Chapter 890: Yeqi
In fact, there was nothing around, and most of the people stopped to look at Hagrid in bewilderment.
Ron was still staring around the woods, and after a few seconds, he asked Harry in a low voice, "Why didn't Hagrid shout anymore?"
Van Lin then realized that there are some things that cannot be observed with the eyes, because they will deceive you, like an invisible beast, maybe Hagrid has prepared something amazing.
"Yeqi?"
Van Lin looked at Hagrid in some surprise, he could spot these guys, but not as clearly as Harry, after all, it was just a magical perception.
However, not everyone has such abilities, just like Ron, who still doesn't understand what happened.
In fact, Harry felt a pang of comfort. At least this was evidence that he hadn't fantasized about the creatures, and they were real: in addition to Van Lin and Luna, Hagrid knew about them.
Most of the students had the same expressions as Ron: confused and nervously expectant, still looking around but not noticing the horses that were only a foot away from them.
Aside from Harry and Van Lin, only two other people seemed to be able to see them: a slender Slindrin boy standing behind Goyle watching the horse eat, a look of disgust on his face, and Neville, his eyes moving to the long black tail.
"Oh, here's another one!" said Hagrid proudly, as a second black horse emerged from the black woods, folded its leathery wings close to his body, and lowered his head to devour.
"Now...... Hold your hands up, who can see it?"
Harry held up his hand, glad he was finally about to learn the secret about the horses. Hagrid nodded at him.
"Right...... yes, I know you can see that, Harry," he said solemnly. "You can too, Neville, huh? and Van Lin...... You ......"
"Oh, I can see that too. Fan Lin nodded as a matter of course.
"Okay, then ......"
"Excuse me," Malf said in a mocking tone, "what the hell are we supposed to be watching?"
In response, Hagrid pointed to the carcass of a cow on the ground. The class stared at each other for a few seconds, then some of them gasped in surprise and Attila screamed. Harry knew why: the pieces of flesh seemed to come out of the bones and then disappear into the thin air, looking so strange.
"What is here?" Attila asked fearfully, hiding behind the nearest tree, "what is eating meat?"
"Nightmae!" Hagrid said proudly, and Hermione let out a soft cry over Harry's shoulder, "Oh!" in understanding.
"There's a big bunch at Hogwarts. Now, who knows ......?"
"But they are very, very inauspicious!" Attila interrupted, looking wary. "They will bring all sorts of bad luck to those who see them. Professor Trawney once told meβ"
"No, no, no," Hagrid chuckled, "that's just superstition, the truth is, they're not unlucky, they're very smart and useful!, of course, they don't have a lot of work, their main job is to pull the school carriage, and when Dumbledore doesn't want to go to a faraway place himself...... Here's another pair, look at ......"
Hagrid was very happy, and he smiled like a child of more than four hundred pounds.
Two more horses came out of the woods quietly, one of them was very close to Attila as it passed, she trembled, brought herself closer to the stump, and said, "I think I feel something, I think it's close to me!"
"Don't worry, she won't hurt you," Hagrid said patiently. "Well, now who can tell me why some people can see and others can't?"
Hermione, of course, raised her hand.
"Say it," Hagrid said with a smile.
"The only people who can see Yeqi," she said, "are people who have seen death." β
"Exactly," Hagrid said solemnly, "give Green an extra ten."
"So, who else knows anything else?" Hagrid asked in a loud voice.
"They also have a good sense of direction and just need to tell them where it is. Van Lin returned.
In fact, in Van Lin's view, Yeqi is more like a patchwork creature, with a head like a dragon's head, a body like a horse, a pair of bat-like wings, and silvery-white eyes with no pupils.
Speaking of which, Yeqi is also a kind of Pegasus, which is more convenient to understand, Yeqi's close relatives are those rune horses who pull the cart for Beauxbaton, but unlike the noble elegance of rune horses, only those who have seen death and truly understand death can see Thestrals.
They resembled reptiles in form, with huge black horse bodies, no flesh at all, black fur clinging to the bones, and the bones were clearly visible, so to speak, skinny, at least, as these lived at Hogwarts looked like, like winged skeleton warhorses, with wings growing in the bulges between the shoulder bones.
There is a superstition among wizards that Thestrals will bring terrible disasters to those who see them, and that they are an unlucky animal.
And in fact they are very useful, Yeqi's sense of direction is amazingly good, just tell them the destination, no matter where you want to go, you will be sent to where you want to go, and Yeqi is also a very perfect mount, and does not want to be the unruly rune horse, Yeqi's temperament is more docile, easy to tame, and very easy to find.
When Yeqi smells blood, they gather together.
Most importantly, Yeqi's tail hair is also an extremely precious wand core, and they seem to be able to bring a special power to the wand due to being inseparable from death.
However, because of the nature of Yeqi, few people can see it, especially now.
It's not difficult to find Yeqi, you only need a keen sense of magic, and naturally, you can feel the mysterious energy that lingers.
However, it is precisely because of this that keen perception seems to be a luxury, and more than that, it is death that is needed, so in the mouths of some prophets, Yeqi becomes the embodiment of death, and superstitious people consider this creature to be very unlucky, and will bring all the terrible calamities to those who see them, and it is a bad omen.
It's the same as the black dog.
"I saw an ominous ...... in your teacup" Van Lin suddenly thought of the first lesson Professor Trawney had given them in their third year, it was definitely a wave of death announcements, at least, it scared a lot of people, and if Professor McGonagall hadn't stood up, I believe Professor Trawney would have been able to bluff much longer.