Chapter 230 Mike's Patronus

Mike swore that this was the smoothest release of his Patronus Charm since he started practicing it.

And the result did not disappoint him. When he shouted out the Patronus Charm, the tip of the blackthorn wood wand shone with an unprecedentedly bright light.

The light was so different in the dim environment of the office. Although its brightness was amazing, it was surprisingly not dazzling. Moreover, Mike, who was directly illuminated by it, even felt a little warm all over his body. His mood became more and more comfortable.

Gradually, as Mike increased his magic power output, the light turned into a mist of light, and then quickly gathered together, and the outline of a bird appeared.

"Is this... a raven?"

Mike looked at the Patronus he released in shock. Although it was still relatively blurry, it was indeed a raven that was very similar to Papi from the outline.

Mike was ecstatic when he successfully summoned his own Patronus. And this joy further strengthened the power of the Patronus Charm. The raven actually slowly solidified its body!

Mike felt very strange at the moment. This patronus version of the raven gave him a very familiar feeling, as if they were old friends.

"You are so great! Mike!" Lupin looked even more excited than Mike, and changed his previous tired look. "Merlin! What did I see!"

Mike ignored Lupin at all. At this moment, he was concentrating on controlling his patronus to fly in the small office. As time went by, the excitement in Mike's heart gradually dissipated, which made the patronus raven in front of Mike become thinner and thinner, and finally completely dissipated. Mike

put down his wand and stared at the place where the raven disappeared in a daze, and a smile appeared on his face unconsciously.

My patronus is a raven.

Not bad, at least it is a creature that fits with Ravenclaw.

Mike thought so. In fact, Mike had guessed about his patronus a long time ago, and raven is one of them. It is also one that Mike likes but not the most.

His favorite is actually the eagle. After all, the school emblem of Ravenclaw is the eagle. This is very beneficial for him to rely on the patronus to recruit people in Ravenclaw in the next step.

Now, ravens are not bad either, at least they are not snakes or lions.

Just like Dumbledore, a representative figure of Gryffindor, his patronus is actually a bird. Although that bird is a phoenix, it is still a bird.

In everyone's impression, people from Ravenclaw are most suitable for the image of creatures like birds. For tough guys like Gryffindor, only lions and tigers are worthy of them.

Coincidentally, Mike once asked Professor Flitwick what his most desired patronus was, and the answer was a brown bear!

Mike was speechless. You are the head of Ravenclaw, and your most desired patronus is actually a tough creature like a brown bear?

Compared with the above two, Mike feels that his patronus is already very good.

"You are amazing! I have never seen a genius as talented as you! You are even better than Lily!"

"You are too kind, I am just lucky."

Mike responded modestly to Lupin's praise. In fact, what Mike said was true. Luck played a big role in his ability to summon a physical version of the Patronus just now. It is absolutely impossible for Mike to summon one again now.

Moreover, he cast the Patronus Charm in an absolutely safe environment just now. It is hard to say whether he can cast it in actual combat.

Thinking of this, Mike remembered the trick Lupin just mentioned, the association method.

That's right, Mike called the skill taught by Lupin the association method, which is a very appropriate name.

Through this method, Mike can quickly enter the state and release the Patronus Charm.

And Mike has already decided on the so-called association object of the association method, that is, the raven. The raven mentioned here is not limited to the living raven, raven statues and raven pendants are both OK.

Mike didn't choose it blindly. Looking back on the past two years, ravens have played a significant role in it. Both Raven Papi and Raven's Nest have helped Mike a lot.

Mike can think of many beautiful memories and visions of the future as long as he thinks of ravens.

For example, an organization with ravens as its symbol will be established to defeat Voldemort and sweep the world.

Mike is a layman, and he doesn't have too profound ideals. His desires are simple, money, power, and sex, and if possible, it would be best to defeat death.

But even though Mike has chosen the association, it is still difficult to make the joy reach its peak in an instant. Although Mike has accumulated a lot of relevant self-hypnosis experience from the practice of emotional spellcasting techniques and brain occlusion, it still requires a lot of training.

In short, the road is long and arduous, and comrades still need to work hard.

Seeing that Mike successfully released a patronus with a physical body when he accepted his teaching for the first time, Lupin was very happy.

Although he had just become a professor, he had already put himself into the identity of a teacher. And teachers always have a natural liking for students with excellent grades and extraordinary talents.

As a result, Lupin's attitude towards Mike has improved a lot.

The two of them talked business for a while and Mike was ready to leave. After all, it was late and so many things had happened today. Professor Lupin's body should be in urgent need of rest.

However, just as Mike was about to leave, Lupin suddenly called him.

"Wait, Mike. What do you think should be the best content for my first class? As you know, this is my first time as a teacher. Although I have done some homework, I am still quite nervous."

"Don't be nervous, Professor Lupin." Mike laughed and replied, "Your predecessor was a standard embroidered pillow. With him as a brick and stone in front of you, you can be regarded as a pearl as long as you perform at your usual level."

After hearing Mike's words, Lupin was slightly relieved and yawned and said, "Thank you for your comfort, Mike. It's getting late, you should go back and rest early. You can come to my place to practice every day after dinner."

"Thank you, professor, good night, and wish you a good dream."

"Wish you a good dream too, Mike."

...

Lupin's blessing did not work. After Mike returned to the dormitory, he slept until the next morning without having a dream.

When Mike got up the next day, he received this year's course schedule.

This year's schedule is a little different from the past two years. For example, in addition to the required courses, Mike's schedule also has two elective courses, Ancient Magic Runes and Muggle Studies.

