Hogwarts Raven's Claw

Chapter 181 I'm Helping You
Mike actually knew about Willy's background.

Willy's full name is Willy Doug Hunter, and he is the heir of this generation of the Hunter family.

As for the history and tradition of the Hunter family, you can actually see it from their family name.

For a long time in history, the British had only given names but no surnames. It was not until the 11th century that some nobles began to use the names of their fiefs to honor their patriarchs, and later it evolved into a surname after being passed down from generation to generation.

When the common people saw that the nobles all had surnames, they began to give themselves surnames as well, but most of them had little education, so they could only use their occupations or some things they could come into contact with in daily life as their surnames, which is very similar to the Foot Basin People.

The most obvious examples are baker, carter, etc.

The "Hunter" in the Hunter family sounds the same as "hunter", which means hunter. In other words, Willy's ancestors were hunters.

After becoming a wizard by chance, this ancestor did not forget his traditional skills, but applied magic to hunting and animal taming. After several generations of research and improvement, the Hunter family's hunting and animal taming skills became more and more perfect, which made them a well-known animal taming family in the wizarding world. Almost all industries related to the breeding of magical animals on the market are related to them.

This includes the source of the materials for the core of the magic wand, or the raw materials for the ice cream that Mike ate in the first grade. All of these have the shadow of the Hunter family.

Of course, none of this had much to do with Mike. After pondering for a while about Willy's purpose, he soon felt relieved.

No matter whether he was a fool with a lot of money or just playing the long game, since the money was in his hands, the matter was over. If Willy thought he could ask him to do something based on the favor of 10,000 gold galleons, he would be wrong. After all, this was a "blocking" and Michael didn't owe him any favors.

"Pappy."

Taking the Greed Pendant off his neck, the pendant quickly transformed in Mike's hand and turned into the appearance of Raven Papi again.

'Eh! '

Looking at the two little eyes of the raven Papi rolling around in front of him, Mike finally asked the question that had puzzled him for a long time.

"Papi, what abilities do you have? Tell me everything."

"Listen up, stupid human! I have great power. If I hadn't been dormant for so long, I would have only needed a feather to kill a little wizard like you!"

"Get to the point!" Mike smiled, but veins on his head were bulging.

'Okay! My abilities include dream control, virtual body, illusion control and soul damage! Dream control, as the name suggests, means that I can control other people's dreams and make them have nightmares or good dreams according to my will.

The intangible body allows me to enter the Mist Crow state, in which I am immune to physical damage and a few spells like the Fire Curse, but spells like the Disarming Curse can still cause damage to me.

Illusion control means that I can make others have serious hallucinations and lose themselves.

The last thing is soul damage. I can cause damage to the soul directly, but this ability does not do much harm to creatures whose souls are still in the body. It is mainly used to kill ghost-like creatures.

But because I have been dormant for too long, my strength has weakened a lot, and I can only use most of the above abilities with difficulty.'

After listening to Raven Papi's self-narration, Mike's heart was burning with joy.

Raven Papi's strength far exceeded Mike's expectations. If he had Raven Papi's help in the next match with Cedric, he would be almost invincible.

And Raven Papi has many small abilities that have not been mentioned yet, such as the telepathic ability used to communicate with himself, or the ability to slightly increase the wizard's meditation effect and mental power, etc.

Suppressing his inner joy, Mike began to experiment with the raven Papi's abilities.

The first was the dream control experiment. When Mike lay in bed and fell asleep, the dream that had not appeared for a long time suddenly appeared again. It was the game with Willy that Mike had experienced today. Before Mike could react, the picture in front of him changed rapidly, and in an instant it turned into a beautiful scenery of mountains and rivers.

Unlike ordinary dreams, Mike only felt that his consciousness was very clear and everything in front of him was extremely real. He put his hand into the crystal clear stream and could even feel the water flowing gently through his fingertips and the coolness of the stream.

I don’t know how much time passed before Mike opened his eyes and woke up.

I looked up at the alarm clock on the bedside table and saw that only twenty minutes had passed since I fell asleep.

Mike was immediately surprised. Although he didn't have a specific feeling of time passing in his dream, according to his subjective feelings, he should have spent at least two hours in his dream. But now...

"You can also control the flow of time in your dreams?"

"Of course I can. Not only can I slow down the time in other people's dreams, I can also speed it up, creating the effect of a dream!"

"What does Nan Ke Yi Meng mean? Can you speak English?"

……

Let's not talk about how Papi made Mike understand the Chinese idiom "a dream in a dream". In the next few days, Mike also conducted many experiments on the other abilities of the raven Papi.

Take the illusion experiment for example. After Mike experienced it himself, he was amazed because it was so realistic.

Of course, with Raven Papi's current strength, it is still unable to create such a large-scale illusion, and even a small illusion cannot last too long. However, Mike still sees the power of this ability. It is simply a perfect assassination ability.

If nothing else, Papi now had no problem creating some minor hallucinations.

So if it uses its ability on a driver who is driving, and suddenly an illusion of a hideous monster appears in front of his car when he is driving at high speed, hehe, I think there is no need to say more about the consequences, right?
After testing, the ability to become invisible or the fog raven form is also very powerful. After activating this ability, Papi will directly turn into a very light fog, which is almost invisible in a dark environment. And the ability to be immune to physical attacks is also very powerful. The only regret is that after entering this state, Papi's resistance to the disarming spell will become extremely low. A random little wizard can seriously injure it with a single shot.

As for the soul-killing ability, it was not easy to experiment with it. In the end, Mike could only find some mice that had not been used up last time to experiment with it.

