In the early morning, the sky above Hogwarts Castle faded, the light of the stars gradually dimmed, and a ray of sunlight quietly shone through the clouds in the sky, obliquely shining in the dense Forbidden Forest.

However, the Forbidden Forest of Hogwarts is not as peaceful as it seems, and the atmosphere in its depths is extremely solemn and tense.

"Hagrid, you now look down and look at your friends, look at Ronan's painful look!" Bane stared at Hagrid's unshaven face and asked sharply, "Do you still think that such a cruel being is just a harmless Hogwarts professor?" ”

Hagrid hesitated, but then realized that Dracula was Dumbledore's trusted man, and that the centaurs were in fact just outsiders.

His eyes were steadfast and he wanted to defend Dracula.

Hagrid and Bane quarreled, but they didn't say anything about Bane because of his clumsy tongue and red neck.

In the end, he reluctantly gave up the language communication with the centaurs, and rolled up his sleeves to prepare for a big fight with Bane.

At this moment, the encirclement of the centaurs silently parted a passage.

"Enough, Bane!"

A horseman of exceptional appearance approached the passage and spoke in a gentle but suppressed angry voice.

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

"Why are you here, Ferenze?" Bane asked, looking at the centaur in confusion.

"It's us who do it first, Bane, and there's no need to be self-reckless if your skills aren't as good as others." The platinum-haired centaur named Ferenze didn't answer Bane's question and cut straight to the point, "War is coming, and we can't impose crimes that don't belong to others because of the preconceptions that have been formed, which will only benefit our real enemy!" ”

"Do you know what you're talking about, Ferenze?" Bane said angrily, "Remember, Ferenze, we swore that we must not disobey the will of heaven!" Don't you see the signs of the planets' tracks? ”

Hearing this, Ronan, who was still on the ground, raised his eyes to look at Dracula, his face became a little uneasy, and he kept scraping the snow on the ground with his hooves.

I don't know what mechanism Bane's words touched, Ferenze's face instantly sank, and he was so angry that he suddenly stood up on his hind legs.

"Didn't you see the unicorn?" He changed his previous gentle tone and roared to Bane, "Don't you understand why it was killed? Now I really suspect that you are too stupid to see the secrets revealed in the planet's trajectory! ”

"I'm going to have to resist that guy lurking in our forest, Bane. Yes, if necessary, I will stand by any race that may be connected! ”

After saying that, Ferenze ignored Bane and walked straight to Dracula, who was surrounded by centaurs.

"Professor, please spare Ronan once, and I will guarantee that you leave the Forbidden Forest safely." He bowed slightly to Dracula, then looked thoughtfully into Dracula's eyes.

"Ferenze, you'd better know what you're doing!" Seeing this, Bane continued to snap, "What does that have to do with us? Centaurs have always been neutral and only concerned with astrological prophecies! We don't have to go against the principles of the race and associate ourselves with evil creatures in order to fight the enemies of the wizards! ”

However, Ferenze didn't bother to pay attention to him at this time, and just stared directly at Dracula's burgundy pupils with eyes that were surprisingly blue, like faint sapphires.

Looking at the unusual centaur in front of him, Dracula chuckled softly.

"I didn't expect this stubborn old race to have such an interesting centaur as you." He glanced around at the nervous horses around him, chuckled and said to Ferenze, "For your sake, this matter will be here today." Of course, if there is a next time, I will not leave any affection. ”

At the last sentence, Dracula's tone became extremely cold.

Bane opened his mouth in annoyance, trying to utter a few more words of rebuke and mockery, but suddenly he noticed a tiny bat with sharp teeth flapping its wings and flying over the Forbidden Forest.

He felt an aura of extreme darkness and danger from the bat's teeth, but he had no previous awareness of it.

As the first tiny bat flew away, the sound of its wings vibrating was heard incessantly. Countless smiling bats flew into the sky above the Forbidden Forest, where a faint amount of sunlight shone through, and dissipated into powder in the sunlight.

Bane noticed that each bat flew out of the centaur's ear. None of the centaurs were left behind, and each had a bat to match.

He looked at the sharp teeth of these bats, felt their dark aura, and was terrified in his heart, and subconsciously looked at Ronan lying on the ground with an inquiring eye.

I saw Ronan's face solemn and shook his head at him.

Bane raised his hand, halting the centaur group's attempted pursuit, and watched as Ferenze led Dracula and Hagrid into the shadows of the trees not far away.

