Chapter 233 Ancient Magic

Runes Mike couldn't believe what he saw. He would never believe that the thing he feared the most in his heart was actually a female version of himself.

The 'beautiful girl version of Mike' who came out of the closet flirted with Mike, who was surprised and opened his mouth wide. Then he walked close to Mike and began to twist his waist.

Mike was very familiar with the dance she was dancing. This was the dance that the dancers in the drag bar he often went to in his previous life danced.

To be honest, the 'beautiful girl version of Mike' danced very well. Her pure face and shiny golden hair made her have an angelic and pure temperament. A girl with such temperament danced a seductive dance like a hell succubus, which was quite different.

Unfortunately, Mike was in no mood to appreciate such a dance at the moment.

In fact, the blackthorn wood wand had appeared in his hand at some point. From his trembling right hand, it could be seen that Mike was trying to suppress his anger at the moment.

Raven Papi had already laughed.

As the nightmare raven who is inseparable from Mike, it is the person who knows Mike the most in the world, so it naturally knows what is going on.

Mike listened to the unpleasant crow calls in his ears, which sounded very much like the Japanese word for fool (ah or).

He kept telling himself that this Boggart was still useful, this Boggart was still useful...

Only then did he suppress the urge to cast a killing curse to send it to heaven.

Mike really didn't expect that Ms. Grey's threat to turn him into a beautiful girl would cause such a great psychological shadow on him, even more than the fear of Dumbledore and Voldemort.

Now Mike is very fortunate that he used the brain block technique during the daytime class. If the "beautiful girl Mike" appeared in public, Mike couldn't guarantee that he would not lose his temper and kill people on the spot.

In the end, before the "beautiful girl version of Mike" took off all his clothes, Mike activated the brain block technique.

The Boggart, who couldn't read Mike's inner thoughts at all, had no choice but to retreat into the closet, and Mike closed his eyes and began to brew his emotions.

He came here tonight not just to see what he was afraid of, but also to use this Boggart to practice the release of the Patronus Charm in actual combat.

After these days of crazy learning, Mike is now able to summon a physical version of the Patronus in a safe environment, which amazed Professor Lupin who taught him. The

reason why Mike's progress is so fast is entirely due to his superb level of brain occlumency.

In theory, the pure rational state of brain occlumency that empties the mind is opposite to the Patronus Charm that relies on strong emotions to cast a spell, but Mike has discovered the wonderful characteristics between the two. When

the brain occlumency is practiced to a high level, it can not only resist the invasion of the outside world into the brain, but also generate false memories and emotions in the brain to deceive the opponent.

Mike has been practicing brain occlumency for so long that he basically practices brain occlumency every day before going to bed, and this accumulation of time has also made his brain occlumency advance by leaps and bounds.

Mike can't create false memories for the time being, which requires the assistance of Legilimency, but Mike can still create false emotions or hypnotize existing emotions.

Thus, relying on this method, Mike accomplished something that was almost impossible to do.

It took about a month to master the Patronus Charm!

Back to the topic, Mike used the brain occlumency technique to confuse the Boggart, and it turned into a Dementor again and crawled out of the closet.

Looking at the 'Dementor' in front of him, Mike frowned slightly.

To be honest, although the Dementor transformed by the Boggart looks exactly like the real Dementor, but apart from the psychological shadow of the Dementor, this thing is just a showpiece. When facing it, Mike did not feel the same coldness as he did on the train at that time.

But the conditions were limited, and Mike did not despise it. He raised his wand and whispered the spell after a short brewing.

"Expecto Patronus."

A soft white light rose, and a huge silver-white raven suddenly appeared, opened its mouth and cried, and rushed towards the 'Dementor' that was golden and jade on the outside but rotten on the inside.

The Patronus Charm is indeed one of the strongest defensive spells. Boggart, a creature that theoretically has no effect on the Patronus Charm, was defeated when facing Mike's Patronus. It went back into the closet in an instant and refused to come out no matter how Mike tempted it.

