Hogwarts Raven's Claw

Chapter 148 The time of slacking off is over

Mike looked at Hermione walking away alone and couldn't help but feel a little pity for her. He wondered whether he should go and comfort her. He seemed to have seen Hermione crying just now.

But a slight pain interrupted his thoughts.

"What are you thinking about?"

Penelope asked softly in Mike's ear, while one hand was twisting the soft flesh on Mike's waist.

Although he didn't feel much pain, Mike still pretended to be in unbearable pain and begged for mercy with gnashing teeth: "Ah? No, I was just thinking that it's getting late, why don't we go back to the dormitory and rest quickly?"

Penelope rolled her eyes at Mike but said nothing else. She took Mike's arm and walked towards the exit, leaving Franklin, a single dog, silently eating dog food.

On the way back, Mike looked at the beauty beside him, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but twitch. The more he looked, the more satisfied he felt.

Penelope's emotional intelligence is really high.

Just now, I saw that I was staring at Hermione and I was obviously very angry, but I didn't really twist her hard. I expressed my dissatisfaction to myself, but I didn't express it excessively.

"I like this kind of sensible girl." Mike thought to himself.

As if she noticed Mike's eyes, Penelope shyly let go of her hand that was around Mike's arm, seeming a little embarrassed.

Mike wouldn't let her succeed, so he quickly held Penelope's hand again.

As the two were flirting all the way to Ravenclaw Tower, they met two acquaintances at a hidden corner on the road.

Cedric and Qiu Zhang were holding hands and whispering in a shadowy place. Everyone was watching the duel competition at this time, so they were very brave. The two of them were getting closer and closer, and it seemed that they were about to kiss.

Suddenly, Qiu Zhang seemed to notice Penelope and Mike out of the corner of his eye, and then his face changed drastically, and he blushed and hid behind Cedric.

Cedric was a little confused by her sudden action, until he saw Mike and Penelope walking towards him and understood the reason.

"It seems like we've ruined your plans." Mike said sarcastically with a weird smile.

"It's good that you know." Cedric shrugged and shook hands with Mike. "Long time no see. Did you just come back from the game?"

"Yeah, didn't you go to see Qiu Zhang's game?"

"Her first match is scheduled for tomorrow." Cedric said helplessly, "The schedule for this duel tournament is a bunch of shit. I bet the person who designed the rules must be illiterate!"

"Huh? What do you say?"

Mike felt a little confused when he heard this. He had been spending all the time in the Room of Requirement these days and didn't know the schedule of the duel tournament.

Seeing this, Cedric didn't ask Mike why he didn't even know this, and started explaining directly.

It turned out that this duel competition had too many participants and they had to leave two months for the students to prepare for the exam, so the competition committee directly stipulated that the first round of competition would last for a month. During this month, an elimination match would be held every night at the venue of the competition, and finally 8 contestants would be selected.

Then these 8 contestants will duel through random drawing, and the winner will be selected together with the seeded players from each college to form the real top 8.

Finally comes the semi-finals and finals.

This directly led to a sharp increase in the intensity of the first round of matches. Mike smacked his lips when he heard this. The first round of this duel competition was indeed very unfriendly to the contestants who were selected. Those who were eliminated in the first game were fine, but those who won consecutive games had to fight continuously in just a month. Many people had not yet recovered from the injuries they suffered in the previous game and had to fight in the next game with injuries.

And Mike estimated that by the end of the first round, everyone playing would have some injuries.

Because the Hogwarts infirmary is not large, it is usually easy to treat minor illnesses such as headaches and fevers, and injuries caused by naughty children. However, once the number of casualties increases, it will definitely be too busy to handle it. This is why Lockhart organized some senior students to form a temporary treatment team.

Judging from the fact that Ron's front teeth had not fully recovered, the level of this temporary medical team was really worrying.

But these actually have nothing to do with Mike and Cedric. The two are seeded players of their respective colleges. They don’t have to participate in such high-intensity competitions at all and can directly advance to the semi-finals.

The reason why Cedric felt that the schedule was lame was that he felt more sorry for Qiu Zhang.

Thinking of this, Mike joked, "I didn't expect you to really take away our Ravenclaw's pearl. How is it? Tell me quickly, how far have you developed?"

Cedric showed a smug smile on his face, as if he had thought of something. He turned his head and glanced behind him, and saw that Qiu Zhang had been pulled not far away by Penelope. At this moment, the two girls were whispering to each other, and they would secretly look at Mike and Cedric from time to time. He breathed a sigh of relief.

"I've said it before. With my conditions, Qiu Zhang will definitely choose me." Cedric whispered, "Compared to me, Roger Davis is simply a world apart. I used a little trick to make Qiu Zhang leave him."

Cedric became more and more excited as he spoke, and he put his arm around Mike's shoulders and wanted to explain to him the so-called trick he had played.

"Mike, Roger asked me to tell you to attend the next Quidditch training." Qiu Zhang, who was standing by, had come to the two of them without them noticing. "You've missed several months of training. The Quidditch finals will be coming up soon. We need you."

Cedric was so frightened when he suddenly heard his girlfriend's voice that he trembled.

"What's wrong with you?" Qiu Zhang couldn't help but ask when she saw her boyfriend was behaving a little abnormally.

"Nothing, Mike and I were just..." Cedric reacted quickly, "cursing the guy who made the schedule for the duel tournament."

The puzzled look on Qiu Zhang's face slowly faded after hearing this, and she stared at Mike, waiting for Mike's answer. This time, her Quidditch captain Roger Davis gave her a death order, and she must let Mike go back to training.

Roger himself had come to see Mike several times before, but was always brushed off by Mike.

After a few times, Roger thought that the reason why Mike rejected him was because he was not charming enough, so he sent Qiu Zhang, who had the highest charm attribute in their team, hoping to use the beauty trap to get Mike to go back to training.

"Mike, you should go to training." Penello gently shook Mike's arm and advised.

Seeing this, Cedric also reacted and advised: "Yes, I heard that you are good at Quidditch. I really hope to meet you on the field."

Mike was deeply conflicted.

After obtaining the Transfiguration Notebook and the "Flame Master's Guide", Mike needed to spend a lot of time practicing spells and had no time to participate in Quidditch training.

But looking at the expectant eyes of the three people, Mike couldn't refuse.

Finally, Mike gritted his teeth and said, "Okay! Remember to notify me next time you train!"

Hearing the sound, Qiu Zhang and Penelope both cheered, but Mike's heart was bleeding.

"Goodbye, my idle time."

(End of this chapter)