Chapter 297 Extreme Protector of Magical Animals

There is a shrill howl in the air, and a beautiful song in the water.

Anyone with a modicum of knowledge of magical biology can tell from this feature what the sound of the golden egg comes from.

Mermaid.

Or rather, sirens.

But Mike prefers to call them fish people.

Because in the inherent impression of ordinary humans, mermaids should be creatures with beautiful faces, devilish figures, upper body human and lower body fish.

As for the mermaids in the Harry Potter world, their looks have nothing to do with beauty.

They look so much like fish.

But this does not prevent them from having their own civilization. In fact, their culture is very prosperous.

They have their own language, they can write their own songs, they can make houses out of stones, they can tame other aquatic animals, they can make tools and weapons, they can even make jewelry statues and other works of art with a strong ethnic style!

These all show that they have very high intelligence.

It's a pity that these things are not worth mentioning in front of the powerful power of wizards.

Therefore, after the rise of the wizards, the number of freshwater mermaids closer to the wizards began to decrease sharply. Nowadays, freshwater mermaids have become protected animals and only live in a few known large protected areas. The rest of the saltwater mermaids , live on the inaccessible seabed, and some even claim that ocean mermaids have even built their own large cities.

The largest gathering place of fishmen in the country is the Black Lake in Hogwarts.

Then the answer is already obvious, the second project will be held in Black Lake.

The song content of the project has also been made very clear.

At that time, the organizers will take away something that the warriors consider to be the most precious, and then put it in the hands of the mermaids in the Black Lake for the warriors to seize.

After knowing this, Professor Flitwick finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Compared with the first project, the difficulty of the second project is really low.

You must know that the mermaids living in the Black Lake have a contract with Hogwarts. They cannot harm any Hogwarts students who fall into the Black Lake, and even provide rescue.

This contract cannot be broken. Once the mermaids violate the contract, they will be driven out of the Black Lake.

But in today's world, once they are driven out of the Black Lake, they will only be greeted by a dead end.

So strictly speaking, the second project is actually a racing project.

Warriors should focus on how to move at high speed underwater and find their destination quickly, rather than fighting some aquatic creatures such as mermaids.

Mermaids are not enemies, on the contrary, they are more like lifeguards.

After knowing these things, Professor Flitwick finally put a smile on his face again, and took Mike back to the lounge to continue drinking and partying.

The banquet lasted until early in the morning. As the protagonist of the banquet, although Mike tried his best to refuse, he was still poured a lot of wine.

This young body does not have a high tolerance for alcohol, which caused Mike to feel completely bad when he got up the next day.

What made him feel even more uncomfortable was that when he opened the door to his dormitory to go find some food, he saw two people wearing dragon training gear standing in front of his door, waiting for him.

They all looked miserable, their eyes were red, their lips were dry and flaky due to lack of water, and they looked very haggard.

"Hello, Mr. Townley." One of the brown-haired middle-aged men handed a long cloth bag to Mike, "You forgot this sword on the field yesterday, and we are here to return it."

"Oh! Thank you!"

Mike reached out and took the cloth bag and put it into the Seamless Stretching Spell bag. Then he rubbed his temples and went to pour some water.

The hangover was so uncomfortable that he felt like his head was about to explode.

"Don't you have anything else to say?"

After frowning and looking away, Mike saw a young man next to the brown-haired middle-aged man who looked very similar to the middle-aged man staring at him with an angry face.

"Oh! Last night's celebration was really too intense. I'm feeling a little unwell right now, so I'm really sorry for neglecting you." Mike first drank a large pot of cold water, and then said, "Please don't let go." From the bottom of my heart, I’m grateful to you, really.”

Mike's words were quite sincere, but the young man was reluctant.

"That's not what I'm talking about!"

"Then what do you want to say?"

The originally relaxed eyebrows knitted together again, and Mike became a little impatient. He felt that this kid might have come here specifically to cause trouble.

"You killed Senna!"

"Senna?"

"It's that Australian oval eye! Damn it! You bastard is so strong, you obviously have other ways to get the golden egg! But you killed Senna just to show off your power! Senna, she, I was going to be a mother soon, but now... Merlin's beard! Doesn't your conscience hurt?"

Now Mike understood that he had encountered an extreme protector of magical creatures.

Mike's originally frowning eyebrows relaxed, and he looked expressionlessly at the young man in front of him with bloodshot eyes and a ferocious face, as if he would rush forward to fight at the next moment.

If anyone who is familiar with Mike is here, they will know that this is a sign that Mike is really angry.

The young man's loud voice also attracted the attention of the rest of the people in the lounge. After realizing that Mike might have had a conflict with the two strangers, everyone spontaneously surrounded the two people.

The warriors who want to deal with Ravenclaw on Ravenclaw's territory are simply impatient!

Looking at the Ravenclaw students who were gradually surrounding them, the brown-haired middle-aged man had a very ugly expression.

But the young man seemed to be blinded by anger. He pointed at Mike as if he still wanted to argue with Mike.

It's a pity that before he could say anything, the middle-aged man covered his mouth, and the hand pointing at Mike was forcibly pressed down.

"I'm sorry! I'm really sorry! My son didn't mean it!"

The brown-haired middle-aged man showed Mike a smile that was uglier than crying. He knew very well that if the two of them wanted to leave the Ravenclaw lounge safely today, they would have to ask the Ravenclaw warrior in front of him to speak.

Otherwise, at least he would feel like he couldn't run away after a beating.

Everyone in Ravenclaw turned their attention to Mike and waited for him to speak.

But Mike only felt a little boring.

He also hoped that these two people could be tougher so that he could teach them a lesson.

