After a long and thrilling night, Harry Potter woke up the next morning to see the Durmstrang exchange students in the hall, sitting at the Gryffindor table, and even hearing the conversation coming from across the three as they ate.

"Hey! Do you know? There is an interesting forest behind this school. A large wizard whispered.

"What is this school called? It's Hogwarts! Hermione whispered to the trio with some indignation, "They're rude! ”

Harry turned his head and saw the little man (Yakov) on the dueling platform in the sky with a sworn expression on his face and said to the big man who had just spoken, "It is the Forbidden Forest, it is forbidden to this school, it is said that it has a very long history, and there are many kinds of magical creatures living there...... There's a lot of weird stuff out there - werewolves, I've heard. ”

"Werewolf!" The Durmstrang exchange students exclaimed under their voices.

It reminded Harry of his first night in contact with the Forbidden Forest, when Neville said the same, but Neville said it with tears and fear, his voice like his throat was choked. And these Durmstrang exchange students are full of anticipation and extremely excited to mention the legend of the werewolf in the Forbidden Forest.

Harry Potter heard a very familiar flavor in this tone, the most familiar thing for Gryffindor - the harbinger of trouble.

"Cool!" Yakov exclaimed: "Are they here to protect the werewolves?" We in Russia don't know how to protect werewolves, I heard my dad say that at his time, werewolves in Siberia and Ukraine were still very common, and then they gradually disappeared! ”

"Killed by Muggles!" His big man companion added.

"Muggles are terrible...... Back then, the Muggles would go into the forest in the winter with guns on their backs, hunt bears and werewolves, and they would find werewolves who had nowhere to feed in the winter, usually in a group, led by alpha-headed wolves, and then kill them all, and pull off the werewolves' skins to make their jackets. The big man added.

"It is said that there are many other protected magical animals in the Forbidden Forest, centaurs and unicorns, eight-eyed spiders, and hippogriffs...... That's amazing! Keep these critters at the back of the school, not far from the school...... How nice it would be if we could do the same for Durmstrang! Yakov exclaimed sincerely.

Hermione finally interjected, "You know about the Forbidden Forest, but you don't know how dangerous it is...... Those dangerous magical beasts......"

"Dangerous?" Yakov nodded: "It's really dangerous...... We don't want to get caught by the professor and the Ministry of Magic, because the magical beast protection laws here are very strict, and those magical beasts are in very dangerous situations...... Many are dying! Tall, muscular centaurs, werewolves that go crazy on a full moon night, and trolls, the biggest of the trolls! ”

"Oh my God! My dream is to be able to hunt a mountain monster! A stout Slav was pleasantly surprised: "I've had enough of the fishy and slippery stuff of deep divers!" A mountain monster...... I can have its head set in the wall next to the fireplace in my house. ”

"It's illegal to hunt mountain monsters!" Yakov warned him.

"So I just wanted to play with it!"

Hermione's warning didn't have any effect, and it seemed that Durmstrandt's exchange students were only more fascinated until breakfast was over, and they were still chattering about the wonderful magical beasts, their fangs, claws, venom, and lethality, and Harry felt as if five or six Hagrids had come together, all eyes glowing.

"They're going to go to the Forbidden Forest tonight!" Hermione concluded.

Both Harry and Ron agreed with her, but Hermione continued, "So we're going to tell Professor McGonagall!" ”

"How can that be?" Ron almost jumped: "I'm not a traitor, think about it if we were on a night tour and someone told the professor...... I'm going to break up with him! ”

"But you don't have any friendship with them." Hermione calmly pointed out.

"Then it's not our turn to snitch!" Ron was indignant when he said, "There are too many people like you...... Only tell the professor, report to the professor. Gryffindor is never afraid ......"

"If we don't tell the professor...... Then they might die! Hermione said heavily.

"I think ......," Ron said eagerly, "we should follow them and keep them safe, we were to the Forbidden Forest last time, and we have time to stop them this time!" ”

Hermione understood as soon as she saw Harry's eyes, and she said nervously, "Harry, you're not going to agree with him, are you?" ”

When night fell, the Gryffindor's common room gradually fell silent, and the door to Harry's dormitory opened silently, and at the door of the common room, the fat woman was sleeping, she was woken up and exclaimed, "Who is it?" Who's there? But the door was empty, and the faint sound of feet rubbing against the ground continued into the hallway, where Hermione suddenly came out of the side and said into the empty air, "I knew you weren't going to give up." ”

A human head suddenly popped into the air, and Ron whispered, "Hermione? How did you discover us? ”

Hermione sneered, "You're stepping on the salt on the ground!" Ron then noticed that there was a line of salt sprinkled on the ground, and Hermione explained as she took the lead, "Salt has an indissoluble bond with wizards in Muggle culture, they believe that salt is sacred, that it can ward off evil spirits, and that it can keep demons at bay...... That's probably why. ”

"It can be used to make something invisible visible...... Muggles use it to protect themselves. ”

When Harry and the others arrived at Hagrid's cabin in front of the Forbidden Forest, they had no trouble spotting the Durmstrang students, four of them, escaping from the Hogwarts castle as quickly as possible, and Hermione was the first to meet them.

"Hey! Look, what did I find? A group of like-minded people! Yakov was overjoyed.

The big man opened his arms: "Welcome to our Forbidden Forest Expedition Team!" ”

"I'm not here to join you." Hermione said indignantly, "Do you know how dangerous it is here? Werewolves will bite your throats, and eight-eyed spiders will inject venom into your body. ”

"Eight-eyed spider?" Ron screamed.

Harry hurriedly covered his mouth and whispered, "Don't wake Hagrid!" The Durmstrang students also whispered, "It's not safe here, let's go, let's go in." ”

Hermione's eyes widened to retort, but Harry had already dragged the struggling Ron into the Forbidden Forest, and Ron exclaimed, "You didn't tell me there were spiders in the Forbidden Forest!" ”