Chapter 273： Prank and new professor

Mike didn't care too much about Professor Flitwick's confinement.

After all, even though it was a confinement, Professor Flivy would not really put him in confinement. If he died, I would just drink tea with Professor Flivy every day to learn spells.

But what Mike didn't expect was that Professor Flitwick was eager to start the confinement with Mike before the new semester started.

This is also wrong, because although it is a confinement, it is more like a retreat.

There is only Professor Flitwick and Mike in a retreat about spell casting.

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

The biggest noise among them is the change in the direction of public opinion.

Since Mike was released by the Ministry of Magic, all mainstream media outlets have all changed the direction of the wind. From the very beginning, catching the Ministry of Magic and spraying to death became a lifeless wash.

Like Mike was imprisoned as a hero at the beginning, it is said that Mike took the initiative to cooperate with the Ministry of Magic investigation.

The injured Muggles appeared in the camp because the staff of the Ministry of Magic responsible for maintaining the Muggle expulsion curse near the venue secretly ran to watch the game, which caused the Muggle expulsion curse to fail. Is it because the temporary workers are suspended after they are suspended?

As for the most critical thugs and the Voldemort follower who released the bones and curse, although the Ministry of Magic has not caught them so far, it still pushed out a few dead ghosts.

After the dead ghosts were executed, the people's grievances gradually ceased.

After all, everyone has their own life, not everyone is idle and has nothing to do to spray the Ministry of Magic.

It’s just that this time it seems that the Ministry of Magic has dealt with it well, but in fact the damage it caused still exists.

First is the international image.

Foreign people, no matter 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 be the target of ridicule by other countries for many years to come.

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

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

But so many celebrities suddenly disappeared, and the discerning people have long seen the trickiness in them.

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, and got on the Hogwarts Express train to go to school to start his new semester.

This time, Mike's treatment has also been significantly different.

The members of the mutual aid association actually occupied a whole car early and acted as Mike's exclusive car.

Mike is naturally not polite, and directly under the leadership of Benjamin and Penello sit in a box in the carriage.

And in the box, there are already people.

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

But the somewhat long black hair and slightly feminine face made Mike really unable to distinguish his gender.

"Is he who you said?"

Mike tilted his head and looked at Benjamin. Seeing him nodded, he continued to ask:

"Why did he appear here?"

"I don't know. At the end of the summer vacation, I got a notice from Hogwarts somehow." Benjamin said with a little excitement, "but this is also a good thing. It is always good for children to read more." "

After that, Benjamin stretched out his hand to touch the child's head, but was disgusted and avoided.

Benjamin was not upset, but smiled awkwardly at Mike.

Mike didn't say anything. He could understand Benjamin. The child in front of him was the faceless monster they had caught in the East End of London.

They originally planned to send him to Mike the first time, but Benjamin had other thoughts after discovering that the Faceless Monster was actually just a child, such as asking the Faceless Monster to help them hunt down other dark magic creatures.

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

Therefore, in the eyes of Benjamin, this faceless monster is a treasure.

Perhaps, Benjamin might have raised this guy as a brother or son.

The twists and turns here Mike doesn’t care, he took Penello to sit across from the kid and asked:

"What's your name?"

The kid didn't seem to like to talk. Mike asked him and he didn't respond. He just lowered his head so that he couldn't see his expression clearly.

"Hey, how did I teach you? Be polite. Your Excellency Tony is asking you something!"

Benjamin hurriedly stepped forward and nudged the faceless arm when he saw this. After that, the faceless arm reluctantly said in a very small voice:

"Zhou Hong."

"Zhou Hong? Are you a Chinese?" Mike was a little stunned when he heard the words. At this time, there were not as many Chinese who reached out to foreign countries more than ten years later, and the entire Hogwarts was only Qiu Zhang. This is really rare."

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

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

A name is enough to explain everything.

Benjamin didn't say anything when he saw this, and he came to Zhou Hong to sit down.

At this moment, Mike noticed that a smile of excitement suddenly appeared on the face of the boy named Zhou Hong.

Before Mike could think about the meaning of that smile, Benjamin sat down. Then, Benjamin let out a scream, and at the same time he covered his **** and bounced up several times faster than sitting down.

"Hahahaha" Zhou Hong laughed.

"You...you are really getting too much!" Benjamin pulled out a thin needle from his **** and said to Zhou Hong, "There is a limit to pranks! You actually used a murder weapon this time! You! I want to You are not allowed to eat sweets for one month!"

Zhou Hong’s laughter stopped abruptly, and he hugged Benjamin’s head in terror and rubbed it against his chest, saying incessantly:

"I was wrong! I was wrong! Sorry! Sorry!"

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

Seeing Zhou Hong’s sincere confession, Benjamin’s expression also eased, touching Zhou Hong’s head and saying:

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

Zhou Hong did not respond when he heard this, but continued to rub against Benjamin.

