Hogwarts Raven's Claw

Chapter 184 Both sides suffer losses
Next, the staff on the field cooperated with the professor and quickly mobilized, working together to drag the seriously injured Mike and Cedric back to the infirmary for treatment.

Mike was better off, after all, he only suffered physical injuries.

Although it was quite serious, with almost the entire chest being cut open and several ribs broken, this simple physical injury was actually not too difficult to heal in the wizarding world. With potion treatment and rest, lying down for a while would allow him to recover as before, without even leaving a scar.

Cedric's was more serious.

Mike used all his strength in the final blow, which resulted in extremely serious injuries to his body, with almost half of his body being broken into pieces.

If a human being had this kind of injury, he would definitely be hopeless, but fortunately he was in the form of a honey badger at the time. Thanks to the honey badger's amazing survival ability and the fact that Professor Sprout immediately gave him a large amount of healing potion, he survived.

But his human body transformation skills are a bit tricky.

After examining Cedric's body, Professor McGonagall concluded that she could not immediately restore Cedric to human form.

In response to Sprout's question, she explained:

the first.

The main reason why Cedric is still alive is because his survivability is greatly improved in the honey badger form. If he is restored to human form rashly now, Cedric will die immediately with his current injuries, and Merlin will not come back.

second.

Cedric's attainments in Transfiguration are not as exaggerated as everyone imagines. Although the family secret technique has given him the ability to approach that of a master of Transfiguration, this ability is also flawed, and he cannot really be proficient in all kinds of Transfiguration.

This resulted in a slight mistake when Cedric performed the human transformation spell, causing his mind to be affected by the bestiality of the honey badger and unable to recover on his own.

Although Professor McGonagall is a master in Transfiguration, she cannot immediately restore a person who has lost control through Transfiguration to his original state. She needs time to reverse Cedric's transformation steps.

Finally, Professor McGonagall also said that the impact of the honey badger's bestiality on Cedric's sanity is likely to be permanent.

This means that even if Cedric is rescued in the end, he is likely to become a beast in human skin, and no longer the good student who is good at both literature and sports.

After hearing Professor McGonagall's conclusion, Professor Sprout could hardly believe his ears. Mr. Diggory, who arrived shortly afterwards, sat down on the ground, staring blankly at Cedric who was being carried away by several staff members using a levitation spell.

But when someone is sad, someone else is happy. Lockhart and Ludo in the hanging attic were almost going crazy with joy.

They had already set up a "spell" to attract everyone to place bets before the competition began, and this duel competition did not disappoint them. They received nearly 10,000 gold Galleons just from the "blocking" within the school, and the betting outside the school directly received tens of thousands of gold Galleons.

Don't underestimate these gold Galleons. Although Mike earned 10,000 gold Galleons just by having sex with Willy, Willy is a well-known nobleman in the wizarding world and a rich second-generation. In the eyes of rich people of this level, money is just a number. For them, resources are the real wealth.

But in the lives of ordinary wizards, these 10,000 gold galleons may be money that they cannot earn in their entire lifetime.

Let’s talk about Lockhart and Ludo. Not only did they start the “Du Ju”, but they also joined in it. Of course, they voted for Cedric instead of Mike, which was also the choice of most people.

After all, Mike is only in the second grade this year, while Cedric is in the fourth grade. The gap between these two years is already quite huge to outsiders.

And Cedric's performance in the competition was much better than Mike's. He basically made it to the finals in seconds. This is much better than Mike. You know, Mike was almost defeated by Willy's money in the semi-finals.

With the help of a Muggle-born wizard, they set the odds so cleverly that they would make money no matter who won, the only difference being how much.

Of course, they would gain the most if Cedric won, because not only did they set Mike's ratio extremely high to attract greedy people to enter, but they also set Cedric's ratio very low.

This means that if Cedric wins, they will make a huge profit, and if Mike wins, they will also make a small profit.

However, things developed in a direction they never expected. Mike and Cedric actually ended up in a tie!

Ludo and Lockhart were almost bursting with joy. Even though they had set up the option of a draw, not many people bet on it. Even though the ratio was set very high, the number of people was small after all, so the money they paid out was a drop in the bucket compared to the total fund of tens of thousands.

"Audience! An unexpected situation has occurred in our competition. Both Mike and Cedric have lost their ability to fight!" Lockhart explained with his hands dancing. "Our staff just came up to report that the injuries of these two players are very serious and they need long-term treatment. But according to the original plan, we will leave the next two months for all students to concentrate on preparing for the exam.

So in this situation, we decided... not to hold a tie-break! Mike and Cedric tied! Both of them will be the champions of this duel tournament!"

As soon as these words were spoken, thunderous curses erupted from the stands, and most of the people present also placed bets. Of course, the vast majority of them were poor students, and they placed bets with a few Nats just to support the players from their own college.

Those who bet with silver Sickles are already considered wealthy. If you bet with a gold Galleon, then congratulations, you will definitely be admired by your classmates as a rich man.

The contributions of these people were just drop-dead gold Galleons. The main contributors to the huge sum of nearly 10,000 gold Galleons were still the students from old aristocratic families. Compared with the people mentioned before, these students from aristocratic families were much more generous, and the minimum amount of gold Galleons was three-digit.

And now those who are shouting the loudest are also those students from aristocratic families. These people have invested a lot, and some of them are even trying to pretend to be rich, so they can only jump out and curse Lockhart together, hoping to force Lockhart to submit through public pressure.

In comparison, the students who had invested only a few copper karts did not react much. Although a few copper karts were not a small amount for some of them, they felt much better when they saw that those who had invested hundreds or thousands of gold galleons also lost so badly. The feeling of gloating even overwhelmed the sadness of losing money.

