Chapter 234 Infiltration

Mike's progress in learning ancient runes was very fast. In just two days, he had learned the phonetic symbols of ancient runes.

Thanks to the mastery of the Patronus Charm, Mike now had a lot of time again.

Mike, who was used to being busy, naturally couldn't be idle, so he turned his attention to Snape again.

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In the basement classroom of the Potions class, Mike was sitting in his seat bored. And in the seat across the aisle next to him, sat Draco, who was a little excited.

In this Potions class, Ravenclaw and Slytherin were very rare.

Mike's eyes accidentally glanced at Draco's arm that was still bandaged, and a smile appeared on his face.

Although Draco was discharged from the hospital and Madam Pomfrey claimed that he had recovered, he still insisted on bandaging and splinting his arm to let everyone know how cruel Buckbeak was and how incompetent Hagrid was.

At first glance, this method seems a bit crude, but in fact the effect is unexpectedly good.

Most of the Slytherins chose to believe Draco. Of course, they were just following their own lead. But there were still many people in other colleges who didn't know the truth and believed Draco, which made Hagrid's situation worse and worse.

Although it seemed calm on the surface, Mike knew that the struggle among the top leaders had already begun.

Mike was not worried about Hagrid's safety, after all, he was protected by Dumbledore.

If Hagrid didn't have Dumbledore, the strongest white wizard of the time, to protect him, then Hagrid's ending might be much worse than being expelled as Draco said, and it was not impossible for him to be imprisoned in Azkaban.

After all, Hagrid was a person with a "criminal record", and he also brought a dangerous 3x-level creature to a group of young wizards who had no ability to protect themselves.

But now that Dumbledore was there, Mike estimated that the final result would be the same as the original book. Dumbledore tried his best to protect Hagrid, and at the same time took out Buckbeak, the beast who had hurt people, to calm the anger of the Malfoy family and give the Malfoy family a way out.

Draco naturally didn't know about all this. In fact, at this moment, he was still looking forward to seeing Harry's angry and sad face after Hagrid, the big fool, was expelled.

Just as Mike was thinking about it, the door of the basement was slammed shut. Mike turned his head and saw Professor Snape walking out of the door in a very dignified manner.

His huge black cloak swayed in the wind with his imposing steps, making him look like a big bat.

With his arrival, some of the conversations in the classroom disappeared quietly. Everyone sat upright, and even the originally cold temperature in the basement classroom felt a few degrees lower.

When Professor Snape walked up to the podium to face everyone, everyone found that Snape was in a bad mood.

Mike naturally knew the reason.

After taking out the Boggart, Lupin's Defense Against the Dark Arts class was very popular. Just as Mike said to Lupin at the beginning of the school year, with Quirrell and Lockhart, these two rotten bricks in front, Lupin could become a pearl in the eyes of students as long as he performed normally.

This is obviously what Snape, Lupin's mortal enemy, did not want to see.

Especially after he went to Gryffindor's Defense Against the Dark Arts class and was severely slapped in the face and humiliated by Lupin.

Since this incident, Snape has been in a bad mood for the past few days. Seeing this, the students naturally would not offend him. After Snape announced the start of the class, they quickly took out various potion materials and tools.

The potion that everyone is going to learn today is the Laughter Potion. After Snape on the stage explained the production process to everyone, he turned his eyes to Draco. When he saw his arm still bandaged, he couldn't help but frowned.

With Snape's level, how could he not see that Draco was pretending to be sick? He originally thought that Draco would remove his disguise after pretending for a while, but he didn't expect that he seemed to be addicted to pretending.

It felt bad to be stared at by Snape. Draco felt that his legs were shaking unconsciously.

Pansy on the side raised her hand excitedly.

She liked Draco, and Draco's arm was injured and he needed someone to help him deal with the potion.

In the last potion class, Professor Snape chose to let Harry, the clumsy guy, help Draco, which made Pansy feel very sorry, so she decided to take the initiative.

Unfortunately, Snape's eyes only stayed on Pansy for a moment before falling on Mike.

"Mike, you come to help Draco deal with the potion."

As soon as this was said, everyone began to whisper. Everyone had heard that Harry was humiliated by Draco in the last potion class, but they didn't expect that it would be Mike's turn this time.

Thinking of this, the Ravenclaws were all angry, and the Slytherins made a few slight laughs.

"Quiet!" Hearing the noise, Snape roared, "No noise in class! Ravenclaw will be deducted 10 points!"

This time, the Ravenclaws and Slytherins didn't dare to speak, but the Slytherins became more arrogant, and their dean still unconditionally favored them.

Mike didn't show much anger, and moved his desk over with a calm expression and put it together with Draco's desk.

He was not surprised that Snape was so against him.

To be honest, Snape was actually a very good potion professor. He even lent Mike a good cauldron when he was in his first year.

In addition, Mike's knowledge of chemistry as a chef made him show a very good talent in potions, which made Snape's attitude towards Mike actually quite good at the beginning.

Unfortunately, all this changed completely after Mike had conflicts with Slytherin students again and again.

It can be said that Snape's attitude towards Mike is only slightly better than Harry's now.

Draco's recent deeds in Hogwarts obviously made him a little inflated, and there was a little more mockery in his eyes when he looked at Mike.

Mike completely ignored Draco's little look, put on dragon leather gloves and reached out to take out a cattail.

Cattail is spherical in shape and covered with thick cream-yellow soft fur.

It is a very cute creature with a gentle temperament and does not reject being hugged or thrown around. Therefore, it has become a very popular pet.

It's a pity that its hair and hair follicles have magical properties and are the materials for making the laughter potion, so Mike needs to pluck its hair.

