Chapter 24: Ghosts

Hagrid was now in a trance.

"I see."

He muttered.

"There's one thing that wasn't meant to belong here."

Li Lin had to admire Hagrid's knowledge of the Forbidden Forest. He turned his head to look around, and suddenly noticed that the dog that had followed Hagrid had disappeared.

Hagrid paused for a moment, as if to calm down. Hagrid said.

"Alright, come with me, now you have to be careful."

So they moved forward again, only this time, more slowly than before, and everyone pricked up their ears to catch the slightest sound.

Then, in the open space ahead, you could clearly see something moving.

"Who's there?"

Hagrid shouted.

"Come out, I've got a weapon!"

The thing stepped into the clearing, and upon closer inspection, there was a man above the waist, with red hair and beard, but below the waist was a shiny brownish-red horse, with a long red tail trailing behind it.

It's a horse man, Li Lin knew in his heart.

"Oh, it was you, Ronan."

Hagrid breathed a sigh of relief and said,

"How are you?"

He stepped forward and shook hands with Ronan the centaur.

"Good evening, Hagrid." Ronan said hello. His voice was low and sad.

"Mars is so bright tonight that everything is turning upside down."

"yes."

Hagrid awkwardly agreed. Then he said solemnly.

"There's a bad guy in this forest that's moving around. You have to be careful. ”

Hagrid briefly answered Ronan's prophecy or divination from the centaurs, and then talked to himself. It seems that they are all used to it.

"Who are these two?" Ronan the centaur shifted his gaze.

This surprised Hagrid, the tribe of centaurs in the Forbidden Forest never cared about human names. They don't even want to see humans unless they have to.

But surprised to be surprised, he also began to introduce.

"Oh, these two are students from that school above, they are called. What's your name? ”

Clearly, Hagrid didn't know them.

Li Lin lowered his head slightly and bowed.

"I'm Sole Lin Lovegood. Good evening Mr. Ronan. ”

Then he turned his head to look at Malfoy, who clearly didn't want to speak.

"This is Draco Malfoy."

"Good evening." Ronan said.

"Are you students? Did you learn a lot in school?"

"Well, it's a lot." Li Lin reluctantly said that he had learned a variety of ways to write homework after class, but he still had no clue whether the spell was put until now.

"I've learned a lot, that's pretty good."

Ronan sighed. He tilted his head and stared at the sky.

"Mars is really bright tonight, it's really fate-driven."

"Uh, yes."

Hagrid continued to talk awkwardly, and he glanced up at the sky. Then he continued.

"Listen to me, Ronan, I'm glad we met you, because one of the unicorns was injured, and well, did you see anything?"

Ronan didn't answer. He stared up without blinking, then sighed.

"It's always the innocent who suffer first."

He said.

"It's been this way for hundreds of years, and it's still happen."

"yes."

Hagrid said. Li Lin had already slapped one hand on his forehead, and such a conversation made him unable to complain. He turned his attention to Malfoy, who had calmed down.

"But do you see anything, Ronan? See something unusual?"

"Mars is bright tonight."

Ronan repeated, as if he hadn't heard Hagrid's question.

Hagrid looked at him impatiently.

"Unusually bright." Ronan said.

Hagrid, too, was a little impatient. He stamped his foot.

"Yes, it's bright, it's good, but I mean, there's nothing unusual about it near your tribe."

Hagrid said.

"Didn't you notice some strange movements?"

Ronan was slow to answer. His gaze moved back and forth on Malfoy, Li Lin's face. Finally, he said.

"There are many secrets hidden in the forest."

There was a sudden movement in the bushes behind Ronan, and the second centaur, with black hair and a black body, looked a little rougher than Ronan.

"Hello, Bane,"

Hagrid said.

"How are you doing?"

"Good evening, Hagrid, I hope you're doing well."

"It's okay. Look, I was asking Ronan if you've seen anything weird here lately? There's a unicorn that's hurt, do you know something?"

Bane walked over and stood beside Ronan, also looking up at the sky.

"Mars is bright tonight." That's what he said. Li Lin rolled his eyes when he heard this, he tugged at Malfoy's sleeve, compared to the unnutritious conversation of the horse people, he would rather have a conversation with Malfoy.

Over there, Hagrid was already a little furious.

"Malfoy, darkness has come. I mean are you willing to throw yourself into the light? ”

Malfoy was stunned for a moment, and then he looked at Li Lin's expression a little distorted.

"What are you talking about?"

"No, nothing."

Li Lin shook his head with a smile and denied his words. He knew that the more this was the case, the more others would remember it once they were curious, and the more they would scratch their brains to think about it.

Malfoy was about to ask if Hagrid had returned, and he looked like he was thunderous and impatient. Apparently no useful clues were taken from the centaurs.

So, they continued to weave through the dense, pitch-black, boundless woods.

The sound of the surrounding leaves rustling in the wind. There was silence.

Together, they walked towards the center of the Forbidden Forest. No one on the road spoke anymore, they were all listening with their ears pricked up, on guard.

They walked for nearly half an hour, deeper and deeper into the forest, and the trees became extremely dense, and the path was no longer passable, but the blood reached this place and disappeared.

Either the wounded unicorn is healed and no longer bleeds, or it is dead.

Their eyes searched around, and then they saw something white glistening on the ground.

Little by little I approached it, yes, it was the unicorn, it was dead. Whether it is in myths and legends or in novels, it has been described and embellished a lot. The unicorn I see now, even if he is dead, can feel his extraordinary charm.

