Hogwarts Raven's Claw

Chapter 206 New Home
That day, Mike and Professor Flitwick stayed directly at Flitwick Manor because their tea party lasted until the evening.

Although the conversation was long and most of it was about old things, Mike, with his adult soul, still listened with great interest.

Because the people present here are not ordinary people, let alone Professor Flitwick, Uncle Mario is the patriarch of the Flitwick family. Mike can be said to have benefited a lot from their conversation.

After this day's tea party, Mike got to know more about the Foley family.

Abbott's mother died during childbirth of his sister Ellen, and Uncle Mario never remarried after that. That's why his sister Ellen has always blamed herself for this.

But in the entire Fuli family, Ellen is the most favored, because she is not only the little princess of the Fuli family, but also looks very similar to Abbott's mother.

When Mike asked about the appearance of Princess Ellen, both Abbott and Uncle Mario praised her highly. Uncle Mario even said that he would introduce Ellen to Mike when she came back, and that he would be Mike's father-in-law if Mike could woo Ellen.

Mike naturally called it a joke, but he knew the truth in his heart.

There's a good chance Uncle Mario is serious.

Because the Foley family had been marrying within a small circle for many years in order to maintain the purity of their bloodline, their fertility has dropped significantly. Now there are only three people left in the entire Foley family, so they are in urgent need of fresh blood from outside.

However, they look down upon ordinary Muggle-born wizards, but Mike, a little guy who has become famous recently, is very suitable to be recruited as a son-in-law.

At that time, the Freeh family would not only get a top wizard for free, but also improve their genes, which was simply killing two birds with one stone.

Mike just wanted to say, sugar-coated bullets, I will accept the sugar-coated bullets and hit them back, you want me to be your son-in-law? That's impossible!

The next morning, Mike woke up in a guest room on the east side of Foley Manor.

Since Mike was used to sleeping on his side, when he opened his eyes, he saw a short house-elf wearing a black and white beret carefully placing a tray with hot milk and toast on the bedside table beside the bed.

Mike's sudden awakening seemed to scare the little guy, and he screamed and crawled under the bed.

Mike, who had just woken up and was still not fully awake, looked at Beta's actions in confusion. After a while, he cleared his throat and said, "Uh, Beta, right!"

"Yes Master!"

A shrill voice came from under Mike's bed, and then a huge head slowly appeared from the side of the bed.

"what time is it now?"

"Seven thirty-eight Master!"

"Why are you here to bring me breakfast, the house elf from Foley Manor?"

Beta became excited when he heard this. He stood up straight and looked at Mike like a puppy that just picked up a ball and wanted to be praised by its owner. He said, "Those house elves are so clumsy. I was worried so I took over their work!"

Seeing Beta almost sticking out his tongue, Mike, who had lived with Lolo for a long time, naturally understood what it meant. He reached out and gently touched Beta's smooth forehead and praised: "Very good, thank you."

Mike's action seemed to have triggered something. Beta's big eyes were immediately filled with tears. Then he pulled his ears frantically, shouting "Master praised me!" and ran out of Mike's room, leaving Mike confused again.

But five minutes later, Mike's door was opened again.

The person who pushed the door open was Shuke, holding hot water, towels and other toiletries, while Beta followed his brother dejectedly, obviously he had just been severely punished.

"Master, please wash up." Beta solemnly controlled the basin to float in front of Mike, and then said, "Please forgive Beta, he is really a little too naughty, I have already taught him a lesson before."

"No, no, Shuke, it's good this way. You don't have to be so reserved." Mike said as he washed up. "You all know that I'm a Muggle, so I'm not used to messing around. From now on, we'll be a family. We'll support and help each other."

To be honest, Mike's words to win people's hearts were extremely perfunctory, especially since he was washing up while saying it, which made it seem even more insincere.

Anyone with a high IQ and EQ would be able to see that Mike was just being polite, but it was this insincere polite remark that moved Beta to tears again, and it was only because his brother Beta was there that he did not lose his temper like last time.

Even the serious Shuke had red eyes, and was obviously very moved.

After washing up, Mike started to enjoy his breakfast. As he was eating, he suddenly thought of something and looked up at Shukebeta who was waiting beside him and said, "By the way, you all should all be able to Apparate, right?"

"Of course, Master."

"Then can you help people Apparate?"

"I'm sorry, Master. Since Beta doesn't exercise often, I'm the only one who can lead the group for now. And with my current magic power, I can only lead one person at a time."

After saying that, Beta on the side lowered his head in frustration. For a house-elf, not being able to share the worries of the master is the greatest shame.

Mike waved his hand to indicate that it was nothing to worry about and fell into deep thought.

House-elves and goblins can both use magic, but their magic system is completely different from that of wizards. That is why they do not need wands to cast spells.

This does not mean that they cannot use magic wands. In fact, magic wands are like powerful magic amplifiers. Fairies have always longed to have the technology to make magic wands, and wizards relied on magic wands to defeat many magical creatures and sing songs. Therefore, wizards will never allow other creatures to use magic wands. For this reason, fairies and wizards have fought several wars. Of course, the result is that wizards with magic wands will win.

All wands now have restrictions added to them when they are made to ensure that other creatures cannot use the wands.

On the other hand, because the magic system of house-elves is different from that of wizards, their Apparition is also different. Their Apparition can even ignore the spatial restrictions of Hogwarts and can be used in Hogwarts. The reason is that the spatial restrictions of Hogwarts are for humans, but not for magical creatures.

This was good news for Mike, because it meant that his mobility within Hogwarts would be greatly enhanced. He no longer had to report to school if he wanted to go outside the school. He could just let Shuke take him to Apparate. After finishing breakfast, Mike waved away Shuke and Beta, and after saying goodbye to Uncle Mario, he returned to Godric's Hollow with Professor Flitwick.

