Early in the morning, the door of Honeydukes Candy Store was open, and the room was filled with a sweet smell. The owner was sitting at the counter playing with a container filled with colored syrups, probably mixing new candy styles.
Joel carried William, who was under the Disguise Charm, and swaggered in. The entrance to the secret passage leading to Hogwarts was at the very back of the store. He successfully got into the secret passage without alerting the shopkeeper.
After going around a long way, he finally brought William back to Hogwarts. The sun was already rising. When passing by the auditorium, he could see several diligent students reciting knowledge from books in the foyer, including Seth.
Derek and Qiu were there, but Joel didn't think they were here to study.
Stepping on the lawn in the morning, dewdrops carried the smell of grass and penetrated into Joel's trousers. If it weren't for William, Joel should be breathing the fresh air and jogging by the black lake or practicing Animagus.
He was carrying William as he passed by Hagrid's hut. The hybrid giant still woke up very early. The hound Fangya jumped out of the house happily. Its sense of smell was very keen. Even though it was nearly ten meters away, it still noticed something wrong with the smell in the air. It wrinkled
He wrinkled his nose and stared directly at Joel with his bright black eyes.
It was about to step forward, and Joel's wand slid down his sleeve.
"Fang!" Hagrid's rough voice suddenly appeared, "Where did you go if you didn't eat breakfast?"
Yaya whined softly, glanced at the area where Joel was again, and then went back to the house wagging his tail.
Joel just put away his wand and stepped into the Forbidden Forest.
The Forbidden Forest is quiet in the morning, and most of the hunters at the top of the food chain have not yet started hunting. Only the early birds squat on the branches, defecating and observing whether there are bugs with no eyes around them.
Joel took William deeper into the Forbidden Forest. He was going to the den of Tom, the heterochromatic eyed tiger. Joel was not a roadie, he knew the way.
Half an hour later, he appeared in front of the cave carrying a cloth bag. The cave was still camouflaged by various dead branches and leaves. It would be difficult to find the cave without careful inspection.
He lifted the illusion spell on himself and stood outside the cave waiting.
After a while, low roars and rustling sounds came from the cave, and a sturdy tiger jumped out, its heterochromatic eyes still bright and dazzling in the early morning sun.
Tiger Tom took two steps forward and rubbed Joel's body intimately, while looking at his pocket.
Joel rubbed Tom's head randomly, and then opened the cloth bag next to him. William was hit by a coma spell and had not yet awakened, so Joel had to use the "Quickly Revive" spell.
The first thing William did when he woke up was to observe his surroundings. There were green grass and green trees. Everything looked quiet and peaceful.
If we exclude the tiger in front of him.
William looked at the knotted muscles on the tiger's body, and his calves trembled.
"Tom," Joel pushed William towards Tiger, "I'll leave this person to you."
Tom and William both showed human expressions of doubt.
William was so arrogant before, but now he is so cowardly. His legs trembled and he almost fell to his knees. There was a ball of towel stuffed in his mouth, and he couldn't speak but made a whining sound.
The tiger glanced at William, as if he was checking whether the food was to his liking.
It had never eaten this kind of upright ape before, and the taste was probably not very good. Its eyes wandered around, and finally settled on Joel's pocket.
Tom rushed forward.
William cheered in his heart, he was now counting on this tiger to avenge him.
The tiger stood upright and was taller than Joel. It used its tongue to lick Joel's hair. The barbs on its tongue combined with the saliva were more powerful than hairspray, and it directly licked Joel's bangs into a big bun.
"Don't come here!" Joel pushed the tiger away with his arms, "What on earth are you going to do?"
The tiger roared, its big head nuzzling Joel's pocket reluctantly.
Joel took out the contents of his pocket, and there were only two storage bags for him and William.
The tiger went straight to the blue storage bag. His big paws tore open the satin bag, and a bunch of items exploded like a treasure chest in an online game, including several standard school robes and dozens of Gallons.
However, there was a Gringotts vault key and a set of keys to Godric's Hollow, a birthday gift from Haylis - a star sapphire engraved with the two of them, and a brown-gray cloth bag.
"I'll go!" Joel was anxious and started to rescue the things from the big claws.
The tiger obediently released its claws, and its target was the brown-gray cloth bag.
Two sharp claws gently opened the bag with unusual dexterity, and two big eyeballs rolled out from inside.
They were the eyes of a basilisk. Joel had hurriedly removed these eyes when he ran out of the secret room. After receiving the system reward, he stopped paying attention to them. He didn't expect Tiger Tom to be so hungry.
The tiger raised his eyes, and his heterochromatic eyes suddenly turned watery. He walked up to Joel, stretched out his tongue and licked his palm.
Numb and numb.
"You want these basilisk eyeballs?" Joel asked, pointing to the pair of eyeballs on the ground that were about the same size as his palms.