It goes without saying that Raven Papi's ability to kill ghosts was great, and even the soul of Ms. Ravenclaw was killed by it. But the experiment on living creatures was not ideal, and even when Raven Papi tried his best, he could only barely kill a little white mouse, which made Mike a little disappointed.

But he soon adjusted his mentality. This is how people are. When they don't have it, they want it very much, but after they really have it, they want more. In the end, if they really can't get it, they will use the Ah Q spirit to comfort themselves.

Anyway, with Raven Papi's current strength, it is almost certain that he can help me win the duel competition.

This is how Mike comforted himself, and after some self-comfort Mike felt much better.

However, it turns out that this way of self-comfort is not desirable, because reality will often slap you hard in the face at this time.

...

"What! You said that we can't use any props, potions, or familiars except wands in this game?"

In the players' lounge below the amphitheater, Mike was yelling at a male staff member.

Facing Mike's roar, the staff member looked innocent.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Townley. This is an order issued by Mr. Lockhart himself. Both contestants in this competition need to undergo body searches and physical examinations before the game to ensure that the game is absolutely fair!"

"I don't accept it. Call Lockhart over here! I want to argue with him in person!"

The staff member couldn't convince Mike, so he ran out of the lounge in shame and came back with Lockhart a while later.

After asking everyone else in the lounge to leave, Lockhart slowly said, "Mike, what's wrong? Why don't you want to let them search you?"

"Mr. Lockhart! I'm very curious about how your brain works and why you suddenly changed the rules!" Mike said word by word.

"Mike, listen to me, I'm doing this for your own good, aren't I?" Lockhart said earnestly, "Look at your last match with Willy, he used so many props at once, although you still won in the end, didn't his potions and pets still cause you a lot of trouble?

This time, your opponent Cedric is much stronger than Willy, and he also comes from a wealthy pure-blood family. Who knows, maybe after being inspired by Willy, he will choose to use money to attack you?
You are different from them. You are born a Muggle, so you definitely can’t get things like Felicity and magical pets…”

Before Lockhart could finish his words, he saw Mike taking out a teardrop-shaped glass container from the bag of Traceless Extension Charm, which contained the Felicity Potion that was shining with a faint golden light.

Suddenly, the expression on Lockhart's face became very interesting, and his mouth opened wide, unable to speak.

"Sorry, Mike, I didn't expect you to be a hidden tycoon." Lockhart took out a handkerchief to wipe the sweat from his face and said with a stammer, "But now the rules have been announced, so, can you please give me some face...

You know, I invited Mr. Ludo Bagman, the Director of the Department of Magical Sports and Sports, to commentate on the final with me. If you use this matter today, I will not only be embarrassed, but what will Mr. Bagman think of me? God, he will think I am a useless waste! My career will be completely ruined.

Anyway, you are so strong, it doesn’t matter whether you use these props or not, so... please!"

By the end of his speech, Lockhart was already in tears. He hugged Mike's waist tightly, and acted as if he would not let go unless Mike agreed.

Mike tried several times to pull him away without success, and finally had no choice but to agree to his request.

"Okay, I'll give you a favor this time," Mike said, "but you have to remember that you owe me a favor!"

"No problem! No problem!"

Hearing this, Lockhart got up from the ground in an instant, wiped his cheek with a handkerchief and regained his previous energetic appearance, without any trace of the tears he had just shown when he hugged Mike.

Faced with Lockhart's nonchalant look, Mike's mouth corners slightly raised, thinking to himself: 'Just wait, my favor is not so easy to repay, sooner or later you will cry.'

Lockhart adjusted his dress until it looked exactly the same as when he came in, then walked out of Mike's lounge with his head held high. After a while, several male staff members came back to Mike and began to examine him.

He didn't know why Lockhart suddenly became so strict. Mike just felt that the staff who were checking him were a little too serious. He checked his whole body three times in a row and didn't give up. He even planned to do it for the fourth time.

Although he was still a little unhappy, since he had already promised Lockhart, Mike had no choice but to cooperate with the staff to continue the inspection.

Of course, their method of inspection is not the traditional hand search. As wizards, they have a better way, which is to detect spells.

After being scanned by the detection spell for the fourth time, the inspection of Mike was finally completed.

At this moment, Mike had nothing on him except his wand and clothes. Not only the bag of Traceless Stretching Spell, but also the greed pendant hanging around Mike's neck and the combat magic gloves on his arms were all put away.

Fortunately, the staff did not pay attention to the 'combat uniform' Mike was wearing, which had no magical power at all. Perhaps it was because they simply regarded it as a somewhat strange Muggle costume.

In fact, this "combat uniform" is an important equipment that Mike carefully prepared. The prototype of this combat uniform is actually the U.S. Army combat uniform in Mike's memory. The top and pants are composed of light yellow desert camouflage, and the shoes are conventional army combat boots.

Mike spent a lot of time thinking about this suit. He originally planned to buy a set directly, but he didn't expect that the ACU combat uniform of the US military was not yet popular, and ordinary people couldn't get it at all. Moreover, even if Mike could get it, there was no size suitable for Mike, after all, it was specially prepared for adults.

Fortunately, Madam Malkin, who specialized in selling robes in Diagon Alley, had superb craftsmanship. Based on the rough design Mike drew, she made the combat uniform that Mike needed in just half a day. Although no special fabrics were used, under Madam Malkin's spell, the defensive capability of this combat uniform was no worse than the original one!
When Mike got the combat uniform, he couldn't help but sigh that there is a lot of potential in magic farming!
(End of this chapter)