The magic was drained in an instant.

The blood splattered from the sky, and the dark wizard who grabbed Hoffa staggered back. Fell to his knees with a thud. The wand fell limply from his right hand.

He pressed his chest to the ground, only to find that there was also a huge laceration in his neck. A massive wound stretched from his lower abdomen to his forehead, slicing his face in half.

He stared at Hoffa with his only eye, his lips open and closed, but he could only make a ho-ho sound.

The feeling of mana draining his lips turned white, and he stumbled to his feet, backing back, leaning against the trunk of the tree so that he didn't fall.

"Waste. ”

Schmidt did not retreat, but advanced, he kicked away his wounded companion and pointed at Hoffa: "Drill the heart and cut the bones!"

Brutal red light shone through.

Hoffa's pupils shrank into pinpoint tips, but at this moment, he didn't even want to back down at all. After overcoming his fear, an inexplicable strength in his bones supported him to stand up.

He watched as Schmidt spat on the ground, dragging his knife and rushing towards the Drill Heart Curse.

Even if it is death, you have to hack the other party to death first.

Schmidt didn't expect a boy to be so fierce, but he didn't mean to give in at all, and stood in place with a cold expression.

Hoffa raised his knife.

The spell turned his face red.

But just then, an old oak tree beside him suddenly came to life.

It pulled out of the ground** and leaped between Hoffa and Schmidt. Two huge branches cross.

The Drill Spell was completely blocked by the massive trunk.

Hofa slammed into the trunk of the tree, knocking him into a whammy.

Schmidt lowered his wand and slowly took a step back.

Hoffa's face turned a little pale to look.

I saw an old man in a gray robe standing at the entrance of the Forbidden Forest, he was tall and had a russet beard.

It turned out to be Dumbledore.

Schmidt's face was expressionless, and he raised his wand and shot a blue lightning at Dumbledore. Dumbledore spun his cloak and vanished.

In the blink of an eye, he appeared behind Schmidt, and the trees around him came to life, and as soon as he stepped on, trees rose from the ground.

The giant oak man slowly placed Hoffa on the ground, and then pressed it to the ground with one hand.

Countless branches crackled into the ground and began to grow wildly. Between the surging of the earth, countless small treemen emerged from the ground.

They were armed with wooden swords, and their eyes glowed with a faint blue light.

The active groups of tree people surrounded Schmidt, and the water on the inner and outer three floors could not be drained.

This kind of scene makes Hoffa's heart beat wildly, this is Transfiguration!

Schmidt narrowed his eyes and whispered, "Albus Dumbledore." ”

"It's me, I really didn't expect you to be so anxious. Dumbledore said calmly. "Are you in a hurry to go to prison before the war has even begun?"

As he spoke, he waved his wand lightly.

The golden light burst out, the night was as bright as day, and the magic power that fluctuated in the air made Hofa's scalp tingle when he was hiding behind the tree man.

At that spell, Schmidt's face was solemn, and he waved his wand.

Rows of metal shields appeared in front of him, but those rows of shields could not stop the golden light from penetrating in the slightest.

At the moment of crisis, Schmidt stretched out a grab, and Aglaia, who had fainted by the tree, was copied by him.

He used Aglaia as a human shield.

Dumbledore immediately swung his wand upwards.

The penetrating golden spell took a turn, severing several thick tree trunks in succession, and disappeared into the Forbidden Forest.

"Schmidt, have you fallen to such a point? Dumbledore said with emotion, "I think you used to be a little cuter." ”

"For a bright future, the necessary personal sacrifices are essential. Schmidt said lightly: "Only by abandoning the old self can we embrace the bright rebirth." Don't you understand that?"

Dumbledore sighed.

"Yes, I understand. But coming to Hogwarts with two companions and a group of magical creatures is too much of a sight to behold. ”

With that, he waved his wand in a flash of lightning.

A sharp stone wall shot out from below to the top, and the cut was like a blade, cutting Schmidt's arm off in an instant.

Schmidt's arm flew high with Aglaea, and Dumbledore spread his arm and grabbed his wand with one hand and the unconscious Aglaia with the other.

Schmidt, who lost his arm, smiled slightly, did not hesitate, turned his head and ran.

But vines poured out frantically on the ground, tying Schmidt into rice dumplings.

In less than a few seconds, it was all over.

Of course, this was only Hoffa's thoughts, and after Dumbledore slowly put Aglaia down, his face did not relax at all.

Schmidt, who was entangled in vines, suddenly twisted and collapsed, and in Hoffa's shocked gaze, he turned into a transparent, soft, multi-tentacle jellyfish and collapsed to the ground.

Nothing else.

"Stand-in jellyfish. Dumbledore muttered, lowering his wand.

"I should have thought of it. ”

He then put away his wand and walked to Hoffa's side with Aglaia in his arms.

