Chapter 60: The Hooded Monster
"Hagrid, look! it's a red spark! Neville, they're in trouble!" Hermione shouted, pointing to the spark rising in the air. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
Hagrid had apparently seen the spark as well, and his face changed dramatically, and he said to Al and them with a serious expression, "You guys are waiting here!
Al watched as Hagrid crackled through the low bushes, like a stout bison, toward Neville and them.
The leaves around him rustled in the wind, and because Harry couldn't see Al and Hermione, he felt like he was the only one left in the whole world, and his heart was beating and he asked with some fear, "Shall we go along and have a look?"
Al shook his head, but remembered that Harry couldn't see him, and quickly added, "Since Hagrid let us stay here and wait, then we had better not move, it's too dark, we are not familiar with the environment here, and if we have any accidents, it will be bad." ”
"You say, they won't get hurt, right?" asked Hermione in a whisper.
"I don't care if Malfoy is injured. Harry said, "But if something happens to Neville...... That's our fault, we dragged him down and punished him to get here. ”
Time passed slowly, and their ears seemed much sharper than usual, as if they could catch every sigh of the wind, and every branch breaking.
Finally, with a loud crunch, they knew it was Hagrid back.
Hagrid walked in front with an angry face, Neville, Malfoy, and Tooth followed him as they made their way through the trees to El and them.
Hagrid seemed to be annoyed, and when Harry asked Neville, they had a rough idea of what had happened from Neville's staccato words.
It turned out that Malfoy had played a prank, and he sneaked behind Neville and hugged him.
This frightened Neville, and he fired red sparks.
"You two have made such a fuss, and now, it's all up to luck for us to catch that thing!" Hagrid glared at Malfoy with dissatisfaction, "Alright, let's change the team, Neville is with me." Harry, you and Toothtooth, and this idiot group. ”
Malfoy looked at Hagrid angrily, clearly unhappy that he had called himself an idiot.
Now that they've regrouped, Al and Hermione obviously can't walk with Hagrid or Harry again.
When Hagrid and the others were far away, the path fell into endless darkness.
"What are we going to do now? are we still following them?" asked Hermione.
"Well, we're also helping Hagrid find the unicorn, so it's a little quicker. Al nodded, then stretched out his wand.
"Fluorescent flicker!"
As soon as Al's words fell, a faint blue glow erupted from the tip of his wand, which was not very bright, but still allowed them to see their surroundings clearly.
Al and Hermione followed the path and continued towards the heart of the Forbidden Forest, where they walked for nearly half an hour, getting deeper and deeper into the forest, until the trees became so dense that the path was almost impassable.
There were silvery white blood stains everywhere on the ground, and it was clear that the injured unicorn had been stumbling around since last night.
There was a lot of blood splattered on the roots of a tree, and it seemed that the unicorn had writhed and struggled in pain in the vicinity.
Through the tangled branches of the ancient tree, Al could see not far in front of them, where Harry and Malfoy were crouching, staring ahead.
Al followed Harry's gaze, and in a clearing in front of them, a white object was glittering on the ground.
Al made a silent gesture to Hermione, and then he extinguished the light of his wand, and with Hermione, Harry and Malfoy, little by little, they approached the clearing.
As Al had guessed, the white thing was a unicorn, but it was dead. The unicorn's slender legs remained in the position it had fallen, unnaturally straight, and its mane lay on the pitch-black leaves, white as pearls.
They had barely taken a few steps towards the unicorn when a sudden sliding sound forced them to stop and stand still.
A bush at the edge of the clearing was shaking...... Then, from the shadows flashed a hooded figure, crawling slowly on the ground, like a approaching beast.
The hooded figure came up to the unicorn, lowered his head, aimed at the wound on the side of the unicorn's corpse, and began to drink its blood!
Everyone stood there dumbfounded, all frightened by the sudden appearance of the monster and what it had done.
"Ahhhh......hh
Malfoy let out a terrible scream and ran, Tooth and Tooth fleeing after him.
Malfoy's voice not only woke up El and them, but even the hooded monster raised its head and looked at them.
As if frightened, Harry staggered back several steps, covering his forehead and staring straight at the monster.
The hooded monster saw Harry clearly, stood up, and walked quickly towards Harry.
"Malfoy, idiot!" Al cursed, though the hooded monster couldn't see him and Hermione, he couldn't leave Harry alone.
Al reached out an arm from under the Cloak of Invisibility and raised his wand in the air, firing a red spark into the sky.
Startled by the sudden spark, the hooded monster stopped to look up, but found nothing but trees.
Just as El was about to make a move, he heard the sound of horses' hooves running behind them, and something passed them, and then jumped over Harry's head and pounced on the hooded monster.
It was a centaur, but it was neither Ronan nor Bane, and it looked younger than they were, with white-blond hair and a silver-maned horse's body.
The hooded monster saw the centaur appear, and seemed to have no intention of confronting the centaur, and it recoiled and fled the way it came.
The centaur didn't seem to have any intention of chasing after him, and after banishing the hooded monster, he went straight to Harry.
"Are you alright?" asked the centaur as he pulled Harry to his feet.
"I'm fine...... Thank you, what was that?" Harry asked, rubbing his forehead.
The centaur didn't answer, its eyes strikingly blue, like faint sapphires, and it looked at Harry carefully, its gaze resting on the stark, protruding scar on Harry's forehead.
"You're the Potter boy?"