Hogwarts was unusually quiet late at night, and the castle was lit up with sparkling lights, which was the location of the house's common room.

Some energetic students wait until the wee hours of the morning to reluctantly put down their crackling cards or wizard chess and return to their dorms.

Outside the castle was a bright moon.

In the moonlight, two figures, one large and one small, were quietly groping through the beating willows, without making even the slightest sound.

"Kyle, it's too late to turn back......"

Newt Scamander, who was at the front, couldn't help but say, "You are a student, you can't travel at night, and if you are found by the professors later, they will expel you." ”

"You......'re sorry to say that," Kyle, who was very far behind, said angrily.

He just wrote a letter to Newt asking how to deal with the human-headed sphinx manticore. Who knew that he would come over at night and use the illusion charm to touch into the Hufflepuff dormitory overnight.

Kyle was about to go to bed when he suddenly heard Newt's voice, which he thought was his own delusion.

I didn't expect it to be true.

Kyle wants to report the Dementors...... Anyone put it in, it's too disrespectful!

"I'm just here to ask if there's a human-headed sphinx manticore in the Forbidden Forest...... I didn't let you swim at night. Newt said, "You're going with you, and it's none of my business to be fired." ”

"If you encounter this kind of thing, someone will come with you......" Kyle pouted, "And it's just a night tour, even if you get caught, you won't be expelled." ”

The two made their way to Hagrid's hut.

"Do you want to go around it?" Kyle said, "There's a hound here with a very sharp nose, and he can definitely smell us if he goes any further." ”

"No, I don't."

Newt took out a small bottle, opened it, shook it on himself a few times, and then handed it to Kyle.

"It's the pollen of the Patok butterfly flower, which masks itself very well."

Kyle took it, shook it a few times in Newt's way, and then naturally put the bottle in his pocket.

He went to the Forbidden Forest in the middle of the night, and he always had to charge some guide fees...... It just so happens that this pollen is good,

Newt waited for a long time and didn't see Kyle return the bottle, so he couldn't help but turn his head and say, "You ......"

"Shhh Kyle lowered his voice and said, "Further down is Hagrid's road to the Forbidden Forest, which is much smoother than the rest of the world. ”

Looking at Kyle's appearance, Newt also knew that eighty percent of his pollen was going to come back, so he could only sigh helplessly.

Forget it, although there are not many of them, he still has a small bottle in his box, which is enough.

The two walked softly past Hagrid's cabin, which was pitch black, and Hagrid's snoring could be heard clearly.

After arriving at the Forbidden Forest, they walked a little further......

After seeing Hagrid's cabin completely, Kyle finally put his mind at ease, looked at Newt curiously, and asked the question he had been struggling with all the way: "Why did you come to Hogwarts for the human-headed sphin-tailed manticore?" ”

"Sort of." Newt said, "And the three-headed dog......

In fact, since Dobby arrived, my job has suddenly become a lot easier, and what would normally take a day to do is now done in a few hours.

So I'm going to rewrite Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, but it's too monotonous to have a basilisk...... It was at this time that I received your letter. ”

"But......" Kyle wondered, "I remember there's an introduction to them in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them." ”

"Yes, but not much."

Newt smiled and continued, "Whether it's a three-headed dog or a human-headed sphinx, they're rare magical creatures, and I've only seen them once in Greece twenty years ago.

Later, for some special reasons, I was banned from the Ministry of Magic there, and my research on them had to be suspended.

Now I just have this opportunity, so I'm here. ”

Special reasons?

Kyle knew it.

It doesn't take any thought to know that Newt must have caused a lot of trouble at the time, which was not unusual for him.

Newt continued to walk forward, and Kyle followed him, unable to resist asking, "Where are we going?"

"I don't know the location of the sphinx, Hagrid hasn't told me."

"It's okay, we can find it." Newt said directly, "The sphinx likes to nest near lakes, and there are three lakes in the Forbidden Forest, so I happen to know where they are. ”

"So we're going to look everywhere?" Kyle asked, "When will this be found?" ”

"One night is enough." Newt said, "If we can't, we can ride a broomstick...... You have a broom. ”

Kyle nodded.

But the problem is that if you ride a broomstick, the target is too big and can be easily spotted by other creatures in the Forbidden Forest...... Like centaurs, or wandering Dementors.

Sirius Black is being caught everywhere now, and if it is misunderstood, it will be troublesome.

"Wait......" Kyle thought for a moment, then suddenly said, "I remember Hagrid saying that he met a sphinx manticore when he was looking for Aragog. ”

"Aragog?"

"An eight-eyed spider." Kyle explained.

"Oh, that's easy to do." Newt clapped his hands and sniffed something with his eyes closed.

He walked slowly forward, and soon found a white spider silk on a tree branch.

"The silk of the eight-eyed spider." "There's a very special sweetness on it that helps them attract enough prey, ......you see," Newt said.

There happened to be a bulging white cocoon on the cobwebs between the branches, and eighty percent of the greedy guys stuck to it and couldn't run away.

There are also a few tiny spiders next to it, crawling in one direction.

"We're so lucky."

Newt said happily: "This prey is too big for them to move, so they can only go back to the nest to inform more spiders."

"Quick, keep up with them......"

So, the two followed the spider into a grove of trees, which had deviated from the forest path and was full of roots and stumps, which was nothing to the spider, but not to Kyle and Newt.

They must carefully navigate around those obstacles, making as little noise as possible so as not to be spotted by the spiders in front of them.

After about twenty minutes, Kyle notices that the ground seems to be sloping downward, but the trees are still the same dense.

At this time, Newt, who was walking in front, suddenly stopped and stopped Kyle.

"That's enough." He glanced around vigilantly, "There are more and more spider silks, and if you go any further, you will definitely be discovered." ”

Kyle notices that less than a foot away from Newt is a slender spider silk that is so thin that it is barely visible in the moonlight.

Newt slowly took two steps back, looking up at the sky, as if making directions.

"I think I already know the location of the Sphinx......"

He turned and burrowed into the bushes on his left, walking as fast as Kyle pushed aside the branches and vines and followed closely.

Five minutes later, the dense bush had turned into a flat clearing, and the lake Newt had mentioned was in the middle of the clearing, the size of a Quidditch pitch.

In the moonlight, the calm waters of the lake resemble a giant mirror, mysterious and beautiful.

……

(End of chapter)