At this moment, Hoffa's hanging heart finally landed, and Dumbledore's arrival relieved him of the crisis of death. But at the same time, it also brought another crisis.

What punishment will he face when he enters the Forbidden Forest?

Will I be fired?

Dumbledore stood in front of Hoffa, his blue eyes looking down at him, and he didn't speak for a while, and that expression made Hoffa a little uncomfortable.

"Very brave, but also reckless behavior, I really didn't expect to meet you here. Dumbledore spoke slowly.

Hoffa didn't know how to explain it, and he didn't speak.

Dumbledore asked sternly, "Do you still have the strength?"

Hoffa nodded silently.

"Take her back and go to Dr. Reiner at the school hospital. I'll take care of things here. ”

With that, he handed Aglaea, who was already unconscious, to Hoffa.

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......

Five minutes later.

Hofa carried the unconscious Aglaia out of the Forbidden Forest and walked towards the school castle.

Along the way, he saw the castle brightly lit. The deans of the various colleges rushed to the scene of the incident with their faculty members and prefects.

Hoffa saw Professor Meles in Gryffindor, Slughorn in Slytherin, and Professor Heberau in Hufflepuff. Only Professor Goshawk was nowhere to be seen, nor did he see President Dippert.

Hoffa bypassed the crowd and carried Aglaia back to the castle by the path.

On the lawn of the castle, students from each house laughed and played with each other, enjoying their leisure time at the end of the day.

The air was filled with the faint scent of flowers and dead grass, and the cool breeze of late autumn nights contrasted with the thrilling misery outside.

They had no idea what was happening in the Forbidden Forest, and they had no idea that less than twenty kilometers from them there was an entire tribe of centaurs slaughtered.

But their happiness didn't infect Hoffa, who was full of worry, and he didn't know what was going on with Joey. I don't know what will happen to Aglaia, let alone where her fate will lead.

The school hospital has a dedicated tower, which is very remote from the main building. To the east of the castle.

By the time Hoffa walked to the school hospital, his tired legs were already weak. Due to the overdrawing of his magic, his head felt as if it had been split open by a giant axe.

Fortunately, the nurse at the school hospital had already received the news in advance and ran to pick him up from afar.

In his previous life, he only knew that the school doctor at Hogwarts had Madam Pomfrey, but now Hoffa has not seen her, and perhaps Madam Pomfrey is still studying now, or is still interning at a hospital.

Now in charge of the school hospital is a tall old man named Reiner, with gray hair and wearing a mask.

He just touched Aglaia's breath, then turned to the nurse and said, "Prepare an isolation room, bring these two people in, disinfect and check." ”

Hoffa said, "I'm not poisoned. ”

But Dr. Reiner ignored him and just glared at him.

After a series of embarrassing sterilizations and physical examinations, Hoffa was placed in a public ward.

He didn't have much physical loss, what really hurt him was his spirit, and the morbid excitement caused by the continuous overdraft of his magic power made him unable to sleep peacefully for two days.

In the past two days, he has a good understanding of what it means to be lonely. In his previous life, he saw that Harry would also get hurt, but every time he got hurt, a whole group of friends would come to see him.

And Hoffa, he just sat in bed for two days. In the past two days, except for a few nurses to change his dressing and send him some liquid food. He didn't see anyone.

Fortunately, he has the meditation method of Milarepa Walker, and he can constantly repair his mental damage caused by overdrawing his magic power, so that this time is not so difficult.

It wasn't until two days later that Miranda and a few of her roommates came to visit Hoffa.

They brought some candy and chocolate frogs to Hofa, and Miranda expressed shock at Hoffa's injury, saying that the school had blocked the news of his injury, and no one knew what had happened in the Forbidden Forest two nights earlier.

Compared to Miranda, who looked nervous, looking at the other two roommates, they seemed to care more about Aglaia's news than about Hoffa's body.

Miranda asks what happened in the Forbidden Forest, but Hoffa instinctively doesn't want anyone to know about that night.

So he said lightly that he just fell off the horse, and forgot all about the rest of the matter. This made Miranda sad.

"Hey, Hoffa, you've always been so mysterious. Miranda said.

Hoffa didn't know what to say, so he sent his friend away under the pretext that he wanted to sleep. He saw Miranda leave with a look of loss on his face.

That night, Hoffa had a good night's sleep.

The next day, when the sun came back into the hospital room, he saw that Aglaia had left the emergency room and was lying on the bed on his right. Fall asleep.

To his relief, Joey was lying on the bed to his left.

Although his face was blue and his expression was painful. But fortunately, there should be no danger of life.

"Are you awake?"

As soon as Hoffa breathed a sigh of relief, a voice came from beside him.

He was startled.

Only then did he realize that there was a person sitting in the visitation chair next to him.

Since the chair was in the shadows, he hadn't even seen it just now.

It was Dumbledore.

He crossed his hands on his knees and looked at Hoffa in silence.