Mike was a little worried when looking at the shabby closet. The Boggart was obviously scared by him. However, Lupin still had to teach students from other colleges the next day. It would be bad if the Boggart refused to come out and affected the plot.

But Mike didn't have a good remedy at the moment. In fact, the above idea was dispersed by joy after a little turn in Mike's mind.

His Patronus Charm is basically a great success.

At least it is enough to show off in front of others.

...

The next day, Mike got up early as usual and came to the flying class to exercise.

The human body is really a treasure trove, especially Mike's current adolescent body. Mike can feel that his strength has grown a little bit every morning when he gets up from bed.

Thanks to the Patronus Charm last night, Mike was in a good mood. When he finished his exercise and came to the hall to eat breakfast, he got some news.

Draco was discharged from the hospital.

It must be said that Draco was indeed a villain. He was the kind of person who could not help you succeed but could definitely trip you up on your way to success.

Mike didn't know why he had to use means to deal with Hagrid, the big fool. Maybe it was because of the harm caused by Buckbeak to him, or maybe it was simply because he hated Hagrid and Harry, or maybe it was just because he was bored.

As an adult, Mike really couldn't understand Draco's motive for doing this. After all, there was no benefit from doing this except making enemies.

But in any case, as one of the twelve directors of Hogwarts, the Malfoy family was still very powerful.

The directors of Hogwarts were not simple people. They all had certain privileges over Hogwarts, such as the children of the directors had a special exclusive carriage on the Hogwarts Express.

I believe that with Draco having the support of his father as a school director, Hagrid will definitely have a hard time in the future.

Of course, none of this had anything to do with Mike. Now he was looking forward to his first ancient magic class.

What surprised him was that Hermione was in the same classroom with him.

After not seeing her for many days, Hermione looked a little haggard compared to when school started. Her hair, which was like a lion's mane, stretched out wantonly, and was tangled in many places. It seemed that she hadn't been taken care of for a long time, and there were two light dark circles on her face.

"You don't look too good." Mike sat down next to Hermione and said, "Are you too tired from studying?"

Hermione, who was trying to review the textbook, was startled when she heard Mike's voice and continued to speak along with Mike's words.

"Ah? Ah! Yes, I'm a little tired recently."

Seeing Hermione instinctively touch her chest, Mike raised his eyebrows.

Of course, he knew what was going on. Hermione took all the courses, including many courses with conflicting schedules.

Of course, it is impossible for humans to appear in two different classrooms at the same time. To do this, you must reverse time, or you can clone yourself.

In Hermione's hand, there is a time-twister that can allow people to travel through time, which is hanging around Hermione's neck at the moment.

Time and space can be said to be the two most profound subjects in the world. The time-twister that can reverse time has become the most valuable artifact of the Ministry of Magic.

Mike didn't understand how Professor McGonagall got this kind of thing. You must know that the Ministry of Magic's control over the time-twister is far more stringent than the black magic of the Killing Curse.

He also didn't understand why McGonagall gave this thing to Hermione. Didn't she know that the time-twister was very dangerous? If you are not careful, it will form a time paradox and even change history.

Maybe Professor McGonagall is really optimistic about Hermione and wants her to learn as much knowledge as possible, but in Mike's opinion, this is undoubtedly a waste of time.

Mike looked at Hermione distressed, but didn't say anything.

He wanted to persuade Hermione not to continue using the time-twister, but he knew that Hermione would definitely not agree.

So, Mike took out a bottle of Dolphin Magic Drink from his pocket and handed it over.

"Come on, drink this, it will cheer you up."

"Oh? Thank you!"

Hermione looked at Mike in surprise and took the drink. She originally thought that Mike would persuade her not to be so tired.

"Come on!" Mike looked at Hermione with a burning gaze and said, "You are the best!"

Hermione felt her eyes a little sore. To be honest, the high-intensity study in the past few days really made her uncomfortable and tired.

