Hogwarts Raven's Claw

Chapter 234 Infiltration
Mike's progress in learning ancient magic runes was very fast. In just two days, he had learned the phonetic symbols of ancient magic runes.

Thanks to the success of the Patronus Charm, Mike now has a lot of free time again.

Mike, who was used to being busy, naturally couldn't sit still, so he turned his attention back to Snape.

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In the basement classroom of the Potions class, Mike was sitting in his seat bored. Next to him, across the aisle, sat a somewhat excited Draco.

In this Potions class, Ravenclaw and Slytherin were mixed together, which was very rare.

Mike's eyes inadvertently glanced at Draco's still bandaged arm, and a smile appeared on his face.

Although Draco was discharged from the hospital and Madam Pomfrey claimed that he had recovered, he still insisted on putting a bandage and splint on his arm to let everyone know how cruel Buckbeak was and how incompetent Hagrid was.

At first glance this method may seem crude, but it actually works surprisingly well.

The vast majority of Slytherins chose to believe Draco. Of course, they were just following their own lead. But there were still many people in other houses who didn't know the truth and believed Draco, which made Hagrid's situation worse and worse.

Although everything seemed calm on the surface, Mike knew that the struggle among the top leaders had already begun.

Mike was not worried about Hagrid's safety, after all, he was protected by Dumbledore.

If Hagrid had not been protected by Dumbledore, the most powerful white wizard of the time, then Hagrid's ending might have been much worse than being expelled as Draco said, and it was not impossible that he would be imprisoned in Azkaban.

After all, Hagrid was a man with a 'criminal record', and he brought a dangerous level 3x creature to a group of young wizards who had no ability to protect themselves.

But now with Dumbledore, Mike estimates that the final result will be the same as in the original book. Dumbledore will protect Hagrid and at the same time use Buckbeak, the beast who has hurt people, to appease the anger of the Malfoy family and give the Malfoy family a way out.

Draco naturally didn't know about all this. In fact, at this moment he was still looking forward to seeing Harry's angry and sad face after that big fool Hagrid was expelled.

Just as Mike was daydreaming, the door of the basement was slammed shut. Mike turned his head and saw Professor Snape walking towards the door in a very dignified manner.

His huge black cape fluttered in the wind as he walked with such imposing steps that he looked like a giant bat.

With his arrival, some of the conversations that were originally in the classroom disappeared quietly. Everyone sat upright, and even the already chilly temperature in the basement classroom felt a few degrees lower.

When Professor Snape walked up to the podium and faced everyone, everyone noticed that Snape was in a bad mood.

Mike naturally knew the reason.

After taking out the Boggart, Lupin's Defense Against the Dark Arts class became very popular. Just as Michael said to Lupin at the beginning of the school year, with Quirrell and Lockhart as two rotten bricks in front, Lupin would be able to become a jewel in the eyes of the students as long as he performed normally.

This is obviously something that Snape, Lupin's mortal enemy, does not want to see.

Especially after he went to Gryffindor's Defense Against the Dark Arts class and was severely slapped and humiliated by Lupin.

Snape has been in a bad mood for the past few days since this incident. Seeing this, the students naturally would not provoke him. After Snape announced the start of the class, they quickly took out various potion materials and tools.

The potion that everyone is going to learn today is the Laughter Potion. After Snape on the stage explained the production process to everyone, he turned his gaze to Draco. When he saw his arm still bandaged, he couldn't help but frowned.

With Snape's level of skill, how could he not see that Draco was pretending to be sick? He originally thought that Draco would remove the disguise on his own after a while, but he didn't expect that he seemed to be addicted to pretending.

It felt uncomfortable to be stared at by Snape, and Draco felt his legs trembling unconsciously.

Pansy on the side raised her hand excitedly.

She liked Draco, and Draco had injured his arm and needed someone to help him with the potions.

In the last Potions class, Professor Snape chose to let the clumsy Harry help Draco, which made Pansy feel it was a pity, so she decided to take the initiative.

It's a pity that Snape's gaze only stayed on Pansy for a moment before falling on Mike.

"Mike, help Draco with the potion."

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone in the audience began to whisper. Everyone had heard that Harry was humiliated badly by Draco in the last Potions class, but they didn't expect that this time it would be Mike's turn.

Thinking of this, the Ravenclaws' faces were filled with anger, while the Slytherins let out a few slight laughs.

"Quiet!" Snape roared when he heard the noise, "No noise in class! Ten points will be deducted from Ravenclaw!"

This time, no one from Ravenclaw or Slytherin dared to speak, but the Slytherins became even more arrogant, as their head of house still unconditionally favored them.

Mike didn't show much anger. He moved his desk over calmly and put it together with Draco's desk.

He was not surprised that Snape was so against him.

To be honest, Snape was actually a very good Potions professor. He even lent Mike a complete crucible in his first year.

In addition, the chemical knowledge Mike accumulated as a chef also made him show a considerable talent in potions, which made Snape's attitude towards Mike actually quite good at the beginning.

Unfortunately, all this changed completely after Mike had repeated conflicts with Slytherin students.

It can be said that Snape's attitude towards Mike is only slightly better than Harry's.

Draco's recent events at Hogwarts had obviously made him a little inflated, and there was a hint of mockery in the look he gave Mike.

Mike completely ignored Draco's look, put on dragon leather gloves, and reached out to take out a cattail.

The appearance of the Pu Rongrong is spherical and covered with thick, soft, cream-yellow hair.

It is a very lovable creature with a good temperament and is not afraid of being cuddled or tossed around, which makes it a very popular pet.

It's a pity that its hair and hair follicles have magical properties and are the materials for making the laughter potion, so Mike needs to pluck its hair.

