At the edge of the Forbidden Forest, Harry and Hermione were patrolling the forest with Hagrid. The four people who came to be punished were divided into two groups. They followed Hagrid, while Neville and Malfoy teamed up.
"That was a wolf just now?" Hermione was attracted by the sudden roar. She stared into the depths of the Forbidden Forest, her brows furrowed.
"To be precise - it should be a werewolf." Hagrid, who was leading the way, replied lightly. He did not pay any attention to the two people behind him who were shocked by his words.
"What! Werewolf!" "There really is a werewolf!"
Harry and Hermione opened their eyes wide, took out their wands and glanced around nervously, as if a werewolf would pounce at any moment.
"Don't worry, werewolves usually don't appear in the periphery." Hagrid stopped and turned around first to reassure him. Then he seemed to remember something and muttered to himself, "Speaking of which, why didn't I see Ivy and Betty? They won't.
Let’s go inside.”
"Ah——! Ivey and the others are here too? Why didn't you tell me earlier?"
"He came earlier than you. I hope everything is okay."
"Hagrid, look" Hermione suddenly pointed to the sky
A bunch of red fireworks exploded in the air
"It's Neville and the others! Let's go!"
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"Ivy" Betty called him and looked up into the air.
"It should be Harry and the others"
"Go" to change direction and run towards the fireworks
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"Malfoy! If you don't want to be left here alone, be honest!" Hagrid shouted angrily.
Hagrid, who had just arrived in a hurry, realized that it was just a prank played by Malfoy. He deliberately hid to scare Neville, who was frightened and fired the fireworks.
"Well now, thanks to you, whether I can catch that thing depends on luck." Hagrid said mockingly, "Let's change the team. Neville, you, me and Hermione are on a team."
"Harry, take that idiot with you." He leaned close to Harry's ear. "Malfoy won't scare you easily. Be careful and bring Fang with you. But he's very timid, so don't expect anything from him."
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After regrouping, we set off again.
"If father knew that I was doing servant's work, he would be in trouble." Malfoy complained to Harry on the way.
"You're not scared anymore, are you, Malfoy?" Harry mocked him without sparing any effort.
"I'm not afraid, P-T!"
"Ah wu——" a long roar came from the distance again
"What's the sound? Did you hear it?" Malfoy looked around
"Hagrid said they were werewolves," Harry said in a cold voice.
"Haha - you want to bluff me? I believe it, Potter"
The two of them continued to go deeper. After walking for a while, they came to a low-lying area.
"Look there!" Harry pointed into the pit.
It was a silver-white unicorn. It was dead. It fell to the ground, its limbs were unnaturally stiff. There was a lacerated wound on its neck, and silver-white blood flowed all over the ground. The two went down into the pit.
He didn't rush forward immediately, but just watched from a distance.
"Gu——" Malfoy swallowed and looked around blindly. "The attacker said - maybe he's still here. Let's go back and find - find Hagrid." His voice was trembling.
"Shut up!" Harry whispered.
He was about to step forward to check, when suddenly there was a sliding friction sound in the grass next to him, and Harry stopped cautiously.
I saw a hooded figure flashing out of the shadows of the grass. It crawled slowly on the ground, slowly came to the side of the unicorn, lowered its head, looked at the wound on its neck, and sucked the silver blood.
During the whole process, Harry, Malfoy and Fang stood there dumbfounded, staring blankly, not daring to express their anger.
"Ahhh——!" Malfoy screamed in excitement at the strange scene in front of him, then turned around and ran away. Yaya was even more distraught, and ran away with a "wuwu" cry.
The screams startled the beast-like figure. It slowly raised its head. Only the lower half of the face covered by the hood and its blood-colored eyes could be seen. Its skin was pale and its face was withered, giving it a vague sense of familiarity. The moment it raised its head,
A drop of silver blood dripped from the corner of his mouth.
Harry, who was so frightened that he couldn't move, suddenly felt severe pain on his forehead when he saw this face. It was the scar! There was a burning tingling sensation from the burning scar.
The man in black stood up slowly and walked towards Harry. Harry held his forehead and stepped back. The severe pain made his steps sluggish and in a daze. As a result, he accidentally tripped over a tree root and fell to the ground. He was unable to get up.
, he could only use his hands and feet, staggering and trying to distance himself.
As the men in black continued to approach, Harry had already retreated to the bottom of the slope behind him. At this time, his vision was a little blurred in pain.
"Da da da——"
Suddenly, the sound of horse hooves came from the slope above, and the man in black quickly moved away. He saw a horseman jumping down from the slope, with blond hair and blue eyes, and a very handsome appearance. He raised his front hooves and kept driving the man in black away.
As soon as Harry breathed a sigh of relief, a black shadow fell from the sky and rushed towards the centaur. The two beasts rolled into a ball on the ground.
"Werewolf!"
Harry's pupils shrank, he quickly picked up his wand, pointed it towards the sky, and red fireworks shot into the sky.
