Hogwarts Raven's Claw

Chapter 375: Snake! Snake!
After a pleasant day with Mike and Ron, Harry lay down on his bed as usual.

Because he had enough rest these days, his sleep quality has been very good, and the nightmares he had in the past have never appeared again.

Therefore, he even felt that in a few days he would be able to apply to Dumbledore to return to the school Quidditch team.

But if Dumbledore really agreed, it would mean that he would have to go back to Umbridge to accept the unfinished detentions. Harry couldn't help but feel conflicted.

In this awkward mood, Harry fell into a deep sleep, but unlike in the past, he began to dream again tonight.

He first dreamed of Mike, one of his best friends.

At this moment, Mike was holding a set of 150 Chocolate Frog pictures in his hands, questioning why he gave him this thing as a Christmas present.

Harry felt a little embarrassed and disappointed; he had been collecting this set of Chocolate Frog cards for several years, and he thought it would be a perfect Christmas gift for his best friend.

But now it seems that Hermione's advice was right. Mike is different from other classmates. He really doesn't like such childish things.

'Perhaps I should give him my Firebolt.'

Harry thought so and began to wave at Mike, but he found that the scene in front of him changed again.

The dream became hazy and unreal.

His body was soft, flexible, and slid between the shiny metal fences and on the wet, cold stones... His body was pressed against the ground, using the dense muscles of his abdomen to slide...

The light around him was very dim, but he could see the light of the surrounding objects, which were some strange, bright colors...

He slowly twisted his neck, and at a glance Harry found that he was in an empty corridor. Apart from the ice-blue walls and floors in front of him that exuded a cold atmosphere, the only source of heat was a person not far away from him.

A living person, but already asleep.

Harry stuck out his tongue and tasted the air before coming to this conclusion.

For no apparent reason, Harry suddenly felt hungry.

He wanted to go up and eat the man, but he knew that he had a more important task to do...

He slid forward carefully, trying to get around the man and into the room behind him.

However, the man woke up, and seemed to be frightened by himself, jumping directly from the recliner.

A cloak shining with silver light slipped down from his legs, and Harry almost instinctively stepped forward and bit the man.

But as soon as he took the first bite, Harry regretted it, because he recognized that the man in front of him was Mr. Weasley!
"Crack!"

There was a crisp sound, which seemed to be the sound of broken ribs.

Harry wanted to open his mouth, but the gushing blood stimulated his ferocity even more. At this moment, he could no longer suppress his desire!
"bass!"

Another crisp sound was heard, and Harry felt a sharp pain in his body. His head seemed to have lost the support of his body, and fell to the ground as the man fell.

Harry felt his consciousness slowly fading away, and before it completely disappeared, the last thing he saw was a man with a pair of golden pupils raising a sword that was shining white in his hand towards him...

"Harry! Harry!"

He opened his eyes and felt wet all over, with a headache as if he had been hit by a stick.

"Harry! What's wrong with you! Harry!"

Ron beside him was still shaking his body, which made him feel nauseous for no reason...

Taking a deep breath, Harry forced himself to suppress the urge to vomit. At this moment, he had something else to do.

"Your father," he said breathlessly, "your father...something happened..."

"What did you say? Did you have a nightmare?" Ron turned his head with a look of surprise and said, "Okay, forget about that for now. You're in a very bad condition! Seamus, go call the professor!"

"I'm fine!" Harry grabbed Ron's arm and said anxiously, "I'm awake, it was definitely not a dream! Go and get someone to save your father! He's seriously injured now, and I turned into a big snake and attacked him!"

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In the Ravenclaw dormitory, Mike was marking on a document.

This is the company's financial report given to him by Penelope. He must conduct a rough review of these data every day to ensure that the Los Santos Group is running on the right track.

A hazy skylight was slowly shining into the room from the window. Mike squinted his eyes and looked out the window for a while, trying to find the slowly rising red sun.

At this moment, the Masonic gold coin hanging on his chest suddenly emitted a burning breath...

Mike hurriedly pulled it out from his collar, and the fire dragon pattern on it was changing rapidly at this moment, and finally formed two complex words - Mission accomplished!
The corners of Mike's mouth rose up. Arthur completed his task perfectly!
"Boom boom boom!"

There was a hurried knock on the door. Mike quickly put away the gold coins, quickly walked to the door and opened it.

Outside the door were the panicked Weasley brothers. When they saw Mike, they said hurriedly:
"Oh no! My dad, our dad, he...he was attacked!"

"It was Harry, he...he dreamed that a snake attacked our father, so Dumbledore sent people to look for it. And...then they found that our father...he...wuwuwu!"

"Okay, don't worry!" Mike pretended to be surprised and said comfortingly, "Mr. Weasley will be fine. How about this, he should have been sent to St. Mungo's by now, let's go see him?"

George and Fred nodded yes.

So, Mike took them to find Professor Flitwick, and under Professor Flitwick's instructions, they left Hogwarts and arrived at St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries.

St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries was extremely quiet in the early morning. There was no one else in the hall except the little nurse who was dozing off at the reception window. Mike and the Weasley brothers, who had already learned the ward number from Professor McGonagall, did not disturb the sleeping little nurse and went directly to Mr. Weasley's ward.

But this place is completely different from the deserted scene outside——

"George, Fred, and Mike? Why are you here?"

On the hospital bed, the somewhat weak Mr. Weasley looked at Mike and others who pushed the door open with a look of surprise.

In his ward, Harry, Sirius and others were also standing there, making it quite lively.