The tiger nodded repeatedly, then raised his head towards William.
Joel understood what Tom meant, and regarded the eyeball as a reward for helping deal with William.
"Okay," Joel agreed readily. There was no use keeping the eyeball in his hand now, "but you have to promise me to take care of his body."
Tom nodded, opened his mouth wide and swallowed a pair of eyeballs, as if he was tasting the taste.
Then without waiting for Joel to speak, it stood up and picked up William. Although William was tall and strong, he seemed completely intimidating in front of the strong tiger.
He twisted his body and tried to let out bursts of wails. He even felt that the tiger's sharp teeth had penetrated his robe. Due to his excitement, the light blue magic power came out of his body, but it had no effect on the tiger with heterochromatic eyes.
, just like scratching an itch.
"Wait!" Joel suddenly remembered a missed detail and took out William's wand.
The tiger turned its head and shook its long and thick tail.
Joel wants to fake an incident in which a magical animal accidentally kills a wizard. Of course, the wand cannot leave any loopholes, and he must also be prepared for the possible flashback spell - it will cause the wand to eject the previously used spell in the form of flashback.
Joel stood there and thought for a while, "Fluorescence flashing."
"Peace and protection."
"Everything is petrified."
…
"There are many obstacles."
"Thunderbolt explosion."
Joel tried hard to conceive of the spells that a wizard who strayed into the Forbidden Forest would cast when facing a ferocious beast. He cast dozens of spells in turn until the magic power in his body was exhausted.
He handed the wand to the tiger. Tom seemed a little sleepy. It blinked and shook its head, then raised its paw and snapped the wand in half, leaving a clear and unusual claw mark on the wand.
Joel carefully wiped off the fingerprints on the wand, then took off the towel from William's mouth, loosened the rope tied to his body, and removed all of William's belongings - including the book "Analysis of Spells Casting by Nordic Wizards in the Eighth Century"
Way and Mysterious Spell" put it back in place, bid farewell to Tiger Tom and left the cave.
William's screams echoed in the cave. He also tried to make a final struggle. He tried to apparate without using a wand, but failed without any suspense.
"Tiger, Uncle Tiger..." William's smile was uglier than crying. He simply knelt down and looked into Tiger's clear heterochromatic eyes, "Spare my life, and I will repay you well when I come back."
He felt that this tiger was very docile and did not seem to harm humans. Maybe it could survive by showing kindness?
A trace of murderous intent flashed across Tom's eyes, and it raised its head and let out a roar. The shock from the depths of the soul of the creature at the top of the food chain made William's mind go blank.
Its sharp claws fell heavily, and William subconsciously turned sideways. Tom's strength was much greater than that of his kind. The wizard's fragile body couldn't resist it, and William's shoulder was directly torn.
William opened his mouth and wanted to scream in pain, but Tom didn't give him a chance at all, and his fangs ripped open William's throat.
"Ho, ho..." William covered his throat, and blood splashed out from the edge of his palm. A trace of unwillingness and resentment flashed in his eyes. The vitality in his body passed quickly with the loss of blood. His eyes were dizzy. After all, he could not withstand the tide.
Feeling sleepy, he slowly closed his eyes.
The tiger circled the body twice and tried to tear off a piece of meat and swallow it.
Tom frowned halfway through swallowing, feeling so sour that he was just like those werewolves.
It spit out the remaining meat, then left the cave with William's body in its mouth, deciding to give the human corpse to the werewolf tribe at the foot of the distant mountains.
Joel heard Tom's deafening roar, and he knew that William was dead, and let out a deep breath.
This was the first time Joel participated in a murder. Although he did not do it himself, he did cause William's death, and he felt a little sour in his heart.
Killing was not his intention. If William didn't come to him, Joel wouldn't mind being an obedient student who worked hard. However, things went against his wishes. Intentionally or unintentionally, he had already formed a big rift with the Yongye people. Not only did William start, but he also
Not the end,
He rubbed his face and used Occlumency to try to hide the negative emotions in his heart. However, the emotional and personality effects brought about by being familiar with black magic were huge, and Occlumency could not completely hide them.
Fortunately, it was very early and there were no large carnivores around. Joel returned to the edge of the Forbidden Forest without any danger, and then used the little magic power he had just recovered to cast a disguise spell on himself to cover himself back to the castle.
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As soon as I returned to the tower and opened the dormitory door, I saw Allen walking out with sleepy eyes, a big black circle on his head, and his expression looked quite similar to that of an artist with excellent time management.
"Where did you go last night?" Alan saw him yawning first, "The three of us have been waiting for a long time, thinking that you were caught by Filch when you sneaked out to play."
"Sorry," Joel explained to him, "I went back to Godric's Hollow last night, and I left some things there and forgot to pick them up."
He took out a stack of photos from his bulging pocket. The blue satin bag was torn by Tom, and he could only put everything stored in the bag into his pocket.