Hogwarts Raven's Claw

Chapter 446 Results
With everyone's concerted efforts, a sumptuous lunch was placed on the long table.

As Mike had guessed before, Mrs. Weasley did kill three chickens for Harry's birthday.

From this point, it can be seen that Mrs. Weasley really raises Harry as her own son.

Just when everyone had set up their tableware, George finally came back.

Also returning with him were Sirius Black, the Lupins, Fred, and a heavyweight - Dumbledore.

Everyone was stunned when they saw Dumbledore, including Harry himself. No one expected that Dumbledore would come in person.

Then, everyone stood up and greeted Dumbledore, and Dumbledore smiled and waved his hand, motioning everyone to sit down.

Harry, Mike and the others naturally sat down obediently, while Black, George Fred and the others didn't care at all. They smiled and walked past Dumbledore and went straight to their seats and sat down.

Sirius was dressed as flamboyantly today as usual, and the suit embroidered with intricate patterns made Mike's eyes dazzled.

But he obviously didn't care about that, since he entered the room, he only had eyes for Harry.

"Oh! Harry, why do you look so thin? Haven't you eaten well these days?"

Sirius sat next to Harry and spoke nervously, while Harry was confused. He had been well fed and well cared for in the past few days at the Weasleys' house, but instead of losing weight he gained some weight. He didn't know how Black could tell that he had lost weight.

Harry opened his mouth and wanted to say something in defense, but before he could say anything, Black stuffed a huge long gift box into his arms.

"This is a gift from me to you, open it and have a look!"

Blake said with his eyes shining.

Seeing Black's expectant look, Harry couldn't refuse and opened the gift box directly.

Lying quietly inside was a broom with a purple silk ribbon tied to it and a strange badge painted on it.

"Oh my god! This is the custom Firebolt for the Irish Quidditch team!"

Looking at Harry's wide-eyed look of surprise, Black on the side laughed out loud.

At this time, Lupin placed a huge gift box on the long table and opened it.

Inside was a beautiful three-layer cake. On the snow-white cake were circles of strawberries, and on the top of the cake were written with bright red jam - Happy 16th Birthday, Harry Potter.

"This is made by Tonks herself." Lupin said proudly, "I can guarantee that this will be the most delicious cake you have ever eaten in your life!"

Tonks, who was standing by, blushed when she heard this. She shyly hid in Lupin's arms, her fingers still poking Lupin's waist.

Lupin, on the other hand, had a look of happiness on his face.

Harry, Mike and the other three were all a little confused when they saw this. In the end, Harry could only politely say thank you. However, Lupin, who was being intimate with Tonks, didn't seem to hear it.

On the other hand, it was different for Mr. and Mrs. Weasley. They obviously valued Dumbledore more. Mr. Weasley, who was originally sitting in the first seat, immediately stood up when he saw Dumbledore coming, wanting to give his seat to Dumbledore.

Dumbledore naturally refused to do so. How could a guest visit the host's home and then take the seat of honor? This behavior of taking the place of host was extremely rude!

Mr. Weasley couldn't persuade Dumbledore, so Dumbledore finally chose to sit next to Mike.

"We meet again, Mike."

Dumbledore greeted Mike with a smile.

The latter raised his eyebrows and whispered:
"I'm curious why you're here."

"What's so strange about that? Harry sent me an invitation, so I came."

"You know that's not what I meant! I mean, shouldn't you be busy investigating the locket and Voldemort right now?"

"Oh, my Mike. These things are not urgent. The most urgent thing now should be that Hogwarts is about to start, and you should put the focus of your life back on studying. You can leave other things to us adults."

Dumbledore spoke earnestly, and it was obvious that he really hoped that Mike could treat life the same way he said.

Unfortunately, Mike doesn't think so.

He will not be able to rest in peace until Voldemort is eliminated.

Mike was planning to argue with Dumbledore for a few more words, but Mr. Weasley, who was sitting in the first seat, suddenly started coughing.

Everyone who was originally chatting turned their heads to look, and saw that Mr. Weasley looked extremely nervous. His whole body was tense and his face was flushed. It was obvious that the feeling of sitting in the main seat gave him a lot of pressure, especially when Dumbledore was sitting below him.

"Well, I think it's time we get started." Mr. Weasley said uncertainly, "What do you think?"

"Oh! Of course, we should start, after all, all the guests are here!" Mrs. Weasley, who was still chatting with Tonks, finally reacted and quickly stood up and said, "But before we start, we must first offer our blessings to our protagonist today. How about we all sing the birthday song together?"

Mrs. Weasley's proposal was unanimously agreed by everyone, and then, in a jubilant atmosphere, everyone sang the familiar birthday song.

Under everyone's gaze, Harry made a wish with red eyes, and then blew out the candles.

What followed was a burst of booing and the sharing of the cake.

Mike participated in it with a smile on his face, and he even took the initiative to take on the task of cutting the cake.

But in fact he felt very bored.

It can be seen that the Weasleys put a lot of thought into this birthday party. In order to give Harry an authentic Muggle birthday, they even took the initiative to learn about Muggle customs.

But to Mike, this was too boring and had no novelty at all.

However, Harry was very moved when faced with such a fixed birthday party routine.

Mike guessed it was because he had never had a proper birthday.

Finally, the banquet returned to its original atmosphere, and Mr. Weasley, who was sitting at the head seat, also recovered a lot. At this moment, he started talking about interesting things at work again. Mike listened to some of it, and it was generally no different from what he said in the morning conversation.

Such a boring conversation was bound to go nowhere, so with the presence of the children, the topic naturally continued to the OWLS exam that had just ended not long ago.

