Harry Potter’s Raven’s Claw

Abbott saw that Mike had been reading the newspaper for too long, so he patted Mike on the shoulder and joked:

"What's the matter? Do you like seeing others compliment yourself so much?"

"No, it's just the first time I've been in a newspaper, and it feels a bit special."

Mike quickly put down the newspaper in his hand and responded with a smile.

Although his face was still smiling, Mike was not so calm in his heart.

If he guessed correctly, the photo is likely to evoke the plot of the next school year.

"Okay, since everyone is here, let's go to the restaurant." Mario looked at the wall clock in the hall and said, "This time I specially prepared the side meat of the Romanian horned dragon!"

As soon as he said this, Professor Flitwick's eyes lit up, and he got up and walked towards the restaurant.

Mike, on the other hand, was confused. He didn't know what the side meat was, but he knew that the Romanian ceratopsian was a large fire dragon native to Romania. They have black-green scales and long, gleaming golden horns, which they use to kill their prey when hunting before feeding.

The horns of this fire dragon have extremely high medicinal value. After grinding into powder, they can be used as formulas for various rare potions. In the international market, its horns belong to B-class commodities (extremely rare). For this reason, Romanian The horned dragon was almost slaughtered.

Now Romania, the origin of the Romanian ceratopsian, is already the most important fire dragon reserve in the world, where wizards from all over the world study Romanian ceratopsians and raise them intensively. It is because of the efforts of these wizards that Romanian ceratopsians not extinct.

At this time, Abbott appeared again, like a roundworm in Mike's stomach, and explained the concept of Romanian ceratopsian and side meat to Mike.

However, because of the conflict between Muggle common sense and wizard common sense, it took Mike a long time to understand what the side meat is.

It turns out that the side meat, as the name suggests, is the meat on the side of the dragon, but not all the meat on the side can be called the side meat. If you want to describe it, the side meat is equivalent to the filet of beef, a kind of loin on the upper loin of a dragon.

While Abbott and Mike explained the time, everyone didn't stop, and they reached the restaurant in a short while.

When everyone came to the long table in the center of the restaurant and sat down, an elderly wizard in a butler costume led a few young people who also wore butler costumes to start serving the dishes.

If Mike remembers correctly, this is the first time he has seen servants and housekeepers at Abbott's house, so he asked:

"Uncle Mario, do you still have a housekeeper at home?"

"Of course, the Foley family is also a family that has been passed down for thousands of years." Uncle Mario said with a smile, "I'll introduce to you, this is Pero, the big housekeeper of our Foley family, and Those young men are Perot's grandsons."

"Hello, dear guest!"

The butler named Pero waited until Uncle Mario finished speaking, bowed to Mike and Professor Flitwick, and said hello, and Mike and Flitwick immediately replied hello.

After seeing the two sides greeting each other, Uncle Mario continued: "Perot's family has been the steward and servant of our Foley family for generations, but now the times are different, the number of wizards is dwindling, so the talented children I They all went to work in the Foley family's property, and the rest who had no talent stayed in the manor to work. Plus those house-elves don't like to appear in front of guests, so it's normal that you haven't seen them. "

Although Mario's words were rather obscure, Mike still understood what he meant.

The so-called talent should refer to the magical talent, which means that the human butlers and servants currently staying in Foley Manor should be some squibs without magical talent.

Mike couldn't help but feel a little moved. Because wizards can use magic, their work efficiency is several times that of ordinary people. Just look at Filch.

Cleaning up the corridor is a matter of cleaning up a few others and it will be over, but he has to do it for a long time. To be honest, a house elf is comparable to dozens of ordinary people in terms of housework.

Uncle Mario's arrangement is completely for the mercy of those squibs. The squibs do not know magic, so they cannot integrate into the wizarding society. But because they have lived in wizarding society since childhood, they can't integrate into the Muggle world. If Uncle Mario hadn't kept them, they would have starved to death sooner or later.

