Chapter 199 Conversation in the Carriage

The next day, Mike slept until almost noon before finally waking up.

Although today was the summer vacation day at Hogwarts, Mike was not in a hurry. He slowly got up, brushed his teeth and washed up. He didn't leave his dormitory until Franklin knocked on the door and urged him to leave.

Unlike Harry and the others, Mike had packed his luggage early, so he was not in a hurry now.

In fact, Mike didn't have much luggage to pack. His small suitcase was full of traceless stretching spell bags, most of which were filled with gold galleons, and the rest were filled with some daily necessities.

Today he was going to leave school on the Hogwarts Express with other classmates.

That's right, he didn't plan to continue living in Professor Flitwick's house this year.

This was not because Professor Flitwick didn't invite Mike to live in his house this year, but because Mike felt that he needed a private space that belonged to him completely. After all, some of his secrets could not be revealed to Professor Flitwick.

As soon as he opened the door, he saw Franklin looking at him anxiously, and there was a huge suitcase half a person tall on the ground beside him.

"Let's go, the train is about to leave!"

Franklin saw Mike finally got up, shouted loudly, and rushed out of the lounge with the suitcase.

Mike shook his head helplessly as he watched Franklin dragging the huge suitcase at full speed. This is the biggest difference between a Muggle-born wizard and a wizard who has lived in the wizarding world since childhood.

Muggle-born wizards like Franklin have not yet adapted to the fact that they have become wizards in their subconscious, so when faced with many things that can be easily solved with magic, they will instinctively use the stupid Muggle way to deal with them.

Just like this simple luggage carrying, those little wizards who have lived in the wizarding world since childhood would have used the levitation spell long ago, but Franklin still stupidly used his hand to carry it.

When Mike arrived at the station, it was already crowded. Franklin, who arrived earlier, was already sweating profusely. At this moment, he was sitting on the ground gasping for breath without any image. Mike

came at a very good time. As soon as he arrived, the Hogwarts Express blew its whistle. The whistle blew throughout the station, letting all the little wizards know that it was time for them to get on the train.

After helping Franklin, who was like a dead dog, up, Mike followed the team and slowly entered the carriage.

Franklin, who had rested for a long time, gradually recovered a little strength. He felt embarrassed to be supported by Mike in front of everyone, so he broke free from Mike's hand.

Mike didn't care. He slowly followed the team to get on the train, and then found a compartment and walked in.

As soon as Mike opened the door of the compartment, he was slightly stunned. He saw two men and one woman sitting steadily in the small compartment. They were our savior trio.

Harry and Ron smiled excitedly when they saw Mike and Franklin coming in, but Hermione's reaction was completely different from the two. The moment she saw Mike, her face turned extremely bad. She stood up and ran out of the compartment. When she passed by Mike, she bumped into him, which made Mike a little at a loss. After

calling Hermione twice, Mike ignored her without even turning his head. He entered the compartment with Franklin.

Everyone helped Franklin put his luggage away. It was only at this time that Franklin asked Mike about his luggage.

"Why did you only take such a small suitcase?"

After he asked this, Harry and Ron's attention also shifted to the small suitcase in Mike's hand. Harry and Franklin's reactions were similar. They were both wondering why Mike's suitcase was so small, but Ron just looked at Mike with envy.

Ron, who was born in a pure-blood family, was poor, but he knew more about the Traceless Stretch Spell container, so he asked:

"Is this a Traceless Stretch Spell box?"

Mike didn't say anything, just smiled and nodded.

He couldn't say that it was just an ordinary box, but it was filled with Traceless Stretch Spell bags, right?

You should know that this kind of space container is generally very expensive because the difficulty of casting the Traceless Stretch Spell is too high.

A Traceless Stretch Spell suitcase with a space of 1 cubic meter inside requires at least three-digit gold galleons to buy, which is a huge sum of money for an ordinary wizard family.

And because it is much more difficult to cast the Traceless Stretch Spell on a bag than on a suitcase, the price of a Traceless Stretch Spell bag of the same volume is almost twice as expensive as a Traceless Stretch Spell bag.

It is worth mentioning that you can't buy a Traceless Stretch Spell bag, a highly portable space container with a volume of more than 10 cubic meters on the market.

Because these large-capacity containers have been monopolized by those large families, ordinary people can't touch them at all.

If Ron knew that there were more than a dozen bags of traceless extension spells in Mike's suitcase, and the bags were full of gold galleons, I'm afraid he would have been holding Mike's thigh and couldn't say anything.

Mike didn't want to talk more about this, so he put down the suitcase and started to change the subject.

"What happened to Hermione just now?" Mike asked, "Did you quarrel again?"

"Actually, this time it was because of you."

Ron's answer made Mike a little overwhelmed. He basically didn't meet Hermione during this period. He didn't remember when he offended Hermione again.

"Didn't you kill a lot of acromantula and centaurs in the Forbidden Forest last time?" Ron said while stuffing Bibi's every-flavor beans into his mouth, "Hagrid has told us all about these things. Hermione is angry about this matter." As soon as

this was said, Mike immediately changed to a black question mark face expression. He didn't understand what was there to be angry about.

Seeing that Mike still didn't understand, Ron explained, "Hagrid said a lot of bad things about you at that time, and Hermione must have been convinced by him. After she came back, she pulled us aside and said a lot of weird things like magical creatures are equal to humans

. By the way, she also said you are a butcher! Of course, I think you did the right thing, Mike. Those eight-eyed giant spiders are so scary! Only Hagrid and Hermione would think they are harmless. You were right to kill them all!"

