Hogwarts Raven's Claw

Chapter 187: Re-entering the Forbidden Forest
As time passed, the two Ravenclaw students guarding Mike's door regretted more and more why they had agreed to Professor Flitwick's request to come and protect Mike.

Guarding the gate as a security guard is really a very boring job. It is okay during the day when people come and go, but at night everyone goes back to sleep, and they can only guard Mike's door like two armored statues.

"Brother, I don't think this will work." The guard who kicked the little mouse away said to his friend next to him, "Why don't we take turns guarding the gate? You go and have a rest first, and then come back to take over in three hours. Finally, I will be back before dawn, and no one will notice."

"No! The reason we sent two people to guard here is because if we are attacked alone, we can't sound the alarm at all! So we must guard here together."

The security guard who had suggested taking turns to rest was speechless upon hearing this. What his friend said was absolutely right.

However, standing here like a fool all night was too boring. It would be better if he could play wizard chess to kill time. But he knew his friend's temper very well. The other party would not allow him to play wizard chess at this time.

Thinking of this, the security guard shook his head helplessly, leaned against the wall with a decadent look on his face, thinking of his beloved girl, hoping that this could keep him awake.

But what the two guards didn't know was that while they were arguing about whether to take turns to rest, the little mouse that was kicked away had taken the opportunity to sneak into Mike's ward.

In the ward, Mike was lying on the bed, breathing steadily and slowly.

Suddenly, there was a very slight rustling sound, and a little mouse without a tail crawled in from the gap between the gate and the ground.

The little mouse struggled to get into the room, its nose moving in the air, and its pair of small eyes that flashed faint green light in the dark instantly locked onto Mike.

The little mouse's eyes lit up when he discovered the target of his trip, and he ran towards Mike with his four short legs swinging quickly.

However, it had just run a short distance when a faint black mist emerged from the corner and instantly enveloped it.

This black mist seemed to contain some kind of poison. After just a few breaths, the little mouse screamed and lay on the ground motionless.

After doing all this, the black fog returned to the corner again, but at this moment, the little mouse that had already died began to twitch.

In the darkness, there was a sound of bones breaking and flesh twisting, and then the little mouse was gone, and a piece of parchment appeared where it had been lying.

The black mist turned into a raven named Papi, which opened its mouth, picked up the parchment and dropped it on Mike's pillow.

"Wake up human, there's a letter for you!" Pappy the raven complained, "Damn it! Why am I doing the work of an owl!"

The voice of Raven Papi carried a magical power that directly penetrated Mike's skull and infused into Mike's brain. Mike woke up and looked at a piece of parchment with a torn corner in front of him, feeling a little puzzled.

It wasn't until Pappy the Raven explained to Mike what had just happened that Mike became serious.

Mike lit up the magic lamp in the house, unfolded the parchment, and saw the following words written crookedly on it:

'I need to talk to you, now alone in the Forbidden Forest. Besides, I already know your biggest secret.'

Although there were only two short lines of text, it made Mike break out in a cold sweat.

Almost immediately Mike thought that his secret of being a time traveler had been exposed, and the person who sent the letter was most likely Percy!
But then Mike quickly denied this speculation.

It is likely that the sender of the letter was Percy or the young Voldemort, but the secret he mentioned was unlikely to be rebirth, because Michael has always kept this secret very well.

Then, what he was referring to should be the secrets about the Ravenclaw Diadem and the Trial of the Mystery.

As Mike thought about this, his irritation eased a little, but only a little, because these two secrets could not be leaked.

The former would make Mike a target of public criticism, and the disclosure of the latter would not only make Professor Flitwick and the others no longer trust Mike, but more seriously it might even expose the former, which Mike absolutely could not accept.

The raven Papi looked at the drastic changes in Mike's facial expression and let out a gloating cackle, but the next moment Mike's hand pinched its neck, causing the unpleasant cackle to get stuck in its throat.

"Papi, transform back into the Greed Pendant, we have to go!"

