Hogwarts Raven's Claw

Chapter 144: Hibiscus and Christmas Gifts (Two chapters in one)

The moment he saw the girl, an inexplicable desire to get close to her rose from the bottom of Mike's heart. Relying on his strong mental power to forcibly suppress this desire, Mike quickly entered a closed brain state, which made him feel much better.

Turning his head to look around, he saw that the Lucius couple and Uncle Mario all had clear eyes, and were not affected at all. Abbott's eyes were also originally dazed, and he was in a state of bewitching, but the tulip-shaped brooch on his chest suddenly flashed, and Abbott returned to normal the next moment.

But Draco and Chris were not so lucky. Under Pansy's incredulous gaze, the two men walked towards the girl with dull eyes and silly smiles on their faces.

Seeing this, Lucius forcibly grabbed the two of them, took out his wand with some disappointment and cast a awakening spell on them, which made them wake up.

Draco, who had returned to normal, also realized his previous loss of composure. He hid behind his father with a look of horror on his face, not daring to look in the direction of the girl again.

Facing Draco's behavior, Lucius felt very embarrassed and pulled Draco a few times to make him normal. However, he didn't expect that Draco might be really frightened this time, and he held his father's thigh tightly, making Lucius even more embarrassed.

"Ahem. I know that girl. She's the eldest daughter of the French Delacour family." Lucius coughed twice to try to ease the embarrassment. "Her grandfather married a Veela, which resulted in her having a quarter of Veela bloodline. So she also has some unique talents of Veela, such as being able to charm men."

After listening to Lucius' explanation, Michael immediately understood who the silver-haired girl was. She was Fleur, the champion of the French magic academy Beauxbatons in the Triwizard Tournament.

Because the appearance of the actor in the movie was very different from the silver-haired girl in front of him, Mike did not recognize this Beauxbatons warrior at first.

While Mike and the others were talking, new developments occurred.

Furong didn't react to the freckled girl's scolding, she just looked at her coldly. The freckled girl was even more angry when she saw Furong's expression. Maybe she felt that talking was not enough, so she raised her hand and wanted to hit Furong.

"stop!"

At this moment, a handsome young man with a slicked-back hair grabbed the freckled girl's hand and slapped her in the face with his backhand.

"How dare you hit me! You hit me for this bitch!"

The handsome young man did not respond at all to the freckled girl's questioning. At this moment, he was fawning around Furong, as if he wanted to get praise from Furong.

However, Furong did not give him a good look. She rolled her eyes at him and ran out of the hall.

Those young men who were fascinated by Furong wanted to chase after her, but were held back by their elders and the female companions around them.

"Isn't that the boy from the Belit family? It seems that he is quite fascinated by that half-Veela." Uncle Mario said to the boy with slicked back hair.

"Yes, he just hit Latier. It looks like the marriage between their two families is going to fail this time." Narcissa agreed.

After saying this, she seemed to have thought of something, and warned Mike and several other boys, "You have to be careful with that woman. You should know that Veela are very evil creatures. They are good at transforming, and often turn into young and beautiful women to seduce men. When those men are completely fascinated by them, the Veela will eat them. So the person with Veela blood is destined to be a bad person.

Normally, wizards from big families would only treat Veela as pets no matter how much they liked them. I don't know what made old Delacour crazy to marry such a magical creature. Isn't he afraid of tainting his family's bloodline? You know, they are magical creatures, and the blood of their children is even more filthy than that of Muggles!"

Mike, Uncle Mario and others looked at Narcissa unfriendly when they heard this, and Lucius even poked Narcissa with his elbow.

Perhaps because she said it so easily, Narcissa actually forgot that there was a Muggle-born person named Mike at the scene, and that Mike was also a distinguished guest of today's host, the Foley family.

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean it." Seeing Mike and the others looking at her unkindly, Narcissa reacted quickly, "I'm really sorry, Mike. I didn't mean to discriminate against you."

"It's okay, I believe you are not the kind of person who discriminates against Muggles." Mike said politely, but the smile on his face was unusually cold. Everyone present could see that Mike was very unhappy at this moment.