But compared to other people in the ward, Harry looked even weaker, as if he had not slept all night. Not only were his dark circles under his eyes clearly visible, but Mike even found some semen in the corners of his eyes.

"We just heard about your attack, so we came to check on you."

Mike said sincerely, while the two Weasley brothers had already thrown themselves on their father's bed and started crying.

"Oh! Don't cry, don't cry! Thank you so much." Mr. Weasley's eyes also turned red. He wiped his eyes with difficulty and then said seriously, "But I'm actually not in any serious condition, so you'd better go back to school. Harry, the same goes for you. Anyway, it's almost Christmas, and you'll have plenty of time to come and see me during the holidays."

Hearing this, Harry and the Weasley brothers shook their heads silently.

Mike at the door greeted Sirius and Lupin and then turned his attention to Mr. Weasley.

"Mr. Weasley, can I ask you a question?" Mike waited until he nodded before continuing, "What exactly happened at that time? Why were you attacked?"

As soon as these words were spoken, Harry, the Weasley brothers and Ron all looked at Mr. Weasley lying on the hospital bed.

Apparently, Mr. Weasley had not mentioned anything to them on the subject before.

Mr. Weasley was silent for a long time, and finally said slowly:
"Well, let me tell you. I was sleeping, and suddenly a giant python attacked me. To be honest, I thought I was dead because my wand fell to the ground and I couldn't pick it up. But at that time, a very tall man appeared! He rushed over and cut off the snake's head with a long sword that reflected light! In the end, he even gave me some simple treatment!"

Everyone in the ward looked at each other, surprise written all over their faces.

"But...but, we didn't find the body of the giant python at the scene."

Sirius murmured, and Mr. Weasley shook his head.
"I don't know because I passed out very quickly. Maybe that man took away his snake body. After all, it was his trophy."

"But," Harry asked eagerly, "why were you there then? What were you guarding?"

Mr. Weasley paused, his lips trembling slightly, and finally said:
"Oh! I think... I think... Hey! Have you read the Daily Prophet a few days ago? I heard that Dumbledore has returned to school. This is really good news, isn't it?"

Mr. Weasley's crude attempt to change the subject did not receive any response from anyone, and an awkward atmosphere suddenly filled the ward.

But everyone could see that Mr. Weasley didn't want to discuss this topic any further, so no one asked any more questions.

However, Harry's face did not look good, and it seemed that he was still bothered by this issue.

Mike chatted with several people in the ward for a while, and it was not until nearly noon that he returned to Hogwarts alone - the Weasley brothers decided to stay in the hospital to take care of their old father, but Mike strongly suspected that they just wanted to escape Umbridge's confinement punishment.

Half an hour later, in the restaurant of the Masonic Secret Realm, Arthur was fighting with a large table of delicious food piled in front of him.

His fighting posture was extremely rough. With a steak in his left hand and a roasted chicken in his right hand, he looked like he didn't care at all whether food residues would fall on his exquisite combat uniform.

Opposite him was Mike, who was elegant and tasting the red wine in his hand.

Faced with Arthur's wild table manners, Mike not only did not have the slightest dissatisfaction, on the contrary, he even looked at Arthur with a hint of approval.

After all, Mike in his previous life was also born into a poor family, and at the beginning, his eating manners were not much more refined than Arthur's.

What's more, Arthur completed the task he was assigned perfectly, which is the most important thing.

Because the death of Nagini means that the most difficult-to-touch Horcrux around Voldemort has been destroyed. Now Voldemort only has three Horcruxes left - Harry Potter, Slytherin's pendant box and the Resurrection Stone ring.

Among them, Harry Potter and the Resurrection Stone Ring are Horcruxes that absolutely cannot be destroyed at this stage. The destruction of the former will make Voldemort and Dumbledore crazy, and the latter is a weapon that Michael specifically uses to deal with Dumbledore.

As for the Slytherin locket, Mike didn't think it was a difficult thing. Although there was still no news about it, Mike believed that as long as he continued to invest resources to find it, it would appear on his desk one day.

Another hour passed, and Arthur finally burped and stopped swallowing.

At this moment, the food that was originally piled high in front of him had become a mess, with only a pile of bones and some soup left.

"How is it?" Mike asked with a smile, "Are you satisfied with Shuke's craftsmanship?"

"This is really great, Shuke, you are simply the best chef I have ever seen!"

Hearing this, Shuke, who was standing by the dining table ready to serve Mike and Arthur at any time, smiled and his big ears stood up.

"Oh! By the way, Mike! I also brought you a gift!"

As he spoke, Arthur first returned the holy sword to Mike, then took out a small cloth bag from his bag and handed it to Mike with a smile.

"This is?"

A look of surprise appeared on Mike's face, because after opening the cloth bag, he found a huge sharp tooth that was ten centimeters long lying quietly inside.

Judging from the hollow hole at the tip of the tooth and the foul smell, this should be a poisonous fang of a snake!
"To be honest, that python is pretty good, especially its scales. They would be great for making armor." Arthur's face was filled with regret. "It's a pity that the python's owner seemed to have cast some self-destructive spell on it. When I killed it with my holy sword, it turned directly into ashes, leaving only some fangs!"

"Maybe you should keep it for yourself. I remember you have a string of animal tooth pendants specifically for collecting trophies, right?"

"Are you talking about this?" Arthur took out a necklace full of various animal teeth from his collar. The huge snake tooth on it was very conspicuous. "My share has already been put away, so you can take it with peace of mind!"

(End of this chapter)