Mike said expressionlessly, he had made a decision in a very short time. Mike must protect his secrets, and as for the person who sent him the letter, he was dead regardless of whether he was Percy or not.

Putting the Greed Pendant that Papi had turned into back around his neck, Mike began to check his equipment.

Greed Pendant, Combat Wand Hole, Blackthorn Wood Wand, Duel Champion Badge. Although he had put these equipment on before he went to bed, Mike checked them again for safety reasons.

Then he took out a set of black tactical uniform that looked a bit like a special uniform from the bag of the Traceless Stretching Spell and put it on. This was ordered when he customized the desert camouflage tactical uniform before, and now it came in handy. In addition to this, Mike also ordered rainforest camouflage, sea and land special warfare uniforms and many other tactical uniforms.

After thinking about it, Mike finally took out a teardrop-shaped glass container from the bag and drank the golden-glowing elixir without hesitation.

Suddenly, a warm current spread throughout Mike's body, and the wound on his chest, which had been painful before, no longer hurt.

But other than that, Mike didn't notice any changes in himself.

Shaking his head to get rid of the idea that the cup of Felicis might be fake, Mike stood in front of the open window, took a deep breath and chanted the spell of the Disillusionment Charm.

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Half an hour later, Mike, who had entered invisible state, appeared at the entrance of the forbidden forest.

Mike had been to the Forbidden Forest in his first year, and even fought a battle with Voldemort in the Forbidden Forest. The amazing thing is that when Mike entered the Forbidden Forest again this time, he still had to face Voldemort, a weirdo without a nose. It must be said that the goddess of fate sometimes really likes to play jokes.

Thinking of this, Mike walked into the forbidden forest carefully.

It was not known whether it was the effect of the Felicis Follis or Hagrid's sweep of the wild beasts in the Forbidden Forest after what happened in his first year, but this time Mike reached the depths of the Forbidden Forest effortlessly and did not even encounter a single animal along the way.

However, at this moment, eight eyes emitting green light appeared in front of Mike. "Smash to pieces!"

With almost no hesitation, Mike raised his hand and shot a crushing spell at the glowing eyes in front of him.

There was a sharp squeaking sound, and the eyes in front of Mike suddenly disappeared, followed by an unpleasant smell of decay that filled the air.

No one knew if it was because of the shrill squeaking sound or the smell of rotting animals, but after the death of the unknown monster, countless pairs of green eyes appeared in the dark forbidden forest.

Mike watched helplessly as the eight-eyed monsters quickly rushed to the place where the first monster died. Then there were waves of disgusting eating sounds and squeaking sounds of fighting for food.

In just a few breaths, the sound that could give children nightmares finally stopped, and a group of huge eight-eyed giant spiders crawled out from the shadows.

"Come... with me."

The leading eight-eyed giant spider said these three words to Mike in its not-so-fluent English, then turned around and walked deep into the forest, not caring at all that Mike had just killed one of its kind.

Mike looked at the eight-eyed giant spider that was getting farther and farther away in front of him, and followed it without hesitation. As he moved, the eight-eyed giant spiders around him also moved. In an instant, large areas of rustling sounds surrounded Mike.

Mike could clearly sense that the shadows around him were filled with giant eight-eyed spiders that were larger than adults. Each of these eight-eyed spiders was staring at him with their four pairs of cold eyes. Their eyes were full of hunting desire. If it weren't for the giant eight-eyed spider leading the way to suppress them, they would have swarmed over him long ago.

Facing the prying eyes of these eight-eyed giant spiders, Mike's heart did not waver at all. He just followed the eight-eyed giant spider in front of him and walked forward.

If he remembered correctly, these Acromanthus spiders should all have been domesticated by Hagrid, although Acromanthus spiders were classified as extremely dangerous creatures by the Ministry of Magic because of their huge size, terrifying fertility, highly toxic venom and strong aggressiveness, and were even labeled as dark magic creatures, prohibiting anyone from keeping them.