"Okay, Lucius. You guys go and do your work first. Mike and I still have some things to discuss." Uncle Mario's face wasn't looking good either, and he directly gave Lucius an order to leave.

Mr. and Mrs. Lucius were completely helpless when faced with Mario, the deputy director of the Auror Office who also had an extremely noble bloodline, and they left the hall in disgrace.

After Mr. and Mrs. Lucius left, Uncle Mario's expression looked a little better. He first apologized to Mike, claiming that Mike had been wronged today. He then said that he would have people from the Ministry of Magic conduct a surprise inspection of Malfoy Manor tomorrow to see if there was anything related to the dark magic to help Mike vent his anger.

Hearing this, Mike immediately understood why Lucius was so afraid to fart in front of Uncle Mario. As a person with a serious criminal record who still hasn't cleaned up his farts, it's natural for him to be afraid of Mario, a high-ranking official in the police department of the wizarding world.

The atmosphere on the scene returned to normal only after Mike made it clear that he didn't care. With Uncle Mario's introduction, Mike got to know almost half of the pure-blood nobles in the British wizarding world.

The party lasted until late at night, and it was not until the end of the party that Mike slipped out of the villa to get some fresh air when Uncle Mario went on stage to speak.

"call"

In a remote corner of the Foley Manor, Mike loosened his tie and exhaled.

Mike has never liked these aristocratic social dinners. There are so many rules at these banquets that if you make the slightest mistake in etiquette, you will be considered a country bumpkin.

Suddenly, Mike heard what seemed to be a woman crying in the woods ahead and hurried over to look for the source of the sound.

I saw Furong squatting alone in the dark grove, her shiny silver hair gleaming, extremely conspicuous.

Perhaps it was a talent brought by her Veela bloodline, Fleur's perception was extremely outstanding. Mike was discovered by Fleur as soon as he entered the grove.

"Who are you!"

"You are Fleur Delacour, right? I just saw you in the villa." Facing Fleur's exclamation, Mike said calmly, "Sorry, were you crying just now?" Fleur hurriedly wiped the tears from her face and said, "I'm not crying! And you haven't answered me yet!"

"Okay, okay, you're not crying. I must have heard you wrongly." Mike, who had activated his magical perception, saw all of Furong's little movements. Although he wanted to laugh in his heart, he kept a serious expression on his face. "I'm Mike Townley, a second-year student at Hogwarts, a Mudblood."

In the darkness, Furong was obviously stunned when she heard the word "Mudblood", and the disgust hidden deep in her eyes also eased a little.

"This is impossible. How could a wizard of Muggle descent be invited to attend the party tonight?" As if wanting to see Mike's face clearly, Fleur came to a distance in front of Mike.

"Abbot Foley is my good friend. You are the one who really shouldn't be here. As far as I know, today's banquet is essentially a blind date. With your bloodline, no pure-blood family would be interested in you." Seeing that Fleur didn't follow his lead and use the insulting term "Mudblood" to refer to him, Mike smiled and said half-jokingly.

Hearing Mike's words, Furong's bright eyes dimmed, "If my mother hadn't forced me to come, I wouldn't have come."

After saying this, she seemed to be getting angrier and angrier. She kicked a big tree next to her and continued, "She always wanted me to marry a pure-blood wizard, and the purer the better, saying that it would dilute the Veela bloodline in our family."

"Well, it seems that your mother is a little, uh, a little too conservative." Mike said, "But your mother should also have Veela blood. Why is she so persistent in pursuing the purity of her bloodline?"

"She's a lunatic!" Fleur came up to Mike and said with her eyes wide open. "In her words, it's because of our Veela bloodline that we are discriminated against everywhere. That's why we have to find pure-blooded wizards to marry in order to purify the bloodline of our offspring. Otherwise, our offspring will always be discriminated against in the future!"

Mike was a little surprised when he heard this, but he was soon relieved.

Mike had seen this kind of situation in his previous life in women who came from families that favored boys over girls. Even though they had suffered from the idea of ​​favoring boys over girls, they still liked boys. Once they gave birth to a girl, they would look down on the child just like her parents.

