Chapter 277 Prank and New Professor

Mike didn't pay too much attention to the fact that Professor Flitwick wanted to confine himself.

After all, although it is called confinement, Professor Flitwick will not really put him in confinement. If he is exhausted, he will just learn spells and drink tea with Professor Flitwick every day.

But what Mike didn't expect was that Professor Flitwick was so anxious that he pulled Mike into confinement before the new semester even started.

This is not correct, because although it is said to be a confinement, it is more like a retreat.

A retreat on spell casting with just Professor Flitwick and Mike.

During the period when Mike was forced to retreat, many things happened outside.

The most uproar among them is the change in the direction of public opinion.

Since Mike was released by the Ministry of Magic, all the mainstream media have completely changed their direction. From the initial attempt to seize the Ministry of Magic and spray him to death, he has become a life-threatening purge.

For example, at the beginning, Mike was imprisoned as a hero, and it was said that Mike took the initiative in order to cooperate with the Ministry of Magic's investigation.

The injured Muggles appeared in the camp because the staff of the Ministry of Magic who were responsible for maintaining the Muggle-Repelling Charms near the venue sneaked away to watch the game, so the Muggle-Repelling Charms became ineffective. Is it the end of the day after the temporary workers are suspended?

As for the most critical thugs in this incident and the follower of Voldemort who released the corpse reappearance curse, although the Ministry of Magic has not caught them yet, it has still pushed out several scapegoats.

After those scapegoats were executed, the people's resentment gradually subsided.

After all, everyone has their own life, and not everyone has nothing to do all day long to complain about the Ministry of Magic.

However, it seems that the Ministry of Magic handled the incident well, but in fact the damage it caused still exists.

The first is international image.

Foreigners don't care how many reasons you have. They only saw a terrorist attack at the Quidditch World Cup. Therefore, the Ministry of Magic of the corrupt country will probably be the object of ridicule from other countries for many years to come.

On the other hand, it is the influence of those thugs.

Those thugs are all high-ranking people, so naturally the Ministry of Magic will not arrest them all and make them public.

But with so many famous people disappearing suddenly, discerning people have already seen the fishiness.

In the eyes of these people, the majesty of the Ministry of Magic has long since disappeared.

Of course, none of these things have much to do with Mike.

At this moment, he had already ended his short retreat with Professor Flitwick, got on the Hogwarts Express and was about to head to school to start his new semester.

This time, the treatment Mike received was obviously different.

The members of the mutual aid association actually occupied an entire carriage early and acted as Mike's exclusive carriage.

Of course, Mike was not polite and directly led Benjamin and Penello into a box in the carriage.

But there were already people in the box.

This is a male (female?) child who looks a little thin. From his skin color and hair, it can be seen that he should be Asian.

But with his long black hair and slightly feminine face, Mike really couldn't tell his gender.

"Is he the one you said?"

Mike turned his head and looked at Benjamin. When he nodded, he continued to ask:

"Why is he here?"

"I don't know, but I got an invitation to Hogwarts out of nowhere when the summer vacation was about to end." Benjamin said with excitement and excitement, "But this is also a good thing. It is always good for children to read more. "

After saying that, Benjamin stretched out his hand to touch the child's head, but the other party avoided him in disgust.

Benjamin wasn't annoyed, he just smiled awkwardly at Mike.

Mike said nothing. He could understand Benjamin. The child in front of him was the faceless monster they had caught in the East End of London.

Originally, they planned to send him to Mike immediately, but after Benjamin discovered that the faceless monster was actually just a child, he had other ideas, such as letting the faceless monster help them hunt other dark magic creatures.

There is no doubt that they succeeded and achieved very good results.

Therefore, in Benjamin's eyes, this faceless monster is a treasure.

Or perhaps, Benjamin may have raised this guy as a younger brother or son.

Mike didn't care about the twists and turns here. He took Penello and sat across from the child and asked:

"May I have your name?"

The child didn't seem to like to talk, and he didn't respond to Mike's questions. He just lowered his head so that no one could see his expression clearly.

