Hogwarts 1991

Chapter 549 Pomona Sprout

"...The prophecy ball that preserved the complete prophecy was shattered just like that..."

McGuffin told Harry them in detail - what he had seen and heard in the Ministry of Magic's Hall of Mysteries, and the half of the prophecy.

"...Harry is the one who ended the Dark Lord...this prophecy...the Office of Mysteries...these things..."

Hermione looked panicked, her eyes widened, and she blamed McGuffin, "Albert! Why didn't you tell us about this kind of thing,"

"Don't blame him, this should be kept secret by Dumbledore." Harry defended McGuffin, "Professor Dumbledore told me that some things have changed a lot, so he told me these things in advance."

"Originally, he planned to tell me these things when I was an adult." "What changed, did Voldemort..."

"Harry! Don't mention that name!" Ron yelled in fear when he heard the mysterious man's name.

Ron's strange behavior attracted the attention of other students in the distance,

They turned around and pointed to the directions of several people, looking very curious, and seemed to see Harry at the same time.

Those people were coming over to see what was going on here.

"Come on, over there," said McGuffin.

Several people headed towards the Forbidden Forest again, avoiding the crowd.

Entering the grove at the edge of the Forbidden Forest, seeing no one following, Ron said tremblingly, "Seriously, Harry, you should pay attention. In the past, this name was just scary, and there was no danger...but it's different now. After the mysterious man is resurrected, this word has real evil magic power."

"I heard my parents say..."

"Thirteen years ago, as long as anyone mentioned the original name of the You-Know-Who, the Death Eaters would know where this person was. They relied on this method to track and kill... the wizards who were dissatisfied with the Death Eaters and rebelled against them."

"That's why people dare not directly call the mysterious person by his name.

"It's okay if you're just talking at Hogwarts. After all, Professor Dumbledore is here. If you go outside, it's hard to say whether the Dark Lord's Death Eaters will come here... You have to be careful."

Harry casually agreed, obviously not listening, maybe he would learn this lesson only after he really suffered.

He continued, "I suspect that... the Dark Lord is recovering his strength and trying to make a comeback, so Dumbledore finally told me about it and tried to teach me a lesson."

"I don't know what Dumbledore will teach you?" Hermione guessed.

"It is estimated that he will teach Harry some kind of inscrutable magic, such as some extremely advanced defensive magic, especially powerful spell-breaking spells, anti-jinxes, superb spell-casting skills..."

"After all, Harry is now a Hogwarts warrior, and he will participate in the Top Ten Tournament. Our warriors must strengthen their own strength to avoid any accidents."

Ron still seemed to care about Harry being a warrior, and although he said good things, his tone was sour.

"Ron! Professor Dumbledore doesn't favor a certain warrior. You have to know that Harry is not the only warrior at Hogwarts, but also Cedric Diggory!"

Hermione stopped and turned to stare at Ron.

Harry also agreed with Hermione, but it was not good for him to say something to Ron, so as not to intensify the slight conflict between the two.

So he turned around and said, "I don't know what Dumbledore will teach me, but I'm sure it will have something to do with that prophecy."

"McGuffin, you really don't know what's inside that prophecy ball?" Hermione turned around and asked McGuffin again.

"Didn't I tell you several times already. The thing was smashed directly, I don't know what's inside...but..."

"But what? Don't be fooled!" Harry asked eagerly.

"Have I told you? I saw the half of the prophecy from another [Prophecy Crystal Ball]."

"We know that!"

"From the other [Prophecy Ball], it shows that the half of the prophecy...was overheard by someone, so there is only half of it."

"It is estimated that the mysterious man knows only this half of the prophecy, so he rushed into the [Hall of Mysterious Affairs] of the Ministry of Magic to find the real [Prophecy Crystal Ball]."

"McGuffin, what do you mean... this prophecy was divined by someone and told to someone. What is actually stored in the [Prophecy Crystal Ball] is just a memory of that person..." Ron gradually understood the meaning of McGuffin's words.

Looking at the expression on Harry's face, McGuffin should have guessed what was going on.

"what do you mean?"

"I saw from that [Prophecy Ball] that the real prophecy was told to Dumbledore by Trelawney." McGuffin said softly.

The three of Harry looked at each other for a while.

"So...Professor Dumbledore should know all the prophecies, so why didn't he tell me all of them? Are you still worried that Voldemort... knows this prophecy from my head?"

"I've already learned [Occlumency]."

"...or is he worried that I will be afraid when I know the truth?"

After the silence, Harry said angrily, "I've already made preparations, and I won't have anything to be afraid of.... In the future, only one of Voldemort and I will survive!"

MacGuffin's heart pounded,
He was shocked when he heard Harry's words that almost declared war on Voldemort.

'Did Harry know the second half of the prophecy?Where did he know? '

McGuffin looked carefully at Harry's expression, and then felt relieved... It seemed that this was just the most real feeling in Harry's heart.

After all, they have always had something to do with Voldemort in the past three years... Even the dullest person will have this kind of thought in their mind after hearing that half of the prophecy.

Harry's words surprised Ron and Hermione.

Both of them had worried expressions on their faces.

Suddenly, with a bang, the ground shook for a while.

The ground around the Forbidden Forest began to shake from side to side... The strange thing is that only the land and trees here are shaking, while the Black Lake not far away, and other places in the Forbidden Forest are completely silent... Representatives of foreign students who are visiting and walking in the distance are still strolling and chatting leisurely, as if they have not noticed any changes here.

Harry and the others squatted down and pressed the ground, holding their wands tightly in their hands, looking around...looking around.

The MacGuffin slowly floated up, surpassing the highest point of the trees in the Forbidden Forest... Floating in the sky, let's see what happened.

"McGuffin, what's going on?"

