Chapter 341: School dinner

Just as Pansy was lying on the ground and apologizing in tears, the door of the prefect's carriage was suddenly opened. A man and a woman with the emblem of the chairman of the student union walked in, looking at the scene in the carriage with surprise.
"How is this going?"
　　 The female chairperson's gaze fell on Pansy, and she asked with a frown.
　　 It's a pity that Pansy has been completely scared now, just lying on the ground and crying, there is no intention to answer at all.
　　 Upon seeing the girl, the chairperson turned his unkind eyes to Mike again.
　　 Mike stared at him without fear.
　　 Mike's attitude made the female chairperson irritated. She instinctively seemed to be scolding, but the male chairperson beside her suddenly grabbed her and whispered in her ear:
　　 "Don't be troublesome! Who do you think you are? Who is he?"
　　 The boy chairperson's words made the female chairperson tremble and stopped talking.
　　 Only after seeing the boy chairman did he show a smile on his face, and opened his hands to everyone and said:
　　 "Okay, everyone, go back to your seats. Next, we have to arrange the work for a while."
It's a pity that he didn't receive any response to his words. Slytherin and the prefects of the other three major academies were all looking at Chris and Mike with questioning eyes, as if they were the most noble people here. .
　　 Mike and Chris didn't speak, they looked at each other coldly for a while, and finally returned to their original seats without saying a word.
　　 And the other prefects returned to their seats.
　　 The boy chairman's face was a bit unsightly, and the smirk on his face almost couldn't last.
　　 But he bit his head and walked to the center of the carriage, and began to announce the next work of the prefects.
　　 At Hogwarts, the Student Union is an organization that helps professors manage students. The prefect, as the most basic component of this organization, must enjoy certain privileges while also shouldering heavy work and responsibilities.
　　 Just like on the Hogwarts Express train today, the chief duties of the prefects are to maintain order and mediate various disputes.
　　 Mike doesn't plan to do this. In his opinion, it is better to read more books than to do these boring tasks.
　　 Therefore, after entrusting his work to another female prefect of the same grade, Mike left the prefect compartment directly.
　　 It is worth mentioning that the girl who became the prefect like Mike this year is Ron’s previous dance partner at the Triwizard Prom, the Indian girl, Padma Petil.
　　 The girl was obviously very upset about Mike's entrustment. She frowned and chased up Mike, and asked uncomfortably:
　　 "Mike, I don't think I can do it by myself. As you know, those boys... they won't listen to me, even if I reveal the identity of the prefect, they won't care."
　　Pettier's hands are tightly clenched, she is not such an excellent student in Ravenclaw, those thorns will never listen to her orders.
　　 And if she forcibly wants to suppress them with the authority of the prefect, then what is waiting for herself is the humiliation of the other party.
"You can, Pettil, I believe you." Mike said without looking back, "If there are boys who don't want to listen to your orders, you tell them that I am also one of the prefects this year. If they don't want to If you ask me to find them myself, it’s better to be honest. Understand?"
　　 Hearing that Pettil's face looked pretty good, she lowered her head as if she wanted to continue talking to Mike, but when she looked up again, she found that Mike had disappeared around the corner.
　　 Biting his lip, Pettier could only helplessly walk towards the newborn carriage.
　　 And the Mike on the other side, after getting rid of Pettil's entanglement, originally wanted to go directly to Franklin's car, but was blocked by the other two.
　　 "Mike, thank you."
　　 Ron lowered his head and muttered in a voice that was almost inaudible.
　　 Hermione, who was standing next to him, gave him a quick elbow, cleared her throat urgently and said:
　　 "Thank you just now, Mike!"
　　 "Small." Mike waved his hand and said, "Harry, I haven't contacted him since the magic part last time. What is his current state?"
"he's good!"
　　 As soon as he heard Harry's name, Ron raised his head quickly and said to Mike in a deliberately amplified voice.
"He has been living in my house ever since, and Sirius thought it might be happier to let him be with me. In fact, that was the case. At first Harry was a little uncomfortable, but now he is completely healed. !"