Hearing this, Mike also understood why Hermione had this attitude towards him now. To be honest, Hermione was too saintly. She had pity for creatures weaker than herself.

This can be said to be kind-hearted, but Mike thinks that Hermione has never been beaten by society. Not to mention creatures like centaurs and acromantula that are obviously hostile to humans, let alone humans, if you sympathize with the weak without any bottom line, you will only get revenge for your kindness to a large extent. As

the saying goes, a little kindness is worth a lot of hatred. Humans are creatures that never know how to be satisfied. If you help others without any bottom line for a long time, others will only think that it is natural. Once you stop helping others, others will not understand you.

In their minds, it is a very common idea that I am weak and I am right.

However, Mike is more surprised why Ron supports him so much in this matter. You should know that Ron and Mike’s relationship is not very good. They even had a big fight because of Percy.

But after seeing the horrified look on Ron’s face when he talked about the acromantula, Mike understood.

I have heard from the Weasley brothers that their little brother Ron is most afraid of spiders. What they like to do most is to scare Ron with spider toys. So for Ron, Mike's killing so many eight-eyed giant spiders this time really helped him a lot.

Otherwise, knowing that so many giant spiders are active within a range of less than 10 kilometers near him, Ron may not be able to sleep at night.

"Thank you, Ron." Mike said with a smile, "I don't think I did anything wrong. Those eight-eyed giant spiders are completely evil creatures, and with their amazing reproduction speed, if they continue to be left alone, other creatures in the Forbidden Forest will suffer, and the casualties will be even greater."

"That's right!"

Ron's eyes began to shine when he heard this, and he excitedly echoed Mike. In his opinion, all spiders in the world should go to hell.

At this moment, Mike also noticed that Harry, who was standing aside, seemed to be hesitant to speak since they started talking about the Forbidden Forest, so he asked about Harry's situation, but Harry's answer surprised Mike.

"I know that the Acromantula is an evil creature and should not exist in the Forbidden Forest. But why did you kill those centaurs?" Harry asked with a frown, "Hagrid said that the centaurs posed no threat to you at all, and even when he arrived, the centaurs were already running away, but you still killed them all." As

soon as these words came out, the atmosphere in the box immediately became dull. Franklin stopped teasing Alfred above his head, and Ron put down the snacks in his hand. Everyone looked at Mike in silence.

"Harry, my situation was very critical at that time. My wounds had not healed yet. After a big battle with Percy who was controlled by the dark magic, my physical strength and magic power had reached the limit." Mike said sincerely after a long silence, "and the support from Hogwarts was far away, so I didn't have time to distinguish which centaurs were enemies and which were friends. What if I let the enemy go and it brought more enemies back?" Mike's explanation was reasonable

and Harry was convinced by him. Although he was still in a bad mood, he had put aside the deep grudge in his heart and stopped talking about this matter. Instead, he talked about other topics.

Seeing this, Mike was relieved. In fact, the situation at that time was not as critical as he said to Harry. With the strength of those centaurs, even if there were twice as many troops, they could not do anything to Mike. In

fact, the reason why he killed all those centaurs at that time was because of anger.

Anger at those centaurs for attacking him first.

Harry and Hermione might sympathize with centaurs because they are both intelligent creatures like humans, but Michael would not think so. In his mind, centaurs are enemies just like those giant spiders. Michael would never show mercy to his enemies.

Time passed quickly as the four of them chatted. In the second half of the journey, Penelope also completed her work as a prefect to maintain order and came to the compartment where Michael was and joined Michael and others in chatting.

Oh, by the way.

There are only four seats in the ordinary compartment of the Hogwarts Express, so I don't need to say more about where Penelope sits.

Franklin was better. Since he was often with Michael, he had eaten enough of Michael and Penelope's dog food, and his resistance was greatly improved.

It was the first time for Harry and Ron to encounter such a scene. Seeing Michael and Penelope being affectionate in front of them, they were obviously not used to it, and even spoke less.

Michael naturally noticed the abnormality of the two people, but he did not restrain himself at all. On the contrary, he even became worse. The sweet words and bold actions made Harry and Ron, who were still innocent boys at the time, blush and feel like every second was a year.

Fortunately, the Hogwarts Express was really fast and arrived at the destination very quickly.

Harry and Ron picked up their luggage almost the moment the train arrived at the station, and rushed out of the carriage after saying goodbye to Mike and others.

Penelope and Mike laughed when they saw their performance.

"You are too bad."

Penelope poked Mike's cheek and said coquettishly.

Mike just chuckled and didn't say anything. Just kidding, isn't it normal for lovers to be intimate? If they have the ability, they can find one themselves, otherwise they shouldn't blame others for feeding them dog food. Look

how well-behaved Franklin is. Since Penelope came, he has been playing with Alfred all the way, ignoring Mike and Penelope on the side. His experience in fighting is obviously much richer than that of Harry and Ron.

At this time, Franklin picked up his luggage and said to Mike, "Okay, I'm leaving too. Mike, if you don't want to live at Professor Flitwick's house, you can come to my house, or do you want to live at Penelope's house?"

After saying that, he glanced at Penelope with an ambiguous look, which made Penelope shyly bury her head in Mike's arms.

"I have my own arrangements, so you don't have to worry about it."

Hearing this, Franklin's eyes suddenly opened wide, and he said in surprise, "You're not really going to live at Penelope's house, are you?"

"Get out!"

Mike kicked Franklin in annoyance, and the latter dodged Mike's kick with a jump and ran out of the car with a big laugh.