Hogwarts Raven's Claw

Chapter 233 Ancient Magic Texts
Mike couldn't believe what he saw. He would never believe that the thing he feared most in his heart was actually a female version of himself.

The 'beautiful girl version of Mike' who came out of the closet gave a charming look to Mike who opened his mouth in surprise, then walked up to Mike and began to twist her waist.

Mike was very familiar with the dance she was dancing. It was the dance performed by the dancers in the drag bar he often went to in his previous life.

To be honest, the 'pretty girl version of Mike' danced very well. Her innocent face and shiny blonde hair gave her an angelic and pure temperament. A girl with such temperament danced an alluring dance like a succubus from hell, which had quite a unique flavor.

Unfortunately, Mike was in no mood to appreciate such dance at the moment.

In fact, the blackthorn wood wand had appeared in his hand at some point. Just from his trembling right hand, it could be seen that Mike was trying hard to suppress his anger at the moment.

Papi the raven was already laughing.

As the Nightmare Raven who is inseparable from Mike, it is the person who knows Mike best in the world and naturally knows what is going on.

And Mike listened to the unpleasant crow calls in his ears, which felt very much like the Japanese word for fool (ah or).

He kept telling himself, this Bogut is still useful, this Bogut is still useful...

Only then did I suppress the urge to cast a killing curse and send it to heaven.

Mike really didn't expect that Ms. Grey's threat to turn him into a beautiful girl would cause such a huge psychological trauma to him, which was even greater than his fear of Dumbledore and Voldemort.

Now Mike is extremely glad that he used the brain occlusion technique during the daytime class. If the "Pretty Mike" appeared in public, Mike couldn't guarantee that he would not lose his temper and kill someone to silence her.

Finally, before the 'Pretty Mike' took off all his clothes, Mike activated the brain-blocking technique.

Bogut, who was completely unable to read Mike's inner thoughts, had no choice but to retreat back into the closet, while Mike closed his eyes and began to gather his emotions.

He came here tonight not just to see what he was afraid of, he also hoped to use this Boggart to practice casting the Patronus Charm in actual combat.

After these days of crazy learning, Mike is now able to summon a physical version of the Patronus 100% in a safe environment, which amazes his teacher Professor Lupin.

The reason why Mike's progress was so fast was entirely due to his superb level of brain occlusion.

In theory, the purely rational state of brain occlumency that empties the mind is opposite to the Patronus Charm that relies on strong emotions to cast a spell, but Mike discovered the wonderful characteristics between the two.

When the art of occlumency is mastered to a high level, it is not only able to resist invasion of the brain by the outside world, but also to generate false memories and emotions in the brain to deceive the opponent.

Mike has been practicing Occlumency for so long that he basically practices it every day before going to bed. This daily accumulation has made his Occlumency skills improve by leaps and bounds.

Mike is currently unable to create false memories, as this would require the assistance of Legilimency spells, but he can still create false emotions or hypnotize existing emotions.

So, using this method, Mike accomplished something that was almost impossible.

It only takes about a month to master the Patronus Charm!
Coming back to the topic, Mike used the brain-blocking technique to confuse the Boggart, making it turn into a Dementor again and crawl out of the closet.

Looking at the ferocious Dementors in front of him, Mike frowned slightly.

To be honest, although the Dementor transformed from Boggart looks exactly the same as the real Dementor, putting aside the psychological shadow of Dementors, this thing is just a showpiece. When facing it, Mike did not feel the cold feeling he had on the train at that time.

But Mike didn't mind the limited conditions. He raised his wand and after a brief preparation, he whispered the spell.

"Call the gods to protect you."

A soft white light rose up, and a huge silver-white raven suddenly appeared. It opened its mouth, cried out, and rushed towards the Dementor that looked beautiful but was actually rotten.

The Patronus Charm is indeed one of the strongest defensive spells. A creature like the Boggart, which is theoretically ineffective against the Patronus Charm, was defeated when facing Mike's Patronus and quickly went back into the closet. No matter how Mike tried to lure it, it refused to come out.