Mike chose Ancient Magic Runes and Muggle Studies as his elective courses after careful consideration. There are a total of 5 elective courses, namely Divination, Care of Magical Creatures, Muggle Studies, Ancient Magic Runes and Arithmancy.

Among them, Muggle Studies was completely chosen by Mike to make up the number, because everyone must choose at least two elective courses.

The reason why he chose this course instead of other courses is entirely because Mike wanted to be lazy.

After all, he himself is a Muggle-born, and I believe it would be very easy to turn around and study Muggles.

Divination and arithmetic divination are from the same family. Strictly speaking, arithmetic divination should be regarded as a category under divination. The difference between the two is that arithmetic divination uses numbers for divination, and it often requires the use of complex digital tables and a large amount of data.

This is a bit like the big data of later generations, which predicts the future through a large amount of data, but arithmetic divination is more powerful with the intervention of magic.

It is hard to say which one is stronger. Big data has an extremely exaggerated amount of data, while the top arithmetic fortune tellers have the blessing of magic.

Simple divination relies on props such as tea leaves, crystal balls, and tarot cards for divination. Compared with rigorous arithmetic divination, simple divination is more mysterious and seems more like nonsense to outsiders.

Another point is that compared with arithmetic divination, simple divination requires more talent. Talented people can show unimaginable talents in divination.

Just like the current professor of divination at Hogwarts, her highest achievement is to successfully predict that Harry will kill Voldemort.

This achievement also allowed her to get the long-term meal ticket of the professor position at Hogwarts.

And Mike is not interested in these two courses.

Let's not talk about divination. Mike doesn't believe in any prophecy at all, and the seemingly rigorous arithmetic divination...

Sorry, what Mike hates most is mathematics.

As for Care of Magical Creatures...

To be honest, Mike really wanted to take it. After all, although the professor of this course often brainwashes you and asks you to love magical creatures, it is still very interesting to be able to get in touch with some new magical creatures.

Unfortunately, the professor of Care of Magical Creatures this year has changed, and it has been replaced by Hagrid.

The most important thing is that Hagrid has a conflict with him.

In the end, Mike only has the elective course of Ancient Magic to choose.

But even if there are other choices, Mike will definitely choose this course. The reason is that he firmly believes that this course will be very useful.

In fact, ancient magic is actually ancient runes. The ancient runes mentioned here are very different from the runes in the Muggle world, but strictly speaking, the two are actually from the same family.

They are all divine texts in Germanic mythology. They are the wisdom texts obtained by the father god Odin from offering sacrifices to the world tree, also known as runes.

Runes or runes have been passed down intact in the wizarding world. Wizards have developed the power buried in this text and used it.

Used in alchemy, the special technique of enchantment was born, making modern alchemy prosperous again.

Used in body modification, many terrifying monsters were born.

...

In addition, many ancient books are written in runes. If you don't know ancient magic, you can't get these treasures left by the ancients.

It can be said that if your ancient magic score in the ultimate wizard exam can reach excellent or above, then you will never worry about employment after graduation. No matter

what your background is!

The reason for this is not only the role of ancient magic, but also the most important point is that ancient magic is too difficult!

Mike remembered that the United Nations once conducted a survey, saying that Chinese is the most difficult language to learn in the world, and the dialects in Chinese are even jokingly called "the language of the devil."

But these are nothing in front of ancient magic. Runes are the language of God, and the language of God is much more difficult to learn than the "language of the devil."

Although it is difficult, Mike still plans to learn it.

After all, the role of ancient magic is really too great, so he doesn't care even if all his golden hair falls off!

Back to Hogwarts, since there was no Ancient Magic class today, Mike planned to go to the Room of Requirement for routine training after finishing a boring day of classes.

But when he passed by the hall, he ran into Harry who was frowning.

"Hey, Harry. You look bad, what's wrong?"

Harry obviously didn't expect to meet Mike here. Seeing Mike greet him, he was stunned for a moment before answering: "Nothing, just... I just don't feel good. I fainted on the train. Everyone else was fine, but I..."

After Harry finished speaking, he felt a little surprised that he actually told Mike what was in his heart.

Mike also thought of something when he heard it. Harry's fainting on the train has indeed become a laughing stock among many people, especially Draco. He must be crazy about mocking Harry with this incident today.

After thinking for a while, Mike put on a bright smile and said, "Don't take it to heart, Harry. Draco and the others don't understand your feelings at all."

"Dementors are extremely evil creatures. They will bring back the nightmares in the deepest part of your memory. People like you and me who have experienced tragic things will face a situation a hundred times worse than ordinary people when facing them."

Harry looked at Mike in surprise. He was no longer surprised that Mike could always point out what he was thinking. What surprised him was what Mike said about 'people like you and me'.

Could it be that Mike...

"Yes, I'm the same as you. I also know that feeling. I almost fainted on the train last time." Mike paused and said seriously, "Do you know why I didn't faint?"

Harry looked at Mike eagerly and shook his head. He was very eager to get an answer.

"It's a strong body! The exercise I did during the summer vacation gave me a strong body, which enabled me to recover quickly from that state." Mike said in the most persuasive voice, as if he was a great orator giving a speech on the stage, "And, I also know the Patronus Charm!"

"Is it the same spell that Professor Lupin used before?"

Harry asked eagerly before Mike finished speaking, and Mike was not angry at being interrupted, and replied: "Yes, it is that spell. The Patronus Charm is the only known spell that can resist the attack of Dementors. It can be said that as long as you learn this spell, Dementors will no longer be a problem for you."

Harry opened his mouth and looked at Mike with admiration. He didn't expect Mike to be so knowledgeable that he even knew spells that were not in the textbooks.

Mike looked at Harry's reaction, showed a meaningful smile on his face and asked:

"Want to learn? I can teach you."