Chapter 460 One Week

Mike ignored Franklin and walked straight towards the Ravenclaw Common Room.

He was lucky that he didn't get detained for doing such an excessive thing in the Defense Against the Dark Arts class just now, so he just wanted to leave the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom quickly in case Snape suddenly remembered this matter.

However, when he arrived at the door of the Ravenclaw Common Room, he found that Harry and the other two had been waiting here.

"Mike!" *3

"Is there anything wrong? Everyone."

Harry and the others looked at each other, and finally Hermione gritted her teeth and stood up and said:

"It's like this, Mike. Where did the book "Advanced Potion Making" you gave Harry come from? Why are the potion formulas on it modified?"

After speaking, Ron asked again before Mike could answer:

"Oh! The key is whether the formulas on it are really better than those taught by Professor Slughorn at the beginning?"

As soon as Hermione said this, she immediately rolled her eyes at Ron, but Ron didn't care. At this moment, he was staring at Mike's answer.

"First of all, I want to say..." Mike said with a smile, "Ron, you guessed it right. The modified formula in the book "Advanced Potion Making" is indeed better and more convenient than the original formula in the textbook!"

Ron and Harry's faces burst into bright smiles at once, and then they hugged each other with cheers.

Mike understood their feelings very well. For anyone, this "Notebook of the Half-Blood Prince" is a precious treasure, let alone poor students like Harry and Ron.

Hermione, who was standing aside, was unhappy when she heard this. She crossed her arms and stared at Mike indignantly, as if she was blaming Mike for giving the book to Harry.

"Don't look at me like that, Hermione." Mike spread his hands and said, "I'm doing this for your own good. This is a good book. Besides, although I gave it to Harry, you can look through it each other, right? It's good for both of you."

"That's right! You're absolutely right!"

Ron said excitedly before Hermione answered.

Hermione glared at Ron again, and then said to Mike:

"You haven't told us where this book came from?"

"I'm sorry I can't tell you the origin of this book, but you should have noticed the signature on the book, right? Half-Blood Prince."

Everyone nodded.

"What I can tell you is that you all know this Half-Blood Prince, and he is already an old acquaintance of yours."

Mike said with a smirk.

Now even Hermione's face showed a curious look. She frowned and thought for a while before saying:

"You used 'he', which means the original owner of this book is a boy."

"Come on! Hermione!" Harry rolled his eyes and said, "He calls himself the 'Half-Blood Prince', how could he be a girl? I think he must be a half-blood boy."

Hermione smiled awkwardly.

"If I were to guess, since the Half-Blood Prince was able to come up with so many improved formulas when he was a student, he must have an outstanding talent in potions, so he should be a big shot now! This is easy to guess, after all, we don't know many people with outstanding potion talents."

"Are you talking about Dumbledore?"

"Dumbledore had very good grades in Potions when he was a student?"

"Well, I don't know, but I really can't think of anyone else. After all, it can't be Snape, right?"

"Thank you for your joke, I laughed."

...

Hermione and Harry had a heated discussion about the identity of the Half-Blood Prince, while Ron looked indifferent. He didn't care who the original owner of the book was. The main thing was that this book could help him cheat in class, so it was a good book!

"By the way, everyone, maybe you should study the contents of this book again. In addition to the potion formulas, there are some more useful things worth learning."

Ron's eyes lit up at once, and he looked straight at Harry, as if he couldn't wait to go back and start studying.

It's a pity that Harry didn't think so. He glanced at Hermione who was still sulking with a troubled look, and said to Mike:

"Mike, you were attending the Defense Against the Dark Arts class just now, right?"

Hermione also reacted as soon as these words came out. She widened her eyes and asked curiously:

"By the way, when we passed the entrance hall before, we found that there were a lot fewer gems in the Ravenclaw's house score hourglass. It was almost empty. What's going on? Did Snape deduct points from you too?"

"Oh, you guessed right. Snape did. He deducted 20 points from Franklin and put him in detention on Saturday."

"That's not right. The points lost in Ravenclaw's hourglass are more than 20 points."

"Indeed, it's more than that." Mike spread his hands and said, "He also deducted 50 points from me just because I embarrassed him in class."

"This is not good!" Hermione frowned and said, "You have been deducted 70 points at the beginning of the school. You must work hard in this year's house cup."

Mike shrugged his shoulders and did not answer.

He was now completely indifferent to the House Cup. In fact, if Hermione hadn't mentioned it, he would have almost forgotten about it.

Ron and Harry were very excited. They were very interested in Snape's embarrassment and wanted to hear Mike's details of the situation.

Unfortunately, Mike didn't want to do that. In his opinion, there was nothing to be proud of.

"I was also put in detention by Snape! Just because he wanted to cast a curse on me in class, and I happened to block it with my armor!" Harry said happily, "But I didn't really have to be put in detention, because I had to go to Dumbledore on Saturday night."

Mike's eyebrows raised as soon as he said this. He was very sensitive to the key point in Harry's words and asked softly:

"Did Dumbledore say what he wanted you to do?"

"Well, he didn't say anything in the letter he sent me, but I guess it should be about teaching me to learn brain occlumency." Harry said hesitantly, "After all, he has already started teaching me some spells during the summer vacation, and he also mentioned this to me."

Hearing this, Hermione and Ron both cast envious eyes at Harry. In their opinion, being taught by a legendary wizard like Dumbledore is simply a supreme honor, while Mike bowed his head and fell into deep thought.

