Chapter 307 Hagrid's Love
Many things have signs before they happen, such as animals in the mountains and forests will be very uneasy before an earthquake, and dragonflies usually fly lower before it rains.
In the past, these signs were regarded as the revelation of the gods to mankind. However, after scientific in-depth research on these signs, people understood a truth from them.
Everything in the world is carried out according to the law of cause and effect!
Goyle and Crabbe became Chris's followers, which is a result, and Mike is very interested in the cause of this result.
He thinks that if he digs deeper, he is likely to find some interesting things.
You must know that everyone in Hogwarts knows that Goyle and Crabbe are Draco Malfoy's loyal followers.
Everyone even made up a lot of stories about their relationship. The most recognized version is that Goyle and Crabbe's families are dependent on the Malfoy family, and their fathers are old Malfoy's iron subordinates, so their sons naturally become Malfoy's followers.
People always say that rumors are not credible, but there is one thing in this rumor that is indeed correct.
That is, the Malfoy family has a very good relationship with the families of Goyle and Crabbe, and the families of Goyle and Crabbe have been licking the Malfoy family for many years in order to gain more benefits.
However, now even Goyle and Crabbe have given up Draco and chosen Chris. Does this mean that Chris can give them far more benefits than the Malfoy family?
Mike sent some core members of his mutual aid association to find out information about Slytherin.
This is not an easy task. Slytherin is the most closed college among the four colleges. Their lounge does not welcome any non-Slytherin students to enter, even if you are pure blood. If you insist on entering, you will only be greeted with endless curses.
Although the task is very difficult, the elite of the mutual aid association did not disappoint Mike after all. On the second weekend after the Christmas holiday, a thick report was placed in Mike's dormitory.
After reading the report, Mike's face immediately showed a trace of astonishment.
This is not because Mike's Qi cultivation skills are not good enough, but the content of the report is really amazing!
Chris! This guy actually integrated most of the power of the entire Slytherin Academy as a fourth-year student and became the uncrowned king of Slytherin!
Nowadays, even Snape, the dean, has to discuss with Chris in advance when making some major decisions!
This is absolutely impossible in other colleges, but Slytherin is different.
Everyone in Slytherin is a sophisticated egoist, and the only thing that can make them bend is interests and powerful to despair.
Mike really hopes that Chris conquered those Slytherins with the former, because if that's all, Chris is not a strong enemy. After all, this world still depends on strength.
But the content of the report ruthlessly shattered his fantasy.
Chris, he defeated everyone including prospective graduates in a private duel in Slytherin with a crushing attitude, making all Slytherin people bow their proud heads to him.
"This is unscientific!"
Mike rubbed his temples. Chris's sudden appearance gave him a headache.
There is no description of this character in the original book!
God knows what kind of adventure he encountered to become what he is now!
Mike even suspected that he was possessed by a time traveler!
Fortunately, Chris's current strength should be weaker than his own, which can be seen from the fact that the Hogwarts chosen by the Goblet of Fire is still Mike.
Of course, if Chris did not put his name into the Goblet of Fire at all, it would be another story.
Wait!
Could it be that Chris really did not sign up for the Triwizard Tournament?
Mike's face sank when he thought of this.
If this is really the case, then Chris is too scary!
Mike began to bury his head in writing a letter, and left the Ravenclaw Common Room straight after he finished writing.
He wanted to mobilize all his strength to find out more about Chris, including the attitudes of the families behind Chris' followers towards Chris.
For this, he would not hesitate to attract Dumbledore's attention again!
However, he had just walked out of the Ravenclaw Common Room when he saw Harry pacing anxiously at the eagle-head door knocker.
"Mike! Thank God you finally came out!" When Harry saw Mike coming out, he immediately came over with shining eyes and said, "Hagrid is in big trouble! After thinking about it, I think only you can help him!"
Mike took the letter and did not ask Harry the embarrassing question of why he didn't come to the lounge to find him. He said directly:
"Let's talk while we walk. As you can see, I have some urgent letters to mail."
After that, Mike walked quickly towards the Owl Tower.
Harry followed at a trot and said,
"That reporter named Rita! She wrote another article saying a lot of bad things about Hagrid and that he and Ms. Maxime are in love!"
"Oh! I have to say, they are very compatible in terms of physique and half-giant bloodline."
"You knew they were half-giants a long time ago!"
Harry screamed in surprise. Mike rubbed his ears that were hurt by the shock and looked at Harry with a look of stupidity and said,
"With Hagrid's exaggerated figure, this shouldn't be hard to guess, right? Hmm? You can't really have a normal person who can grow to the height and figure of Hagrid and Maxime, right?"
Mike's question stunned Harry for a moment and his steps also stopped.
Mike ignored him and continued to walk quickly.
After a while, Harry caught up and said breathlessly,
"That's not the point. The key point is that a lot of people are making fun of Hagrid for being half-giant. Now he stays in his hut crying all day and doesn't even go to class! What's worse is that those who hate Hagrid even asked their parents to write a complaint letter to Dumbledore, trying to kick Hagrid out of Hogwarts!"
Finally they arrived at the Owl Tower, and Mike's pace slowed down, which made Harry feel relieved. Mike's speed was too fast, and he was a little overwhelmed.
"So, what do you want me to do?"
Harry's face choked when he heard that. He opened his mouth slightly, watching Mike skillfully tie the letter to the public owl's feet, and after a while he stammered:
"Emmm, I... I don't know. I just think you will always have a way, after all, you are always so omnipotent, everything will become smooth in your hands..."