But Hagrid, the gamekeeper at Hogwarts, obviously doesn't think so. In his eyes, these huge monsters with eight eyes and scary looks are all cute babies.

That was why he allowed these giant eight-eyed spiders to reproduce wildly in the Forbidden Forest. He didn't even care that their astonishing reproduction speed and hunting desire made other creatures in the Forbidden Forest uneasy.

After walking for an unknown amount of time, an open space suddenly appeared in front of Mike.

In the center of the open space was a burning bonfire. Percy, who was wearing a plain Hogwarts robe and had red hair, was sitting beside the bonfire, roasting the leg of an unknown creature on a wooden stick, and occasionally sprinkling some seasonings on it.

These eight-eyed giant spiders seemed to be very afraid of Percy, and after sending Mike to Percy, they dispersed like the tide.

Mike shifted his gaze away from Percy and found that there was a corpse of an Acromanthus giant spider next to Percy. This Acromanthus giant spider was much larger than the ordinary Acromanthus giant spider, even larger than the one that led Mike, and that Acromanthus giant spider was missing a leg.

Mike looked at the leg of the unknown creature that Percy was roasting, and immediately understood the origin of the leg.

"Wow, our guests are finally here." Percy said without even looking up, "Please wait a moment, I'll be done soon."

"Don't talk about these nonsense, just get straight to the point."

Mike gripped his wand tightly and looked warily at Percy by the campfire.

"You're too impatient, Mike. Sit down. My side is ready." Percy cut a small piece of barbecue with a knife and tasted it. "Hmm! Yami (delicious)!"

Mike looked at Percy's satisfied face and felt sick to his stomach. He said impatiently, "Stop playing these little tricks, Tom Riddle! Or Voldemort!"

"It looks like you already know it all, Mike."

"Tell me what secret of mine you know?!"

Percy, no, the young Voldemort Tom Riddle shook his head helplessly when he saw that Mike was answering a question that was not his real answer. He smiled and said, "Okay, I'll be honest. I just want to have a good talk with you. In fact, I don't know your secret at all..."

"Avada Kedavra!"

Before Tom could finish his words, a beam of emerald green light shot out from the blackthorn wood wand in Mike's hand and shot towards Tom, who was standing by the campfire with a roasted leg in one hand and a knife in the other.

However, just when the killing curse was about to hit Tom, he swung his right hand holding the barbecue violently, and a ray of emerald green light suddenly appeared, directly knocking Mike's killing curse away.

The green light on Tom's right hand gradually dissipated, and the barbecue on the wooden stick in his hand had long disappeared, leaving only the wooden stick on which the meat was skewered.

And that wooden stick was Percy's wand.

'He actually grilled meat with Percy's wand?'

Mike was immediately shocked by Voldemort's bold move. For most wizards, the wand is not only a weapon, but also a comrade-in-arms. This is the concept that the entire wizard society has instilled in them since childhood, so most wizards are very protective of their wands. Most wizards have never thought of using a wand to skewer meat for barbecue.

"What a pity! This roast leg is the best I've ever roasted." Tom said with some regret, "You may not know that when I was in school, the food at Hogwarts was not as good as it is now, so I often went hunting in the Forbidden Forest with my classmates.

That's right, my Slytherin classmates called this hunting behavior "patrolling", as if saying so could make this behavior elegant, as if they came to the Forbidden Forest to hunt animals not because of greed, but because of interest. Haha, it's really hypocritical, isn't it? "

Mike watched Voldemort talking with relish about the interesting things in his school days, and beads of sweat gradually appeared on his forehead.

Just now, Voldemort did not recite any spell when he cast the Killing Curse on himself, which means that Voldemort had already mastered the technique of silent casting when he was a student. Mike really couldn't imagine what kind of talent this was.

"Why are you still standing there like an idiot? Come and sit down. I have a lot of things I need to talk to you about."

Tom smiled and waved at Mike.

(End of this chapter)