Chapter 453: One Week
Mike ignored Franklin and walked straight towards the Ravenclaw lounge.
He did such an excessive thing in the Black Magic Defense class just now and was not locked up. This was a lucky thing, so he just wanted to leave the Black Magic Defense class classroom as soon as possible in case Snape suddenly remembered this.
However, when he came to the door of Ravenclaw's lounge, he found that Harry and the other two had already been waiting here.
"Mike!" *3
"Is there anything wrong? Everyone."
Harry and others looked at each other in a glance, and finally Hermione gritted her teeth and stood up and said:
"That's right, Mike. Where did the book "Advanced Potion Making" you gave Harry come from? Why are the potion recipes on it modified?"
After saying that, Ron, who was beside Mike, asked again:
"Oh! The point is that are the recipes above are really better than those taught by Professor Slughorn at the beginning?"
As soon as this statement came out, Hermione rolled her eyes to Ron immediately, but Ron was not caring. At this moment, he was widening his eyes and waiting for Mike's answer.
"First of all, I'm going to say..." Mike said with a smile, "Ron, you guessed it right. The modified formula in the book "Advanced Potion Making" is indeed better and more convenient than the original formula in the textbook!"
Upon hearing this, Ron and Harry suddenly had a bright smile on their faces, and then they cheered and hugged each other.
Mike understood their feelings very well. For anyone, this "Mixed-Blood Prince's Note" is a precious treasure, not to mention a poor student like Harry and Ron.
Hermione, who was standing by, looked unhappy when she heard this. She put her hands on her chest and stared at Mike in anger, as if she was blaming Mike for handing the book to Harry.
"Don't look at me like this, Hermione." Mike spread his hands and said, "I'm doing it for you, this is a good book, and even though I gave it to Harry, you can look through each other, right? It's good for you."
"That's right! You're so right!"
Hermione said excitedly before she could answer.
Hermione glared at Ron again before saying to Mike:
"You haven't told us where this book comes from?"
"I'm sorry I can't tell you the origin of this book, but you should have noticed the signature in the book, right? The mixed-blood prince."
Everyone nodded.
"What I can tell you is that you all know this mixed-race prince, and he is already your old acquaintance."
Mike said with a smirk.
Then even Hermione's face showed a curious look. She frowned and thought for a while before saying:
"You are using 'him', which means that the original owner of this book is a boy."
"Please! Hermione!" Harry rolled his eyes and said, "He calls himself a 'half-blood prince'. How could he be a girl? I told him that he must be a mixed-blood boy."
Hermione smiled awkwardly.
"I guess that since that mixed-blood prince was able to make so many improved formulas during his student days, his talent in potions must be very outstanding, so he should be a big shot now! This is easy to guess. After all, we know not many people with outstanding potions talent."
"Are you talking about Dumbledore?"
“Did Dumbledore’s grades in potions were very good as a student?”
"Uh, I don't know, but I really can't think of anyone else. After all, it's impossible to be Snape, right?"
"Thank you for the joke, I was laughed at."
...
Hermione and Harry had a fierce discussion on the identity of the mixed-race prince, while Ron looked indifferent. He didn't care who the original owner of the book was. The main reason why this book could help him cheat in class was that it was a good book!
"By the way, everyone, maybe you should study the contents of this book carefully. In addition to the potion recipe, there are some more useful things worth learning."
Ron's eyes lit up suddenly. He looked at Harry with his eyes curled up, as if he wanted to go back and start studying immediately.
It’s a pity that Harry didn’t think so. He looked at Hermione, who was still sulking, and said to Mike:
"Mike, you guys just went to the Black Magic Defense class, right?"
As soon as this said, Hermione also reacted. She glared at her eyes and asked curiously:
"By the way, when we passed by the foyer, we found that there were a lot of gems missing in the hourglass of Ravenclaw's academy, almost all of which were empty. What's going on? Did Snape deduct points from you?"
"Oh, you guessed it right. Snape did do it. He deducted Franklin 20 points and locked him up in confinement, just Saturday."
"This is not right. The scores missing from the Ravencrow hourglass are more than 20 points."
"It's more than that," Mike said, spreading his hands, "He also deducted me 50 points because I made him fool of himself in class."
"This is not very good!" Hermione said with a frown. "You have been deducted 70 points just after school starts. You have to work hard for this year's Academy Cup."
Mike shrugged and did not answer.
He is now completely indifferent to things like the Academy Cup. In fact, if Hermione hadn't mentioned it, he would have almost forgotten about it.
Ron and Harry were very excited. They were very interested in Snape's ugly behavior and wanted to hear Mike tell him about the specific situation at that time.
Unfortunately, Mike didn't want to do this. In his opinion, there was nothing to be proud of.
"I was also locked up in confinement by Snape! Just because he wanted to cast a curse on me in class, and I happened to block it with my armor!" Harry said happily, "but I don't have to really go to confinement, because I have to go to Dumbledore on Saturday night."
As soon as this said, Mike raised his eyebrows. He grabbed the point of Harry's words very sensitively and asked softly:
"Did Dumbledore say what to do with you?"
"Well, he said nothing in his letter to me, but I probably should have taught me how to learn brain closure." Harry said hesitantly, "After all, he had already started teaching me some spells during the summer vacation and mentioned this to me."
Upon hearing this, Hermione and Ron both cast envious eyes at Harry. In their opinion, being taught by a legendary wizard like Dumbledore is simply a supreme honor, while Mike bowed his head and fell into deep thought.
