Hogwarts Raven's Claw

Chapter 298: Playful Parade
"Are you really going to do this?"

On the way to Hogsmeade village, Penelope looked at Mike with a worried look on her face and asked.

"Of course, if they want to shit on my head, I will resist."

Mike replied nonchalantly, holding Penelope's hand and continuing to walk forward.

"But...will this work?"

Penelope asked with some concern, and then turned back to look worriedly at the large group of Hogwarts students behind them.

Although today is the weekend, which is the time when Hogwarts students go out for exercise once a week, there would not be so many people going to Hogsmeade village on normal days.

Naturally, these people were all called by Mike.

"Don't worry, Penelope, it'll be fine." Franklin licked his lips and said, "I can't wait to get started!"

The worry in Penelope's eyes became even more intense.

"Don't talk like we're going to a fight. We're just going to have an outdoor barbecue party in Hogsmeade!"

George complained.

As soon as he finished complaining, the Weasley brothers burst into laughter.

Roast all kinds of magical animal meat in front of those extreme magical animal protectors!
This idea Mike came up with is so interesting!
Of course, it would be even better if those people couldn't help themselves and took action.

This way they could legitimately defend themselves, after all, they were just having an outdoor barbecue party.

They can't wait to see the expressions of those extremists at that time.

Laughter is always contagious, and Mike also laughed when he saw this.

He copied this method from the way farmers and breeders in Muggle society deal with animal protectors.

I think it should have some effect.

The crowd continued to move forward and soon arrived at Hogsmeade village.

It's less than a month until Christmas, and Hogsmeade village is already dressed in silver.

However, in this snowy environment, there was a group of people, naked, flushed with excitement, shouting slogans, holding signs and donation boxes, and marching back and forth on the main street of Hogsmeade village.

There were not many of them, only a few dozen or so, but they were the most eye-catching crowd in the entire Hogsmeade village today.

Everyone who comes and goes will fix their eyes on them and won't be able to look away.

After all, it's rare to see fools wearing nothing in this kind of weather, especially when there are several good-looking women among this group of fools.

And when Mike and his group arrived at Hogsmeade village in a mighty procession, those idiots swarmed over like sharks smelling blood, weaving back and forth among the students in school uniforms.

They didn't seem to know Mike, the person they were condemning, and completely ignored Mike and others who were at the front of the line. They were only concerned with calling on other students to condemn Mike the Dragon Slayer and to donate money to those poor magical creatures.

Seeing this, Mike also understood.

These extreme magical creature protectors and those animal protectors in the Muggle world are actually birds of a feather.

In fact, Mike is quite in favor of protecting magical creatures.

On the one hand, those rare and magical creatures do have considerable value, and it is a pity that they have become extinct.

On the other hand, Mike really couldn't bear to see those lovely magical creatures being killed.

This is the human empathy mechanism and it is inevitable.

But even good things will deteriorate once they become extreme.

These extreme protectors of magical animals often do such corrupted good deeds.

Such things actually happen more often in Muggle society.

In order to attract more attention, their methods can be said to be extremely extreme.

They claim that this is to call on more people to protect animals and to punish those who abuse animals.

But Mike thinks they are just doing it for the money.

Mike, this is not just random talk, but has real examples.

Pittsburgh is a global animal protection organization, but also a weird organization that uses obscene photos to attract attention.

Initially, their targets were animal laboratories and farms. They would often use sit-in protests or even more extreme measures (such as threats or warnings) to obstruct or even destroy these companies.

Later on, their attack range became wider.

The most outrageous thing is that they actually started attacking games such as "Pokemon", "Farming Simulator", "Final Fantasy", and "Super Mario", claiming that the settings of these games involve animal abuse.

There are many other strange actions and remarks made by Pi Yitie, but it was another scandal that really made everyone realize his true face.

Animal euthanasia incident!
Data shows that from 1998 to 2008, Pitie took in a total of 25112 pets, and 21339 of them were killed.

In 2008, they took in 2216 pets, percent of which were killed and only seven were adopted!

After these data were summarized, they immediately caused an uproar and everyone was shocked by these terrifying data.

Afterwards, Pi Yitie quickly came out to clean up the situation. The explanation they gave was that due to the organization's limited financial resources, they could not afford the food and accommodation for these pets, so they had no choice but to euthanize them.

At the same time, they also said that keeping pets is actually enslaving animals, which is inhumane, and that euthanizing them directly is the only way to save them from suffering.

At first glance, the idea of ​​lack of money makes sense, doesn’t it?
But the problem is, data shows that the amount of donations received by Pittsburgh from caring people every year is as high as tens of millions of dollars. With such a huge amount of money coming in every year, it would be unreasonable to say that there is no money, right?

In fact, Mike understands them very well. After all, everyone needs to make a living!

No matter what you do, you won't be able to sustain it for long if you're powered by love. How can you expand it without making money?
After investigation, Mike also found out.

Those who wanted to hold a parade in Hogsmeade village belonged to an organization called the 'Fantastic Beasts Liberation Front', and their leader was called Carlo Parker.

Carlo is a half-blood who grew up in Muggle society. Even after graduating from Hogwarts, he did not stay in wizard society but chose to return to Muggle society. Three years ago, this guy suddenly returned to the wizarding world.

As soon as he came back this time, he started organizing various charity activities and established this magical animal protection organization.

A guy who has always lived in Muggle society suddenly said that he fell in love with magical creatures and would devote his whole life to the cause of protecting magical creatures.

Any smart person should be able to see what he is looking for.

On the other hand, Fudge also gave an explanation for the Daily Prophet.

The staff member who was in charge of the final manuscript review of the Daily Prophet accepted bribes and secretly changed a purely flattering article into a negative one.

