Chapter 144 Hibiscus and Christmas Gifts (Two chapters in one)

The moment he saw the girl, an inexplicable desire to get close to her rose from the bottom of Mike's heart. Relying on his strong mental power to forcibly suppress this desire, Mike quickly entered a closed brain state, which made him feel much better.

Turning his head to look around, Lucius and his wife and Uncle Mario all had clear eyes and were not affected at all. Abbott's eyes were originally distracted and he was in a state of bewitching, but the tulip-shaped brooch on his chest suddenly flashed, and Abbott returned to normal the next moment. Draco

and Chris were not so lucky. Under Pansy's unbelievable gaze, the two of them had dull eyes and were about to walk towards the girl with a silly smile.

Seeing this, Lucius forcibly pulled the two of them, and with some regret, he took out his wand and cast a sobering spell on the two of them, which made them sober.

Draco, who had returned to normal, also realized his loss of composure just now. He hid behind his father with a horrified face, and dared not look at the direction of the girl again.

Facing Draco's behavior, Lucius felt very embarrassed and pulled Draco hard a few times to make him normal. However, he didn't expect that Draco might be really frightened this time, and he hugged his father's thigh tightly and refused to let go, which made Lucius even more embarrassed.

"Ahem. I know that girl. She is the eldest daughter of the French Delacour family." Lucius coughed twice to try to ease the embarrassment. "Her grandfather married a veela as his wife, which resulted in her having a quarter of veela blood. So she also has some unique talents of veela, such as charming men."

After listening to Lucius's explanation, Michael immediately understood who the silver-haired girl was. That was Fleur, the warrior of Beauxbatons, the French magic school in the Triwizard Tournament.

Because the actors in the movie looked very different from the silver-haired girl in front of him, Michael did not recognize the warrior of Beauxbatons at the first time.

Just as Michael and the others were talking, things made new progress.

Furong did not react excessively to the freckled girl's scolding, but just looked at her coldly. The freckled girl was even more angry when she saw Furong's appearance. Perhaps she was not satisfied with just talking, so she raised her hand and wanted to hit Furong.

"Stop!"

At this moment, a handsome young man with a slicked-back hair grabbed the freckled girl's hand and slapped her in the face with his backhand.

"How dare you hit me! You hit me for this bitch!"

Facing the questioning of the freckled girl, the handsome young man did not react at all. At this moment, he was fawning around Furong, as if he wanted to get praise from Furong.

However, Furong did not give him a good look, rolled her eyes at him and ran out of the hall.

Those teenagers who were fascinated by Furong wanted to chase her, but they were stopped by their elders and the female companions around them.

"Isn't that the boy from the Belit family? It seems that he is fascinated by that half-Veela." Uncle Mario said to the slicked-back boy.

"Yeah, he just beat Latiel. It looks like the marriage between the two families is going to fail this time." Narcissa agreed.

After saying that, she seemed to have thought of something, and warned Mike and several other boys, "You have to be careful with that woman. You know, Veela are very evil creatures. They are good at transforming and often turn into young and beautiful women to seduce men. When those men are completely fascinated by them, Veela will eat them. So the person with Veela blood is destined to be a bad thing.

Usually, wizards from big families will only treat Veela as pets even if they like them. I don't know what's wrong with old Delacour to marry that kind of magical creature. Isn't he afraid of tainting his family's bloodline? You know, it's a magical creature. The blood of the children they give birth to is more filthy than that of Muggles!"

Mike, Uncle Mario and others looked at Narcissa unkindly, and Lucius poked Narcissa with his elbow.

Perhaps because she was talking so easily, Narcissa actually forgot that there was a Muggle-born Mike at the scene, and Mike was also a distinguished guest of the host, the Fly family.

"Sorry, I didn't mean to." Seeing Mike and others looking at her unkindly, Narcissa quickly reacted, "I'm really sorry, Mike. I didn't mean to discriminate against you."

"It's okay, I believe you are not the kind of person who discriminates against Muggles." Mike said polite words, but the smile on his face was unusually cold. Everyone present could see that Mike was very unhappy at this time.

