Hogwarts: Who taught you to transform like this?

At night.

The castle of Hogwarts was quiet and peaceful.

Only ghosts and some portraits that stayed up late to chat were still moving.

After casting an illusion spell on himself, Merlin calmly went downstairs and began to wander around at night.

This was a spell he developed by imitating chameleons.

Automatically change the color of the body according to the position of the body, so that it can blend into the environment in the eyes of others.

It is somewhat similar to the principle of invisibility cloak, but it is not so restrained.

When he walked to the lobby on the first floor, he happened to see Filch pushing open the castle gate, followed by Harry and Malfoy.

Then he remembered that today was the day they were to be detained in the Forbidden Forest.

"It's a bit of a coincidence."

Merlin thought about it. If he went to the Forbidden Forest now, he would most likely run into Voldemort who was hunting unicorns.

This is really the conclusion of the timeline.

Even such a random behavior of his could encounter such a big plot.

Originally, Merlin wanted to go back to sleep, but the danger prediction did not remind him, which meant that there would be no danger.

It was just right to see Voldemort's strength up close, so Merlin simply followed him.

There were leaves and dead branches outside the castle, so Merlin cast all the levitation spells and lightness spells on himself.

Following Filch and Harry, there was no movement at all.

During the period, except for Mrs. Norris who looked back and seemed to have discovered something, no one else found anything.

Until Hagrid's hut.

When Hagrid took over the grouping.

Merlin also entered the hut and interacted with Norbert for a while, and fed him a few meat kings.

He went out to check when he heard the movement from the team outside.

Hagrid had an inexplicable worry in his eyes but couldn't say it directly. He looked at Harry and tried to move his lips, but finally sighed.

"You three actually violated the school rules and came to the Forbidden Forest for patrol."

"It's been a long time since a first-year wizard dared to do this, but it's good. I hope it will make you remember it.

"Be more well-behaved in Hogwarts in the future and don't violate the school rules again. "

"Oh no! I can't go to the Forbidden Forest! This is the most dangerous place in the school!" Malfoy's voice was filled with fear, and he even said that he would complain to his family. But Hagrid just interrupted him rudely. "You can complain as much as you want, but if you don't want to leave Hogwarts with your things on your back today, just follow me in and patrol. '

The wind suddenly became violent, blowing out whimpering and wailing sounds in the Forbidden Forest. Malfoy's face changed. But in the end, he obeyed Hagrid's orders and followed him to the Forbidden Forest. Merlin saw that they entered the Forbidden Forest and separated decisively, pulling the Sorting Hat to find the former Dragon's Nest. This is the main business tonight. "Old Hat, quickly check the place, where is the Dragon's Nest?" "Let me see... huh? Wait... hiss!" The Sorting Hat uttered a series of interjections, and the sound was a bit awkward. "Well, Merlin, I said I haven't been to the Forbidden Forest for too long, and I can't even recognize it. Do you believe me?"

"Hehe."

Merlin's right eyelid twitched, and he cursed the Sorting Hat for being a real bad teammate.

"No, no, no, I'll think of a way. I must know. There were some guardian trees near the dragon's lair. I remember that Ravenclaw would go to find the bark of the guardian tree every time he failed to tame it.

Merlin was silent.

"Then I might know where that place is."

"Where? Wait, how did you know?"

The Sorting Hat was shocked again.

After so many years, it might not remember something, how could Merlin remember it?

"The centaur tribe uses magic pattern paper made from the bark of the guardian tree, so they are sure where the magic tree is.

"What a Muggle! You still have to look for those arrogant guys."

The Sorting Hat complained on the top of his head, and soon changed his tone.

"Well, let me see where they occupy the Forbidden Forest. How dare they say that the Forbidden Forest has always been theirs! Let's go!"

Merlin thought about the location of the centaurs he saw in the afternoon and the direction they left last, and groped all the way. [Finally, he saw ten gathering places that looked like tribes in the depths of the Forbidden Forest.

You can vaguely see that there are ponies playing in the open space, and the adults around are on guard and on sentry.

"We're here!"

Merlin knocked on the Sorting Hat, indicating that it could come forward to negotiate.

"Is it not appropriate for me to go alone?"

The Sorting Hat was a little nervous.

But Merlin just shrugged.

"Go, old hat, I believe you can do it!"

"Then I will...? Merlin, you really...

The Sorting Hat took a step and pause for a full minute, and finally climbed from Merlin's head to the ground.

.........***........

"Forget it, you're walking so slowly, it'll be dawn by the time you get there."

Merlin shook his head, realizing that the Sorting Hat was good at talking but weak at doing things, so he removed the Disillusionment Spell and went forward to negotiate with the centaurs.

"Merlin? How dare you come to the Forbidden Forest?"

Firenze was in the centaur community, noticed Merlin, and immediately sounded the alarm.

Within a dozen seconds, all the adult centaurs surrounded him.

The leaders were Bain and Ronan.

"Little wizard, you shouldn't have come!"

Bain looked unkind.

"Even Hagrid wouldn't dare to enter the Forbidden Forest late at night, and it's easy for you to get into trouble here!"

"I know!"

Bain picked up the bow and arrow. "You must have realized that you were going to fail, so you came to the Forbidden Forest to arrange all this so that your bet would come true."

"It's just a pity. I have already notified the nearby unicorns to come and take refuge."

"And we have sent out more than 30 scouts. With us here tonight, there won't be any major battles."

"So there won't be any unicorn deaths either!"

"And you, Mr. Merlin, you may have to get out of the Forbidden Forest forever."

Merlin put on the Sorting Hat again and shook off the dirt on it.

"It's a good idea, but unfortunately, I don't need it."

"Besides, I think there is nothing wrong with what I said this afternoon."

"You can't handle complex problems at all, or in other words, you don't have a brain, and there is a kind of beauty of cerebellum deficiency."

"Even if I really want to beat you, why would I pay such a heavy price and kill a unicorn and get cursed with blood.

"You don't really think you are worth the body of a completely dead unicorn?"

"Then isn't there something wrong with your own divination?"

The centaur was talking.

A miserable whine came from a distance.

Firenze suddenly realized something, his pupils dilated and his face was shocked.

"No, this is the sound of a unicorn!"

"Quick! Go over!"

Firenze was stunned for a moment.

If Merlin had said before that something had sneaked into the forbidden forest and a unicorn had to be killed, they would have just taken it as a joke.

But now that it really happened, they only had one thought.

Catch the murderer and avenge the unicorn.