Chapter 254 Changes in the Student Mutual Aid Association

On the first weekend after the Christmas holiday, Benjamin walked in the corridor.

Because it was only 7 o'clock, this corridor that was once bustling seemed a little deserted. I guess most people were still sleeping in bed at this time.

Hogwarts in January was particularly cold. Even the bright sunshine outside the castle could not melt the stubborn ice and snow.

Although the weather was very cold, Benjamin's heart was hot.

His dream was to become a pharmacist.

But he was just an ordinary Muggle wizard. He had no great family, let alone amazing talent. If nothing unexpected happened, he should have gotten a graduation grade that was neither low nor high, and then got a job that could barely make a living.

But now it's different, because an accident happened!

The Los Santos Company's financial aid plan!

Because of it, Benjamin now finally has money to conduct potion experiments outside the classroom!

Although he didn't take the exam, Benjamin believed that his potion class grades were steadily improving after getting the loan from the Los Santos Company.

Because Professor Snape hasn't scolded him for a long time!

This doesn't make sense, because Professor Snape's expression has been very bad recently, and it can be seen that he is in a bad mood, but he didn't scold himself.

Then there is only one answer, his potion level is really improving! There

are definitely more than one people who have the same experience as him. Although Hogwarts is nominally a completely free school, in fact, for these Muggle-born wizards, they can only receive basic education. Unless you are really talented, you can't learn the most advanced knowledge at all!

Because Hogwarts's advanced knowledge is only open in the last two years, and all of them are knowledge like alchemy that is both expensive and obscure!

No talent and no money?

You'd better go to bed.

When Benjamin thought of this, a flame burned in his heart!

Benjamin walked very fast, but he was stunned when he passed the hall.

At the corner of the Ravenclaw table, a young man with dazzling golden hair like gold was sitting there with his head propped up.

That was Mike, the boss of Los Santos Company and also his sponsor.

Benjamin recognized his identity almost the moment he saw that figure.

It was this person in front of him who gave him the opportunity to become a better person!

Benjamin was so excited that he could not control himself. He wanted to rush up and hug Mike right now, and then thank him!

But he held back after all. He took a deep breath for a while, finally loosened his tightly clenched fist, turned around and went to the agreed place with the sponsors at a faster speed.

Wait, Mike. I am not good enough now. I will repay you with practical actions after I become a better person!

Benjamin thought to himself.

Mike in the auditorium had no idea that he was almost hugged by a man just now. At this moment, he was waiting for Hermione.     Last night, Hermione suddenly asked him to come to the auditorium early in the morning, but now it was almost the agreed time, but Hermione still did not show up.     Mike sighed, looked up at the clock, and then lowered his head to think again. Recently,

there     seemed to be some unexpected changes in his financial aid plan.     His behavior of prohibiting junior students from taking out loans and setting up a stricter review mechanism not only made those who were prohibited from taking out loans very dissatisfied, but also seemed to make those who were eligible for loans more united.     This unity made the Student Mutual Aid Association, which Mike originally thought was just a "debtors' exchange meeting", suddenly become a united and vibrant organization.     Those senior sponsored students not only organized study sessions every weekend, but also designed a logo for the Student Mutual Aid Association.     A pattern of a wand passing through a gear diagonally.     It is said that the wand represents the magic of the wizarding society, and the gear represents the science of the Muggle society.     The combination of the two represents that these Muggle-born wizards have mastered the supernatural power of magic, and have not forgotten science!     Mike was stunned when he got the news.     God! His own Freemasonry does not have an emblem yet!     But this also proves how much those members love this "debtors' exchange meeting". They     even have a sense of superiority!     If you don't enter this student mutual aid association, you will be despised by them.     Because if you want to borrow money from the Los Santos student aid program, you need to go through a strict review. If you fail the review, it means that the person being reviewed has no investment potential at all.     Superiority, can you believe this?     This is the first time Mike has heard that debt can make you feel superior!     But no matter how bad it is, Mike is still happy to see this happen.     Because since these people have a sense of superiority, their grades have indeed been steadily improving, and even the speed at which some of them improve their abilities can be called talented.     For example, Benjamin, who wants to be a pharmacist, it is not something that ordinary people can do to avoid being scolded by Snape in recent times.     On the other hand, he found that these guys who owed him money seemed to be very grateful to him.     No, this is no longer a simple gratitude. Mike feels that they seem to have begun to worship him!     They are even collecting photos of him, Mike! Almost everyone has one!     And the contributor of the photos is Harry's former die-hard fan, Colin, who took a Muggle camera to take pictures of Harry all day long.     That's right, it was once, and now his idol has become Mike.     Of course, Mike was also the target of the secret photo.     Mike was extremely annoyed by this because Colin was even better than the most dedicated paparazzi in his previous life. You could never predict when and where Colin would suddenly appear and take a photo of you.

最夸张的一次是麦克正蹲在厕所隔间里解决个人问题的时候突然听见咔嚓一声，同时头顶白光一闪。

紧接着当他抬起头来的时候便见科林正举着照相机，一脸狂热的看着他。

接下来就不用多说了。

科林被麦克按在厕所里狠狠的揍了一顿，而自此以后科林就再也不敢偷拍麦克，但凡要拍照就必定会事先询问麦克。

除了科林这个奇葩之外，学生互助会的其他成员还算是比较正常的，最起码没有什么突然冲出来抱住他这种事情发生。

所以麦克对他们也就没有多加管制，甚至还另外多加了一些高级知识进入了互助会的共享图书资料里，其中就包括了斯内普魔药知识当中的一部分。

'希望他们不要让我失望啊，好好努力吧，尽量成为更好的人，然后为我所用吧。'

如此想着，麦克又抬头看了一下时钟。

而在抬头的一瞬间，魔法时钟的分钟指针和小时指针猛的一动，时间来到了和赫敏约好的8点整。

The next moment, Mike felt someone suddenly patted his shoulder.

