Chapter 60: Treacherous Dumbledore
At the same time, Hagrid, the ranger of Hogwarts, was stumbling forward in the dense Forbidden Forest with his big dog Fang Fang and sweating profusely! The tree branches blocking the road and the knee-high piles of weeds seriously hindered his forward speed, making him have to slow down again and again to deal with these annoying things!
Just now, a fire broke out in the Forbidden Forest and caused quite a commotion. All the teachers and students in Hogwarts saw the soaring flames and thick smoke! And Hagrid, who was a forest ranger and gamekeeper, of course couldn't ignore this!
Therefore, he must go to check the situation of the fire as soon as possible! If the soaring fire spreads and destroys the Forbidden Forest and the magical creatures inside, Hagrid will be very guilty! In addition, he himself was very worried about the location of the fire in the Forbidden Forest! There is something he cares about!
Now, the big Hagrid was running fast in the direction of the thick smoke. His fat and tall half-giant body made him look a little out of breath when he was exercising! You know, he didn't even have time to eat lunch! The big pot of chowder, the dark dish of the wizarding world, was still simmering in his house!
After running for a while, Hagrid had to stop, panting heavily with his hands on his knees! Normally, when he was on routine patrols, he didn't really realize how big this Forbidden Forest is! Why this time, when I wanted to check the fire earlier, I couldn't make it for half a day? If it weren't for the fear that the Ministry of Magic would find out that he secretly hid his wand, Hagrid would almost have Apparated there!
Looking at the thick smoke floating above the canopy in the distance, according to the direction of the smoke, it should be in the depths of the Forbidden Forest! If he remembered correctly, it should be the territory of eight-eyed spiders!
Thinking of this, Hagrid immediately had a bad premonition in his heart! This is also the reason why he has been worried and hurried on his way! That Aragog was Hagrid's pet! And its offspring! Thinking of this, Hagrid no longer cared about his physical fatigue, and after greeting Fang, he twisted his fat body and ran faster.
At this moment, the raging flames that were originally burning had been basically extinguished, but the thick smoke from the embers continued to rise! The entire spider's territory in front of him, including those underground caves, was burned into ruins by the flame storm!
Whether it's trees, grass, or those countless spiders, they were all burned into a pile of deformed coke by Anne's flame magic! Even the soil and rocks at some magic nodes were burnt into glass-like solidification, which shows how terrifying the high-temperature flames of the Flame Storm were at that time!
But it's okay! Before Annie rode on the unicorn and left, she took a special shot to extinguish the flame, so now the fire has not spread further! This reassured the other magical animals in the Forbidden Forest a lot! I'm not as nervous as I was when I first saw the fire!
Now it seems that this sudden fire just burned the eight-eyed spider's territory! Fantastic animals don't care about the life and death of those spiders! Regarding the fact that the spider group was suddenly exterminated by human wizards, the happiest thing is probably these intelligent magical animals!
For so many years, these giant spiders, which are obviously invasive alien species, have no natural enemies, and the ranger Hagrid deliberately favored and protected them at the beginning! So much so that their number is increasing and they are multiplying faster and faster. The explosively growing group of eight-eyed spiders has reached a terrifying number in the recent period!
They severely squeeze the living space of other creatures! More importantly, these spiders are omnivorous creatures that mainly eat meat! Other magical creatures in the Forbidden Forest have often been preyed upon by these giant spiders! The two sides have been bitter and bitter for many years! In the entire Forbidden Forest, it is estimated that there is no magical animal that does not hate these spiders! Goodness! Now they are finally finished!
now,
A group of centaurs are patrolling the ruins, and they are sweeping away some ashes that are still carrying sparks from time to time, or burying a certain branch that is still carrying smoke in the soil! You know, this is the Forbidden Forest, a lush Forbidden Forest! Plus it's already a dry autumn season! It is the time when the sky is dry and things are easy to catch fire!
Therefore, the horsemen must take strict precautions, and they can only do so! Otherwise, maybe a gust of wind will cause another catastrophe! The saying that a single spark can start a prairie fire is not a joke! If the fire was rekindled due to a momentary carelessness, I am afraid that these magical creatures might lose the Forbidden Forest they depend on for their livelihood!
"Oh! No! Merlin! No! Aragog! No! It shouldn't be like this! What the hell happened!" Finally, Hagrid, who arrived late, couldn't help but panic when he saw the messy ruins in front of him. Crying, it threw itself in front of a huge spider-shaped coke.
Obviously, this strangely shaped object was Hagrid's former pet: the eight-eyed spider named Aragog! And those smaller spider-shaped cokes next to it should be its descendants?
The family of eight-eyed giant spiders, which once prospered so much that they seemed to be the overlord of the Forbidden Forest, has been exterminated by a certain wizard in an instant! This incident was undoubtedly a huge blow to Hagrid! He is now kneeling on the muddy ground covered with ashes, howling loudly with snot and tears.
Beside Hagrid, the centaur Bain looked at Hagrid's pain with cold eyes, but he didn't have the slightest sympathy in his heart! After all, for the centaurs, these spiders are one of the rare enemies of the centaurs in the Forbidden Forest! It has no sympathy or kindness for its enemies!
