Harry Potter’s Raven’s Claw

The match Cedric was talking about was next Saturday, Gryffindor vs. Hufflepuff.

Mike already knew about this.

After all, if you have a Quidditch fanatic like Franklin by your side, it's hard not to know these things.

Originally, as the first important match at the beginning of the season, Gryffindor's opponent should be Slytherin.

However, when Slytherin's Quidditch captain knew that there would be a storm on the day of the game, he did not hesitate to submit an application for avoidance on the grounds that their Seeker Draco's arm injury had not healed.

Mike was surprised when he heard the news. Of course, he was not surprised that the captain of the Slytherin team could know the weather on the day of the game so many days in advance.

The study of astrology combined with divination can easily predict the weather for many days in the future, and the accuracy is far more accurate than the weather forecast of the Muggle society.

Mike was surprised that Draco hadn't taken off his disguise until now, it seemed that he didn't listen to the warning last time.

Naturally, Mike was going to be present at Cedric's first game this semester. After all, Cedric had brought so many people to support him, so he should go as well.

So he encouraged everyone he could call to cheer on Cedric and Harry together. Among these people were Penello and Franklin, who were more talented students in the Patronus Charm.

Although these people are still far from meeting the standard of releasing a physical version of the patron saint, they can also release some faint light, but it is not very useful.

Mike summoned these people not expecting them to help defend against the dementors that would invade the stadium at that time, but to make a show and let everyone know that he is an excellent teacher, as long as he works hard, he can learn the Patronus curse.

This is the best publicity. When more people come, it will be convenient for Mike to set a higher threshold.

As for what you said if the dementors don't come?

In the original book, they attacked Harry during this game, so they will come this time.

Even if they don't plan to come, Mike will find a way to make them come!

After finishing these things in a lunch break, Mike led a large group of Ravenclaw students to the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom.

Now Mike has become the well-deserved king of Ravenclaw College. Not only the students in the same grade and the lower grades look up to him, but even the senior students respect him very much.

This led to a large group of people following him no matter where he went.

Mike now finally understands how Cedric feels. This kind of pomp looks majestic, but in fact it is very troublesome.

He basically has no privacy at all now, and he can't do some private things if he wants to, because even when he goes to the toilet, several classmates will go with him!

He even secretly looked at Little Mike, and then showed an expression of inferiority!

When Mike and others came to the classroom, the professor waiting in the classroom was not Lupine, but Snape.

Mike wasn't surprised by this. After calculating the time, it happened to be the full moon in the past few days. As a werewolf, Lupine would transform at this time, so it would be inappropriate for him to come to class.

But since Dumbledore invited Lupine to be a professor, he was naturally fully prepared. After all, the werewolf disease is not incurable.

Wolf's Poison!

This is the potion for werewolf disease!

This potion is actually just a potion for suppressing werewolf transformation, and it cannot completely cure werewolf disease.

But its production is so difficult that it makes one's scalp tingle. It is said that there are no more people in Europe who can make this potion than their hands!

As luck would have it, Snape happened to be one of them.

When the moon is full, Snape will prepare the wolfsbane potion in advance and give it to Lupine to drink. Due to the side effects of the wolfsbane potion, Lupine will fall into a very weak period.

At this time, the kind-hearted Snape would help people to the end, helping his former classmate take a few defense against the dark arts lessons.

Naturally, Snape would not be so kind. He and Lupine had a big enmity, and asking him to help prepare the wolfsbane potion was already the limit.

Mike even wondered if Snape had put something in the wolfsbane potion to make Lupine extremely weak.

Because Mike searched all the information and found no records of such serious side effects of Wolfsbane Potion.

"Okay, Professor Lupine is not feeling well, I will take over today!" Snape glanced at the clock and saw that the time had come, and began to teach, "Before this, I have already known about your current progress through the students in other classes , I think poor Lupine seriously underestimated you guys! After all, I can deal with Red Hat on my own at your age!"

The students in the audience looked at me and looked at you, and they all had doubts about Snape's words.

The red hat is a dangerous creature of level 4x, and is extremely good at sneak attacks. They didn't think Snape would be so strong in his third year.

Mike didn't think so. Snape was a fierce man who invented the Shadowless Curse when he was a student. It was not difficult to deal with a red hat in the third grade.

"Quiet!"

Snape yelled when he saw that the people in the audience were noisy, and waited until the people shrank their necks like quails and stopped talking before continuing:

"Now, please turn the book to page 394!"

Immediately there was the sound of turning pages from the audience, and when everyone said that the book had been turned to the designated position, they looked at each other again.

"Werewolf? Isn't that right? How could we deal with this?"

"Yeah, it's better to be Professor Lupin. According to the curriculum, we should have learned the black goblin today! Damn it! I've been looking forward to it for a long time!"

"Who said it wasn't?"

...

Mike sees all of this, and Lupine is indeed a good teacher, which becomes even more obvious after his predecessor has ruined the reputation of Defense Against the Dark Arts.

He is very good at allowing students to learn knowledge while having fun, allowing students to overcome their fear of black magic creatures, so that they can deal with them in a more calm and interesting way.

That's true of boggarts, and that of water monsters, and that of red hats.

But Snape was different. He didn't have much patience after teaching the obscure and difficult Potions for a long time. His teaching method was straightforward to instill as much knowledge as possible in the shortest possible time.

As for how much you can understand, this is not within the scope of his consideration.

If you can't keep up with your studies, it means you're not talented enough, you're a monster with shit in your head!

And Snape never had the slightest fondness for idiots.

It's just different today, Snape showed his other side, patiently introducing werewolves and werewolf disease to everyone.

In order to prevent everyone from being confused about the difference between werewolves and ordinary people, he even repeated the main points several times until he confirmed that everyone could easily distinguish the difference between werewolves and ordinary people.