Dumbledore's choice to teach Harry in person just shows that he has little time left. His current strength may have declined to a rather exaggerated degree, so he is so anxious.

However, compared with the original book, Dumbledore's situation should be better. After all, in this world, Dumbledore did not go against other traps set by Voldemort, such as the terrifying Cave of Inferi, in order to destroy the Horcruxes.

Without these hardships, Dumbledore's current physical condition should be enough for him to fight.

Of course, it is estimated that there will only be one battle, after all, excessive use of spells will make his injuries worse.

With this in mind, Mike no longer wanted to chat with Harry and the others.

After saying goodbye to Harry and the others, Mike hurried back to the Masonic Secret Realm and participated in the work of the Freemasons.

Before the next action begins, he must concentrate all the current power of the Freemasons into the Masonic Secret Realm, only in this way can his plan proceed smoothly.

...

Time flies, and a week has passed since the start of school.

During this week, although the Death Eaters in the outside world are still making trouble, and even the situation is getting worse, Hogwarts is peaceful.

I don’t know whether Dumbledore’s Order of the Phoenix and the Ministry of Magic are too powerful, or Voldemort consciously avoids Hogwarts. In short, the students’ lives have not been affected at all.

If it weren’t for the daily prophet’s continuous reporting of news from all over the country, the students of Hogwarts would almost forget the fact that Voldemort came.

And in this short week, Franklin also realized how outrageous his thoughts were when he chose his courses.

After giving up many elective courses, he did have a lot of free time, but at the same time, the number and difficulty of homework assigned by professors increased exponentially.

At the same time, not only the Defense Against the Dark Arts class, but also Professor McGonagall's Transfiguration class and Professor Flitwick's Charms class began to require students to use silent spells in class.

This made everyone very embarrassed.

Nowadays, sixth-year students sitting there with wands in hand, not moving, and their faces flushed.

The younger wizards once thought that Slughorn, who was in the potion class, had given these seniors some constipation potion. After some inquiries, they learned that these people were practicing silent spells.

All these things combined made Franklin not only lose the so-called free time, but also had to squeeze out some time from his meal and rest time to practice silent spells, which made him completely unable to participate in Quidditch training.

This was a very tragic thing for Franklin, and it also made him admire the seniors in the seventh grade.

The sixth grade alone was so hard, so the seventh grade would be like hell on earth!

Harry's situation was similar to Franklin's, no, it should be said that Harry's situation was even more miserable than Franklin's, because Harry was the captain of the Gryffindor Quidditch team this year, and he was also responsible for a series of matters of the team, including the selection of new players and daily training.

This greatly compressed Harry's rest time, and deep dark circles appeared on his face.

And Hermione had dark circles even more serious than Harry.

This little girl had a lot more courses than Mike and the others, which made Hermione study almost 24 hours a day, but even so, Hermione still couldn't keep up with the progress of many subjects.

There was no way around it, Hermione was not a genius, or rather, Hermione was a genius who worked hard.

Her learning efficiency was actually not high, and she had relied entirely on diligence to make up for her lack of talent.

This approach may have been very effective in the past, but it is no longer useful after the study burden has increased greatly. After all, there are only 24 hours in a day, and Hermione can't squeeze out the 25th hour no matter how hard she tries.

Mike guessed that Hermione must miss the time twister very much, but unfortunately, all the time twisters in the whole country, including the one that Professor McGonagall had lent to Hermione, were destroyed in the battle of the Ministry of Magic at the end of last semester.

What made Hermione even more angry was that Harry and Ron relied on the "Half-Blood Prince's Textbook" to achieve quite outstanding results in Potions, better than Hermione, and second only to Mike.

Now Slughorn is almost worshipping the three of them as ancestors. Not only does he often praise the three of them for their talent in potions, but he also gives them extra points at any time. The points that Mike and Franklin were deducted from Snape have long been doubled by Slughorn.

This was something Hermione could not tolerate. In her opinion, Harry, Mike and Ron relied on cheating to win the favor of Professor Slughorn.

After all, she was the one who worked the hardest, but her efforts did not get any rewards. Instead, opportunists like Harry and Mike got the upper hand.

For this reason, she almost broke up with Mike and the others.

Harry had also persuaded Hermione to use the formula of the "Half-Blood Prince" with them, but unfortunately Hermione did not listen to him at all and insisted on using her old method.

Mike was speechless about this. He could not understand Hermione's thoughts at all. He could only blame it on Hermione's endocrine disorder due to staying up late for a long time, which led to emotional anxiety, and maybe even sexual disorders.

For this reason, Mike even consulted Professor Slughorn about the relevant treatment steps, and told Hermione very obscurely through chatting and telling jokes.

As for whether Hermione would listen or not, he didn't know.

Mike had a good week, as he had already mastered the silent casting of a large number of spells, so the spare time that was useless in the eyes of others became a real rest for him.

However, he did not let himself live too comfortably, as long as he had free time, he would dive into the secret realm of Freemasonry, either handling Freemasonry work or meditating in the meditation room.

Especially for the latter, the time Mike spent on this was amazing, because he had a hunch that as his body developed, the bottleneck that suppressed his magic and mental power was gradually loosening.

What he had to do now was to practice hard in order to break through as soon as possible and take his strength to a higher level.

Therefore, although Mike had a lot of time, he still looked listless every day. For this reason, Professor Flitwick taught Mike a lot, but Mike still insisted on doing it.

Because there was not much time left for him, he had to eliminate Voldemort before Dumbledore fell completely!