Hogwarts Raven's Claw

Chapter 259 Buckbeak is finally free and takes the test
"Steal it out!?"

Mike's answer left Hermione completely confused. As a top student who attached great importance to rules (she thought so), although she wanted to save Buckbeak, she had always wanted to achieve her goal through formal legal channels and had never thought of committing an illegal act such as stealing.

"This...can this be possible?"

"What else do you think we should do? Just because you read two law books, you can pass the court exam and rescue Buckbeak?" Mike raised his eyebrows and said teasingly, "You might as well go to bed now. You can dream about anything!"

Hermione was very unconvinced when she heard this, and instinctively wanted to refute it. But when she thought about it carefully, it seemed to be true, and her originally angry expression became low.

"Listen, the most direct way is to steal Buckbeak before the executioner from the Ministry of Magic arrives." Mike explained, "Don't worry, the process this time is the same as the last time we transported the dragon. We just need to contact Ron's brother and have them come to pick up Buckbeak. The Ministry of Magic will never think that we will transport Buckbeak abroad."

When Hermione thought about it carefully, it seemed to be true, and her mind started to move. But as she was thinking, she suddenly thought of a loophole in Mike's plan.

"Then...what about Hagrid? If we let Buckbeak run away, the people in the Ministry of Magic will definitely think that it was Hagrid who let him go. Oh my God! They will put him in Azkaban!" Hermione shouted, holding her head.

"Don't worry. With Hagrid's personality, he will definitely agree. And what misunderstanding do you have about the Ministry of Magic? How could they put someone in Azkaban for such a small matter?"

"But Malfoy..."

"He's just trying to scare you! The Ministry of Magic isn't owned by his family, and he just has some money!" Mike interrupted Hermione and said, "Don't forget, his family is descended from Death Eaters. Do you think the higher-ups at the Ministry of Magic will look at him in a friendly way? At best, they just want his family's gold Galleons."

Now Hermione was speechless, so she could only follow Mike to contact Hagrid, Ron and others.

After they told Hagrid about everything, Hagrid's reaction was exactly what Mike had expected. He agreed without any hesitation, and tearfully said that he had completely wronged Mike before and that Mike was a good boy. It was so corny that Mike almost got goosebumps.

As for Ron, when Mike and Hermione found him, he was cramming with Harry using Hermione's notes. The exam was coming soon, and the chosen ones like Mike and the top students like Hermione had already made sufficient preparations, but people like Ron and Harry could only cram at the last minute.

Just by looking at Ron's resentful face, Mike could guess that he must be very envious of Harry at this moment.

Because Harry is an orphan, his only remaining aunt's family will not change their attitude towards him just because he failed the exam.

But Ron was different. If he dared to get more than two Ds in this exam, his mother would definitely skin him alive.

Thinking of this, the resentment on his face deepened.

It’s all my brothers’ fault. Why are their grades so good? If they were poor students like me, mom wouldn’t be so strict with me.

Ron thought so.

Although they were very busy, Ron and Harry agreed without hesitation when Mike found them and asked for their help.

Hermione was very happy and said that after sending Buckbeak away, she would come to help Harry and Ron review in person.

Thus, the Buckbeak rescue team was formed.

The next thing was very simple. Ron sent a letter to his second brother Charlie who was raising dragons in Romania (of course not by owl, but by wizard post office. Messengers would use portkeys to send letters across borders and then deliver the letters to the destination. Those who want to use owls to send letters across borders, are you devils?). After explaining the situation, Charlie agreed very straightforwardly and said that if Ron was not his younger brother, he would definitely slam dunk on anyone who dared to put such a messy thing as a hippogriff into his breeding farm.

So, on the night before the exam, Mike and Harry, wearing invisibility cloaks, carefully slipped out of the castle and came to Hagrid's hut.

Poor Buckbeak has been tied to a wooden stake not far from Hagrid's hut for the past few days because he is about to be executed by the Ministry of Magic. Buckbeak, who longs for freedom, is very sad. He may never be able to fly again.

Although it is sad, it still has the necessary vigilance.

It had already discovered Mike and his group long before Mike came to it, and immediately stood up and roared in Mike's direction, trying to scare them in this way.

But when Mike and others really got close, Buckbeak immediately fell silent, and began to bow to the leader Mike with a look of grievance.

It still remembers the little man with golden hair, who almost killed it!
"Okay, let's get started."

After Mike looked around for a while and found that there was no one guarding, he gave orders to Harry and others behind him.

Harry and the others quickly got out of the invisibility cloak, and together with Hagrid beside them, they carried out the iron cage that Hagrid had prepared long ago from the woods.

Hagrid put a lot of thought into this cage. Not only was it very large, he also carefully laid a thick layer of hay under the cage and even put a lot of raw meat inside it. It looked like he was sending his son on a long journey. He didn't consider how difficult it would be for Charlie and the others to send this big cage and Buckbeak away.

Sure enough, when Charlie and several of his colleagues arrived at the scene, their expressions suddenly fell.

Damn, how can they transport such a big iron cage full of raw meat and Buckbeak on their flying brooms?

Charlie almost instinctively wanted to throw away all the raw meat in the iron cage. There was plenty of this kind in Romania anyway. However, he was stopped by Hagrid.

Hagrid was already the gamekeeper when Charlie and the others were still in school, so he was not polite to the little guy Charlie at all. He directly told Charlie that if Charlie dared to throw away the dry food for his beloved Buckbeak on the road, he would cry in front of Charlie.

As he spoke, he even burst into tears.