Mike knew what he wanted to do.

Lupine's body has returned to a healthy state after being recuperated at Hogwarts for so long. Not only has he gained a lot of flesh, but even his gray hair has returned to its original color.

This obviously upset Snape.

So Snape wanted the students to discover Lupine's identity as a werewolf by themselves, so that Lupine could get out of Hogwarts, lose this lucrative job, and return to that quagmire.

Mike had to say that Snape was indeed a smart person, because when Snape proudly announced that get out of class was over and walked out of the classroom, Mike noticed that there were at least three people in this classroom with thoughtful expressions on their faces .

"There are still a lot of smart people!"

Mike sighed.

There has never been a shortage of smart people in this world. Objectively speaking, Hermione's IQ can only be said to be average, far below the level of a genius.

If you have to say it, she is just a genius who worked hard. The rich knowledge resulting from reading poetry and books for a long time, coupled with the foil of Ron and Harry, makes people think that she is a genius.

In fact, the real genius is much stronger than her.

Take Harry's mother, Lily, for example.

She was once known as the most gifted genius in modern times, no matter what kind of spell she was able to learn, and no matter how esoteric the potion formula was, she could easily make it...

You really thought the ancient family spell that kept Harry alive from the Killing Curse was so easy to learn?

Rather than saying that Harry, the son of destiny, defeated Voldemort at his peak, it would be better to say that Lily and Voldemort died together.

When I say this, you should be able to understand how strong Lily is, right?

A woman who can die with Voldemort!

Mike shook his head with a smile. After throwing all these messy things out of his brain, he got rid of his large group of admirers and went to Lupine's office alone.

He had to remind Lupine to put on a disguise, he still needed Lupine.

At this stage, no one will expose Lupine's identity as a werewolf for the time being, because everyone is still in the stage of careful verification.

For a long time to come, there will be many pairs of eyes on Lupin. Once they confirm their suspicions, it is inevitable that Lupine will be fired.

Lupine was a werewolf, after all, and werewolves are to the wizarding world what AIDS is to Muggles!

When Mike came to the office of the Defense Against the Dark Arts class, he saw Lupine lying in a recliner like an old farmer who was exhausted from farm work in winter, and fell asleep with a thick blanket on his body.

Judging from his bloodless lips, his current state is very bad. It seems that the sufficient nutrition some time ago was taken away from him overnight, which made him return to that thin middle-aged man again.

"Professor Lupine?"

Mike asked softly.

Lupine's sleep was light, and Lupine's eyes opened a crack as soon as Mike spoke.

"Ah, Mike."

Lupine panted heavily, weakly responding to Mike's call.

Seeing him like this, Mike became more certain that Snape must have been drugged in the wolfsbane potion, otherwise there would be no such serious side effects.

"You look very ill."

"Yeah, ahem!" Lupine coughed twice, "How was your class today? Snape didn't make things difficult for you, did he? Ahem!"

Just after Lupine finished speaking, he started to cough violently again. Mike moved a little away from Lupin in a subtle way, and he said after Lupine's breath stabilized a bit:

"It's bad, he's hinting at us as a werewolf. And worst of all, someone should already be suspicious of you."

"is that so?"

Lu Ping was taken aback when he heard the words, and then became very disappointed. He lowered his head and remained silent for a long time. After a long time, he pretended to be optimistic and said:

"It looks like I'm going to change jobs again."

"Don't you hate him?"

"Hate? That's out of the question, after all, I owe him this." The expression on Lupine's face tightened at first, and then relaxed again, "You know what? Don't look at Snape now In this way, he was a doormat when he was young, and we all called him a snotty..."

Lupine talked more and more vigorously, telling all about how they bullied Snape when they were in school.

Although it seemed to Mike that this was a complete story about a rich second generation robbing someone’s childhood sweetheart and bullying him on campus, Lupine told it very happily, and even had a smile on his face afterwards.

While talking, the smile on Lupine's face suddenly disappeared, and then he said with a serious face: "Did you know? Snape almost died because of me."

Mike looked at him in surprise, quietly waiting for the next step.

"At that time, I was already a werewolf, and whenever I wanted to transform, I would go to an abandoned house in Hogsmeade village through the secret passage under the Whomping Willow, and vent my anger there.

Later James found out, and he took Black and Peter and turned into animals to accompany me.

Help me at the risk of contracting werewolf disease! "

Lupine broke down in tears at this point,

"But that snotty Snape found out the clue of this matter. He wanted to follow us but didn't know how to open the secret passage. So, he was trapped under the Whomping Willow.

As you know, the Whomping Willow is an aggressive magical creature that basically kills anyone who gets entangled in it.

Luckily we found him later and James risked his life to get him out, but he was badly injured and even punished by the professors. "

Mike's eyes narrowed unconsciously. He knew that there was a secret passage under the Whomping Willow, but he couldn't explain how he knew it, because it wasn't even marked on the Marauder's Map. This secret passage.

Now that Sirius Black is hiding in the abandoned house that Lupine mentioned, Mike couldn't find a reason to find him in a logical way, but now, with today's conversation, Mike can be fair Went to find Blake.

After making a decision, Mike didn't intend to continue spending time with Lupin, and said with a smile: "I still hope that you can cheer up, to be honest, your class is really interesting, and we all hope that you can continue to be a professor .

So, please pretend as much as possible. The more you pretend, the better, don't let them find out. "

"Aren't you afraid of me?"

Lupine's trembling voice reached Mike's ears, making Mike smile slightly and say, "Of course, you won't bite me."

Lupine fell silent, and big, big tears rolled down his face.

"Then I won't disturb your rest, I wish you a speedy recovery!"