Evan returned to the dark Forbidden Forest and walked along the path.

He was about to find a place where he could ambush Peter Pettigrew, but he immediately stopped, and he heard the sound of something stepping on a fallen leaf.

Evan hurriedly ducked behind a large tree beside him, and as he listened, he lifted his Animagus form and pulled out his wand. The sound was like a cloak dragging on the ground, getting closer and closer, could it be an eight-eyed spider?!

Suddenly, an arrow flew through the air and landed on the tree above Aven's head with a creepy sound.

Evan's spell flew out almost instantly, and by the light of the spell, he saw something appear in the clearing in front of him, looking like a human, with black hair and beard, but below the waist was a brownish-black shiny horse, with a long black tail dragging behind it.

It was a centaur who had skilfully dodged the spell and drawn his bow and arrows aimed at Aven.

"Who are you, human?" said the centaur with anger written on his face and in a rough tone, "Trespass into our woods and intend to attack me with magic?!"

"I'm sorry, this was a misunderstanding! I thought you were an eight-eyed spider, you know, I just got attacked by them. There was a faint glow from the end of Aven's wand, "Introduce yourself, my name is Evan Mason and I'm from Hogwarts. ”

Evan struggled to recall anything about the centaurs, and most wizarding books and laws were full of contempt for the introduction of this humanoid magical creature.

For example, in Article 7 of the "Measures for the Management and Control of Magical Creatures", the definition of a horse man is: a magical animal with a human head, a torso and limbs like a horse, and an intelligence close to that of a human. Note the wording, a very humiliating word that is close to human intelligence and animals, and it also represents the overwhelming logarithmic wizard's view of the centaurs.

But that's not the case at all, and the centaurs are extremely arrogant creatures.

In general, they are full of distrust of humans, whether wizards or Muggles, and there is no difference in their eyes. Centaurs are well-versed in healing magic, divination, archery, and astronomy, and have a strong reputation in these fields.

Centaurs tend to live together in groups, forming clans and tribes.

The Centaur Clan in the Forbidden Forest of Hogwarts is the largest known tribe of centaurs, having existed for more than a thousand years. Before the Big Four founded Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, the ancestors of the centaurs lived in what would become known as the Forbidden Forest.

Evan wasn't stupid enough to get along with a centaur according to the book, unless he wanted to provoke the other person and die faster. He tried to see the other person as exactly like himself, and tried not to look at the other person's lower body, although it did seem strange.

"I'm hiding from the Eight-Eyed Spider"

"Eight-Eyed Spider !!" said angrily as the centaur said angrily, "I don't know when these murderous, hateful creatures have been growing in number in the woods, attacking other creatures and taking over the territory that was originally ours. ”

It was no wonder that the Eight-Eyed Spider was rated as one of the most dangerous magical animals by the Ministry of Magic, and was clearly listed as a Class A non-tradable commodity by the Department of Magical Creatures Management and Control.

They may have a slightly weaker single attack ability, but their ferocious personality, super high intelligence, and strong reproductive ability make the eight-eyed giant spider have a strong ability to invade species, causing great damage to the ecological environment. From the centaur's tone, it was clear that Aragog and his descendants must have caused pain to the centaurs of the Forbidden Forest.

There was a sudden movement in the bushes, and Evan hurriedly raised his wand.

He thought it was the Eight-Eyed Spider, but it turned out to be the second centaur, red-haired, brownish-red who looked thinner than the first.

"Good evening, Evan Mason!" said the second centaur in a melancholy voice, "My name is Ronan, this is Bane, I hope we didn't scare you!

"It's okay, I can learn a little," Evan said modestly, deliberately ignoring the other party's words, for centaurs, a child is probably a foal.

"It would be nice to learn a little!" Ronan sighed, "Although you humans waste most of your lives on useless things due to racial limitations, I have to admit that you still have some remarkable magical achievements. ”

This may sound like a compliment, but Evan doesn't know how to answer.

Ronan didn't seem to expect Evan to answer, he suddenly raised his head, stared at the sky, and said in an extremely melancholy tone, "Mars is bright tonight. ”

He seemed to have forgotten about Evan and the Eight-Eyed Spider, and his eyes stared upwards without blinking, as if he saw something in them.

Evan also looked up and saw that Mars was indeed very bright.

He didn't know what that meant, it seemed to him to be just one of the natural phenomena of astral motion, but for the centaurs, it was clearly not the case, and for centuries they had been observing, recording the movements of the various celestial bodies, trying to find a symbol of the great evil or transformation that showed there.

"What does this mean?" asked Evan softly.

Considering that the Gryffindor Secret Treasure Key was kept in the centaur tribe, Evan felt compelled to build a relationship with them.

Perhaps, you can also ask them to help you catch Peter Pettigrew. There are so many eight-eyed giant spiders, it is impossible to defeat them alone.

"When war is about to start, it's always the innocent who suffer first!" Ronan sighed a few more times, "It's been like this for hundreds of years, and it's still happens. ”

"yes. Evan dragged out his voice, he didn't know what the other party saw, he tried to say, "I went to the Forbidden Forest tonight to catch an evil wizard, I can't let him run away, otherwise it will have an extremely bad impact on the future, and you will also be implicated." Presumably, you've noticed the anomaly too."

"Mars is bright tonight. Ronan repeated it again, accentuating his tone, "Unusually bright!"

"I know, as you said, I hope you can help me with catching that evil dark wizard.

He turned his head to look at Bane, who didn't seem to see him.

He walked over and stood beside Ronan, looked up at the sky, and for a long time, said slowly, "Mars is bright tonight. ”

Again, Evan sighed, he found it very difficult to communicate with the centaurs, they may know a lot of things, but they never say it directly, they are tight-lipped about what they observe.

Like Professor Trelawney, they like to tell others about the signs they have observed, the warnings from the sky, but they tend to be blind to what is clearly happening around them.

Evan suddenly discovers that it is even harder to get help from centaurs when it comes to catching Peter Pettigrew. (To be continued.) )