In the last week of this semester, you can go to Hogsmeade Village again——
Everyone was happy except Harry.
And the reason Harry was unhappy wasn't just that he couldn't go to Hogsmeade.
But because "Tiera" disappeared again——
To be precise, "Tiera" refused Harry's company——
During team practice, Harry rode one of the school's broomsticks. It was an old meteor, slow and wobbly. He definitely needed a new broom of his own -
Although Harry's parents left Harry a large amount of wealth, Harry needed to use that money to survive until seventh grade, so he couldn't spend it randomly except buying gifts for Tiera.
Harry originally wanted to discuss with "Tiera" what kind of broomstick he should buy next semester——
Although he didn't know why, "Tiera" suddenly seemed to be very knowledgeable about Quidditch, so Harry wanted to hear Tiera's opinion——
But Tiera declined Harry's invitation and has not appeared since last night.
Harry was a little indignant and a little emotional about this, and he didn't know why he was like this. In order to distract himself, Harry had to hold the "Classification Broomstick" borrowed from Wood alone, and decided to put this The day was spent learning about the different styles of broomsticks.
On the Saturday morning when everyone went to Hogsmeade, "Tiera" still didn't show up, and she didn't even return to her dormitory at night. Harry said goodbye to Ron and Hermione, who were wearing cloaks and scarves, and then He climbed the marble stairs back to Gryffindor Tower alone.
Snowflakes were falling outside the window, and the Hogwarts castle was very quiet.
"Hey, Harry!" Harry turned around halfway down the corridor on the fourth floor and saw Fred and George peering at him from behind a statue of a one-eyed, hunchbacked witch.
"What are you doing?" Harry asked curiously, "Why didn't you go to Hogsmeade?"
"We're here to give you a little holiday cheer before we go," Fred said, with a mysterious wink. "Come here, it's time for you to join the big brothers' gang."
Fred nodded to an empty classroom to the left of the one-eyed statue, and Harry followed Fred and George inside.
George closed the door softly, then turned and looked at Harry with a smile on his face.
"An early Christmas present for you, Harry." George said, and then George pulled something out of his cloak with a wave of his hand and placed it on an empty table.
It was a large, square, very old piece of parchment with nothing written on it.
Harry thought it was another Fred and George joke and stared at it.
"What is this?" Harry asked, "your new prank product?"
"This is the secret of our success." George said, then took out his wand, touched the parchment lightly and said:
"I solemnly swear that I have done nothing wrong."
Thin lines of ink, as thin as a spider's web, immediately began to appear where the wand had just touched.
These lines merged with each other, crossed each other, and extended to every corner of the parchment; then writing began to appear on the top of the parchment, which were large, curved green characters. They were: Moon Face, Wormtail, Supplier of Auxiliary Materials to Magical Mischief Makers Gentlemen , Padfoot and Prongs proudly present the Marauder's Map, which details Hogwarts Castle and its various locations.
But the really remarkable things are the tiny dots of ink that move along the map, each labeled with a name in tiny letters.
Harry was so surprised that he leaned over to take a closer look. A small dot of ink in the upper left corner shows Professor Dumbledore pacing the study; Filch's cat Mrs. Norris is prowling the third floor, and Peeves, the prankster ghost, is hopping around the trophy room. Harry's eyes flicked up and down the familiar corridor. At this time, he noticed something again.
The map showed a series of passages he had never entered before. Many of these passages appear to lead to...
"It's the one that leads to Hogsmeade." Fred pointed with his finger along a passage. "There are seven in total. Well, Filch knows these four... huh?"
Fred suddenly exclaimed, and Harry followed Fred's gaze and looked over——
Harry saw a name that Harry was very familiar with appearing on the map in the passage leading from the one-eyed witch stone statue to the cellar of Honeydukes Candy Shop -
Tiera Lockhart.
A sense of betrayal and shame washed over Harry.
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After following the Leng Plains residents off the boat, two toad-like creatures that seemed to have escaped from a nightmare appeared on both sides of Tiera - one on the left and one on the right -
The two moon beasts each stretched out the tentacles in front of their heads, climbed onto Tiera's arms, and held Tiera down like a prisoner towards a tall peak in the center of the city——
Along the way, Tiera felt that everything was so novel and disgusting, but it made people want to take a look at it more——
From time to time a small group of slaves dressed like the swarthy merchants would be driven off some sailing ship, and behind them would be a large group of toad-like gray and slimy creatures-some of them were officers. , some are navigators, and some are oarsmen.
Tiera saw that creatures that looked almost like humans had been preserved to perform tasks that did not require much effort but were more shameful, such as cooking, fetching and carrying, and communicating with the earth and other places. People on the planet bargain. These creatures must be very convenient to move around on the earth, because as long as they put on clothes, carefully put on shoes and headscarves, they look no different from humans, enough for them to bargain in human shops without feeling any embarrassment, or is to make any strange explanation.
Most of them wore no clothes except for slaves who were emaciated, weak, or riddled with disease, and were packed away in crates and hauled away in heavy wagons pulled by incredible creatures. port.
Occasionally, Tiera also saw some other creatures being unloaded and packed into packaging boxes. Some of them were very similar to these humanoid creatures, some were not so similar, and some were not similar at all——
There is no doubt that these packed creatures will be transported inland to be eaten and enjoyed by those cruel and terrifying moon beast nobles, officers and priests——
Moon beasts are creatures that are unimaginably cruel. They only feed on living creatures, but before eating them, they spend a lot of time on torture and torture as a pastime, seeking pleasure from the pain of other creatures. Vulgar joy, when they have had enough, they will eat the "food"——
A special substance they need is drawn from the body and soul of "food".
Under the escort of two moon beasts, Tiera approached the city whose appearance and smell were difficult to describe in words.
The streets of the city were hung with red lanterns and patrolled by slaves holding torches.
Soon, Tiera came to the end of the street, where there was a huge square. Behind the square was the mountain peak that Tiera was going to——
There is some kind of team stationed in the square——
The procession included ten toad-like creatures and twenty-four human-like torchbearers - eleven on each side and one at the front and back, blocking every road leading from the square to the mountain.
When Tiera and the two-month beast escorting him approached the square——
One of the ten moon beasts stationed in the square stopped them from advancing.
The moon beast that stopped them seemed to be an officer or a noble. Tiera saw that one of the moon beasts who escorted him was respectful to the moon beast.
The two moon beasts entangled their tentacles together and communicated for a while in this way——
Then the moon beast with a high status pointed to one of the passages guarded by humanoid slave creatures, and seemed to instruct them to enter from there.
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