Chapter 302: Father’s Kindness and Son’s

Filial Piety In the dormitory, in front of Mike stood the two brothers Shuke and Beta and Twinkle and Dobby, four house elves.

Twinkle was staring at Shuke and Beta with envy.

There was no way, compared with Twinkle and Dobby, Shuke and Beta looked much better.

They were all wearing neat, miniature butler uniforms, standing there with their backs straight, looking very energetic.

Although house elves are slaves of wizards, wizards are also more sensitive in giving house elves clothes, but in many cases, the appearance of house elves used to entertain guests can also highlight the financial strength and moral level of the owner.

In Twinkle’s opinion, Mike must be a new owner with abundant financial resources and very kind.

Dobby didn’t think so much. At this moment, he was already too excited to control himself. Just now, he signed a magic contract with Mike with the help of Hermione. He is now a glorious employee of Los Santos Corporation!

Weekly salary of 2 gold galleons! Only need to work 8 hours a day, weekends off!

Dobby felt like he could wake up laughing even in his dreams.

But Shuke, Beta and Winky didn't think so. They despised Dobby, a house-elf scum who needed to be paid for his work, which could be seen from their positions.

The three of them stood as far away from Dobby as possible.

"Well, Beta, Dobby will be in your hands. You can take him to the Los Santos Corporation headquarters later. He will be responsible for the cleaning work there."

Shuke bowed and said yes, then he took Dobby away with a constipated look

on his face. At this moment, Mike finally turned his attention back to Winky.

"Oh! Winky, I'm so glad you can join my family." Mike exclaimed, "I'm glad you're different from Dobby, really. Salary is another aspect, but vacation is the main thing. Maybe you don't know, I have too much work to deal with here. If you also ask for an 8-hour workday and two days off a week like Dobby, it will be too difficult for me!"

"Winky is a good elf! Winky will work hard and will never let the master down!"

Winky shouted excitedly, and Mike's face also showed an ambiguous smile.

"It seems that you can't wait to get into the work, but before that, we have one thing to figure out." Mike paused and continued, "I remember you should have been the house elf of the Crouch family before? Then do you know where little Barty Crouch went?"

Hearing this, Winky's body stiffened suddenly, trembling all over, and a look of fear appeared on his face.

"Little... young master he... he disappeared! Winky doesn't know where he went!"

Just after he finished speaking, Winky began to bang his head against the wall, which is the usual way for house elves to punish themselves.

Mike nodded slightly. He still believed what Winky said. Traditional house elves would never deceive their masters.

"Tell me in detail Winky, how did Barty Crouch disappear?"

"No! Winky can't tell!" Winky continued to bang his head against the wall. "Winky is a bad elf! Winky actually leaked the secret of the previous master!"

Seeing this, Mike did not choose to continue persuading. Instead, he took out a bottle of translucent potion and handed it to Shuke, and ordered him:

"I want to know everything about the Crouch family. Take Winky back and persuade her well. If it doesn't work, use this thing. By the way, do you know how to use this thing?" His

pointed fingers crossed the three words "truth serum" written on the bottle. Shuke nodded firmly, and then forced Winky, who was crying in pain, to leave Mike's dormitory. Nodding

, Mike also took out the Masonic gold coin and went to the magic spell training ground in the secret realm.

He wanted to practice silent and wandless casting here.

It is well known that children with wizarding talent will have at least one burst of magic before the age of eleven. The formation of magic burst is because the magic in the little wizard's body is still in an active but difficult to control stage at this time, so it is often affected by emotions and causes all kinds of abnormal supernatural phenomena around them.

Strictly speaking, this is also a kind of silent and wandless spellcasting.

But after the age of eleven, as the body and personality gradually mature, this natural silent and wandless spellcasting ability will also disappear from the little wizard.

If you want to re-master these two abilities, you need strong talent and hard work.

The skills of silent spells and wandless spells are actually not a secret, but there are very few wizards who really master them.

Because if you want to master these two spellcasting techniques, you must fully understand the principles of spell formation, but this means that you have to learn spells one by one, because each spell works completely differently.

At the same time, you also need to have a strong control over magic power, because your actions of waving the wand and chanting the spell are actually guiding the magic power to run along the set trajectory to become a complete spell, which is a kind of fool-style casting. Now that you have lost the guidance of these two, the magic power needs to be completely controlled by yourself. During this period, if your control over the magic power is insufficient, there will be a slight error in the trajectory of the magic power. In addition, without the super-strong increase in the power of the magic wand, the power of the released spell will be greatly reduced.

In order to perfectly replicate the spell, the control required is extremely exaggerated, and Mike is still far from it at present.

Therefore, Mike's research on silent spells and wandless spells is actually a thankless act.

Because the power of the silent spells and wandless spells he releases now is much weaker than that of the one he releases with the wand.

But there is no way. Mike's current strength has reached a stable and slow rise period. He can no longer find any way to make his strength soar again, so he can only practice silent and wandless spells to enhance his response methods when facing special situations in the future.

At the same time, he often uses silent and wandless spells to exercise his magic control ability. The power of magic control after reaching the extreme can only be described as terrifying!

According to Mike's speculation, if he can really reach that height that only exists in theory, then he doesn't need to understand its mechanism and principle when releasing the spell. The magic in his body will automatically generate supernatural phenomena according to his thoughts, which is equivalent to having a certain degree of wish-fulfillment ability! For example

, there is a big river without a bridge in front of you, and you can't cross it.

You think about flying over it.

Then the next moment you will find that you are floating.

Or, what you thought at that time was that it would be nice if there was a bridge.

Then the next moment the soil and rocks on the surrounding shore will automatically deform and reorganize to form a bridge.

