Exchange student at Hogwarts
Chapter 51 The background of Hogwarts
With Yaya in hand, Zhang Chen and the others took off their invisibility cloaks and walked into the Forbidden Forest.
"Ya Ya, let's go for a walk. Can you take us to Hagrid's spider friend?" Zhang Chen gently patted Ya Ya on the back and gave action instructions. Yaya shook his head and happily rushed towards the Forbidden Forest, crossing one leg next to a big Sycamore fig tree.
"Luciferase" Harry took out his wand and emitted a light similar to a strong flashlight, allowing everyone to see the traces of spiders on the ground.
Zhang Chen did the same thing, but when the light of his flashlight exceeded twenty meters, it was not restrained by magic power and began to scatter. The messy light reflected dark shadows around it, which was very scary. It was a sharp tool to create a terrifying atmosphere. Zhang Chen hurriedly saw this. He turned off his wand and followed Harry obediently.
Ron thought for a while and took out the "Elder Wand" that he had broken off and reattached, but Zhang Chen stopped him in time before he could chant the spell, "You'd better forget it, it will explode if you don't do it right. Ron chuckled when he heard it, put away his wand, and followed silently.
However, the Forbidden Forest at night is not a big threat to them. First, the edge of the Forbidden Forest has been swept away many times by teachers at Hogwarts, and it has not yet exceeded the range of the castle's defense magic, so there is no big threat. The threat; on the other hand, Zhang Chen has excellent danger perception after practicing Xuan Gong, and his night vision ability has also been greatly improved after the third level of Xuan Gong. The only hidden danger is that he forgot to roll the dice when he went out this time. I don't know whether it is a disaster or a blessing.
In the Forbidden Forest, Yaya ran around them, sniffing the roots and leaves of the trees. By the light of Harry's wand, they followed the spiders that continued to crawl along the path. After walking for about twenty minutes, no one said anything. They only listened carefully to see if there were any other sounds besides the snapping of branches and the rustling of leaves. Then, the trees grew thicker and denser, and the stars above were no longer visible. Harry's wand was gleaming alone in the endless darkness when they noticed that the spider guides had strayed off the path. Harry stopped, trying to see clearly the direction in which the spider was moving, but beyond the range illuminated by that glimmer of light, there was darkness beyond reach.
"Okay, let me lead the way. Harry, you and Ron follow me, just shine the wand under your feet so as not to trip." Zhang Chen's eyes shone slightly, a bit like the pupils of a cat. At this time In his eyes, the darkness of the Forbidden Forest was only equivalent to the brightness of dusk, which did not hinder movement at all.
After trudging through tree stumps, vines, and thorns for more than half an hour, they followed the footsteps of the little spider in a slightly downward direction until they reached a certain place in the Forbidden Forest. There was no way to go ahead, and they were surrounded by trees and dwarfs. Surrounded by slopes, a small low-lying area was formed.
Fang suddenly let out a loud bark that echoed through the woods, scaring Harry and Ron out of their wits.
"What?" Ron said loudly, looking into the darkness and grabbing Zhang Chen's elbow.
"There's something moving in there," Harry gasped. "It sounds like something big."
They listened carefully. Some distance to their right, the big thing was cutting its way through the trees, snapping countless branches.
"He is indeed a big guy." Zhang Chen calmly protected Harry and Ron behind him. The trees in the distance continued to fall, raising a pile of smoke and dust.
At this time, to their right, a dazzling light suddenly lit up, dazzling in the darkness, and all three of them raised their hands to shield their eyes. Yaya roared and tried to escape, but was caught by a thorn and screamed louder.
"Harry," Ron called, his voice choked with relief, "Harry, it's our car."
They stumbled along the light and came to a clearing. Mr. Weasley's car was parked in the middle of a circle of dense trees, with densely intertwined branches and leaves on top. There was no one in the car, and the car lights were shining brightly. As Ron walked toward it with his mouth wide open, the dog slowly moved toward him, like a big turquoise dog greeting its owner.
"I'll go, I'm indeed the protagonist, and this treatment is provided by car pick-up and drop-off." Zhang Chen followed behind and muttered silently, but turned around, pulled out his wand, and pointed it in the direction of the big spider.
There was a loud clicking sound, and a spider as big as a small elephant emerged very slowly from the middle of the misty forest. Its body and legs are black with gray, and each eye on its ugly head with big pincers is covered with a layer of white. It is blind, and it is the big spider that I saw in the dream in the diary. Aragog.
