Harry Potter and the Secret Treasure

Ivan walked over quietly, and he noticed that Snape seemed to be crying.

Tears soaked Snape's eyes, he didn't notice Ivan, he seemed to be caught in the memories of the past, back to that dark night 12 years ago.

Chapter 174

As Peter Pettigrew's shrill shouts echoed in the dimly lit hallway, Snape's memory flashed back to that night 12 years ago.

That night, when he got the news and rushed to the house, it was already in ruins.

He had already made up his mind to protect Lily from the Dark Lord, and he was willing to pay any price for it.

Even openly defying Voldemort, even death.

But all he saw was her body, lying there lifeless.

She was dead, she was killed by Voldemort!

In the days that followed, while all wizards celebrated the news of Voldemort's downfall, Snape shut himself in the house alone.He was blaming himself, if he hadn't told Voldemort the prophecy, Lily wouldn't have died, it was all because of himself.

Thinking of this, Snape wished he was the one who died.

Later, Dumbledore told him that after receiving his own warning message, Lily and that Potter originally planned to use the Fidelity Charm to hide, this ancient magic can hide secrets in a person's soul forever.

Unless the keeper voluntarily reveals this secret, it will never be discovered.

Under the protection of this spell, even Voldemort himself would not be able to find them. This was the most foolproof way, but they chose the wrong secret-keeper and mistrusted Sirius Black.

Black betrayed them, he leaked the location of the house to Voldemort.

If we say that the students only hated each other, then after Black killed Lily, the hatred grew in the depths of Snape's heart.In the past 12 years, for countless days and nights, Snape wished to kill Black with his own hands to avenge Lily.

But now he has heard the truth, it was Peter Pettigrew who did it all.

The hatred for Blake was transferred almost instantly to Peter Pettigrew, to this tiny creature he had never noticed before.

Snape clenched his wand tightly, he was going to go down and kill this despicable traitor.

He moved a little, then hesitated again.He didn't want other people to know his feelings for Lily. In the dark hall, the conversation gradually ended. Black wanted to kill Peter Pettigrew, and maybe letting him do it was the best choice.

Ivan hid behind the curtain, and he glanced at Snape beside him strangely.

Snape seemed about to make a move, but stopped immediately.He didn't know what he was thinking, his face was gloomy and terrifying, and his body trembling slightly, he spoke of the raging anger in his heart without words.

Ivan didn't have the time to guess what Snape's inner world was really thinking. His attention was completely focused on Peter Pettigrew. He had to find a way to catch this guy so that he couldn't escape or die again.

He peeped out, and it was undoubtedly the strangest feeling in his life: standing behind the curtains on the second floor and seeing himself in the hall on the first floor.

"Sirius, you can't kill him!"

"Harry, do you know what you're doing, this ruffian who's made you lose your parents!" growled Blake, "that cringeworthy filthy fellow who wouldn't mind seeing you die. You heard him just say That's right, his own stinky skin is more important than the lives of your whole family."

"I understand!" Harry gasped, "He killed my parents, he framed Professor Lupine, he controlled Ron, and he tried to kill Ivan, I will not forgive him for doing this Thing, never! But you can't kill him, Sirius, I don't think my dad would want his best friend to kill! Especially killing such a person, it's not worth it!"

The conversation in the hall continued, and Ivan saw Harry stop Sirius.

They decided to hand over Peter Pettigrew to Dumbledore and the Ministry of Magic, and let him get what he deserved.Then, Ron, who had been standing in the corner, began to walk towards Peter Pettigrew, who was collapsed on the ground. Ivan knew what was about to happen. He wanted to stop Ron, but he didn't know how to do it.

He has to be careful not to be seen.

Aiwen hesitated for a moment, and gave up his plan to act. He must act within the scope allowed by the rules. If there is an accident, it will cause irreparable consequences.

Similar things have happened countless times in history. Wizards got confused about time. They attacked their sudden self. Many people became insane because of this, and killed their past self or future self by mistake, and even caused time and history to be destroyed. Distortion occurs.