That represents light, it represents purity.

"Be careful."

Li Lin only had time to say a word when he heard a sliding sound.

A bush shook at the edge of the clearing, and then, from the shadows, a hooded figure crawled slowly on the ground like a approaching beast.

"Darkness, death." Li Lin said this, took two steps back, and at the same time, took out the gun from his leather pocket.

He said to himself in his heart that the Horcruxes had not been destroyed, and that Voldemort was immortal, but that it would be able to quiet him for a while.

He raised his gun and aimed it at the dark shadow.

"Ahhh!!hhh

Malfoy next to him let out a terrible scream, and he ran away, which instantly attracted the dark shadow. The hooded figure looked up.

It stood up.

The first thing that hit him was Hagrid's arrow, but as soon as it passed through, the black shadow in front of him was actually disembodied, which was beyond Li Lin's expectations, he thought that Quirrell's action in Voldemort's body possessed by Quirrell would be exercised, but he didn't expect to get out of Quirrell's body and wander in the way of a ghost.

Since it is not an entity, the attack is useless, in order to avoid exposure Li Lin withdrew the gun, he opened the pocket filled with water, and in an instant, a clear stream of water gushed out, and in an instant, it turned into ice.

Hagrid roared angrily, but he didn't have a wand for a long time, his wand was broken, and although he hid it in an umbrella, he didn't bring an umbrella with him when he entered the Forbidden Forest.

The black shadow raised his hand, although he could only see the outline, but he could also see the black shadow's movements clearly by relying on the outline, and he raised his hand aimed at Hagrid, after all, Hagrid's size was really huge compared to Li Lin.

Li Lin sighed, the water spread towards Hagrid's position, and there was ice in a piece, even if he broke through the third order of the magic vortex, he didn't have the confidence to attack a creature without a body.

Because, he said that the embodied character ability originated from a novel in the high-dimensional world, and there was no such thing as a soul in the tone of the whole novel, so it is not known at all whether the ability he manifested had an offensive effect on the soul.

Li Lin made up his mind to return to Hogwarts. Be sure to find Peeves to test the test. But now all he can do is protect, or defend.

Then, a cold, green light appeared, shooting at Hagrid, Li Lin's fingers moved, Hagrid's water instantly bounced, into ice, and then it was under Hagrid's feet, and at the same time twitched to the right, Hagrid was like standing on a skateboard, the whole person to the right, slid about a meter. Hagrid didn't stand still either, and fell to the ground. The light didn't hit Hagrid.

"Oh my God, Merlin's beard! What's going on? ”

Hagrid was yelling, he didn't know what was going on. In fact, from Li Lin's point of view, even if the magic hits Hagrid, it will basically not have much impact, half of Hagrid's giant blood ensures his magic resistance, and at the same time, the magic emitted by Voldemort without a wand will still be a problem.

Li Lin, who was about to continue to do something, heard the sound of horses' hooves running behind him, his hand immediately pressed down, and all the ice was reduced to water, and in the dense forest, where thick leaves were accumulated, and more than a foot of dirt was cut down, and the water disappeared in an instant.

Li Lin looked back, and sure enough, it was a horse man. The unidentified centaur lunged at the figure.

Li Lin was not worried about the outcome of the battle, Voldemort was just a ghost, he didn't even have a wand, Li Lin looked left and right, and did not find Malfoy. can only pray silently for him in his heart.

Looking ahead, the hooded figure was gone.

A centaur stood beside him, not Ronan or Bane.

The centaur looked younger. His hair is white-blonde and has the body of a silver-maned horse.

"Hagrid, are you alright?"

The man stretched out his hand and tried in vain to get Hegla up, but he tried several times, but without success.

Hagrid got up on his own.

Said.

"It's okay, thank you, Ferenze. What was that?"

Ferenze did not answer.

His eyes are blue, like pale sapphires. He looked at Li Lin, stared at it for a moment, and then moved his gaze to Hagrid.

"Hagrid, it's not safe in the forest at this time, you know, Mars is getting brighter, and the elders are more stubborn, but let me say it, you'd better inform your headmaster so that you can deal with things in the forest faster."

Ferenze turned to leave, and when he left again, he turned his head to look at Li Lin.

"Good luck, friend."

"The stars of destiny are shining, and under the guidance of fate, the future has gone to extremes, two extremes, but we still hope that destiny is real." ”

With that, he ran again and disappeared into the jungle.

When something happened, the two began to return, and Hagrid only looked at the road for a while, then burrowed into a dense jungle and took out the dog. And then keep walking.

Then he found Malfoy, shivering by a tree, his robes were torn in places, and it looked like he might have been attacked by the animal in the jungle, but fortunately his wand was still in his hand, and if he lost it, it would be easy to find.

Li Lin saw that Malfoy's body had no obvious external injuries, so he helped Malfoy up, and everyone left the Forbidden Forest together.

When Li Lin returned to the castle and returned to the Ravenclaw lounge, he saw a mountain of books piled up in the corner, and Hermione lying asleep next to her.

Li Lin sighed, and he first took out a robe from his leather pocket and put it on Hermione.

Then I rummaged through my leather pocket for a long time and found something like a clock.

Placed on the table, he tapped his wand and the clock made the hands that had been static turn rapidly, and then stopped.

Li Lin looked at the time, and it showed two o'clock, so he reached out and patted Hermione.