Raven's Claw at Hogwarts

Mike could swear that this was the smoothest release he had ever had since practicing the Patronus Charm.

The result did not disappoint him. When he shouted out the Patronus Charm, the tip of the blackthorn wand shone brighter than ever before.

That light was so different in the dim environment of the office. Although its brightness was amazing, it was surprisingly not dazzling. Moreover, Mike, who was directly illuminated by it, even felt a little warm all over his body and his mood improved. Feeling more and more comfortable, very comfortable.

Gradually, as Mike increased the magic output, the light turned into a mist of light, and then quickly gathered together, and the outline of a bird appeared.

"Is this...a raven?"

Mike looked at the patron saint he had released in shock. Although it was still relatively blurry, judging from its outline, it was indeed a raven very similar to Papi.

After successfully summoning his patron saint, Mike felt ecstatic in his heart. And this joy further strengthened the power of the Patronus Spell, and the raven slowly solidified its body!

Mike felt very strange at this moment. This patron saint version of the raven gave him a very familiar feeling, as if they were a pair of old friends.

"You are so outstanding! Mike!" Lupine looked even more excited than Mike, changing his tired look before, "Merlin! What did I see!"

Mike ignored Lupine at all. At this moment, he was concentrating on controlling his patronus to fly in the small office. As time went by, the excitement in Mike's heart gradually dissipated, which made the patron saint raven in front of Mike become thinner and thinner, and finally disappeared completely.

Mike put down his wand and stared blankly at the place where the raven disappeared, with a smile unconsciously appearing on his face.

My patronus is the raven.

It's not bad, at least it's a creature compatible with Ravenclaw.

Mike thought this way, and he had actually made a guess about his patron saint Mike, and the raven was one of them, and it was also the one that Mike liked but was not his favorite.

His favorite thing is actually the eagle. After all, the school emblem of Ravenclaw is the eagle. This will be very beneficial for him to rely on the Patronus to recruit subordinates in Ravenclaw in the next step.

And now, the raven is not bad, at least it is not a snake or a lion or something.

Just like Dumbledore, a representative figure of Gryffindor, his patronus turned out to be a bird. Although the bird is a phoenix, it is still a bird.

In everyone's impression, people from Ravenclaw are most suitable for the image of creatures like birds. Only lions and tigers are worthy of such fierce men as Gryffindor.

Coincidentally, Mike once asked Professor Flitwick what patron saint he wanted most, and the answer turned out to be a brown bear!

Mike was speechless. You are the head of Ravenclaw, and the patron saint you want most is a macho creature like a brown bear?

Comparing the above two, Mike feels that his patron saint is already very good.

"You are amazing! I have never seen a genius as talented as you! You are simply better than Lily!"

"You're flattered, I'm just lucky."

In the face of Lupine's compliment, Mike responded modestly. In fact, what Mike said was true. He was able to summon a physical version of the Patronus of Luck just now and indeed accounted for a large part of the credit. Now ask Mike to summon another one. That is absolutely impossible.

Moreover, he had cast the Patronus Charm just now in an absolutely safe environment. It was hard to say whether he would be able to cast it in actual combat.

Thinking of this, Mike remembered the trick Lupine just mentioned, the association method.

Yes, Mike called the technique taught by Lupine the Association Method, which was a very appropriate name.

In this way, Mike can quickly enter the state and release the Patronus Charm.

Mike has already decided on the associative object of the so-called association method, which is a raven. The raven mentioned here is not limited to a living raven, but also a raven statue or a raven pendant.

Mike did not choose blindly. Looking at his journey over the past two years, the raven has played a considerable role in it. Both Papi the raven and Raven's Nest have given Mike a lot of help. .

Just thinking about ravens brings to mind many wonderful memories and visions of the future for Mike.

For example, setting up an organization whose logo is a raven to defeat Voldemort and sweep the world.

Mike is a layman, he does not have too high ideals. His desires are simple, wealth, power and sex, and if possible, it would be best if he could defeat death.

But even though Mike has chosen to associate things, it is still difficult to reach the peak of joy in an instant. Although Mike has accumulated a lot of relevant self-hypnosis experience from the practice of emotional spellcasting skills and Occlumency, But it still requires a lot of training.

In short, the road ahead is long and comrades still need to work hard.

Lupine was very happy to see Mike successfully release the corporeal Patronus for the first time after accepting his teachings.

Although he has just become a professor, he has already assumed the identity of a teacher. Teachers always have a natural affection for students with excellent grades and extraordinary talents.

Because of this, Lupine's attitude towards Mike is much better now.

The two exchanged business information for a while before Mike was ready to leave. After all, it was getting late and so many things had happened today. Professor Lupine's body should be in urgent need of rest now.

However, just as Mike was about to leave, Lupine suddenly stopped him.

"Wait a minute, Mike. What do you think should be better in my first class? As you know, this is my first time as a teacher. Although I have done some homework, I am still quite nervous."

"Don't be nervous, Professor Lupin." Mike replied with a smile, "Your predecessor was a standard embroidered pillow. With him as a brick and mortar in front of you, you can be called a jewel as long as you perform at your normal level. ”

After listening to Mike's words, Lupine relaxed slightly and yawned as he said: "Thank you for your comfort, Mike. It's getting late. You should go back and rest early. You can come to my place to practice after dinner every day from now on."

"Thank you Professor, good night, and wish you sweet dreams."

"Have sweet dreams too, Mike."

…

Lupin's blessing had no effect. After Mike returned to the dormitory, he slept until the next morning without having a single dream.

When Mike got up the next day, he received this year's class schedule.

This year's course schedule is a little special compared to the past two years. For example, in addition to the required courses, Mike's course schedule also has two more elective courses, Ancient Runes and Muggle Studies.