Or go a step further and you want to make the river disappear.

Then the next moment the river disappears inexplicably!

Of course, this is only an ideal state in theory, and Mike estimates that he will never reach this level in his lifetime.

But he still needs to continue to practice his magic control. After all, the improvement of this ability will also increase the power of his spells.

Now that the decisive battle is imminent, he must make good use of all his spare time and improve his strength as much as possible.

When Mike returned to the dormitory after a day of training, he saw the house elves Shuke and Shanshan waiting for him.

Shanshan looked no different from before, but in addition to respect, there was also a bit of fear in his eyes when he looked at Mike.

"Master! Shanshan has told everything she knows."

After that, Shuke respectfully returned the truth serum and a roll of parchment to Mike.

Looking at the completely unopened truth serum, Mike was a little surprised.

He really didn't expect that Shuke could make Winky talk without using truth serum. Was it because Shuke's interrogation skills were too advanced or Winky's loyalty to the Crouch family was far less than it seemed?

Although he thought so in his heart, Mike, who was exhausted after a day of practice, did not ask, but directly unfolded the parchment.

As Mike expected, the things recorded on it were the story of the Crouch father and son.

After Barty Crouch Jr. was imprisoned, Mrs. Crouch was heartbroken and forced Barty to take her to Azkaban on the pretext of visiting her son.

However, they used the strategy of replacing the prince with a cat. Mrs. Crouch took the polyjuice potion and turned into Barty Jr., then committed suicide and died in Azkaban.

Barty Jr. turned into Mrs. Crouch and escaped from Azkaban.

Although Barty Jr. knew about this matter in advance and agreed to it, he inevitably hated his son after his wife died.

In addition, Barty Jr. was too deeply brainwashed by Voldemort, and he still had evil intentions after being rescued. Barty Sr. controlled him with the Imperius Curse and locked him up.

This made Barty Jr.'s mental condition, which was not very good to begin with, continue to deteriorate, and he was almost on the verge of collapse.

Winky, the house elf who had been taking care of Barty Jr., couldn't bear it anymore, so he suggested that Barty Jr. go to watch his favorite Quidditch World Cup, and promised that this would improve his mental condition.

It turned out that Barty Sr. still loved his son. Although he repeatedly released the Imperius Curse on Barty Jr. several times before letting him watch the game, he finally let Winky accompany him to watch the game.

Unfortunately, Barty Jr. had become resistant to the Imperius Curse due to being controlled by it for a long time.

He took advantage of the riot at the Quidditch World Cup to escape!

This is all that was recorded on the parchment.

And Mike already knew what happened next.

Barty Jr. couldn't bear the joy of regaining his freedom, and he picked up a wand as soon as he escaped, and released the Reappearance of the Corpse to announce his return.

Then he hid in the dark and chose to continue to serve Voldemort.

'This is really a loving father and a filial son! '

After reading the parchment, Mike sighed deeply and said to the trembling Winky:

"You should also go to the Los Santos Corporation headquarters in the future to help the staff there, serve tea and water, etc. I believe the people there will welcome you very much."

Winky bowed to Mike gratefully and then disappeared into the dormitory with Shuke.

...

As time got closer and closer to Christmas, the news of the Christmas dance gradually spread, and it was not until this time that everyone understood what the dresses they were asked to prepare on the notice when they entered school this year were used for.

For this dance, everyone showed unprecedented enthusiasm.

You know, this dance is different from the usual Christmas dinner. At this dance, you need to dance with a partner!

This is a good opportunity for many couples to enhance their feelings, and it is an excellent opportunity for those single dogs who are eager for love to get out of singleness!

Everyone started to move. People were everywhere in Hogwarts inviting others to be their dance partners, as if they were afraid that if they were slow to act, the partner would be snatched away.

Mike and other warriors were the main targets of invitation.

Harry, Fleur and Krum were all single, so they were besieged at the first time.

Fleur and Krum received the most invitations, after all, the men were tall and handsome, and the women were beautiful and had good figures.

On the other hand, although everyone knew that Mike had been with Penelope for a long time, the number of girls who invited him did not decrease at all. After all, as the saying goes, if you use the hoe well, there is no corner that you cannot dig.

But they still underestimated the relationship between Mike and Penelope.

No matter how hard they tried, Mike's response to them was still a polite refusal, which disappointed them.

As for Harry, a warrior who was neither high nor low, he received much fewer invitations than the above three.

In the beginning, Harry was still very happy about this.

After all, although Mike and his friends are quite popular, those fanatical female fans have seriously affected their lives. Krum even hid in Durmstrang's ship to avoid those female fans. It can be seen that sometimes being too popular is not a good thing.

When faced with those rare girls who invited him, Harry also chose to decline.

He already had someone he wanted to invite.

That was Qiu Zhang.

Harry still remembers that afternoon. He had just finished Quidditch training, and the sweaty smell on his body made him eager to go back and take a shower.

But at this time Qiu Zhang appeared.

She came over and greeted him with a smile.

Harry didn't remember everything after that. He only remembered that Qiu Zhang smelled good and Qiu Zhang's smile was beautiful. As soon as he saw her, his heartbeat would suddenly speed up!

Mike had known Qiu Zhang for a long time. As a Gryffindor seeker, it was necessary for him to know the seekers of other teams.

But he really didn't expect that Qiu Zhang would be so beautiful after taking off her Quidditch equipment!

During that time, even Harry would dream about Qiu Zhang's smile.

"Maybe Ron is not the only one who has reached puberty."

Harry muttered, and his thoughts could not help but return to the afternoon when he met her. He felt that he had fallen in love with Qiu Zhang.