Chapter 253 The Holiday is Over. All

Requests Will Be Responded. In the room, Mike and others were sitting around a round table, carefully looking through the notes provided by Snape.

Everyone was studying very seriously. The room was quiet except for the sound of turning pages and the occasional crackling of candles.

Not long ago, Mike and Snape had a confrontation and Mike won.

After Snape took back his junior high school notebook, he took out several textbooks again. These were densely written with many notes. Many places were even directly smeared out and rewritten after the original content in the textbooks.

It seems that Professor Snape is very disdainful of the content in the Potions textbook.

However, the quality of these textbooks is quite new compared to the Half-Blood Prince's textbooks, and the handwriting on them is also very different from that of the Half-Blood Prince's textbooks.

So these should have been written by Snape later.

Moreover, Mike could see from the content of these textbooks that these were actually Snape's personal preparation materials and research materials.

This is quite amazing.

Snape was able to improve many advanced potions including the Felix Felicis when he was a teenager. Now that he is middle-aged, there is no need to say how impressive his personal research materials are, right?

Moreover, because of Mike's request, the materials Snape provided were all from grade 1 to grade 5. These materials, plus the professional preparation materials of Snape, a senior professor, were completely understandable to Mike and others.

This led to a geometric increase in the level of potions of Mike and others.

In addition, Mike also planned to use these materials to open a potion factory to specialize in making these high-quality potions.

Of course, the establishment of the factory still needs to be considered in the long run, and at least it needs to obtain the drug production qualification certification from the Ministry of Magic.

Among the people who are studying such a precious material, in addition to the original three members of the Freemasons, there are also three new members, the Weasley brothers and Soraka.

Mike held a swearing-in ceremony for the three people as soon as the Christmas holiday ended, and after the ceremony, several people began to study the materials without stopping.

Soraka was the happiest person to read the information. This perverted girl who opened the chest even regretted not joining the Freemasonry earlier.

You have to know that wizard medicine is a complex technology that combines healing spells, potions and herbology, so Snape's information means much more to Soraka than to everyone present.

On the other hand, there was no news in the first few days after Black and others were taken away by Fudge, which made Mike think that there was something unexpected in his plan.

Fortunately, on the fourth day, the public opinion of the entire wizarding society exploded.

All media, including the Daily Prophet, were vying to report on this matter. Among them, the official mainstream media, the Daily Prophet, was relatively restrained. It only speculated and hinted at the truth of Black's affairs, saying that Black had been arrested and the people could rest assured. It did not directly say that Black was innocent.

But other tabloids didn't care so much.

The gossip media, mainly The Quibbler, which had been acquired by Mike, fully demonstrated the nature of the so-called stinking media in a "democratic" society. They began to use various extreme speculations to whitewash Black and attack the Ministry of Magic from various aspects.

Among them, The Quibbler did the most. The title of its article was directly named:

"The Incompetent Ministry of Magic! A hero who has been lingering in front of Dementors for more than ten years!"

There was no substantial evidence in the article to prove that Black was innocent. There was only ridicule and ridicule of the incompetence of the Ministry of Magic.

But such a bullshit report doubled the sales of The Quibbler that week!

Mike was not surprised at all. He had seen too many such things in his previous life. Readers and viewers don't need your article to be reasonable at all. They just need an opportunity to release their long-standing dissatisfaction with the Ministry of Magic. To put it bluntly, they just want to

criticize the Ministry of Magic, and this article is just an excuse.

Coupled with some bystanders who voted with their feet, for a time, the truth of the Black case and the incompetent Ministry of Magic became the biggest gossips that people could eat recently.

The consequence of such great public pressure was that Professor Lupin, who was a "Black accomplice", was released that night.

This made the students of Hogwarts cheer and disappointed Snape.

The students had long been unable to tolerate Snape's teaching method. In his class, this guy only let them learn about werewolves.

And because the knowledge of werewolves is the content near the end of the textbook, it is relatively advanced, so many people can't learn it at all.

But Snape insisted on his own way and even assigned a lot of homework, all of which made the students miserable.

To be honest, Mike felt that Lupin's teaching level was actually just like that, but how to say it? It was all

thanks to his peers!

Mike was not surprised at the Ministry of Magic's approach. In modern times, with many deliberate exaggerations, the law has become justice in the hearts of the people!

But what is the reality?

If you search the word "law" on the Internet using any search engine, you can see from its entry that "law is a tool for the truth to maintain its rule."

According to this theory, in most cases, public opinion is absolutely greater than justice.

In the current situation where the whole society supports Black, Black will not be punished even if he is really guilty.

There is no way, public opinion is like this.

Even Mike believes that the Ministry of Magic did not immediately declare Black innocent after the public opinion explosion. This is the result of poor Mr. Barty Crouch's efforts.

In fact, this is exactly the case. Fudge has not been idle in the past few days.

Peter Pettigrew did not hold out for long under the more terrible torture of the professional interrogators of the Ministry of Magic before he told the truth of the matter.

Fudge, the Minister of Magic, lacks ability in other aspects, but as a true master! In the struggle for truth, he is absolutely professional.

In the past few days, Fudge has used this incident as an opportunity to attack Barty Crouch many times and asked old Barty to retire.

Old Barty was not jealous. He had accumulated a lot of connections in the Ministry of Magic for so many years. With these connections, he survived in this adversity, which led to the trend of turning big things into small things. Although

Fudge's original goal had been achieved at this point, Fudge was not satisfied. He wanted to make old Barty never stand out again!

So, public opinion exploded under the push of a big hand.