Despite the impact of Voldemort's comeback, the OWLS test results were successfully distributed to every student not long ago. As soon as this topic was discussed, Hermione became the focus of the scene without any surprise. There was nothing she could do about it, because her OWLS test results were almost explosive. Except for the Defense Against the Dark Arts class, where she got a good grade, she got excellent full marks in all other subjects.

To paraphrase Dumbledore, this is no easy task.

Hermione herself lowered her head shyly when faced with everyone's praise.

Mike knew very well that Hermione must be very ashamed now.

Because her goal from the beginning was to get full marks, only in this way could she become one of the top students in Hogwarts. Unfortunately, since their Defense Against the Dark Arts professor at the time was Wumulich, Hermione didn't study hard at all, which resulted in only good grades in the Defense Against the Dark Arts class.

But such results were already horrible in the eyes of Harry and Ron. After all, Harry only got an excellent in one Defense Against the Dark Arts class, and almost all other subjects were passed, even History of Magic!

Ron's situation was even more exaggerated. He didn't have any excellent grades and failed Divination and History of Magic.

His results made Mrs. Weasley very dissatisfied. She frowned and looked at Ron, saying unhappily:

"You should learn more from Hermione, otherwise you won't even be able to support yourself after graduation!"

After saying that, Mrs. Weasley and Mr. Weasley looked at each other, and then they both sighed at the same time.

George and Fred on the side were laughing with glee.

Ron's face flushed red, and he muttered in dissatisfaction:

"I don't understand! I passed seven subjects, which is more than George and Fred combined!"

As soon as these words were spoken, George and Fred's laughter stopped abruptly, and Mrs. Weasley hit Ron on the head without any hesitation.

"George and Fred can now open stores in France, can you do it? If not, then study hard and try to find a stable job after graduation!"

Faced with his mother's different treatment, Ron felt aggrieved and almost cried, while his little sister Ginny quietly came to her brother and secretly comforted him.

"What a good child." Dumbledore looked at Ginny with a smile, but then he turned his head and looked at Mike as if he suddenly remembered something and said, "By the way, Mike. How are your grades?"

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone at the table turned their attention to him.

Obviously everyone is very curious about what kind of results Mike, currently the strongest student in Hogwarts, can get.

However, Mike, who was being stared at by everyone, looked a little embarrassed because he had never received his transcript.

It's not that the Ministry of Magic missed Mike when distributing the transcripts, but because the Masonic secret realm where Mike currently lives cannot be detected by the Ministry of Magic at all, so the owl can only mail the transcript to Townley Villa in Godric's Hollow.

"Um, wait a minute." Mike hesitated for a moment, then snapped his fingers in the air.

"Master, do you have any orders?"

Shuke, wearing a swallowtail butler suit, appeared out of nowhere and bowed to Mike.

"Shuke, have you seen my OWLS transcript?"

"Yes, Master, I have put it away for you. Here you go."

Mike took the report card handed over by Shuke and opened it calmly, and the people around him gathered around at the same time.

The report card clearly stated in magical anti-erasure ink,

Mike Townley's results are as follows:
Astronomy-E (Good)
Charms - O (Excellent)

Defense Against the Dark Arts - O (Excellent)

Herbology-O (Excellent)

History of Magic-E (Good)
Ancient Magic Literature-O (Excellent)

Muggle Studies - A (pass)
Transfiguration-O (Excellent)

Potions - O (Excellent)

There were nine subjects in total. I did poorly in Astronomy and History of Magic, both of which I got E.

Mike was quite satisfied with this. After all, Mike felt that the two courses of Astronomy and History of Magic had no effect on his strength, so he never studied them seriously at all, so getting an E was already very good.

As for Muggle Studies, which he had just passed, Mike had only attended a few classes, and even if he did, he would not listen seriously.

Mike originally thought that he was going to fail this course. After all, Muggle studies in the wizarding world was so weird. Mike just filled in the test paper when he took the exam.

It is estimated that the reason why he was able to pass the exam now was entirely because the Muggle Studies professor gave him face because he had driven Umbridge away and had a high status in the school.

There is nothing much to say about the rest of the courses. As expected for Mike, all of them were O (excellent).

But one of them is worth mentioning is Potions. Mike originally planned to give up this tedious course. After all, there was already a quasi-potions master Benjamin in the Freemasonry. But Snape gave Mike a very stern warning, saying that since Mike took his textbook from that year, Potions would not allow any grades below O level, otherwise he would be skinned alive.

At first, Mike didn't take it seriously. After all, he wasn't very afraid of Snape.

It's just that Snape's tone and expression at the time were very terrifying. Mike felt that if he didn't agree, Snape would probably do something extreme, so he went to find Benjamin to do a pre-exam cram session, and now it seems the effect is very good.

"Wow! Mike, you did really well on this test!"

Harry's eyes sparkled when he saw Mike's report card.

Especially the big O written behind Potions on the transcript made him particularly envious.

Harry's dream was to become an Auror, there was no doubt about that. However, Professor McGonagall had clearly pointed out during the previous employment consultation that if he wanted to become an Auror, he had to achieve an O grade in Potions in the OWLS exam, because Snape was only willing to provide NWET-level courses to students who had achieved an O grade in OWLS Potions, and the most basic requirement for becoming an Auror was at least five NWET good certificates, Potions being one of them.

Unfortunately, Harry only got an E in Potions this time, which meant that he had lost the qualification to become an Auror.

Thinking of this, Harry's expression suddenly became lost, and his originally bright eyes dimmed.

But at this moment, Mike's words rekindled Harry's hope!
(End of this chapter)