Hogwarts Raven's Claw

Chapter 215 You got the wrong person

Arthur whetted Mike's appetite before he slowly said, "All the potions you use are precious prescriptions that my teacher has collected over the years. Although they can't turn you into a muscular man overnight, they can increase the effect of training several times. And the materials used to make these potions are not cheap. I roughly estimated that the potions you need to consume twice a day are worth about 500 gold galleons.

In addition, we had dragon meat at noon, which was Australian white-eyed dragon meat. Long-term consumption can also improve physical fitness. I don't know its specific value, but it is definitely not cheap.

Oh! It’s so nice to have money! "

Arthur had just finished speaking when Lolo also completed his work, but Mike did not spit out the stick in his mouth. He just lowered his head and remained silent.

Professor Flitwick did not tell Mike what Arthur said, which made Mike feel uncomfortable.

No one had ever been as good to him as Flitwick in his two lifetimes combined. Mike had no way to repay him, so he could only decide to train harder.

"What's wrong? Did I say something wrong?"

Arthur, who was standing by, saw that Mike was silent and thought that he had said something wrong. To this, Mike just responded calmly: "No, let's start training."

After that, Mike walked towards the training room. Arthur wanted to persuade Mike to rest for a while, but after accidentally catching a glimpse of Mike's determined eyes, he took his words back in time.

So the two of them started their afternoon training.

Since he did not complete the first training, Mike had to do a thousand squats as punishment in the afternoon. If he could not finish the squats, he would have to run fifty laps.

I have to say that Vesemir's punishment mechanism is very clever.

Whether it was one hundred standard sword strikes or one thousand squats, these were targets that Mike simply could not accomplish, which meant that Vesemir was prepared to have Mike do all the training from the beginning.

But because of the existence of the punishment mechanism, Mike will try his best during these trainings in order to avoid the next punishment, so it is easy for Mike to exceed his limit.

For most people, the only benefit of training like this is to make themselves useless, but Mike is different. He takes a large amount of magic potions every day. These magic potions maximize the effect of Mike's training while ensuring his physical health.

Every morning Vesemir would make a new training plan for Mike and then leave him to Arthur.

After half a month of training, Mike's originally thin and tall body had gradually gained some muscles.

Mike was not surprised by this, after all, he was at the age where he could grow muscles even by lying down.

What surprised him was that his physical fitness was steadily improving, which could be seen from the increasingly higher punishment standards set by Vesemir every day.

Moreover, through constant practice in the past half month, Mike has completely mastered the light stabbing move and engraved it in his muscle memory.

Arthur was very dissatisfied. He thought it was a mistake for Mike to put all his energy into such a sword move which had little effect. He knew that being biased in one subject would not lead to a good outcome.

Mike was dismissive of this. Perhaps this trick was of no use to Arthur, a demon hunter, but it was different for Mike, a wizard.

We wizards can teleport, can you?
On this day, when Mike came out of the training room again, tired as a dog, he found an owl with a letter tied to its foot hanging on the window of the living room.

Looking at the owl hanging on the window in a familiar posture, Mike instantly remembered who this owl was.

It is Errol, the old owl who has worked for the Weasley family all his life.

Mike tentatively touched its chest and found that it was still breathing, so he quickly took it down from the window and prepared water and food for it.

After doing all this, Mike carefully stepped forward to take the letter. When he opened it, he found that it was a letter from the Weasley brothers, saying that the address of the factory and the recruitment fair had been arranged, and now he was just waiting for him to make the final decision.

Mike couldn't help feeling speechless as he looked at Errol who was still dying.

He remembered that he had told the Weasley brothers about this matter a long time ago, but he didn't expect that the Weasley brothers were even more cruel than him. They still wanted him to deliver the letter even though the owl was so old.

Shaking his head, Mike returned to his bedroom alone to receive the familiar medication and rest for a while. Finally, he found Vesemir and Flitwick and told them that he had something to deal with, so he had to take a leave of absence in the afternoon.