"What's the matter?" it said, click click, the two big pincers moved quickly.
At this time, next to it, there were about ten spiders that were only slightly smaller than him, probably as big as a car, slowly crawling out from the trees, underground, and thorn piles, and surrounded Zhang Chen and the others. One of the largest spiders made a roaring sound. Say "people"
"Is it Hagrid?" Aragog said, coming closer, his eight milky white eyes looking blankly.
"It's a stranger," the spider clicked.
"Kill them," Aragog said irritably, clicking. "I am sleeping."
"We are friends of Hagrid," Harry shouted. His heart seemed to leave his chest and jump out of his throat.
Click, click, click, the claws of spiders moved all over the hollow.Aragog hesitated.
"Hagrid never sent anyone into our hollow before," it said slowly.
"Hagrid's in trouble," said Harry, breathing very rapidly, "that's why we're here."
"Trouble" said the old spider. Harry thought he could hear concern in the clicking of the claws. "But why did he send you?"
"In the school, they think that Hagrid has recently released something to harm the students. They took him to Azkaban." Click, click, Aragog moved his claws angrily, and the sound was heard on the hollow ground. The swarm of spiders responded; it was like applause, except that ordinary applause didn't make Harry sick with fear.
"But that was many years ago," Aragog said angrily. "Many, many years ago. I remember it well. That's why they let him leave the school. They believed I was the monster that lived in what they called the Chamber of Secrets. They thought it was Hagrid who opened the Chamber of Secrets and let me out."
"We know that you are not the monster in the secret room. We even know that the monster in the secret room is called a basilisk, but I need you to tell me where the entrance to the secret room is. We are going to destroy it and we can't let it hurt my friends anymore. "Zhang Chen stared at Aragog and shouted loudly.
"Shut up, don't mention that monster's name in front of me," Aragog said, his claws clicking angrily, "I won't tell you everything about him, these things have nothing to do with me."
"But as long as he is not exposed to the dangers of the castle for a day, Hagrid will not be able to clear his suspicions for a day, and he will not be able to come back for a day. You are his friend, and he saved you back then, didn't he?" Zhang Chen tried to move people with emotion.
"Yes, I was not born in the castle. I come from a far away country. When I was not hatched from the egg, a tourist gave me to Hagrid. Hagrid was just a child at that time, But he took care of me, hid me in a cupboard in the castle, and fed me crumbs left on the table. Hagrid was a good friend of mine, and he was a good man. People found me and asked me to serve him. He protected me when I was responsible for a girl's death. Since then, I have been living in the woods, and Hagrid often visits me. He even found me a wife, Mossag. You see How prosperous our family has become is all thanks to Hagrid."
"We also wanted to save him. He was the one who picked me up from the airport to school, and he is also my friend." It seemed to be effective, and Zhang Chen was further moved by his feelings.
"Okay, okay, I only know that the entrance to the nest of that thing is near the little girl who died. I only know this much. I never dare to get close. We are natural enemies."
By this time, Harry mustered up what little courage he had left. "Then you have never, never attacked anyone."
"No," the old spider said resentfully, "I have this instinct, but out of respect for Hagrid, I have never hurt anyone. The body of the murdered girl was found in a bathroom .And I've never seen any part of the castle except the cupboard I grew up in. We spiders like darkness and silence''
"Myrtle's bathroom" Harry and Ron shouted in surprise.
"But what's the use of knowing this?" There was a hint of cunning in the old spider's voice. "My children obeyed my orders and did not harm Hagrid. But fresh human flesh is automatically delivered to their doorsteps, and I cannot stop them from enjoying it. Farewell, Hagrid's friends."
"Lava bursts." Zhang Chen waved his wand, and a huge fireball appeared above their heads. "Ten layers of fireballs, old spider, guess how many of your descendants will be killed when it hits them."
On the surrounding slopes, groups of spiders formed a solid, towering wall of copper and iron. Their large claws clicked together. Many pairs of eyes shone on those ugly black heads. The hot breath of the bursting lava fireballs made people feel... The little spiders all took a few steps back. The spider wall collapsed instantly, and after a while it was rebuilt at the back.
"A very familiar magic aura, what is your relationship with him?" the big spider asked hesitantly. Obviously, this powerful and destructive magic was once someone's signature.
"Guess the person who taught me this magic is still in confinement in the Austrian castle. If you kill me, he might come to you." It's normal for a fox to pretend to be a tiger. Zhang Chen didn't show any pretense and moved out of Greenwalt directly. The sign of virtue.
