Chapter 77 Handshake

When Mike woke up from his sleep, it was already the next morning. When he opened the door of the dormitory and came to the Ravenclaw common room, he saw a group of girls, led by the female student union president, removing Lockhart's portrait on the wall of fame.

Lockhart's portrait was completely different from the frivolous one in the past, and screamed to stop the girls' actions. However, it was obviously impossible for a magical portrait to affect the real world, and it could only helplessly watch itself being removed from the wall of fame.

Amid the gloating laughter of other portraits, the female student union president took the lead and stepped hard on the portrait, directly stepping a big hole in Lockhart's chest in the portrait.

Then other girls also stepped forward and kicked one by one, and soon the portrait was completely unrecognizable.

Mike pulled a boy who was watching the excitement on the side to ask about the situation, and then he knew the reason why these girls were so angry.

It turned out that after Professor Flitwick took Lockhart to Dumbledore to question him yesterday, Lockhart did not receive too serious punishment, and was only deducted one month's salary.

This made the girls in Ravenclaw very angry, so there was this scene just now.

Carefully bypassing the girls who were still venting, Mike came to the library in the Ravenclaw Common Room, ready to find the historical records of Ms. Rowena Ravenclaw.

Originally, if you want to check this kind of record, you should go to the Hogwarts school library, but Ravenclaw is completely different from other colleges in this regard.

Because there is a library in the Ravenclaw Common Room itself, a large number of books on the history of Ravenclaw are collected here, and the details of the information are far more detailed than the Hogwarts school library.

However, after searching in the library for a long time, Mike did not find the information he wanted. There is very little information about Rowena Ravenclaw. The information Mike has found so far only records a little history of Rowena Ravenclaw before her death.

Ms. Rowena Ravenclaw has a magical crown that can increase the wisdom of the wearer, and her daughter Helena, due to her desire for wisdom and greed for knowledge, stole her mother's crown and fled to the forest of Albania.

After being betrayed by her daughter, Rowena Ravenclaw was depressed and had a serious illness. But she did not blame her daughter, but concealed the fact that Helena stole the crown from others. Because she wanted to see her daughter before she died, Rowena entrusted the Slytherin student, Baron, to find Helena.

However, Baron killed Helena and then committed suicide. The crown was lost and Rowena died of depression.

This story is widely circulated within Ravenclaw because it mentions the artifact lost by Ravenclaw, the crown.

But apart from this, there is very little information about Ravenclaw in the library area, especially before she founded Hogwarts. There is only a short sentence similar to the introduction, "She is the breeze from the lakeside."

Just as Mike was looking for information in the sea of ​​books, a familiar voice interrupted him.

"Mike, what are you looking for?"

Mike looked back and saw little Hermione looking at him curiously. He did not answer her question, but replied: "Isn't this my dear Hermione? How come you have time to come to Ravenclaw today?"

"Oh, it's like this, do you know what the solution to the Slug Curse is? Ron wanted to curse Malfoy, but because his wand was broken by the Whomping Willow, the curse backfired on him. Now he is spitting slugs non-stop." Hermione said anxiously.

Mike certainly knew the solution to the Slug Curse. Last school year, Professor Flitwick taught Mike the solution to many mischief spells, and the Slug Curse was one of them.

But Mike did not intend to tell Hermione, after all, he did not like Ron. Besides, spitting slugs would not kill people, and he would get used to it after spitting.

"I'm sorry Hermione, maybe you should go find Percy or George and Fred, they must know." Mike shrugged and said, "By the way, why did Ron suddenly think of provoking Malfoy?"

"Because Malfoy said I'm a mudblood..." Hermione seemed to see something in the middle of her words, and suddenly paused, "Wait, what is that? Is it a portrait of Lockhart? No! What are they doing!"

Then she rushed into the crowd who were destroying Lockhart's portrait, and pushed away a girl who was laughing and stepping on the portrait.

The girl who was pushed back took a few steps and was about to fall to the ground, but was supported by the girls around her.

The female student union president walked out of the crowd, poked Hermione's forehead with her finger and said, "A Gryffindor, who allowed you to break into the Ravenclaw common room and hurt an innocent Ravenclaw student? Gryffindor will deduct 30 points!"

Hermione's little head was poked and shook. When she heard that she was deducted points, her eyes turned red. She reached out and knocked the female student union president's hand away and was about to refute.

However, Mike also squeezed in at this time, covered Hermione's mouth with his hand, and said to the Head Girl, "Oh, beautiful lady. This is all a misunderstanding. Hermione is my friend and she is visiting Ravenclaw this time."

"Yes, Carol. Just let her go this time." Penelope stood up at some point, and while talking to the Head Girl, she pointed her finger at her head and made a face, indicating that Hermione's head was not in good condition.

The Head Girl ignored Penelope, but stared at Mike without blinking.

After an unknown amount of time, she changed her previous angry look, showed a bright smile to Mike and said, "Mike! Professor Flitwick's favorite student! I have heard of your name for a long time."

After that, she stretched out her hand.

Mike said self-deprecating words and stretched out his hand to hold her outstretched hand.

As soon as he held the Head Girl's hand, Mike laughed. The hand that the Head Girl held with him was in a very strange position, with the ring finger curled, which made Mike very uncomfortable.

This is a special handshake of Raven's Nest, used to recognize other members in public.

Mike quickly reacted, and the hand he was holding with her also bent his ring finger and overlapped with her ring finger. Feeling the special touch in his palm, Mike and the female student union president looked at each other, and everything was self-explanatory.

The first rule of Raven's Nest: Under the premise of not infringing on their own interests, members must do their best to help each other.

Mike knew that this matter was definitely stable.