These hateful giant spiders, which are hated by the centaur tribe, have developed a little too fast over the years! Because they hardly have any natural enemies here! Specific population numbers for these spiders! Bane the centaur didn't even dare to imagine! It doesn't even know how many of them there are! Is it hundreds of thousands? Or millions? There may not be too many adult giant spiders, but those small and medium-sized ones are countless!
Before that, many unlucky centaur tribes had been preyed upon by them! If it weren't for the fact that he really couldn't beat these spiders, Bane the centaur would have dealt with these damned giant insects long ago! And now, since the little wizard girl took action to clean up this group of forbidden forest pests for them, he, Bane, was too happy! How could he still sympathize with Hagrid? If he didn't laugh out loud here, he'd be selling him a bit!
"Hagrid! I warned you before! Don't let such evil creatures into the Forbidden Forest! But you won't listen! Look! They're all gone now! It's your fault, after all. !"
The centaur Bain strode up to Hagrid. If Hagrid was not still here, at least he would have to sell him some face. I am afraid that Bain would run straight away and trample the charred remains of these spiders into pieces. Solve the hatred in its heart, right?
"No! Aragog is not some evil creature! He has always been a good boy!" The heartbroken Hagrid raised his head and growled loudly at the centaurs.
"Huh? Good boy? I'm afraid, except for you, none of the other creatures in the Forbidden Forest think like you!" Bane sneered at Hagrid disdainfully!
"Okay! Baine, enough is enough! This matter is over now! Instead of wasting time here arguing about this, you might as well go shopping and see if there are any missed open flames on the ruins!" The centaur Firenze saw that Hagrid had the urge to explode. In order to avoid unnecessary conflicts, he hurried over to appease Hagrid and persuade Bain at the same time.
Although he, Firenze, is a relatively enlightened centaur, he applauds the little human girl professor for destroying the spider's territory! It has endured these spiders for a long time by itself! It's finally the day to see them perish!
There should be a lot of scattered spiders scattered around this forbidden forest. Fei Zelun made a decision in his heart. After confirming that there will be no more fires here, he will carefully clean up the nearby area with his colleagues. These spiders are back! After all, their reproductive ability is really terrible!
"Tell me! Firenze! Who did all of this! Please tell me!" Hagrid seemed to have thought of something, he stood up with red eyes, and began to ask the centaur Firenze.
"Hey! Do you still want to take revenge? It seems that your brain is not directly proportional to your size!" The centaur Bain at the side saw Hagrid's appearance, finally couldn't help it, and sneered again.
Because the centaur Bain secretly followed and protected the unicorn, he directly witnessed the whole process of the little human girl destroying the spider's territory! It was very impressed by the surging magic power fluctuations at that time!
If Bane hadn't been vigilant enough to run away as soon as he saw the abnormal magic power on the ground under his feet, it would have been burned to charcoal by now! It still has lingering fears about the power of the flame! It didn't think that Hagrid in front of him would be the opponent of that scary girl!
"Enough! Bane! What time is it! Please shut up!" Firenze saw Hagrid raise his umbrella to Bane, and the fire was on the verge of breaking out! He quickly ran over and used its strong body to lay between the two of them, "Hagrid! Please calm down a little too! It's pointless for you to do this now!"
"Please get out of the way! Firenze! I must teach him a profound lesson today!" Hagrid's eyes were still red, and he seemed to be still in anger! This Bane shouldn't have teased him when he was sad!
"Hmph! No one is afraid of anyone! Actually, I've wanted to talk about you a long time ago: you are a lunatic who only knows how to raise monsters!" The centaur Bane was not far behind, and pointed his bow and arrow at Hagrid.
"Oh! Hagrid! Stop it...!" Seeing that things were about to develop in the worst direction, Dumbledore, who had been watching from the dark, finally couldn't stand anymore! He hurried out and spoke out to persuade him to fight.
In fact, Dumbledore apparated over at the same time as Annie arrived at the spider's land and was ready to do something. He hid in the distance and saw little Annie's method of killing the eight-eyed spider! It's just that he didn't have the intention to stop it at that time!
As early as more than ten years ago, Dumbledore had received complaints from the centaur and other intelligent magical creatures in the Forbidden Forest many times, and they had accused him of the evil deeds of those giant spiders more than once! However, because the giant spider is his subordinate and his right-hand man: Hagrid's pet! That's why Dumbledore has been pretending to be deaf and dumb about this matter, and deliberately put this matter on hold for a long time, procrastinating without giving any reply.
Over the years, in the Forbidden Forest where there are no natural enemies, the giant spiders have been multiplying faster and faster, their numbers are increasing, and their territories are getting bigger and bigger! In fact, Dumbledore himself knew it very well! The existence of these spiders has indeed severely disrupted the ecological balance in the Forbidden Forest! If these spiders continue to reproduce like this, I am afraid that the Forbidden Forest will be renamed Spider Forest after many years! Maybe by then, they might harass Hogwarts Castle, right? After all, these spiders eat meat!
