Harry, who was surrounded by the Thestrals, walked in the Forbidden Forest for a long time. The Forbidden Forest at Hogwarts was not this big a few hundred years ago, because before, there was no such peace in the Forbidden Forest as it is now. .
Every rich and magical natural wonder is a target in the eyes of poachers. Although magical creatures are difficult to deal with, their value is completely worth the risk of hunting by these guys. Some people do the business of losing heads, but no one does it. It is a loss-making business. Even though hunting magical creatures is very risky, the poachers are still happy to do it.
The Forbidden Forest, which has always been in a state of chaos, naturally cannot expand itself. However, a hundred years ago, due to some reasons that have not been recorded in history books, the number of poachers in the Hogwarts Forbidden Forest suddenly dropped sharply. The poachers here were wiped out in a very short period of time, and no one can tell exactly what happened.
Whether it is "Important Modern Events in the Magical World" or "Hogwarts - A School History", these history books do not record what happened in the Forbidden Forest.
It seems that people have deliberately forgotten something, and it also seems that that blank past is so heavy that books cannot bear it.
The reason why Hagrid was able to complete the purge of the Forbidden Forest was, to be honest, thanks to the fact that there were not as many and rampant poachers in the Forbidden Forest at that time.
Hagrid only has 90% of the giant's resistance. His defensive power is far inferior to his extraordinary destructive power. As long as he is not approached, it is not impossible to defeat Hagrid, even if it is really Even the giants could not escape the bloody siege of many poachers.
The place where the Thestral took Harry was a bit unfamiliar to him, because this area was a place Hagrid had not brought him to. The Forbidden Forest occupies a very large area, especially after there was no chaos and a hundred years of rest and recuperation. The range has expanded at least three times compared to before. The more prosperous the forest is, the more magical creatures there are and the fewer battles there are, the more magic power is accumulated in it. As a wonder of the world, they can grow little by little. big.
Although there is a limit to this kind of growth, the current Forbidden Forest has reached the upper limit of expansion. Although this upper limit can slowly increase, the speed is so slow that ten years and a hundred years are used as the minimum basic unit.
Harry saw the shadow of some ruins. Those ruins were not all collapsed houses, but some were huge iron cages. The hard skulls had not yet completely rotted. The huge hollows on his forehead and the missing eye sockets in his eyes told Harry Li, this is the skull of a Cyclops, the most powerful and largest group of giants.
This guy could grow to nearly thirty meters tall. It was definitely not something that ordinary people could deal with. He died suffocatingly in the rotten iron cage. There were still traces of hacking on his remaining bones. He must have been dead when he died. Restless.
Thestrals passed by the half-buried skull and continued to move forward with Harry.
They passed by a huge human ruin. If they guessed correctly, this should be the ruins of a certain village. There used to be more than just a village called Hogsmeade around Hogwarts. At that time, Hogsmeade was also divided into There are two parts, upper and lower. However, with the expansion of the Forbidden Forest, the Lower Hogsmeade Village, which was gradually swallowed up by the forest, was abandoned and abandoned. The villagers moved to the more prosperous and rich Upper Hogsmeade Village. The merger was completed years ago.
Harry was not sure whether this was the site of the former Lower Hogsmeade village. After all, many villages had been swallowed up by the expansion of the Forbidden Forest, and he had traveled a long way.
But the Thestrals did not stop. After crossing the ruins of the village hidden in the Forbidden Forest, they took Harry deeper.
After about a quarter of an hour, the Thestrals stopped.
This seems to be the place where their breath comes from. I don’t know what kind of giant beast left the dense skeletons. The ribs that are almost four to five meters long outline a huge figure. And in this place where the bones are lined up, it is the Thestrals. My favorite home, although they are not ominous or represent bad luck, thestrals are indeed magical creatures that are very close to death.
Whether they resemble skinned skeletons or can only be seen by those who have seen death, the docile and intelligent Thestrals have been closely associated with death since birth.
Harry got off the horse and looked around with some confusion. He didn't understand why the Thestral brought him here. The Thestral that first bit his robe walked in front of Harry. When Harry was confused, When he did, it turned and looked back, as if asking Harry to follow him and move on.
They passed by the skeleton of a giant beast. After seeing the huge purple horn, Harry suddenly remembered a name - Purple Horned Beast.
This is a very rare magical creature. The purple-horned beast, which is almost equal to a land tank, has a high energy of six to seven meters and weighs more than twenty tons. Its terrifying brute force and terrible magic resistance make them almost useless. Enemy, that huge purple horn is a precious magic material. The purple horn with its own armor-piercing, poisonous, corrosive, and serious injuries can be widely used in war pharmacies, although the magicians have found many corresponding ones. Substitutes, but no matter what, they are worth thousands of dollars.