"Okay, Lucius. You guys go and do your work first. Mike and I have something to discuss." Uncle Mario's face was not very good either, and he directly issued a quasi-exit order to Lucius.

The Lucius couple had no way to deal with Mario, the deputy director of the Auror Office who also had a noble bloodline, and left the hall in disgrace.

After Lucius and his wife left, Uncle Mario's expression became a little better. He apologized to Mike, saying that he had wronged Mike today, and said that he would let the Ministry of Magic conduct a surprise inspection of Malfoy Manor tomorrow to see if there was anything related to the dark magic to help Mike vent his anger. Hearing this,

Mike immediately understood why Lucius dared not fart in front of Uncle Mario. As a person with a serious criminal record and whose farts had not been wiped clean until now, it was natural for him to be afraid of Mario, a senior official of the police department in the wizarding world. After

Mike made it clear that he didn't care, the atmosphere on the scene returned to normal. Under Uncle Mario's introduction, Mike almost got to know most of the pure-blood nobles in the British wizarding world.

The banquet lasted until the second half of the night, and it was not until the end of the banquet that Mike slipped out of the villa to get some fresh air while Uncle Mario was on stage.

"Huh"

In a remote corner of the Foley Manor, Mike loosened his bow tie and exhaled a breath of foul air.

Mike has never liked this kind of aristocratic social dinner. There are so many rules at this kind of banquet that if you are not polite, you will be regarded as a country bumpkin.

Suddenly, Mike heard a woman crying in the woods ahead and hurried over.

Fleur was squatting alone in the dark grove, with a head of shiny silver hair gleaming, which was very conspicuous.

Perhaps it was the talent brought by her Veela bloodline, Fleur's perception was extremely outstanding. Mike was discovered by Fleur as soon as he entered the grove.

"Who are you!"

"Are you Fleur Delacour? I just saw you in the villa." Facing Fleur's exclamation, Mike said calmly, "Sorry, were you crying just now?"

Fleur hurriedly wiped the tears from her face and said, "I'm not crying! And you haven't answered me yet!"

"Okay, okay, you're not crying. I must have heard it wrong." Mike, who had developed his magical perception, saw all of Fleur's little movements. Although he wanted to laugh in his heart, he kept a serious face. "I'm Mike Townley, a second-year student at Hogwarts, and a mudblood."

Fleur in the dark was obviously stunned when she heard the three words "mudblood", and the disgust hidden deep in her eyes also eased a little.

"This is impossible. How could a wizard with Muggle blood be invited to attend the banquet tonight?" As if she wanted to see Mike's face clearly, Fleur came not far in front of Mike.

"Abbot Foley is my good friend. But you really shouldn't be here. As far as I know, today's banquet is essentially a blind date. With your bloodline, no pure-blood family would be interested in you." Seeing that Fleur didn't follow his mouth to use the insulting word "mudblood" to call him, Mike smiled and said half-jokingly.

Hearing Mike's words, Fleur's bright eyes dimmed, "If my mother hadn't forced me, I wouldn't have come."

After saying this, she seemed to be getting angrier and angrier. Fleur kicked a big tree next to her and continued, "She always wanted me to marry a pure-blood wizard, and the purer the blood, the better. She said that it would dilute the Veela bloodline in our family."

"Well, it seems that your mother is a little, um, a little too conservative." Mike said, "But your mother should also have Veela bloodline. Why is she so persistent in pursuing the purity of her bloodline?"

"She's a lunatic!" Fleur came up to Mike and said with wide eyes after hearing this, "In her words, it is because of the Veela bloodline in us that we are discriminated against everywhere, so we have to find pure-blood wizards to marry in order to purify the bloodline of our offspring, otherwise our offspring will always be discriminated against in the future!"

Mike was also a little surprised when he heard this, but he was relieved soon.

In his previous life, Mike had seen this situation in women who came from son-loving families. They liked boys even though they had suffered from the idea of ​​son-loving families. Once they gave birth to a girl, they would look down on her like her parents.

