Hogwarts Raven's Claw

Chapter 258 Brother, I'm just kidding

Time passed day by day, and soon it was time for the exam.

Since the Black matter was over, Mike lived very comfortably during this period. Basically, apart from attending classes and eating, he stayed in the secret realm every day to study the knowledge he brought from the Black family.

Thanks to the accumulation during this period, Mike learned Cruciatus and the Imperius Curse very smoothly.

The method of releasing the Cruciatus Curse is very similar to that of the Killing Curse, both of which require extremely strong emotions to drive the magic power.

The only difference is that the Killing Curse requires the desire to kill the other person, while the Cruciatus Curse simply wants the other person to suffer a fate worse than death.

The Imperius Curse is much more difficult to cast than the other two Unforgivable Curses, because it relies on a combination of hypnosis, confusion and other methods to allow the cursed person to be controlled by the person who casts the curse.

This was a piece of cake for Mike, who already had a high level of brain occlumency and also obtained the Legilimency spell from Blake's collection, which completed the last piece of his puzzle in brain control.

He even learned the Imperius Curse within a day after learning the Legilimency spell. This talent for spells left the rest of the Freemasons speechless.

But Mike did not have the awareness of being a genius. He even felt that he was a slow learner.

The fundamental reason why the three unforgivable curses are the three unforgivable curses is not because of their great power, but because they are too easy to learn and the harm they can cause is too great.

So Mike didn't think there was anything to be proud of about being able to learn Cruciatus Curse and Imperius Curse in a short period of time.

The Fiery Curse proved Mike's point, because this spell was so difficult compared to the Imperius Curse that Mike even had the urge to give up.

Of course, what Mike said was difficult didn't mean that it was too difficult to release the spell. Compared with high-end transfiguration and various advanced white magic, the release of the Fiery Spell was so simple that it was almost easy!

As long as you have enough magic power in your body, you can successfully release the legendary devil's fire by waving the magic wand and chanting the spell according to the steps.

After all, in the original book, even Malfoy's followers could cast this spell, so you wouldn't think it could be that difficult.

But how do you control it after you release it?
The Fierce Fire Curse is not a disarming spell, where a beam of light flashes after it is recited and that's it. The essence of the Fierce Fire Curse is to summon a ball of devilish fire that can continuously devour and grow and can automatically transform into an animal, as if it has self-awareness.

This kind of fire has no concept of friend or foe. The meaning of its existence is to continue to spread, burn, and devour until everything around it is completely turned into ashes.

In other words, it attacks indiscriminately!
When using this spell, if the wizard is not strong enough, the fire will first kill its creator.

Mike knew how terrible it was, because as soon as he learned the Fiery Curse, he excitedly went to the newly built training ground and started his own spell experiments.

And when he waved his wand and successfully released the Fiercefire Curse, a small flame that looked like an ordinary flame at first glance, but actually gave people an extremely ominous feeling, ignited out of thin air from the tip of the blackthorn wood wand, and was then gently thrown by Mike onto the floor paved with anti-magic material.

As soon as the flames hit the ground, they began to expand rapidly. The wear-resistant stone slabs that could withstand the crushing curse began to blacken and crack at a speed visible to the naked eye under the scorching heat of the fierce fire, and finally turned into a hot liquid that was brighter than the flames.

After that, this ball of fierce fire wrapped around the magma and continued to expand in all directions. Wherever it went, almost all flammable and non-forgivable things would become its nutrients, making its body become even larger.

All this happened in just a few seconds. During this time, Mike saw with his own eyes that the ball of fire changed from an initial cluster of flames into a giant flaming snake that was fifty centimeters wide and about four meters long!

It was only at this time that Mike reacted, and hurriedly used the counter-spell of annihilation to try to make the Fierce Fire Curse disappear.

But to Mike's surprise, although All Return to Silence had a restraining effect on the Fiery Flame, it could not completely make the increasingly terrifying Fiery Flame in front of him disappear.

Fortunately, Mike did not give up learning the Myriad Curses during this period. After using the Myriad Curses to successfully draw a barrier that completely wrapped the giant fire snake, Mike finally breathed a sigh of relief. He wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and stood outside the barrier, quietly watching the giant fire snake inside, which kept rolling and struggling as if it had life, and finally completely dissipated.

From then on, Mike never dared to release the Fiery Curse at will again.

With his current strength, he is not able to become the master of the fierce fire. If he uses it recklessly and loses control, the consequences will be disastrous.

With Mike were other members of the Freemasonry, but unlike Mike who specialized in learning black magic and other powerful spells, Franklin and the others were not very interested in black magic. After learning about the Unforgivable Curses, they went on to learn what they were interested in.

The Weasley brothers were very interested in alchemy, Penelope was very interested in history and finance, and Soraka was unsurprisingly obsessed with medical information and anatomical diagrams of various magical creatures.

With their continuous efforts, all the books in the Black family's collection were soon read through by them.

Among them, the records about the history of the Black family are the most interesting. The funny stories of Sirius Black's ancestors who kept committing suicide often become the best way for Freemasons to relax their nerves during their intense studies.

Among them, Mike's favorite is an ancestor of Sirius named Yanser Black.

Mr. Yang Se is simply a legend. He has only done one thing in his life, and that is to work hard to get a wife and have children.

If this alone is not enough for Mike to describe him as a legend, the key is that this guy has a very special behavioral orientation. He not only likes humans, but also all kinds of wonderful magical creatures.

From beautiful veela to ugly English leprechauns, from small house-elves to huge giants, this guy slept with them all.

What impressed Mike the most was that this guy had even slept with a fire dragon! !
Mike strongly suspected that diseases such as dragon pox and syphilis among fire dragons were spread by this guy!

