Chapter 307： Apologies from the Mermaid Queen

After lunch with Professor Flitwick, it was time for the afternoon. Mike returned to the dormitory to rest for a while, but as soon as he returned to the dormitory, he found that an owl was eagerly thinking about his window.

Putting the owl in, Mike opened a bottle of canned sardines for it, then removed the letter on the owl's leg and looked at it.

‘Mike, the last time you asked me to finally make some progress. An old friend of mine told me that the Flint family has fallen since they had a patron who was only fourteen years old. They have been shrinking their business recently. Apart from potions and some special alchemy materials, the Flint family now has no other source of income. So your worry is totally unnecessary. Given the current situation of the Flint family, it is too late for other families to annex the Flint family's property. How can they form an alliance with them? And according to the speculation of my old friend, the Flynn family will be annexed by other families in the next three years, and even if Chris is strong, he will not be able to recover.

The above is the first thing. In addition, when I was investigating this incident, I found another thing that made me very worried.

Nowadays, many families want to kill you.

I don't know why they want to do this, but there is no doubt that you are in a dangerous situation by being watched by so many big families at the same time. Especially if you still have to participate in the Triwizard Tournament, they are likely to be involved in the Triwizard Tournament. Please be careful!

If it's a critical juncture, the door of the Foley family will always be open for you.

Your friend: Abbot Foley. ’

After closing the letter, Mike smiled and nodded.

The decline of the Flint family made him greatly relieved. The thing he worries most is that the Flint family integrates the power of the entire Slytherin family, just like what Chris did in Hogwarts.

This will make his subsequent actions very passive.

But according to the information provided by Abbott’s letter, his worries seem to be unnecessary. Although Chris has amazing talents on the way of magic, he is obviously not a good family owner. Now the entire Flint family He was almost defeated.

In this case, Mike can rest assured. After all, Mike has absolute confidence in his own strength. Chris is improving, and Mike is constantly improving.

On the other hand, Mike had already expected the pure-blooded nobles to start with him. After all, every pure-blooded family that is rich and noble to this day is very large, and their network of relationships is intricate, even Many people who are not in their family at all are willing to give them their lives for something.

Therefore, the non-violation vows signed by Fudge and the new patriarchs actually did not have much effect, because even these new patriarchs were unable to fully control the power of the whole family, and signing contracts with everyone in the family was also Unrealistic, so revenge against Mike will happen.

It's just that Mike didn't care about their revenge.

Not to mention that his strength has surpassed the vast majority of adult wizards. You must know that this is Hogwarts. Hogwarts is home to the strongest white wizard in the world. Those people want to kill themselves here. It's just a dream.

But people are so stubborn sometimes, Mike is almost certain that the reason why he will be attacked in the Black Lake is probably because of the hands and feet of the group of people.

This is a bit powerful, you know, this is under Dumbledore’s nose, which is equivalent to beating the legendary white wizard in the face of Dumbledore. If things are revealed, all of them will be killed by Dumbledore or It was thrown into Azkaban.

Seriously, Mike really admired their courage.

This is a group of true brave men who can abandon everything for a chance of revenge.

These people can already be called dead men.

Even so, even if the target of these people is him, then Mike will never show mercy to them.

As a result, a smile appeared on Mike’s face, and while writing a reply to Abbott, he made up his mind to tell Dumbledore all this to his old principal. Go and help him get rid of those annoying ants.

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In the evening, Mike stepped briskly to the monster statue.

"Honeycomb cake."

"The password is correct!"

There was a noise inside the monster stone statue, and then it cleverly moved to the side to reveal the winding staircase inside.

Ascending the stairs, Mike finally came to Dumbledore's office.

In the office at the moment, Dumbledore is entertaining a mermaid suspended in a huge water ball with his favorite sizzling bee candy and roach pile.

This is obviously the mermaid king.

Judging from the bulging of the mermaid’s chest, it should be a female mermaid, but Mike couldn’t find any place in it that could be called beautiful. Heh, Mike’s encountered a mermaid in the Black Lake. It looks extraordinarily huge, and its appearance is extraordinarily fierce.

