Hogwarts Raven's Claw

Chapter 191 Principal’s Office

In the Forbidden Forest, Dumbledore was still studying the diary that had been stained with black blood. At the same time, his vast mental power was sweeping the entire open space over and over again.

Snape stood quietly beside Dumbledore. Perhaps because he noticed that Dumbledore was using his mental power to scan the surroundings, Snape asked, "Did you find anything?"

"Mike didn't lie. This is indeed a Horcrux." Dumbledore put away the diary and said calmly, "Let's go. We can talk about other things after we return to school."

After saying that, Dumbledore walked towards Hogwarts Castle, taking Hagrid with him on the way.

However, he did not remove the petrification from Hagrid, but instead used a levitation spell to make Hagrid float behind him.

Snape wanted to say something, but after glancing at Hagrid who was still standing there, he stopped talking and followed Dumbledore's footsteps silently.

"Oh, by the way, Severus." Dumbledore seemed to have thought of something, turned his head and winked at Snape behind him playfully, "First, collect the venom of the eight-eyed giant spider here before going back. Thank you for your hard work."

Snape's face suddenly turned dark. Although he had already cursed Dumbledore's entire family in his heart, he still obeyed Dumbledore's order, took out his wand without saying a word and began to collect venom.

Compared with Mike, Snape was much more efficient. He just waved his wand lightly and a thin transparent water column quickly floated out from the body of an eight-eyed giant spider, and finally fell into a glass container in Snape's hand and disappeared.

Snape waved his wand repeatedly, and soon all the eight-eyed giant spiders on the open space were wiped out.

After doing all this, Snape shook his robe vigorously and left the open space without looking back.

After Snape walked away, the charred body of a centaur in the open space suddenly moved.

Then, a baby eight-eyed giant spider as big as an adult's fist suddenly emerged from the Centaur's chest. It shook its body to shake off the ashes on its body. The eight-eyed giant spider turned its head to look in the direction where Snape had left, and its eight eyes sparkled with humanistic brilliance.

The next moment, as if it had seen enough, the eight-eyed giant spider withdrew its gaze and crawled towards the dense forest.

It seemed that it was not used to crawling on eight legs, so the crawling posture of this eight-eyed giant spider was very twisted and its movement speed was very slow. But this posture did not last long. While crawling, it adjusted its posture. The eight-eyed giant spider quickly adapted and quickly disappeared into the dense forest.

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Mike followed Professor Flitwick all the way to Madam Pomfret's infirmary. Because the battle was so intense, Mike only felt the pain in his chest and the weakness caused by excessive blood loss now.

When the two arrived at the infirmary, Mrs. Pomfret was treating Percy. Percy's injuries were very serious. Because Mike used difficile on his broken arm, the wound had begun to heal, which created a great obstacle to the subsequent arm reattachment.

Professor Flitwick was about to step forward to ask when Madam Pomfret glared at him unhappily. Then Madam Pomfret lowered her head and continued to treat Percy, ignoring Mike and Professor Flitwick.

Professor Flitwick scratched his head in embarrassment, and when he saw that Mike already looked pale and weak, he became even more anxious.

"Hello, Professor Flitwick." Soraka, with freckles all over her face, said shyly, "Let me treat Mike."

Upon hearing this, a look of horror immediately appeared on Mike's face, and he shook his head like a rattle.

The treatment Soraka gave him before has left a deep shadow in his heart. He would rather die than let Soraka treat him again. It's not that Mike is too weak, but the scene of suddenly waking up and finding himself disemboweled is too horrifying.

But Professor Flitwick, who was so anxious that he was terribly worried, didn't care about Mike's opinion at all and agreed almost without hesitation.

So, under Mike's horrified gaze, Soraka smiled and took out a bottle of purple potion, opened the lid and held it in front of Mike.

"Mike, come and drink the medicine." Soraka said softly, "This is a larger dose of the Water of Life and Death. I promise that you will never wake up during the operation this time."

After saying this, Soraka licked her lips, looking impatient.

Faced with such a Soraka, Mike naturally gritted his teeth and refused to drink.

Professor Flitwick took action in response, and with a flick of his force, Mike's facial muscles relaxed.

Soraka smiled and bowed to Professor Flitwick, then drank a large bottle of water of life and death under Mike's desperate gaze.

After the medicine entered his body, Mike felt as if what he drank was a cold wind from December. An extremely cold force flowed down his throat and spread through every one of his blood vessels. Almost in an instant, Mike stopped thinking and lost consciousness.

When Soraka saw that Mike had fallen asleep, she breathed a sigh of relief, bowed to Professor Flitwick again, and moved Mike to an operating room nearby.

When Mike woke up again, it was already the evening of the next day. Unlike the last time, this time Mike's ward was empty and Penelope and the others did not come to see him.

Looking at the dim sunlight outside the window, Mike rubbed his drowsy head, trying to dispel all the sleepiness left by the Water of Life and Death.

Yawning, Mike unbuttoned his hospital gown and looked down at his chest.

He saw that the wound that had been torn open again due to excessive movement in the battle had been re-bandaged, and he could not even feel the pain.

Nodding with satisfaction, Mike got out of bed and prepared to go to Dumbledore's office.

Although Dumbledore had said at the time that he would go to the headmaster's office after he recovered from his injuries, Mike still felt that the sooner he went, the better, otherwise he would feel uncomfortable with this matter weighing on his mind.

Perhaps because it was dinner time, the infirmary was empty. Mike walked out of the infirmary easily and came to the door of the principal's office.

The headmaster's office, like the Room of Requirement, is located on the eighth floor of Hogwarts. There is an ugly and ferocious stone statue of a monster at the door. Visitors must recite the correct command before the statue will move aside, revealing the real entrance.