Vesemir was reluctant to let Mike go at first. In his opinion, what could happen to a teenager like Mike? He must have asked for leave to go out and play. But after Professor Flitwick's persuasion, he finally agreed.

So, after lunch, Mike and Arthur stood in front of the fireplace, looking at each other.

"Why... do you have to go with me?"

"Well, how should I put it? On the one hand, I'm a little bored staying here these days, and I want to go out for a walk." Arthur scratched his head and said with a smile, "On the other hand, I want to see your factory."

Arthur's request was reasonable and well-founded, and Mike had no reason to refuse, so he entered the fireplace first, and then said to Arthur outside:
"Okay then, let's go together."

Arthur was immediately overwhelmed with joy, and rushed quickly into the fireplace.

Perhaps because Professor Flitwick himself was short, the fireplace in Flitwick's house was not big. As soon as Arthur, a strong young man, came in, Mike was immediately squeezed into the corner.

Arthur smiled awkwardly when he found himself squeezing against Mike. Mike was too tired to complain about this and was too lazy to tell Arthur that they could be teleported in batches. He just shouted out the specific address of the Burrow.

After a dizzy spell, Mike opened his eyes again and saw the Weasley brothers and Ron looking at him in astonishment.

"Who is he?" George asked.

Fred, who was standing by, had a gleam of evil interest in his eyes and continued, "Your boyfriend?"

"no!"

Mike's face turned dark and he pushed away Arthur who was still squeezing him and got out of the fireplace.

After coming out, Mike spent a long time explaining to the Weasleys the relationship between him and Arthur. The Weasley brothers originally wanted to tease Mike, so after explaining it clearly, everything was fine.

Only Ron, even though Mike explained to him for a long time, still didn't believe him. Now he not only looked at Mike with a strange look, but even quietly moved his steps to get further away from Mike.

The Weasley brothers on the side didn't care at all. They poked Mike's sturdy arm with their fingers and said, "Oh, it seems to be a lot stronger! But if you keep training like this at your age, aren't you afraid that you won't grow taller in the future?"

"You know nothing! You won't grow taller unless you overtrain!" Mike roared, "Besides, women are actually the same as men. They all like men with good figures. If I start training now, I will be invincible in the future!"

Listening to Mike's boasting, George was going to continue teasing him. But he suddenly caught Mike's cold eyes, and George felt as if he was falling into an ice cave. The words that were about to come out of his throat suddenly changed their mouths. "Uh, it's getting late, why don't we go check out the venue early?"

"good idea!"

"I agree!"

As soon as this statement was made, it was immediately approved by everyone, so the group of people got on their flying brooms and prepared to fly to their destination.

When the Weasley brothers took out their broomsticks, Mike's contempt for them increased a little bit, because the broomstick they took out was a Nimbus 2000.

Others may not know it, but he knows it very well.

The Weasley family was extremely poor, so the Weasley brothers didn't have their own flying brooms. Even if they did, they could only be second-hand old brooms. So, the two Nimbus 2000s they took out now must have been bought with their own piggy bank.

I have money to buy a broom but not enough to buy a younger owl...

This really shows the true nature of a capitalist.

Arthur and Ron didn't have a broomstick, so they could only share a broomstick with the Weasley brothers.

It was obviously Arthur's first time riding a flying broom, so he was very excited and hugged George, who was driving the broom, tightly all the way.

This made George very uncomfortable. After all, being hugged by a man around the waist was not a good experience.

Mike chuckled at this, he had expected this situation to happen, that's why he insisted on not letting Arthur ride on the same broom with him.

The group flew southeast for a long time, until George's waist began to hurt from being hugged by Arthur, and then the Weasley brothers indicated that they had reached their destination.

What appeared in front of Mike at this moment was a large dense jungle, and directly below them was a large open space.

This piece of land seemed to have been burned not long ago, and the surface was covered with black charcoal residue. Thanks to the nutrients brought by the ashes, many sprouts of unknown plants have sprouted in this piece of land.

These scattered green spots dotted on the black ground are very beautiful.