The three of Harry stood up at the same time, raised their heads and shouted at McGuffin.

The deep forest gradually began to regain its calmness, as if the shock just now... the feeling that the whole forest, including the ground, came alive... was just an illusion of several people.

Now, at noon, the full sun shines in the sky,
There was a slight burning sensation on McGuffin's skin.

But when he floated above the forest, he felt the wind blowing, and he got goosebumps all over his body.

Although he looked left and right, flew to the top to check the entire deep forest, but he still didn't find anything...

And for some reason, he couldn't stop the hairs in his heart.

want to escape from here...

After thinking for a while, McGuffin realized the reason——

It's too quiet here
Too quiet.

Except for the whistling wind and the friction of leaves, there was hardly any sound.

Even the roar of the fire dragon on the other side of the Forbidden Forest seemed so distant and vague.

And most importantly,
McGuffin looked at the forest... He felt that these trees seemed to be growing rapidly under his nose...

Inch by inch is continuously raised, and centimeter by centimeter is continuously thickened.

how can that be!

Such a large area and so many trees cannot be changed by any spell... Even the terrifying giant magic plant from the previous year was only cast on one tree species, one tree... It didn't cause extensive changes in the entire forest.

To mutate all the trees in such a large Forbidden Forest...it would drain the magic power of any wizard, not even Dumbledore and Voldemort...or all the teachers and students at Hogwarts.

But if you just let the trees grow a little bit, what's the use of eggs, no one would be so boring to use magic to do this kind of thing, right?

McGuffin slowly descended from the sky to the ground, and told the terrified three of his feelings and guesses.

"No way, I don't feel a little change!" Ron said slowly, stroking the rough bark of a eucalyptus beside him.

Even though he said so, this guy looked left and right, and carefully looked in other directions. This behavior already showed that he also found something wrong with Shenlin.

Harry also stood up slowly, gripping his wand tightly and carefully guarding his surroundings.

But obviously he was more courageous than Ron, after hearing what McGuffin said,

Harry chose a relatively short tree of unknown species, compared it to his height... and drew a white mark with his wand.

It didn't take long for the four of them to see... just as McGuffin said,
That white mark... Gradually rose little by little, from the position of Harry's lips to the position above the nose.

"Ha...Harry, are you kidding me?" Ron watched this scene with a trembling voice.

"I'm not kidding."

"Then you must have moved? Or did you stoop earlier..."

"Nothing! You also saw that I stood there without moving, and even I was very careful to breathe...that thing...in just a few minutes... really jumped up a certain distance." Harry stared at the trace, he had already forgotten the topic that Dumbledore was going to teach him earlier.

"Should we leave here first?" McGuffin felt chilly.

'The top ten fight for hegemony, Voldemort's early resurrection (well, this is his own pot), giant magical plants... anyway who knows what else will happen? '

——He felt that the plot and the school were becoming more and more unfamiliar.

"Yes, McGuffin, you are so right. Let's get out of here quickly... and tell Professor McGonagall." Ron turned around immediately, and he was impatiently preparing to leave this eerie forest.

"Hush! Listen..." Hermione suddenly stopped several people from leaving, and she pointed to the direction deep in the Forbidden Forest.

"what……"

Ron's original fierce rebuttal gradually faded away and disappeared.

Not only him, but McGuffin heard it too.

—Someone was muttering, muttering and muttering incessantly.

Only one person, always only one voice.

The voice was incoherent and slurred,
McGuffin could only catch the words...'watering, fertilizing...big trees...magic'.

"Don't worry about it, it must be a trap, we have to get out quickly." Ron trembled, he turned around and was about to leave here immediately.

"Wait, this voice is very familiar..." Hermione said hesitantly, she tried to search for relevant memories in her brain,
"I know who it is..."

After a while, Hermione suddenly jumped up and trotted towards the depths of the Forbidden Forest.

McGuffin and the three of them looked at each other, but they could only hold their wands tightly and follow behind Hermione.

It didn't take long, about 300 meters away, passing through the bushes and thorn bushes... After being covered by the dense trees,
The eyes of the four suddenly opened up, and they came to an open space.

This open space has sunk abruptly... forming a circular shallow pit, or it can be said to be a sunken valley.

This trough is about the size of a basketball court, filled with yellow and green dead leaves and stones of different sizes...

What's strange is that in such a rapidly growing deep forest, there is actually a tree... no, not even a single weed grows from it.

In addition, there is something frightening,
McGuffin looked around, and only then did he realize that all the trees around the valley were growing at a slant towards the sky (their place... that is, the center of the valley),

All the leaves... no matter what kind of tree it is, they are all wrinkled and blackened. If you don't look carefully, you may think that these trees are all bare trunks.

Not only that, but the height of these trees clearly exceeds the height of other trees in the deep forest.

Standing in this trough... looking out,
These trees are like iron bars in a prison... forcing, surrounding... and firmly imprisoning everything in the valley here.

"Hermione!" Harry hurriedly grabbed Hermione who was walking forward in a daze.

"Look!" Hermione pointed down instead.

Several people looked towards the center of the valley...

There was a squat witch in a gray robe covered in dirt.

She was hunched over, holding her wand... muttering, looking at a small sapling alone... talking to herself, not knowing what she was doing.

"Professor Sprout!"

Hermione suddenly called out the witch's name out loud.

Let the McGuffins be shocked.

The chunky, muddy witch turned around to face McGuffin and the others,
When she took off the tattered and crumpled gray peaked hat and patted the dead leaves on it,
McGuffin and the others discovered that this witch looked very strange, even a bit crazy,
It is indeed the professor of herbal medicine at Hogwarts, the head of Hufflepuff...

—Professor Pomona Sprout!

(End of this chapter)