Chapter 58 Forbidden Forest (Modified)

The days slipped away inadvertently like this. On the morning of a week before the exam, Harry Potter's determination not to meddle in other people's business was tested by an accident. After Harry came out of the library, he heard Professor Quirrell speak Sobbing and crying in the classroom, it seems that after being threatened by someone, he finally compromised.

The trio began to discuss countermeasures-in the end, Harry and Hermione persuaded Ron to give up his decision to continue the night tour and reconnaissance, and pulled a Jupiter astronomical map in front of him, and began to review the names of Jupiter's satellites.

Afterwards, the five Harrys at the Gryffindor table received five identical notes: Your detention begins at eleven o'clock tonight. Look for Mr. Filch in the foyer. Harry and the others didn't complain at all. They had been feeling guilty since they lost their points. The punishment came only now, which made them feel relieved. They felt that they deserved such punishment.

Even Hermione, who was racing against time to review her homework, didn't complain at all. In her opinion, it is only right and proper that they should be punished if they make a mistake—Ron hoped that after the confinement, they might get less stares.

At this time, Allen was tasting creamy mushroom soup. This rare French dish milk soup is salty and delicious, which suits his appetite-suddenly, a familiar system voice sounded in his mind, "Limited time mission: save the world that is shrouded in evil. Unicorns, get the gratitude of unicorns. The time limit is 24 hours. If the task is successful, the reward will be randomly drawn once."

Allen forcibly suppressed his excitement and put down the spoon in his hand. He turned his head and glanced at the Gryffindor five who were loudly discussing confinement. Although he didn't know what reward he would win, it meant that he needed to secretly violate School rules, followed the punished people into the Forbidden Forest - Thinking of this, Allen immediately got up and returned to his dormitory to make preparations, took out a scarf and began to change its color, which was used to contact potion skills before I chose some of the products and the life-saving potions ordered by money as my own mobile supplies.

At eleven o'clock at night, Harry, Ron, Hermione, Fleger, and Neville went downstairs to the entrance hall together, where Argus Filch, the gatekeeper of Hogwarts, was already waiting there— —and Draco Malfoy, who was threatening Filch as the director of his father's school, Lucius Malfoy, was punished for violating the curfew and going to Professor McGonagall to report Harry and their behavior, although Neither Filch nor his cat, Mrs. Norris, took Malfoy's threats.

"Come with me," said Filch, lighting a lamp and leading them out. "I think you'll have to think twice about breaking school rules in the future, don't you, huh?" He squinted looked at them, and went on: "Oh yeah...if you ask me, work and hard work are the best teachers...it's a pity they abolished the old fashioned punishments of the past...hang you hang you from the ceiling by your wrists for days. I still have those chains in my office, I oil them often, they might come in handy one day... well, let's go , don’t even think about running away. If you run away, you will have no good fruit to eat.”

They endured Filch's chatter and strode across the pitch-dark grounds, remembering Neville's horrific tales in the Forbidden Forest, sniffling non-stop, and Flegal comforted him for not knowing why—Ron and Hermione were also imprisoned. As a result, some bad emotions arose, and Harry didn't know what punishment they would receive. He imagined that it must be very terrible, otherwise Filch's tone would not be so cheerful.

Until Hogwarts key manager and gamekeeper Rubeus Hagrid rescued several little wizards, he quarreled with Filch angrily and drove him away on the grounds that it was no longer his task Filch could only say a few harsh words that he would come to clean up the wreckage of the little wizards after dawn, and then waddled his own oil lamp and disappeared into the darkness.

After Filch left,

Draco Malfoy immediately began to try to use his father's status as a school trustee to threaten Hagrid, trying to prevent himself from being punished to go into the Forbidden Forest——Hagrid, who didn't like Slytherin, rudely went back , Let him either accept the punishment and do something useful, or he will be cowarded under the threat of getting out.

And just when Hagrid began to group the five irresponsibly, trying to separate them to facilitate the search and face the murderer who attacked the unicorn, he left the Ravenclaw common room and used the phantom Allen, who was cursed, had already started running towards the Forbidden Forest—he had already changed the color of his school uniform into the color and logo of Gryffindor College in his invisible state, and wrapped his head with a scarf .

The cold moonlight shone on the path leading to the Forbidden Forest, and the dark Forbidden Forest seemed to open its mouth wide, ready to swallow anyone who dared to violate it. A narrow path that gradually disappeared into the depths of the black jungle appeared in front of Allen, and a breeze blew their hair. Looking from the entrance, the scenery of the dense forest is hazy and indistinct, and the strangely shaped branches are like devils with claws and claws, waiting for the arrival of their prey. The moonlight shines through the gaps in the leaves and projects into the halo on the ground. Instead of making people feel the warmth of the light, there is a strange and misty feeling of vertigo.