Looking at the shabby wardrobe, Mike was a little worried. The Boggart was obviously scared by him. However, Lupin still had to teach students from other colleges the next day or the day after tomorrow. It would be bad if the Boggart refused to come out and affected the plot.

But Mike currently has no good remedy. In fact, the above idea just went around in Mike's mind for a moment before being washed away by joy.

His patronus spell is basically Mahayana.

At least it's enough to show off in front of others.

……

The next day, Mike got up early as usual and went to the flying class venue to start exercising.

The human body is truly a treasure trove, especially Mike's current adolescent body. Mike can feel his strength growing a little bit more almost every morning when he gets up from bed.

Thanks to the Guardian Spell last night, Mike was in a good mood. When he finished his exercise and came to the hall to have breakfast with a smile on his face, he received one piece of news after another.

Drake was discharged from the hospital.

I have to say that Draco is indeed a villain. He is the kind of person who can't help you succeed but can definitely trip you up on your way to success.

Mike didn't know why he had to resort to tricking the big fool Hagrid. Maybe it was because of the harm caused to him by Buckbeak, or maybe it was simply because he hated Hagrid, Harry and others, or maybe he was just bored.

As an adult, Mike really couldn't understand Drac's motives for doing this. After all, there would be no benefit from doing this except making enemies with others.

But no matter what, as one of the twelve directors of Hogwarts, the Malfoy family is still very powerful.

The directors of Hogwarts are not simple people. They have certain privileges in Hogwarts. For example, the children of the directors have a special exclusive carriage on the Hogwarts Express.

I believe that with Draco having the support of his father as a school director, Hagrid will definitely have a hard time in the future.

Of course, none of this has anything to do with Mike. He is now looking forward to his first ancient magic rune class.

To his surprise, Hermione was in the same classroom with him.

Hermione looked noticeably more haggard after not seeing her for many days than when school started. Her hair, which was like a lion's mane, was spread out wantonly and tangled in many places. It seemed that she hadn't taken care of it for a long time, and there were two faint dark circles under her eyes.

"You don't look too well." Mike said as he sat down next to Hermione, "Are you too tired from studying?"

Hermione, who was studying hard in her textbooks, was startled when she heard Mike's voice and continued speaking along with what Mike said.

"Ah? Ah! Yes, I've been a little tired lately."

Mike raised his eyebrows as he watched Hermione instinctively touch her chest.

Of course he knew what was going on, Hermione was taking all the courses, including many that conflicted with her schedule.

Of course, it is impossible for humans to appear in two different classrooms at the same time. To do this, you must reverse time, or you must be able to clone yourself. Hermione has a time converter in her hand that can allow people to travel through time, and it is hanging around Hermione's neck at the moment.

Time and space can be said to be the two most profound subjects in the world. The time converter that can reverse time has become the most precious artifact of the Ministry of Magic.

Mike didn't understand how Professor McGonagall got this thing. You know, the Ministry of Magic's control over the time-turner is far more stringent than dark magic like the Killing Curse.

He also didn't understand why McGonagall gave this thing to Hermione. Didn't she know that the time converter was very dangerous? If she was not careful, it would form a time paradox and even change history.

Maybe Professor McGonagall really has high hopes for Hermione and wants her to learn as much as possible, but in McGonagall's opinion, this is undoubtedly forcing her to grow too fast.

Mike looked at Hermione with concern, but said nothing.

He really wanted to persuade Hermione not to use the time twister anymore, but he knew that Hermione would definitely not agree.

So Mike took out a bottle of Dolphin Magic Drink from his pocket and handed it over.

"Here, drink this, it'll cheer you up."

"Oh, thank you!"

Hermione looked at Mike in surprise as he took the drink. She had thought that Mike would advise her not to be so tired.

"Come on!" Mike looked at Hermione with burning eyes and said, "You are the best!"

Hermione felt her eyes a little sore. To be honest, the high-intensity study in the past few days really made her uncomfortable and tired.