Dumbledore's choice to teach Harry himself just showed that he had not had much time left, and his current strength may have declined to a rather exaggerated level, so he was so anxious.
However, compared with the original work, Dumbledore's situation should be pretty good. After all, in this world, Dumbledore did not resist other traps set by Voldemort because he wanted to destroy the Horcrux, such as the terrifying Yin Corpse Cave.
Without these hardships, Dumbledore's current physical condition should be enough for him to fight.
Of course, it is probably only one battle. After all, excessive use of spells will worsen his injuries.
Thinking of this, Mike lost the intention to continue chatting with Harry and the others.
After saying goodbye to Harry and the others, Mike hurriedly returned to the Masonic Secret Land and participated in the work of the Masonic.
Before the next action begins, he must concentrate all the power of the Masonic community in the secret realm of Masonic, so that his plan can proceed smoothly.
...
Time flies, and in a blink of an eye, it has been a week since school started.
During this week, although the Death Eaters outside were still causing trouble and even intensifying situations, Hogwarts was in peace.
I don’t know whether Dumbledore’s Order of the Phoenix and the Ministry of Magic were too powerful, or whether Voldemort consciously avoided Hogwarts, in short, the lives of the students were not affected at all.
If it weren't for the Daily Prophet Daily that was still reporting news across the country, Hogwarts students would have almost forgotten the fact that Voldemort had come.
And in this short week, Franklin also realized how outrageous his idea of choosing a course was.
After abandoning many elective courses, he did have a lot of spare time, but at the same time, the number of assignments assigned by the professors and the difficulty of assignments are also increasing in geometric multiples.
At the same time, not only the Dark Magic Defense class, but also Professor McGonagall's Transformation class and Professor Flevy's Spell class began to require students to use silent spells in the classroom.
This makes everyone feel embarrassed.
Nowadays, sixth-grade students sitting there holding a magic wand in their hands, flushing with their faces all over the Ravenclaw's lounge.
The younger wizards in the lower grades once thought it was Slughorn in the potion class who gave these seniors some constipation potions. After some inquiry, they learned that these people were practicing the silent spell.
These all together not only made Franklin lose the so-called free time, but even needed to squeeze out some time from his meal and rest time to practice the silent spell, which also made him completely lack the time to participate in Quidditch's training.
This was really a tragic thing for Franklin, and it also made him admire the seventh-grade seniors.
Grade 6 alone is already so hard, so wouldn’t the seventh grade be like a hellish day on earth!
The situation on Harry's side is similar to Franklin. No, it should be said that Harry's situation is even more miserable than Franklin, because Harry is the captain of the Gryffindor Quidditch team this year, and he is also responsible for a series of matters of the team, including the selection of new players and daily training.
This made Harry's rest time greatly compressed, and deep dark circles appeared on his face.
Hermione is more serious than Harry's dark circles.
This little girl's courses are much more than that of Mike and others, which makes Hermione study almost twenty-four hours a day, but even so, Hermione still can't keep up with the learning progress of many subjects.
This is impossible. Hermione is not a genius, or rather, Hermione is a completely hard-working genius.
Her learning efficiency is actually not high. She used to rely entirely on diligence to make up for her talent flaws.
This approach may have been very effective in the past, but it is useless after the learning burden has increased greatly. After all, there are only twenty-four hours a day, and even if Hermione works hard, she will not be able to squeeze out the twenty-fifth hour.
Mike guessed that Hermione must have missed the time twister very much, but unfortunately, including the one that Professor McGonagall once lent to Hermione, all the time twisters in the entire Yingguo were destroyed in the Ministry of Magic at the end of last semester.
What made Hermione even more angry was that Harry and Ron achieved quite outstanding results in potions class with the "Hybrid Prince's Textbook", which was better than Hermione, second only to Mike.
Now Slughorn is almost offering the three of them as ancestors. Not only do they often praise the three of them for their talent in potions, but they also give them points at any time. The points deducted by Mike and Franklin from Snape have already been doubled for Slughorn.
This is something that Hermione cannot tolerate. In her opinion, Harry, Mike and Ron rely entirely on cheating to win Professor Slughorn's favor.
After all, she is the hardest one, but her efforts are not rewarded. Instead, opportunistic people like Harry and Mike have the upper hand.
For this, she almost broke up completely with Mike and the others.
Harry also advised Hermione to use the "Hybrid Prince" formula with them, but unfortunately Hermione did not listen to the advice at all and insisted on using his old method.
Mike was speechless about this. He could not understand Hermione's thoughts at all. He could only blame Hermione for staying up late for a long time, which led to emotional anxiety. Maybe there was a yj disorder.
For this reason, Mike even consulted Professor Slughorn about the relevant treatment steps and told Hermione very obscurely through chatting and telling jokes.
As for whether Hermione listens or not, he doesn't know.
Mike has been living a good life this week. Since he has already mastered the release of silent spells of a large number of spells, his spare time, which is useless in the eyes of others, has become a real rest on him.
However, he did not make himself feel comfortable. As long as he had free time, he would go into the secret realm of Masonic, either dealing with Masonic work or meditating in the meditation room.
Especially for the latter, the time spent by Mike on this is amazing, because he has a premonition that as his body develops, the bottleneck that inhibits his magic and mental power rise is gradually loosening.
What he needs to do now is to practice hard in order to break through as soon as possible and to improve his strength.
Therefore, although Mike has a lot of time, he still looks listless every day. Professor Flevy has educated Mike a lot, but Mike still insists on his own.
Chapter completed!