged him thousands of times, but Zhou Hong still fell into the Heihe River!

God damn it, can't you just pick off the water plants on your head first? Didn't you see that Professor McGonagall's eyes were about to breathe fire?

Zhou Hong couldn't hear Benjamin's inner roar. At this moment, he was talking about his experience with the boy who fell into the black lake with him just now, and he didn't even hear Professor McGonagall calling his name.

In the end, it was a girl beside him who patted him before he realized it.

Facing Professor McGonagall's eyes that wanted to eat people, Zhou Hong raised his chest and put the sorting hat on his head without fear.

Following the resounding sound of the Sorting Hat's verdict, the long table of Gryffindor resounded with applause.

Professor McGonagall's pursed mouth trembled.

She's almost predictable that the next seven years may be difficult for her.

Seeing this, Benjamin became a little depressed. He still hoped that Zhou Hong could be assigned to Ravenclaw.

But according to his temper, it doesn't seem surprising that the Sorting Hat sorted him into Gryffindor.

After the sorting ceremony, it was time for the principal to speak.

Regarding the speed of their headmaster's speech, all the old students are quite confident, so as early as Dumbledore stood up to speak, many people had already picked up their knives and forks, ready to eat as soon as the food appeared.

But this time, Dumbledore did not end the battle as quickly as they hoped, but said seriously:

"Presumably some attentive students have noticed that there is a vacant seat in our teacher's seat this year. I regret to inform you that our beloved Professor Lu Ping has applied for resignation due to health reasons."

There was an uproar in the audience, and many little wizards who didn't know Lu Ping's real identity were very sad about Lu Ping's departure.

"But I have invited an equally outstanding Defense Against the Dark Arts professor for everyone. Let us welcome the former senior Auror, Alastor Moody!"