"Ronan, did you just stop me from acting rashly because you knew those evil bats?" Bane stared at the distant backs of a centaur, a vampire, and a half-blood giant, and as soon as they vanished, he walked quickly over to Ronan and bent down to ask.

"Well, if I'm right, those small bats are the kind that the legendary vampire lord used on the two patriarchs more than a hundred years ago." Ronan said with difficulty,

"If it weren't for Ferenze's appearance, he would have turned all of us centaurs into vampires!"

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On the edge of the Forbidden Forest, Dracula said goodbye to Ferenzer and Hagrid, held up a parasol, and strolled through the Hogwarts campus in the pale spring sun.

The day was Wednesday and he had a class in the afternoon. It is a Defence Against the Dark Arts lesson for Gryffindor and Hufflepuff first-year wizards.

By the time Dracula arrived in the classroom, the first-year wizards had already arrived, seated one by one, neatly saluting their Defence Against the Dark Arts professor.

Dracula nodded in satisfaction and picked up Quirrell's painstakingly prepared lesson plans and textbooks from the lectern.

It was rare for him to follow the pace of the lecture and turn to the position that should be taught in this class.

At this moment, Harry, who was sitting in the audience, suddenly raised his hand.

"Mr. Potter?" Dracula looked at him with some confusion.

"Professor, Hagrid told us at noon today that there are some blood-sucking animal carcasses in the Forbidden Forest, so let's stay away from the Forbidden Forest." Harry said, "Hermione says this kind of death is only done by vampires, and we want to know if there really are vampires in the Forbidden Forest?" ”

Hearing Harry's question, the corners of Dracula's mouth twitched.

He really didn't expect that Hagrid, who was "tight-lipped", didn't even hold on for half a day, and directly told Harry and the three little wizards about the situation in the Forbidden Forest.

Of course, Hagrid's intentions should have been good, and he didn't want these three not-so-honest little wizards to get close to the dangerous Forbidden Forest, so he revealed a little about the Forbidden Forest, hoping that they would be afraid.

…… But what he didn't take into account was that this level of danger would not stop the Gryffindors of the three Gryffindors from wanting to die, and even more likely, it would further arouse their curiosity.

In addition, the innocent vampire was once again involved, and the Earl expressed his displeasure, very unhappy!

He motioned for Harry to sit down, and disrupted the lesson plan again, tossing Quirrell's lesson plan aside, and flipped the Dark Arts: A Guide to Self-Defense on the lectern to near the end—

"Since Mr. Potter mentioned vampires, let's talk about vampires today." He said to the young wizards in the audience, "Turn your textbooks to the penultimate chapter!" ”

The little wizard in the audience had long been accustomed to Dracula's lecture method of not following the routine, and he quickly opened the catalog.

There was a sound of flipping books in the classroom.

"Before I start the lecture, can any of the students who have pre-studied this lesson tell me what the wizarding world defines as a vampire?"

Since Dracula himself had never read the textbook for this lesson, he came up with a good idea to get a quick overview of the contents of the book.

He cast his gaze to the little witch with messy hair in the first row.

Hermione really lived up to Dracula's expectations, and previewed the content of this chapter more than once early, and quickly raised her hand:

"Vampires are dark creatures that feed on the blood of living beings. They are afraid of the sun and cannot go out during the day, so they often roam and forage at night, stabbing their victims in the throat with their fangs in the most vicious way......"

Dracula was still listening with interest to what the textbook-compiling wizard had to say about vampires, but as he listened, he felt more and more wrong, and his face gradually sank.

He quickly skimmed through the textbook and saw the words on it—

"Vampires are dark magical humanoids known for gnawing at human necks and sucking blood. Together with zombies, they belong to the category of living dead creatures and are highly contagious and highly dangerous......"

Dracula exhaled, suppressing his irritability.

"It's a good definition, Gryffindor plus a point." He interrupted Hermione's rambling recitation and said copistically.

Hermione was carrying her back to Xing, and she was still a little unsatisfied after being interrupted, and this time the extra points seemed to be too picky, and she felt like a sent Hanako.

However, Dracula's traditional deterrence made her dare not refute, so she had to pout and sit back on the stool.

"Alright, let's close the textbook." Dracula was silent for a moment, then suddenly spoke.

Hearing this command, the little wizards who had just opened the book raised their heads in amazement.

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