Chapter 325 Farewell

On the edge of the black lake, a large group of people in black robes gathered in a dense crowd. They stared at the ghost ship that was constantly roaring in the lake.

A week has passed since that terrible night, but the memory of that night is etched in everyone's minds forever.

Because, that night, they lost a rising Quidditch star.

Viktor Krum.

This big boy who was cold on the outside and hot on the inside left his friends and relatives forever.

Mike was also in the procession to see off Durmstrang and Krum.

He was not present when Krum was sent out, so he could not imagine the reaction of Krum's parents at all.

But presumably, when Krum's mutilated body appeared in front of them, they must have been desperate in their hearts.

This can be seen from Krum's father's hair, which turned white overnight.

"I'm sorry about Krum, Sinak."

At the front of the crowd, Dumbledore said this to an old man with a scar on his face.

The old man named Sinak came from Durmstrang Magic School overnight after the incident and was responsible for bringing all the students, including Krum's body, back to the school safely.

As for Karkaroff, the original teacher and principal, he disappeared immediately after the incident.

And his disappearance also put him on a wanted list.

This is not surprising. The events that occurred in the Triwizard Tournament were entirely blamed by the Ministry of Magic on the Death Eaters. As a former Death Eater, Karkaroff disappeared from the world as soon as the incident happened. Naturally, Became the number one suspect.

But only a few people, including Mike, knew that Karkaroff actually had little to do with this incident. The reason why he disappeared was entirely because he felt the resurrection of Voldemort through the Death Eater mark on his arm. I hid out of fear.

However, Mike naturally would not tell this matter.

Even if he told him, Fudge wouldn't believe it, because Fudge was going crazy during this time.

In order to convince Dumbledore to deny the fact that Voldemort had been resurrected, he ran to the principal's office almost every day, but failed every time.

He even went to Mike specifically, hoping that Mike, the client, could stand on his side, and promised to give Mike his huge reputation and more preferential policies from the Los Santos Magic Group.

However, these were rejected by Mike without hesitation.

In Mike's view, these benefits provided by Fudge are just empty promises, because although Fudge seems to be as prosperous today, with the return of Voldemort, he is not far from stepping down.

Therefore, there is no need for Mike to be hypocritical.

Faced with Mike's somewhat rude rejection, Fudge was extremely angry. Mike believed that if they had not been talking in the crowded Ravenclaw lounge, Fudge would have cursed.

That day, Fudge left Hogwarts with a gloomy face and never came back again.

And in the days that followed, he continued to use his power to attack Dumbledore and Mike.

Of course, this is all a story for later.

At this moment, on the shore of the Black Lake, the old man named Sinak showed no sign of Dumbledore's apology. He just nodded expressionlessly and then walked towards the ghost ship.

While walking through the crowd coming to see him off at Hogwarts, he gave Harry a slightly meaningful look, which made Harry very uncomfortable.

Due to Rita Skeeter's previous reports about his complicated romance with Hermione and Krum, many people believed that Krum died in the maze entirely because Harry wanted to regain Hermione's love. He moved his hands and feet out of love.

Although Dumbledore and many professors had already issued statements refuting the rumors, a group of students represented by Malfoy who had trouble with Harry were obviously more willing to believe the previous version of the story.

These people continued to spread the news to others, which made more and more people in the school look at Harry strangely. Even some tabloids outside the school began to report on this matter.

Fortunately, Klum's parents are not unreasonable people.

They ignored the rumors from the outside world and silently accepted that their son died as a result of an accident.

They even went to comfort Harry when the rumors intensified, which moved Harry very much.

As the other protagonist in this rumor incident, Hermione was not so lucky.

Her popularity was not very good to begin with, and after this incident, she was even more boycotted by all the students at Hogwarts. Now no one is willing to approach her at all, and the three meters around her have become a vacuum zone. Everyone regards her as a beauty and a source of disaster.

Hermione herself was naturally extremely painful about this. Although she was used to being alone, the cold violence being ignored by almost everyone still made her uncomfortable.

Ron was much happier in comparison.

