Harry Potter’s Raven’s Claw

In the next few days, Mike started the busiest time of his vacation. Because school was about to start, the Weasley brothers who were the company's leaders and managed the factory, including Mike, all had to go to school, so Mike urgently needed a replace him.

Although the two house elves Shuke and Beta have enough ability to manage the factory well, and their loyalty is also very good.

But their social status precludes them from acting as leaders in such large factories.

Don't think that the factory employees are all Muggle-born wizards and they don't care about social class. In fact, many wizards here are more concerned about blood and class than those pure-blooded wizards.

In a word, when it hurts their interests, they will jump out and hold high the banner of blood discrimination, and when it is beneficial to their interests, they will be deaf and mute.

This is similar to some people in today's society.

So Mike needs an agent, and the agent must be a human, even if he can't do anything, but as long as he is a human wizard, that's enough. Otherwise, the workers below will definitely be dishonest.

As a result, after careful consideration, Mike selected several employees with the highest loyalty from each shift to form an administrative department, with Harris Carter as the minister.

That's right, it's the good young man who fought for righteousness back then.

On the other hand, Mike is still taking all the time to practice the Patronus Charm.

Having said that, I have to stress again that Mike is really busy right now.

Sword training, meditation, spell practice, Occlumency practice, Transfiguration practice...

This one thing after another almost left him with no time to rest. In desperation, Mike had to compress his sleep time. He now only sleeps four hours a day, which is far lower than the sleep indicators released by the United Nations.

Fortunately, Mike is a wizard, and a wizard with extremely powerful mental power. Let alone four hours, he can rest well with only two hours of sleep every day.

Regarding the Patronus Charm, Mike found his teacher, Flitwick, after practicing alone for two days and found that the effect was too low.

Flitwick had no doubts about Mike's motives for wanting to learn the Patronus Charm. As a professor at Hogwarts, he already knew and told Mike that the Dementors were about to settle in Hogwarts.

To Mike's surprise, Professor Flitwick knew all about the usage and tricks of the Patronus Charm, as if he were a Patronus Charm master.

However, when Mike looked down at Professor Flitwick with adoring eyes and excitedly asked what his patron saint was, Professor Flitwick was silent.

Mike asked a stupid question. Although Professor Flitwick can use the Patronus Charm, he has not practiced enough to release a complete Patronus.

This is hard.

However, Professor Flitwick is not a stingy person. After a while of silence, he still told Mike the reason.

It turns out that Professor Flitwick has been learning the Patronus Charm since he was young, because the Patronus Charm, in addition to its practicality, also represents lofty status and virtue. However, no matter how hard he tried, how many teachers he consulted, and how much information he collected, he couldn't release a complete Patronus.

This made Professor Flitwick very hurt. He even once suspected that he had no so-called talent for magic spells at all, and the Patronus Charm became a thorn in Professor Flitwick's heart.

So when Mike approached him for advice, he agreed without hesitation. He wanted to fulfill his wish on his apprentice.

It's a pity that Mike's situation is similar to that of Flitwick.

With only a few days left on vacation, Flitwick, the theoretician, gave Mike a horrific hellish training session and gave him countless hearsay tips.

Under this intensity of training, Mike's Patronus Charm advanced by leaps and bounds, and the brightness of the Patronus Charm released was directly upgraded from a flashlight to a white lantern.

But he still couldn't release the physical Patronus.

In the end, Professor Flitwick was finally desperate.

Mike is also very guilty about this. He feels that he has let Professor Flitwick down. Although Professor Flitwick did not say anything, Mike is still very uncomfortable.

But he can't do anything about it. He can only say that things like magic spells still require talent, especially super-difficult magic spells like the Patronus Spell. You can do it once you know it. No, it's hard to do it in your life. .

However, Mike has not completely given up. Although he didn't say it, he still feels that there is something wrong with Professor Flitwick's teaching. After all, a person who can't release the physical Patronus Charm will teach you the Patronus. Mantra, it's hard to believe.

So he decided to wait until after Hogwarts before going to ask the masters of the Patronus Charm in the school.

With this in mind, Mike and Harry and the Weasleys crossed the platform pillars again to reach the nine-thirds-quarters station.

Today is the day when the school starts. The platform is very lively. There are little wizards with luggage and parents who are worried about them.

Harry looked at the Muggle freshmen who were looking around in amazement, and said to Mike with a sigh: "Look, another freshman. Remember? Mike, we were like this back then."

Mike nodded perfunctorily and walked towards the train without looking back.

Hogwarts will welcome a new Defence Against the Dark Arts professor this year, Remus Lupin.

The new professor is a powerful wizard, a master of Patronus Charms, and his Patronus is a wolf.

He is the Patronus Charm teacher that Mike found for himself. Mike is confident that as long as he has a good relationship with him, asking him to open a small kitchen for himself to learn the Patronus Charm or something should be trivial.

However, just as Mike hurriedly wanted to run on the train to find Professor Lupin, a voice suddenly sounded from his side.

"Mike, is that you?" Lucius Malfoy's voice sounded. "What a coincidence, we are about to send Xiaolong (Draco's nickname) to school."

Despite his impatience, Mike put on a smile and greeted the Malfoys.

"Good day, Mr. Lucius." Mike nodded.

"It's been a long time since you've grown so tall. You're such a handsome guy. I don't know how many little girls will send you love letters in the future." Narcissa complimented Mike with a smile, and then she touched Germany. Laco's head, "Our little dragon is too picky eaters, otherwise it should start to grow taller."

"Mother!"

Draco shook his mother's hand uncomfortably, apparently making him uncomfortable when his mother did it to him in front of Mike.

At this time, the Weasley family in the back also noticed the situation on Mike's side. As the Malfoy family's nemesis, Mr. Weasley's first reaction was that Mike was in trouble, so he surrounded him with a large group of people. come up.

