Harry Potter’s Raven’s Claw

The happy time is always short-lived. After the students have eaten the last dessert, with a snap of Dumbledore's fingers, the plates in front of everyone and the food in them all disappear.

The old student reacted immediately, quickly closed his mouth and quietly turned his head to look in the direction of the podium. Although the new students were a little blinded, in this environment they could only follow the old students' way and closed their mouths. Looking at the podium.

"Okay, since we are digesting an insanely rich meal, I ask everyone to be quiet for a while and listen to me explaining the precautions for the new semester as usual." Dumbledore walked slowly to the podium and said, "One Freshmen of the grade should know that the forbidden forest in the hunting grounds is forbidden for students - this, several of our senior classmates should already know."

As soon as the words fell, there was a burst of mischievous laughter from the long table in Gryffindor, among which the laughter of the Weasley brothers was the loudest.

Dumbledore stretched out his hand and pressed it down in the void, and then the auditorium became silent, and he continued:

"Mr. Filch, the administrator, asked me for the 426th time to remind you all that magic is not allowed in the hallway between classes..."

After that, bursts of laughter broke out in the auditorium again.

And this time Dumbledore didn't stop it immediately, because even he himself laughed.

"Ahem, let's continue." Dumbledore coughed twice. "This year, we have two changes to our teaching staff. We are delighted to welcome back Professor Grapland, who will teach you about the protection of magical creatures. (The tall female professor leading the freshman to the boat stood up, and there was a particularly warm applause in the auditorium.) We are equally pleased to introduce Professor Umbridge, our new Defence Against the Dark Arts professor."

Umbridge did not receive the warm applause that Grapland had. There was only a soft, polite but not very warm applause in the auditorium.

Dumbledore was obviously unwilling to talk more about Umbridge, and he said quickly:

"The selection for the Academy Quidditch team will be..."

"Cough cough!"

Two loud coughs interrupted Dumbledore's speech, and everyone in the auditorium, including Dumbledore, turned their attention to Umbridge, who had just coughed on the staff chair.

Dumbledore was extremely attentive, as if he wanted to hear every word of the other party's next words clearly.

Others were not so friendly. The professors on the faculty all frowned, and Professor McGonagall pursed his mouth tightly, and his eyes seemed to be able to shoot flames.

Clearly, Umbridge's behavior upset the group of professors.

Since Dumbledore became Headmaster, no one has dared to interrupt him at the opening ceremony!

But in this tense atmosphere, Umbridge seemed unaware.

With a smirk on her face, she rose from the seat in a very contrived gesture and said:

"Thank you, principal, for such a warm welcome."

Her voice was high and sharp, like a little girl's voice, and with her pink woolen coat and face that looked like a toad, Mike felt a strong sense of nausea.

Others should feel the same way. Mike saw Franklin not far away and closed his eyes in pain.

He tilted his head to avoid looking at Umbridge on the stage, as if looking at him would make him spit out all the food he had just stuffed into his stomach.

"Well, I must say, it's great to be back at Hogwarts!" Umbridge grinned, ignoring everyone's protesting eyes. awesome!"

Franklin seemed to be unable to bear it anymore, his cheeks suddenly bulged, and then he hurriedly reached out and covered his mouth.

After a few obvious swallowing sounds, his cheeks slumped again.

The people around Franklin squeezed back in disgust, trying to stay away from this disgusting guy as much as possible, while Franklin bowed apologetically to everyone.

The speech on the stage continued, and the initial greeting seemed to be over, because at this moment Umbridge turned into a serious expression.

"The Ministry of Magic has always believed that educating young wizards is a very important thing. Some of the precious gifts you are born with, if not nurtured and exercised under careful guidance..."

Umbridge's speech was tedious and uninteresting, and filled with many rare words that only appeared in the Ministry of Magic's administrative documents, people who listened to it fell asleep.

After just listening to Mike for a while, Yuwang lost his desire to continue listening. He turned his head to look around, and saw that Franklin and the others were already fighting together not far away.