Especially in the divination class, that weird old woman was really annoying.

But her competitive spirit made her unable to say the words of giving up. Harry and Ron persuaded her to give up every day. No one said come on to her, except Mike.

Hermione's emotions broke out. She felt that she had thousands of words to say to Mike in her heart.

But at this moment, the ancient magic professor came in.

"Sorry, students, I'm late."

Hermione was startled by the female voice and hurriedly sat up to concentrate on the class, but her eyes kept looking at Mike from time to time.

Mike saw all of this, smiled and opened the book.

He still knew which was more important, picking up girls or studying.

What surprised Mike was that the professor of ancient magic was actually a young woman.

This woman had thick black hair and wore a pair of glasses with lenses as thick as the bottom of a beer bottle. She had a nerdy temperament.

Mike thought that the professors of such a profound course as ancient magic should be old men with silver hair.

However, although Professor Bathsheeda Barbling was young, her professional knowledge was not bad at all.

She started with "Magic Pronunciation Table" and "Ancient Magic Simple Introduction" and slowly taught Mike and others the pronunciation of ancient magic.

Although what Professor Barbling said today was some superficial content, equivalent to learning English phonetic symbols, many people in the class were still confused. It seemed that it would take a while to understand.

But Mike was surprised to find that his talent in ancient magic was unprecedented.

No matter how confusing and anti-human the pronunciation of the symbols that Professor Barbling talked about was, Mike could read it out and remember it firmly after training a few times.

This can no longer be described as talent, it is simply the level of innate knowledge.

In fact, as early as when he was preparing for the lesson, Mike felt that the ghostly symbols in the book "Ancient Magic Rune Simple Introduction" looked very familiar. At first, he thought it was related to his talent, but now it seems that there must be something fishy.

Just kidding, although Mike is confident, he is not arrogant.

That level of language talent is impossible to exist at all, and even if it exists, it is impossible for him to appear.

The only possibility is that someone has tampered with it.

While Professor Babel deliberately stopped to let the students take notes, Mike thought about this problem carefully.

After searching his memory, he finally found the only possibility.

Ravenclaw's legacy.

When he killed Ravenclaw's soul in the secret realm, part of Ravenclaw's memory merged into his brain. Mike originally thought that it was just Ravenclaw's understanding of magic control, but now it seems that there should be other knowledge in it.

Ancient magic runes are part of it!

Mike was overjoyed that he had guessed the truth. Ancient magic was indeed a profound subject, and this sudden cheat was of great help to him.

Mike did not relax despite his excitement, and continued to listen attentively to Professor Babel's lecture.

Time flies when you concentrate, and when Professor Babel announced the end of class, Mike's textbook was already full of notes.

Although the handwriting on it was really unbearable to look at, Mike still cherished it very much, and even couldn't bear to close it after writing, leaving it open and waiting for the ink to dry.

Hermione, who was standing by, took a curious look at Mike's notes, and when she saw the crooked words on it, she couldn't help but curl her lips.

But then Hermione realized her own unreasonableness, and handed her textbook to Mike with a guilty conscience, saying, "Um, Mike. If you need it, I can lend you my notes."

Mike, who had recovered from his excitement, took a look at Hermione's beautifully written notes and shook his head without hesitation.

"No, I think my notes are very good." As if thinking of something, Mike said, "If you need to review, I can lend you my notes. I guarantee that these are the best notes in the entire Hogwarts."

"Emm, thank you very much, but I still don't want it." Hermione suddenly patted her head and said, "Oh! By the way. I remember that I still have to go to Arithmancy. I'm leaving first, Mike!"

Seeing Hermione fleeing from the classroom, Mike smiled and shook his head.

Mike knew what Hermione was thinking, but she just disliked his ugly handwriting.

"Heh! Woman! You don't understand what you just missed. This is the notebook of the chosen one!" Mike murmured as he looked at the mysterious handwriting on the textbook, "Although I'm probably the only one who can understand it."