After being teleported to Flitwick's house through the fireplace, Flitwick and Mike did not stay for too long. They went out directly to find Mike's new home.

Professor Flitwick was very familiar with the entire Godric's Hollow and took Mike directly to No. 518 Godric's Hollow.

What appeared in front of Mike was a somewhat dilapidated villa. From the outside, the villa looked much larger than Professor Flitwick's house. It was a standard two-and-a-half-story British villa with a attic.

The part of the villa close to the road is surrounded by wooden fences. Due to years of disrepair, the white paint on the fences has fallen off a lot, making them look mottled.

The garden inside the fence was also overgrown with weeds because no one had maintained it for a long time. Mike even saw a lot of goblins playing happily in the grass.

Mike and Professor Flitwick looked at each other and walked into the villa, but Professor Flitwick remained unmoved.

"Mike, this villa has a protective spell. Anyone who enters the villa without the owner's permission will be attacked, so you have to allow me to enter the villa first."

Flitwick looked at Mike helplessly, and at this moment Mike patted his head as if he suddenly realized something, opened the door of the villa, bowed, and made a gesture to Flitwick like the head hotel security guard did, inviting him in.

If he hadn't mentioned it, Mike would have forgotten about it. This villa, which was originally used as a safe house, had very strong protective restrictions. Even a top wizard like Professor Flitwick would encounter considerable trouble if he rashly stepped into the villa.

It also has a Muggle Repelling Charm attached to it. Muggles without magic cannot see this villa. In their eyes, this is just a wasteland. In fact, they can't even see the wasteland. The existence of this villa is completely zero in their eyes.

After stepping into the villa with Professor Flitwick, Mike discovered that compared to the terrible situation outside, the situation inside the villa was actually quite good.

The ground floor of the villa was paved with marble with complicated patterns. As no one had taken care of it for a long time, a thick layer of dust had accumulated on it. However, when Mike swept away a large piece of dust, he magically discovered that the marble floor here had no traces of splicing at all, as if it was paved with a whole piece of marble.

The floors on the second floor are dark wooden floors. Compared with the marble floors on the first floor, their condition is a bit worrying. There are damages in many places. Mike has decided to replace them later.

The villa is fully furnished and all the furniture is in good condition because the previous user covered them with dust-proof white cloth before leaving.

Overall this is still a very good villa, of course, it also has its shortcomings.

First of all, although this villa looks much larger than Flitwick's house, it does not have an invisible extension spell, so its actual area is much smaller than Flitwick's house.

Secondly, since this villa was previously used as a safe house, the fireplace in the villa is just an ordinary fireplace. It is not connected to the Ministry of Magic's Floo Network (a magical transportation network connecting various fireplaces), and the fireplace cannot be used for teleportation.

Of course, these are all minor issues.

Currently, only Mike and two house-elves live in this villa, so the space is enough.

The problem of Floo Network is more troublesome, because the application for Floo Network needs to be reported to the Ministry of Magic, and the British Ministry of Magic is notoriously slow, so it may take ordinary people ten days or half a month to apply.

However, Professor Flitwick had already taken this into consideration for him, so he had already asked the students in the Ministry of Magic who specialized in handling the Floo network. The installers would come here to install the Floo network at the latest tomorrow.

After rejecting Professor Flitwick's request to stay and clean up together and sending him away, Mike stood in the living room on the first floor of the villa and snapped his fingers:

"Shuke, Beta."

As soon as Mike finished speaking, Shuke and Beta appeared in front of him out of nowhere, bowing to greet him.

"Okay, from now on this is our home." Mike looked around and said to them, "How can our new home be so dirty! So let's start cleaning!"

The word "our home" obviously irritated Shuke and Beta's fragile nerves. They raised their hands, said "OK" loudly, and started cleaning.

Their cleaning method is very special, and they basically don't need to do it themselves. Generally, except for those extremely valuable things that they need to wipe carefully by themselves, they rely on magic to complete tasks like cleaning the floor.

They were seen moving around in the villa like phantoms, and as they waved their arms, a strong wind blew in the villa.

The strong wind blew up all the dust on the floor and furniture, and it flew out through the open door and disappeared.

However, they were more meticulous in dealing with the weeds and goblins in the garden. They made throwing motions towards the garden with their hands, and then large flakes of black powder appeared out of thin air and flew towards the weeds.

As soon as they came into contact with the black powder, the originally lush weeds withered rapidly, and were finally uprooted and piled aside.

Perhaps because they hadn't seen humans for a long time, the goblins came out from underground after noticing something unusual in the garden to check the situation outside.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Shuke grabbed dozens of goblins to death with just his little hands, and the remaining goblins all fled back underground.

Shuke didn't chase them after seeing this. The tunnels of these goblins were very complicated. If they wanted to completely eradicate them, they would have to go to Diagon Alley and buy magic potions specifically used to kill goblins, so he was not in a hurry at this moment.

Seeing how enthusiastic they were, Mike rolled up his sleeves and prepared to help.

But as soon as he showed his desire to help, Shuke and Beta started banging their heads against the wall, as if to say if he kept talking about working, they would both commit suicide together.

Seeing this, Mike had to take back his wand. Seeing that he couldn't help here, he threw a bag of Traceless Stretching Charm containing 100 gold galleons to Shuke as funds for purchasing daily necessities, then left the villa and went to Professor Flitwick's house.

When Mike came back after dinner in the evening, he saw that the villa, which was originally in a mess, had changed drastically.

(End of this chapter)