Charlie and his colleagues looked at each other, and finally had no choice but to satisfy Hagrid's needs.

There was no way. When Charlie was young, he liked to go to the Forbidden Forest like his two younger brothers, so he received less attention from Hagrid.

Now Hagrid needed his help, he couldn't just sit back and do nothing.

So, when Charlie and others were dragging a huge iron cage with great effort and gradually disappeared into the night sky, a smile finally appeared on Hagrid's face.

"Thank you so much! I invite you to dinner! How about rock crackers with broth? This is my favorite!"

Hagrid said as he wiped the tears that were still flowing down his face.

"No, we have an exam tomorrow!"

Mike and others answered almost in unison.

After saying this, without waiting for Hagrid's reply, he hurriedly said goodbye and returned to the castle, leaving Hagrid standing alone outside the desolate woods.

“What a bunch of good kids!”

Hagrid stared blankly in the direction where Mike and the others disappeared. After a while, he blew his nose violently and said.

……

No matter how reluctant Ron and Harry were, the day of the exam finally came.

Compared to Ron and Harry, who had to make up all kinds of tragic ways of their own deaths and curse themselves in order to pass the Divination exam, Mike was obviously much more relaxed because his attainments in major subjects such as spells, potions and ancient runes had far surpassed the third-year teaching progress at Hogwarts.

Take the exam for the Ancient Magic Language class for example. The young female professor took everyone's learning progress into consideration and assigned the task of simply writing a diary in Ancient Magic Language and reciting it aloud on the spot using standard Ancient Magic Language pronunciation.

This might be difficult for some students who don't listen carefully in class or don't have outstanding language talent, but for someone like Mike who has already applied ancient magic technology to alchemy, it is a piece of cake.

Unfortunately, Mike felt that his ancient magic score might not be very high, because the expression on the professor's face when he listened to him reading was as ugly as if he had eaten something disgusting.

After the exam, he found Mike and earnestly advised him not to focus all his attention on the study of ancient magic runes, but to spend some more time on the study of writing style.

Mike understood what she meant. Wasn't it just that his writing was poor?
But what does it matter? He is just a poor author who makes a living by writing novels.

So he simply let the professor's words enter through his left ear, turn around in his mind, and then fly out through his right ear very naturally.

These are just some small things. Mike would never have thought that the only exam that made him feel uncomfortable among so many exams would be the Muggle Studies class!
A course he just took to make up the numbers!

To be honest, Mike never attended this course except for the first few classes.

That's right, you can skip elective courses at Hogwarts, as long as you are not afraid of losing house points and getting zero points on the exam.

His behavior undoubtedly made the professor of Muggle Studies very angry, so during the exam, the professor who was invigilating the exam hardly went anywhere and just stared at Mike. If Mike showed any sign of making up stories, he would scold him directly.

But that would be fine. Mike believed that as a senior Muggle, he could still complete the Muggle Studies exam.

However, the test paper in front of Mike was too weird.

Just like this question.

What is Muggles' favorite thing to do?
Mike was completely confused when he saw this question. How could he know what all human beings like to do?
Also, are you sure this question is not a brain teaser?

After thinking hard for a long time, he finally wrote down a shameful answer under the professor's gaze.

**.

Don't blame Mike for having dirty thoughts, but this is the thing he could think of that is most likely to be liked by all humans. After all, reproduction is human instinct!
However, the next moment, the female professor whose name he couldn't even call out slapped Mike on the head.

"You...are you deliberately trying to humiliate me?" The professor with glasses yelled with a red face, "The answer is drinking! How could you possibly do that?"

The professor immediately regretted what she had said after yelling because she had already given out the correct answers.

Unfortunately, it was too late. Many students showed a look of sudden enlightenment on their faces and immediately began to write furiously.

Now the professor's favorability towards Mike has become even lower.

"But teacher, why is drinking something Muggles love to do most?"

Mike asked weakly.

It would have been fine if I hadn't asked. As soon as I asked, the professor became even more furious and slapped me again.

"How dare you question my authority? This is the answer I got from more than a dozen Muggles using Veritaserum!" the professor roared, "It seems that the famous Townley is no better than this. A Muggle-born wizard doesn't even know this kind of common sense!"

After saying that, she walked away with a proud look on her face, as if she had just won a war.

Mike rubbed the back of his head, angry but not daring to say anything, while at the same time complaining wildly in his mind.

Damn, do you have any misunderstanding of common sense again?
And even if you want to do a random survey, the base number is too small. And based on the answer you got, you probably did a random survey in a bar, didn't you?
Also, is it really okay to use Veritaserum on Muggles without permission? People who use Veritaserum are likely to become idiots!

Mike, who was feeling angry, simply stopped concentrating on the exam. He filled in the remaining questions on the test paper randomly and then rushed out of the exam room angrily.

And behind him was the professor's roar.

Mike's behavior was extremely bad. After all, arguing with the professor in front of so many classmates would undermine the professor's authority, so no matter what school it is, the punishment for such things is very strict.

But Mike didn't care, because there was no way Hogwarts would expel him for this.

As long as he is not fired, the remaining punishment methods will not pose any threat to Mike.

Deduct college points and give zero points in the exam?

You buckle up, Mike is now past the stage of relying on good grades to prove himself.

Confinement?
As you please, with Professor Flitwick in your own detention area it will always be Professor Flitwick's office.

So Mike walked very happily, and when he arrived at his dormitory happily and opened a letter sent to him, he felt even happier.

Because this letter was an invitation for him to go to the Order of Merlin to receive the Order of Merlin, Second Class!

(End of this chapter)