Malfoy Rise at Hogwarts

Chapter 56 Exploring the Forbidden Forest
The first week of school passed like this, and Hogwarts ushered in the first weekend.

Xie Lin had already studied the map of the Forbidden Forest thoroughly, planned various routes, and made preparations for various situations, such as refining many potions and poisons that might be used.

Early in the morning, Xie Lin released the Invisible Phantom Curse on himself, and sneaked into the Forbidden Forest alone.

The Forbidden Forest of Hogwarts is a continuous and vast forest in which many kinds of creatures live, even some species that have become extinct from the outside world.It's a wild place here. No wizard has ever been able to explore the entire forest, because it's too big, and because it's too dangerous. There are many students who disappeared in the Forbidden Forest in history.

The trees here are very tall, all above tens of meters, so they cover the sky in darkness, and only creatures living in the Forbidden Forest can adapt to this environment. They either have vision that can see things in the dark, or have extraordinary hearing, or keen observation.

There wasn't much danger around the Forbidden Forest, and it could be seen that Hagrid, the gamekeeper, often cleaned up this area.Schelling, who came prepared, easily crossed the perimeter, passed the activity area of ​​12 hippogriffs raised by Hagrid, and continued to walk deep into the Forbidden Forest.After several studies, Schelling had already identified the two most dangerous areas in the Forbidden Forest, namely the eight-eyed spider lair and the centaur tribal area.

Xie Lin walked forward very cautiously, constantly checking against the map on the way to ensure that he avoided these two areas. There were strange roars in the darkness, and occasionally some malicious eyes could be seen shining in the darkness.When passing somewhere, it should be a gathering place for some social animals, and a disgusting smell hits the face.

Schelling held his wand tightly, looked around carefully, stopped suddenly, and looked down at the footprints on the ground.He recognized that this was the footprint of a wolf, several times larger than ordinary wolves, probably a giant wolf, about as big as the three-headed dog Lu Wei.Xie Lin knew that there were no werewolves in the strict sense in the Forbidden Forest, but there was a group of wolves whose wisdom was close to that of humans.

There is an interesting allusion behind the origin of this pack of wolves. According to legend, on the day of the full moon, two wolf-shaped werewolves mate under the moon, and the pregnant female wolf will produce pure wolf cubs instead of transformed werewolves. This rare example has only happened twice in history.

One of them happened in the Forbidden Forest of Hogwarts. At that time, the headmaster of Hogwarts was Dumbledore. He generously allowed two werewolves to raise the little wolf cubs in the Forbidden Forest. The little wolf cubs grew up slowly over time and became a group of silver wolves with beautiful silver-white fur and high intelligence.Apart from being intelligent and spiritual, these silver wolves are no different from ordinary wild wolves. They don't have the bloodlust and desire for human flesh, so they are not much more dangerous than ordinary wild wolves.

Under Dumbledore's deliberate arrangement, rumors that there were werewolves in the Forbidden Forest began to spread among the students, in order to deter the students from sneaking into the Forbidden Forest.This rumor is still circulating among the students to this day, and Schelling heard it from more than one person, including Draco.

Schelling wasn't afraid of a giant wolf, but wolves lived in packs, and he wasn't sure he could handle a large pack.To be on the safe side, he deviated slightly from the planned route and continued walking deep into the Forbidden Forest.

Schelling first met three red hats, which were ugly little monsters similar to goblins. They were bloodthirsty and easy to kill by nature. After killing their prey, they would smear the blood on their skulls. They were also named red hats because of their blood-red skulls.

The red hat has no magical ability, but it has great strength and fast speed, so it is quite dangerous for Muggles and little wizards who have just learned magic, but it can be easily dealt with by Schelling's strength.Xie Lin used the Transfiguration technique to conjure dense and winding vines, captured the red hats, and then used the Cutting Curse to cut off their skulls. The blood-stained skulls are good materials for making black magic items of the curse system, and Xie Lin certainly will not let them go.

[The red hat skull is obtained! 】

Then Xie Lin met a blood-sucking phantom bear.The phantom bear is a mutant of the Boggart. It is an aggregate of fear emotions and is good at changing. It usually appears in the image of an Australian koala, but it has sharp fangs and slender claws.

The blood-sucking phantom bear is the most ferocious variant, often attacking poultry.Hagrid's chickens were often attacked by vampire phantom bears, so they had a lot of headaches.Of course, in front of Xie Lin, who knew Occlumency, the Vampire Phantom Bear was no threat at all, and Xie Lin used "funny and funny" to repel it.

(Note: Blood Sucking Bugbear, the original translation of blood-sucking monster, from the Chamber of Secrets chapter Hagrid suspects that it was a fox in the Forbidden Forest or a vampire bear because the chicken he raised was killed; it is translated as a tyrannical bear goblin in Dungeons and Dragons, which is a kind of giant goblin; but in fact, it is another kind of Boggart in Scottish folklore. Bug here means Bogey, and Bugbear literally means Borg bear, or bear-shaped Boggart, here the author follows Rowling's usual practice and chooses to use the second statement)
Going further, Xie Lin finally met the big boss of this adventure—an eight-eyed spider with the height of two adult wizards.

Fortunately, Xie Lin had always ensured that he was in a state of invisibility, otherwise he would end badly if he was attacked by such a huge spider.Xie Lin knew that creatures living in such a dark place are generally afraid of fire, so without hesitation, he used the flame spell to shoot at the eight-eyed spider's belly-down surface, which was the weakness of the eight-eyed spider that Xie Lin had studied long ago.