I didn't expect them to be so cowardly.

After waving his hand, Mike said:

"Forget it, let them go."

After hearing this, the crowd immediately moved out of the way, and the middle-aged man immediately dragged his son, who was still struggling, and hurriedly left the Ravenclaw lounge under the gaze of everyone.

As he walked, he thanked Mike loudly.

"These guardians of magical creatures are so annoying!"

As Franklin spoke, he leaned close to Mike, puffed out his chest, and pretended to show Mike a medal on his chest casually.

This is still a medal supporting the Hogwarts warrior - Mike.

However, the pattern on the badge has changed. It is no longer a monotonous portrait with characters, but a dynamic picture of Mike holding his wand high, using a fire spell and the flames sprayed by the fire dragon to fight against each other.

He had done this, so Mike naturally had to cooperate, so he took advantage of the situation and asked:

"Is this a new medal?"

"Ah! You noticed it!" Franklin said excitedly, "Let me tell you, we stayed up all night to make this, and there are other tricks on it!"

After saying that, Franklin pressed the medal hard.

Immediately afterwards, the original pattern on the medal began to disappear, and what appeared next was a pattern of Mike holding a dazzling sword and stepping on a huge dragon head. Below the pattern was written in artistic words: Dragon-Slaying Warrior!

This picture was drawn, and I don’t know who drew it. It was so fake that it looked real. Even Mike was surprised.

"Oh! That's great!"

Hearing Mike's praise, the surrounding Ravenclaws all showed excited smiles on their faces.

It was only then that Mike noticed that the students surrounding him were all wearing new medals on their chests.

Immediately, Mike was moved.

He bowed deeply to everyone and said solemnly:

"Thank you, thank you for your support!"

Everyone said it was unnecessary. As long as Mike could achieve good results in the top three competition, their support was deserved.

After a few more pleasantries back and forth, Mike was ready to go to the kitchen to find some food.

But when Franklin learned about this, he stopped Mike.

"Mike! You don't have to go out, I'll just go get it for you." Franklin said.

"Yeah, just leave this little thing to us."

The people on the side also echoed.

"No need, I can just do this myself."

Mike said and was about to walk out the door. He understood everyone's wishes, but it was better to do his own thing.

However, Franklin blocked him again.

"What's going on?" Mike also realized something was wrong, and asked with a serious face, "What are you hiding from me?"

When Mike was serious, he still looked dignified. Franklin and the others looked at each other for a few times, then gritted their teeth and said:

"To tell you the truth Mike, if you go out now, you will probably get into trouble."

Mike: "?"

Franklin simply put a newspaper into Mike's hand without explaining.

This is today's Daily Prophet. To Mike's surprise, the front page of the newspaper is about the Triwizard Tournament. It praises Mike for his good performance and also publishes a photo of Mike fighting against a fire dragon (the one on the Franklin Medal). the one at the beginning).

The report up to this point was nothing special, but in the second half of the report, the author of the article seemed to have completely changed and began to condemn Mike’s cruelty and slaughter of the internationally protected animal, the Australian Oval Eye.

The article also quoted the opinion of an anonymous interviewee, claiming that there is no doubt that Mike is very strong, and having such a strong power means that he has many faster and safer ways to obtain the golden egg.

But in order to show off his powerful power, Mike actually used such a cruel method to fight against the fire dragon, and in the end even took the life of the poor fire dragon.

This kind of behavior is no different from that of a dark wizard!

At the end of the article, a photo of the interviewee was also published.

Although there is a mosaic on his head, judging from his clothes, this is clearly the young man who gave Mike the sword before!

Now Mike understands!

No wonder that middle-aged man has such a low attitude!

It turns out they were the ones doing such bad things behind the scenes!

"This article has caused a lot of repercussions. Now some people in Hogwarts are dissatisfied with you and may come to trouble you." Franklin said awkwardly, "This is not the most serious. The most serious. Yes, there are some extreme protectors of magical creatures, and they are planning to hold a demonstration in Hogsmeade on Saturday, and they want to discredit you, Mike."

Mike was speechless.

Mike was actually not very angry about the behavior of the young dragon tamer.

After all, the fire dragon had been raised by the family for so long and already had feelings for it. It was understandable that he was a little resentful when he was killed by Mike.

But what the hell are the others?

Does this matter have anything to do with them?

I have heard of vegetarians holding demonstrations before, and even attacking steakhouses and KFC, disrupting other people's normal business in the name of rescuing animals.

Originally, he thought that this kind of idle and painful behavior should not exist in the wizarding world. After all, wizards have always regarded those magical creatures as slaves and food.

However, it now seems that brain fever is a problem shared by both wizards and Muggles.

"Franklin, are you saying that those people are planning to hold a demonstration in Hogsmeade this weekend?"

"That's right!"

"Haha, since they want to cause trouble, then I will make their wishes come true."

Franklin became excited when he heard this, and he asked anxiously:

"Mike! What do you want to do? No matter what you want to do, I will help you!"

"You'll know then!" Mike sneered, "And before that, I have other things to do!"

After saying that, Mike turned around and returned to the dormitory.

He will now write to Fudge and the Los Santos Group's public relations department to ask them what the article in today's Daily Prophet is about.

As the largest media in the wizarding world of the Republic of China, the Daily Prophet is not afraid of affecting the reputation of the wizarding community of the Republic of China. In reporting on this kind of international competition, it blatantly slanders their own players, who have just achieved good results!

If I say that no one is behind this, I won’t even believe it to my death!

You must know that for a large newspaper like the Daily Prophet, all articles must be reviewed at all levels before being published, so there is no possibility of errors.

Mike swore that no matter who the person behind the scenes was, he was dead!