Raven's Claw at Hogwarts

"Tick tock~tick tock~tick tock..."

The ward in the infirmary was completely silent. Except for the sound of the hands moving in the huge clock in the corner, the only sound left in the ward was the breathing of Umbridge, who was wrapped up into a fresh mummy on the hospital bed.

Umbridge's breathing was very gentle, and if you listened closely you could even hear a slight snore.

"Tick tock~tick tock~"

The hands of the clock were still moving. Finally, with an obvious mechanical sound, the thick hand representing the hour suddenly moved and pointed at a big I.

A small door on the top of the clock suddenly opened, and then a purely mechanical golden bird flew out, screaming "chirp" while hovering over the ward.

Umbridge seemed to be awakened on the hospital bed. She took a deep breath as if she hadn't breathed in a long time.

Her body was trembling slightly and her head was shaking slightly, as if she wanted to turn around and look around her.

However, due to the neck immobilizer, her wish to turn her head was not fulfilled, so she could only try her best to deflect her eyes.

Suddenly, a bouquet of pure black roses appeared in her peripheral vision.

All the sharp thorns on the branches of this bouquet of roses have been removed, and the tool used to peel them off from their original positions is a dagger on the edge of the roses.

Umbridge's body was shaking more and more, and there was even a faint sound of intermittent teeth clashing from her mouth.

The sunlight outside the window shone on her bed, as if someone had sprinkled a large amount of gold powder on it, but even so, Umbridge did not feel any warmth at all.

At this moment, she even felt that her whole body was soaked in cold sweat, and because her body was covered with a thick plaster, she couldn't wipe the sweat away at all, and it was extremely uncomfortable.

After a while, Umbridge's breathing gradually calmed down, and her body trembled much less.

She clearly remembered that a strong man wearing a black robe and a strange white mask appeared in her ward yesterday after Mag left!

The masked man said that he wanted to give himself a gift, and then he took out a dagger and put it on his neck.

The memory was blurred up to this point. Umbridge thought it was just a nightmare at first, but now she really found the dagger!

It's all true!

Umbridge was still taking deep breaths to try to calm herself down.

At this moment, her brain was working at high speed, and she felt as if she had discovered a huge secret!

Dumbledore and his staff have formed a huge interest group, constantly extracting profits from all aspects, and training Hogwarts students to become their armed forces.

And when their strength accumulates to a certain level, they will rush out of Hogwarts with unrivaled power and unify the entire wizarding world in the country! Even the whole of Europe! The whole world!

That's right! That must be the case!

The world-famous white wizard Dumbledore is the most evil dark wizard! A careerist full of conspiracy!

It must be because his arrival made them uneasy, so they lined up people to attack him!

This is not an ordinary attack!

The attack that night was clearly a deliberately planned death threat!

He didn't understand it at first, so later Mag sent someone to threaten him more directly!

Thinking of this, Umbridge felt her body begin to tremble instinctively again, and she couldn't hold back the fear in her heart.

She admitted that she was really scared.

Who is not afraid of death?

She even had the urge to return directly to the Ministry of Magic. Even if she was scolded by Fudge for failing the mission, it would still be better than losing her life!

Unfortunately, it's too late to say all this now.

Umbridge felt the plaster that bound her body, and a wry smile flashed across her face.

He has lost his freedom and is under complete house arrest. Where can he escape?

Now, I can only cooperate with those people's actions as much as possible, and hope that the other party will care about my identity as the Deputy Minister of Magic and let me go!

"Crunch!"

The door to the ward was suddenly opened, and a student medical volunteer wearing a white robe walked in.

Umbridge was startled by the sound, her pupils shrank suddenly, and she almost couldn't hold back a cry.

The female volunteer who came in didn't seem to notice the change in Umbridge's demeanor. She only saw a warm smile on her face. She carefully helped Umbridge re-press the somewhat messy quilt, and then gently asked:

"Professor Umbridge, you are finally awake! You haven't had lunch yet. What do you want to eat?"

While she was talking, she suddenly discovered the roses beside Umbridge's bed, and the smile on her face became even brighter.

"Wow! Roses! Did your friend, Professor Umbridge, send them? He is so considerate that he even picked out the thorns on them!"

Umbridge's lips twitched slightly on the hospital bed. The warm smile on the girl's face seemed so evil to her. Facing the girl's inquiry, Umbridge knew that she had to bow her head under the eaves. Qi could only reluctantly answer:

"Um!"

…

At the same time, on the bustling main road of Hogwarts Village, Mike and a group of members of the mutual aid club were walking mightily.

Today was the weekend, and it was also the day that he and Harry made an appointment to meet the new members of the cram school.

"Mike, look at that!"

While walking, George suddenly pulled Mike. The latter looked in the direction he pointed and saw a shop that was already crowded with people. On the wooden sign on the front of the shop, written in gold paint, A line of big characters - Zuo Ke Joke Shop.

"We're going to open a joke shop much bigger than that one day!"

George gritted his teeth and said, while Fred beside him retorted:

"It's not just big! By then our store will have more items than there, and the quality will be even better!"

"Yes, you are absolutely right, Fred!"

Looking at the two people who looked like they had been injected with chicken blood, Mike shook his head helplessly, did not answer, and just continued to walk forward silently.

During this time, he often heard similar words. Mike's guess was that George and Fred were not having an easy time with Umbridge during this period, and they could only rely on such thoughts to make themselves able to Hold on.

Not long after they continued walking, the Hogsmeade Post Office appeared in front of everyone.

This post office is the message center of the entire Hogsmeade village. It stores a large number of letters that owls have already counted, and the owls in it are also divided into different levels using various colors. The higher the level, the higher the level. The faster the speed, the higher the charges.