"But Pero, it's still your family that can give birth!" Uncle Mario sighed, "Unlike us, we used to pursue pure blood too much, and we always married in small circles, resulting in a drop in fertility. In this generation, only Abbott and Ellen are a pair of sons and daughters."

Mike, who was still contemplating the fate of the Squib, immediately opened his eyes as soon as he said this, and looked at Abbott who was sitting next to him with a look of shock, saying, 'You actually have a sister? ' look.

Abbott did not disappoint Mike, and explained with an embarrassing smile: "Ellen is the same age as you, she went to school in Beauxbatons, France, so you haven't seen it. They have a few days later for the summer vacation, how long will it be? You should be able to see her when you come back."

Mike suddenly realized.

At this time, the food was almost ready. Because of the previous trip to the Ministry of Magic, this lunch was a bit late, and Mike and Abbott were already hungry. But since the dishes served at this time were all ordinary Muggle dishes, they only ate a little bit and wanted to eat the finale.

Everyone chatted and laughed at lunch, and finally, the much-anticipated Romanian horned dragon side meat was served.

I saw a few young guys in housekeeper uniforms carrying four huge porcelain dinner plates to Mike and the others. Each of these round plates should be about 1 meter in diameter. Maybe the plates are too thick. Because of this, these plates required two people to lift, and Mike also noticed that they were already sweating profusely when they lifted the plates to the table in front of Mike.

Seeing this, Mike strengthened his previous judgment even more, these people are really squibs, and any wizard would have used the floating spell long ago.

Returning his attention back to the giant dinner plate in front of him, Mike saw an oversized dragon steak laid flat on the plate, and it was drizzled with a layer of dark brown sauce, exuding a rich aroma. scent. In the spare position of the plate, there are also a few pieces of broccoli as decoration.

Just as Mike carefully observed the dragon platter, four young girls who looked somewhat similar to old Perrault brought four bowls of creamy mushroom soup in front of the others.

However, with the dragon standing in front of Mike and the others, there is no need to go to the soup first. After the master, Uncle Mario, moved the knife and fork first, Mike and the others immediately started fighting.

Holding a knife and fork, he cut a corner from the dragon steak and sent it into his mouth. Suddenly, a strong aroma of sauce filled Mike's mouth. After chewing for a while, the taste of the sauce gradually dissipated. But the meaty taste, which is countless times more delicious than venison, burst out, and it was so delicious that Mike closed his eyes.

What surprised Mike most was the taste of the meat. Although it didn't have the so-called melt-in-your-mouth feeling, it didn't make him feel hard to bite either. It was a very moderate taste.

Mike opened his eyes and looked at the incision on the dragon steak. He found that the dragon steak was fully cooked. Stack small pieces of dragon meat before eating.

Mike also ate a lot of steaks in his previous life, from low-level roadside fast food to high-end restaurants for thousands of dollars.

Some people who have never eaten steak or have only eaten low-end steak may think that well-done steak is not good at all, and going to a restaurant to order well-done steak will be regarded as unprofessional.

But in fact, the doneness of the steak only represents different tastes.

The reason why they feel that well-done steak is not tasty and tender enough is simply because the steak they eat is not high enough and the chef is not professional enough.

In fact, the real top steaks are well-done no worse than others.

Mike wasn't fully developed yet. After eating a lot of dragon steaks cut in front of him, he already felt full, so he decided to rest for a while.

At this time, his eyes also fell on the cream of mushroom soup on the side.

Mike, who happened to be thirsty, leaned down and took a big mouthful, but the moment the milky white soup entered the mouth, the expression on Mike's face became extremely intoxicated.

fresh!

The peculiar milky flavor of the cream rushed directly to Mike's forehead with an extreme saltiness, leaving Mike's brain blank for a short time.

After a long time, Mike recovered and looked at the bowl of cream of mushroom soup again. Seeing that the mushrooms in it seemed to be different from the usual mushrooms, he looked at Abbott who was munching on dragon meat and said:

"What kind of mushroom is this, it's so fresh!"

