Hogwarts Raven's Claw

Chapter 460 One Week

Mike ignored Franklin and walked straight towards the Ravenclaw common room.

He was lucky enough not to be put in detention for doing such an outrageous thing in the Defense Against the Dark Arts class just now, so he just wanted to leave the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom as soon as possible in case Snape suddenly remembered this matter.

However, when he arrived at the door of the Ravenclaw common room, he found that Harry and the other two were already waiting there.

"Mike!"*3
"What's up, everyone?"

Harry and the others looked at each other, and finally Hermione gritted her teeth and stood up and said:
"Here's the thing, Mike. Where did the Advanced Potion Making book you gave Harry come from? Why are all the potion recipes on it modified?"

After that, before Mike could reply, Ron asked again:

"Oh! The key point is, are the above formulas really better than those taught by Professor Slughorn at the beginning?"

As soon as Hermione said this, she rolled her eyes at Ron, but Ron didn't care at all. At this moment, he was staring with wide eyes waiting for Mike's answer.

"First of all, I want to say..." Mike said with a smile, "Ron, you guessed it right, the modified formula in the book 'Advanced Potion Making' is indeed better and more convenient than the original formula in the textbook!"

Hearing this, Ron and Harry's faces suddenly broke into brilliant smiles, and then they hugged each other and cheered.

Mike understood their feelings very well. This 'Notebook of the Half-Blood Prince' was a precious treasure to anyone, let alone poor students like Harry and Ron.

Hermione on the side looked unhappy when she heard this. She crossed her arms over her chest and stared at Mike angrily, as if she was blaming Mike for giving the book to Harry.

"Don't look at me like that, Hermione." Mike spread his hands and said, "I'm doing this for your own good. This is a good book. Besides, although I gave it to Harry, you can look through it with each other, right? This will be good for both of you."

"That's right! You're absolutely right!"

Ron said excitedly before Hermione could reply.

Hermione glared at Ron again, then said to Mike:

"You haven't told us where this book came from?"

"I'm sorry that I can't tell you the origin of this book, but you should have noticed the signature on the book, right? Half-Blood Prince."

Everyone nodded.

"What I can tell you is that you all know this half-blood prince, and he is an old acquaintance of yours."

Mike said with a smirk on his face.

Now even Hermione showed a curious look on her face. She frowned and thought for a while before saying:
"You used 'he', which means the original owner of this book was a boy."

"Come on! Hermione!" Harry rolled his eyes and said, "He calls himself the 'Half-Blood Prince', how could he be a girl? I would say he must be a half-blood boy."

Hermione smiled awkwardly.

"If I were to guess, since the Half-Blood Prince was able to come up with so many improved formulas when he was a student, he must have an outstanding talent in potions. So he should be a big shot now! This is easy to guess. After all, we don't know many people with outstanding potion talents."

"Are you talking about Dumbledore?"

"Dumbledore was very good at Potions as a student?"

"Well, I don't know either, but I really can't think of anyone else. After all, it can't be Snape, right?"

"Thanks for your joke. I laughed."

……

Hermione and Harry had a heated discussion about the identity of the Half-Blood Prince, but Ron looked indifferent. He didn't care who the original owner of the book was. The main thing was that the book could help him cheat in class, so it was a good book!
"By the way, everyone, maybe you should study the contents of this book carefully. In addition to the potion formulas, there are some more useful things worth learning."

Ron's eyes suddenly lit up, and he stared at Harry, as if he couldn't wait to go back and start studying.

Unfortunately, Harry didn't think so. He glanced at Hermione who was still sulking and said to Mike:
"Mike, you guys just went to the Defense Against the Dark Arts class, right?"

Hermione also reacted after hearing this. She widened her eyes and asked curiously:
"By the way, when we passed the entrance hall earlier, we noticed that there were many fewer gems in the Ravenclaw's house score hourglass. It was almost empty. What's going on? Did Snape deduct points from you too?"

"Oh, you guessed it right, Snape did it. He deducted 20 points from Franklin and gave him detention. It was on Saturday."

"That's not right. The number of points missing from Ravenclaw's hourglass is much more than 20."

"That's more than that." Mike spread his hands and said, "He also deducted 50 points from me just because I embarrassed him in class."

"This is not good!" Hermione frowned and said, "You have already been deducted 70 points at the beginning of the school year. You must do your best in this year's house cup."

Mike shrugged and didn't answer.

He was now completely indifferent to things like the House Cup. In fact, if Hermione hadn't mentioned it, he would have almost forgotten about it.

Ron and Harry were very excited. They were very interested in Snape's embarrassment and wanted to hear Mike talk about the details of the situation.

Unfortunately, Mike didn't want to do this. In his opinion, it was nothing to be proud of.

"I was also given detention by Snape! Just because he wanted to cast a curse on me in class, and I happened to block it with my armor!" Harry said happily, "But I didn't have to really be given detention because I had to go to Dumbledore on Saturday night."

Mike's eyebrows raised when he heard this. He was very sensitive and grasped the key point of Harry's words. He asked softly:
"Did Dumbledore tell you what he wanted to do?"

"Well, he didn't say anything in the letter he wrote to me, but I guess it's about teaching me Occlumency." Harry said hesitantly, "After all, he already started teaching me some spells during the summer vacation, and he mentioned this to me." Hearing this, Hermione and Ron both looked at Harry with envy. In their opinion, being personally taught by a legendary wizard like Dumbledore was simply a supreme honor, while Mike lowered his head and fell into deep thought.