　　 Ron raised his head, his expression looked like a general who had won the battle and was asking the king for credit.
　　 When Hermione saw this, she bumped her elbow again.
　　 The force Hermione used was obviously much greater than the first time. Ron, who was hit, let out a painful cry, covering the part where he was hit and inhaling cold air continuously.
　　 But although Hermione used her strength a little bit more this time, she did remind Ron.
　　 I saw Ron gasping while showing a painful smile at Mike, and said:
　　 "Mike, do you want to find Harry with us?"
　　 "Yes, Harry will be very happy!"
　　Hermione also echoed.
　　 Mike frowned and thought for a while, felt that there was nothing to say with Harry, and finally refused:
　　 "Forget it, I think we'll see you at school. Okay, I'll leave first, and you should hurry up and get to work."
After 　　 said, Mike went straight through the two of them and walked towards his original carriage.
　　 And the two behind him looked at each other. After a while, Ron gritted his teeth and shouted at Mike's fading back:
　　 "Mike! Thank you!"
　　 Mike didn't answer. He didn't even mean to stop at all. He just raised his hand and waved it to signal Ron not to care.
　　 And just such a move made Ron and Hermione smiles.
　　……
In a certain carriage of the Hogwarts Express, Zhou Hong and Benjamin are playing Gobish. This is an ancient magic game similar to marbles. Every time a point is lost, the winner's stone will face the loser's face. Spit out a stinking liquid.
In this respect, Benjamin was obviously not Zhou Hong’s opponent. With the crisp sound of a stone impact, several red stone belonging to Zhou Hong suddenly ejected a thick, foul-smelling liquid. It sprayed straight onto Benjamin's face.
　　 "oh! Thanks!"
　　 Benjamin cursed instinctively.
　　 But then, as if he was thinking of something terrible, he quickly covered his mouth, and looked at a car door not far away with a look of horror.
　　 And just behind that door, Mike was alone and intently flipping through a large book thick as a dictionary.
　　 He naturally heard the movement outside the carriage, but he didn't say anything. These noises could not affect his reading.
　　 The book he is currently reading is a book called "Self-Defense and Counterattack-Details that Must Be Remembered 1990 Revised Edition".
This book is a professional book used by the Ministry of Magic to train Aurors. The Ministry of Magic almost treats it as a family heirloom and is very tightly protected. Unless you become an Auror, you won’t even find this book on the black market. The shadow of the book.
　　 Even Mike got such an old book through the Foley family relationship, which is an old edition several years ago!
　　 But such an old book fascinated Mike.
　　 This book records a lot of seemingly trivial, but it is the experience of countless people summed up with blood and life.
For example, do not use explosive spells (thunderbolt explosions) in narrow spaces such as rooms or caves, because the explosive spell has a fatal disadvantage, that is, it will rebound aimlessly when it touches an object. Using explosive spells in these terrains will have a high probability of hurting yourself.
　　 seems to be to make readers bear this warning more in mind, and a lot of magic pictures are attached below the description of this item.
　　 Most of them are disabled people with lack of arms and legs, and some are terrible corpses, or simply a pool of minced meat.
　　 And the annotations of these pictures are unified: I was injured by the rebound of my own explosive spell!
　　 I don’t know how long it took, when a whistle suddenly awakened Mike who was addicted to the book.
　　 Urgently, accompanied by a crisp knock on the door, Benjamin's familiar voice also came from outside the door.
　　 "Mike, the train has arrived, we should get off."
"understood."
　　 Surrounded by the crowd, Mike got off the train.
　　As in previous years, freshmen must leave with the old students on the platform and go to the dock to take a boat to the school.
　　 This is the Hogwarts tradition, and it is the same every year.
　　 It’s just that unlike previous years, the team leader responsible for guiding freshmen this year is no longer Hagrid, but a strong female professor.
　　 Harry was obviously very concerned about Hagrid's disappearance, and he kept asking questions after the professor, while Mike and the others followed the army to the camp of the Yeqi carriage and arrived at Hogwarts in the carriage.
