Hogwarts Raven's Claw

Chapter 469: Getting Worse (8K8K)

Late at night, Filch held Mrs. Norris in his arms and lay on the hard bed in the office.

In the past, he patrolled Hogwarts at this time, specifically catching students who wandered at night. He called it hunting, and he enjoyed it.

But today was different. He received a notice that Dumbledore asked him not to patrol today, saying that it was for his own safety.

Filch simply disdained this. He, Filch, who had been a key keeper at Hogwarts all his life, would be afraid of those students who wandered around at night? This was simply a huge joke!
So, Filch went out on patrol as usual, but not long after he stepped out of the office door, he retreated back as if he was escaping!
"They must be crazy! They are not afraid of me at all and they even cast spells at me!" Filch said to Mrs. Norris nervously, "We won't patrol tonight. There are too many of them. It's too dangerous!"

As he spoke, Filch retracted his exposed feet back into the quilt.

What happened today really scared him, and it also made him realize once again that he was just a dud. In front of those talented students, he was just a waste!

At the same time, Hogwarts was very lively, with countless students wandering around the castle with their wands held high.

They were so unscrupulous, but it was not their fault, because the old man Filch had been scared back into his office by them, and the other professors did not come out to arrest them for some reason, which meant that they would at least have a whole night to look for the assassin!

However, such a search actually does not make much sense. The possibility of them finding the assassin is very low, and they themselves are well aware of this, so the nature of this collective night tour began to change.

Night tours were too exciting for most of them, and they wandered around Hogwarts without restraint. The portraits on the walls naturally criticized their behavior.

Then, the portraits were in trouble. The students, who were in high spirits, directly scratched their frames!
The same thing happened in many places. Smiley faces were painted on the armor in the castle, and graffiti was painted on the stone walls...

In the corridor on the eighth floor of Hogwarts, twelve students with sad faces slowly walked out of the Room of Requirement. They walked towards their respective lounges in a daze. Except for two people who returned to Hufflepuff and Gryffindor respectively, the remaining ten people were walking towards Slytherin. Behind them, followed Franklin and dozens of black-robed wizards.

Zhou Hong's words of being targeted gave Franklin a lot of inspiration, so he directed his attack at Slytherin House.

This is not surprising at all. If you were to ask who in the entire Hogwarts is most likely to want to kill Mike, it would definitely be someone from Slytherin. At the same time, the possibility that those pure-blood nobles are hiding powerful black magic props is also very high. So Franklin decided to go all out and directly raid the Slytherin lounge tonight!
They walked towards Slytherin in a mighty manner. As expected, they were discovered by the students wandering in the castle. Those students quietly followed Franklin and others. They were all very curious about what Franklin and others wanted to do. After all, Franklin was the one who posted the notice.

Franklin was also happy about this. He even wished there were more people following them, because it would be more difficult for Dumbledore to punish them later. After all, the law does not punish the masses!

And with his deliberate connivance, those who followed Franklin began to become more and more arrogant. Some of them even sneaked into the mutual aid team and discussed today's events with the team members while chatting and laughing.

By the time everyone arrived at the Slytherin gate, the number of people in the team had reached an astonishing one hundred people!
Such a large number of people naturally alarmed the ghost of Slytherin, and the Bloody Baron slowly appeared, blocking the way for everyone.

"Go all back!"

The Bloody Barrow said coldly.

His face was grim and his tone was deep. The silver blood on his dress chest was still glowing strangely under the magic fluorescent light.

Franklin's team stopped. There was almost no one in the entire Hogwarts who was not afraid of the Bloody Baron. This ghost was simply a terror to all ghosts!

Everyone looked at Franklin at the same time, as he was the organizer of this action.

"Oh! If you tell us to go back, we'll go back. Wouldn't that make me lose face?"

Franklin said arrogantly, and the magic wand appeared in his hand without him noticing.