"Hey, Mike." Draco looked a little bored and talked to Mike, "Did you hear about me being scratched by that damn monster Hagrid?"

Draco raised his arm in front of Mike to show him, but Mike completely ignored him.

This attitude obviously angered Draco, and he raised his eyebrows and said, "I heard that you also rode that beast to heaven in the evening of the first day of school. Did you bow to that beast too? How ridiculous!"

Draco made fun of Mike unscrupulously, and Mike smiled when he heard it, and said, "Actually, I quite agree with your approach to that hippogriff."

"Huh?"

Draco suddenly stopped laughing when he heard it, and looked at Mike with a strange expression.

"To deal with such a magical creature with low IQ, it is the right choice to use violence and threats directly. In fact, I did the same thing that evening." Mike's smile became even brighter. "Do you know why I succeeded with the same method?"

Looking at the smile on Mike's face, Draco's throat moved a little, and he asked nervously, "Why... why?"

"Because I am stronger than you! So... don't mess with me!"

Mike said as he fiercely pulled out a tuft of hair from Pu Rongrong's body.

The pain caused Pu Rongrong to scream in pain, and Draco, who heard the sound, shuddered violently, and cold sweat slid down his cheeks, as if what Mike had just pulled out was his hair. Draco

was a little absent-minded throughout the rest of the class, lowering his head and keeping silent, not even daring to look at Mike.

Mike, on the other hand, didn't care at all, and used the materials on the table to make two doses of laughter potion. His actions were so standard and the potion was so high in quality that even Snape, who wanted to make trouble for Mike, couldn't find any fault.

When Professor Snape announced the end of the class, Draco fled from the underground classroom. Mike looked at Draco's somewhat embarrassed figure and smiled and shook his head.

Draco was still too young after all. He was beaten back to his original form by him so lightly.

Unlike others, Mike did not return to the lounge directly after class, but went directly to Snape's office.

He was going to carry out a dangerous plan today. He went to Snape's storage room and took out an old textbook hidden in the cabinet.

If you have read the original book like Mike, then you should know that what Mike is looking for is the famous Half-Blood Prince textbook.

Half-Blood Prince is the title that Snape gave himself in the second year of middle school. Mike guessed that the reason why Snape called himself a prince might be that he wanted to marry the beautiful girl like a princess in his mind, that is, Harry's mother, Lily.

Because in fairy tales, princesses always marry princes in the end.

Of course, this is just Mike's guess.

After all, the brain circuits of teenagers in the second year of middle school are different from ordinary people, and Mike dare not guarantee the correctness of his guess.

The "Half-Blood Prince's textbook" is actually "Advanced Potion Making" with Snape's class notes.

"Advanced Potion Making" is a textbook for the newt course of potion science, which records a lot of cutting-edge potion knowledge and formulas, and even includes the Felixir potion that Mike used before.

Just knowing the formula does not mean that you can make a finished potion, especially when the content in the textbook is full of loopholes.

That's right, this book that represents the cutting-edge knowledge of potion science is full of loopholes in Snape's view. He had discovered the shortcomings of many potion formulas in it as early as his youth and made improvements to them.

Thanks to it, Harry even made Felixir potion directly after obtaining it in the original book!

Thinking of this, Mike couldn't help but sing praises to Snape's talent!

What kind of talent is this?

The notes written in his teens can actually allow a teenager with extremely poor performance in potion class to directly make the top Felixir potion in potion science!

If this is told to others, it will definitely make countless potion masters ashamed.

In addition, some spells invented by Snape are recorded in these notes, among which the most famous one is 'God of War'!

This is a powerful spell that can release an invisible blade to slash the enemy.

The most insidious thing is that the wound caused by the 'God of War' cannot be cured by ordinary means. The only way Mike knows to treat this kind of injury is to use a special counter-spell to crack it.

Mike's current fighting style is too monotonous. He just shoots fireballs and stabs and stabs. In front of a real strong enemy, he has no power to fight back.

So he urgently needs some powerful attack spells to expand his spell pool.

And the 'God of War' is a good choice. It is powerful, has a long range and fast speed, is silent, and is invisible...

These characteristics make the 'God of War' the most suitable spell for Mike's current fighting style. If used well, it is even stronger than the fire spell.

But it is not easy to get the textbook. Snape is a homebody. Apart from eating, drinking, defecating and attending classes, he almost always stays in his office to do experiments and prepare potions.

Fortunately, Hogwarts has only one professor of potions, so Snape needs to teach all the students in the grade, which means that Snape is very busy.

After studying the class schedule for the whole grade, Mike found an opportunity. After

Snape finishes their class, he still needs to help the first-year students with their classes, which means that there will be no one in Snape's office at this moment.

Thinking of this, the door of Snape's office has appeared in front of Mike.

In the original book, Hermione once sneaked into Snape's office in the second grade to take some special materials, but due to Mike's intervention, this incident did not happen in this world.

So that means that the protection level of Snape's office should still be at a level that a second-year wizard can break through.

But it's not wrong to be careful. Mike still put on armor and the Disillusionment Charm before using the Unlocking Charm on the office.

With a slight sound, the door lock opened.

Mike entered the office carefully and began to look through Snape's locker.

There was an extremely strong smell of potions in Snape's office, which smelled a bit like Chinese medicine and was very unpleasant.

His locker was well organized, with various potions and medicinal materials that Mike knew or didn't know were placed in a strange order.

Mike searched for a while and found the old book "Advanced Potion Making" at the bottom of the locker.

Perhaps Professor Snape was too confident in his authority, so Mike easily took away his textbook.

After leaving the office, Mike went straight to the Room of Requirement without any delay.

He couldn't wait to try the spells in it!