Facing Hagrid's rage, Harry showed no sign of weakness. He looked directly into Hagrid's eyes with a stubborn look on his face.
"We just want to help you find Malfoy, Hagrid."
"Oh, come on, Harry!"
Hagrid revealed Harry's inner thoughts without mercy.
"You already know those things, so you just want to seek revenge from Black. According to me, you are completely fanciful. I have never heard that the despicable traitor is an Animagus. If that is the case, Lem Si must know, and he will not hide it from Professor Dumbledore!"
"In that case——"
Harry said quickly, "Then what are you worried about?"
"Ha, what am I still worried about?"
Hagrid was thinking hard about Harry's death, his bright black eyes like black beetles were blazing with fire, and just when he was about to say something, Hermione said crisply,
"Malfoy may be in danger, Hagrid, you should find him quickly."
Hagrid finally realized at this time that the professorial dignity he deliberately displayed was of no use to these three little guys, and just as Hermione said, the top priority was to catch Malfoy who had broken into the Forbidden Forest. As for the dog, Hagrid still thought it was just a magical animal with strange abilities.
"All right!"
Hagrid glanced at the invisibility cloak that Harry was holding and said angrily,
"Don't expect this to be over. You three, when I find Malfoy, you four can be detained together!"
Although being in solitary confinement with Malfoy was a disgusting thing, no matter what, Hagrid finally agreed to take them into the Forbidden Forest. This was the second time since Harry entered Hogwarts. The first time they had such an opportunity was when they were in the first grade. At that time, they met Voldemort in the woods who came out for a late-night snack.
"There's no way we'll run into him tonight—"
Harry muttered quietly, but his voice was drowned in the rumbling roar that pierced the quiet night. As Hagrid's motorcycle exhaust pipe sprayed out a burst of brilliant blue and white fire, the motorcycle suddenly jumped to thirty feet in mid-air, quickly flying into the forbidden forest.
Not long after they disappeared, a man hurriedly ran towards the castle. He looked at a piece of parchment in his hand carefully. After finding nothing, he raised his head and looked around, and immediately discovered the edge of the Forbidden Forest. Ya Ya is looking in one direction,
"They went in, right?"
Yaya recognized the person, it stopped its threatening whimpering and nodded. After receiving the confirmation, the person did not hesitate and strode towards the Forbidden Forest.
Wow!
The treetops at the edge of the Forbidden Forest suddenly remembered a sound of shaking leaves, as if caused by flying birds, and a black cloud quickly broke into the Forbidden Forest under the cover of night.
"It's almost there, we have to wait a little longer——"
In the howling wind, a suppressed and trembling sound came from the vegetable garden on the small slope.
In late January, the breeze lingering on the Hogwarts campus already carried a hint of spring temperature. However, the forbidden forest and the campus in the middle of the night were completely different concepts.
The air here is filled with thick, cold moisture, and every time they advance a certain distance above the winding path, they will encounter a white mist with strange shapes and ethereal shapes. Every time they pass through the mist, Group, Hermione would always let out a "cluck"-like exclamation.
"Hey, I really should have brought a scarf!"
Ron also said pretentiously.
Ten minutes after entering the Forbidden Forest, the excitement of wandering into the Forbidden Forest at night to track down a dog that might be Sirius Black and sending Malfoy into the solitary room was over. Now, they were faced with a dark and ghostly place. There are also primitive forests with strange roars that make your skin tighten.
Ron was shivering from the cold, his hair and eyebrows were covered with ice, and he had to rely on the plush of Hagrid's moleskin coat for warmth.
The sight of the tangled, clawing vines in the forest and the scabs that looked more like ghost faces growing on the felled old tree stumps as they passed by quickly made Hermione speechless. She held onto Harry's hand tightly. The sweat from his palms had formed obvious wet marks on Harry's sleeves.
The darkness shrouding the Forbidden Forest seemed to be able to swallow up light, whether it was the moonlight and starlight in the sky, or the light emitted by the motorcycle headlights under their seats. The visibility was very poor, and Hagrid had to squint to concentrate on observing the stacks. Footprints on the soft leafy ground.
"I was just thinking, Hagrid!"
Harry roared, his voice overwhelming the roar of the exhaust pipes.
"The day before school started, when I was testing out the Firebolt on the playground, I met Blake. He didn't take action at that time, maybe because he was afraid that he wouldn't be able to escape the Dementors if he was exposed. It's also possible that he didn't find a chance to sneak into the castle this week. But why is he going after Malfoy tonight?"
"I don't know, Harry!"
Following the vague footprints was exhausting enough, and Hagrid had no time to answer his questions.
"I've heard rumors that Malfoy's father was once a Death Eater, but after Voldemort fell, he pretended to have nothing to do with Voldemort. Do you think this might have angered Black, who was loyal to Voldemort, and he wanted to kill Malfoy in revenge? "
"If this is the case--"
Ron gasped and said,
"Should we slow down a little, at least until Malfoy is finished-"
"Don't say that name!"
Hagrid growled angrily,
"Otherwise, I'll put you down and let you run behind the motorcycle. It just so happens that the car is a bit old and it's a bit difficult to carry four people!"
Hagrid always believed that the dog that could only grow in size was Black, which was just Harry's whim, and this also made Harry angry.
"Oh, look over there--"
Suddenly Hermione let go of Harry's arm, pointed to the right side of the increasingly invisible path on the ground, and screamed.
The three people who had been reminded also looked at her with concern. Many shadowy lights appeared in the direction of Hermione's finger. Those lights stopped in place. Harry could feel that several lines of sight were also projected in that direction. .
"Oh, old acquaintance, we just happened to go over and ask for directions!"
Hagrid immediately recognized who the owner of the torch was, and he said happily.
When the motorcycle entered the range shrouded by torches, Harry recognized them immediately - they were centaurs. Harry had met them when he was sent to 'labor' in the Forbidden Forest in his first year.
There were about twenty centaurs appearing in front of them right now. These centaurs were holding torches in one hand and spears in the other. Their faces were full of murderous intent. Even after seeing Hagrid, there was nothing good about them. face.
The three leading centaurs were the strongest of the group of warriors. When the muscles on their arms bulged, they were almost as thick as Hermione's waist. Harry knew these three strong centaurs.
"What, is there a war going on here?"
Hagrid controlled the motorcycle to land, but after seeing the centaurs sharing the same hatred, he didn't have time to say hello, so he asked in surprise.
Because he often helps the magical animal groups living in the Forbidden Forest solve survival problems, Hagrid has a high prestige here. Therefore, when the centaurs behind him scratched their hooves to express their anger, the one on the left of the three centaurs used a warning He glanced at the most elite warriors in the village, then walked out of the queue,
"Good evening, Hagrid."
Firenze, who had platinum hair and a silver-maned horse body, said to Hagrid, and then lowered his head and looked at Harry with a smile,
"Good evening, Harry Potter, we meet again."
"Long time no see, Firenze."
After getting out of the car, Harry realized what harm the temperature in the Forbidden Forest had done to him. He rubbed his knees that kept shaking, trying to put a smile on his stiff and numb face.
While Firenze and Harry were reminiscing about old times, Hagrid looked at these heavily armed centaurs warily and said to Ronan and Bain,
"What's going on? Are you planning to attack Hogwarts?!"
(End of chapter)