After the eight-eyed spider's abdomen was ignited, it let out a sharp scream, and its whole body ran amok due to the pain. In order to avoid being affected, Xie Lin released the leg-locking spell on the eight-eyed spider's last two feet.

Xie Lin quickly took out a medicine bottle and began to collect the venom of the eight-eyed spider.A pint of venom is worth 100 Galleons, and Schelling picked three pints of the spider's corpse before leaving contentedly.Because he was worried about encountering more eight-eyed spiders again, Xie Lin decided to leave the Forbidden Forest, and turned back the same way he came.

[Eight-eyed spider venom obtained! 】

Fortunately, he also collected a lot of jumping toadstools on the way.The jumping toadstool is a rare potion raw material. The cap is bright red with many white spots on it. It has a keen sense of the surroundings. Once it detects that someone wants to pick it, it will quickly jump and escape.

Schelling first used Transfiguration to conjure up a cover to cover them all inside, and then grabbed them out one by one and put them into special containers.Each toadstool is worth 3 Galleons, and Schelling collected 20 of them at once, which means that the harvest this morning has already reached 360 Galleons.You know, except for the employees of the Ministry of Magic, the monthly salary of most people in the wizarding world is only between 25 and 50 Galleons!
[Get the beating toadstool! 】

The Forbidden Forest is indeed a good place to make money. Although it took him a lot of time, he still enjoyed it.

Suddenly, Xie Lin stopped his steps, and a scene he didn't expect appeared in front of his eyes. A super giant eight-eyed spider and a giant wolf fell to the ground completely motionless like corpses.

Xie Lin stepped forward to check cautiously. The eight-eyed spider's venom had completely dried up and could not be collected. It should have been a while since it died.Although the giant wolf was motionless, Xie Lin could still feel the inconspicuous body temperature on its body. He was considering whether to peel off its fur. After all, even if such a beautiful fur had no medicinal value or alchemy value, it should be sold at a good price just as a decoration.

Xie Lin took out a sterling silver dagger, and was about to start peeling the belly, when the hand pressing on the belly suddenly felt a strange movement, Xie Lin frowned first, and suddenly realized, could it be...

Xie Lin guessed right, he cut open the belly very carefully, put his hands through the cut without getting dirty, and actually pulled out 3 little wolf cubs for him!

According to Schelling's estimate, the pregnant female wolf should have been quietly waiting to give birth among the wolves, but unfortunately the wolves were attacked by an unknown number of eight-eyed spiders, so the female wolf was separated from the wolf pack, entangled and fought with one of the eight-eyed spiders all the way here, and finally died together.It is a pity that due to the death of a period of time, the remaining vitality of the female wolf is not enough to maintain the lives of the cubs, and two of the cubs died shortly after being pulled out.

Xie Lin was moved with compassion, took out a few bottles of expensive nutritional medicine from his pocket, and fed the last cub wholeheartedly, and wrapped the cub with a night star cloak to keep warm. Under Xie Lin's careful care, the cub opened his eyes and howled for the first time since he was born.

Despite how weak the howling sound was, Xie Lin witnessed the birth of a life with his own eyes, a tender corner deep in his heart was touched a little, and an indescribable emotion arose spontaneously, making the corners of his eyes wet unconsciously.

Hogwarts allows students to bring their own pets. Except for the rule that first-year students can only bring owls, toads, and cats as pets, students in other grades have no restrictions on the types of pets. For example, Ron’s pet is Spotted the hamster, and Lee Jordan of Gryffindor once brought a pet tarantula. Of course, the eight-eyed spider or the three-headed dog are highly dangerous creatures, but apart from Hagrid, there should be no other students who would take such terrible creatures as pets.

Schelling has decided to take the cub back to Hogwarts as his pet.At the moment when he witnessed the birth of the little wolf's life, he and the little wolf had established an emotional bond that surpassed ordinary owners and pets.

Plus he has Newt's suitcase, which means he can take the cub with him, to class and home, without fear of being spotted.

Because Dobby was not in the UK at the moment, Schelling had no choice but to go to the owl hut in person, borrow the owl from the school to place a lot of pet food orders at the pet shop in Diagon Alley through mail order, and then personally take care of the still very weak wolf cub.He named the little wolf "Silver Tooth".

Time passed day by day, and the pet food in Diagon Alley had been delivered, Xie Lin couldn't help but heaved a sigh of relief, otherwise, if Xiao Yinya continued to drink his nutritional potion like this, he would definitely be poor.

Schelling, who was busy taking care of Silver Fang, had almost no time to pay attention to the big and small things that happened on Harry's side, and even the holding of the Patronus Charm exchange was forced to be postponed until next month.

The Slytherin students also already know that Sherin has a beloved pet wolf, and she can always be seen with him everywhere on the campus.

Daphne, Meredith and Astoria are also very excited and often take the opportunity to come to Schelling, trying to find opportunities to tease Silver Fang.Although Little Yinya is weak, his intelligence is not low at all, he knows how to please people, and can always make a few girls giggle, which makes those girls like to love this cute little wolf cub even more.

　The settings of the red hat and the vampire phantom bear are not official settings, but taken from English folklore; the highly intelligent wolves are taken from the chapter describing the Forbidden Forest by Pottermore, which is an official setting.

　　
　
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