Franklin was smirking and smearing others with the hand he just covered his mouth, while the people around him were struggling to dodge with disgust, and their mouths were still open. Mike guessed that it must be something Curse Franklin for his shameless behavior.

The others in the auditorium were similar, and the Gryffindors were even more extreme, and their voices were loud enough to make people mistakenly think they were having a tea party.

On the stage, Umbridge completely ignored these voices and continued to speak.

Perhaps the quietest place in the entire auditorium is around Mike.

The classmates sitting next to him all sat upright and did not dare to say a word.

Mike knew that this was because of his own reasons. Due to his current status, he didn't start talking first, and the students around him naturally didn't dare to chat.

On the other hand, it is because Mike and the others are sitting at the front of the Ravenclaw long table. This position is completely exposed to the sight of the faculty seats. These students are obviously not bold enough to be in the professors. Confused under the eyelids.

The seats at the head of each academy's long table generally belong to the person with the highest status in the academy, and this position usually belongs to the seventh-grade prefect.

But this year's senior and other students obviously felt that Mike was more qualified to sit in this position, so Mike, the fifth-grade prefect, became the leader of Ravenclaw.

It is worth mentioning that the person sitting next to Mike is not the seventh-year senior who abdicated to make a virtuous person, but a freshman who has just been assigned to Ravenclaw College.

She was brought to Mike by the seventh-grade prefect himself, and because of the prefect's face, Mike did not refuse.

At this moment, the girl with a brown mushroom head was obviously sleepy, but the serious atmosphere around her forced her to force herself to keep her eyes open, so that she could not fall asleep.

Looking at the girl who was swaying, a smile appeared on Mike's face.

He stabbed the girl lightly.

But I saw that the girl tensed up like a cat that was awakened, and looked at Mike with a look of horror.

"Sorry! I almost fell asleep!"

The girl's voice was soft and waxy, Mike shook his head and said:

"Don't be nervous, it should be over soon."

Then he looked at the students around him with the same serious expression, and said:

"Just relax, it's alright."

Hearing this, these students who could not stand it for a long time finally let out a sigh and began to whisper.

Because they are in the top position, many students are also worried that their poor performance will be reprimanded by the professors, so they frequently put their eyes on the faculty seat to observe the reactions of the professors.

However, to their surprise, Professor Flitwick didn't say anything about their performance, and even Professor McGonagall, who usually sees discipline as more important than the sky, turned a blind eye to their behavior.

This undoubtedly fueled their arrogance, their voices gradually rose, and smiles appeared on their faces.

And in the midst of this mess, Umbridge finally finished her speech.

She smiled and bowed to her classmates and professors, but the only response to her was noise and laughter, and even the professors on the faculty seat didn't give her any good looks.

It wasn't until Dumbledore began to applaud that the professors clapped their hands with great reluctance.

Only then did the students in the audience finally realize that Umbridge's speech was over.

They clapped excitedly and looked extremely happy.

Seeing this, Umbridge on the podium stood up and bowed to the class again, but it attracted a burst of boos.

"She's so self-indulgent!" said a boy next to Mike, "I bet those people applauded because they can go back to the lounge to rest soon!"

As soon as this statement came out, there were a lot of echoing voices around, obviously everyone thought so.

"Thank you very much, Professor Umbridge, your speech is very inspiring." Dumbledore finally made the boos from the audience disappear, and he owed to Umbridge, who was not looking very optimistic. The body continued, "Well, as I just said, the selection of the Quidditch team will be..."

Due to the delay of too much time by Umbridge, Dumbledore's speech rate became very fast, and he finished all the things to be said in a very short time.

In the cheers of all the classmates, Dumbledore officially announced the successful conclusion of the banquet.

Hearing that, Mike and the prefects around him stood up one after another, pushed the chairs under the long table, and then began to exit in an orderly manner.

"Now, Ravenclaw freshmen, please come to me and gather!"