Harry unceremoniously packed the horn, which had many signs of decay but was still full of purple color, into his dragonskin backpack. There was only a small piece of purple horn no bigger than the thickness of an arm in Snape's potions warehouse. The horn that Harry got was at least thirty or forty times bigger than the one in Snape's hand.
The Thestral waited for Harry for a short while. It didn't mind that Harry took away some of the decorations at home. The Thestral only eats meat, they don't chew bones.
After walking through the field of corpses, a ruin completely wrapped in moss and vines appeared in front of Harry.
Suddenly, a strange feeling appeared in Harry's heart. In the black and green ruins ahead, Harry seemed to feel something calling him.
It was a very intimate feeling, and the magic power in the body seemed to be ready to move at this moment.
"Is this here?"
Harry touched the Thestral's smooth head, and the dragon-headed Pegasus nodded slightly.
The Thestral, who simply bent down on his knees, seemed to only want to take Harry here. Harry stepped forward alone and carefully pulled out his wand. Although he subconsciously told himself that nothing would happen, necessary precautions were still needed.
This ruin seems a bit unusual. Although the progress of magic does not rely on archaeology, it must be mentioned that the ancient magic ruins have indeed revealed to all wizards in the world the terrifying and magnificent side of the former magic world. Most of those ancient magics are It's very rough, and the ancient magic that can only be used by flying bricks with great strength is not something that modern wizards can use at all, but the pure violence is still a moving power.
Harry very much suspected that the ruins in front of him were some ancient magical ruins. Although the possibility was very low, after all, thousands of years had passed, and the magical ruins exposed on the surface could not withstand the brilliance of such a long time, and the one in front of him was A rough outline can still be seen in front of the ruins. Dingtian has been abandoned for two to three hundred years, so it cannot be a product of thousands of years ago.
"Could it be the traces left by previous poachers?"
The extremely rampant poachers at that time had countless strongholds in the Forbidden Forest, many of which were built into small castles, specifically to provide services for dirty black and gray transactions. If this was the case, time would barely be able to That's right.
"Split into pieces!"
Harry pulled the trigger, and under the action of the cutting spell, the trees and vines were smashed and cleaned, and the sound of the rocks collapsing was endless. He didn't even think about careful archeology, and he used the most convenient and crude method to tear it apart. After reaching the outermost wall of the ruins, Harry saw a dark space covered with mushroom moss.
However, this darkness was aimed at ordinary people. In Harry's field of vision, he saw dim silver-gray smoke rising like steam. As Harry continued to get closer, the thin and almost invisible smoke gradually became thicker. When he stood up, a small vortex appeared on the moss-covered ground, a small black-silver vortex made of silver-gray smoke.
A wave of magic power that made Harry feel extremely friendly came from the black and silver whirlpool. It was purer and more concentrated than the silver-gray magic power in his body, and could be called true ancient magic power.
Perhaps it was this pure ancient magic power that flowed through his mother's body, a power that far exceeded that of ordinary wizards and that others could not understand.
If the blue magic power of ordinary wizards is water, then this black and silver ancient magic power is mercury.
"Fluorescence."
A ball of light flew out of Harry's gun, and the soft white light illuminated the dark ruins covered by moss. The broken wooden seats had almost completely decayed, and similarly decayed by time, there were densely packed, At least the mutilated corpses of hundreds of people.
The decayed and blackened bones wrapped in magic cloth that has not yet been reduced to ashes will not completely fall apart. Hundreds of empty eye sockets seem to remain alive after a long time. They were randomly discarded here after being killed. , and the executioner who accomplished all this.
The black and silver whirlpool fluctuated slightly, and Harry was now less than two meters away from it. When Harry got really close, the fluctuating whirlpool suddenly expanded, and a gray world suddenly opened in front of Harry!
It was a bustling market filled with swear words and curses. Hundreds of wizards traded goods here. Countless magical creatures were locked in cages waiting to be sold, and more were turned into broken corpses. , they were stripped of their most valuable parts and became goods traded at countless stalls.
Although the exact time is not known, this must be a period of history when poachers were wreaking havoc.
"Avada Kedavra!"
With a cold drink without any emotion, a tragic green light exploded in front of Harry. This sad light of death broke the monotony of the black and white world and gave this historical memory a bright color.
It was just like what Harry saw in his dream when he first rested at Hogwarts. It was spread out like a spider web, far more deadly than Voldemort's death a hundred times!
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I just wanted to squint for a while, but I didn't expect that it would be 3 o'clock in the blink of an eye. This is 3K. I will catch up on the remaining chapter before I get some sleep. With the promised update, I will update 4 chapters later.
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