Time cannot be changed, which is one of the most important laws in the wizarding world.

If you want to catch Peter Pettigrew, you still have to find a way in the Forbidden Forest. Ivan is going to wait until Peter escapes into the Forbidden Forest before doing it.

He glanced at Snape again, then turned around and hopped lightly onto one of the ledges, slipping out of the castle.

Taking advantage of the darkness, he slipped along the lawn towards the Forbidden Forest.

Aiwen Animagus is in the form of a black cat, and the sky outside is dark enough that there is basically no need to worry about being discovered.Even if people in the hall accidentally found it, they could only see the hazy shadow of a small animal flashing past in the grass.

Lying in the grass next to the Forbidden Forest, Ivan did not enter the Forbidden Forest in a hurry. He saw Peter Pettigrew holding Ron out of the castle, and they quickly approached the Forbidden Forest. Excited for the rest of his life, the dull expression on Ron's face suddenly became painful and distorted.

Ivan knew that Ron was about to break free from the control of the Imperius Curse.

Right next to the bushes where he was hiding, Ron suddenly resisted violently.

He tightly held Peter Pettigrew's right hand missing a finger, and struggled with all his strength to snatch his wand.

"Sorry, sorry!" Ron cried out against Peter Pettigrew, "Sorry, Harry! Sorry, Ivan! Sorry, Hermione! It's all my fault, I shouldn't have doubted you, I shouldn't have If you don't believe me, look what I've done..."

"Damn, damn, what are you doing?!" Peter Pettigrew screamed, chanting spells in a panic, and waving his wand to stop Ron.

Aiwen, who had been hiding in the grass, rushed out quickly. He passed under the feet of Peter the dwarf, tripped him, and interrupted Peter's spellcasting.

Bang!

Pettigrew Peter and Ron fell hard to the ground, kicking up a cloud of dust.

Ivan saw himself, Harry, Hermione, and Black approaching quickly, and he hurried back to the nearby grass.

Next, Peter Pettigrew will use that powerful evil black magic when he is cornered.Aiwen knew that he should have nothing to do here. He had to enter the Forbidden Forest in advance to ambush, wait for Peter Pettigrew.

By the way, there are still those painful giant spiders waiting for him to deal with.

Chapter 175 The Centaur and the Omen

Alvin returned to the dark Forbidden Forest and walked along the path for a while.

He was about to find a place to ambush Peter Pettigrew, but he stopped immediately when he heard something stepping on fallen leaves.

Ivan hurriedly hid behind the big tree beside him and listened attentively. He released the Animagus form and pulled out his wand.That sound was like a cloak dragging on the ground, getting closer and closer, could it be an acromantula? !

Suddenly, an arrow flew through the air and landed on the tree above Aiwen's head with a bang, the sound was creepy.

Aiwen's spell flew out almost instantly, and with the light of the spell, he saw a thing appearing in the open space in front of him. It looked like a human being with black hair and beard, but it was dark from the waist down. It has a shiny brown and black body, with a long black tail dragging behind it.

This is a centaur, he dodged the spell nimbly, and aimed at Aiwen with his bow and arrow.

"Who are you, human?" The centaur said with anger on his face, "Break into our woods and plan to attack me with magic?!"

"I'm sorry, this was a misunderstanding! I thought you were an acromantula, you know, I was attacked by them just now." Aiwen's wand had a faint light on it, "Let me introduce myself, my name is Ai Wen Vin Mason, from Hogwarts."

Aiwen tried hard to recall the content related to the centaur in his mind. In most wizard books and laws, the introduction of this humanoid magical creature is full of contempt.

For example, in Article [-] of the "Administrative Measures for the Management and Control of Magical Creatures", the definition of a centaur is: a magical animal with a human head, a torso, and limbs similar to a horse, with intelligence close to that of a human.Please pay attention to the words, close to human intelligence and animals, very humiliating words, which also represent the views of the vast majority of wizards on centaurs.

But the actual situation is not like this at all, the centaur is an extremely proud creature.