"I don't think so. The times have changed. Blood equality is the mainstream of the future. If those ancient pure-blood nobles choose to continue to stick to their corrupt blood, they will be drowned by the tide of the times!" Mike said forcefully.

"Do you really think so?" Mike's words were of course very much to Furong's liking. Furong smiled for the first time today. "By the way, why aren't you fascinated by me?"

"Maybe it's because you're not pretty enough."

"You're lying!"

In the quiet and deserted grove, the two people who were talking happily sat together unconsciously. At this moment, they heard a middle-aged female voice outside the woods calling Furong's name anxiously.

Upon hearing this, Furong's face changed drastically, and she hurriedly said to Mike, "Oh no! It's my mother, you hide quickly."

After that, she looked around in panic, helping Mike find a place to hide.

Mike laughed at this, patted Furong a few times to indicate that she didn't need to panic, and then picked up the wand and performed the illusion under Furong's surprised gaze and disappeared into the woods.

At the moment when Mike disappeared, Furong's mother also found Furong in the woods.

"So you are here! You are such a worry, how come you ran out without making a sound? I had to look for you for a long time!" After finding Furong, the middle-aged woman was obviously relieved and complained, "Come back with me quickly, the banquet is over, if we don't leave now, we will miss the carriage!"

Furong seemed to be very afraid of her mother, and lowered her head and was scolded silently, but Mike noticed that Furong, who was lowering her head, secretly stuck out her tongue when her mother was talking, looking naughty.

"Oh, I see!"

Fleur replied immediately after hearing her mother's words, but her eyes kept looking at the place where Mike was just now, and she stretched out her hand there, as if to confirm whether Mike was still there.

Seeing her cute appearance, Mike couldn't help but grab Fleur's outstretched hand, wanting to see her startled by her hand being suddenly grabbed.

But Fleur's reaction surprised Mike. Instead of being scared, she scratched Mike's palm, smiled at Mike's position, broke free from Mike's hand, and ran to her mother with a smile. Mike was left alone, staring blankly at the mother and daughter walking farther and farther away.

Feeling the remaining feeling in his palm, Mike couldn't help but sigh that Fleur was indeed a romantic Frenchman,

and was much more open than the British. You know, scratching the palm of the opposite sex means that you hope to develop a deeper relationship with the other person.

At this moment, the sky had already turned pale. Seeing that the mother and daughter had walked far away, Mike also lifted the illusion spell and returned to the villa. Rejecting Abbott's request to stay, Mike took the black Lincoln back to Hogwarts.

After returning to the dormitory, Mike was shocked to find that his dormitory was already full of Christmas gifts of all sizes, so he decided not to sleep and started to open the gifts.

The Christmas gifts that Mike gave out had been purchased when he went out to customize the suit, and all of them were handed over to an owl rental shop in Diagon Alley, asking them to deliver the gifts to their owners on Christmas Eve.

Mike has never been a person who is good at choosing gifts. In addition to the gift for Penelope, which was a pair of emerald earrings that he carefully selected, the gift for everyone, including all the faculty and staff of Hogwarts, was a magic candy gift package (Christmas special edition) from Honeydukes Candy Store.

Mike received obviously more gifts this year than last year, but most of them were Christmas cards, most of which had Santa Claus drawn on them. It goes without saying that these gifts were sent by those wizards of Muggle descent.

Among all the gifts, the one that Mike was most satisfied with was a complete set of "The Master of Fire Guide" given by Professor Flitwick, which recorded a lot of advanced knowledge about fire spells, which was of great help to Mike.

But what surprised Mike the most was that Professor McGonagall also gave him a gift, and the gift was very valuable, a notebook full of knowledge about Transfiguration.

This notebook looked a bit old, and the color on the cover had faded. And the handwriting on it didn't look like Professor McGonagall's.

Mike compared the handwriting of all the professors at Hogwarts and didn't match. Finally, when he turned out a notice written by Dumbledore and compared it, he was surprised to find that this notebook was actually written by Dumbledore.