"I don't think so. Times have changed. Blood equality will be the mainstream of the future. If those ancient pure-blood nobles choose to continue to stick to their corrupt blood, they will surely be submerged by the tide of the times!" Mike said in a sonorous and powerful voice.

"Do you really think so?" Mike's words were indeed to Furong's liking. For the first time today, a smile appeared on Furong's face. "By the way, why aren't you fascinated by me?"

"Maybe it's because you're not pretty enough."

"you are lying!"

In the quiet and deserted grove, the two people who were chatting happily sat together unconsciously. At this moment, they heard a middle-aged female voice outside the woods calling Furong's name anxiously.

Furong's face changed drastically when she heard this, and she hurriedly said to Mike, "Oh no! It's my mother, hide quickly."

After saying that, he looked around in panic, helping Mike find a place to hide.

Mike laughed when he saw this, and patted Fleur gently a few times to signal her not to panic. Then he picked up his wand, cast an illusion spell under Fleur's surprised gaze, and disappeared into the woods.

And at the moment when Mike disappeared, Furong's mother also found Furong in the woods.

"So you're here! You're such a worry, how come you came out without a word? I had to look for you for so long!" The middle-aged woman was obviously relieved after finding Furong, and complained, "Come back with me quickly, the party is over, if we don't leave now we will miss the carriage!"

Fleur seemed to be very afraid of her mother. She lowered her head and accepted the scolding in silence. But Mike noticed that Fleur secretly stuck out her tongue when her mother was talking, looking naughty.

"Oh, I see!"

Furong responded immediately after hearing her mother's words, but her eyes kept looking at the place where Mike was just now, and she even stretched out her hand there, as if she wanted to confirm whether Mike was still there.

Looking at her cute appearance, Mike couldn't help but grab the hand that Furong extended, wanting to see her startled because her hand was suddenly grabbed.

But Furong's reaction surprised Mike. Instead of being scared, she scratched Mike's palm, smiled at where Mike was, broke free from Mike's hand, and ran to her mother with a smile. Mike was left alone, staring blankly at the mother and daughter walking further and further away.

Feeling the remaining sensation on his palm, Mike couldn't help but sigh that Fleur was indeed a romantic French person, much more open-minded than the British.

You know, tickling the palm of the opposite sex means hoping to develop a deeper relationship with that person.

At this moment, the sky was already turning pale. Seeing that the mother and daughter had gone far away, Mike lifted the Disillusionment Curse and returned to the villa. Rejecting Abbott's request to stay, Mike returned to Hogwarts in a black Lincoln.

When Mike returned to the dormitory, he was shocked to find that it was already filled with Christmas gifts of all sizes. He decided not to sleep and just started opening the gifts.

The Christmas gifts that Mike gave out had been purchased when he went out to get his suits tailored, and he handed them all over to an owl rental shop in Diagon Alley, asking them to deliver the gifts to their owners on Christmas Eve.

Mike has never been good at choosing gifts. Apart from the pair of emerald earrings he carefully selected for Penelope, the gift he gave to everyone, including all the faculty and staff of Hogwarts, was a magic candy gift package (Christmas special edition) from Honeydukes Candy Shop.

The gifts Mike received this year were obviously much more than last year, but most of them were Christmas cards, most of which had pictures of Santa Claus on them. It went without saying that these gifts were sent by wizards of Muggle descent.

Among all the gifts, the one that Mike was most satisfied with was a complete set of "Fire Master's Guide" given by Professor Flitwick. It contained a lot of advanced knowledge about fire spells, which was of great help to Mike.

What surprised Mike the most was that Professor McGonagall also gave him a gift, and the gift was very valuable, it was a notebook full of knowledge about Transfiguration.

This notebook looks quite old, the color on the cover has faded, and the handwriting on it doesn't look like Professor McGonagall's.

Mike compared the handwriting of all the professors at Hogwarts but couldn't find a match. Finally, when he found a notice written by Dumbledore and compared it, he was surprised to find that the notebook was actually written by Dumbledore.

(End of this chapter)