The second half of Harry's words became unclear, and Mike fed each of the owls some bread, and turned around after watching them take off smoothly.
"I'm sorry, Harry, no one is omnipotent, and I can't help Hagrid with this matter." Mike said seriously, "The hardest thing to change in the world is people's thinking, like discrimination based on bloodline. So many great people including Dumbledore have worked hard for so long, but now the purebloods still call people like me mudbloods.
There is no solution to Hagrid's problem. It's a fact that everyone doesn't like Hagrid, and it won't help even if I go to their homes and beat up each of them.
So, I advise you to let Hagrid see things more open-mindedly. At least Dumbledore will never drive Hagrid away, and that's enough."
Harry lowered his head and remained silent. Although he couldn't see his face, Mike knew without looking at him that Harry must be depressed at the moment.
"Although I can't help you with this matter, at least I can do something about another matter!" Mike patted Harry on the shoulder and said, "Rita Skeeter, that girl is an illegal Animagus like Sirius, and her transformed form is a flying beetle. It is also because of this ability that she often turns into a beetle to spy on others, and then writes about other people's embarrassments and secrets into articles to make a profit.
I handed this matter and related evidence to the Ministry of Magic last week, and I believe a week is enough time for the Ministry of Magic to arrest her.
If nothing unexpected happens, that article should be the last article in her life, and she will stay in Azkaban for decades."
"Ah!?" Harry raised his head and looked at Mike in surprise and joy, "Why did you do this? Of course, I don't mean to blame you, but you don't seem to have any grudge against her, so I think it's a bit strange..." "
Who said I have no grudge against her? The last time she wrote an article implying that Fleur and I were in love, it caused Penelope and I to have a big fight!"
Harry's face showed a look of realization when he heard this, and then he said viciously:
"People like her should be locked up!"
Mike smiled and didn't say anything. Instead, he put his arm around Harry's shoulder and slowly walked towards the Ravenclaw Tower.
Harry was very excited to know that his enemy had received the punishment he deserved. Along the way, he kept telling Mike how much trouble Rita's article had caused him. It was not until the two of them returned to the eagle-head door knocker that Harry seemed to remember something. He carefully pulled Mike to an empty corner and whispered:
"Mike, if you don't know the secret of the golden egg yet, maybe you can put it in the water and try. Oh! By the way! I suggest you prepare some gill grass, which will be useful in the future!"
"Oh? Who told you?"
"How do you know it was someone else who told me?" Harry was startled at first, but under Mike's gaze, he said helplessly, "Well, it was Mr. Bagman. He is such a good man. In the first project, he wanted to teach me how to deal with fire dragons. Three days ago, he came to me and told me these. And it took me two whole days to figure out the mechanism inside. Seriously, Mike, am I particularly stupid?"
Mike did not answer Harry's question, but asked:
"You mean, Ludo Bagman has been helping you secretly?"
"Yes, he gave me full marks last time!"
"Then he is really a good man."
"Who said he wasn't!"
Harry echoed excitedly, not noticing that Mike, who was sitting opposite him, had frowned.
Ludo's behavior seemed very strange to Mike. It was reasonable for him to help him, after all, that was Fudge's intention, but why did he help Harry?
Was there some conspiracy, or did he open 'Unique' again and want to make a fortune through trading?
Mike was more inclined to the latter, after all, this was not the first time Ludo had done this.
Thinking of this, Mike's frown loosened.
After finishing the conversation with Harry, Mike returned to the lounge.
In the next few days, Mike finally received a response to the letter he sent out.
However, all the replies said that Mike's request this time was too difficult and they needed more time, even Abbot, who was a pure-blood noble, was no exception.
This made Mike very anxious.
He had a vague premonition that if he didn't figure this out, something very bad might happen in the future.
But Mike also had his way to relieve his anxiety, which was training.
Mike's training was already quite heavy, and the newly added silent spell training squeezed out a lot of his sleep time.
Now Mike's training has become even crazier.
He simply started to train in the secret realm all night, and his sleep time was moved to unimportant courses like Muggle Studies.
This made many professors very dissatisfied with him, and the gems in the Ravenclaw hourglass were getting fewer and fewer.
But these professors couldn't do anything about Mike.
You know, Mike is a warrior and doesn't need to take the final exam at all. These professors didn't have the opportunity to give him a low score in the exam.
As for confinement, there is no need to say more.
Now even Snape won't use confinement to punish Mike, because everyone knows that Mike's confinement punishment will only be carried out in Flitwick's office, and there is simply a second home for Mike!
Appropriate pressure can make people progress faster, and Mike thinks this is absolutely true.
Under the pressure given by Chris, Mike's strength is improving at an astonishing speed.
Since wandless spellcasting is a complicated subject with slow results, Mike temporarily put aside his research on wandless spellcasting and focused on practicing silent spellcasting.
By the time the second project came, Mike could already cast most common spells silently.
Of course, Mike can only cast many spells. Most of them are not very effective when Mike uses silent casting. Not only will the effect of the spell be greatly reduced, but the casting speed will also be much slower. However,
combat spells such as Fire Spell, Wind Speed Spell, and Disarming Spell are different.
Mike has put a lot of hard work into these commonly used combat spells, and his efforts have been rewarded. The casting speed of these spells under silent casting has been achieved almost instantly after his deliberate practice, and the power has not decreased at all!
I believe that in actual combat, it will definitely give his opponent a surprise.
At this time, the second project is about to begin.