What are Professor Snape and Professor McGonagall doing in the Forbidden Forest? Halligan, Hermione looked at each other, and both saw the astonishment in the other's eyes.
The deans of the two major houses of Hogwarts seemed to have encountered something urgent. They walked in a hurry, ignoring the young wizards who looked at them curiously, and quickly walked away along the edge of the Forbidden Forest. After a while, the figures behind them It became blurry.
"Harry!"
Almost at the same time, Hermione and Harry jumped up from the grass, and Hermione asked nervously.
"I'm taking it with me!"
Without saying anything, Harry immediately understood what Hermione meant. He was glad that he didn't go back to the dormitory with Ron. He didn't have an invisibility cloak. Harry knew that his tracking skills were definitely not enough to track the two school deans.
Harry took out his invisibility cloak from his schoolbag, and after observing his surroundings, he put the invisibility cloak on his and Hermione's heads, and then ran towards the direction where Snape and Professor McGonagall had left. go.
"I bet Ron will regret missing something important again!" Harry said.
"That's not necessarily true, Harry—"
Hermione struggled to carry her bulging schoolbag and said breathlessly,
"I think you know what we're doing, Harry. It's against school rules to follow the professor. Maybe Ron will be lucky enough to escape confinement."
Despite saying this, Hermione still followed Harry closely without any hesitation about her actions.
What happened to make Snape and Professor McGonagall act so anxious?
If Snape was the only person going to the Forbidden Forest, Harry would have a lot of guesses in his mind. However, Professor McGonagall was traveling with him, which made many of Harry's guesses untenable.
Five minutes later, the figures of the two deans became clear in the eyes of the two young wizards who were following them. Then, they slowed down their running speed, fearing that the crunching leaves would alert the two deans. .
Professor Snape and Professor McGonagall were not in a hurry to go deep into the Forbidden Forest. Instead, they kept running towards the intersection of the lakeside and the edge of the Forbidden Forest in the distance. Twenty minutes later, they heard the noise of young wizards in the courtyard of Hogwarts. After being completely eliminated, the two of them were caught off guard and entered the forbidden forest along a path that was not too wide but easy to walk.
"I never knew there was such a place in the Forbidden Forest. Maybe Fred and George have never been there!"
Under the invisibility cloak, Harry sighed in astonishment.
Although the ground of the forest path they stepped on was also covered with fallen leaves, it looked strangely clean under the red-golden sunset.
The tall pine trees growing on both sides of the path were also rendered golden by the sun that was more than ten feet away from the horizon. Behind the two people, the water of the Black Lake gently lapped at the shore of the lake, making a pleasant splashing sound and the ethereal sound of the forest. Insects chirped and birds chirped, and Harry and Hermione who broke into it felt as if they had entered a fairy tale world.
"Shh - keep it down, Harry, you'll be heard!"
Hermione reminded her sharply, but when she saw the moss-covered stone tablets in the lush haystacks between the trees on both sides of the path, she couldn't help but sigh,
"This place must be very ancient--"
After being reminded by Hermione, Harry also turned his attention to those ancient stone tablets, and then he immediately understood why Hermione sighed like that.
The stone monuments standing in the forest are actually tombstones. Because they are old and unattended, these tombstones are covered with green vines. Moreover, the words on the tombstones are blurred and almost invisible in the wind and rain. .
Hermione looked at the tombstones, her face gradually turned pale, and a terrible guess jumped out of her clever mind.
Because of this guess, the surrounding environment suddenly became less amiable. Hermione's lips trembled, and she felt that every fresh breath she took became cold and biting.
"Who could it be, Harry-"
Hermione turned her head and looked at Harry. She noticed that Harry's expression was not normal, and she immediately realized that Harry had the same guess as him, so she asked,
"Could it - could it be -, you see, Professor Snape and Professor McGonagall - they are the deans. Could it be that, Harry -"
"No way!"
Harry's face was livid. He didn't know the answer, but he still answered decisively.
The two leading professors never exchanged any words, and just hurried away efficiently with their heads down. After a few more minutes, Professor McGonagall noticed a spacious, flat, and beautiful circular area like a garden in front of the path.
"I saw them, Severus—"
Professor McGonagall said excitedly, and then the two people suddenly accelerated their pace and rushed there.
Dumbledore, Amostar, Sirius, Remus Lupin on the stretcher, Kreacher in the Black Mansion. Of course, there is also Regulus Braine, whose appearance is forever frozen in his youth. All in this small garden.
"It came so quickly. Professor Snape and Professor McGonagall——"
Amosta wiped the sweat from his forehead, put the wand back into his sleeve, and smiled at the two panting professors.
"I just finished cleaning up here."
"We rushed here as soon as we received Albus's notice, Amosta——"
Professor McGonagall clutched her chest, and she saw Regulus Black lying on a piece of green velvet, sleeping quietly, with a sad look on his face, and his eyes suddenly became moist.
The garden Amosta created is like a fairyland, but the atmosphere here is definitely not comparable to a fairy tale.
Dumbledore had his hands folded under his belly, his expression very solemn, and Remus's expression was not much different from Dumbledore's. The only difference was that there was a little guilt on his face. This is not surprising, after all, he is The only person who attended the funeral lying down.
Sirius sat next to his younger brother. He stared deeply at the younger brother who grew up with him. His face was tense and twitching from time to time. It seemed that he was trying his best to restrain something, and the elf Klee who was loyal to the Black family Che won't have so many worries.
Kreacher threw himself under the table that held Regulus's body. Judging from its inaudible crying, it had been crying for at least several hours.
Snape had known Regulus when he was a student at Hogwarts. He was his senior. Of course, because of Sirius, he did not like this fellow student who was several years below him. When they left Hogwarts to follow the mysterious man, they had more exchanges.
Later, Regulus disappeared without a trace, and Snape never paid much attention to it. After all, he still had so many troubled things at the time, but he didn't expect that many years later, he would actually Will meet Regulus Black again under such circumstances.
Regulus Black on the table looked gloomy, but he looked peaceful after being relieved.
Snape stared deeply into Regulus's face, his expression blank, and in a daze, Regulus's lifeless face looked like his own.
"Can I get relief?"
Snape asked himself in his mind, and the answer to this question stung him. He turned his eyes away, and his attention was drawn to the stretcher, which was covered with white bandages. Only his face was exposed. At this time, he was trying to raise his head towards Lei Gu. Remus, who was paying attention to Les, had a look of gloating in his eyes, and almost laughed out loud.
"Then, since you are here, Harry and Hermione, you two should also come over and see off this heroic spirit who is about to leave -"
Amosta waved to a towering tree not far away. Dumbledore had obviously noticed this, and he also smiled at it. Under the astonished gazes of the other people, the space at the root of the tree suddenly suddenly After a twist, two little heads with stern expressions appeared.
(End of chapter)
