Chapter 259 Buckbeak finally gets free and takes the exam

"Steal it out!?"

Mike's answer made Hermione completely confused. As a top student who takes rules very seriously (she thinks so), although she really wants to save Buckbeak, she has always thought about achieving her goals through formal legal channels and has never thought about stealing, which is an illegal act.

"This... can this be done?"

"What else do you think we should do? Just by reading two law books, can you take a lawsuit to save Buckbeak?" Mike raised his eyebrows and teased, "You might as well go to bed now, you can dream about anything!"

Hearing this, Hermione was very unconvinced and instinctively wanted to refute. But when she thought about it carefully, it seemed that it was indeed the case, and her originally angry expression became low.

"Listen, stealing Buckbeak before the executioner from the Ministry of Magic comes is the most direct way." Mike explained, "Don't worry, the process this time is the same as the last time we transported the dragon. We just need to contact Ron's brother and ask them to come and pick up Buckbeak. The Ministry of Magic will never think that we will transport Buckbeak abroad."

Hermione thought about it carefully and it seemed to be true. She started to think about it, but as she thought about it, she suddenly thought of a loophole in Mike's plan.

"Then...what about Hagrid? If we let Buckbeak run away, the people in the Ministry of Magic will definitely think that Hagrid let him go. Oh my God! They will put him in Azkaban!" Hermione shouted, holding her head.

"Don't worry, with Hagrid's personality, he will definitely agree. And what misunderstanding do you have about the Ministry of Magic? How could they put someone in Azkaban for such a small matter?"

"But Malfoy..."

"He was just trying to scare you! The Ministry of Magic is not run by his family, and he just has a few dollars!" Mike interrupted Hermione and said, "Don't forget, his family is a Death Eater, do you think the high-ranking officials of the Ministry of Magic will look at him well? At best, they just want his family's gold Galleons."

Now Hermione had nothing to say, so she could only follow Mike to contact Hagrid, Ron and others.

After they told Hagrid about the matter, Hagrid's reaction was completely within Mike's expectations. He agreed without any hesitation, and at the same time, he said with tears in his eyes that he had completely wronged Mike before, and Mike was a good boy. It was so corny that Mike almost got goose bumps.

As for Ron, when Mike and Hermione found him, he was cramming with Harry using Hermione's notes. The exam was coming soon. The chosen ones like Mike and the top students like Hermione had already made full preparations, but people like Ron and Harry could only cram at the last minute.

Just by looking at Ron's face full of resentment, Mike could guess that he must be very envious of Harry at this moment.

Because Harry was an orphan, his only remaining aunt's family would not change their attitude towards him just because he failed the exam.

But Ron was different. If he dared to take more than two Ds in this exam, his mother would definitely skin him alive.

Thinking of this, the resentment on his face deepened a little. It

was all his fault. Why were his grades so good? If they were also poor students like him, his mother would not be so strict with him.

Ron thought so.

Although they were very busy, when Mike found them and asked them to help, Ron and Harry agreed without hesitation.

Hermione was very happy and said that she would come to help Harry and Ron review in person after sending Buckbeak away.

Thus, the Buckbeak rescue team was formed.

The next thing was very simple. After Ron sent a letter to his second brother Charlie who was raising dragons in Romania (of course not by owl, but by wizard post office. Messengers will use portkeys to send letters across borders and then deliver the letters to the destination. Those who want to use owls to send letters across borders, are you devils?), Charlie agreed very straightforwardly after explaining the situation. He said that if it wasn't for the fact that Ron was his brother, he would definitely slam dunk on someone's head if he dared to put such a messy thing as a hippogriff into his breeding farm.

So, on the night before the exam, Mike and Harry, who was wearing an invisible cloak, carefully slipped out of the castle and came to Hagrid's hut.

Poor Buckbeak was about to be executed by the Ministry of Magic, so he had been tied to a wooden stake not far from Hagrid's hut for the past few days. Buckbeak, who yearned for freedom, was very sad. He might never be able to fly again.

Although it was sad, it still had the necessary vigilance.

It had discovered Mike and his group long before Mike came to it, and immediately stood up and roared in Mike's direction, trying to scare them in this way.

But when Mike and others really approached, Buckbeak immediately fell silent, and began to bow to the leader Mike with a wronged look on his face.

It still remembered the little man with golden hair, and it was this little man who almost killed it!

"Okay, let's do it."

Mike observed the surroundings for a while and found that no one was guarding, so he gave orders to Harry and others behind him.

Harry and others quickly got out of the invisibility cloak, and together with Hagrid beside him, they carried out the iron cage that Hagrid had prepared long ago from the woods.

Hagrid had put a lot of thought into this cage. Not only was it very large, but he also carefully laid a thick layer of hay under the cage and even put a lot of raw meat inside. He looked like he was sending his son on a long journey. He didn't consider how hard it would be for Charlie and his colleagues to send this big cage and Buckbeak away. As

expected, when Charlie and his colleagues arrived at the scene, their expressions suddenly dropped.

Damn, how could they carry such a big iron cage full of raw meat and Buckbeak on their flying brooms? Charlie

almost instinctively wanted to throw away all the raw meat in the iron cage. There was plenty of this kind of stuff in Romania anyway, but Hagrid stopped him.

Hagrid was already a gamekeeper when Charlie and his colleagues were still in school, so he was not polite to Charlie at all. He directly said that if Charlie dared to throw away the dry food for his precious Buckbeak on the road, he would cry in front of Charlie.