Ever since Hermione became Krum's dance partner on Christmas, he has changed from Krum's number one fan to his most vicious fan. Krum's death and Hermione's experience made him happy and inspired, and now He would kiss his Indian girlfriend in front of Hermione every day as if to show off.

Hermione was deeply disgusted by Ron's behavior, and she tried her best to avoid Ron every time. Unfortunately, Ron was like a hunting dog, always able to find traces of Hermione, and performed that same thing again in front of her. A disgusting scene.

Shaking his head to get rid of the random thoughts in his mind, Mike looked at the ghost ship gradually disappearing on the lake and sighed deeply.

In fact, he had to bear a considerable responsibility for Krum's death. If he could have taken some protective measures at that time, or stayed in place for a while, Krum might not have died.

But he had no choice. The situation at that time did not allow him to do more for Klum.

"Don't be too sad. Krum's death was just an accident."

Penelo's gentle voice came from beside him. Mike turned around and saw Penelo looking at him with a distressed expression.

Mike didn't reply, just nodded and smiled.

Mike's smile was a little forced, which made Penello even more worried, because Mike had been looking so sullen and serious this week.

The Weasley brothers next to them looked at each other, their eyes rolled around for a while and then they had an idea.

I saw them dragging Harry, who was a little confused, to Mike's side, and said with a playful smile:

"Hey! Mike! We're going to see Hagrid later, how about you come with us?"

"That's right! Mike! Harry wants to go with you. Right Harry?"

"ah?"

Hearing this, Harry opened his mouth with confusion on his face, but when he saw the Weasley brothers winking at him crazily, he immediately reacted and said:

"That's right, Mike! Come with us, it's spring now, and you'll get sick if you stay in the castle!"

"I……"

Mike was about to refuse, but he still had a lot of preparation work to do in the face of Voldemort's resurrection.

But as soon as he opened his mouth, the Weasley brothers grabbed him on the left and right, dragging him toward the Forbidden Forest and saying:

"Come on, come on, what you need now is to relax!"

Knowing that they had good intentions, although Mike could easily break away from the two of them with his current physical fitness, he did not do so.

Mike just smiled and said:

"Okay, I'll just go, let me go."

The Weasley brothers smiled at each other and let go of Mike.

As a result, the four of them rushed to Hagrid's hut. As for Penello, she returned to the dormitory to rest because her relatives were here.

Hagrid was very unlucky during this period. On the night of the Triwizard Tournament, Barty Jr. sneaked into Hagrid's hut and knocked him down while Hagrid was changing clothes.

Because of Hagrid's large size and giant blood, Barty Jr. killed him.

According to the description of the students who discovered Hagrid, Hagrid's blood was flowing everywhere, and the floor of the entire hut was covered with semi-coagulated plasma. They almost thought Hagrid was dead because there was no one in their minds. To survive after losing so much blood.

Fortunately, Barty had underestimated Hagrid's size, and the people sent by Professor McGonagall found Hagrid immediately and brought him back to the infirmary. Otherwise, the half-giant might have died on the spot. .

Today is the day Hagrid is discharged from the hospital, so Harry and others decided to pay him a good visit.

But when everyone arrived at Hagrid's hut, they saw an astonishing scene.

Hagrid, who was still wrapped in a lot of straps, was lying on the bed like a mummy. Beside the bed, Ms. Maxim, wearing a silk black dress, was holding a large bowl and pouring water into Hagrid's mouth with a spoon. What's in it.

The Weasley brothers were shocked when they saw this scene. They stuffed their right hands into their mouths as if to stop them from laughing.

Ms. Maxim was also startled when she saw Mike and others suddenly arriving. As a soft sound came, the wooden spoon slipped from her hand, and a blush flew onto her cheeks.

"I...I just came to see him." Maxim stood up in a hurry, wiping his hands on his gorgeous silk skirt, "Don't get me wrong!"

After saying that, he left the hut as if running away.

"We will not misunderstand! Madame Maxime!"

The Weasley brothers said in unison, but where she couldn't see them, they were giving Hagrid a weird thumbs up.

Due to the large number of bandages on his face, Mike couldn't see clearly the expression on Hagrid's face, but judging from the weird laughter that came from his mouth from time to time, he should be in a pretty good mood at the moment.

