Chapter 450: Dinner Party
Chapter 450 Dinner Party
"Mike, you are a famous person. I often heard news about you when I retired at home. I have to say, you are really an amazing young man!"
As soon as Mike and Emma sat down, Professor Sgrahorn spoke to Mike enthusiastically.
However, Mike only responded politely. He knew very well that this kind of person only valued interests and had no value in deep friendship at all.
Professor Sgrahorn was not angry when he saw this, and turned around to start communicating with Emma.
He first praised Emma from head to toe, and then tentatively inquired about Emma's family, showing great enthusiasm.
But after he learned that Emma's family's business had been extremely poor recently due to Voldemort's return and was almost bankrupt, his attitude suddenly changed and became lukewarm.
At this time, other people also arrived one after another, so Professor Slughorn's attention naturally shifted to others and began to obtain information from them.
This behavior made Emma very dissatisfied. She pouted, approached Mike and whispered:
"This is such a snobbish guy. No wonder my parents don't like him!"
"There's no need to worry." Mike smiled and shook his head, "This kind of person is just a clown."
Emma nodded vigorously when she heard this, and then began to introduce the identities of the people who came behind to Mike.
"Look, the black-haired boy is called Belby Marcos. He doesn't have much to say about himself, but his uncle invented the Wolfsbane potion and won the Order of Merlin for it!
There is also that effeminate-looking man, his name is Shabini, and his mother is the famous Black Widow! She had been married seven times, but each of her husbands died in extremely mysterious circumstances, leaving her only a huge inheritance! We are all saying that it was Shabini's mother who designed to kill those poor people, she is a complete coward! None of us wanted to play with him. besides……"
Mike felt a little speechless. He found that Emma was like an omniscient intelligence specialist who could tell anyone's family situation.
But soon, Emma could no longer speak.
Because when everyone found out that Mike was here, everyone except the black guy from Slytherin gathered around Mike and started talking and laughing with Mike.
This made Professor Slughorn a little unbelievable, because from the information he learned, Mike was just a Muggle-born wizard.
Although Mike has won the Triwizard Cup and the Merlin Level 2 Medal, so what?
Mike won the Triwizard Cup with Harry. Slughorn strongly suspected that he was taking advantage of Harry. As for the Merlin Medal, he won it for protecting a bus of classmates from a dementor attack. of.
Slughorn felt this was ridiculous, and even began to feel that the Ministry of Magic's standards for awarding the Order of Merlin were so low that there was no bottom line.
You must know that the dementors were still slaves of the Ministry of Magic at that time. Even if they had 10,000 courage, they would not dare to blatantly attack the students on the Hogwarts Express.
In summary, in Slaterghorn's eyes, Mike was just a boy who was lucky and had some strength and talent, so he didn't pay too much attention to Mike.
But now Professor Slughorn suddenly felt that his judgment of Mike was a little too hasty.
Looking at the respectful way those people he invited treated Mike, it was hard for Slughorn to imagine that this would be the kind of treatment a mediocre person could receive.
Slughorn nodded secretly, slightly raising Mike's status in his heart.
At this moment, the carriage door was opened again.
Ginny walked in timidly.
Seeing that the visitor was not Harry, Slughorn's disappointment flashed across his face, and he greeted him with a smile on his face, and placed Ginny in a seat in the corner.
Her arrival also attracted the attention of the others, and her conspicuous hair immediately betrayed her identity - Weasley.
Suddenly many people in the carriage frowned. No matter from which point of view, the Weasley family was not qualified to stay here with them. They really couldn't understand why Professor Slughorn would put this. The little girl comes in.
The malicious looks from everyone made Ginny very uneasy. She looked aggrieved and kept squeezing toward the corner timidly, as if she wanted to squeeze herself into the wall and hide herself.
Seeing this, Mike quickly stood up and sat next to Ginny.
"Hey Ginny, we meet again."
Ginny was initially startled by the person sitting next to her suddenly, but after hearing the familiar voice, the smile on her face bloomed again.
"Mike! It's so nice that you're here too!"
Ginny said happily, and then whispered into Mike's ear:
"People here are so strange. They are all looking at me. Is there something wrong with me?"
"No, you're fine, they're the ones with the problem."
Mike replied firmly.
Mike's answer gave Ginny courage, and she nodded heavily after hearing the words.
The expressions on everyone's faces were a little confused when they saw that Mike actually left them and sat next to Ginny.
They couldn't figure out why someone like Mike would be involved with the youngest Weasley daughter.
And Mike didn't deliberately lower his voice when talking to Ginny, so many people heard Mike saying they had a problem.
At this time, many people had expressions of shame and embarrassment on their faces.
But this also explains why Mike accompanied Ginny, that is, he couldn't bear to see a little girl alone in such an embarrassing environment.
After figuring it out, everyone looked at Mike with even more admiration, especially Emma, whose red eyes almost popped out of her head.
A man as strong as Mike actually has a heart of gold!
This is exactly the same as the protagonist in the knight novel!
On the other side, perhaps due to the too tense relationship, Ginny continued to talk to Mike over there:
"...It's really amazing to say that I was practicing the Bat Charm in the carriage when Professor Sgrughorn suddenly burst in. He said that my Bat Charm was very good and invited me to have lunch with him. Yes. Now, do you know the Bat Spirit Curse? It is an ancestral curse passed down from our family. It can..."
Listening to Ginny's chatter, the smile on Mike's face never disappeared.
When he read the original novel in his previous life, he still hated Ginny. After all, the actress who played her was not beautiful at all.
But now Mike has changed his mind. The girl Ginny is so cute that people can't help but want to take care of her.