"How about it? Does this location meet your requirements?" Fred said boastfully, "George and I spent an entire afternoon to create such a large open space."

Mike nodded. This place was a good place to build a Dolphin Magic Drink factory as it was sparsely populated and had a flat terrain. As for the transportation problem, they could use the fireplace to teleport or directly make door keys.

When the Weasley brothers saw Mike nod, smiles immediately appeared on their faces. They excitedly did a few acrobatics in the air, and finally returned to their original positions and high-fived each other to congratulate each other.

After all their operations, Arthur, who had amazing physical fitness, didn't feel anything, but Ron was in a terrible situation. He almost vomited out his undigested lunch.

After finally calming down, Ron looked at his two excited brothers and said to Mike a little embarrassedly: "Mike, I have a problem here."

"Huh? What's the problem?"

"Well, I went to Luna's house on the day I accepted the mission, but his father rejected me outright." Ron stammered, "I didn't give up. I went there every day after that. Thanks to Merlin, he finally agreed. But... Luna's father needs you to go there in person."

Mike fell silent upon hearing this. To be honest, the propaganda of singing a different tune was originally the icing on the cake for him. He had already contacted Rita Skeeter who had interviewed him before. After paying a price of one thousand gold galleons, the other party agreed to write a soft article specifically for Dolphin Magic Drink for promotion.

Some people might think that the price is a bit too high. After all, one thousand gold Galleons is enough for the Weasley family to live on for several years. But Mike thinks it is well worth it.

Because the contract he signed with Rita Skeeter was that after Rita Skeeter finished writing the article, she had to make sure the article appeared on the front page of the Daily Prophet on the day set by Mike.

If Rita Skeeter can't do it, she will have to pay Mike double the commission.

The Daily Prophet is the most famous newspaper in the British wizarding world. In this world with a lack of entertainment options, it is a must-read newspaper for almost every wizarding family. So once this soft article makes the headlines of the Daily Prophet, the name of Dolphin Magic Drink will resound throughout the British wizarding world!
Thinking of this, Mike smiled and said to Ron, "It's okay. I'll go visit Luna when I'm free in a few days."

"Then, my assessment..."

Seeing that Ron was still thinking about the test, Mike couldn't help but laugh and said, "Congratulations! You passed!"

Now it was Ron's turn to be excited. He hugged Fred and cheered loudly.

Fred was also genuinely happy for his brother. If Ron had dared to wipe his snot and tears on him in the past, he would have made Ron vomit snot all day long. But today...

George on the other side was also happy for Ron but he did not forget the business. He said to Mike, "Mike, I have also taken care of the recruitment. I have initially reviewed and recruited 150 Muggle wizards who are in difficult situations. But you will still need to screen them in the end. After all, you only need 100 people."

"No problem. You decide the place and time. If there is no problem, we will accept all 150 people."

"Okay, then I'll go back and write a letter to inform them tonight."

When it came to writing letters, Mike thought of Errol's matter, and his face turned strange for a moment.

"You devil, you're not going to let Errol deliver these 150 letters? He's so old... he'll be dead from exhaustion, right?"

"What are you thinking? Of course, we have to entrust Owl Leasing to mail all these letters." George rolled his eyes at Mike and said, "As for Errol, he only needs to be responsible for our family's daily mail."

Mike shook his head helplessly. It seemed that the Weasley brothers had gone too far on the road of capitalism and could not be pulled back.

He considered himself to be an honest and kind person, and could not stand the Weasley brothers' behavior of exploiting workers, so he said:
"Oh, right. I remember that the job of recruiting personnel belongs to Fred, right? Now that you have taken his job, Fred's contract will be..."

"You got the wrong person. I am George."

Before Mike could finish his words, Fred, who was playing with Ron nearby, spoke up.

George on the other side also reacted quickly, pretending to be heartbroken and said:

"Yes, I am Fred. It is so sad that our best friend can't tell the difference between George and me. Mike, you are absolutely incompetent as a friend!"

Mike: …

(End of this chapter)