Chapter 67 Franklin is an American
When the sky gradually darkened, the Hogwarts Express finally arrived at its destination. Michael and Franklin got off the train under Penelope's guidance. This year, they will take another route to Hogwarts Castle.
Every year, only freshmen need to take a boat to the castle by water. It is said that this is to pay tribute to the four founders of Hogwarts. These four great wizards originally rowed a boat to the cliff where Hogwarts is now located.
Draco did not agree to Michael's request after all. After hearing Michael's whisper, he was directly shocked. He had guessed what Michael wanted, perhaps gold galleons, perhaps powerful magic props, or perhaps control spells, but he still didn't expect Michael to want to learn the three unforgivable curses.
Although the Killing Curse, the Imperius Curse and the Cruciatus Curse have long been defined by the Ministry of Magic as three unforgivable curses once released, before Voldemort was born, most pure-blood families actually did not take it seriously.
At that time, these three simple and rough spells were widely circulated among pure-blood families, and even teenage wizards could learn them at will. Only the mudbloods had no chance to learn them.
However, after the bloody and dark period of Voldemort, people deeply realized the harm of these three spells, and the Ministry of Magic began to strictly control these three spells in a real sense. Now, any books that record the methods of releasing the three unforgivable curses will be destroyed as black magic items, so most of the black magic families, including the Malfoy family, teach the methods of the three unforgivable curses by word of mouth.
It is impossible for Draco to get the methods of releasing the three unforgivable curses, because his parents will never allow him to learn such dangerous spells at such a young age.
Mike doesn't care about this. If everything goes well this year, the conflict between Draco and Harry will be more serious, and there is no need to worry that Draco will not fall for it.
This year, the person who guided the freshmen to board the boat was still Hagrid. His large size was very obvious in the crowd. Next to him stood a young man with red hair who was helping him get the freshmen to sit on the boat obediently. That was Percy.
Hagrid was very grateful to Percy for coming to help him. In previous years, at this time, Hagrid felt that his beard would turn a few gray. These naughty kids were really hard to discipline. This year was different. Percy, a good boy, volunteered to help him maintain order. This was simply too good to be true. Thinking
of this, Hagrid excitedly patted Percy's shoulder to show his optimism for him.
Mike saw with his own eyes that Percy's face became extremely distorted the moment Hagrid's palm patted his shoulder. It seemed that Hagrid used a lot of strength.
After taking a breath of cold air, Mike took a few quick steps to catch up with Franklin and Penelope in front.
The three followed the large group to an open space. The weather tonight was very good, and the bright moonlight made everything on the open space clearly visible. There were a large number of carriages parked on the wide open space. The reins of these carriages were strangely suspended in the air, as if they were tied with some transparent creatures.
Of course, this was in the eyes of other little wizards.
In Mike's field of vision, he could clearly see two strange creatures standing at the front of these carriages. These creatures looked very much like the legendary Pegasus, but they had dragon-like heads. At the same time, they were all black and skinny like skeleton war horses from hell, exuding an ominous atmosphere.
This is the Thestrals. Only those who have witnessed death can see this creature. And for this reason, many people think that the Thestrals are ominous creatures that will bring disasters, but the Thestrals are actually an extremely excellent mount, loyal, extremely fast in flight, and comfortable to ride.
"What the hell is this?" Franklin asked in surprise, pointing at the Thestrals.
Mike looked at Franklin in surprise. He didn't expect that he had also witnessed real death.
"Thestral, only those who have witnessed death can see it. Why, you have witnessed death?"
"My parents are dead..." Franklin's tone became very sad when he heard this.
"Oh..., I'm sorry." Seeing his look, Mike didn't intend to ask any more questions.
However, Franklin was not going to stop. It seemed that he hadn't confided these things to anyone for a long time. He spoke out the whole story like pouring soybeans.
"I am an American. I believe you can tell this from my name. My parents were originally..., oh! Damn, why can't I remember! My head hurts!" Franklin suddenly covered his head.
"Oh! Oh! Oh! Are you okay? If you can't remember, don't think about it? Do you want me to ask someone to take you to Madam Pomfrey?" Seeing this, Mike stepped forward and supported Franklin who almost fell and asked.
"No, I feel fine. Anyway, my parents died in front of me. I can clearly remember the feeling of their blood splashing on my face, but I can't remember how they died. It's really strange. After my parents died,
a person who claimed to be my aunt appeared. I swear I never knew I had such an aunt. She took me to England, and you should know what happened later. I received a letter from Hogwarts. I originally thought that racial discrimination in the United States was serious enough, but I didn't expect it to be worse in the UK, especially in the damn wizarding world, there is even discrimination based on blood! What a bunch of barbarians!"
Although Franklin claimed that he was fine and didn't look like he had any problems, Mike and Penelope still helped him into the carriage and asked the male and female student union presidents who were maintaining order among the senior students to allow them to leave for Hogwarts immediately.
"But a carriage must be full of four people before it can be driven. The number of carriages is determined by the number of students. If the three of you leave like this, it means that there will be no carriages for others to sit in." The male student union president said with some embarrassment.
"My friend is not feeling well! If anything happens to him because he didn't receive treatment in time, it's all your fault! You old-fashioned antique! I say it again! Drive!" Mike roared.
The newly appointed male student union president seemed very embarrassed. Just as he was about to say something, he was stopped by the female student union president next to him.
"Okay, since someone is not feeling well, you should leave quickly. I allow it."
The female student union president said to Mike with a smile, and then winked at Mike and Penelope, signaling them to leave quickly.
From the tie of the female student union president, it can be seen that she is also a member of Ravenclaw. Mike didn't say hello to her. He thanked her and got back into the carriage. Franklin's health is the most important thing now. As for someone not being able to get on the carriage because of this, Mike doesn't care.
PS: I slept from 8 pm to 5 am the next morning. It was so cool. By the way, I ask for a recommendation vote, hehe.