"Are you all right, Mike, are they embarrassing you?"

"Don't worry Mike, they can't do anything to you with us here!"

Before Mr. Weasley could speak, the Weasley brothers were eager to help Mike.

And the smile on Lucius' face disappeared the first time he saw the Weasley family, and once again put on the look of domineering pride and looked at the Weasley family.

"Oh, look who this is, isn't this the poor Weasley family?" Lucius looked at the Weasley family's luggage, and then burst out laughing, "It looks like your trashy father. It's still useful, at least he can buy brand new books this year. Congratulations, you don't have to use second-hand books anymore."

Noticing his gaze, Ginny hurriedly hid the book she had placed at the top of the suitcase, she didn't have the slightest impression of Lucius.

Mr. Weasley was directly angry and stepped forward to grab Lucius by the collar.

Seeing that a big hand-to-hand fight was about to begin, Mrs. Weasley quickly grabbed him.

In other places, the two would fight, but this is the nine and three-quarters station of Hogwarts, and the fight here is likely to affect their children.

And Lucius was also relieved when he saw this. He was really afraid that Weasley, a reckless lunatic, would fight him here.

This is not to say that Lucius is afraid of him Weasley, but that there are so many people watching here. Their self-proclaimed noble Malfoy family mainly fights with others here, or fights hand-to-hand. Really lost face.

Lucius is a smart man, and he knows the meaning of taking advantage of the point, so he stopped entanglement with the Weasleys, put on a smile and turned to Mike.

"Mike, you are a smart person, but in my opinion, your understanding of the world is still too shallow. In fact, there are differences between pure blood magic families. Some families have a pure blood name but not pure blood. The strength and wealth of the blood nobles. Regarding this, I think I can help you."

Although Lucius didn't name names, his eyes kept glancing at the Weasleys. Some of the families he said were self-evident.

Faced with this shame, the Weasley brothers had reached the limit of their patience, and when they were about to go up and beat Lucius in front of them, Mike reached out and stopped them.

"Mr. Lucius, I think I can tell who is the best friend for me. Thank you for your kindness."

As soon as they heard this, the faces of the Malfoy family turned black. Narcissa and Lucius were better, after all, they were adults, but Draco was different, and he was so angry that his whole body was shaking.

Mike thought it was a little funny, Draco and Lucius were indeed father and son, and they even said the same thing when they wooed people.

That's right, the words he just used to answer Lucius were exactly what Harry said to Draco when he was in first grade.

"let's go!"

The dark-faced Lucius felt that he had no face, and could not do anything to Mike and others now, so he pulled Draco away.

And they walked on the front foot, and the Weasleys and Harry cheered on the back foot.

"Mike, you are so cool!"

"Did you see the expression on the Malfoy family just now, God, it's so funny!"

...

They didn't suppress their voices at all. Lucius heard the cheers behind him, and suddenly stumbled under his feet, almost falling to the ground.

Delayed for a little time by this episode, the train was about to start when Mike and the others checked in and got on the train.

Looking at the crowded carriages, Mike shook his head in embarrassment. It seemed that it would be difficult to find Professor Lupin today.

But what should be looked for is still to look for. Mike went to the carriages one by one. Unexpectedly, Lupin did not find it but let him find Hermione and Penello, who was maintaining order beside Hermione's carriage.

Penello, who was at work, changed his delicacy when he was alone with Mike, and his sonorous voice showed the aura of a strong woman in his gestures.

Seeing this, Mike suddenly had an idea, thinking that maybe Penello, an official, would know where Lupin was, so he asked, "Penello, do you know where the new Professor Lupin is?"

"Lupin? You mean the new Defence Against the Dark Arts professor?"

"That's right."

Penello thought for a moment, and then said apologetically: "I'm sorry Mike, I didn't see him. But I can ask other students, there should be results."

Mike nodded with satisfaction, found a seat and sat down, watching Penello busy going back and forth, and was very emotional.

It would be great to have a secretary like Penello, who is strong and beautiful. When the time comes, the secretary will work, but hey hey hey.

Thinking about it, Mike suddenly felt that there was a furry creature in his arms, and when he looked down, he realized that it was Hermione's flat-faced ugly cat.

Perhaps noticing Mike was looking at him, the big ginger cat meowed twice at Mike.

Although the cat was a little ugly, Mike didn't dislike it at all, and picked up the cat with a smile.

"Crookshanes!"

Hermione hurried out of the box and saw Crookshanks, who was turning his stomach and being slapped by Mike at a glance.

"His name is Crookshanks? What a strange name."

Seeing that Hermione suddenly froze in place, Mike took the initiative to say hello to prevent embarrassment. However, his words offended the kitten in his arms.

I saw Crookshanks roll his eyes very humanely, then jumped out of Mike's arms, and even grabbed Mike's hand before leaving.

"Oh! I'm so sorry! I said the wrong thing."

The interaction between one person and one cat made Hermione laugh, and the atmosphere between the two became much more harmonious. Hermione picked up Crookshanks again and asked:

"Do you like pets too?"

"Of course, I love pets. My favorite is dogs, especially black dogs."

Mike stopped suddenly and swallowed.

"Then why don't you have a pet?"

His question stopped Mike. He couldn't tell her that he was afraid that he would have feelings after a long time, right?

Mike thought for a while, and finally said, "Actually, I have pets."

"Oh? What? Can you show me?"

Hermione's eyes lit up at once, and she liked furry little animals very much. And when Mike saw this, he no longer ink, touched the pendant between his neck, and said softly: "Come out, Papi."

A black light flashed, and Raven Papi flew out of Mike's shirt and landed on Mike's shoulder precisely and gracefully.