Hogwarts Raven's Claw

Chapter 312: Scumbag Zhou Hong
The next day, when Mike woke up and saw the sapphire necklace hanging on the head of his bed, a smile unconsciously appeared on his face again.

Don't get me wrong, Mike was not happy just because he got the Heart of the Ocean. What really made him laugh was that he solved the difficult problem posed by Dumbledore last night with his perfect acting skills.

Mike could be sure of that.

Because when he left, Dumbledore was as happy as an old drunkard who got a big bottle of whiskey for free.

He even forced a bunch of candies on Mike, not worrying at all that Mike would get cavities from eating too much candy.

In fact, there was no need for him to worry about this, because although there were no dentists in the wizarding world, tooth decay was not a big problem here. All you had to do was drink a whole bottle of baby teeth potion.

Of course, this wasn’t a good experience.

Within a few days after drinking the deciduous teeth potion, new deciduous teeth will emerge from your gums and replace your cavities. This process is often painful and bloody.

Shaking his head, Mike collected his wandering thoughts and jumped up from the bed.

After getting dressed and washing up, Mike once again turned his eyes to the necklace.

Although he himself didn't care much about the necklace, it would be a great gift for Penelope.

Thinking of this, Mike snapped his fingers.

"Master! Shuke will obey your orders."

The house-elf Shuke appeared out of nowhere in the dormitory.

"Invite Penelope to have dinner with me tonight. Let's set the location in the Masonic Secret Realm." Mike pointed at the Heart of the Ocean necklace and said, "Oh, by the way. Wash this thing while you're at it. It has a strong fishy smell. Then find a box to put it in. I don't need to teach you what kind of box to choose."

"I understand, Master!"

Listening to Shuke's shrill voice, Mike nodded with satisfaction, picked up a few cockroaches and stuffed them into his mouth, then walked towards the door, saying as he walked:
"Okay, I have to go now. If you don't leave now, you'll be late for class. You better hurry up. If you're late, go find Beta and Winky and the others."

After saying that, Mike trotted out of the Ravenclaw common room without waiting for Shuke to reply.

Mike wasn't lying, he really was going to be late.

As a warrior, Mike did not have to take final exams, so he did not spend too much time on studying this school year and often slept in class.

At the same time, many professors turned a blind eye to Mike's performance in class because he was bringing honor to Hogwarts.

But Professor McGonagall is definitely not one of these professors.

This stubborn lady has not tried to change her rigid character recently, but has even become worse because of Ms. Maxime.

Therefore, Transfiguration class became the only class that Mike dared not be late for.

Running all the way to the Transfiguration classroom, Mike saw that the classroom was already full of people. Professor McGonagall pursed her lips tightly and stared at Mike at the classroom door with her always serious eyes.

"Phew, I'm so sorry, Professor McGonagall! I seem to be late."

Mike said awkwardly.

He knew Professor McGonagall's character very well. It was useless to make excuses in front of her, so he simply admitted his mistake.

"No, you're not late yet." Professor McGonagall said expressionlessly, "There are still about five seconds before the class starts (McGonagall glanced at the magic clock on the wall)."

Mike was overjoyed when he heard this. This was a rare benefit of having a rigid personality. Although Professor McGonagall was ruthless in punishing students who made mistakes, as long as you did not break the school rules, she would not take revenge on you even if you angered her. In this respect, she was much better than Snape.

Running into the classroom at the fastest speed in his life, Mike sat down in the seat that Franklin had reserved for him.

"Oh my God, you're almost late. This is Professor McGonagall's class. If you're really late, she'll definitely ask you to clean the girls' room." Franklin asked in a low voice, "What delayed you?"

"I overslept."

Responding perfunctorily to Franklin, Mike placed the wand and Transfiguration textbook on the desk.

"Oh! Our warriors actually overslept, this is really..."

Franklin raised his voice instinctively as if he had heard some shocking news, but before he could finish his words, he heard Professor McGonagall on the podium say in a cold voice:
"No noise is allowed in class, Mr. Clinton. Because of you, Ravenclaw will be deducted 5 points!"