Time passed little by little, and Slughorn's most important guest today finally arrived.
"Harry! You are finally here! Oh! I think you are Mr. Longbottom, right?"
Slughorn greeted Harry and Neville warmly, but Harry and Neville looked very embarrassed, being led by Slughorn like robots.
After Harry arrived, the originally harmonious and lively atmosphere in the carriage became deserted. Everyone stopped talking and looked at Harry with an indifferent expression.
Sgrahorn was obviously not aware of the situation in the carriage yet. He took Harry and introduced him to the people in the carriage and their family backgrounds one by one.
After a round of introductions, Slughorn took Harry's hand again and introduced with a smile:
"You don't need me to introduce this person, right? This is a heavyweight celebrity. We have already known each other during the summer vacation. The famous 'Savior Star'! Harry Potter!"
After Professor Slughorn finished speaking, he took the lead in applauding. He thought that since he had invited such a famous person, everyone should applaud and welcome him as well.
However, the reality is that no matter how much Slughorn encouraged, no one except Ginny and Neville welcomed Mike.
Everyone was so quiet, looking at Professor Slughorn and Harry with mocking expressions.
There was even a person who made a strange laugh with a strong sense of ridicule, making Harry's face turn red.
At this time, the scene in Car No. C became somewhat similar to that in the previous Prefect Car.
The people at the scene were roughly divided into three groups. Most of them gathered around Mike and looked at Harry with hostility, while Ginny, Neville and others gathered around Harry. As for the Slytherins, He was hiding in the corner and watching with cold eyes.
At this time, Slughorn also noticed something unusual. His eyes rolled around and he understood immediately.
His previous assessment of the situation at Hogwarts was wrong.
Harry Potter's reputation at Hogwarts is obviously not as high as that of the boy named Mike! And the relationship between the two people is probably still hostile!
Professor Slughorn has been retired for so long that he doesn't understand what the problem is here, but it doesn't matter. His strategy is to make friends with both sides. He doesn't care about the relationship between Mike and Harry. There is no contradiction!
Thinking this, Slughorn coughed and then said:
"Well, that's very pleasant. Come on, everyone, sit down, our lunch is about to begin."
Slughorn arranged for Harry to sit next to him, then took out the lunch boxes from his basket and distributed the napkins inside to everyone.
"I'm sorry, gentlemen and ladies. The food on the food delivery truck always smells too strong of licorice wand, and I, a poor, old guy like me, really can't digest it." Slughorn said. Commanding the wand to open the lunch box, he said, "So I brought the food for this dinner myself. Of course, if any of you are willing to share the lunch you brought, you can also take it out. We will treat this as a very special occasion." It’s a fun picnic where everyone shares the food they brought.”
The food that Professor Slughorn brought this time was very exquisite, but perhaps he arranged the size of the food according to his own appetite, which was a bit uncomfortable for a half-grown boy like Mike who was still in the period of development. It’s too much to watch.
As soon as these words came out, everyone looked at each other with some astonishment.
To be honest, people who bring lunch on the train are either people whose families are so poor that they can’t even afford lunch on the train, or people whose families are so rich that they dislike the taste of lunch on the train.
There are very few people here who fall into these two categories, so everyone was a little dissatisfied when they heard this.
They didn't quite understand why Slughorn invited them over but didn't prepare enough food. Did he want them to starve?
But Ginny's eyes lit up when she heard this, but soon dimmed. Out of past habits and love for her children, Mrs. Weasley still gave Ginny and Ron money even though the family was no longer short of money. They each brought some sandwiches.
But, are those shabby sandwiches really worth it?
Ginny was deeply confused.
After struggling for a moment, Ginny gritted her teeth, took out the large sandwich wrapped in oil paper from her schoolbag and placed it on the table.
"My mother made this. If...if you don't mind it, please use it."
Ginny's voice was so soft that everyone could hardly hear it. It could be seen that the girl was very nervous now, as if she was afraid that everyone would think the food she brought was not good enough.
But the situation she was afraid of did not happen. Everyone had clearly seen Mike's attitude towards Ginny before, so at this time, no one, including Slytherin, took out a shabby sandwich towards Ginny. Expressing ridicule, of course, they wouldn't touch the sandwich. After all, it didn't look very tasty.
Ginny looked a little disappointed. She could tell that these people didn't like her sandwiches very much.
She instinctively wanted to take the sandwich back, but Neville, who had quick eyes and quick hands, snatched the sandwich away and stuffed it into her mouth while muttering something like "it's delicious, thank you."
Upon seeing this, many people present, including Slughorn, showed contempt. In their opinion, the sole heir of the Longbottom family was probably not very smart.
There was only Ginny, who was looking at Neville with surprise on her face.
And all this was seen by Mike. He chuckled, and then snapped his fingers in the surprised eyes of everyone, summoning Shuke and Beta, and asked them to prepare some food.
Slughorn's eyes almost went straight. He never thought that a Muggle-born wizard like Mike would own a house elf, a rare animal that almost only exists in the hands of ancient families!
"Mike, these two house elves...are they yours?"
"Yes."
"Really? This is really enviable. I have always wanted to have a house elf, but unfortunately this thing is too precious." Slughorn said with a look of envy, "Can you tell Where are you from?"
"Of course. Shuke and Beta were given to me by the seniors of Raven Scratch." Mike said with a smile, "These two house elves have special meaning to me, so they cannot be transferred to you. However, I have two other house elves on hand. I can give you one if you want. But they all have a history of betraying their masters. I don't keep them with me at the moment, but put them in the company. Do some menial work here.”
