Chapter 197 Double Crown

Two months later, in the Ravenclaw boys' dormitory.

Mike held Abbot's reply and looked at it carefully. After a long time, a satisfied smile appeared on his face, and he picked up the pen and started writing the reply to Abbot.

Mike had written a letter to inform Abt about Dolphin's magic drink patent two months ago, but Abt has not replied to Mike until now.

Fortunately, Abbot's answer satisfied Mike very much.

Abbot said in the letter that Mike had nothing to worry about about Dolphin's Magic Drink. They have settled everything at the Ministry of Magic in the past two months. Now, as long as Mike goes to the Ministry of Magic to show his face after his vacation, Dolphin's Magic Drink and other patents will follow Mike's surname Townley.

At that time, anyone else who dares to sell Dolphin's Magic Drink or products with ingredients similar to Dolphin's Magic Drink without Mike's authorization will be thrown into Azkaban, including Dolphin himself and his family.

Seeing this, Mike suddenly felt happy. The imperfect laws in the wizarding world still have advantages. At least at this moment, he did rely on this to gain benefits.

If this were placed in the Muggle world, even if Mike had registered the patent for Dolphin, they would still be able to take him to court and finally regain the patent for Dolphin's magic drink.

However, Abt also mentioned in the letter that if Dolphin and the others started to cause trouble, Mike would still be in some trouble, but Abt also said that they would send someone to warn Dolphin's family.

Thinking of this, the hand that was writing the letter suddenly stopped, and the smile on his face slowly turned ferocious.

The seeds of nightmare have been planted in Dolphin a long time ago. If Dolphin knows the truth, that's fine. If he doesn't, then Mike will kill him. Not only Dolphin himself, but also him All family members will suffer.

With this decision made, the pen in Mike's hand started to dance again, and soon a standard thank-you letter came out.

After opening the window and letting the owl messenger go to Abbot with this reply, Mike looked at the time again and found that it was almost time, so he got up and headed to the auditorium.

Tonight, his second year-end dinner at Hogwarts would begin.

Walking out of the Ravenclaw lounge unhurriedly, Mike noticed along the way that almost everyone in Hogwarts had a smile on their face, and only a few students still looked sad.

That should be because they didn't do well in the exam.

Mike made a guess in his mind.

When it comes to exams, Mike actually didn't do very well. Since Mike stayed in the hospital for a long time before the exam, he fell far behind in his review progress. Even though Penelo, a top student, personally made up lessons for Mike, he could not catch up with the others.

But fortunately, Mike's foundation is still good, so Mike's test scores in key subjects such as Charms and Potions are still very good.

Interestingly, because Mike had put a lot of effort into Transfiguration in order to defeat Cedric, this year Mike's Transfiguration class actually ranked second in the same grade. Professor McGonagall specifically named him for this. After praising Mike a few words, Hermione next to her was so envious that her eyes almost brimmed with envy. Professor McGonagall didn't even praise her like this even though she was ranked first in her grade.

As for Mike's performance in relatively unsophisticated courses such as History of Magic and Herbal Medicine, he was quite unsatisfactory. Although Mike did not fail in any of the subjects, he only just passed in several of them. Mike even suspected that the professors wanted to sell him a favor because he was this year's duel champion and the winner of the Hogwarts Special Contribution Award, so he barely passed the exam.

Mike didn't take it seriously. To be honest, those unpopular courses were of little help to Mike's future.

Take the history of magic as an example. What will happen to Mike even if he learns it well? Can he still learn lessons from history? No kidding, to paraphrase Hegel’s famous saying, ‘The only lesson we learn from history is that we never learn anything from history. ’

So Mike didn't care at all whether he could pass or not. Could it be that Dumbledore would expel him just because he failed a few irrelevant courses?

That is simply impossible. With Mike's current strength and revealed talent, it is too late for Dumbledore to keep him.