"Let them go," Aragog shouted loudly to his descendants, "disperse the magic in your hands, get out of my sight, and get out."
Suddenly a high-pitched and long voice sounded, and a dazzling light illuminated the entire depression. Mr. Weasley's car rumbled to life, its headlights flashing and its horn blaring, knocking the spiders aside. Several spiders were knocked onto their backs and countless long legs danced in the air. . With a harsh sound, the car stopped in front of Zhang Chen and the others, and the door opened suddenly.
"Bring on Yaya," Zhang Chen shouted, getting into the front seat. "I've long wanted to ride in a flying car, and finally I got my wish."
Ron grabbed the big hound from the waist and threw the barking dog into the back seat. Harry got into the passenger seat from the other side. The car door slammed shut. Zhang Chen didn't touch the accelerator, but the car didn't need him to do anything; the engine roared and they set off, knocking down more spiders. They galloped up the slope and out of the hollow. Soon they were hurtling through the woods. The car followed a route it was obviously familiar with, cleverly turning left and right, looking for the widest gap.
Zhang Chen's wand has been floating on the top of the car hood, and the fiercely burning fireball is also floating with them, baking the leaves of the surrounding trees along the way and starting to curl up.
"Can't it fly?" Zhang Chen curiously fumbled around in the driver's seat, trying to find the button that controls flying.
"Stop making a fuss, let's get out of the Forbidden Forest quickly." Ron was so frightened that he was afraid that Zhang Chen would damage the car again if something went wrong.
"Can your fireball dissipate? I feel like the roof of the car is about to melt." Harry asked, sweating profusely.
"It won't disperse. Grindelwald didn't teach me how to disperse, but I doubt it can be dispersed at all. Isn't it necessary to use this kind of magic desperately? Anyone who has nothing to do can study how to disperse."
They crashed through the low bushes, Fang growling loudly in the back seat. As they squeezed through a large oak tree, mirrors were knocked off the wings. After ten minutes of noisy and bumpy racing, the trees gradually thinned out, and Harry could see small patches of the night sky again.
The car stopped so suddenly that they almost hit the windshield due to the inertia. They had reached the edge of the woods. Fang rushed to the car window, eager to get out. As soon as Harry opened the car door, he shot through the trees like an arrow, tail between his legs, and ran towards Hagrid's hut. Zhang Chen also got out of the car. After about a minute, Harry and Ron seemed to have recovered the feeling in their limbs and followed him down. Harry patted the car gratefully and it turned back into the woods and disappeared.
"There's nothing we can do. Throw it into the lake. Harry prepared the invisibility cloak. After throwing it away, we'll run away. If we're caught, we must have been persuaded to retreat." Zhang Chen looked at the increasingly intense fireball above his head and knew that he would not throw away the castle again. The teachers here are about to find out.
"Boom!" The huge fireball instantly evaporated in the small lake in front of Hogwarts. Although Zhang Chen had tried to reduce the output of magic power, the power like a ballistic missile still shook the entire Hogwarts. got up.
Three layers of looming protective shields suddenly appeared around the entire castle. The outermost layer emitted a light yellow light, covering the small semi-forbidden forest and the lakes and grasslands around the castle, covering an area of about ten kilometers.
The second layer is silvery white and has a somewhat metallic texture. It includes the corridor in front of the castle gate, the school hospital and some external buildings. Hagrid's hut is barely on the edge of the second layer of protective shield. It seems that Dumbledore Lido was really nice to him.
The third layer is translucent red, as if a tulle is worn on the castle, swaying, but at first glance it is a powerful protective spell to defend against counterattacks, which is completely different from the outer two layers that can only defend.
"Grinwald" A deep roar spread out around the castle. A dozen professors and wizards suddenly sprang out of the castle, walking back and forth within the three-layer protective shield. Various detection spells flashed continuously. Dozens of strong light sources at the top of the castle also suddenly lit up, rotating like prevention and control warning lights, illuminating the surroundings of Hogwarts as if it were daytime.
"Who is Grindelwald?" Harry and Ron were so frightened by the huge battle in front of them that they couldn't speak clearly. They shivered and put on their invisibility cloaks. They hid in Hagrid's hut with Zhang Chen and watched Hogwart. Almost all of Ci's defensive power was displayed before his eyes.
"Sure enough, the heritage of Hogwarts cannot be underestimated." Looking at the several powerful old wizards outside the usual classes, and remembering that deep voice again, Zhang Chen let out a sigh of relief, and it was not in vain.
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