Chapter 144 Hibiscus and Christmas Gifts (Two Chapters in One)

The moment he saw the girl, an inexplicable desire to get close to her arose in Mike's heart. Relying on his strong mental power to forcibly suppress this desire, Mike quickly entered a closed-brain state, which made him feel much better.

Turning to look around, Lucius and his wife and Uncle Mario both had clear eyes and were not affected at all. Abt's eyes were already distracted and he was in a state of being bewitched, but he was wearing a tulip-shaped tulip on his chest. The brooch suddenly flashed, and Abbot returned to normal the next moment.

Draco and Chris were not so lucky. Under Pansy's disbelieving gaze, the two men's eyes were dull, and they were about to walk in the direction of the girl with silly smiles.

Upon seeing this, Lucius forcibly held the two of them, and with some hatred, he took out his wand and cast a waking spell on the two of them, which made them wake up.

Draco, who had returned to normal, also realized what he had just done, and hid behind his father in horror, not daring to look in the girl's direction again.

Facing Draco's actions, Lucius felt very embarrassed and pulled Draco hard several times to make him normal. But he didn't expect that Draco might be really frightened this time, and he hugged his father's thigh tightly and refused to let go, which made Lucius even more embarrassed.

"Ahem. I know that girl. She is the eldest lady of the Delacour family in France." Lucius coughed twice to try to ease the embarrassment. "Her grandfather married a Veela as his wife, which caused her She also has a quarter of Veela blood. So she also has some unique Veela talents, such as charming men."

After listening to Lucius's explanation, Mike immediately understood who the silver-haired girl was. She was Fleur, the warrior of the French Academy of Magic Beauxbatons in the Triwizard Tournament.

Because the actors in the movie looked very different from the silver-haired girl in front of him, Mike did not immediately recognize the Beauxbatons warrior.

While Mike and others were talking, things made new progress.

It was seen that Furong didn't have any extreme reaction to the freckled girl's scolding, she just looked at her coldly. The freckled girl became even more excited when she saw Furong's appearance. Perhaps she felt that talking about her was not enough, so she raised her hand and wanted to hit Furong.

"stop!"

At this moment, a handsome young man with a slicked back hair grabbed the freckled girl's hand and slapped her in the face with his backhand.

"How dare you hit me! You hit me for this bitch!"

The handsome young man didn't react at all when faced with the freckled girl's questioning. At this moment, he was surrounding Fleur fawningly, as if he wanted to get praise from Furong.

However, Furong didn't give him a good look. She gave him a blank look and ran out of the hall.

The teenagers who were fascinated by Furong still wanted to chase her, but they were held back by their elders and the female companions around them.

"Isn't that the boy from the Belit family? It seems that he is quite fascinated by the half-Veela." Uncle Mario looked at the boy with the back of his head and said.

"Yes, he just hit Latier. It seems that the marriage between their two families is going to end this time." Narcissa also agreed after hearing this.

After finishing speaking, he seemed to have thought of something, and warned several boys including Mike: "You have to be careful about that woman. You must know that Veela are very evil creatures. They are good at deforming and often change their shape." They grow up young and beautiful women to seduce men. When those men are completely fascinated by them, the Veela will eat them. Therefore, the person with Veela blood is destined to not be a good thing.

Normally, wizards from big families would only treat Veela as pets no matter how much they liked them. I don't know why old Delacour was so crazy that he actually married that kind of magical creature. Isn't he afraid of tarnishing his family's bloodline? You must know that they are magical creatures, and the children they give birth to have bloodlines that are even dirtier than those of Muggles! "

Mike, Uncle Mario and others looked at Narcissa with unkind expressions upon hearing this, and Lucius even stabbed Narcissa directly with his elbow.

Perhaps because she said it so smoothly, Narcissa actually forgot that there was a Muggle-born Mike present, and that Mike was also a distinguished guest of today's host, the Foley family.

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean it." Seeing Mike and others casting unkind glances at her, Narcissa quickly reacted, "I'm really sorry, Mike. I didn't mean to discriminate against you."