Mike believed that old Barty was really finished this time. After

such a thing happened, even if he did not report and retire, at least his position as director would be unstable.

"Dingling da dingling..."

A living yellow bird suddenly flew out of the magic clock in the room of requests. The yellow bird sang a magical tune and flew around the round table where Mike and others were. After reminding people that it was time for dinner, it returned to the clock.

Hearing the sound, Mike and others put down their textbooks, talked and laughed and walked out of the room of requests and came to the auditorium.

At this time, the Christmas holiday was over, and the hall was back to its former bustle.

However, in this hall full of joy, the three saviors, led by Harry, seemed very depressed.

Harry and Ron sat side by side, staring at the empty plates, as if waiting for the teleportation magic to teleport the food in the kitchen to the plates, but from their dead fish eyes, you can see that they were completely in a daze.

Both of them knew the truth about the incident between Blake and Peter through Mike and various newspapers, and this incident was a huge blow to them.

Ron couldn't accept that his lovely mouse Scabbers was actually Peter Pettigrew. When he thought about how he had slept with a middle-aged greasy uncle countless times over the years, and he kissed it...

and then saw the disgusting and hideous photos of Peter published in the newspaper, Ron had no appetite at all, and he even wanted to vomit.

The situation on Harry's side was not optimistic either.

First and foremost, his Firebolt was ruined. Malfoy was right. The Aurors had no ability to restore the Firebolt. What they returned to Harry was just a pile of fragments!

If that was all, it would be fine.

The key point was that Mike told him the truth.

Black, the villain whom he had cursed countless times, was actually a good man? My best friend Ron, his pet rat was the real murderer who killed my parents?

Not only that, Black was actually my godfather? Even this Firebolt was actually a Christmas gift from him to me?

Wait, things took a turn a little too fast. Harry said I couldn't react at all.

Not far from the two of them, Hermione, with dark circles under her eyes, pale face, and even a little higher hairline, was holding a law book like a dictionary and reading it seriously. From time to time, she would take out a pen to make some annotations.

In order to help Hagrid fight the lawsuit, she could be said to have been studying with her life during this period of time. The Christmas vacation that could have been a good rest was all used to study law.

As a result, her body began to be unable to bear the lack of rest for a long time.

Unfortunately, what she did was completely useless in Mike's eyes.

Because she, like many people, did not understand the essence of the law at all.

When Mike came in front of the three people, he saw such a scene. Harry and others did not even notice Mike's arrival.

Mike did not care about it. He just waved his hand, and Franklin placed a cage with an owl on the table in front of Ron.

This owl was specially selected by Mike, so it was very handsome. Its gray and brown feathers, coupled with its sharp big eyes, looked even more handsome than Harry's owl.

Such an owl appeared in front of Ron's eyes and naturally drew his attention back.

Ron's originally scattered pupils gathered again, and after staying on the owl for a while, they fell on Mike again.

Seeing Ron's mouth open with an unworldly look, Mike smiled and said,

"This is for you. Do you like it?"

Ron's eyes lit up immediately after hearing this. He stood up and asked excitedly,

"Really?"

"Of course, I'm sorry about Scabbers." Mike said sincerely, "So this little guy is my apology. I hope it can make you happy again."

Ron's eyes flickered with tears. He had never used anything new since he was a child. Whether he wore or used, they were all second-hand goods replaced by his brothers. Even the rat Scabbers was discarded by his brothers.

He really thought that Mike was a good man.

Mike saw that Ron was speechless and didn't say much. He patted his shoulder gently and looked at Harry.

At this moment, Harry's mood became nervous, and he even had some expectations in his heart.

You know, Mike is a local tyrant now, so will he take out another Firebolt and give it to him?

Harry felt a little ashamed when this idea came out.

I shouldn't think like that. Although Mike is rich, he has no obligation to give me such an expensive gift for free. The damage of the Firebolt has nothing to do with him.

"Harry, I have good news for you." Mike said, "You should have known that Black is your godfather, right? In fact, he should be out soon, so you don't have to be sad about your Firebolt. When he comes out, he will definitely give you another one. Oh

! Don't feel sorry for his money. As long as you ask around, you will know that the Black family is a family with a long history. Sirius is the only direct heir of this family. He has so many gold galleons that he can't use them all in his lifetime."

After Mike finished speaking, he no longer looked at Harry's somewhat complicated expression, but turned to look at Hermione.

Although Hermione was still reading at the moment, what happened to Mike just now still attracted her attention.

Out of curiosity, she instinctively glanced at Mike a few times. She thought she would not be discovered, but she didn't expect to be caught by Mike at this moment.

In a panic, Hermione could only continue to pretend that she was reading, but her slightly trembling hands had already betrayed her inner thoughts.

'Will Mike give me a gift?'

She thought so, and then she found that Mike had come to her and placed a long box in front of her.

"I noticed that you started wearing a necklace, Hermione." Mike opened the box and saw a glittering gold necklace inside. "But if I were to ask you, the one you are wearing now really doesn't match your temperament, so I prepared this for you." Hermione

instinctively touched the chain on her neck.

She knew very well that the pendant hanging on her neck was not an ornament at all, but a time converter!

'Mike knows? No? This is impossible!'

Hermione was screaming wildly in her heart. You must know that Professor McGonagall had an agreement with her that if others knew about the existence of the time converter, she would take back the treasure.

However, the next moment Mike leaned close to her ear and whispered:

"It's better to use the time converter less. This thing achieves its effect by overdrawing life. The most important thing you should do now is to have a good rest. To be honest, you look terrible now."