"Hey, Mike, you're here so early."

"Because I thought you would come earlier, but I didn't expect you to be so punctual."

Needless to say, the person who came must be Hermione.

Mike turned around after saying that, and the person who appeared in front of him was indeed Hermione with dark circles under her eyes.

Seeing this, Mike frowned and asked, "You didn't rest well again? Don't you have a time turner? Can't you just turn back time and sleep?"

"Shh! Keep your voice down!" Hermione hurriedly covered Mike's mouth, and looked around again. Seeing that there was no one around, she breathed a sigh of relief. "The time turner has a daily limit. If I use it too frequently, I will probably find out myself!"

"So you squeeze your rest time so that you have more time to study?"

This time Hermione stopped talking. She heard annoyance in Mike's words.

To be honest, she also wanted to rest, but there were too many classes, and she also needed to flip through a lot of legal documents to help Hagrid, so she had even less time to sleep.

Seeing her lower her head and not speaking, Mike felt a little sorry for her, so he said:

"Okay, your body is your own, I don't care about you! What do you want to talk to me about today? Tell me now."

Hermione's face immediately broke into a smile when she heard it, she knew that Mike just said it in anger.

"I found a big secret!" Hermione whispered in Mike's ear, "Professor Lupin is actually a werewolf!"

The hot air from Hermione's mouth made Mike's ears a little itchy, he instinctively dodged back and heard the second half of Hermione's words.

Then, he stretched out his hand to scratch his still itchy ear, and said nonchalantly: "Oh? Really?"

Hermione was obviously very dissatisfied with Mike's reaction. In her opinion, Mike should be shocked to the point of falling off the chair.

Seeing her deliberately turning her head away and pouting her lips to pretend to be angry, Mike smiled and said,

"Isn't this hard to guess? Snape has already hinted at us in class, and he almost whispered in our ears to tell us that Lupin is a werewolf."

"Yes! It's not hard to guess at all!"

Hermione stamped her feet fiercely, turned around and ignored Mike completely.

Mike secretly said that it was not good to show off for no reason. Now Hermione was really angry.

"Oh, don't be angry, let's talk about business." Mike began to change the subject, "Have you told anyone else about this?"

"No!"

"That's good, Lupin is a good teacher, I want to take a few more classes from him."

As soon as this was said, Mike and Hermione fell silent. If Lupin's werewolf identity was announced, then there is no need to say more about his fate, he would definitely be expelled.

Parents of students will not allow a werewolf to teach their children!

Although Lupin's identity was exposed sooner or later, Mike still planned to delay it as long as possible.

The reason was not that he liked Lupin's class, but that he didn't want to take Snape's class.

There was no other way. Ever since he made a 'deal' with Snape last time, Snape had been targeting Mike desperately. This was really a bit confusing.

After a moment of silence, Mike came out of his sad mood and said to Hermione seriously:

"Hermione, do you want to join my student mutual aid association? Although you must accept a loan from Los Santos Corporation to join, you only need to borrow one Galleon."

"Forget it, I'm already very busy now and don't have time to participate in other activities."

"Then don't regret it. Now the mutual aid association is full of excellent senior students, and they will also hold study sessions regularly."

Hermione's eyes lit up when she heard it.

"Really? Then I'll join."

"Okay, they are having a meeting in the Charms classroom, it's just right for you to go there now." Mike waved his hand and said, "If someone stops you, just say I asked you to go there."

"Got it!"

After that, Hermione left the hall in a hurry.

Mike looked at Hermione's back and smiled and shook his head. Hermione was good in every way, but she was too obsessed with studying.

But this was not a shortcoming. For Mike, as long as a woman was pretty and cute, it was enough!

I wonder if wizards in the wizarding society can have two wives?

It seems that I have to check it out later.

Thinking of this, Mike left the hall and returned to the Ravenclaw common room.

The clock had reached 8:10, but the Ravenclaw common room was still empty.

Mike stood in front of the statue of Ravenclaw and whispered the familiar spell in a voice that only he could hear.

The moment the spell was finished, a ray of blue light bloomed on the statue of Ravenclaw, and then Mike disappeared in the Ravenclaw common room.

When Mike stood firm again, he was already in a vast indoor square.

The square was full of ruins, which were caused by his battle with Geralt.

Yes, this is the secret place of Ravenclaw.

After a year, Mike finally came here again.

And this time he came here not for sightseeing, but to build a base.

At present, the headquarters of their Freemasonry is the Room of Requirement. Although the conditions of the Room of Requirement are very good and can almost meet all of Mike's needs, it has a shortcoming that Mike can't stand at all.

That is, it is not secret enough.

The Room of Requirement is like a treasure. Almost every generation of students will find it.

In the eyes of many people, the Room of Requirement is not a secret at all in the eyes of Hogwarts for so many years. The reason why they kept the secret was just because of bad taste.

This is like the sorting ceremony of Hogwarts.

Everyone will keep it secret from the freshmen who have not yet enrolled, and try to exaggerate the difficulty of the sorting ceremony so that they can see how nervous they are.

The seniors who have discovered the Room of Requirement are the same. They like to maliciously reveal some insignificant or even seriously misleading clues to their juniors, and then let them scratch their heads to find this treasure room.

Although they may not see the bald heads of the juniors, it is very cool just to think about it, isn't it?