The fact that Dumbledore chose to teach Harry personally just shows that he doesn't have much time left, and his current strength may have declined to a rather exaggerated level, so he is so anxious.

However, compared with the original book, Dumbledore's situation should be relatively good. After all, in this world, Dumbledore did not have to fight against other traps set by Voldemort, such as the terrifying Cave of the Inferi, in order to destroy the Horcruxes.

Without these hardships, Dumbledore's current physical condition should be enough for him to fight.

Of course, it is estimated that there will only be one battle. After all, excessive use of spells will make his injuries worse.

Thinking of this, Mike no longer had the heart to continue chatting with Harry and the others.

After saying goodbye to Harry and the others, Mike hurried back to the Masonic secret realm and participated in the work of Freemasonry.

Before the next action begins, he must concentrate all the current Freemasonry power into the Masonic secret realm. Only in this way can his plan proceed smoothly.

……

Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, a week has passed since the start of school.

During this week, although the Death Eaters outside were still causing trouble and the situation was even getting worse, there was peace inside Hogwarts.

I don’t know whether it was because Dumbledore’s Order of the Phoenix and the Ministry of Magic were too powerful, or because Voldemort consciously avoided Hogwarts, but in any case, the students’ lives were not affected in any way.

If it weren't for the Daily Prophet reporting news from all over the country every day, the students of Hogwarts would almost have forgotten the fact that Voldemort had come.

In this short week, Franklin also realized how outrageous his ideas were when he chose his courses.

After giving up many elective courses, he did have a lot of free time, but at the same time, the number and difficulty of homework assigned by professors increased exponentially.

At the same time, not only the Defense Against the Dark Arts class, but also Professor McGonagall's Transfiguration class and Professor Flitwick's Charms class began to require students to use silent spells in class.

This really puts everyone in a difficult position.

Nowadays, the Ravenclaw common room is full of sixth-year students sitting there with their wands in hand, not moving, their faces flushed with anxiety.

The younger wizards once thought that Slughorn, the teacher of the Potions class, had given these seniors some constipation potion. After some inquiries, they learned that these people were practicing silent spells.

All these factors combined not only made Franklin lose his so-called free time, but he even had to squeeze out some time from his meal and rest time to practice silent spells, which left him with no time to participate in Quidditch training.

This was a very tragic thing for Franklin, and it also made him admire his seventh grade seniors.

Sixth grade alone is already so hard, so seventh grade must be like hell on earth!
Harry's situation is similar to Franklin's. No, it should be said that Harry's situation is even more miserable than Franklin's, because Harry is the captain of the Gryffindor Quidditch team this year, and he is also responsible for a series of team affairs, including the selection of new players and daily training.

This greatly shortened Harry's rest time and left him with dark circles under his eyes.

The one with even worse dark circles under his eyes than Harry was Hermione.

This little girl has a lot more courses than Mike and the others, which makes Hermione study almost 24 hours a day. But even so, Hermione still can't keep up with the learning progress in many subjects.

There is no way around it. Hermione is not a genius, or rather, Hermione is a genius who works hard.

Her learning efficiency is actually not very high. She used to rely entirely on diligence to make up for her lack of talent.

This approach may have been very effective in the past, but it is of no use now that the study burden has increased greatly. After all, there are only twenty-four hours in a day, and even if Hermione tries her best, she can't squeeze out the twenty-fifth hour.

Mike guessed that Hermione must miss the time twister very much. Unfortunately, all the time twisters in the whole country, including the one Professor McGonagall had lent to Hermione, were destroyed in the battle at the Ministry of Magic at the end of last semester.

What made Hermione even angrier was that Harry and Ron had achieved outstanding results in Potions class with the help of the 'Half-Blood Prince's Textbook', better than Hermione and second only to Mike.

Now Slughorn almost treated the three of them as his ancestors. Not only did he often praise their talent in Potions, he also gave them extra points at every turn. The points that Mike and Franklin had lost from Snape had already been doubled up by Slughorn.

This was something Hermione could not tolerate. In her opinion, Harry, Michael and Ron relied entirely on cheating to gain the favor of Professor Slughorn.

After all, she was the one who worked the hardest, but her efforts received no rewards. Instead, opportunists like Harry and Mike gained the upper hand.

Because of this, she almost broke up with Mike and the others.

Harry once advised Hermione to use the 'Half-Blood Prince' formula with them, but unfortunately Hermione completely ignored his advice and insisted on using her own old method.

Mike was speechless, he couldn't understand Hermione's thoughts at all. He could only blame it on Hermione's endocrine disorder due to staying up late for a long time, which led to her irritability and maybe even sexual disorder.

For this purpose, Mike even consulted Professor Slughorn about the relevant treatment steps, and told Hermione in a very subtle way through chatting and telling jokes.

As for whether Hermione would listen or not, he didn't know.

Mike had a good week, as he had already mastered the silent casting of a large number of spells. Therefore, the after-school time that seemed meaningless to others became a real rest for him.

However, he did not allow himself to be too comfortable. Whenever he had free time, he would dive into the secret realm of Freemasonry, either handling Masonic work or meditating in the meditation room.

Especially the latter, the time Mike spent on it was astonishing, because he had a hunch that as his body developed, the bottleneck that suppressed the increase of his magic power and mental power would gradually loosen.

What he needs to do now is to practice hard in order to make a breakthrough as soon as possible and take his strength to a higher level.

Therefore, although Mike has a lot of time, he still looks listless every day. Professor Flitwick has taught Mike a lot about this, but Mike still insists on his own way.

Because he doesn't have much time left, he must destroy Voldemort before Dumbledore falls completely!
(End of this chapter)