Looking at the monster stone statue in front of him, Mike couldn't help but think of a legend about Dumbledore and the Room of Requirement.

According to legend, Dumbledore was about to return to his office after a cocktail party, but on the way he suddenly had to urinate, so Dumbledore happened to enter the Room of Requirement while half drunk and half awake.

Because all Dumbledore was thinking about at the time was finding a place to relieve himself, so a room full of spittoons appeared in the Room of Requirement. In the end, Dumbledore held an extremely ornately decorated spittoon and started doing that. He even took it back to his office and didn't discover it until the next day.

Shaking his head to get rid of his random thoughts, Mike straightened his clothes and silently entered a closed-brain state before saying the command. "Vanilla ice cream!"

"The password is correct."

The monster stone statue faintly highlighted four words and moved to the side, revealing the wall behind it.

Then the wall suddenly cracked, and a spiral staircase appeared in front of Mike.

Mike walked up the stairs for a while, and in front of him appeared a shiny oak door with a brass door knocker in the shape of a griffon.

Mike reached out to knock on the door, but before his hand touched it, the oak door opened automatically.

Mike walked slowly into the principal's office. What appeared in front of him was a spacious circular room. In the middle of the room was a huge eagle-foot table, and the table top was covered with miscellaneous parchments.

The closet on the side of the room was filled with all kinds of silverware, mostly tableware such as forks and knives, but there were also some exquisite silver statues. It seemed that Dumbledore had the habit of collecting silverware.

Behind the oak door was a wooden shelf. A beautiful bird with a fiery red body was standing on the shelf, looking at Mike with curiosity.

Mike knew without a doubt that this must be the phoenix that Dumbledore kept - Fawkes.

Mike didn't look carefully enough in the amphitheater before, and only when he got closer did he realize that the phoenix looked very old. Mike couldn't help but reach out to touch Fox, but a hoarse voice suddenly interrupted him.

"Don't touch it, you country boy."

Mike was so frightened by the sound that he almost came out of his closed-brain state. He patted his chest twice and then looked up at the source of the sound.

There were five magical portraits neatly hung on one wall of the principal's office. These were all the former principals of Hogwarts.

The person who spoke was a fat, balding old wizard, who was staring at Mike viciously, as if Mike had just done something extremely evil.

Mike recognized him. He was Phineas Black, from the Black family, one of the twenty-eight pure-blood families. He was known as the most unpopular headmaster in the history of Hogwarts, bar none.

Mike didn't know what he had done to earn such a title, but judging from what he had just done, it was not surprising that he earned such a title after his death.

"Phoenix, you are so annoying!" In a picture frame not far away, an old witch with long silver curly hair suddenly opened her eyes and frowned, saying, "No wonder everyone dislikes you."

After that, he looked at Mike again, his frown quickly relaxed, and he said with a smile: "It's okay, kid, don't be afraid of that bald fat old man."

As soon as these words were spoken, all the other portraits around burst into laughter, and Mike couldn't help but look at Phoenix's shining forehead.

I don’t know which wicked guy added some white paint to Phoenix’s portrait to make his forehead look shiny.

Amid the crowd's laughter, Phoenix's face in the portrait immediately turned gloomy. Just as he was about to say something, an old and familiar voice came over.

"Well, it seems you already know all the past headmasters of Hogwarts."

Hearing Dumbledore's half-joking words, the portraits hanging on the wall immediately stopped moving, closed their eyes and pretended to sleep.

Mike looked at Dumbledore speechlessly. He couldn't understand why these portraits were so afraid of Dumbledore. They were obviously Dumbledore's predecessors and their status should be higher than Dumbledore.

"I'm sorry Mike, I just went to get some food." Dumbledore put a bag of invisible extension charm on the eagle-leg table, "Don't just stand there, sit down and eat together, I guess you haven't eaten yet."

Mike watched Dumbledore take out bag after bag of candy and cake from the bag and couldn't help swallowing his saliva. He also loved sweets.

"Thank you, Professor."

Mike came to the Eagle-Foot Table, took a piece of cake handed to him by Dumbledore and took a big bite.

The moment it entered his mouth, the sweet fragrance of the cake accompanied by the wonderful aroma of chocolate filled Mike's mouth, making him squint his eyes.

Seeing how Mike was enjoying himself, Dumbledore burst into laughter, looking very happy.

"How about it? Not bad, isn't it?" Dumbledore said. "This is the traditional chocolate cake of the Duke of Bees. I also asked them to add double the amount of honey on it. It is simply the best!"

"Mmm, delicious. Principal, you are such a gourmet!"

After praising Dumbledore, Mike wolfed down the cake in his hand. He hadn't eaten for the whole day. He hadn't felt anything when he just woke up, but after taking a bite of the cake, he instantly felt the hunger in his stomach.

Perhaps influenced by Mike's eating style, Dumbledore also picked up a large piece of cake and started eating.

So, the only sounds left in Dumbledore's office were the two people's chewing.

Ten minutes later, Mike collapsed on the soft chair and patted his stomach contentedly. He ate three large pieces of cake before he was completely full.

Dumbledore was looking at him with a smile. He had ended the battle when Mike started the third piece of cake.

"Try this Mike again, cockroach pile, a wonderful candy!"

Seeing that Mike had finished the battle, Dumbledore smiled and took out a large bag from the drawer and placed it in front of Mike and said.

Mike was shocked when he first heard about cockroach pile. He had heard of this devil candy called cockroach pile for a long time.

He carefully opened a small hole in the bag and saw that the bag was full of huge dark brown cockroaches. Most of them were still alive. When they saw Mike open the bag, they rushed to the bag.

(End of this chapter)