After seeing it, Mike even began to wonder if the mermaid's transition of kingship was determined by a duel, otherwise, how to explain why the mermaid queen looks so fierce.

But despite her fierce appearance, the mermaid queen still loves beauty. This can be seen from the dazzling array of luxurious jewelry and a large number of shell accessories.

Especially the sapphire necklace it was wearing on his neck, the sapphire on it was huge in size and gorgeous in color, so Mike couldn't help but lose his mind.

"Mike! You just came, we are enjoying desserts!" Dumbledore enthusiastically invited, "Sit down and have a bite together. You must know that when you are growing up, you are always hungry. It's extremely fast, so instead of braving the cold wind to trouble those house elves in the kitchen in the middle of the night, I might as well eat more here!"

Mike was so kind, thanking him, and put a pile of cockroaches into his mouth.

He actually likes the pile of cockroaches with coffee and chocolate flavor, but the shape of this candy is really weird. In order to maintain his image, Mike never buys it, and only eats some when he is here with Dumbledore.

The smile on Dumbledore's face was even brighter when he saw Mike agreeing to his invitation.

He enthusiastically poured another cup of hot water for Mike, and then pushed a plate with honeycomb-shaped cakes in front of Mike.

"You can drink hot water for the drink. You will not be able to sleep with tea at night." Dumbledore smiled kindly, "In addition, I want to recommend this honeycomb cake for you! This is a good thing, my crazy love recently. The smell of it!"

The corners of Mike's mouth trembled, and he suddenly remembered a rumor.

It is said that Dumbledore is always used to using the most delicious foods he thinks recently as the password of his office until he encounters something more delicious.

It now appears that this rumor has a high probability of being true.

Cut a small piece of cake and put it in his mouth to chew. A strong honey aroma swept Mike's taste buds, but the greasy sweetness that followed made Mike frowned.

"I think this may not suit me, it's too sweet."

"Well, I can see that you like cockroach piles more than it." Dumbledore said with a smile. "You can take some with you when you leave. You know, I never lack candy here."

"Thank you so much, Professor!"

Mike pretended to be surprised and answered, but his eyes couldn't stop looking at the mermaid beside him.

"Oh! Look at my memory!" Dumbledore patted his head and said, "Let me introduce you to the queen of the Black Lake Mermaid, Ms. Mercus."

Mike politely bowed to the huge mermaid, and the mermaid queen in the big water ball didn't seem angry at all because of being ignored before, but also performed a strange courtesy to Mike.

"We asked you to come over because of the mermaid attack you encountered in the Black Lake today." Dumbledore shook his hands together and said solemnly. "Ms. Mercus and I confirmed after a detailed investigation. What you said is true. There are indeed some merfolk who have been bewitched by some wizards and attacked you. But it is a pity that all the merfolk involved in this matter have died in the hands of the lake monsters, so we I haven’t found the real culprit behind the scenes yet. But don’t worry, I assure you, Mike! No matter who is behind the scenes, I will make him pay!"

The mermaid queen on the side lowered her crown-worn head and saluted Mike again apologetically.

Mike pretended to be flattered and hurriedly responded, and then said to Dumbledore:

"I think I can provide some clues about the information about the black hand behind the scenes."

The look of surprise on Dumbledore's face flashed away, and then he reached out for Mike to continue.

"You also know that I accidentally killed many terrorists wearing white hoods at the Quidditch World Cup. I believe you also know their identity. And now I have received reliable information. Someone wants to help The dark wizard takes revenge, so I suspect that this time it was their work."

"Where did you get the news?!"

"My good friend Abbott, he is the heir of the Foley family. He just sent me a letter today explaining this." Mike said, "I'm sorry I can't show you my letter, but you can personally Confirm this with Abbott."

"I know, I will confirm this."

After that, Dumbledore looked at the mermaid queen in the water polo with complicated eyes, and said:

"Then next is another matter. Hogwarts has a contract with the merfolk, and the merfolk cannot attack any Hogwarts student who fell into the water. This time the merfolk violated the contract and according to the regulations, they will be driven out. Out of the Black Lake."