"It doesn't matter, I believe you are not the kind of person who would discriminate against Muggles." Mike said polite words, but the smile on his face was extremely cold. Everyone present could see that Mike was very unhappy at this time.

"Okay, Lucius. You go ahead and do your work first. Mike and I still have some things to discuss." Uncle Mario's face didn't look very good either, and he directly issued a quasi-expulsion order to Lucius.

The Luciuses were helpless when faced with Mario, the deputy director of the Auror Office, who had an equally noble blood, and left the hall in dejection.

After the Luciuses left, Uncle Mario's face looked a little better. He first apologized to Mike, claiming that he had been wronged today, and said that he would ask people from the Ministry of Magic to make a surprise inspection of Mal tomorrow. Fu Manor, see if there is anything related to black magic, and help Mike vent his anger.

Hearing this, Mike immediately understood why Lucius didn't dare to fart in front of Uncle Mario. As a person with a serious criminal record and whose butt had not been wiped clean until now, he was afraid of Mario, a jc in the wizarding world. That's a matter of course for senior department officials.

After Mike made it clear that he didn't care, the atmosphere at the scene returned to normal. Under the introduction of Uncle Mario, Mike almost got to know most of the pure-blood nobles in the British wizarding world.

The banquet lasted until midnight, and it was not until the end of the banquet that Mike slipped out of the villa to get some air while Uncle Mario was speaking on stage.

"call"

In a remote corner of Foley Manor, Mike loosened his tie and exhaled a breath.

Mike has never liked this kind of aristocratic social dinner. There are so many rules at this kind of banquet that it is scary. If you have the slightest improper etiquette, you will be considered a country bumpkin.

Suddenly, Mike heard what sounded like a woman crying in the woods in front of him, and hurried to look for the sound.

I saw Furong squatting alone in the dark woods, her shiny silver hair shimmering, extremely conspicuous.

Perhaps due to the talent brought by her Veela blood, Fleur's perception was extremely outstanding. Mike was discovered by Fleur as soon as he entered the woods.

"Who are you!"

"Are you Fleur Delacour? I just saw you in the villa." Facing Fleur's exclamation, Mike said calmly, "I'm sorry, was it you who was crying just now?"

After hearing this, Furong quickly wiped the tears on her face and said, "I'm not crying! Also, you haven't answered me yet!"

"Okay, okay, you're not crying. I must have heard wrong just now." Mike, who had activated his magic perception, saw all of Fleur's little movements. Although he wanted to laugh in his heart, he kept a serious face, "I am Mike Townley, a second year student at Hogwarts, a Mudblood."

Fleur in the dark was obviously stunned when she heard the words mudblood, and the disgust hidden deep in her eyes also lightened a little.

"This is impossible. How could a Muggle wizard be invited to tonight's banquet?" As if she wanted to see Mike's face clearly, Fleur came not far in front of Mike.

"About Foley is a good friend of mine. But you really shouldn't be here. As far as I know, today's banquet is essentially a blind date. With your bloodline, there will be no A pure-blood family will take a fancy to you." Seeing that Fleur did not use the insulting word Mudblood to call herself, Mike said half-jokingly with a smile on his face.

Hearing Mike's words, Fleur's bright eyes dimmed, "If it weren't for my mother's strong pull, I wouldn't have come."

After saying that, it seemed that she was getting more and more angry as she thought about it. Fleur kicked a big tree nearby and continued: "She always wants me to marry a pure-blood wizard, and the purer the blood, the better." It can dilute the Veela blood in our family."

"Well, it seems that your mother is a little, well, a little too conservative." Mike said, "But your mother should also have Veela blood. Why are you so persistent in pursuing the purity of the blood?"

"She is a lunatic!" After hearing this, Fleur immediately came to Mike and said with wide eyes, "In her words, it is because of our Veela blood that we are discriminated against everywhere, so we need to Go find a pure-blood wizard and get married to purify the blood of our descendants, otherwise our descendants will always be discriminated against in the future!"

Hearing this, Mike was also a little surprised, but soon felt relieved.

Mike had seen this kind of situation in his previous life among women who came from families that favored boys over girls. It was obvious that he had been persecuted by patriarchal thoughts but he also liked boys. Once a girl was born, she would treat the child the same as her parents. Look down upon in every possible way.