In this regard, Dumbledore has been watching and worrying in his heart! He watched the giant spiders develop into the size in front of him, but he couldn't bear to destroy them for a while! Afraid to be afraid of Hagrid's heart!
Dumbledore still valued Hagrid as a subordinate! After all, this big man is stupid and easy to fool, if Dumbledore wants to do some dirty work, all he needs to do is tell him! This big man works extraordinarily hard and works hard, so he is very comfortable to use!
As a result, the matter of the spider finally became like this, and it can only be delayed like this! In this regard, Dumbledore has more than once looked at the growing spider territory and sighed! According to his previous thought: This is a very worrying old man! These spiders can't be beaten! There is no way to manage it! What can you do with him? Then we have to procrastinate like this!
But now it's finally all right, because Dumbledore found out that this group of winking spiders had provoked little Annie desperately, and then provoked the little girl to kill him, and suddenly gave them a ruthless blow, directly Take these giant spiders from big to small in one pot! Not even the eggs were spared! All were burnt to coke! This is really beautiful!
Little Annie's fire really made Dumbledore, who was secretly watching, very happy! To him, this can really be regarded as giving away a pillow for drowsiness!
Before Hagrid came, the old man had thought to himself more than once: the old man was worrying about how to deal with these annoying big spiders! But I didn't want to, little Annie came to solve them for the old man herself! What a caring girl!
Although it's a pity to burn them all, but... these spiders are not a rare species, there are plenty of them in other places! Burn it, burn it! Okay now? The spider problem is perfectly solved! I don't need the old man to be a villain, and I don't need to be afraid that my subordinates will hate me! Now even the magical creatures in the Forbidden Forest can rest easy, and will never write complaint letters to harass the old man again! This can be regarded as killing many birds with one stone!
"Hagrid, you can't really blame Professor Anne for this matter... Well, the little girl is indeed a bit reckless, but you should know that you really can't blame her for this matter..." Dumbledore walked up to Hagrid, He flickered with a kindly comforting face, and told the whole story by the way.
Generally speaking, the general situation is nothing more than this: your spiders don't know good or bad, and they want to steal the most precious unicorn in the Forbidden Forest! Are those precious unicorns that they can afford? How many do we Hogwarts keep in the Forbidden Forest? Still can't do it baby! It's almost as if they were offered up as ancestors! Collecting some naturally shed hair every year can exchange a lot of Galleons with the old man Ollivander! You have to know that this is one of the most stable sources of income for the school!
Last year, one was killed by the anti-bone boy Tom! Dumbledore was still distressed for a long time! That's all money! And now! These worthless spiders want to eat unicorns too? I'm just tired of living! If little Annie doesn't take action, maybe the old man will take action to clean them up!
Moreover, they dare to do anything to Professor Anne who came to stop their evil deeds? You also know, is that little girl something they can afford? Don't talk about them, if you are an old man, you will have to admit cowardly! so! At most, Professor Anne was over-defense, your spiders fought to the death, and they died with honor! Well, this is the end of the matter, let's stop worrying about whether a little girl's shot is not serious or serious! Good boy, do what you should do now! Today this matter is so exposed!
"Whooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo up~! Professor Dumbledore! Aragog and the rest of them died so badly!" Hagrid was so sad that he knelt down and hugged Dumbledore's thighs, howling with snot and tears.
While Dumbledore comforted in a low voice, he slandered endlessly! You are enough! Stop wiping your snot with the old man's robe! If it weren't for the fact that you usually work hard, I'll see if this old man doesn't beat you to death!
Poor old man's white robe! I can tell you! This is a high-level enchanted double-layer magicweave wizard robe! Designed by famous teachers, exquisite workmanship, expensive! Not to mention that all your spiders are dead, even if they are not dead, you may not be able to afford this robe if you sell them all! Ouch I go! You are still rubbing! I'm so mad at the old man!
"Whoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo~! Professor Dumbledore! I see, I won't blame Professor Annie! Let them develop and grow again!" After rubbing his nose drops again, Hagrid was sad, but he had the idea of continuing to adopt eight-eyed spiders in his heart! He is confident that he will be able to reproduce the glory of the Aragog clan!
"!!!"
You still want to raise it? Melin! Dumbledore looked down at Hagrid, who was crying in a mess! For a moment, he couldn't even care about his wizard robes!
Now that the problem of spiders has been solved with great difficulty, you still want to raise them? This, this..., forget it! The old man still doesn't care! Anyway, when they grow stronger again, maybe the old man will be dead long ago! Let the next headmaster of Hogwarts worry about this shit! He Dumbledore should always leave some mess for the next one, so as to prove that he, an old man, has come to this world!
Bain and Firenze, who were not far away, also heard Hagrid's words, and their expressions began to turn ugly! And Bain the centaur had a dark face, his eyes were terribly gloomy!
Looks like it has to do something! If this Hagrid really dares to raise spiders in the Forbidden Forest again, Bain swears that as soon as Hagrid walks away, Bain will immediately come out and kill those newly raised little spiders! Not one left!
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