Hayley is an owl who graduated from the special training of Auror Command.
Compared with ordinary wizards' pet owls, it not only never gets lost, but also has the absolute determination to complete its mission.
Three years ago, it completed all the assessments on the Wizard Tactical Owl, successfully graduated, and was finally assigned to its current owner, Nott Scabio.
To be honest, its owner is really nice to it.
He usually has food and meat, and from time to time he talks to himself privately and has some intimate conversations with it. However, in fact, when the Aurors are performing tasks, they rarely encounter situations where they need to use the owl.
So although her life is comfortable, Hailey has not performed any key tasks in three years. At most, she helped Scabior deliver some letters between friends.
This has always bothered Haili, who has received professional training. In the past three years, she has unwillingly gained a lot of fat under her feathers.
Today is finally its chance to show off its skills. It can see that its master is currently facing a very critical situation, and the letter caught in its paws is most likely the key life-saving straw.
So after Hailey took off from the building, she was very determined. According to her racial talent, she started flying close to the earth along the shortest straight line to England!
On Azkaban Island, under the influence of the gray fog, it could not fly too high. Otherwise, even with the pendant that Scabior gave it to guide it, it would lose its way in the vast fog, and eventually it would get lost in the fog.
The best way is to ensure that the ground or sea surface is always within its field of vision.
But just when it broke through the gray fog and was about to fly out of the land range of Azkaban Island, an old wooden boat docked on the coast suddenly caught its attention.
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Colin had seen Hogwarts through the telescope 10 seconds before Hayley discovered it.
After Jon and Fred landed on the island, the students who stayed on the ship did not sit around doing nothing.
Neville assigned observation positions to almost all positions from the bow to the stern of the ship. At the same time, Colin, who had always been a lookout, was on standby to keep alert to the surrounding situation at all times.
Not only must they pay attention to whether spark signals will rise on Azkaban Island, but they must also watch for the appearance of abnormal creatures such as dementors, so that they can be fully prepared as soon as possible if something goes wrong.
But the whole morning passed, and Colin held a telescope on the top of the mast for a long time, but he did not find a single living thing around the island.
It's like a dead island. Apart from the depressing gray mist floating around, there is no moving object.
Even in the sea water near the coast, there were no fish or shrimps. It was lifeless. It reminded Colin of when he was still in Muggle primary school and his parents took him to visit the grave in his hometown cemetery in the countryside.
A sense of ruin.
But Colin never put down the telescope in his hand.
He likes to take pictures, and has always longed to own a camera of his own. Originally, this wish was about to come true when he was about to enter middle school, but he was coaxed into signing up by the professor named Barty Crouch.
Notification, taking pictures has become a luxury.
However, after entering the sea, the job of acting as a lookout made up for Colin's emotional gap in taking pictures.
He liked the feeling of holding the monocular telescope and looking into the distance. Whenever he found a very clever angle and saw an excellent scenery, he would imagine that there was something on the telescope at that time.
With just one click of the shutter button, he can freeze the beauty of this moment.
Even on the hopeless and dead island of Azkaban, Colin can find many otherworldly wonderful things.
He had been observing the huge castle looming in the gray fog all morning. There was a special kind of grandeur in this atmosphere and sense of oppression.
Therefore, when a small black dot broke through the gray fog from the island and flew towards the direction of Hogwarts, Colin immediately noticed it.
He did not ignore this small black spot. After a whole morning of vigilance, he had determined that there were no living animals on the island, so the sudden appearance of this bird-like creature was obviously very abnormal.
Therefore, at the first moment, Colin put down the monocular telescope in his hand, grabbed the railing, and shouted to Neville, who had been staying on the deck since Jon and the others left.
"Report to the second officer! There is an unidentified flying creature approaching us at the three o'clock position on the bow of the ship!"
On the deck, not only Neville, but also George and Hermione around them all heard Colin shouting.
Everyone looked in the direction Colin reported. Even without a telescope, they could vaguely see a small black spot approaching their location.
Even without Neville's reminder, everyone present drew their wands on alert.
"What is that?" George asked with a frown.
Neville narrowed his eyes with a solemn expression, and he could already vaguely see the flying animal.
"It seems...an owl?"
"owl?"
Hermione asked calmly: "When Jon and the others landed on the island, did they take an owl with them?"
"No, no owls are kept at Hogwarts, either in the carriage or in the current cabin. Because the owls raised and used by wizards in the UK now have independent numbers, so that the Ministry of Magic can check at any time whether these animals that deliver letters are from them.
The owners are in legal possession, and if they discover that an illegal owl is delivering letters, they have the right to inspect the contents of those letters."
"It is difficult for us to get such a formal number, so Hogwarts has not been in the habit of using owls since the exile."
Neville explained, his eyes never straying away from the owl that was getting closer and closer to them.
"So this owl can only belong to someone else on the island."
Jasyan swallowed and looked a little nervous.
"Then what do we do now?"
Neville was unusually decisive.
"Knock it down! No matter who on the island is delivering a message, intercepting the message is the most foolproof thing!"
Under his command, all the students on the entire boat raised their wands and pointed them at the owl that was getting closer and closer to their boat.
Hailey, who was breaking out of the siege from the gray fog, just discovered the big ship under her and the countless wands on the ship that were pointed at it, with their tips flashing red light!
The feathers all over its body were so stimulated that they exploded. The memory of long-lasting training was awakened, and it subconsciously began to make evasive movements in the sky.
However, the next second.
The overwhelming beam of light shot out in its direction!