Franklin's face turned green in an instant, and he coughed twice to cover up his embarrassment. Mike, who was standing beside him, chuckled when he heard this, and then quickly sat up straight and listened attentively.

Today's topic is human body deformation.

Of course, this is just a theoretical class, not letting students actually perform body deformation, which would be too dangerous.

In fact, this class was not originally on Professor McGonagall's teaching plan, but Krum's half-shark form in yesterday's Triwizard Tournament aroused many people's strong interest in human Transfiguration. In order to prevent these ignorant and fearless students from rashly conducting dangerous human Transfiguration experiments and causing disasters, Professor McGonagall had to temporarily change her teaching plan and instead give all the students a popular science class on human Transfiguration.

Professor McGonagall meant well, but her students did not appreciate it.

At first, when Professor McGonagall told everyone about today's topic, everyone in the classroom showed joy on their faces, but when the students found out that what Professor McGonagall talked about were all warnings against arbitrary transformation rather than detailed transformation methods of human body Transfiguration, they began to slack off.

Mike was naturally also a member of the deserters' team.

But unlike other team members, he is not very interested in human deformation.

I have no plans to practice in the short term.

And during this moment of absentmindedness, he discovered that the school that was attending class with Ravenclaw today was actually Gryffindor.

Hermione was listening to Professor McGonagall's lecture attentively at the moment, and she would take notes quickly from time to time.

Whenever Professor McGonagall asked the students a question, Hermione was always the first to raise her hand, but Professor McGonagall would not always let Hermione answer the question.

This is because Hermione always gets extra points for answering the questions correctly, and it would obviously be unfair to the Ravenclaw students if she were to answer every time.

So, sometimes even though Hermione raised her hand, Professor McGonagall would ignore her and choose students from Ravenclaw to answer questions so that students from both colleges would answer the same number of questions.

Harry and Ron, not far from Hermione, were not so focused.

The two of them obviously stayed up late yesterday, and now they both look drowsy.

Of course, they didn't dare to really fall asleep, otherwise Professor McGonagall would definitely let them know why the flowers were so red.

As the bell rang, the two consecutive Transfiguration classes finally came to an end.

At this time, Ron regained his energy and excitedly told a few curious girls about his underwater experience yesterday. There were many people interested in this matter, and soon a large group of people gathered around Ron.

"Tsk! A clown seeking attention!" said a Ravenclaw boy disdainfully, "I don't know what he is so proud of! The first place in the competition is Mike!"

Looking at Ron, whose face was flushed with excitement in the crowd, he became more and more angry. He came up with an idea that could bring glory back to Ravenclaw.

"Hey! Mike!" He deliberately shouted at Mike who was about to leave the classroom, "Tell us more about what you did under the Black Lake yesterday. We are all very curious!"

As soon as these words came out, the people who had gathered around Ron immediately dispersed and surrounded Mike.

This made Ron a little overwhelmed. He stared at it all blankly, and after a while he covered his face and left.

It sounded like crying.

Mike in the crowd frowned. Unlike Ron, he did not like this kind of boastful narration.

The Ravenclaw boy who shouted noticed Mike's expression very keenly. He quickly covered his mouth with a look of regret.

He now realized that he was in trouble and seemed to have brought trouble to Mike.

He tried his best to explain to everyone that this was just a joke and wanted the crowd to disperse, but no one listened to him. Everyone had already surrounded Mike, so how could they let him leave easily?

With no other options, he could only squeeze to Mike's side and explained with regret:

"Sorry, Mike! I didn't mean to do that. I just wanted to..."

"It's not your fault, Butch." Mike had a gentle smile on his face. "This kind of thing will happen sooner or later, so you don't have to take it to heart. I don't blame you."

After saying that, Mike turned around and began to tell everyone what happened yesterday.

The Ravenclaw student named Butch looked at Mike in the crowd with red eyes and remained silent for a long time.