Guiding the freshmen to the lounge was the accusation of Mike and Patil as the new prefect. Mike didn't mean to shirk, and stood at the table and started talking.

Mike's voice was not too loud, and it was almost instantly drowned in the noisy auditorium at the moment, but under the action of magic, these voices were all transmitted to the ears of the surrounding people with incomparable clarity.

Soon, a bunch of radish heads gathered in front of Mike.

Patil rubbed his hands nervously and hid beside Mike without saying a word, while Mike said expressionlessly:

"Boys line up to my left, girls come to my right."

Following Mike's order, these little carrot heads quickly lined up in two rows without any delay.

Such high efficiency made Mike frown, because the freshmen in front of him seemed to be very afraid of him, especially the mushroom-headed girl who was sitting beside him before, and now she was trembling with fear.

After thinking for a while, Mike immediately understood the reason for all this.

Presumably, most of these people should have read the Daily Prophet during this period, so they have misunderstood themselves.

You know that Fudge is not a vegetarian, maybe it's out of revenge for Harry and Mike for disgracing him in court, or it's simply to hurt the reputation of the two of them and make the public's impression of them worse, thus reducing the news of Voldemort's return. reliability.

In short, the Daily Prophet has been blackening Mike and Harry throughout late August.

Among them, Harry is described as a good liar, despicable and ridiculous clown.

And Mike is even worse. The Daily Prophet directly dug up his old account of killing the Fire Dragon in the Triwizard Tournament, and also exposed many of the Los Santos shady stories, either true or false, thus directly describing Mike as a A dark-hearted businessman with deep scheming, viciousness, and the potential to become a dark wizard.

Shaking his head helplessly, Mike was too lazy to say anything now, and simply pretended to be serious and said sharply:

"Now, follow behind me and don't fall behind!"

After saying that, Mike waved his sleeves and strode out of the auditorium, while those little radishes followed Mike closely like chicks who went out for food with a hen.

Silently all the way to the door of the Ravenclaw lounge, Mike turned his head and looked at the freshmen again.

At this time, Patil, who had been following the main force, hurried forward and whispered in Mike's ear:

"There's no shortage of one, they're all here."

Nodding silently, a bright smile bloomed on Mike's face and said:

"First of all, welcome to Ravenclaw!"

Mike's smile made these little radishes a little overwhelmed, but before they could react, Mike continued:

"Ravenclaw, is the best house at Hogwarts, only the brightest students are eligible to be admitted here! Now that you are standing here, it means that you are the most intelligent of the freshmen. The best!"

The little radishes looked around excitedly, and Patil raised his head with pride on his face.

"If you want to enter the Ravenclaw lounge, you must pass the test, which is the same in every house. Unlike other houses that require a fixed password, our Ravenclaw test is never fixed. The answer!" Mike pointed to the eagle head knocker, "Our test is very special, as long as you tap the knocker lightly, a question will be given for you, and the door will only open when you answer correctly! "

"Maybe you will be worried, what if the question asked by the knocker is so difficult that you are locked out of the door? But what I'm telling you is that this knocker has magical powers that it will never ask. Questions beyond your knowledge! If you really don't answer the questions it asks, then you didn't listen well in class! And such a student, I think it's really good to sleep in a cold corridor for a night What a punishment!"

Mike's words completely extinguished the flames in the hearts of the little radish heads, and they returned to the quails that were shivering before.

But Mike didn't mean to comfort him in the slightest. He put his hands behind his back, took a deep breath and said:

"Finally, I hope you will remember one sentence, which is the motto of Ms. Ravenclaw, the founder of our college, and a motto that all of our Ravenclaw students must remember! Come, read it with me: extraordinary Wisdom is the most precious wealth of mankind!"

As Mike's voice fell, a childish voice sounded in the crowded corridor.

"Extraordinary ingenuity is the most precious wealth of mankind!"

Many passing old students also heard the words of the new students, and they followed them softly while looking at these new students with gentle eyes.

'This is inheritance! ’

At this moment, everyone is thinking the same way.