Hogwarts Rising Again

Chapter 277 The Centaur's Bow and Arrow

The magical life of the school is still rich and colorful. Everyone’s enthusiasm for discussing the stone gate at Hogwarts is still undiminished, and some strange movements will appear in the Forbidden Forest from time to time. They all discussed excitedly.

This happens about twice a week.

During herbology class on Wednesday, they were in the second greenhouse outside the castle, and the same thing happened again halfway through the class, everyone put down their fertilizers and started making noise.

"Professor Longbottom, what happened in the Forbidden Forest? It's been two weeks, why is there no news?" Hugo asked loudly.

"This has nothing to do with our class, Hugo, concentrate on trimming the mandrakes and don't pull them out, I promise you, the sound of the mandrake will give you more headaches than the sound of the forbidden forest. said Professor Longbottom.

This batch of mandrakes has just germinated, and the crying is not enough to make people faint, at most it is just unbearably harsh, so no one wears earmuffs in this class.

But at this moment, someone outside seemed to be shouting something, and many people were screaming, and Hagrid's rough voice was mixed in.

"Neville! Neville! I need your help!" Hagrid yelled.

"What happened?" Hugo asked excitedly again.

Many people are also very curious, because their greenhouse is just outside the castle, not far from the Forbidden Forest.

"It's none of your business, everyone stay here, I'll go out and have a look." Professor Longbottom hurried out.

Hugo dropped the big scissors and ran outside the greenhouse in a hurry. The others also dropped the tools in their hands and probed outside the greenhouse.

There was a forbidden forest not far from the greenhouse, surrounded by a group of students who looked like third graders. Every student had a panicked expression, and some people shouted something, and there were a few students lying on the ground.

Two of the students' arms were shot through by a black iron bow and arrow, and the wizard's robe was stained red with blood. Another student was holding his thigh, and his leg was also shot by the black iron bow and arrow.

When Hugo and the others saw this scene, they suddenly became a little surprised.

"How did they get hurt?" Hugo asked.

Mo Lin also found it very strange that the students who were able to attend classes at the edge of the Forbidden Forest were generally taking the "Protection of Magical Animals class", but if they attended classes well, how could students be injured?

"Look! Isn't that a centaur?" Toby shouted sharply.

Everyone looked in the direction he pointed, and sure enough, in the woods on the edge of the Forbidden Forest, there were three centaurs with archers in their hands and quiveres behind them.

"The centaur attacked the students?" Hugo said in surprise.

"Impossible. I heard that the centaurs are highly intelligent creatures. Their intelligence is not inferior to that of humans. They live in the Forbidden Forest and have nothing to do with the world. They will not take the initiative to attack people." Lily retorted.

"Then how do you explain this?" Hugo asked, pointing at the students.

"Maybe it was an accidental injury. The centaur would not attack students." Mo Lin also agreed with Lily's words.

Professor Longbottom had already run over to check on the injured students. Hagrid was yelling at the centaurs angrily. The centaurs in charge seemed to be explaining, but they were too far away, and neither of them heard Hagrid or the centaurs. what are you talking about.

Hagrid negotiated with the centaur for a while, and then he and Professor Longbottom picked up the injured student and hurried to the castle. They should have been sent to the school infirmary. There were three injured, one was shot in the arm by a bow and arrow, one He was shot in the thigh by a bow and arrow, and another bow and arrow grazed his waist, which was not as serious as the first two.

"You all go back! Whoever leaves the greenhouse will be locked up." Professor Longbottom saw the students crowded in front of the greenhouse and shouted at them.

Everyone could only reluctantly go back to the greenhouse, but there were still some bold students who secretly stood at the door and probed their brains.

"The centaur really attacked the students!"

This news has exploded in the class. Both the Slytherin students and the Gryffindor students exchanged the news they saw. In just 10 minutes, the imaginative Toby had already imagined There was a big show.

"Riot! Either there is a problem with the internal regime of the horses, or the horses want to expand their territory and are unwilling to hide in the small forbidden forest! I think the latter is more likely." Toby said confidently.

"Is that an exaggeration?" Tabetha of Slytherin asked.

"That's right, the centaurs can't beat us wizards when they expand their territory, right?" Hugo said loudly.

But Toby said mysteriously: "That's not necessarily true. The centaurs also have their own magic. I heard that they know how to observe the sky at night and use the orbits of the planets to divination. It must be that the centaurs saw Mars, Pluto, or Sirius. Connecting into a line indicates that the time has come for the rise of the centaurs, so they are preparing to revolt."

"What's that loud noise in the Forbidden Forest doing?" someone asked again.

"Internal regime issues, there are always some militants and conservatives, aren't they? It must be the militant horses who are calling, but the two gangs disagree with each other, so they started a war. That is most likely the voice of war. It's too normal to grow in the Muggle world." Toby was born as a Muggle, and he is very familiar with some gang frictions of Muggles, so he directly applied it here.

"They are just starting to attack the students now, to test our reaction." Toby added.

The story Toby imagined seemed reasonable, and everyone seemed to be unable to find an excuse to refute it.

Mo Lin naturally didn't believe this statement, it was too nonsense to guess what war was based on such a little information.

Toby was born as a Muggle and didn't know much about centaurs, but he heard from his grandfather Alton that among all intelligent humanoid creatures, house elves are the most tame, goblins are the most cunning, dwarves are the most industrious, and dwarves are the most industrious. The centaurs are in some ways the most mysterious and powerful, and more intelligent than any other humanoid, but they are also the most peaceful.

As long as they don't interfere with their territory, they will be very peaceful.They will strictly abide by the regulations with wizards and other creatures, and will not cross the boundary, nor allow others to cross the boundary.

But the edge of the Forbidden Forest is the territory of wizards, and Hogwarts students who attend classes on the edge of the Forbidden Forest are unlikely to violate the territory of the centaurs.

"The principal has also passed by." Hugo, who was poking around at the door, turned his head to report the situation to everyone.

Everyone squeezed to the door again, squeezed each other, ran out of the greenhouse, and secretly looked at the Forbidden Forest in the distance through the row of low bushes at the door of the greenhouse.

Maureen also squeezed into the crowd curiously and looked at the situation in the Forbidden Forest. The students who were in class had already been escorted back to the castle.

A tall brown horse man was talking about something, and Principal McGonagall was also very angry. She was always a serious person, and when she got angry, she was like an angry eagle, and she was even two heads taller than her in terms of momentum. the horse people.

Hagrid was waving his hands loudly and saying something. He looked very excited and angry, as if he was accusing the centaur of something, but the centaur just shook his head. After negotiating for about 10 minutes, the leader of the centaur turned around with a serious expression. Leave, and Professor Longbottom also walked back this way.

Everyone quickly sneaked back to the greenhouse, ready to ask Professor Longbottom about the specific situation.

(End of this chapter)