At the beginning of the next day, when the Gryffindor students learned their score, they thought it was wrong: how could they suddenly be a full 150 points less than they were yesterday? Then rumors began to spread: Harry Potter, the brilliant Harry Potter, the hero of their two Quidditch matches, and two other stupid first-year students who had been caught for night out, contributed minus 50 points each. Harry suddenly went from being Gryffindor's most popular and beloved character to being the most hated person at once.

Besides Hermione, who is the other? It was Neville, who probably knew something from the conversation between Aitch and Malfoy, and wanted to remind Harry, but instead did something bad.

It was already terrible that Harry couldn't find the cloak of invisibility, but aside from the deduction of points, their punishment was soon there, and a small note was placed on their desk:

Your punishment will begin at 11 o'clock tonight. Go to the lobby and find Mr. Filch.

Professor McGonagall

At eleven o'clock that night, Harry and the others said goodbye to Ron in the common room and walked together to the lobby. Filch was already there, with Malfoy by his side.

Filch wore the miner's hat that Aitch had given him, "I bet you're going to be thinking about how to break school discipline again, right?" Hum! ”

He glanced at them and continued, "That's right...... Diligence and hardship are the best teachers, dare I say it...... It's a shame that they abolished those old punishments...... I should have tied your arms and hung you for a few days—I still have that chain in my office, and I've oiled it up and kept it for the time when I'm going to need it...... Don't try to run away, that will only make your situation worse. ”

"Hey, Mr. Filch, long time no see. The little gift I gave you last time was not bad. From the corner of the hallway, there was a greeting, and several people knew who it was, and only a few people at Hogwarts would speak so kindly to Filch, but it seemed that only one would send him something.

"Yes, Mr. Edge, I'm glad to see you in the evening." Filch was completely out of step with the man who had just reprimanded Harry, "The one who can make 'clear water!'" 'The bucket was really nice and yes, very handy. ”

Filch turned his head back to a vicious look, "You should be glad that Mr. Aitch will ask to go with you." Now, everyone is here, and they all follow me. ”

They walked through the courtyard. Along the way, Harry was guessing what kind of punishment they would receive. That must have been terrifying, otherwise Filch wouldn't have been so elated when he brought it up. But with Aitch there, everyone felt a little relieved.

The moon was very clear, but a few clouds passed by, and they were suddenly plunged into darkness. Harry could see the light from the windows of Hagrid's hut ahead. Then they heard a call in the distance. "Is that you, Filch? Hurry up, I'm going to get to work. ”

Harry's heart sank, if they were to work with Hagrid, it wouldn't be too bad.

His ease may have been shown on his face, as Filch said, "I guess you think you're going to get along well with this idiot, right?" Hah, think about it, little ones—you're making your way to the Forbidden Forest, and if you can get out of it all the time, I'm very wrong. “

Hearing this, Neville let out a low, strange scream, and Malfoy stood still. "To the Forbidden Forest?" He repeated, but had lost his usual composure. "We can't go there at night - there's a lot of weird stuff there - there's werewolves, I've heard."

But it didn't work for him to move out of his father's name, "This is Hogwarts." If you don't want to be kicked out, you have to accept punishment. Hagrid's words blocked Malfoy's excuse for delay.

Hagrid led them to the edge of the Forbidden Forest, held up the lamp in his hand, and pointed to a narrow path that zigzagged into the dense pitch black woods. Just as they looked into the forest, a faint cold wind ruffled their hair.

"Look there," said Hagrid, "see that thing that twinkles on the ground?" Something with a silvery sheen, that's unicorn blood. There's a unicorn there that doesn't know what has been hurt. This is the second time in a week. I also found one dead last Wednesday. We're going to find that poor wounded guy now. We're going to help it relieve its pain if we need it. ”

"But what if the thing that hurt the unicorn meets us first?" Malfoy asked, unable to hide the fear in his voice.