"Everyone, go back!" Bloody Baron raised a bloodstained axe and said, "I don't want to repeat this for the third time!"

"Really... Expecto Patronus!"

As Franklin shouted, a holy white light suddenly lit up from the tip of his staff.

This ray of white light was like a streak of silk, almost thick enough to be tangible, and it hit Bloody Baron in an instant!
"Ha! Such a trivial trick!"

The Bloody Baron smiled grimly. As a ghost, the Patronus Charm could indeed expel him. However, Franklin's Patronus Charm, which did not even form a physical patronus, was obviously not strong enough. He simply shook his body and ignored the white light.

But this is just the beginning!
Just as the Bloody Baron raised the axe in his hand to teach the other party a lesson, dozens of mutual aid society members behind Franklin raised their wands at him!

"Call the gods to protect you!"

Accompanied by a burst of shouting, dozens of white lights rose from around the crowd.

Although these lights were very weak, so many lights gathered together to form a dazzling holy light, which pierced straight into Barrow's chest!

The students following Franklin and others couldn't help but close their eyes, but the dazzling white light still stimulated them to tears.

But when they opened their eyes, the Bloody Barrow who had been standing in front of them had disappeared!

The Bloody Baron is defeated!
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At the same time, the lights in the Slytherin common room were on, and Malfoy was sitting on the sofa in front of the fireplace.

His legs were shaking rapidly, his breathing was rapid, and he looked extremely anxious.

He couldn't help but be anxious!

He was not present when Franklin and his men took action today, but their actions still scared him.

You know, Malfoy has never forgotten the task assigned to him by Voldemort, and has been working hard for it, and has even made some key progress. If Franklin and others suddenly jump out and make some big moves at this time, it is very likely to affect his next plan.

Just when Malfoy was sinking into anxiety and unable to extricate himself, a dozen Slytherin students gathered behind him.

These people are all Slytherin prefects from different grades. They gathered here to discuss rescuing the Slytherin students who were kidnapped by Franklin.

As the only son of the Malfoy family, the richest family in the British wizarding world today, and Draco, who is very likely to have established connections with Voldemort, naturally became the leader of these people.

However, Draco as a leader was obviously unreliable. The meeting had been going on for nearly three hours, but he just sat there without saying a word, which made everyone else very dissatisfied.

Finally, a seventh-grade female class leader couldn't help it. She stood up from her seat, looked around, and said in a sarcastic tone:
"Oh! Is this the backbone of you boys? You dare not do anything when your classmate is arrested, and just sit here and argue endlessly?" As soon as these words were spoken, several male class leaders immediately cast angry glances at her.

Of course, they also wanted to go directly to the door to rescue their classmates, but unfortunately, they were afraid of Mike's revenge afterwards.

You have to know that judging from the current situation, Mike is very likely to have gone crazy, and it is unwise to provoke him in this situation.

The girl was obviously aware of this, and she couldn't help feeling a little sad.

This is the well-known weakness of the Slytherins today. To put it nicely, it is called assessing the situation. To put it bluntly, it is called bullying the weak and fearing the strong, and being a fence-sitter!

She took a deep breath, looked at Draco who had remained silent, and said through gritted teeth:

"If Chris were still here, he would never allow this to happen!"

Draco's eyebrows twitched. He had noticed that after the other party said that, everyone's eyes were focused on him. If he continued to remain silent, his status as leader might be taken away.

Slytherins will not obey a weakling!

But he didn't dare to confront Franklin and the others head-on, so he took a deep breath and prepared to say something to appease everyone.

But at this moment, the door of Slytherin was opened!
Everyone in the lounge instinctively looked over there and saw the kidnapped Slytherin students walking in from the door with a dazed look on their faces.

Draco was ecstatic upon seeing this, but the smile on his face froze as soon as it appeared, because there were densely packed figures standing behind those Slytherins, and the leader, Franklin, was rubbing his wand and smiling at him.

