Hogwarts Raven's Claw

Chapter 127 Chance Encounter
After casting the Silencing Charm and Disillusionment Charm on himself, Mike dragged his tired body out of the Room of Requirement.

As soon as Mike left, the door of the Room of Requirement automatically closed and turned into a wall again. The only remaining light on the eighth floor of Hogwarts also disappeared.

After standing there for a while, until his eyes got used to the darkness, Mike took a step forward and walked towards the Hogwarts kitchen.

The kitchen was not close to the eighth floor of Hogwarts. Mike walked slowly along the complex corridors in the castle. When he took a self-moving staircase to the lobby on the first floor, he suddenly found a pair of green eyes appearing in the dark corner.

Mike's heart was filled with alarm and he held his breath. The wand in his hand was instantly aimed at the eyes.

The pair of eyes moved silently in the darkness, gradually moving from the pitch-black corner to the center of the hall illuminated by the moonlight.

A cat with messy fur appeared in Mike's sight, walking in a standard cat walk. Under the moonlight, its green eyes turned sky blue again.

"It turned out to be Mrs. Norris." Mike thought so and breathed a sigh of relief. The wand in his hand returned to the wand sheath, and he secretly thought that he had suffered from the aftereffects of being tortured by the basilisk.

Mike turned sideways carefully away from Mrs. Norris, trying to bypass it and continue to the kitchen.

However, Mrs. Norris seemed to have discovered something. She leaned her head forward and her nose kept moving as if she smelled something.

Seeing this, Mike's heart skipped a beat. He didn't expect Mrs. Norris's sense of smell to be so sensitive. Is she a cat or a dog?

Just as Mike was about to speed out of the hall, Filch's voice came from a distance.

"Mrs. Norris! Come here quickly, it's time for supper. I prepared your favorite dried fish for you."

Mrs. Norris seemed to understand what Filch said. Her tail, which had been drooping, immediately began to wag, and she ran towards the direction of Filch's voice in small steps.

Mike took this opportunity to leave the hall.

Mike ran all the way until the entrance to the kitchen appeared in front of him, and his heart finally settled down. After Mrs. Norris's fuss, Mike's originally confused brain became much clearer.

Looking at the dark kitchen entrance, all kinds of delicious food emerged in Mike's mind, and the stimulated saliva in his mouth was secreted rapidly.

Swallowing, Mike quickened his pace and entered the cafeteria.

However, the scene in the kitchen at this moment surprised Mike.

The light in the kitchen was very bright, and Cedric was eating alone beside a long table filled with various delicacies.

Cedric also noticed Mike and even forgot about the chicken leg he was biting. Their eyes met and the kitchen fell into silence.

"Are you here for a midnight snack too?" After a long time, Mike spoke first, breaking the somewhat weird atmosphere.

"Ah, you too?" Cedric said, taking the chicken leg from his mouth.

"correct."

There was another silence, and the air was filled with an awkward atmosphere.

Mike's stomach protested at the right time.

"Want to eat some together? I can't finish it anyway." Cedric asked tentatively, looking at the embarrassed look on Mike's face.

"Okay!"

Mike didn't bother to be polite with Cedric. He sat down at the long table and poured himself a glass of water. He tilted his head back and drank it before he started to eat the delicacies on the table.

Cedric seemed not to be used to eating with Mike. He stopped eating the chicken leg halfway through, wiped his mouth with the tablecloth beside him, and looked around as if he was at a loss.

Of course, his expression did not escape Mike's eyes. While drinking water again, Mike asked:

"Why are you eating here alone? Aren't you usually followed by a group of people wherever you go?"

"It's always against the rules to sneak into the kitchen in the middle of the night, so it's more convenient for me to be alone. Besides... I need to be alone for a while occasionally..." Cedric's voice became softer and softer, and Mike almost couldn't hear it in the end.

"I understand you. Anyone would feel uncomfortable being stared at all day. To be honest, your fans are too annoying." Mike said incoherently while chewing the food in his mouth.

"Sometimes I find them annoying. My parents and friends all have high hopes for me, so I have to be a model student. After so many years, I can no longer tell whether I am just pretending to be a good kid or whether I have really become a model student in their eyes." Cedric said, "It's just that in the dead of night, I always feel a little sad, just like now."

Mike didn't know how to respond to Cedric's words, and the atmosphere became even more depressing.

"Oh, by the way. There's a question I've been wanting to ask you. When you go to the bathroom to pee, do your fans follow you?" Mike had no choice but to change the subject abruptly. "I heard from my friend that only gays go to the bathroom together. You're not..."

"That's not true! Don't talk nonsense!" Cedric denied hurriedly.

Mike found Cedric's panic very funny and burst into laughter. Cedric seemed to think that he looked a little silly and laughed too.

The tense atmosphere between the two men also eased.

Mike laughed so hard that he was out of breath. After he calmed down, he said to Cedric sincerely, "I'm sorry for using such a dangerous spell on stage that day."

"It's okay. Professor Flitwick was in the audience at the time. You and I both know that he won't sit idly by and watch us get into danger." Cedric didn't seem to expect Mike to apologize for this. He was surprised. It took him a while to react and said with a smile, "But your spell is really powerful, but it's not easy to control."

"No way, no way. Your Transfiguration is amazing. I can't do anything to you." Mike saw that the topic had turned into the business flattery he was most familiar with, and he skillfully continued what Cedric said.

"My Transfiguration is amazing, right? You look like you've been up all night, you must be suffering from insomnia because of this matter, right?" Seeing Mike mentioned his Transfiguration, Cedric showed a rare smug look on his face, and asked cunningly, "I dare say that my current Transfiguration level is definitely the best among all the students in school. Even most of the graduates are not as good as me. Do you know why?"

I am so stupid. I posted the chapter in the wrong place. Now I haven’t changed the chapter name because I don’t have the permission, but the chapter content has been changed back. I’m sorry.

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