Generally speaking, they are full of distrust of humans, whether they are wizards or Muggles, there is no difference in their eyes.Centaurs are well-versed in healing magic, divination, archery, and astronomy, and enjoy a high reputation in these fields.

Centaurs often live together in groups, forming clans and tribes.

The centaur clan in the Hogwarts Forbidden Forest is the largest known centaur tribe and has existed for more than 1000 years.Before the Big Four established Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, the ancestors of the centaurs lived in this magical forest that was later called the Forbidden Forest.

Aiwen is not stupid enough to get along with a centaur according to the content of the book, unless he wants to anger the other party and die faster.He tried his best to see the other person as a person exactly like himself, and tried not to look at the other person's lower body, although this seemed really strange.

"I'm avoiding the acromantula..."

"Acromantula!!!" The anger on the centaur's face seemed to grow stronger, and he said angrily, "I don't know when, the number of these ferocious and hateful guys in the woods has increased, and they wantonly Attack other creatures, and occupy the territory that originally belonged to us."

Aiwen came to a sudden, no wonder the giant spider was rated as one of the most dangerous magical animals by the Ministry of Magic, and was clearly listed as a Class A non-trading commodity by the Department of Management and Control of Magical Creatures.

Perhaps their individual attack ability is slightly weak, but their ferocious personality, super high intelligence, and strong reproductive ability give Acromantus a strong ability to invade species and cause great damage to the ecological environment.From the tone of the centaur, it can be seen that Aragog and his descendants must have caused pain to the centaur in the Forbidden Forest.

There was a sudden movement in the bushes, and Ai Wen hurriedly raised his wand.

He thought it was an acromantula, but it turned out that it was just the second centaur, with red hair and a brown body, and looked thinner than the first centaur.

"Good evening, Evan Mason!" The second centaur who appeared was much gentler, and he said in a melancholy voice, "My name is Ronan, this is Bane, I hope we didn't scare you! You are Castle The foal in it? Did you learn much at school?"

"It's okay, I can learn a little..." Aiwen said modestly, deliberately ignoring the other party's words. For horse people, a child is probably a pony.

"It would be great if you can learn a little bit!" Ronan sighed, "Although you humans waste most of your life on useless things due to racial restrictions, you have to admit that you have still achieved a lot. Some impressive magical achievements."

This sentence sounded like a compliment, but Ivan didn't know how to answer it.

Ronan didn't seem to expect Ivan to answer, he suddenly raised his head, stared at the sky, and said in an extremely melancholy tone, "Mars is very bright tonight."

He seemed to have forgotten about Ivan and the acromantia, and stared upwards without blinking, as if he saw something in it.

Ivan also raised his head and looked, Mars was indeed very bright.

He didn't know what this meant. In his opinion, this was just one of the natural phenomena of the movement of stars, but for the centaurs, it was obviously not the case. For centuries, they have been persistently observing and recording the movement of various celestial bodies, trying to Look out for symbols that show great evil or tides of transformation there.

"What does this represent?" Ivan asked softly.

Considering that the key to the secret treasure of Gryffindor is being kept in the centaur tribe, Ivan felt that it was necessary for him to establish a good relationship with the other party.

Maybe, ask them to help him catch Peter Pettigrew.With so many giant eight-eyed spiders, it is impossible for him to defeat them alone.

"The flames of war are about to ignite, and the innocent are always the first to suffer!" Ronan sighed again, "It has been like this for hundreds of years, and it is still like this now."

"Yeah." Ivan dragged his voice, he didn't know what the other party saw, he tried to say, "I went to the Forbidden Forest tonight to catch an evil wizard, and I can't let him run away, otherwise It will have an extremely bad impact on the future, and you will also be implicated. Presumably, you have also noticed the abnormality..."

"Mars is very bright tonight." Ronan repeated again, with an emphasis, "It's very bright!"

"I know, you just said, about catching that evil dark wizard, I hope you can help me."

He turned his head to look at Bane, who didn't seem to see him.

He came over and stood beside Ronan, looked up at the sky, and said slowly, "Mars is very bright tonight."

