Chapter 18 Penelope

It has been a week since Michael discovered magic. During this time, Michael would go to the Room of Requirement almost every night. With the secret passage that the Weasley brothers took him through, the time between the two places was greatly shortened.

I have to say that the Room of Requirement is really a good place. With it, Michael can finally experiment with magic without any scruples.

In addition, there are a large number of magic books hidden in the Room of Requirement, some of which are not even collected by the school library of Hogwarts. Among them, there are many books about dark magic.

The surface of these books is covered with a lot of dust, and it seems that they have not been turned over for a long time. Only a few of them are basically dust-free, and it seems that they have been turned over recently. There are

also many books on Defense against the Dark Arts that are not in the textbooks.

This is simply someone handing a pillow when you are sleepy. Michael is worrying about how to improve his knowledge of dark magic. You have to know that the professors of Defense against the Dark Arts in the past two years are basically rubbish. Quirrell can only read from the book in class, and Lockhart next year is completely rubbish.

Only when Lupin, the werewolf, comes in the third year can they really have a few lessons in Defense against the Dark Arts.

After searching for a while, he found that none of these books recorded the specific process of casting dark magic, so he put them aside. Now his priority is to improve his combat effectiveness. The plot of the first-year Philosopher's Stone has begun.

He must get a good ranking in this level-breaking game that Dumbledore arranged for Harry, so that he can have a chance to show his face in front of the whole grade. Of course, it would be better if he could help Ravenclaw win the house cup, so that all the students of Ravenclaw would remember his name. This will be very helpful for his plans for the senior year.

Mike's training did not focus on magic perception and meditation, because he found that magic perception and meditation can almost ignore the increase in his strength in a short period of time. Although his perception of the magic in his body will increase a little after each meditation, Mike can't control these magic at all in a short period of time.

And meditation is not like what is written in those wizard novels, which can even replace sleep. Meditation is very mentally exhausting.

Mike can only meditate for about half an hour every day now, and he will feel exhausted if he exceeds this time. Therefore, he puts meditation after spell training, otherwise he will not have the energy to use spells.

Every night before going to bed, he would drink a drink from the unlucky Hufflepuff. Mike found that this drink was very helpful for restoring his spirit. Drinking a drink every night helped him to restore his spirit as soon as possible.

"I have to find a way to get the formula from the Hufflepuff when I have time." Mike thought to himself.

On this day, when Mike and Franklin were doing their homework in the Ravenclaw common room, the famous Ravenclaw Penelope found them.

"Hey, Mike. How do you think you are doing in Ravenclaw these days?"

"Not bad! Senior Penelope. I can meet so many beautiful seniors every day. My friends in Gryffindor envy me. Most of the girls there are not good-looking, far worse than our seniors in Ravenclaw."

Penelope was amused by Mike. Sure enough, no matter when and where, women like to hear others praise them. Mike

has heard of Penelope for a long time. This Muggle-born witch really deserves the three words "incredible". Almost everyone in Ravenclaw praised her highly. Not only was she beautiful, she was also very talented in magic. Most importantly, she was a person with a very high emotional intelligence. She was very good at dealing with people. All the young wizards from the first to fourth grade were willing to follow her orders. Even many senior students respected her very much.

"You are really smooth-talking. I don't know how many girls' feelings you will deceive when you grow up." Penelope finally stopped laughing. "I came here to tell you that Professor Flitwick asked you to go to his office."

"I am not a smooth-talker. Besides, you are the senior sister that I respect the most in Ravenclaw. Not only are you beautiful, but you are also very capable. I can't believe you are also a Muggle-born." Mike flattered again.

Hearing the words "Muggle-born", Penelope's smile froze.

"I'm nothing. I'm going to graduate in a few years. I don't know where to go. Maybe finding someone to marry would be a good choice." Penelope felt that she had lost her composure. "No more talking. Pack up and go to Dean Flitwick's office. Don't let him wait. I'll leave first."

Looking at Penelope's back, Mike couldn't help but glance at Franklin, who was confused, and smiled. As for Franklin, he was still wondering why Penelope was still talking and laughing with them the moment before, and walked away the next moment.

Penelope is a smart person and an ambitious person.

The most suitable place for such a person in the future is the Ministry of Magic. However, the Ministry of Magic does not recognize Muggle-born wizards. They can accept recruiting some Muggle-born wizards to become cannon fodder such as strikers and Aurors, but recruiting a mudblood as an official of the Ministry of Magic? Or a witch? Don't dream.

In fact, most Muggle-born witches will choose to marry pure-blood or half-blood wizards after graduating from Hogwarts. Only in this way can they receive fair treatment in the British wizarding world, such as working in the Ministry of Magic. After all, after getting married, they represent their husband's family instead of themselves. You know, in the UK, you have to change your surname when you get married.

Some people may think that pure-blood wizard families will not allow family members to marry these mudbloods in order to maintain the purity of their own bloodline. There are indeed such families, and there were many of them at the beginning, but now they are all old news.

Those families that insist on pure bloodline either decline and die like Black and Gaunt, or are forced to accept these mudblood witches.

But don't think that these witches will have an easier life after getting married. Most wizard families still have a bloodline discrimination attitude towards these witches, and these wizard families are all paupers. In fact, most wizard families in the wizarding world are now poor, and only a small group of people like the Malfoy family are rich.

Some families can only rely on those mudblood witches to work and earn money to support the entire family. In their words, how can the noble pure blood go out and embarrass themselves? These things are only suitable for you mudbloods.

That's right, not only do you have to earn money to support the whole family, but others don't appreciate it.

A few witches will also be abused at home, and even have some ethical problems. I won't go into details about these, otherwise I will be banned.

That's why Penelope in the original book chose to fall in love with Percy. If we think about it from another perspective, we can understand why the Queen of Ravenclaw would fall in love with someone like Percy.

First of all, the Weasley family is one of the 28 pure-blood families, which will be of great benefit to her future work in the Ministry of Magic. In addition, the Weasley family is called a pure-blood traitor, and is one of the very few wizard families that have a good impression of Muggles. After she marries Percy, at least she will not be discriminated against at family gatherings.

In this way, Hermione marrying Ron could be considered marrying up, at least in the eyes of the purebloods. After all, a mudblood witch married into a pureblood family and instantly turned from a dirty mudblood into Mrs. Weasley. It was

a pity that Percy was unreliable. In the end, Penelope couldn't stand him anymore and broke up with him.