"Hey, what did I teach you? Be polite, Mr. Tangli is asking you something!"

Seeing this, Benjamin hurriedly stepped forward and gave Faceless's arm a gentle push, and then Faceless said reluctantly in a very low voice:

"Zhou Hong."

"Zhou Hong? Are you Chinese?" Mike was a little stunned when he heard this. At this time, there were not as many Chinese people abroad as there would have been more than ten years later. There was only one Chinese person, Qiu Zhang, in the entire Hogwarts. " This is really rare.”

Facing Mike's question, Zhou Hong fell silent again.

Benjamin originally wanted to remind him to be polite, but Mike stopped him.

One name says it all.

Seeing this, Benjamin said nothing and came to Zhou Hong's side to sit down.

At this moment, Mike noticed that an excited smile suddenly appeared on the face of the young man named Zhou Hong.

Before Mike had time to think about the meaning of that smile, Benjamin had already sat down. Immediately afterwards, Benjamin let out a scream and at the same time covered his butt and bounced up at several times the speed of sitting down.

"Hahahaha" Zhou Hong laughed.

"You...you are really going too far!" Benjamin pulled out a thin needle from his butt and said to Zhou Hong, "There must be limits to pranks! You actually used a murder weapon this time! You! I want to I’ll punish you by not eating sweets for a month!”

Zhou Hong's laughter stopped suddenly, and with a look of horror on his face, he hugged Benjamin's head and rubbed his chest, while he kept saying:

"I was wrong! I was wrong! I'm sorry! I'm sorry!"

Zhou Hong's accent is very strange and the words he uses are very monotonous. It seems that he has not learned English well.

Seeing Zhou Hong's sincere attitude in admitting his mistake, Benjamin's expression softened, he touched Zhou Hong's head and said:

"Forget it this time. If you do it again next time, it won't be so easy."

Zhou Hong didn't react when he heard this, and just continued to rub against Benjamin's body.

At this time, Benjamin also realized that something was wrong, and forcefully pulled Zhou Hong away. He saw that his white shirt was soaked with snot and saliva.

"Zhou Hong!"

Benjamin roared angrily and stretched out his hand to catch the culprit.

However, Zhou Hong had already laughed and ran out of the box.

Penello on the other side had already stopped laughing, and even Mike had a smile on his face.

Seeing this, Benjamin scratched his head in embarrassment, took out a wand, used it on himself to clean it up, and said:

"I made you two laugh. This kid Zhou Hong just likes to play pranks a little bit, but the rest is pretty good."

Mike smiled and shook his head, he had already seen it.

The kid named Zhou Hong in front of me doesn't like playing pranks, he is clearly a naughty kid!

The train was still moving fast, and the previous disturbance did not affect Mike. After laughing, he started talking and laughing with Penello again.

Benjamin, on the other hand, found out that Mike was not interested in chatting with him, so he exited the carriage, leaving the somewhat cramped box to Mike and Penelo.

After exiting the carriage, he did not find another place to sit down. Instead, he stood guard not far from the door of Mike's box like a doorman to ensure that no one would disturb Mike.

It was precisely because of Benjamin's hard work that Mr. Mike arrived at Hogwarts very smoothly, without any other incidents.

After getting off the train, Mike, accompanied by a group of members of the mutual aid association, went to the storage location of the Yeqi carriage, preparing to take the carriage to the castle.

But Benjamin was the one who broke away from the group. Like an old woman, he told Zhou Hong over and over again not to mess around when they were on the boat. It would be bad if he fell into the black lake and caught a cold. (Freshmen need to take a boat when they first come to Hogwarts)

Before leaving, he put the Ravenclaw scarf around his neck around Zhou Hong's neck under Zhou Hong's disgusted eyes.

This move made the other freshmen around them envious. The blue and white stripes and the scarf with the Ravenclaw emblem on it may not seem like much to the old students, but to these freshmen who have not yet been sorted , but it has great appeal.

"Wow! Your brother is so kind to you!"

