Chapter 364: The Pig's Head Pub

"Tick-tick-tick-tick..."

The ward of the infirmary was silent. Except for the sound of the pointer of the huge clock in the corner, the only sound in the ward was the panting of Umbridge, who was wrapped like a fresh mummy on the bed.

Umbridge's breathing was very gentle, and if you listened carefully, you could even hear a slight snoring.

"Tick-tick-tick~"

The hands of the clock were still moving. Finally, with a clear mechanical sound, the thick hands representing the hours on it suddenly moved and pointed to a big I.

A small door on the top of the clock suddenly opened, and then a purely mechanical golden bird flew out of it, chirping and circling over the ward.

Umbridge on the bed seemed to be awakened. She took a deep breath as if she hadn't breathed for a long time.

Her body was trembling slightly, and her head was shaking slightly, as if she wanted to turn her head to look around her.

However, due to the neck brace, her wish to turn her head was not fulfilled, so she could only try her best to deflect her eyes.

Suddenly, a bunch of pure black roses appeared in her peripheral vision.

The thorns on the branches of this bunch of roses had all been removed, and the tool that stripped them all from their original positions was a dagger on the edge of the roses.

Umbridge's body trembled more and more, and there was even a faint sound of intermittent teeth colliding from her mouth.

The sunlight outside the window shone through the window onto her bed, which looked as beautiful as if someone had sprinkled a large piece of gold powder on it, but even so, Umbridge did not feel a trace of warmth.

At this moment, she even felt that her whole body was soaked in cold sweat, and because she was covered with thick plaster, she couldn't wipe the sweat at all, which was very uncomfortable.

After a while, Umbridge's breathing gradually stabilized, and the amplitude of her body trembling was much smaller.

She clearly remembered that after McGonagall left yesterday, a strong man in a black robe and a strange white mask appeared in her ward!

The masked man said he would give her a gift, and then he took out a dagger and put it on his neck.

The memory was already blurred here. Umbridge thought it was just a nightmare at first, but now she really found the dagger!

All this is true!

Umbridge is still taking deep breaths to try to calm herself down.

At this moment, her brain is working at high speed, and she feels that she has vaguely discovered a huge secret!

Dumbledore and his employees have formed a huge interest group, constantly extracting profits from all aspects, and training Hogwarts students to become their armed forces.

When the power accumulates to a certain extent, they will rush out of Hogwarts with an unparalleled momentum and unify the entire Yingguo wizard world! Even the whole of Europe! The whole world!

That's right! It must be like this!

Dumbledore, the world-famous white wizard, is the most evil black wizard! An ambitious man with a heart full of conspiracy!

It must be because of my arrival that they made them uneasy, so they sent people to attack me!

This is not an ordinary attack!

The attack that night was clearly a deliberately planned death threat!

I didn't even figure it out at the beginning, so later McGonagall sent someone to threaten me more directly!

Thinking of this, Umbridge felt her body began to tremble instinctively again, and the fear in her heart could not be suppressed.

She admitted that she was really scared.

Who is not afraid of death?

She even had an urge to go back to the Ministry of Magic directly, even if she was blamed by Fudge for the failure of the mission, it would be better than dying!

Unfortunately, it is too late to say all this now.

Umbridge felt the plaster that bound her whole body, and a bitter smile flashed across her face.

She has lost her freedom and is under complete house arrest. How can she escape back?

Now, I can only cooperate with those people as much as possible, and hope that they will consider my identity as the Deputy Minister of Magic and let me go!

"Creaky!"

The door of the ward was suddenly opened, and a student medical volunteer in a white robe walked in.

Umbridge was startled by the sound, her pupils shrank suddenly, and she almost couldn't help but scream.

The female volunteer who came in did not seem to notice the change in Umbridge's expression. She had a warm smile on her face. She carefully helped Umbridge to tame the messy quilt, and then asked gently:

"Professor Umbridge, you are finally awake! You haven't had lunch yet, what would you like to eat?"

As she spoke, she suddenly found the roses beside Umbridge's bed, and the smile on her face became even brighter.

"Wow! Roses! Was it sent by your friend, Professor Umbridge? He is so considerate that he even picked out the thorns!"

Umbridge's lips moved slightly on the bed. The warm smile on the girl's face seemed so evil to her. Facing the girl's inquiry, Umbridge, who knew that she had to bow her head under the eaves, could only reluctantly answer:

"Yeah!"

...

At the same time, on the bustling main road of Hogwarts Village, Mike and a group of members of the Mutual Aid Association were walking in a mighty manner.

Today is the weekend, and it is also the day he and Harry have agreed to meet the new members of the cram school.

"Mike, look there!"

George suddenly grabbed Mike while walking. The latter looked in the direction he pointed and saw a shop that was already crowded with people. On the wooden sign in front of the shop, there was a line of big words written in golden paint - Zuo Ke's Joke Shop.

"One day we will open a joke shop that is much bigger than that one!"

George said with gritted teeth, and Fred next to him retorted:

"Not only bigger! By then, our shop must have more things than there, and the quality must be better!"

"Yes, you are absolutely right, Fred!"

Looking at the two people who were like chicken blood, Mike shook his head helplessly, did not answer, but continued to walk forward silently.

During this period of time, he often heard similar words. Mike guessed that George and Fred had not had a good time with Umbridge during this period of time, and could only rely on such thoughts to keep themselves going. Not

long after walking, the Hogsmeade Post Office appeared in front of everyone.

This post office is the message center of the entire Hogsmeade village. It stores a large number of letters that have been countless for owls, and the owls here are divided into different levels by various colors. The higher the level, the faster the owl is, and the higher the fee is.

