Hogwarts Raven's Claw

Chapter 31 Mike's Plan

The next day, when Mike opened his eyes, what he saw was a photo of himself and his family in the Mirror of Erised. He had slept in this abandoned classroom last night.

After a night of thinking, he had guessed that last night's experience must have been designed, starting from when he came out of the Room of Requirement and the secret passage he often used suddenly led to this abandoned classroom. There was only one person who could do this, and that was Dumbledore.

Mike could roughly guess the reason why Dumbledore did this, which was simply to test his character.

From the first time they met, Mike sensed Dumbledore's dissatisfaction with him. In fact, the fact that this test had not come until now was a bit beyond Mike's expectation. He had thought that Dumbledore would talk to him soon after he entered the school.

However, Dumbledore did not show up last night, so it seemed that he had passed the test.

Mike walked out of the classroom facing the dazzling sunlight outside. After what happened last night, he understood what he wanted most. He wanted to go home!
In the following days, Mike worked even harder to learn magic. If he wanted to go home, he had to have strong strength.

After the battle with the troll, Mike had a clearer understanding of his own combat power. He was now roughly on par with the students in grades 6 and 7 in terms of combat power alone, but in terms of the number of magic spells he had mastered and his understanding of magic, Mike was not even as good as the students in grades 3 and 4.

It should be mentioned here that the teaching mode of Hogwarts is rather strange. The first and second grade wizards are almost free-range, and what they learn are the most basic things in the wizarding world. However, this is understandable, after all, it is to take care of the little wizards of Muggle origin.

Hogwarts begins to truly educate young wizards in magic from the third grade when they can choose elective courses. It can be said that this is the first crossroads in the life of young wizards. The elective courses you choose will have a great impact on your future. At the same time, the learning pressure of students begins to increase from the third grade.

From the third grade to the end of the fourth grade, the study pressure will become greater and greater in these two years, because they will face the first wizard level test, OWLs, at the end of the fourth grade.

After taking the OWLs, students will choose NEWTs courses based on their scores. The OWLs exam is like the college entrance examination, and the NEWTs courses that can be chosen after the exam are like university courses.

Many NEWTs courses have their own score cutoffs, and the score cutoffs for popular subjects such as Potions and Charms are very high, but if you study these courses, it will be of great help to your future employment and your strength.

Students who perform extremely poorly in the exam can only choose to study some low-requirement courses like Muggle Studies, but after graduation they will face the dilemma of unemployment, unless your family has a mine.

Starting from the fifth grade, Hogwarts students were divided into two groups: one was those who studied difficult courses like Potions, and the other was those who took garbage courses.

The former have endless homework to do and books to read every day. Although the latter is more difficult than grades one and two, it is not even as difficult as grades three and four. It can be said to be very easy.

Finally, there is the NEWTs exam, which is the highest degree certificate that Hogwarts can give, and it is also the most valuable degree certificate in Europe for hundreds of years. After graduation, whether you are employed or married, people will use your NEWTs scores and the subjects you have studied as a standard. If your grades are good enough, even if you are a Muggle wizard, you can live very well in the wizarding world.

But in contrast, the study pressure of sixth and seventh grade graduates is so great that it is unimaginable. In the original book, Hermione used the time turner to attend all the elective courses in the third grade, which made her lack of energy, but this study intensity can be said to be the norm for sixth and seventh grade students. So almost all the senior wizards you see on the campus of Hogwarts look hurried, and they rarely participate in entertainment activities such as Quidditch. It's not because they don't like entertainment, but because they are too busy.

But fortunately, hard study has brought about a rapid increase in strength. The level and number of spells mastered by students in grades six and seven are no less than those of most adult wizards, so Mike's combat effectiveness is really strong at this time.

You have to know that Mike now also masters conventional attack spells such as Armor and Expelliarmus. The reason why his combat effectiveness is so high is largely due to his combat experience in his previous life.

Attacking with a wand is like shooting with a pistol, which requires very high accuracy. The reason why many wizards have low combat effectiveness is that their shooting range is too short. If you are far away from them, they can't hit you. However, Mike was a sharpshooter in his previous life. Shooting is as easy for him as drinking water.

In addition, Mike also has the blessing of emotional casting skills and magic control skills. The magic he casts far exceeds that of wizards with the same magic level as him.

At present, in addition to learning new magic, what Mike needs to do is to improve his magic perception and magic control. The higher Mike's magic control ability, the stronger his magic will be.

But many magics are too difficult to learn just by reading books. It's not that Mike has no talent, but the textbooks in the wizarding world are too bad. You can't learn the magic just by reading textbooks. You have to combine it with other people's teachings. Only those private notes of others have real learning value.

Mike also consulted Professor Flitwick, but when Professor Flitwick saw that Mike was asking him about high-level spells, he advised him not to aim too high and just to master the spells he was learning now. Mike strongly suspected that Dumbledore had given the old man a hint.

Thinking of this, Mike couldn't help but grit his teeth. Dumbledore, this old bee is so bad!

But Mike is not completely helpless. There is a place that must have the detailed casting methods of those advanced spells, and even the method of releasing the Unforgivable Curse. That place is the restricted book area.

The purpose of asking Penelope to help him with the Disillusionment Charm was to enter the Restricted Area. Dumbledore would leave Hogwarts during the first-year final exams, and that would be Michael's best chance to enter the Restricted Area.

As for the forbidden area in the restricted area, Mike also has his own solution.

Since the last battle with the troll, Mike felt that his ability to perceive magic had increased a lot. Now Mike can vaguely sense the magic outside his body.

After discovering this, Mike immediately went to the library. As expected, in front of the entrance to the restricted area, Mike sensed the presence of magic. It was magic that was like infrared rays across the wall. Although these threads were intertwined to form a net, it did not mean that Mike could not enter.

Now it depends on whether Penelope can get the Disillusionment Charm. If Penelope can't get it before Christmas, Michael may not have time to learn this complicated spell. Then he will have to take the risk of asking Harry to borrow the Invisibility Cloak.

(End of this chapter)