When the words came out, the mermaid queen in the water polo suddenly became excited, and she twisted her body and lay on the surface of the water polo, begging in a dull, weird tone of English:

"Please, Mr. Dumbledore, don’t drive us away! In this attack we have killed more than a hundred tribesmen, and there are more wounded. If you drive us away, we won’t be able to survive. , We will all die by then!"

When the mermaid queen spoke, although her eyes were looking at Dumbledore, her body and mouth were facing Mike. This made her posture look extraordinarily weird, but it made Mike clearly see the face on her face. The pitiful look and its pair of round peaks.

Mike was naturally not interested in the mermaid queen like a dominatrix, he quickly looked away and looked at Dumbledore.

But seeing Dumbledore in the face of the mermaid queen's pleading, he was unmoved, still his expressionless and cold look.

But suddenly, Dumbledore asked:

"Mike, what do you think?"

"what?"

Mike was taken aback for a moment, and then he understood.

The old guy Dumbledore didn't want to drive the mermaid out of Hogwarts at all, and the reason he wanted to act like this now was just acting for himself.

This is really a good strategy. On the one hand, I am a victim and a victim.

Dumbledore could not let the mermaids stay in Hogwarts if he did not speak.

On the other hand, this incident can also be regarded as a test for Mike. If Mike still wants to let the fishes leave even after the mermaid queen said those words, then there is no doubt that Mike’s impression in Dumbledore’s heart Will be cleared directly.

‘What an old fox! ’

He cursed inwardly, and then Mike changed an anxious expression on his face and said:

"I don't agree with driving the mermaids out of Hogwarts. They are also wise beings. It would be cruel to drive them out of their homes and let them die! Besides, I didn't actually suffer any injuries. No, just forget it, right?"

After that, Mike silently gave himself a compliment in his heart.

This wave of acting skills of my own has exploded, not only the expression and tone are all in place, even the vocabulary for mermaids has been changed from the usual to him.

On the other side, Dumbledore heard the words for a while before he said in a hoarse voice:

"But the mermaids did make mistakes, and it's too unfair to you."

Mike just wanted to answer that it was okay, but the mermaid queen on the other side said first:

"I am willing to compensate Mr. Tangli!"

When he said that, he took off the sapphire necklace from his neck with a painful expression, and handed out the water ball.

"This is a treasure that we have passed down for thousands of years. I call it the Heart of the Sea!" The mermaid queen looked at the necklace reluctantly and said It can make people stay young forever, until the moment of death aged. "

Hearing that Mike moved his gaze away from the necklace and turned to the face of the mermaid queen, he found that the half-man, half-fish face had some more wrinkled lines.

Looking at the sapphire necklace and then at the expressionless Dumbledore, Mike decided to act to the end, so he looked at the necklace pretending to be infatuated, and then hurriedly averted his gaze with firmness. Said loudly:

"No! I can't take it! This is your family heirloom! Moreover, Aunt Merkus needs this necklace even more, and the wrinkles appear when she takes off the necklace!"

At first, Mercus had a happy smile on her face. She was really unwilling to send the Heart of the Sea. This thing is invaluable to any woman, but when she heard the second half of the sentence The smile froze, and what Mike said was really awkward.

On the side, Dumbledore finally showed a smile when he heard the words. He laughed and drew the heart of the ocean from the mermaid queen's hand into Mike's hand and said:

"Just take it, you deserve it!"

"Can I really take it? Do the mermaids still have to move?"

Mike clenched the necklace tightly, pretending to be half happy and half worried.

Dumbledore smiled happily when he saw it.

"Don't worry! The mermaids will not be driven out of the Black Lake!"

Hearing this, Mike pretended to be relieved again, glanced at Dumbledore, and laughed together.

Although the mermaid queen on the side lost the heart of the ocean, she could not conceal her inner joy as she kept her race.

For a while, laughter filled the principal's office, and even the old principals in the portrait on the wall opened their eyes curiously.