The two beasts in front were separated at the first touch. The werewolf's claws left a scratch on the centaur's chest, and its own chest was crushed by the hoof. With the werewolf's restraint, the situation took a turn for the worse, and the man in black pounced on Harry again.
"Harry Potter!"
The centaur ignored the threat of the werewolf and rushed directly to the rescue. The man in black retreated immediately when he saw this. But the werewolf's attack followed like gangrene on the bones. It jumped on the centaur's back, biting the back, and at the same time
The sharp claws of the four limbs penetrated the horse's body and held him firmly in place.
"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!"
The centaur screamed in pain. He jumped desperately, trying to throw the werewolf off, but the deep claws made him suffer even more. After the attempt was fruitless, it bent down and picked up half of the thick branch from the ground, and headed towards it.
The last swing.
"Bang!" The pain caused it to explode with amazing force, and the werewolf was knocked several meters away.
Before he could take a breath, another black shadow flew out from the side. Another werewolf! It opened its mouth to the extreme and bit towards the centaur's neck. At the critical moment, the side of the centaur's upper body deviated from the vital point. The werewolf's
The bloody mouth bit the centaur hard on the shoulder, and the powerful impact brought him down.
Seeing that the centaurs were in danger. At the critical moment - a crossbow arrow was shot from behind, but unfortunately it was interrupted by the werewolf's claws. It was Hagrid and the others.
"Everything is petrified!"
Hermione's scream came, and a flash of purple light flew out and hit the werewolf. But the spell was like a stone sinking into the sea, without any effect.
"Fierenze, hold on!"
Hagrid obviously knew the centaur. He shouted and ran over. Like a heavy pickup truck, he knocked away the werewolf on Firenze.
"Man, are you okay?" Hagrid lifted Firenze who had fallen to the ground.
"It's okay, don't let your guard down." Firenze's current appearance is very miserable. His shoulders and back are bloody, and the blood is stained all over his body. I have to mention one more thing here - the horse body's physique is really bad. The injury is so serious.
, the mental state is still very good.
"Harry!"
Hermione and Neville also ran over, Malfoy following behind them. She helped Harry up and carefully checked whether he was injured.
"There really are werewolves! Let's run away." Malfoy's legs kept shaking.
"No, we can't run. Our position is already very deep, and we can't run out in a short time. If we are alone, we might as well stay here." Harry shook his head and did not mock.
"Yes, Hagrid and the others should be able to contain them for a while. If Ivy and Betty are here, they will also see the signal just now, and just hold on until they come." Hermione also said.
"Is that Shafiq guy here~" Although Malfoy's tone was not good, he finally felt confident.
"Want to help?" Neville looked at the two sides of the confrontation.
"We can't help much. The magic resistance of werewolves is too high, and the direct magic effect is not very effective. We don't know other types of spells. It would be great if Betty were here." Hermione, who is a top student, also said
Very helpless
"Why did the werewolf come here?" Hagrid took the time to ask while standing with Firenze.
"The hooded one called," the centaur replied.
"The unicorn——! Was he killed too?" Hagrid glanced at the corpse in the pit and exclaimed in shock.
"right"
"That werewolf is injured, what did you do?" Hagrid noticed that the werewolf on the right had a weird posture and a bloody hole in his shoulder. The bleeding had stopped, but his arm was still hanging down, and it seemed that he couldn't use it for the time being.
"No. But this kind of penetrating damage is very similar to that caused by centaurs' bows and arrows." Firenze paused for a moment and then said, "It may also be done by the wizard of the Shafiq family."
"You mean Ivy? How did you know he was in the Forbidden Forest?" Hagrid asked in confusion.
"Our main task today is to pick him up."
"Pick him up? Why?" Hagrid frowned
"The specific reason is related to centaurs' secrets. I'm sorry for the inconvenience of telling you." Firenze is not like Hagrid, he has a very strict tone.
"Well, centaurs won't hurt Hogwarts students anyway. Are you okay?"
"It's not good! It would be best if we could hold the confrontation for a while longer and delay it for a while. Also, does Mr. Shafiq know that you are here?"
"I met him when he first came in. I mentioned it to him."
"That's good. If Mr. Shafiq really injured them, the signal just now was enough to lure him over."
The two sides continued to confront each other, and the giant Hagrid's bloodline put great pressure on the werewolves. Forced by the orders of the men in black behind them, they could not retreat. This situation of being unable to advance or retreat made them even more frantic.
Finally, the werewolves took the lead to break the deadlock. They looked up to the sky and howled, ready to pounce.
"No! They're coming, Hagrid!" Firenze's face suddenly changed.
"I'm not afraid of wolves," Hagrid muttered, and at the same time raised his hand and shot an arrow, "Protect the students well."
The werewolf nimbly dodged the attack, attacking from the left and right. Hagrid pulled out a huge root from the ground, held it in his hand, and prepared for it.
Just then
"Burst flame!"
A thick pillar of fire swept from behind
The moment the attack appeared, the men in black withdrew immediately. Seeing this, the werewolves also hid in the forest and quickly disappeared into the darkness.