It really fits the saying that a small traffic jam is good for the mood but a big traffic jam is harmful to the body. However, no matter how these people cursed Lockhart and Ludo, they remained unmoved. Under the temptation of huge benefits, they have ignored the possible impact of this incident.

As Lockhart announced the official end of the final, the giant badger and giant eagle in light and shadow above the circular arena also flew towards each other, but this time they did not attack each other. Instead, they rubbed against each other in a friendly manner and flew towards the podium representing honor together.

At this time, the representative creatures of the other two colleges, the giant snake and the giant lion, also appeared and came to the podium chasing the eagle and the badger, but their bodies were much smaller than the latter two.

The staff also came backstage to inform Bruno and Willy to go on stage to receive the award. However, just when the staff excitedly informed Willy and Bruno of the news, an embarrassing thing happened.

Willy snorted coldly and walked away, leaving Bruno standing there at a loss.

Bruno was not originally eligible to go on stage to receive the award because he lost to Willy, who had the power of money, in the third place match held earlier, but because Mike and Cedric tied for first place, his ranking became third.

After Bruno realized what was happening, he left the amphitheater directly despite the staff's dissuasion. As the current President of the Hogwarts Boys' Union, he was not a fool. He naturally understood that going to the podium alone to receive the award as a "lucky winner" would definitely be regarded as a laughing stock by everyone in the school.

So, the representative beasts of the four major colleges, who had not waited for the real owner for a long time, seemed to be a little impatient after circling above the podium for a while, and began to transform directly, entangled with each other in mid-air, and formed a shield-shaped school emblem of Hogwarts.

However, what should have been the most solemn scene in the duel competition became the funniest moment, because none of the four winners came on stage to receive the award, which made Lockhart and Ludo, who were standing at the podium holding the trophy and flowers and preparing to present the awards to the contestants, sweat profusely in embarrassment.

In the end, he had to leave hastily amid the laughter of people in the stands.

However, everyone in the Hogwarts infirmary had no idea what was happening in the circular arena. In fact, they were so anxious that they had no intention of caring about what was happening on the arena.

In Cedric's ward, a strong and sickening smell of burning and roasting filled the entire ward. Cedric, still in the form of a giant honey badger, was lying on a huge bed, with small streams of dark red blood constantly oozing out of his body, and soon his snow-white body was dyed dark red.

Large patches of charred burns and countless wounds caused by explosions and crushing spells covered Cedric's entire body, leaving almost no good flesh on his body. As for his fur, it had already been burned to ashes in Mike's sea of ​​fire.

Mrs. Bonfur was anxiously discussing the treatment plan with Professor McGonagall and others, but they could not come up with any effective method.

As mentioned before, physical injuries are actually nothing in the wizarding world. Doctors in the wizarding world are most afraid of encountering strange curses and mental injuries. Even wizards who have mastered magical powers are helpless against these bizarre diseases.

Cedric's complex injuries caused by the loss of control of his human transformation and severe physical trauma are no easier to treat than removing an unknown powerful curse.

In Mike's ward, Soraka, a girl with freckles all over her face and wearing a pair of huge black-framed glasses, was leaning over Mike's bed and observing the wound on his chest.

I don't know how long it took, but Soraka seemed to have finally decided on a treatment plan. A gleam of light suddenly flashed on her thick glasses, and then her slender little hands reached directly to the huge wound on Mike's chest, grabbed the edge of the wound and pulled it hard!
There was a slight "pop" sound, and the wound was torn open, and almost all of Mike's chest was exposed to the air.

Soraka was completely immersed in her work at this moment. The corners of her mouth unconsciously raised into a creepy arc. Her eyes covered by thick lenses were full of fanaticism. Her blood-stained little hand pulled out the magic wand from her waist and pointed it at Mike's chest.

"Clean up!"

As the spell was recited, a small gust of wind blew up in Mike's chest, sweeping away all foreign objects including broken bones.

What does it feel like to have a miniature tornado raging inside your chest?
No one can explain it clearly, after all, this kind of thing is too magical.

But one thing everyone can be sure of is that it must be painful!
So, under this level of severe pain, our Mike couldn't stop sweating from his temples, his eyeballs were rolling wildly under his eyelids, and he was about to wake up.

However, our Miss Soraka still didn't notice this. Her hands kept moving. She quickly took out a bottle of dark green strange potion from the cabinet beside the bed and poured it directly into Mike's chest.

"呲~"

As soon as the dark green potion was poured into Mike's chest, it reacted violently, making a strange sound similar to that of cold water poured on magma.

This time Mike finally woke up and opened his eyes weakly. The first thing that caught my eye was a face full of freckles and wearing a pair of thick black glasses.

However, he had no time to think about the girl's identity at this moment, because he was feeling an unimaginable pain in his chest.

Mike forced himself to raise his head with his weak body and look at his chest. It would have been fine if he hadn't looked at it, but when he did, he was stunned.

Because his chest was completely opened at this moment, he could even see his heart beating slowly inside.

This was not the scariest thing. The strangest thing was that the broken ribs and damaged organs in his chest were growing rapidly at this moment. The white and blood-red granulation tissue and bone buds were twisting wantonly. This bizarre scene made Mike's heart beat faster involuntarily.

Soraka, who was originally concentrating on studying Mike's chest, finally noticed Mike's suddenly accelerated heartbeat. She turned her head to look in the direction of Mike's head, but her gaze met Mike's.

The two of them just stared at each other in silence. After a few seconds, a blush floated onto Soraka's cheeks. An indescribable feeling of shame surged into her heart. Then Soraka screamed and slapped Mike in the face.

Poor Mike hadn't yet recovered from the shock of seeing the scene inside his chest when Soraka slapped him in the face again, and he fainted again with tears in his eyes.

(End of this chapter)