He was very touched, not because Mike did not blame him, but because Mike actually called him by his name.

You have to know that he is just an unknown person in Ravenclaw College, and he has only talked to Mike a few times. He really didn't expect that Mike still remembered his name.

Mike on the other side didn't pay any attention to what was happening on Butch's side. He was telling a story with great emotion at the moment, but people couldn't get enough of it and kept asking him to tell it again.

This made Mike very distressed. It was already time for dinner. He had only eaten two pieces of cockroach pile for breakfast and was already starving.

In times of crisis, Hermione stood up.

She just roughly squeezed into the crowd, took Mike's hand and started walking out.

With an excuse, Mike's eyes lit up, and he quietly used the left-right separation spell to bounce away all the people standing in front of them.

Hermione pulled Mike all the way to the Great Hall before stopping.

Mike was smiling and was about to say something of thanks, but he didn't expect Hermione to turn around with an angry look on her face.

"What's wrong with you? Did anyone make you angry?"

Mike asked with a smile.

"Oh! There are so many people who make me angry. Those bitches harass me 24 hours a day just because I am Krum's favorite baby!" Hermione said angrily, "Of course, I came to you not because of this! But because of Hong Zhou!"

"Hong Zhou? Oh! You mean Zhou Hong, right? Benjamin's younger brother. What happened? Did he do some terrible prank again?"

"Prank! I don't think it was just a prank!"

Mike's eyes narrowed when he heard this. He knew Zhou Hong's background. Although he looked like just a little boy, he was essentially a terrifying creature with the powers of a Dementor. Even if Hermione said that Zhou Hong had killed someone, he would not be surprised at all.

"Tell me more about it."

Hermione took a deep breath and said through gritted teeth: "Hong Zhou, he plays with women's feelings!"

As soon as these words were spoken, the scene fell into an eerie silence.

Mike's originally extremely serious expression turned into a vivid white version of a black question mark expression.

"You heard it right! He played with my good friend, Scarlett's feelings!" Hermione said angrily, "He made Scarlett fall hopelessly in love with him, and then abandoned her!"

"But...he is only 12 years old this year..."

"Yeah! He's only 12 and he's already such a jerk! I can't even imagine what he'll become in the future!"

"Um, can I ask how old that Scarlett is?"

"She's the same age as me!" Hermione said coldly.

"Wait! I still don't understand what's going on." Mike frowned, "You mean... Zhou Hong cheated on a senior girl... Oh! I see, you are kidding me, right? But it's only February now, isn't it too early for your April Fool's joke?"

"I'm not kidding! Okay! Let me tell you the details of what happened!" Hermione said, "It was during the Christmas ball. Scarlett had some conflicts with her dance partner and was very sad. Zhou Hong came out to comfort her. After that, he cared about her every day. Scarlett was very moved and she gradually fell in love with Zhou Hong. But not long ago, when Scarlett was about to confess to Zhou Hong, Zhou Hong publicly stated that he would never be with Scarlett!"

"Oh, this is really... really..."

Mike spent a long time thinking but couldn't find the right words to use here.

Seeing this, Hermione took a deep breath and said:
"Okay, I know Benjamin is your friend. So please tell Benjamin to ask Zhou Hong to apologize to Scarlett!"

After saying that, Hermione left without looking back, leaving Mike alone in the wind.

Before Hermione spoke, Mike had imagined many possibilities, such as Zhou Hong had killed someone, Zhou Hong had detonated a dung bomb in the lounge, and so on.

But he never expected that Hermione would actually tell him that Zhou Hong had become a scumbag, and the other party was a senior student.

Mike felt his worldview was challenged.

Are young people nowadays all good at playing like this?
For the rest of the day, Mike was unable to recover from the shock of this incident.

He had no choice but to inform Benjamin through the Masonic gold coin and ask him to take Zhou Hong to the secret realm tonight.

Mike plans to have a good chat with Zhou Hong before his candlelight dinner with Penelope.

(End of this chapter)