Benjamin also noticed that something was wrong at this time, and he forcibly pulled Zhou Hong away, and saw that his white shirt had been soaked with snot and saliva.

"Zhou Hong!"

Benjamin roared, reaching out his hand to catch the culprit.

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

Penello on the other side couldn't smile long ago, even Mike's face showed a smile.

Benjamin scratched his head awkwardly when he saw this, took out a magic wand and used one to clean himself up, saying:

"You two laughed, Zhou Hong, this kid, but some like pranks, others are good."

Mike smiled and shook his head, he could already see it.

The child named Zhou Hong in front of me likes pranks, he is obviously a bear!

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

And Benjamin, when he found that Mike didn't have much character to chat with him, he withdrew from the car, leaving this small box to the world of Mike and Penello.

After 　　 got out of the car, he didn't find another place to sit down, but just guarded the door of Mike's box like a door **** to make sure that no one would disturb Mike.

It is precisely because of Benjamin's hard work, that Master Mike arrived at Hogwarts very smoothly, and nothing else happened during that time.

After getting off the train, Mike, accompanied by members of the mutual aid association, went to the storage location of the night horse carriage, ready to take the carriage to the castle.

But Benjamin was a large force who had left. Like an old mother, he told Zhou Hong over and over again not to mess around when he was on the boat. It would be no good if he fell into the black lake and caught a cold. (New students need to take a boat to Hogwarts for the first time)

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

This move made the other freshmen around me envied. The blue and white striped scarf with the Ravenclaw badge on it may not be a big deal to the old students, but for these freshmen who have not yet been sorted. , But it has great attraction.

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

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

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

……

After Benjamin left, the surrounding freshmen crowded around, chattering and noisy, and many people also stretched out their hands to touch the legendary Ravenclaw badge.

"He is not my brother!"

Zhou Hong said in pinched English with his neck.

His expression is still very disgusting, but his hands have been protecting the scarf from beginning to end.

Those who wanted to touch the scarf, none of them succeeded.

……

The Hogwarts auditorium was brightly lit, and the professors and the long-lost classmates gathered together, and everyone talked and laughed about interesting things that happened during the holiday.

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

When everyone was talking about the Quidditch World Cup, they couldn't stop looking at Mike.

Obviously, Mike's story of stepping up and defeating the mob in the World Cup is well known.

Mike has always ignored these gazes. At this moment, he is intensively searching on the teacher's seat. After checking back and forth for several times and not finding the familiar figure, he withdrew his gaze and sighed deeply. .

Lupin left after all.

This is not surprising. Because of Snape's continuous hints, many students in Hogwarts have guessed Lupin’s identity, but because of the intervention of Mike and the mutual aid members, everyone is silent.

But paper cannot contain fire. Although this problem was not exposed last year, it is impossible to say that it will be exposed this year.

So Lupin was replaced and it was smooth.

The key to the question is who is his successor.

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 probes came in under McGonagall's leadership like an old hen leading a group of chicks.

"Every time I see a freshman enrolling, I will remember that year, you walked in like this."

Penello put it in Mike's ear, and couldn't help laughing again.

"I... didn't seem to be so embarrassed back then?"

Mike looked confused, pointing to 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 everyone else, which made walking look like a duck, hahahaha! My sisters and I were still laughing at you! Hahaha!"

Mike touched his nose awkwardly, with nothing to say.

Can you blame me for this?

Can people control the nervousness?

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

I gave a thousand warnings, but Zhou Hong still fell into the Heihe!

God killed, can’t you just pick off the plants from your head first? Didn't you see that Professor McGonagall's eyes were about to breathe fire?

Benjamin’s inner roar, Zhou Hong, was naturally inaudible. At this moment, he was talking enthusiastically about his experience with the boy who had just fallen into the black lake with him. Even Professor McGonagall did not hear his name.

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

Facing Professor McGonagall's wanting to eat people's gaze Zhou Hong held up his chest and raised his head, putting the Sorting Hat on his head without fear.

With the loud sound of the sentencing of the Sorting Hat, there was applause on the long table of Gryffindor.

Professor McGonagall's pursed mouth trembled.

She is almost foreseeable, and her life may be sad for the next seven years.

Benjamin's mood also became a little low when he saw this. 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 assigned him to Gryffindor.

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

All the senior students are quite confident about the speed of their principal's speech, so as early as Dumbledore stood up to speak, many people had already picked up their knives and forks, and began to feast as soon as they prepared food.

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

"Presumably some careful students have noticed that this year we have a vacant seat on the teacher's bench. I am sorry to inform you that our beloved Professor Lu Ping has applied for resignation due to physical reasons."

There was an uproar in the audience. Many little wizards who didn't know Lupin's true identity were very sad about Lupin's departure.

"But I have also invited an equally excellent defense against the Dark Arts professor for everyone, let us welcome, the former senior Auror, Aristo Moody!"