This is the same sentence, Aiwen sighed, he found it really difficult to communicate with the horse people, they may know a lot of things, but they never say it directly, they are tight-lipped about what they observe.

Like Professor Trelawney, they always like to tell others the omens they have observed, the warnings from the sky, but they often turn a blind eye to what is obviously happening around them.

Aiwen suddenly discovered that it was even more difficult to get help from the centaur in catching Peter Pettigrew.

Chapter 176 The Centaur Firenze

"About what I just said, catch that evil dark wizard..." Although he knew it was unlikely, Aiwen was still ready to try again.

"We will not help human beings, let alone disobey God's will." This time, Bane did not look at Mars in the sky again, he answered Aiwen's question accurately, with a hint of warning in his serious voice, "As it did two years ago, the trajectory of Mars has shown its omens, and what is destined to happen should not be changed."

"Although there are some changes, the result is still the same." Ronan then added, saying in his sad voice, "Tonight's Mars is brighter than ever before, which indicates that the most terrifying disaster is about to come."

"But..." Ivan wasn't sure if they were referring to Voldemort's imminent re-emergence. According to Professor Trelawney's prediction, the rising Voldemort this time would be stronger and more terrifying than ever before.

He didn't know who the man chosen by Voldemort was, but if the centaurs could help him capture Peter Pettigrew, they might be able to prevent Voldemort's return.

"It's nothing to worry about. I know what you're thinking, but the war between wizards has nothing to do with us. The centaurs care about astrological prophecies. We have no obligation to help humans." Bane replied bluntly. , "It is absolutely impossible for us to change what is about to happen, we have sworn!"

Ivan wanted to say something more, and asked about the key to the Gryffindor treasure, but suddenly a dazzling red and white light came from the depths of the Forbidden Forest, accompanied by waves of heat, like the sun at noon, turning the darkness into darkness The Forbidden Forest is fully illuminated.

"What's going on here?" Ronan scratched the soil with his hooves anxiously, "It seems to be on fire, that direction is..."

"It's the territory of those giant acromants, something must have happened!" Bain took the bow and arrow from his back.

The two of them didn't look at Ivan again, turned around and rushed over quickly. In the blink of an eye, they disappeared into the depths of the jungle, leaving only the sound of horseshoes echoing in the open space.

Aiwen also hurriedly followed, he knew that he was burning Aragog's lair, he must be faster, and there was not much time left for him.Instead of going in the direction Ronan and Bane left, he ran in another direction, knowing that he would meet his past self and Peter Pettigrew there.

Ivan ran forward for a few minutes and entered the territory of the acromantula.

The terrain sloped down significantly, and the surrounding trees began to wither gradually, showing an unhealthy gray color, with cobwebs and white spider pupae appearing from time to time.

Alvin was highly concentrated, and he clenched the wand in his hand.

Hearing Aragog's call, the acromantids scattered throughout the Forbidden Forest were gathering towards the center of the depression, and the number was increasing.

Click click, click click, click click...

Just as Aiwen raised his vigilance, three millstone-sized spiders jumped down from the surrounding trees at the same time.

They wave their sharp claws and make a terrifying clicking sound.

Ai Wen hurriedly dodged to the right, rolling on the ground in embarrassment.

A red light came out from the end of his wand, knocking the spiders in front of him into the air, and then he turned around quickly. Ivan stopped suddenly. He was surprised to see that the bodies of the two giant arachnids behind him had been shot by bows and arrows. Completely penetrated, firmly nailed to the ground, unable to move.

The two spiders struggled constantly, making a poignant sound.

Ivan raised his head in surprise, and saw a centaur standing beside him, not Ronan or Bain, this centaur looked younger.His hair was platinum and he had the body of a horse with a silver mane.

"Are you okay?" The centaur came over and pulled Ai Wen up.

"It's okay, thank you, my name is Ivan Mason, from Hogwarts!" Ivan patted the dust on his body, and then he was attracted by the eyes of the centaur.

It was a pair of amazing blue eyes, like pale sapphires.