And even if Dumbledore really kicked him out of his mind, he could still transfer to another school. Hogwarts is not the only magic school in the world.

Durmstrang in Northern Europe is a gathering place for pure-blood nobles, so it is not suitable for Mike to go. Kunlun in China is too exclusive and not suitable. As for Footbath and other small wizarding academies, Mike does not like it. In addition, France Beauxbatons in Beauxbatons and Ilvermorny in the United States are both good choices.

The atmosphere of Ilvermorny in the United States is just like the atmosphere of the United States, free and equal. Although this is also a lie to children, various class conflicts and racial discrimination still exist, but compared with those places that clearly discriminate against Muggle-born wizards Speaking of which, Ilvermorny can really be considered a good place.

It's a pity that Ilvermorny has been established for a short period of time compared to other schools, so its foundation is insufficient and the level of the students it teaches is obviously far behind. So the place Mike actually wants to go to is France. of Beauxbatons.

As one of the three most prestigious universities in Europe, there is no doubt about Beauxbatons’ teaching strength. Nick Flamel, the inventor of the Philosopher’s Stone, came from Beauxbatons.

The most important thing is that there are too many beauties in Beauxbatons, and the great beauty Fleur is also there.

Thinking of this, Mike suddenly remembered an interesting thing. When looking up information about magic schools, Mike once saw an introduction to Russian magic schools. It is said that the Quidditch competition there is not like the international mainstream. Instead of competing on a broomstick, he rode an uprooted tree...

Should we say that we really deserve to be a fighting nation?

He chuckled and shook his head, shaking all these messy thoughts out of his mind. Since the dinner was about to start, Mike didn't meet too many people along the way, and even if he did, most of them were He was walking in a hurry, which made Mike couldn't help but speed up his pace.

Finally, he arrived in the auditorium. As soon as Mike opened the door, a sound wave poured into his ears. He saw four long tables neatly placed in the auditorium, representing the four major colleges. At this moment, the long tables The seats above were already filled with people. Everyone was talking enthusiastically, and the auditorium was noisy.

Seeing this, Mike breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that the dinner party hadn't started yet.

After looking around, Mike found that the layout in the auditorium had changed drastically. Sky-blue silk ribbons were hung everywhere on the walls, and blue temperaments made of the same material were also hung above everyone's heads, with pulls drawn on them. Winclaw's representative creature is an eagle flying high.

This is the result of an afternoon's work by Professor Flitwick and everyone in Ravenclaw. Ravenclaw should be the champion of this year's Academy Cup as expected, so Professor Flitwick brought a A large group of people began to decorate the auditorium.

Of course, he also invited Mike, but Mike made excuses to refuse.

In fact, there were many people who refused like Mike. The difference was that the reason for Mike's refusal was purely because he was lazy, while others did it because of their resentment towards Dumbledore.

To use their original words, these arrangements will be changed by Dumbledore to Gryffindor anyway, so why should they bother?

It seems that Dumbledore's crazy behavior of adding points to Gryffindor at the end of the first year made everyone very dissatisfied, and this resentment has not dissipated after a year.

However, Mike does not think that Dumbledore will cause trouble this year like last year. After all, Ravenclaw's house points this year are really too high, and Ravenclaw also won the Quidditch Cup this year. Mike also After receiving the Hogwarts Special Contribution Award, if Dumbledore dared to come again this year as he did last year, Mike could guarantee that Dumbledore's office would be flooded with shouting letters from students' parents the next day.

Surrounded by everyone in Ravenclaw, Mike came to the long table of Ravenclaw and sat down.

Because the professors had not arrived yet, the students present were chatting excitedly, and the Ravenclaw eaglets were no exception. Mike responded to the students' enthusiastic inquiries word by word. Pay attention. The force was transferred to Hufflepuff's long table.

Two tall senior Hufflepuffs were seen sitting next to Cedric, one on the left and the other on the right. They were vigilantly observing anyone who was communicating with Cedric. Their muscles were all tense, as if Always be ready to attack.