The staff member who accepted the bribe has been detained, and after interrogation, he also gave out the person who bribed him.

Carlo Parker.

Things are very clear at this point. Carlo is the mastermind behind this incident, and his purpose is very simple, which is to gain more traffic by stepping on Mike, the current hot topic.

As for this magical creature protection organization that is causing trouble for him now, Mike feels that they probably just want to make money.

It can even be said that these extreme animal protectors in the wizarding world are even more greedy than their counterparts in the Muggle world!

Things haven't even heated up yet, but people are already impatiently looking for people to donate.

It’s a pity that most of the people who came to Hogsmeade village today were invited by Mike to attend the barbecue party. Naturally, these people will not pay attention to them. Compared with donating money, they prefer free barbecue.

It is even more impossible for the other adult wizards in Hogsmeade village to donate money, because in the eyes of traditional wizards, magical creatures and the like are completely at their disposal.

But there are exceptions. Our Master Malfoy was moved by these people's behavior and generously donated 5 gold Galleons.

After discovering his generosity, the naked marchers immediately surrounded Malfoy, with the naked women taking the lead, surrounding Malfoy and chattering and thanking him for his generosity.

The young Malfoy had never seen such a scene before, and his face turned red instantly. He had no choice but to take out all the gold Galleons in his pocket and give them all, and only then did those people give up.

Naturally, his affairs attracted Mike's attention. George and Fred bet with a smile, saying that Malfoy must have given the money because those women couldn't even afford to buy clothes.

The filthiness in his words was almost overflowing.

But only Mike knew that Malfoy really loved magical creatures, but the only magical creature he liked was the dragon.

Malfoy also noticed that Mike was looking at him, and his already pale face suddenly turned even paler, and then he ran away in shame as if a mouse saw a cat.

Malfoy is really afraid of Mike now.

His name Draco sounds very similar to "dragon", and his nickname is also Xiaolong.

This made him love fire dragons very much since he was a child, and sometimes he would even imagine himself as a fire dragon, powerful, free, and able to do whatever he wanted!

But that day Mike killed an adult fire dragon alone in front of him!
This caused him to have nightmares for a whole week, and the content of the nightmares was always Mike chopping off his head with a knife!

The Malfoy incident was just a small episode. After arriving at their destination, Mike and others quickly took out various equipment and a large amount of meat and food from the Traceless Extension Spell bag as planned and started their barbecue party.

The meats were all dragon meat and meat from other magical animals. Although there were no particularly precious protective creatures in them, Mike still spent a lot of gold Galleons to get enough meat to sustain this extra-large barbecue party.

The aroma of barbecue quickly spread, and the students who were originally entangled by the marchers quickly gathered around. Even those who were originally watching the fun nearby were attracted by the aroma.

Mike generously invited them to attend the party, which made them very happy.

Those naked animal protectors almost went crazy on the spot, because the meat Mike brought was not cut at all, and the exaggerated shapes were clearly not something that ordinary animals could have.

The scene suddenly became very funny.

On one side, Mike and others were celebrating and eating hot barbecue.

On the other side were naked, stunned protesters holding signs.

"You bunch of devils!" A skinny middle-aged man pointed at Mike and said, "You butchers!" He didn't know whether he was angry or cold. He was trembling all over.

As he spoke, he raised the sign in his hand. On it was a dynamic picture of a venomous leopard being skinned, engraved with pattern magic. It looked extremely bloody and disgusting.

Following his move, the protesters also gathered around and raised their signs. Without exception, the signs were all engraved with disgusting images.

Some people who were originally eating with relish frowned. This method would only make them lose their appetite.

When the demonstrators saw this, they all smiled, as if they had won some great victory.

"Put down the meat in your hands! Those are all sins. If you continue like this, the magical creatures in this world will soon become extinct!" The skinny man said with a sad face, "For the sustainable development of the wizarding world, throw away the sins in your hands. The only right thing to do is to join us!"

"You are Carlo Parker, right?"

Mike stepped out from the crowd and asked with a grin.

"Yes! I am Carlo from the Magical Creatures Liberation Front, a man who has dedicated the rest of his life to the cause of protecting magical creatures!" Carlo said righteously, and even posed as he spoke, "You are Mike Townley, right? The butcher! I know you! What you did will send you to hell!"

Looking at the Luo man in front of him who seemed to be emitting holy light, Mike chuckled and did not respond to him. Instead, he turned his head and said to the adult wizards beside him:
"It's him."

Nodding, those people took out their wands without saying a word, and each of them cast a petrification spell to freeze Carlo, who was still posing, in place.

Everyone around was stunned. They never expected that someone would use magic spells to attack others in public. The crowd immediately became chaotic.

Seeing this, one of the two took out an Auror badge and showed it to the people around him while saying:
"Don't panic! We are Aurors! This guy is a swindler. He specializes in taking advantage of other people's kindness to get donations for his own use. We have been keeping an eye on him for a long time!"

There was an uproar in the crowd, and those who had been moved by Carlo's speech were stunned.

When several men among the demonstrators saw that the situation was not good, they simply ran away.

It was a pity that they had no way of escaping the clutches of these professional Aurors. They had just run a short distance when they were followed in Carlo's footsteps.

Seeing this, the women squatted down skillfully, holding their heads with their hands, and shouted at the two Aurors:
"It's none of our business! I was just hired by that Carlo to act!"

The two Aurors shook their heads in confusion, first restrained the women, and then began to escort them back to the Ministry of Magic.

Something happened and I am in a very bad mood now, which also caused this chapter to be written like shi. When I calm down, I will come back to revise it later.

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(End of this chapter)