Raven's Claw at Hogwarts

Chapter 3 Dumbledore's Surprise Home Visit

"Mr. Mike Townley, it seems that you have read the letter we sent you."

Dumbledore stood outside the door, the soft sunlight outside the house made him seem to be glowing, especially his white beard.

Mike stared at Dumbledore dumbfounded, and glanced at the letter in his hand from time to time, not knowing how to react for a while.

Seeing Mike's stupid look, Dumbledore continued:

"Please forgive me for not introducing myself. I am Albus Dumbledore, the headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. This time I am here to help you, a little wizard with special circumstances."

"Principal...Mr. Principal?" Mike didn't seem to be able to react yet.

"Mr. Townley, don't you invite me in first when the guests are here?" Dumbledore blinked at Mike, and smiled a bit like an old urchin.

Mike shivered, and then hurriedly invited Dumbledore in, and asked him to sit on the only intact sofa in the garbage house.

"Mr. Principal, is everything in the letter true? I... I was really admitted to a magic school?"

Dumbledore sat down without disdain at all, and looked at the clean and tidy environment in the garbage house.

"Of course, Mr. Townley, Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry is a school of wizardry with a long history. In addition, I have to sigh, your place is really clean beyond my expectation"

Mike's mind was extremely chaotic at this time. Dumbledore's arrival was too sudden. Fortunately, Mike had seen many big scenes in his previous life, and he was very adaptable.

"Um...Mr. Principal, but why did Mr. Principal come in person? Wouldn't it be fine to send someone casually for this kind of thing? Of course, I don't suspect that you are lying to me, it's just...it's just too sudden. "

Mike blushed nervously, and subconsciously asked the question he was most puzzled at the moment.

"Mr. Mike, don't be nervous. We are sure that you have magical talent and meet our admission requirements. I believe you have already discovered this, about a series of abnormal phenomena that happened around you."

Dumbledore paused here.

"About why I came here in person, the main reason is that the Ministry of Magic found that you seem to be deliberately triggering a magic riot. You must know that this is very dangerous. I think it is necessary for me to come here in person for your special situation. Oh! Magic riots are those abnormal phenomena that happen around you."

After all, Dumbledore glanced at the large piece of meat hanging on the steel structure of the shed.

Mike has calmed down at this time, and the emotional control training during this period is still somewhat useful.It was found that Dumbledore was looking at the leftover meat from last night. Combined with what he said before, he already understood that someone had been watching him during this time, and the abnormal situation Dumbledore said, in addition to the magic riot, also included him last night. doing.

"Mr. Principal, I haven't eaten meat for a long time. I didn't do that on purpose. It's just that I can't bear it."

Mike pretended to be aggrieved.

Dumbledore was obviously a little surprised that the kid was so observant.But it is also reasonable, after all, he is a homeless orphan, and he will suffer a lot if he is not strong in observing words and emotions.

"Mr. Mike, I don't mean to blame you. In fact, I have seen many children similar to you. One of them is very similar to you, with the same outstanding talent and the same miserable childhood."

Dumbledore smiled kindly.

"I believe you are kind, and I believe that Hogwarts will not disappoint you. Also, just call me Dumbledore, don't be so restrained."

Mike couldn't help but feel his scalp tingle after hearing Dumbledore's words. He had a premonition that the child that Dumbledore said was very similar to him was probably Voldemort.

"Thank you, Mr. Dumbledore, how much does Hogwarts charge? I like to go to school, but... I don't know if I have enough money."

Mike controlled his expression and smiled stiffly.

"Oh, Mr. Townley, I think you may have misunderstood something. Hogwarts School has subsidies for students with special circumstances like you. You just need to wait for our follow-up staff, and there is no charge."

Dumbledore explained with a surprised look.

Mike pretended to be relieved, his eyes were red, and he said with a choked voice, "Thank you! Thank you! I have always dreamed of going to school, but... thank you!" Mike still cried in the second half of his speech.

"What a poor child." Dumbledore stroked Mike's short blond hair with his big hand. "Don't worry, just as I said, Hogwarts will not let you down."

Mike couldn't help feeling chills the moment Dumbledore stroked his hair. You must know that Dumbledore was suspected of being gay, but he had to continue to look grateful.

The two talked for a while, until Dumbledore offered to leave Mike before sending Dumbledore to the door with red eyes.

"See you at Hogwarts, Mike." Dumbledore nodded to Mike, and Apparated away.

And Mike stood blankly at the door of the garbage house, silent for a long time.

He really didn't expect that Dumbledore would come to visit his home in person, and he also thought that his superpower turned out to be a burst of magic power.

But I just learned from the conversation with Dumbledore that my talent seems to be very strong. After all, I can imagine the talent of a little wizard who can control the explosion of his magic power without being hurt before he is 11 years old. There is an amazing talent in casting spells silently and wandless.

In fact, in the days before magic wands, only such people were considered to have magical talents.In modern times, because of the appearance of magic wands, many people who were identified as squibs in ancient times can also become wizards with the help of magic wands.

Thinking of this, Mike couldn't help getting excited. The wizarding world is completely different from the world of ordinary people. In the wizarding world, the individual power is very powerful, and even Dumbledore and Voldemort can fight against the army alone.What it means to have a strong magical talent in such a world is self-evident.

A Muggle wizard like him wants to get ahead in the wizarding world?That's almost impossible.

Although Dumbledore and others held high the banner of peaceful coexistence between wizards and Muggles and did a lot of things, the wizarding world is still the territory of pure-blood wizards. Muggle wizards are undoubtedly at the low end of the discrimination chain in the wizarding world. Even the Squibs of some big families have done better than them.

This can be seen from the Weasley family.

Ron's father, Arthur Weasley, worked in the Ministry of Magic's Misuse of Muggle Artifacts Division and even wrote the Muggle Protection Act.But judging from the description of him in the original book, he obviously doesn't know much about Muggles.

The question is, isn't there a Muggle-born wizard better suited for the job than Arthur?
Of course, it's just that the Ministry of Magic would rather let an incompetent pure-blood wizard wait to die in this position than recruit a Muggle-born wizard.

Therefore, Mike wants to get ahead either by overthrowing the rule of pure-blood wizards over the wizarding world, or by having a force so powerful that pure-blood wizards cannot ignore it, just like Voldemort and Dumbledore.

Mike shook his head, pushing the distracting thoughts out of his mind.

Now there is one more thing that is imminent.

Just now Mike learned from Dumbledore that every little wizard born in a Muggle family can use the Hogwarts admission letter as a voucher, and exchange 5 gold at the price of 1 pounds to 100 gold galleon in Gringotts every year Galleon.

Mike's current deposit is only more than 400 pounds, which Mike has picked up one after another in the past six months. I have to say that Mike's nickname of Lucky Boy is not for nothing.The purchasing power of the British pound in this era is very strong, and more than 400 pounds is not too small.

It is still possible to sell the things in the garbage house and make up more than 500 pounds.

Thinking of this, Mike hurriedly packed the things that might have been in the garbage room before, and went out with a big package on his back.

　This chapter is excessive and may be a bit boring.

　　But it also throws out a lot of settings, including hints about the big plot later.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)