It's a pity that the people who manage this post office don't seem to have any sense of cleanliness, which leads to bird droppings everywhere in the post office, which is very disgusting.

Everyone turned a corner in front of the door of the Hogsmeade Post Office and entered a small road. Then, after walking for a while, a shabby two-story tavern appeared in front of everyone.

This pub is located at the intersection of this path. Mike thinks the owner of this pub must have been kicked in the head by a donkey, because unlike the main road of Hogsmeade Village not far away, there is no one on this path, and its business must be very bleak.

At the door of this small building is a tattered wooden sign with a chopped pig's head painted on it. The blood has penetrated the white cloth wrapped around it, which looks a bit scary.

"Pig's Head Pub, let's go in."

With Mike's voice, everyone followed him and poured into the pub.

As soon as he entered the bar, Mike smelled a strong smell of sheep, which made him cover his nose instinctively.

Then he turned his head and observed it, and found that this bar was like a garbage dump compared to the Leaky Cauldron in Diagon Alley!

The space inside is very small, and there are many tables and chairs placed in a mess, which makes the originally small space even smaller.

And the windows inside it were covered with thick dirt, and the light from outside could hardly penetrate, which made the light in the pub very dim. Even though it was daytime, some candles were lit on the rough wooden tables for lighting.

The floor of the pub was gray. Mike originally thought that it should be compacted mud, but after stepping on it and feeling it himself, he was surprised to find that it was actually dirt accumulated on the stone floor for centuries!

Everything here disgusted Mike, you know, he is a very clean person.

It is said that Hagrid is a frequent visitor here. When Mike and others were in the first grade, he was drinking here and Quirrell used a dragon egg to get the secret of the three-headed dog.

For this reason, Mike originally thought that even if the Hog's Head Bar was a little dirty and messy, there would be a limit at least, but now it seems that he really overestimated Hagrid's tolerance for the environment!

"What do you want!"

When Mike frowned and looked around, a rough voice suddenly came over.

Mike turned his head and looked at the bar, and saw a fat uncle with a big beard, who looked a bit like Dumbledore, staring at him with round eyes, looking at him angrily. It seemed that he was very dissatisfied with Mike and others for disliking the environment here.

Mike instantly remembered the other party's identity!

Aberforth, Dumbledore's younger brother, is also the owner of this tavern.

But according to the information in the original book, he and Dumbledore have a very bad relationship. The two of them would quarrel and even fight each other as soon as they met.

Mike didn't know the deep-seated reasons for this. The original book only said that it was because of their little sister, but the specific things were not written in detail.

It is said that the detailed content should be viewed in other materials, but it is a pity that Mike has only read the original book.

"Mike, you're finally here!" Harry shouted excitedly, but after seeing the senior students behind him, the surprised smile on Harry's face suddenly froze, "They are..." It

was not until this time that Mike discovered Harry and others hiding in the corner. He looked at Aberforth deeply, and then smiled and said to Harry:

"They are all my friends. They heard that I would give them extra lessons, so they followed along."

"Really? This is really great!"

"Now we don't have to worry about the embarrassing situation of no one coming... woooo!~"

Ron was halfway through his words when Hermione and Harry covered his mouth together, and he could only make a woooooo sound.

At this time, George and Fred had already sat down at the bar. It was obviously not their first time here. They raised their hands and shouted to Aberforth very skillfully:

"Boss, give us each a bottle of butter beer! It's my treat!"

George said it with great pride. At present, the secret of their wealth had been revealed, so they simply spent money lavishly.

Aberforth's eyebrows and beard trembled violently when he heard this. He stood there and stared at George angrily, as if he was angry that George had increased his workload. It was not

until George's scalp was numb that Aberforth leaned over and took out two full boxes of butter beer from the cabinet under the bar and piled them in front of George:

"All the stock is for you, 50 bottles, a total of 6 gold galleons!"

"What? Do you think we are fools?" Fred shouted, "The butter beer here is clearly 2 Sickles per bottle, 50 bottles is 5 gold galleons and 15 Sickles, where did the extra 2 Sickles come from?"

"Huh!? You don't want to buy it?"

Aberforth's performance was even more exaggerated than Fred, with a hint of anger in his voice.

Hearing this, George hurried out to smooth things over.

They are regular customers of this pub, and the reason why they often come to this pub to consume is because the owner of this pub doesn't care about the "underage drinking ban" at all. Here, as long as you have money, he will sell you alcohol even if you are just a student.

It is also for this reason that the Hog's Head became an important source of goods for the Hogwarts' alcohol smuggling network. Almost all the alcohol in Hogwarts came from here.

So they didn't want to get too upset with the boss, and they didn't care about Aberforth's forced buying and selling.

Because they could just ship the extra alcohol back to Hogwarts and buy it slowly, so what did the high price matter? They could raise the price after they got back!

Finally, under George's deliberate flattery, Aberforth finally handed over two boxes of butterbeer to Fred. Then Fred

skillfully opened the boxes and distributed the beer inside to everyone present.

Mike was also given a bottle of butterbeer, but he had no intention of drinking it.

The reason was simple, it was too dirty!

Aberforth's brows were already twisted together when he took out all the butterbeer.

The two large wooden boxes were covered with dust and dirt, and their original colors could not be seen at all.

The butterbeer taken out from it was similar. The place on the bottle that should have been covered with the trademark pattern was already blurred, and a lot of grease and dust adhered to the surface of the glass bottle, which made the whole bottle look terrible, and it also made people wonder if these butterbeers were expired! For such

dirty things, Mike would never eat unless it was absolutely necessary!