"Hey, my brother is a Gryffindor, but he never lets me touch his clothes or wand!"

"This is so beautiful! Can I touch it?"

…

After Benjamin left, the freshmen gathered around him, chattering non-stop. Many of them even stretched out their hands, wanting to touch the legendary Ravenclaw emblem.

"He's not my brother!"

Zhou Hong rubbed his neck and said in broken English.

His expression was still filled with disgust, but his hands had been protecting the scarf from beginning to end.

None of those who tried to touch the scarf succeeded.

…

The halls of Hogwarts were brightly lit, and professors and classmates who had reunited after a long separation gathered together. Everyone was talking and laughing about the interesting things that happened during the holidays.

Among them, the Quidditch World Cup is mentioned most frequently.

But when everyone was talking about the Quidditch World Cup, their eyes couldn't stop drifting to Mike.

Apparently, Mike's story of standing up to the thugs at the World Cup is well known.

Mike always ignored these glances. At this moment, he was concentrating on searching the teacher's seat. After checking back and forth several times without finding the familiar figure, he withdrew his gaze and sighed deeply. .

Lupine finally left.

This is not surprising. Due to Snape's continuous hints, many students in Hogwarts have actually guessed Lupine's identity. However, due to the intervention of Mike and members of the mutual aid association, everyone remained silent.

But paper cannot cover the fire. Although this problem was not exposed last year, there is no guarantee that it will be exposed this year.

So Lupine was replaced smoothly.

The crux of the matter is who his successor will be.

Just as Mike was thinking about the problem, the door of the auditorium was pushed open, and a group of little wizards with curious eyes and heads, led by Mag, walked in like an old hen leading a group of chicks.

"Every time I see new students entering the school, I remember how you walked in back then."

Penello said in Mike's ear, and after saying that, he couldn't help but snicker.

"I didn't seem so embarrassed back then, right?"

Mike looked confused and pointed at Zhou Hong and another boy in the crowd who still had some water plants hanging on their heads.

"But you were very nervous back then, more nervous than anyone else, so you looked like a duck when you walked, hahahaha! My sisters and I were still laughing at you! Hahaha!"

Mike touched his nose awkwardly and had nothing to say.

Can you blame me?

Can people control nervousness?

On the other side, Benjamin slapped himself on the forehead.

Despite all my instructions, Zhou Hong still fell into the black river!

Damn it, can't you just pick the water plants off your head first? Didn't you see that Professor McGonagall's eyes were about to spit fire?

Naturally, Zhou Hong couldn't hear Benjamin's inner roar. At this moment, he was happily talking about the experience with the boy who just fell into the black lake with him. He didn't even hear Professor McGonagall call his name.

In the end, a girl next to him patted him before he responded.

Facing Professor McGonagall's cannibalistic gaze, Zhou Hong raised his chest and raised his head, putting the Sorting Hat on his head without fear.

As the Sorting Hat pronounced its verdict loudly, the Gryffindor table burst into thunderous applause.

Professor McGonagall's pursed mouth trembled.

She could almost foresee that the next seven years would be difficult for her.

Seeing this, Benjamin became a little depressed. He still hoped that Zhou Hong could be assigned to Ravenclaw.

But according to his temper, it doesn't seem surprising that the Sorting Hat sorted him into Gryffindor.

After the sorting ceremony, it was time for the principal to speak.

All the old students were quite confident about the speed of their principal's speech, so when Dumbledore stood up to speak, many people had already picked up their knives and forks, and started to eat as soon as the food appeared.

But this time, Dumbledore did not end the battle as quickly as they hoped, but said seriously:

"Some attentive students must have noticed that there is an empty seat on our teaching bench this year. I regret to inform you that our beloved Professor Lu Ping has applied to resign due to health reasons."

The audience was in an uproar, and many young wizards who didn't know Lupine's true identity were very sad about Lupine's departure.

"But I have invited an equally outstanding Defense Against the Dark Arts professor for everyone. Let us welcome the former senior Auror, Alastor Moody!"