The author who wrote this part obviously admired his ancestor very much. He not only listed the names of Mr. Yangse's wives, but also described in detail the process of his sleeping with giants and other huge creatures.

It is said that the expansion spell was used...

Logically speaking, these books recording the history of the Black family should be hidden in the most secluded place in the family, and no one except some key figures in the family should read them.

But Blake obviously did not notice their existence when he was sorting the books to give to Mike, so these books recording countless dark histories came into Mike's hands.

Mike felt that if the ancestors of the Black family knew about this, they would probably be so angry that they would jump out of their coffins.

After Mike and others had studied these books thoroughly, he naturally did not forget his "Debtors Exchange Meeting" and directly put some less important books in the Black family collection into the Room of Requirement as rewards for the winner of the Hogwarts treasure hunt game.

The players who were initially selected did not disappoint Mike. After a lot of difficult reasoning and long searching that was enough to make one's head spin, people finally began to come to the Room of Requests one after another.

As expected by Mike, they all kept their mouths shut about the secret of the Room of Requirement and watched the students who had not yet completed the assessment continue to search. Mike was happy to see this happen. Anyway, his only requirement for these people was to find the Room of Requirement before the end of this semester, no matter what method they used.

Even if they got the answers from others by selling py, Mike would consider them to have completed the assessment and give them more resources for training.

On the other hand, the Quidditch games between the Hogwarts school teams became more and more intense, and the two old rivals, Gryffindor and Slytherin, finally met again.

In order to defeat his nemesis Harry, Mr. Malfoy, who had pretended to be sick for almost half a year, finally took off his straps and went to the arena.

Unfortunately, Mike had already given him Harry's Firebolt.

The Firebolt, a customized flying broomstick of professional competition level, is completely incomparable to the mass-produced broomsticks of the Nimbus series. With the help of this artifact, Harry, who was already very talented, defeated Slytherin without surprise and became this year's champion, fulfilling the wish of their captain Wood.

Mike's own Firebolt was loaned to the Ravenclaw team.

Qiu Zhang, riding on the Firebolt, was like a cheat. In matches against teams other than Gryffindor, he would almost always find the Golden Snitch within half an hour of the start of the game, thus winning the runner-up of the Quidditch Cup.

Therefore, the Ravenclaw school team also got a new joke, that is, Ravenclaw never works overtime!
But she was out of luck when she met Harry, who was more talented and also had the Firebolt.

Harry was obviously still a child at this time. In his eyes, he could probably kick three girls as cute as Qiu Zhang and make them cry with one kick.

Although they were only runner-up, Roger and others obviously didn't care. They continued to celebrate with singing and dancing after the game.

Seeker Cho Chang even tried to give Mike a kiss to thank him for lending him the Firebolt.

Mike really wanted to agree to this, but when they were about to kiss, Mike suddenly had a creepy feeling. He turned his head and saw Cedric looking at him with a smile.

After a moment of silence, Mike gently pushed away Qiu Zhang who was pouting, came to Cedric and said:
"I'm kidding bro!"

"It's okay, I won't mind."

I don't care, just unclench your fist!!

Mike was complaining in his heart. If it was the old Cedric, he would have dared to kiss him, because the old Cedric would have pretended to be magnanimous even if he was unhappy.

But now this.

Mike was afraid that he would be turned into a hedgehog as soon as he kissed her.

Seeing that Cedric still had no intention of loosening his fist, Mike tactfully left the celebration party and started strolling around Hogwarts.

Today is the day when the Quidditch Cup ends, the winners are rejoicing, while the losers are licking their wounds in the shadows.

So the auditorium, which was always bustling, now seemed a little deserted.

What surprised Mike was that there was a thin girl writing something in the auditorium which was supposed to be empty.

Mike wasn't sure of the girl's identity, so he called out, "Hermione?"

The girl was startled when her name was called. She turned around and saw that it was Mike, then she breathed a sigh of relief.

But when he turned his head, Mike was startled. He saw that the dark circles under Hermione's eyes had become alarmingly dark. Due to the disorder of her biological clock, many pimples had appeared and were scattered all over her little face.

"Why are you here? Shouldn't Harry and the others be celebrating at this time?" Mike asked seriously, "Also, why did you become like this? You didn't listen to my advice at all, right?"

Hermione seemed to be frightened by Mike's appearance. She instinctively shrank back and replied:
"I'm reading a book. It's too late and the library is closed. The lounge is too noisy, so..."

Before she could finish, Mike walked up to her and picked up the book she was reading. On the book were written some large gold-plated words: "Law: The Iron Fist of Justice".

Okay, now Mike understood that Hermione was still silently helping the beast named Buckbeak.

But Mike knew that everything Hermione was doing now was completely in vain.

Because dear Mr. Fudge seemed to regard the execution of Buckbeak as revenge against Dumbledore, and he showed incredible enthusiasm on this matter.

Under such circumstances, even if Dumbledore took action, it would be difficult to save Buckbeak. Moreover, Dumbledore would never waste his political power on a beast with extremely low IQ.

But the current situation is that Hermione, this naive little girl, is determined to go to Buckbeak, and she will not give up until she achieves her goal.

This makes me a little bald.

Mike's brain was working frantically. He didn't care whether Buckbeak lived or died, but he cared about Hermione.

Looking at Hermione's haggard appearance, Mike felt like his heart was about to break.

After a moment, under Hermione's somewhat puzzled gaze, Mike raised a nice arc at the corner of his mouth and said:
"Do you really have to save Buckbeak?"

"Of course!" Hermione replied firmly.

"Are you willing to sacrifice the effect for this?"

"Whatever it takes!"

Mike smiled and said, "Okay! Then let's find a way to steal Buckbeak out!"

(End of this chapter)