"Hey, Mike." Draco looked a little bored and talked to Mike, "Did you hear about me being scratched by that damn monster Hagrid?"

Draco raised his arm in front of Mike, but Mike ignored him. This attitude obviously angered Draco, and he raised his eyebrows and said, "I heard that you also rode that beast to heaven in the evening of the first day of school. Did you bow to that beast too? How ridiculous!"

Draco teased Mike unscrupulously, and Mike smiled when he heard it, and said, "Actually, I quite agree with your approach to the Hippogriff."

"what?"

Draco stopped laughing when he heard that, and looked at Mike with a strange expression.

"When dealing with magical creatures with low IQ, the correct option is to directly use the threat of violence. In fact, that's what I did that evening." Mike's smile became even brighter. "Do you know why I succeeded with the same method?"

Looking at the smile on Mike's face, Draco's throat moved a little, and he asked nervously: "Why... why?"

"Because I'm stronger than you! So... don't mess with me!"

As Mike spoke, he pulled out a tuft of hair from Pu Rongrong's body.

The pain caused Pu Rongrong to scream in agony, and Draco shuddered violently when he heard the sound, with cold sweat running down his cheeks, as if what Mike had just pulled out was his hair.

Draco was a little absent-minded throughout the rest of the class. He kept his head down and remained silent, not even daring to look at Mike.

Mike didn't care at all. He used the materials on the table to make two laughter potions. His movements were standard and the quality of the potions was so high that even Snape, who wanted to make trouble for Mike, could not find any fault with it.

When Professor Snape announced the end of get out of class, Draco fled from the dungeon classroom. Mike looked at Draco's somewhat embarrassed figure and smiled and shook his head.

Draco, this naughty kid, is too young after all. He was beaten back to his original form by such a light blow.

Unlike others, Mike did not return to the lounge directly after class, but went directly to Snape's office.

He was going to carry out a dangerous plan today and go to Snape's storage room to take out an old textbook hidden in the cabinet.

If you have read the original novel like Mike, then you should know that what Mike is looking for is the famous Half-Blood Prince textbook.

The Half-Blood Prince is the title that Snape gave himself when he was in middle school. Mike guessed that the reason why Snape called himself a prince was that he wanted to marry the beautiful girl like a princess in his mind, that is, Harry's mother, Lily.

Because in fairy tales the princess always marries the prince in the end.

Of course, this is just Mike's guess.

After all, the thought processes of middle school students are different from those of ordinary people, and Mike cannot guarantee the correctness of his guess.

The 'Half-Blood Prince's textbook' was actually the Advanced Potion-Making textbook containing Snape's class notes.

"Advanced Potion Making" is the textbook for the newt course in Alchemy. It contains a large amount of cutting-edge potion knowledge and formulas, and even includes the Felixir that Mike once used.

Just knowing the formula doesn't mean you can make a finished potion, especially when the content in the textbook is full of loopholes.

That's right, this book representing the cutting-edge knowledge of potions was full of loopholes in Snape's eyes. He had discovered the shortcomings of many potion recipes in it as early as his teenager and made improvements to them.

Thanks to it, in the original book, Harry even made the Felicity Potion directly after obtaining it!
Thinking of this, Mike couldn't help but sing praises to Snape's talent!
What kind of talent is this?
The notes written when he was a teenager could actually allow a boy with extremely poor performance in Potions class to directly make the top-notch Potions Felixir!
If this were to be made public, it would surely make countless potion masters ashamed.

In addition, these notes also record some spells invented by Snape, the most famous of which is "God of War"!
This is a powerful spell that releases an invisible blade to slash at the enemy.

The most vicious thing is that the wounds caused by the 'God's Shadowless Curse' cannot be cured by ordinary means. Mike knows that the only way to treat this kind of injury is to use a special counter-curse to break it.

Mike's current fighting style is too monotonous. He just throws fireballs and then stabs and pokes the ground. Facing a truly strong enemy, he has no power to fight back at all.

So he is in urgent need of some powerful attack spells to expand his spell pool.

The 'God's Shadowless Curse' is a good choice. It has great power, long range and high speed. It is silent and invisible when it is released...

These characteristics make the 'Shadowless Spell' the most suitable spell for Mike's current combat style. If used well, it can even be stronger than the Fire Spell.

But it was not easy to get that textbook. Snape was a homebody. Apart from eating, drinking, defecating and attending classes, he almost always stayed in the office doing experiments and preparing potions.

Fortunately, he is the only Potions professor in Hogwarts, so Snape needs to teach all students in the grade, which means that Snape is very busy.

After studying the class schedule for the entire grade, Mike saw an opportunity.

After Snape finishes their class, he still needs to help the first-year students with their classes, which means that there will definitely be no one in Snape's office at this moment.

As Mike was thinking this, the door of Snape's office appeared in front of him.

In the original book, Hermione once sneaked into Snape's office in her second year and took some special materials, but due to Mike's intervention, this incident did not happen in this world.

This means that the protection level of Snape's office should still be at a level that even a second-year wizard can break through.

But it's better to be cautious. Mike put on armor and cast an Disillusionment Charm before using the Unlocking Charm on the office.

With a slight click, the door unlocked.

Mike carefully entered the office and began to search through Snape's locker.

There was an extremely strong smell of potion in Snape's office. The smell was a bit like Chinese medicine and was very unpleasant.

His locker was neatly organized, with all kinds of potions and herbs that Mike knew or didn't know placed in a strange order.

Mike searched for a while and found the old book "Advanced Potion Making" at the bottom of the locker.

Perhaps Professor Snape was too confident in his authority, and Mike took away his textbooks easily.

Mike left the office without any delay and went straight to the Request Room.

He couldn't wait to try out the spells inside!

(End of this chapter)