After entering the Forbidden Forest, Allen kept his wand handle down on the ground under the prompt of the system, and then chose the target direction based on the direction of the tip of the wand after it fell down. This is what Professor Sybill Trelawney, an elective course of Divination from the third grade, said to those students who don't have a "halo". If they don't do it well, they will walk into the lair of the acromantula in the Forbidden Forest …

Allen, who had no experience of night tours in the forest, strode forward in the direction pointed by the tip of the wand, and then couldn't help but feel a little scared of the gloomy environment around him as he went deeper, not because he was concerned about the magical animals and monsters hidden in the Forbidden Forest. What kind of fear, it's just that the fear of the dark and the unknown is a human instinct, and some plots in his mind, like the "Blair Witch" movie, are combined with the scene in front of him-until he starts to use the other party as a witch himself or a witch. The wizard's reason convinced himself to relax a little.

Soon, some crackling branches and a series of messy footprints attracted Alan's attention.

Looking in the direction of the footprints, a silver-white trace appeared in Alan's eyes. Allen could confirm that it was definitely not an illusion brought by the moonlight, and it just so happened that the blood of unicorns was silver-white.

Along these traces, Allen followed. Now and then a ray of moonlight fell from among the branches above, illuminating a silver-blue stain of blood on the fallen leaves. Allen hoped to save the unicorn in time, as it looked badly injured.

When Allen walked past a mossy tree stump, the sound of gurgling water reached Allen's ears. Apparently there was a stream somewhere nearby. On the winding path, there are still spots of unicorn blood scattered, which looks shocking.

The deeper you go into the Forbidden Forest, the denser the bloodstains become. Allen was anxious and almost used his fastest footwork. However, the trees in the Forbidden Forest are too luxuriant, and the huge roots are intertwined and entangled. Be careful so you don't get tripped up. So no matter how agile Allen was, he walked cautiously if he didn't dare to use fluorescent flashes.

Soon, there was a loud noise in the distance. Allen followed the sound, and through the tangled branches of an ancient oak tree, he could see an open space in front of him. In the open space, a horse shaped like silver white A shaggy steed, a unicorn with a spiral horn on its forehead, is engaged in a desperate struggle with a masked wizard in a black cloak.

Without making a rash move, Allen waited for the right time from a distance—the mysterious person had to ensure that the unicorn drank it while it was alive in order to gain power from the opponent's blood, and Allen didn't intend to go too far for a reward. adventure.

The unicorn gradually became scarred, touching left and right with its long horn. Its movements are not very flexible, but it is still tenaciously resisting the wizard's attack, but its personality and docile appearance are quite different. They can fight the elephant fire dragon, but when they face this Quirrell who is actually possessed by a mysterious person, they quickly lose He was at a disadvantage—although the movements of the black-robed masked wizard seemed much weaker than before, he had already minimized the use of magic.

The mysterious man let Quirrell bear most of the curse of unicorn blood, and he used it to continue his life that was not complete soul, bodyless, even worse than a ghost.

Just when the unicorn was hit by the wizard's petrification spell and collapsed to the ground, and when he gathered his wand and was ready to drink, Allen pulled out his wand, and read from a distance to the black cloak that was relaxed because of his success. Incantation, skillfully fired the spell: "Curse out the intestines!" - His voice was a little muffled because of the red scarf.

But the black-robed masked wizard, who has rich combat experience and is very proficient in black magic, was not fooled as Allen expected. He was shocked when he heard the sound of chanting a spell behind him, but he didn't even have time to turn his head to look He gave up on the unicorn that was within reach in front of him, held up his magic wand and cast an armor body shield behind him, and rolled to the side to avoid the vicious spell as if worried.

Allen, who had only cast one spell, had been prepared for the opponent to dodge. With the casting of the ensuing spells, the light of fainting and the petrification spell shot out from Allen's wand one after another—this time Allen's spell did attack the opponent, but the opponent just shook and it seemed that it did not have the actual effect that the magic should have.

Only then did he see that the masked wizard who was sneaking up on him in the distance behind him seemed to be a low-grade Gryffindor wizard, and the other party had already started raising his wand towards the sky, as if intending to call reinforcements.

The one who had already fought the unicorn for a while was already very weak, and he didn't intend to take the risk of exposing his identity, so instead of fighting Ai again, he turned into a black shadow and quickly fled to the distance.

"Quack ah ah!"

There was a scream from the other side of the woods. It turned out that Harry, who was being punished, and Malfoy, who was with him, met Quirrell who was running away. The scream was made by Draco Malfoy—he After a short period of stunned and motionless, he reacted, let out the terrible scream just now, wobbled and ran away with the oil lamp in his hand.

Hagrid's pet Yaya ran away desperately. It even came from behind and surpassed Malfoy who was originally in front. This stupid hound also had its brains opened at this critical moment. It thought that as long as it ran past Malfoy, it would just be safe...

The figure of the masked wizard who was running away raised his head and saw Harry at a glance. He floated towards Harry greedily, and as the other party approached, a sharp pain penetrated Harry's head. It felt like he had never felt before, as if his scar suddenly caught fire... He blurred his vision, staggered back and finally fell to his knees.

"Stay away from him!"