Cedric, who was among them, looked disappointed at the moment, looking at the table with dull eyes.

It seems that Cedric's sequelae haven't healed yet.

Mike immediately came to such a conclusion.

In the past two months, Professor McGonagall and Mrs. Pomfleur have come up with countless ways to treat Cedric's sequelae, but to no avail. The sequelae caused by this body transformation technique seem to be permanent.

Cedric's parents were heartbroken because their sweet son would never come back.

Now Cedric is a completely obedient donkey, you can only go along with it. If you offend him, your parents will beat you up without mercy.

However, not long ago, it was said that Professor McGonagall had a new treatment plan, but it was not known how effective it would be.

At this moment, Mike suddenly noticed that the surroundings suddenly became quiet. When he looked up, as he expected, Dumbledore was leading McGonagall and others into the auditorium from the backstage of the auditorium, and they were in the teacher's seat one by one in order. Take a seat.

What surprised Mike was that there was someone Mike didn't recognize among the teachers behind Dumbledore.

This is a middle-aged woman. She wears a pair of glasses inlaid with gems. Her blond hair, which is even brighter than Mike's, was styled into delicate curls, but this hairstyle is a bit better when paired with her big hair. The exaggerated chin looks so weird.

What made Mike most unacceptable was her nails. He didn’t know what the purpose was. She actually had 6 cm long nails and painted them with bright red paint. Now Extremely disgusting.

Before Mike could figure out who she was, the professors on the stage had all taken their seats, and Dumbledore also walked to his exclusive speaking seat and began his pre-dinner speech.

"Classmates, it's the annual year-end dinner again. I believe everyone must be in a happy mood at the moment." Dumbledore paused before continuing, "Of course, except for those students who did not do well in the exam, they still have to go home." To deal with angry parents.”

As soon as this statement came out, there was a burst of laughter. Of course, Mike did not laugh. He really couldn't get the punchline of this British cold joke.

"Okay, let's stop talking here, let's get into the main event tonight. The final winner of this year's Hogwarts House Cup is Ravenclaw House!"

On the long table belonging to Ravenclaw, the usually quiet eaglets were cheering like crazy. Some students even got carried away and jumped onto the long table, and were then jumped by other students. The students who had not lost their minds were pulled back.

Mike noticed that Professor Flitwick in the teacher's seat also breathed a sigh of relief after hearing the results announced by Dumbledore. It seemed that he was also very worried about what happened last year.

Dumbledore did not stop everyone in Ravenclaw from cheering. He smiled and waited for everyone to become quiet again before continuing: "And Ravenclaw Academy also won the Quidditch Cup this year and achieved the goal of establishing Hogwarts. This double crown achievement, which has been very rare in history, is really gratifying and congratulatory!”

After saying this, Dumbledore and the professors clapped.

Under their lead demonstration, this time not only the students of Ravenclaw, but also the students of the other three major colleges also gave their applause.

Among them, everyone in Hufflepuff was the most enthusiastic under the leadership of Cedric. In comparison, Gryffindor seemed a bit cold, and Slytherin was completely perfunctory like their dean. Most of them were perfunctory. No one was moved, only a handful of people made a gesture of applause, but it was just a gesture. Mike did not hear a sound of applause coming from the long table of Slytherin.

After a long time, Dumbledore stopped and made a quiet gesture.

Dumbledore's status in the hearts of everyone at Hogwarts was indeed the highest. Just a few seconds after he made that gesture, the entire auditorium fell silent again.

At this moment, Dumbledore did not say anything immediately. Instead, he looked up at the transparent ceiling above the auditorium that reflected the beautiful starry sky outside the castle and remained silent for a long time.

His unusual behavior immediately made the atmosphere in the auditorium become serious. The young wizards below subconsciously slowed down their breathing, waiting for Dumbledore's next speech.