"Seriously, don't talk nonsense when you go back." After laughing for a while, the muffled voice came from Hagrid's mouth again, "Otherwise, Olim will be very troubled."

"Oh! Don't you know about us yet? Don't worry, Hagrid."

"That's right! But then again, have you already started calling Ms. Maxim by Olim? You really have your Hagrid!"

Hearing this, Hagrid immediately stopped talking and muttered something like, 'It's just because of you that I'm worried.'

Of course, the whisper here was just what Hagrid thought was a whisper. In fact, with Hagrid's loud voice, everyone in the hut could hear it clearly.

For a moment, everyone in the hut burst into laughter.

After a while, Hermione also came, so the Weasley brothers told Hermione about the scene just now, adding more details.

This shocked Hermione and also made Hagrid very annoyed. He had warned the Weasley brothers to keep it secret, but they agreed before telling Hermione.

"Where's Ron?" After laughing for a while, Hagrid looked around the people in the hut and asked strangely, "Why isn't this kid here?"

"Ha! He must still be chewing on Padma's face!" Hermione said as if retching, "How disgusting!"

"Oh! This is really...excessive."

Hagrid said a little disappointed, and he didn't know whether he was talking about Ron being too affectionate with his girlfriend in front of Hermione or saying that not coming to visit him was too much.

And his speech also embarrassed the Weasley brothers.

"I'm sorry, Hagrid, Hermione. We will talk to him when we get back." George scratched his head in embarrassment, and then Fred continued with a fierce look, "Yes, let's talk! "

Hermione was nodding her head like a chicken pecking at rice. She was quite disgusted by Ron during this period, while Harry next to him showed a worried look.

The few of them chatted for a while, and then Mike found an excuse and walked out of Hagrid's hut.

After leaving the hut, Mike did not go back to the castle directly. He had stretched himself too tight during this period and really needed to relax.

So Mike took a walk on the edge of the Forbidden Forest. Due to the arrival of spring, the place was re-covered with a thick carpet of grass, which was very comfortable to step on.

Not long after Mike walked out, he saw two silver-haired girls, one big and one small, playing with a unicorn that was shining with holy brilliance on the edge of a small lake not far away.

Mike couldn't help but be stunned by this perfect dream-like scene.

If he could, Mike felt like he could stand here and watch all day.

Unfortunately, the unicorn's perception is very sharp. It didn't take long before it discovered Mike peeping from the side and pointed its unicorn at him warily.

Now the two Fleur sisters also discovered Mike, but their reactions were different from Mike's. Fleur's sister Gabrielle cheered and rushed towards Mike, and finally threw herself into Mike's arms.

"Brother, are you here to see us off?"

These words made Mike frown, and he asked a little strangely:

"Huh? Are you leaving?"

"Yes, we are leaving tonight." Fleur smiled and walked towards this side, "I originally wanted to go to you to say goodbye, but I didn't expect to meet you here."

Mike was stunned for a moment, and Gabrielle in his arms was also very smart. She broke away from Mike's arms at once, leaving the world between them to Mike and Fleur, and she ran towards the unicorn again.

It's a pity that unicorns only get close to pure and beautiful women. Gabrielle just hugged this stinky man Mike, and she brought some of Mike's 'stench' with her, which made the unicorn no longer willing to continue playing with her. , turned around and ran into the forbidden forest.

"I want to thank you, Mike. I was very happy during my time at Hogwarts, even though I didn't achieve anything in the Triwizard Cup."

Hearing this, Mike lowered his head slightly, not knowing how to reply.

Fleur's performance in the Triwizard Cup was indeed poor this time. In the last game, she was forced to use a distress signal by a snail not long after entering.

Seeing Mike's appearance, Fleur chuckled and said:

"Don't feel sorry for me. Although I performed badly, at least I survived. That's enough. You know, I was scared when Krum was sent out."

Mike nodded. Fleur was absolutely right. For people, only by living can they have hope and a future.

He was about to say something to comfort Fleur, but before he could say anything, a fragrance rushed into his arms.

"I'm leaving. Good luck."

The girl said this, her voice still trembling.

Mike also had a smile on his face, patted the girl on the back, and blessed:

"Well, good luck to you too!"