Mike chose Ancient Runes and Muggle Studies as his elective courses after careful consideration. There are 5 elective courses in total, namely Divination, Care of Magical Creatures, Muggle Studies, Ancient Runes and Arithmancy.

Among them, Muggle Studies was completely chosen by Mike to make up the numbers, because everyone must choose at least two elective courses.

The reason he took this class instead of other classes was entirely because Mike wanted to be lazy.

After all, he was born as a Muggle, so I believe it would be easier to study Muggles instead.

Divination and arithmetic come from the same family. Strictly speaking, arithmetic should be regarded as a category under divination. The difference between the two is that arithmetic uses numbers to perform divination, which requires the frequent use of complex numerical tables and a large number of data.

This is a bit like the big data of later generations, which uses a large amount of data to predict the future, but arithmetic divination becomes more powerful with the intervention of magic.

It's hard to say which of the two is stronger. Big data has an extremely exaggerated amount of data, and the top arithmetic soothsayers have magical blessings.

Pure divination relies on props such as tea leaves, crystal balls, tarot cards, etc. Compared with rigorous arithmetic divination, pure divination is more mysterious and looks more like nonsense to outsiders.

Another point is that pure divination requires more talent than arithmetic divination. Talented people can display unimaginable talents in divination.

Just like the Divination Professor at Hogwarts today, her highest achievement was to successfully predict that Harry would kill Voldemort.

This achievement also earned her a long-term meal ticket as a professor at Hogwarts.

Mike, on the other hand, was not interested in either course.

Not to mention divination, Mike doesn’t believe in prophecies at all, and the seemingly rigorous arithmetic divination...

Sorry, Mike hates math the most.

And the Care of Magical Creatures class...

To be honest, Mike really wanted to take it. After all, although the professors in this course often brainwash you and ask you to care for magical creatures, it is generally very interesting to be able to come into contact with some new magical creatures.

It's a pity that the professor of Care of Magical Creatures has changed this year, and he has been replaced by Hagrid.

Most importantly, Hagrid was at odds with him.

In the end, Mike was left with the only elective course of Ancient Magic Texts to choose from.

But even if there were other options, Mike would definitely choose this course. The reason is that he firmly believes that this course will be of great use.

In fact, ancient runes are actually ancient runes. The ancient runes mentioned here are very different from the runes in the Muggle world, but strictly speaking, they actually come from the same family.

They are all sacred texts in Germanic mythology. They are texts of wisdom obtained by Father God Odin by sacrificing to the World Tree. They are also called rune texts.

Runes or runes have been passed down completely in the wizarding world, and wizards have developed and utilized the power buried in this writing.

Used in alchemy, the special technique of enchantment was born, making modern alchemy flourish again.

Used in body modification, many terrifying monsters were born.

…

In addition, not to mention that many ancient classics are written in runes. You can't get these treasures left by the ancients without ancient magic scripts.

It can be said that if your ancient magic text score in the ultimate wizard examination can reach excellent or above, then you will definitely not worry about employment after graduation.

No matter where you come from!

The most important reason for this, apart from the role of the ancient magic texts, is that the ancient magic texts are so difficult!

Mike remembers that the United Nations once conducted a survey and said that Chinese is the most difficult language in the world to learn, and the dialects in Chinese are jokingly called the "devil's language."

But these are trivial in the face of ancient magic texts. Runes are the language of gods, and the language of gods is much more difficult to learn than the 'language of the devil'.

Although it is difficult, Mike still plans to learn.

After all, the ancient magic text was so powerful that he would not hesitate to lose all his blond hair for this!

Back to Hogwarts, since there was no ancient runes class today, Mike planned to go to the Room of Requirement for some regular training after finishing a boring day of classes.

But as he passed the hall, he bumped into a frowning Harry.

"Hey, Harry. You look bad. What's wrong?"

Harry obviously didn't expect to meet Mike here. Seeing Mike greeting him, he was stunned for a moment before replying: "It's nothing, it's just... I just don't feel good. I actually fainted on the train, and everyone else was fine." , but I..."

After Harry said this, he felt a little surprised that he actually told Mike what he was saying.

When Mike heard this, he also thought of something. Harry's fainting on the train had indeed become a laughing stock among many people, especially Draco, who must have been madly mocking Harry with this incident today.

After thinking for a moment, a bright smile appeared on Mike's face and he said, "Don't take it to heart, Harry. Draco and the others don't understand your feelings at all."

"Dementors are extremely evil creatures. They will evoke your deepest nightmares. People like you and me who have had tragic experiences face them a hundred times worse than ordinary people. "

Harry looked at Mike in surprise. He was no longer surprised that Mike could always point out what he was thinking. What surprised him was what Mike said about 'people like you and me'.

Could it be that Mike...

"That's right, I'm the same as you. I also know that feeling. I almost fainted on the train last time." Mike paused and said seriously, "Do you know why I didn't faint?"

Harry looked at Mike eagerly and shook his head. He was very eager to get the answer.

"It's a strong body! The exercise I took during the summer vacation gave me a strong body, which enabled me to recover from that state quickly." Mike said in the most beguiling way as if he were a great orator on stage. A powerful voice said, "And, I can also know the Guardian Charm!"

"Is it the kind of spell Professor Lupine used before?"

Harry asked eagerly before Mike could finish speaking. Mike was not angry when he was interrupted and replied: "Yes, it's that curse. The Patronus Curse is known to be able to resist dementor attacks." There is only one magic spell. It can be said that as long as you learn this magic spell, dementors will no longer be a problem for you."

Harry opened his mouth wide and looked at Mike with admiration. He didn't expect that Mike was so knowledgeable and could even know spells that were not in textbooks.

Mike looked at Harry's reaction and asked with a meaningful smile on his face:

"Want to learn? I can teach you."