"This is the foot of the walking mushroom." Aibut finally explained after swallowing the dragon meat in his mouth, "The walking mushroom is a kind of mushroom that can walk because of its name. It is not strong but tastes good. So there are no wild walking mushrooms, and what you eat now is farmed by the Hunter family. The feet of the walking mushroom are the most delicious part of the whole walking mushroom."

After saying that, Abbot continued to fight against the giant dragon row, and after Mike nodded, he drank this special bowl of creamy mushroom soup again.

Immediately, the huge dining room fell silent, leaving only the sound of everyone chewing and swallowing.

It was not until half an hour later that Flitwick and the others stopped, but at this moment there were still a lot of dragon platoons left in front of everyone.

Although it was a bit of a waste, Uncle Mario still had people remove these dragon meats. After all, although the things were good, they were not so good that they had to eat their stomachs.

At this time, the servants brought some snacks and tea after cleaning the long table. After everyone was full, they began to drink tea and chat.

What Uncle Mario and Professor Flitwick talk about the most is their experience when they were at Hogwarts, and this topic, Mike, a Hogwarts student, can obviously join in, so the atmosphere among the people is quite Well, no one was left out in the slightest.

While chatting with Mike, I suddenly thought of something, so I asked:

"By the way, Uncle Mario, Professor Flitwick. Do you know a swordsman master who is good at using a European-style longsword? I want to learn how to use a longsword."

"Why did you suddenly think of using a sword?"

Professor Flitwick asked in surprise.

At this time, Mike just scratched his head and said that he wanted to learn more melee methods, and by the way, he could also exercise.

Originally, Mike planned to go to the Muggle world to find a swordsmanship coach to teach himself swordsmanship, because although the European-style long sword is a niche type of swordsmanship, there are still many clubs in the UK that specialize in this game, and the coaches are also very professional. . But after much deliberation, Mike gave up the idea.

Because Mike is a wizard first, and a European-style longsword user second, magic is Mike's main fighting method.

However, the Sword of Victory and Oath is a two-handed long sword. Although it can be used with one hand, the swordsmanship coaches in the Muggle world use both hands to hold it, which is extremely unfriendly to the wizard Mike, because this He cannot cast magic while using the Sword of Victory and Oath.

So Mike decided to look for a swordsmanship teacher in the wizarding world. Only a swordsmanship teacher who is also a wizard can teach him how to balance the sword and the wand.

Mike is not afraid that there are no wizards who are good at using longswords. After all, Godric Gryffindor, the founder of Gryffindor Academy, has a European-style longsword.

Although this Gryffindor sword is not as good as the sword of victory and oath in Mike's hand, it is indeed a legendary silver sword.

This sword is made by goblins. It is not only extremely sharp, but also has the ability to absorb other substances to strengthen itself.

The reason why it can be used to destroy the Horcrux in the original book is because it absorbs the venom of the basilisk when Harry Potter uses it to kill the basilisk.

Now the sword is kept in the Sorting Hat by Dumbledore as a Gryffindor family heirloom, and it is said that only a real Gryffindor can remove the Gryffindor sword from the Sorting Hat.

This shows that the wizarding world has existed for double cultivation of monsters since ancient times, so Mike feels that this technique should also be passed down.

And Professor Flitwick did not disappoint Mike, only after he pondered for a moment and said to Mike:

"I did know a wizard who was good at using a long sword when I was obsessed with dueling, but I haven't contacted him for a long time. Well, I will write him a letter tonight."

"Thank you, Dean!"

Hearing that, Mike was overjoyed. He had always had the treasure but didn't know how to use it. He clearly had the sword of victory and the oath, but it could only be used under certain circumstances, which made Mike lose his hair for a while.

Well now, if the wizard mentioned by Professor Flitwick can teach himself, then the Sword of Victory and Oath will hopefully become Mike's regular combat power.