Hogwarts Raven's Claw

Chapter 69 Dinner Party
Before Percy sat down, George and Fred made room for him between them and motioned for Percy to sit between them. George even handed Percy a biscuit.

Percy was so embarrassed that he just wanted to find a hole to hide in. Seeing his two brothers making room for him, he thought his brothers were more reliable, so he sat down without thinking, and did not refuse the biscuits George handed him, stuffing them into his mouth. He had been soaking in the Black Lake for a long time and was already hungry.

Percy apparently forgot that his two brothers also had a famous title, "King of Pranks".

As soon as Percy ate the ordinary-looking cookie, orange flames began to appear all over his body. Percy was horrified to find that he was on fire, and began to beat the flames desperately.

However, those flames were just like the fierce fire in the legend, which could not be extinguished at all.

In a hurry, Percy didn't care about whether he was embarrassed or not, he just lay on the ground and started rolling back and forth, hoping to put out the fire. The surrounding wizards cried out in surprise, but the Weasley brothers looked at Percy's miserable appearance and didn't help him, they just laughed there.

After rolling on the ground for a while, Percy discovered something unusual. Although the flames looked scary, he did not feel burned by the flames, and even his clothes did not catch fire. On the contrary, he felt warm and comfortable. The coolness brought by being soaked in the cold water of the Black Lake and being blown by the cold wind for a while was also driven away by the flames.

He struggled to get up from the floor, and seeing George and Fred looking like they were about to die of laughter, he was immediately furious and opened his mouth to say something, but the expected curse did not come out, instead, a stream of fire and black smoke spewed out of Percy's throat.

The little wizards around now knew that this was just another prank by the Weasley brothers. They laughed at Percy, who had a ferocious expression and was breathing fire.

Mike saw the whole scene there, and he couldn't help but sneer when he saw Percy looking so angry.

There are seven brothers and sisters in the Weasley family. Apart from Ron, who is a hopeless person, Percy is the most useless.

Just talking about the incident just now, if it was George or Fred who fell into the Black Lake, they would definitely regard the laughter in the auditorium as a compliment rather than a mockery, and would even brag to others about their experience of falling into the Black Lake and fighting the monsters in it.

This approach is much better than being a coward like Percy.

Leaving aside other houses, many people in Gryffindor would definitely want to try the feeling of close contact with the Black Lagoon Monster.

Professor McGonagall, who had previously returned to the outside of the auditorium to reorganize the order for the freshmen, returned to the auditorium again. The noisy environment in the auditorium made Professor McGonagall very angry. She yelled at all the old students again, which made this group of excited students quiet down again.

Professor McGonagall nodded slightly as she watched everyone calm down again, and walked to the Sorting Hat in the middle of the auditorium. She coughed lightly, waved her wand, and the door of the auditorium opened automatically.

The freshmen outside the gate lined up in an orderly manner and walked into the auditorium tremblingly under the gaze of all the senior students and professors.

They also heard the laughter in the auditorium before, and looked at everyone in the auditorium curiously, but found that the atmosphere in the auditorium was quite serious, and they couldn't help but become nervous again.

When all the freshmen entered the auditorium, the Sorting Hat in the center of the auditorium sang the Sorting Song that it had spent a whole year preparing. After the song was over, everyone in the auditorium responded with the most enthusiastic applause. Mike was drowsy listening to the song. He really couldn't understand the aesthetics of the wizarding world for music. In his opinion, the Sorting Hat's singing level was not even as good as the rap of Cai in his previous life.

The Sorting Ceremony was nothing special. After the Sorting Hat looked into the little wizards' brains, they were sorted into their respective houses. Mike suspected that the Sorting Hat was originally designed to identify dark wizards who wanted to sneak into Hogwarts.

Every time a freshman is assigned, there will be a burst of warm cheers in the college he is assigned to. Mike was treated the same way in his first year. He felt a little flattered at first, but later he realized that this was just a routine operation.

A freshman girl with long light blonde hair caught Mike's attention.

It’s not that this girl is particularly beautiful, but her temperament is completely different from the freshmen next to her.

A pair of huge carrot earrings appeared and disappeared in her light golden hair as she walked, and she also wore a necklace made of butter beer bottle caps around her neck. The most eye-catching thing was her silver-gray eyes. Other freshmen either looked erratic and nervous, or looked around curiously, but her eyes were calm, as if everything in front of her had nothing to do with her.

"Are you attracted to her already?" Penelope noticed Mike's actions and poked him with her arm.

"Why, are you jealous?" Mike replied calmly, "That's Luna Lovegood. Her family and the Weasleys are neighbors. I met her once during the summer vacation. Oh, by the way. It seems that her father is also the editor-in-chief of The Quibbler."

Penelope looked at Mike doubtfully for a few seconds and didn't ask any more questions.

The sorting ceremony for the freshmen was soon over. Before the banquet began, Dumbledore solemnly introduced this year's new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor, Lockhart, to everyone.

Lockhart was wearing a pink suit today, with his hair slicked back, looking very sexy.

When he heard Dumbledore introduce him, he stood up from the teachers' seat, showed his signature smile to the people in the audience, and bowed slightly.

His appearance reignited the atmosphere in the auditorium, and the witches in the auditorium cheered him with the greatest enthusiasm. An unknown senior student not far from Mike fainted from excitement, and was now being held in the arms of a boy next to him, pinching his Ren Zhong. Seeing the boy's delighted face, Mike guessed that he must have taken advantage of the senior student.

Mike also noticed that even the librarian, Madam Pince, had her arms folded across her chest as if her heart was beating too fast and she was about to faint, while Filch looked at Lockhart with a hostile expression.

When everyone finally quieted down, Dumbledore announced the official start of the dinner.

Following his order, a large amount of exquisite food suddenly appeared on the empty long table. Except for a few crazy people who were still looking at Lockhart, everyone started to eat.

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