Seeing that Rick was sure that the house-elves had met with an accident in the Forbidden Forest, Hagrid wondered if Aragog's descendants had really caught them.

If it was really Aragog's descendants, Hagrid felt his head wide, he couldn't imagine Dumbledore standing in front of him, and he couldn't get forgiveness for any reason.

Headmaster Dumbledore's disappointed look at him came to mind, and Hagrid shuddered that he wanted to avoid this from happening again.

With unease and other mixed emotions in mind, Hagrid decides to join Rick in the Forbidden Forest to find the missing house-elves.

......

"Harry, what's wrong? It's time for us to train! The game against Slytherin is just around the corner, and we've got to work hard! ”

Suddenly realizing that Harry was left behind, George loudly reminded him to hurry up and come to the Quidditch training ground.

"Oh, okay!"

Harry looked at the two figures entering the Forbidden Forest in the distance, and his heart was full of doubts, what were Professor Graves and Hagrid going to do when they suddenly entered the Forbidden Forest?

However, his teammates were waiting for his return, and he couldn't run to Rick's side right now and ask what they were going to do. I could only suppress the doubts in my heart and turned around and ran towards the players.

......

The sun was shining through the shade of the trees among the leaves, twinkling like stars in the sky.

A beautiful unicorn with a pure glow is nibbling on the green shoots.

It's so holy and beautiful that you can't have the slightest evil thought.

Whoa!

A small bird swept over the trees, causing the beast to raise its head and prick up its ears as it watched its surroundings warily.

The pupils warned the way ahead, and with a swish, it turned its head and fled into the depths of the Forbidden Forest.

The deaths of several of its companions last year had heightened its vigilance, and the slightest hint of wind and grass could make it feel that it was not safe here.

......

"Rick! See! It was a unicorn, and we were lucky enough to meet a unicorn as soon as we walked into the Forbidden Forest. You must know that because of the mysterious man, the unicorn has not been out of the depths of the Forbidden Forest for a long time. ”

Looking at the unicorn that had disappeared into the vast green, and the traces it left behind, Hagrid said happily to Rick in his deep voice.

"Lucky indeed, Rubeus. On our side, there are no such magical creatures at all. Once I saw this creature full of light and holy attributes, I thought it was destined for me! ”

Rick's eyes lit up, and the unicorn was a magical animal that was on the verge of extinction. In today's wizarding world, there are very few reports of unicorns being encountered in the wild.

In recent years, experts in magical biology have published papers stating that the number of unicorns is likely to be no more than 1,000.

If they are no longer protected by humans, they are likely to perish by the end of the twenty-first century.

Alice's secret garden seems to have a paradise for unicorns, but unfortunately she hasn't met a single unicorn so far. I guess if I gave her a pair of unicorns, she probably wouldn't be angry that I didn't go to Albania to find the mysterious creature. ’

Rick stared in the direction of the unicorn, already planning how to catch the two unicorns, preferably a male and a female who had just become adults. This way, when they arrive at Alice's secret garden, they can reproduce the next generation with peace of mind.

In a few more years, a few unicorns are captured from other places, and then this species will not be extinct under Alice's protection.

"Haha, Rick! You were kissed by Lady Luck. As soon as we entered the Forbidden Forest, we met unicorns, which meant that we would definitely find those house-elves this time. This is a mega..... It's a sign, no! It's an omen! ”

Hagrid laughed, and suddenly he stopped, crouched down cautiously, and reached into a pile of dead leaves with one hand and began to fumble.

In less than a few seconds, he slowly withdrew his hand from it, and the hand that was larger than an ordinary person clenched into a fist. He stood up, raised his hand to the branch above his head, and opened his palm, and a figure of a tree protector appeared.

It stood up and hugged Hagrid's thick thumb tightly with its branch-like hands, then reluctantly turned its head and climbed up the branch, running toward its companion.

The frequent, leaf-like organ on the top of the head is the most obvious evidence that it can be a cute magical animal.

"Hagrid, you remind me of a great expert in Magizoology. The writer of "Where the Fantastic Creatures Are Located", Mr. Newt Scamander. ”

Looking at Hagrid's rugged and huge body, he has a delicate heart for magical beasts. Rick couldn't help but imagine that if Hagrid didn't like dangerous magical beasts, he would be a magical animal expert like Scamander.

"Haha!"

Haidh blushed a little when Rick compared him to Newt Scamander, and in order to hide his embarrassment, he laughed a few times, so frightened that the tree guards on the trees hid under the leaves, revealing two small eyes to observe Hagrid.

"Senior Scamander is a great wizard who not only defeated the Dark Lord Grindelwald with Headmaster Dumbledore. A werewolf registry has also been established and a statute prohibiting feeding for experimental purposes has been introduced. He dedicated his life to protecting magical beasts......"

As Hagrid tells Rick about his idol's life, the two continue their journey.

"Traces revealed!"

A puff of golden smoke dispersed, revealing footprints.

Looking at the shadows of the footprints of countless animals, Rick shook his head in disappointment.

"Didn't you?"

Hagrid on the side looked at Rick observing the phantom manifestation of the stalking charm, and asked curiously.

"Nope."

"Can't these house-elves walk all the time, they have to walk for a while, using a phantom shifter. What a nasty guy! ”

Half an hour had passed since Yaya's previous footprints had been discovered, and Rick had deduced from the direction the house-elf Yaya had faced when they used the apparition to follow the Tracking Charm, and deduced that they must have come to this dark, damp forest.

This is because the huge trees here are covered with a wide variety of fungi. It is a place to collect edible mushrooms.

But Rick used the Stalking Charm six times here, and he couldn't find a single house-elf footprint within twenty-four hours.

This shows that Yaya and they have not come here at all, and they still need to go to other places where the fungi grow, to find these house elves.

"Keep looking."

......

Led by Hagrid, Rick decided to investigate the nearest mushroom growth site, after all, these house-elves had entered the Forbidden Forest with a mission to collect mushrooms.

They are bound to leave traces somewhere where there is a fungus growth.