It's a pity that the people who manage this post office don't seem to have any sense of cleanliness, which leads to bird droppings everywhere inside the post office, which is very disgusting.

Everyone turned a corner in front of the Hogsmeade Post Office and entered a path. After walking for a while, a dilapidated two-story tavern appeared in front of everyone.

This tavern is located at the intersection of this trail. Mike thinks that the owner of this tavern must have been kicked in the head by a donkey, because unlike the main road of Hogsmeade Village not far away, there is no one on this trail. It must be The business should be very bleak.

At the door of this small building was a tattered wooden signboard with a severed pig head painted on it. The blood stains penetrated the white cloth wrapping it, which looked a bit scary.

"Pig's Head Bar, let's go in."

Following Mike's command, everyone followed him and poured into the bar.

As soon as he entered the bar, Mike noticed a strong smell of mutton, which made him instinctively cover his nose.

Then he turned around and observed again, and found that this bar was like a garbage dump compared to the Leaky Cauldron in Diagon Alley!

The space inside is very small, and there are many tables and chairs scattered around inside, making the originally small space even smaller.

Moreover, the windows inside are still covered with thick dirt, and almost no light can come in from the outside. This makes the light in the tavern very dim. Even if it is daytime, some candles are lit on the rough wooden tables for lighting. .

The floor of the tavern was dusty. Mike originally thought it was compacted mud, but after stepping on it and feeling it for himself, he was surprised to find that it was actually dirt accumulated on the stone paved floor. Centuries of dirt!

Everything here makes Mike feel disgusted. You must know that he is a very clean person.

It is said that Hagrid is a frequent visitor here. When Mike and others were in first grade, he was drinking here when Quirrell used a dragon egg to trick out the secret of the three-headed dog.

For this reason, Mike originally thought that even if the Pig's Head Bar was a bit dirty and messy, there would at least be a limit, but now it seems that he has really overestimated the lower limit of Hagrid's tolerance for the environment!

"What do you want!"

While Mike was frowning and looking around, a rough voice suddenly came over.

Mike turned to look at the bar, and saw a fat man with a big beard, who looked somewhat similar to Dumbledore, staring at him angrily with his round eyes. Judging from his posture, he seemed to be Very dissatisfied with Mike and others' dislike of the environment here.

Mike instantly remembered the other party’s identity!

Aberforth, Dumbledore's younger brother, is also the owner of this tavern.

But according to the intelligence in the original work, the relationship between him and Dumbledore was very bad. The two would quarrel or even fight each other whenever they met.

Mike didn't know the underlying reason for this. The original book only said it was because of their little sister, but the specific things were not written in detail.

It is said that the detailed content can be found in other materials, but unfortunately Mike has only read the original work.

"Mike, you're finally here!" Harry shouted excitedly, but after seeing the senior students behind him, the surprise smile on Harry's face suddenly froze, "They are..."

It was only then that Mike discovered Harry and others hiding in the corner. He took a deep look at Aberforth, and then said to Harry with a smile:

"They are all my friends. They heard that I was going to give them extra classes and came with them."

"Really? This is awesome!"

"Now we finally don't have to worry about the embarrassing situation where no one will come... Woohoo!~"

Ron was halfway through his words when Hermione and Harry both covered their mouths and could only make a whimpering sound.

At this time, George and Fred had already sat down in front of the bar. It was obviously not their first time here. They raised their hands very skillfully and shouted to Aberforth:

"Boss, give us each a bottle of butterbeer! My treat!"

George said that they were so heroic. Now the secret of their wealth has been exposed, so they simply spent money lavishly.

Aberforth at the bar twitched his eyebrows and beard violently when he heard this, and stood angrily staring at George, as if he was angry that George had increased his workload.

It wasn't until George's scalp was numb from looking at him that Aberforth took over and picked up two large boxes of butterbeer from the cabinet under the bar and piled them in front of George:

"All the inventory is given to you, 50 bottles, totaling 6 gold galleons!"

"What? Do you think we are fools?" Fred shouted, "The butterbeer you have here is obviously 2 sickles a bottle. 50 bottles is 5 gold galleons and 15 sickles. The extra 2 sickles But where did it come from?”

"Huh!? You don't buy it?"

Aberforth acted even more exaggeratedly than Fred, with a hint of anger in his voice.

Hearing this, George hurriedly came out to smooth things over.

They are regular customers of this pub, and the reason why they often come to this pub to spend money is because the owner of this pub does not care about the 'prohibition on underage drinking'. As long as you have money here, even if you are just a student He will also sell you drinks.

It is also for this reason that the Pig's Head Bar has become an important source of goods in Hogwarts' "alcohol smuggling network". Almost all the drinks in Hogwarts come from here.

So they didn't seem to have too much trouble with the boss, and they didn't care about Aberforth's forced buying and selling behavior.

Because they can transport the excess wine here to Hogwarts and buy it slowly. Why is the price so high? They can also raise prices after they return!

In the end, with George's deliberate flattery, Aberforth finally handed over two full cases of butterbeer to Fred.

Fred then skillfully opened the box and distributed the wine inside to everyone present.

Mike was also given a bottle of butterbeer, but he had no intention of drinking it.

There is no other reason than that it is too dirty!

Aberforth's brows were knitted together from the moment he took out all the butterbeer.

The two large wooden boxes were covered in dust and dirt, and their original color was completely lost.

The butterbeer taken out was similar. The area where the trademark pattern should have been covered on the bottle was blurred. A large amount of grease and dust adhered to the surface of the glass bottle, which made the entire bottle look terrible. At the same time, it also made the bottle look terrible. It makes one wonder if these butterbeers have expired!

Mike would never eat such unclean things unless absolutely necessary!