Originally, Harry and Draco had been a few steps behind in their bickering, and Flaig raised his wand, and blocked it in front of Harry who was unconscious on the ground—even though he was not very talented in magic, he himself was not confident that he could release it. What can hurt the opponent's spell.

While Quirrell and Mystery saw more and more Gryffindors under the cloak, they didn't have time to continue entanglement in this situation. He changed direction and ran away without looking back.

Hearing the scream and rushing over, Allen couldn't help nodding when he saw this situation outside the bushes in the distance, and immediately turned around and ran back—Fleg Brown is indeed a qualified Grant Fendor, and speaking of which, Draco, the little coward, immediately brought Hagrid and the others to rescue Harry Potter after he successfully escaped.

Alan, who still has some bottom line in his heart, did not deal with the unicorn situation first in order to complete the task. He first ensured that his classmates did not have a deal because of the change in the plot——Alan also began to treat himself when he returned. It’s not easy to explain if you meet a few Gryffindors and find that the color of your school uniform on your body is from their college...

However, when Allen returned to the unicorn, it looked very bad and was moaning in pain on the ground.

"Healed as before."

As long as he has learned the magic spell, Alan can cast it with his hands and it is very easy to use, but this time the healing spell failed on the unicorn and it only had a drop in the bucket. As a therapist at St. Mungo's Hospital, he has special family skills for this kind of healing magic.

This surprised Allen, but it was not the time to be entangled. Allen tried the spell again, but it still didn't work. He judged that the mysterious man's magic contained a curse, and the healing spell of a higher level was faster. Quick healing, this kind of advanced healing magic that sounds a bit like singing can be effective for cursed wounds, but as a first-year student, he hasn't mastered it yet, so he made a decisive decision and used physical means to heal the unicorn. treat.

He took out the healing potion and anti-curse potion that he had prepared before and poured them into the unicorn's mouth without money, and then applied the hemostatic ointment on the unicorn's body. Finally, the silvery white blood stopped flowing out. Then he worriedly poured a few tonics into it. In fact, if he hadn't known that taking some potions at the same time would cause some terrible reactions in a short period of time, he hadn't planned to stop yet.

But it seems that with this extravagant style of a local tyrant, the life of this unicorn is no longer a serious problem-and some horseshoes came from behind Allen.

"You saved the life of this unicorn." A very powerful voice sounded in Alan's ear, and Alan turned his head to see that it was a centaur with platinum-blonde hair and his upper body was a face. A handsome male figure with a cream-colored body from the waist down.

In fact, Allen, who had already recognized the other party's identity from the color of the other party's fur, asked in feigned surprise, "Who are you?"

"My name is Firenze. Tonight's Mars is very bright. The stars indicate my destiny, so I must appear here tonight. There are things here that are very important to our destiny." Firenze said very seriously.

Allen thought he was talking about Harry. Knowing the other person's character, he nodded, bowed politely and said, "Great, can I ask you and my two classmates to take out of the Forbidden Forest? They are in the On the other side, I think he's the one you're looking for...he's the famous Boy Who Lived..."

Although Firenze knew that the little wizard in front of him must have misunderstood, but he was more friendly to humans and was more than happy to help. He let out a long series of horse-like sounds to the unicorn who was still breathing on the ground: "Gai Ya, this human wizard should be reliable, fate tells me that you can trust him, I will come back to you later."

After finishing speaking, Firenze turned around and ran to the side. He came to the side of Harry who was already awake. After explaining a few words, before waiting for their reaction, he directly bent his front legs, lowered his body, and used human parts to With two hands, he picked up the two little boys and put them on his own back, and then he started to run with his hooves.

A little later there was another sound of hooves on the other side of the clearing in front of them.

The centaur Ronan and Baine rushed out of the bushes, their bellies heaving violently, dripping with sweat.

"Firenze!" Bane yelled. "What are you doing? You have two men riding on your back! Don't you feel ashamed? Are you an ordinary mule?"

"Did you see who this is?" Firenze stopped so that his companions could see who was on his back. "This is the boy from the Potter family. Let him leave this area quickly." Forest, the sooner the better."

"The other one is not!" Bane looked at Flaig and muttered angrily, "Remember, Firenze, we swore that we would never defy God's will. Don't we see what the movement of the planets shows? Omen?"

"I believe Firenze thinks he does it with good intentions," said Ronan in his mournful voice, digging the dirt with his hooves uneasily.

"Out of good intentions! What does that matter have to do with us? What the centaurs care about is the prophecy of the astrology! We don't need to be like donkeys, running around after the lost humans in our forest!" Bane said to Firenze roar.

Firenze was so angry that he suddenly stood up on his hind legs, Fleger hugged Harry tightly, and Harry had to hold onto Firenze's shoulders so as not to fall off.

"Go and see for yourself, Gaia has been rescued, and the fate has changed. We centaurs will get clearer instructions and get closer to fate." Firenze turned around lightly after finishing speaking. He turned around and rushed into the woods with Harry and Flaig, leaving Ronan and Bane behind.