Almost instinctively, all the Slatterys in the lounge jumped up from their seats, drew their wands and pointed them at the newcomer.

But it was too late. Before they could recite the spell, several blood-red lights flashed from behind Franklin and accurately knocked the wands in their hands away!
The Slytherins looked pale as death. The number of the enemies was almost too numerous to count. In this situation, they were probably helpless.

"Good evening, ladies and gentlemen."

Franklin moved closer to the Slytherins step by step, waving his wand, and every time he took a step forward, Draco and the others would instinctively take a step back.

"Later, we will give everyone a physical examination. Please cooperate with us, otherwise..."

As Franklin spoke, he swung his wand and a red light shot out, smashing a piece of porcelain in the window into pieces.

Franklin looked very proud of himself. This was the silent spell version of Expelliarmus that he had just learned recently, and he could now cast it at will.

Draco's face turned even darker. The porcelain he had just seen was an antique from the East, worth hundreds of gold Galleons!

But he was obviously not stupid enough to tell this to Franklin's face, because all the Slytherins around him had already raised their hands in surrender.

Seeing this, Draco sighed and raised his hands high.

Immediately afterwards, a disaster began. Under Franklin's command, the Slytherins who were sleeping soundly in the dormitory were pulled out of their beds one by one and gathered in the lounge.

Afterwards, Zhou Hong stepped forward and used his abilities on them one by one. This time, since there were fewer people, he increased the intensity of his use of abilities. If anyone among these people had really assassinated Mike or was preparing to assassinate Mike, then he would definitely not be able to escape!

Draco was in the crowd, looking at the students who were forced to look Zhou Hong in the eye one by one, and he was almost in despair.

He had some understanding of Zhou Hong's abilities, and he knew that if he didn't take some measures, he would be exposed!
However, in the current situation, do I really have any room to resist?
Draco looked at the crowded Slytherin common room in front of him and thought so desperately.

On the other side, Zhou Hong didn't think so much. With the help of the mutual aid members, he moved quickly and soon eliminated nearly half of the Slytherin students.

Logically speaking, those who had been checked by Zhou Hong could basically be ruled out as suspects, but those who followed Franklin to the Slytherin lounge didn't think so.

Anyone who has been investigated by Zhou Hong will be arrested and interrogated again!
This was a matter of life and death for these Slytherins. Zhou Hong's investigation was relatively gentle, just asking a few questions and looking at each other for a few seconds, but the people in front of them were different. They seemed to be simply seeking revenge on these usually arrogant Slytherins, and they came up with all kinds of weird tricks.

Like pouring caterpillars into the pajamas of female Slytherins, putting snakes in the pants of male Slytherins, and conjuring goats to lick the soles of the feet of those Slytherins...

For a moment, the entire Slytherin Lounge was in chaos, with cries, screams and laughter mixed together. The huge noise even attracted many mermaids in the Black Lagoon to lie on the glass ceiling on the top floor of the Slytherin Lounge to watch!
Franklin ignored all of this. He had only one mission, which was to find the assassin, so his attention was always focused on Zhou Hong.

And Zhou Hong obviously did not disappoint Franklin. After a period of chaos, Zhou Hong finally came to Draco.

Two tall and strong members of the mutual aid society controlled Draco on each side and forcibly pried open his eyelids so that he and Zhou Hong could look each other in the eye.

"Did you stab Mike?"

Zhou Hong asked directly, and Draco answered reflexively:

"No! Absolutely not!"

Zhou Hong nodded and continued to ask:

"Do you want to kill Mike?"

As soon as these words were spoken, the expression on Draco's face froze, but at the same time, a smile appeared on Zhou Hong's face.

He no longer needed Draco to answer, because the other party's inner thoughts just now had already told him the answer.

He turned his head to look at Franklin and said with a smile:

"Catch him."

Chapter 462 and Chapter 461 were mixed up, but the content has been replaced and does not affect reading. As for the chapter name issue, we are contacting the editor to replace it.

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