　　 Today’s weather is very good. There are stars on the ceiling of the auditorium, and from time to time there are thin clouds slowly drifting past.
　　 And below the ceiling, there are countless burning candles floating, illuminating the entire auditorium.
　　 After Mike and the others sat down on the long table covered with the colored tablecloths of their respective colleges, Professor McGonagall also put out Hogwarts’s treasure of town—the sorting hat, as in previous years.
　　 With the sound of the hour, the gate of the auditorium opened quickly.
　　 The freshmen are neatly arranged in two rows according to men and women, while looking at the magic hall curiously, while walking briskly towards the sorting hat under the leadership of the professor.
　　 Compared to previous years, the number of new students this year is only about 70% of the previous years. Mike knew that this should also be affected by the news of Voldemort's return.
　　 After all the freshmen had entered the auditorium, all the teachers and students in the school held their beards and waited.
　　 Immediately afterwards, on the old wooden chair in the center of the auditorium, a hole suddenly cracked beside the long brim of the sorting hat, and then the distinctive voice of the sorting hat came from it:
　　 "The students we teach must be brave, fearless, and desperate... I have sounded the alarm for you... Now, let us start the sorting. (No water, please see the next chapter for detailed lyrics.
　　 After the song was over, applause immediately rang out, but there were still whispers in the middle.
　　 The song of the Sorting Hat this year is very strange. Generally, the song of the Sorting Hat is just to introduce the characteristics of the four colleges to freshmen, but this year's school song carries a sense of encouragement.
　　 Mike, Benjamin and others looked at each other, they naturally knew what the Sorting Hat meant to sing this song.
　　 is nothing more than trying to unite the students to face this disaster together.
　　 As the branching ceremony ended, Dumbledore, as in previous years, came to the podium with the expectation of everyone to prepare to preach this year's speech.
　　 "Welcome to our new students." Dumbledore's voice was loud and loud, his arms opened, and a bright smile appeared on his mouth. He also welcomed our old students and welcome you back! There is a lot of time for speeches, but not now. Eat it happily! "
Dumbledore’s simple opening speech once again won enthusiastic applause from all the teachers and students, and as Dumbledore sat down upright and threw his long beard on his shoulders, everyone was on the empty table in front of them. Suddenly they were filled with large chunks of meat, pies, plates of vegetables, bread, and various drinks.
"Great!"
　　 A freshman sitting not far away from Mike couldn't help but cheered. After so long on the train, they were starving.
　　 and Mike frowned and looked at Dumbledore on the bench.
　　 In Mike’s guess, Dumbledore’s speech this year should also be a chicken soup quotation that is as positive as the Sorting Hat song, so as to further stimulate the morale of the students.
　　 But Dumbledore didn't do this. UU read www.uukanshu.com instead and chose the same as in previous years, and ended up after a few casual words.
　　 This makes Mike really puzzled.
　　 At the same time, the sharp-eyed Mike quickly discovered the abnormality of this year's Hogwarts teacher lineup.
　　 Moody, who served as a professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts last year, did not appear in the auditorium. Instead, he was replaced by the Ministry official who had a relationship with Mike in the court where Harry was tried.
　　 Dolores Umbridge.
　　 That's right, it's the woman who looks like a toad.
　　 The moment he saw this woman, Mike's eyes narrowed.
　　 The appearance of this woman means that the Ministry of Magic has begun to take action against the Ministry's internal affairs.
　　 In the bright auditorium, everyone's faces were filled with excitement smiles, and the freshmen happily enjoyed their first meal in Hogwarts.
　　 The veteran students became a piece with the new students. They piled up the plates in front of them with various steaks, and introduced all the new students to Hogwarts.
　　 And the one name they mentioned the most was Mike Tangley.
　　 The praise of the old students made the freshmen full of curiosity about the legendary senior Tomley, which caused Mike to gather a lot of curious eyes around him.
　　 And under these gazes, Mike was looking at Umbridge in the faculty seat.
　　 "It looks like this year will be very interesting!"