"I don't think so. Times have changed. Blood equality will be the mainstream in the future. If those ancient pure-blood nobles choose to continue to stick to their decadent bloodlines, they will be drowned by the tide of the times!" Mike said forcefully. .

"Do you really think so?" Mike's words were immediately to Fleur's liking, and a smile appeared on Fleur's face for the first time today, "By the way, why aren't you fascinated by me?"

"Maybe it's because you're not pretty enough."

"you are lying!"

In the quiet grove, the two people who were chatting happily sat down together unknowingly. At this moment, the two heard a middle-aged female voice outside the woods calling Furong's name anxiously.

Furong's face changed drastically when she heard this, and she hurriedly said to Mike, "No! It's my mother, please hide it."

After saying that, he looked around in panic to help Mike find a place to hide.

Mike laughed when he saw this, and patted Fleur a few times to signal her not to panic. Then he picked up his wand and used the illusion spell to disappear into the woods under Fleur's surprised gaze.

And at the moment when Mike disappeared, Fleur's mother also found Fleur in the woods.

"So you're here! You kid is so troublesome, why did you run out without saying a word and let me find you!" After finding Furong, the middle-aged woman obviously breathed a sigh of relief and complained, "Hurry up. Please come back with me, the party is over, if we don’t leave we won’t be able to catch the carriage!”

Fleur seemed to be afraid of her mother, and kept her head down while being scolded without saying a word, but Mike noticed that Fleur, who had her head down, secretly stuck out her tongue when her mother was talking, looking naughty.

"Oh, got it!"

Fleur immediately replied after hearing her mother's words, but her eyes kept glancing at where Mike was just now, and she even stretched out her hand there, as if to confirm whether Mike was still there.

Looking at her cute look, Mike couldn't help but hold Fleur's extended hand, wanting to see her startled by her hand being suddenly grabbed.

But Fleur's reaction surprised Mike. Instead of being frightened, she scratched Mike's palm, smiled brightly at Mike's position, broke away from Mike's hand, and ran to her mother with a smile. Mike Yu watched blankly as the mother and daughter walked further and further away.

Feeling the residual feeling in his palm, Mike couldn't help but sigh that Fleur was indeed a romantic French, not a little bit more open than the British.

You know, scratching the palm of the opposite sex means that you hope to develop a deeper relationship with the other person.

At this moment, the sky had already turned white. Seeing that the mother and daughter had gone away, Mike also lifted the illusion spell and returned to the villa. Rejecting Abbot's offer to stay, Mike returned to Hogwarts in a black Lincoln.

When Mike returned to his dormitory, he suddenly found that his dormitory was already filled with Christmas gifts of all sizes. He decided not to sleep at all and buried himself in opening the gifts.

The Christmas gifts that Mike sent had been purchased when he went out to customize his suits, and all were given to an owl rental shop in Diagon Alley, so that they could deliver the gifts to their owners on Christmas Eve.

Mike has never been a person who is good at choosing gifts. Except for the gift given to Penelo, which is a pair of emerald earrings that he carefully selected, the gifts given to everyone, including all the faculty and staff of Hogwarts, are the same. A magical candy gift pack (Christmas special edition) from Honeydukes Candy Shop.

Mike has obviously received more gifts this year than last year, but most of them are Christmas cards, most of which have Santa Claus painted on them. You don't need to think about it to know that these gifts are sent by wizards of Muggle descent.

Among all the gifts, the one that Mike was most satisfied with was the complete set of "The Fire Master's Guide" given by Professor Flitwick. It recorded a lot of advanced knowledge about the fire spell, which was of great help to Mike.

What surprised Mike the most was that Professor McGonagall actually gave him a gift, and the gift was very expensive. It was a notebook filled with knowledge about transfiguration.

This notebook looks a bit old, and the color on the cover has faded. And the handwriting on it doesn't look like Professor McGonagall's.

Mike compared the handwriting of all the professors at Hogwarts but couldn't match it. Finally, when he pulled out a notice written by Dumbledore and compared it, he was surprised to find that this notebook was actually written by Dumbledore. .