As he spoke, he even cried directly.

Charlie and his colleagues looked at each other, and finally they could only satisfy Hagrid's needs.

There was no other way. When Charlie was young, he also liked to go to the Forbidden Forest like his two brothers, so he was less cared for by Hagrid.

Now Hagrid needs his help, he can't just sit back and do nothing.

So, when Charlie and others dragged a huge iron cage and gradually disappeared into the night sky, Hagrid finally smiled.

"Thank you so much! I invite you to dinner! How about rock skin biscuits with broth? This is my favorite!"

Hagrid said, wiping the tears that were still flowing on his face.

"No, we have an exam tomorrow!"

Mike and others answered almost in unison.

After that, without waiting for Hagrid's answer, they hurriedly said goodbye and returned to the castle.

Hagrid was left standing alone outside the desolate woods.

"What a group of good kids!"

Hagrid stared blankly at the direction where Mike and others disappeared, and after a while, he blew his nose and said.

...

No matter how reluctant Ron and Harry were, the day of the exam finally came.

Compared to Ron and Harry who had to make up all kinds of tragic ways of their own death and curse themselves to pass the Divination exam, Mike was obviously much more relaxed, because his attainments in the main subjects of spells, potions and ancient magic were far beyond the teaching progress of the third grade at Hogwarts.

Take the exam of the ancient magic class for example. The young female professor took everyone's learning progress into consideration and gave the question of writing a diary in ancient magic and reciting it on the spot with standard ancient magic pronunciation.

This may be difficult for some students who don't listen carefully in class or have insufficient language talent, but it is a piece of cake for Mike who has already applied the ancient magic technology to alchemy.

Unfortunately, Mike felt that his ancient magic score might not be too high, because the expression on the professor's face when listening to him reading was as ugly as if he had eaten something disgusting.

And after the exam, he found Mike and earnestly advised him not to focus all his attention on the study of ancient magic, but to spend some time on the study of writing.

Mike understood what she meant. Wasn't it that he was bad at writing?

But what did it matter? He was a poor author who made a living by writing novels.

So he simply let the professor's words go in one ear, and after turning it around in his mind, it flew out of the other ear naturally.

These were all small things. Mike would never have thought that the only exam that made him feel uncomfortable was Muggle Studies!

A course that he just took to make up the numbers!

To be honest, Mike never attended this course except for the first few classes.

That's right, you can skip elective courses at Hogwarts, as long as you are not afraid of losing house points and getting zero points in the exam.

His behavior undoubtedly made the professor of Muggle Studies very angry, so during the exam, the professor who was invigilating almost didn't go anywhere, just stared at Mike, and would scold him directly if Mike showed any sign of wanting to fill in the blanks.

But that would be fine. Mike believed that as a senior Muggle, he could still complete the Muggle Studies exam.

However, the test paper in front of Mike was too weird.

Just like this question.

What do Muggles like to do most?

Mike was completely confused when he saw this question. How could he know what all humans like to do?

Also, are you sure this question is not a brain teaser?

After thinking hard for a long time, he finally wrote down a shameful answer under the professor's gaze.

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Don't blame Mike for his dirty thoughts, but he could think of the most likely thing that all humans like to like is this, after all, reproduction is the instinct of human beings!

However, the next moment, the female professor whose name he couldn't even call out slapped Mike on the head.

"You...are you deliberately humiliating me?" The professor with glasses yelled with a red face, "The answer is drinking! How could it be possible to do that kind of thing!"

The professor immediately regretted it after yelling, because she reported the correct answer.

Unfortunately, it was too late. Many students suddenly realized something and started writing furiously.

The professor's favorability towards Mike became even lower.

"But teacher, why do Muggles like to drink the most?"

Mike asked weakly. It

would have been fine if he hadn't asked. Once he asked, the professor was furious and slapped him again.

"Do you dare to question my authority? This is the answer I got from more than a dozen Muggles using truth serum!" The professor roared, "It seems that the famous Townley is just like this. A Muggle-born wizard doesn't even know this common sense!"

After that, she walked away proudly, looking at her expression as if she had just won a war.

Mike rubbed the back of his head, daring to be angry but not to speak, and at the same time he was madly complaining in his heart.

Damn, do you have any misunderstandings about common sense?

And even if you want to conduct a sample survey, the survey base is too small. And according to the answer you got, you probably went to the bar to conduct a sample survey, didn't you?

Also, is it really good to use truth serum on Muggles without authorization? People who use truth serum are likely to become idiots!

Mike, who was holding back his anger, simply stopped concentrating on the exam. He filled in the questions on the test paper randomly and rushed out of the exam room angrily.

Behind him, there was the roar of the professor.

Mike's behavior was extremely bad. After all, confronting the professor in front of so many students would hit the professor's dignity, so no matter what school it was, the punishment for such things was very strict.

But Mike didn't care, because Hogwarts would never expel him for this matter.

And as long as he was not expelled, the remaining punishment methods would not threaten Mike at all.

Deduct college points and give zero points in the exam?

You deducted it, Mike is now past the stage of relying on good grades to prove himself.

Put in detention? It's

up to you. With Professor Flitwick in your detention place, it will always be Professor Flitwick's office.

So Mike walked very happily, and when he came to his dormitory happily and opened a letter sent to him, he was even happier.

Because this letter was an invitation to him to go to the Merlin Knights to receive the Merlin Second Class Medal!