Especially the divination class, that weird old woman is so annoying.

But her competitive spirit prevented her from saying the words of giving up. Harry and Ron urged her to give up every day. No one said "cheer up" to her, except Mike.

Hermione's emotions exploded, and she felt like she had a thousand words to say to Mike.

But at this moment, the ancient magic professor came in.

"Sorry guys, I'm late."

Hermione was startled by the female voice and quickly sat up straight to concentrate on the class, but her eyes kept glancing towards Mike from time to time.

Mike saw all of this, smiled and opened the book.

He can still tell which is more important, picking up girls or studying.

To Mike's surprise, the professor of ancient magic runes was actually a young woman.

The woman had thick long black hair and wore a pair of glasses with lenses as thick as the bottoms of beer bottles. She had a nerdy temperament.

Mike thought that the professors for profound courses like Ancient Magic Runes should be old men with silver hair.

However, although Professor Bathsheda Bablington is young, her professional knowledge is not inferior at all.

She started with "Magic Pronunciation Table" and "Ancient Magical Words Simple Introduction", and slowly taught Mike and others the pronunciation of ancient magic words.
Although what Professor Barbling talked about today were all superficial content, equivalent to learning English phonetic symbols, there were still many people in the class who were confused, and it seemed that it would take a while for them to understand.

However, Mike was surprised to find that his talent in ancient magic runes was unprecedented.

No matter how difficult or inhumane the pronunciation of the symbols that Professor Babel taught, Mike could read them out and remember them after training a few times.

This can no longer be described as talent, it is simply a level of innate knowledge.

In fact, as early as when he was doing his homework, Mike felt that the scribbles in the book "Ancient Magical Script Simple Introduction" looked very familiar. At first he thought it was related to his talent, but now it seems that there must be something fishy here.

Just kidding, although Mike is confident, he is not arrogant.

That level of language talent simply cannot exist, and even if it does exist, it is impossible for him to have it.

The only possibility is that someone tampered with it.

While Professor Babel deliberately stopped to let the students take notes, Mike thought about this question carefully.

After searching his memory, he finally found the only possibility.

The legacy of Ravenclaw.

When he killed Ravenclaw's soul in the secret realm, part of Ravenclaw's memory was integrated into his brain. Mike originally thought that it was just Ravenclaw's understanding of magic, but now it seems that there should be other knowledge in it.

Ancient magic runes are part of it!

Mike was overjoyed as he felt that he had guessed the truth. Ancient magic running was indeed a profound subject, and this sudden plug-in was of great help to him.

Although he was excited, Mike did not relax and continued to listen attentively to Professor Babel's lecture.

Time always flies when you concentrate. When Professor Babel announced the end of get out of class, Mike's textbook was already full of notes.

Although the handwriting on it was really unbearable to look at, Mike still cherished it very much. He couldn't even bear to close it after writing, and left it open waiting for the ink to dry.

Hermione on the side took a curious look at Mike's notes, and when she saw the crooked words on it, she couldn't help but curl her lips.

But then Hermione realized her own unreasonableness, and she handed her textbook to Mike with a guilty conscience and said, "Um, Mike. I can lend you my notes if you need them."

Mike recovered from his excitement, glanced at Hermione's beautifully written notes, and shook his head without hesitation.

"No, I think my notes are very good." Mike said as if he had thought of something, "If you need to review, I can lend you my notes. I guarantee that they are the best notes in the whole Hogwarts."

"Emm, thanks a lot, but let's not do that." Hermione suddenly patted her head and said, "Oh! By the way, I remembered that I still have to go to Arithmancy class. I'll go first, Mike!"

Watching Hermione fleeing from the classroom, Mike smiled and shook his head.

Mike knew what Hermione was thinking. She just disliked his ugly handwriting.

"Oh! Woman! You don't understand what you just missed. This is the notebook of the Chosen One!" Mike murmured as he looked at the mysterious code-like handwriting on the textbook, "Although I am probably the only one who can understand it."

(End of this chapter)