"Then go behind me." Edge's confidence soothed the tremor of his voice.

"Now we're split into two teams......" Hagrid interrupted before he could finish, "but we're just trying to find the injured unicorn, aren't we?" He whistled loudly, and made a strange sound in his mouth, "Chirp." The leaves and wind in the Forbidden Forest began to rattle, and countless wings "fluttered". The woods paused for a moment, and then echoed back as noisily.

"Alright, let's go, I know where." Aitch led the half-believing them to the left branch of the road.

"What are you doing here?" Hermione was intrigued by Edge's eccentric practices and inexplicable self-confidence.

"The lingua franca of birds. I asked all the birds in the Forbidden Forest to help, they flew fast and a lot, and they said there was an injured unicorn here. As Aitch explained, he urged them to speed up.

"Aitch can also speak birds!" Harry whispered to Neville.

"What's this? I've heard that Mr. Barty Crouch, the current director of the Department of International Magical Exchange and Cooperation, knows a hundred foreign languages, but I just picked the bird language and the snake language. Aitch ran ahead, still hearing Harry's words.

They walked for about half an hour, deeper and deeper into the forest, and the path became more and more difficult to follow as the trees grew thicker and thicker. You can see that the blood on the ground has become thicker. There was a lot of blood splattered on the roots of a tree, and it seemed that the poor thing had struggled in pain around here. Through a mess of oak branches, everyone saw a clearing in front of them.

"Look!" Aitch whispered, reaching out to stop the group as they continued to move forward.

There was a bright white mass lying on the ground and shining. Everyone moved a little closer to it.

That's right, a unicorn, but dead, a beautiful and sad corpse. Its slender legs still maintained the strange posture they had fallen into, and its silver-white mane shimmered with a pearlescent sheen that spread across the ground.

A masked shadow slowly crawled out of the darkness, freeing itself from a beast in disguise. The shadow came to the unicorn, lowered its head, leaned over the unicorn's wounds, and began to suck its blood.

"Hagrid called!" Aitch took a step toward the shadow, and at the same time, a large red smoot exploded over the Forbidden Forest. Poor Harry was too frightened to move. A sharp pain stabbed into his head at this time, as if to put a scar in a fire. His eyes were already blurry with pain, and he just staggered back a few steps and hid behind Hagrid's massive body with the others.

The moment Aiqi rushed out, he applied the Iron Armor Curse, and in line with the principle of striking first, he gave the "Shadow" a death curse "Avada Suo!" ”

The opponent was a very experienced fellow, and even after sucking the blood of the unicorn, he did not give up his vigilance, and he rolled smoothly, letting Edge's spell fail. Then the counterattack began, this guy's silent spell technique was very good, it was a green spell that made people's scalp tingle at the sight of it, "Avada suo!" "Faster and greener than Edge's.

"Ahh - "The few people hiding in the bushes were terrified when they saw the magic coming at Edge, and Malfoy's screams were even more terrifying. This undoubtedly exposes their existence.

The shadow was intent on leaving no one alive, and one spell forced Aitch away, and the next death curse was directed at the first-graders.

Hagrid used his wand, (in fact, the umbrella he never left to his side), to add a layer of protection in front of several people, like an eggshell in the glow of the green light of the Death Curse.

But Hagrid's wand had been broken, and its magic had weakened considerably, and the eggshell began to shatter under the power of the Death Curse. Malfoy screamed, running backwards as fast as he could.

But at this moment, enough for Aitch to react, he grabbed a mouse from his pocket, topped the death curse with the levitation charm, and then began to perform a gong to interrupt his opponent's casting. The death curse has rats as substitutes for the dead ghosts, and the follow-up weakness quickly dissipates into the black night.

The Forbidden Forest's fighting tactics soon recruited Hagrid's helpers, the heads of the three. In the face of the menacing them, "that shadow" jumped into the depths of the Forbidden Forest in recognition of each other, like his death curse, and disappeared.