Hogwarts snake in the mist

Eric walked in the front holding a lantern to explore the way, and Draco and Neville walked side by side behind him.

Not finding anything else along the way, Draco began to show off his bad nature again, scaring Neville into using his wand to emit a red light.

Hagrid had to ask Harry and Neville to change teams and let Harry and Eric go together.

After walking for about half an hour, they gradually approached the depths of the Forbidden Forest.There are more and more weeds and tree roots underground, making it difficult to walk.

Suddenly, Eric stretched out his hand to stop Draco and Harry who were walking forward. "I thought, this must be a unicorn."

The poor unicorn lay paralyzed on the ground, its long legs stretched out unnaturally, still maintaining the same posture as before death, and its smooth mane as white as pearls spread out flat.

As soon as Harry took a step towards it, a noise from the surrounding bushes made him freeze in place.

A hooded black figure crawled slowly on the ground, like an approaching beast, approaching the unicorn.

Including Eric, everyone seemed to have pressed the pause button and stood dumbfounded.

To be honest, Eric was really shocked by the pure appearance of the unicorn when he first saw it. He had a wonderful feeling facing the magical creature, even though it was dead.

The hooded figure lowered its head, approached the unicorn's wound, and began to suck the unicorn's blood.

Such a scene is enough to leave a deep psychological shadow on a child. Malfoy let out a miserable scream, left the two of them and turned around and ran away.

Eric didn't feel anything when he saw the figure sucking blood, but Malfoy's roar frightened him.

But it was also because of Malfoy's scream that Eric reacted instantly.Also reacting was the terrifying figure, which quickly rushed towards Harry, who was still standing there, covering his head.

"Fainted" Eric quickly took out his wand and hit the black shadow first, but he didn't hit it.

Taking advantage of the opportunity for the shadow to avoid the spell, Eric dragged Harry and ran back without looking back. He had never felt such a strong sense of crisis.

Eric ran very fast, and Harry, who was following behind, almost tripped over tree roots several times, but he always pulled him up and continued running.

The two of them staggered a long way out, until Harry couldn't run anymore and sat down on the ground.

"Ahem, thank you." Harry gasped, feeling as if his lungs were about to explode.Just now, his scar started to hurt again, as if there was a fire burning on it. If Eric hadn't pulled him away, he would have been caught by the shadow.

After resting for a few minutes, Harry felt better. "Eric, where are we?"

Eric shook his head, he didn't know where he was.With a slight shake, Eric's wand emits a dazzling red light.

After a while, someone came from the path over there.Not Hagrid, but a centaur, a centaur with these blue eyes.

After a conversation, the centaur named Firenze was willing to help them find Hagrid, and also reminded Harry of the identity of the figure just now.The middle also triggered a quarrel between Firenze and Baine, the centaur, about the stars of destiny.

When Hagrid, Hermione, and Neville found the two of them, Harry was worriedly talking to Eric about Voldemort.

"The man just now turned out to be Voldemort. How could this happen? Why did Voldemort come to the Forbidden Forest?"

"Harry, don't be too anxious. No matter what, if you can survive him once, you can definitely survive a second time. And" Eric looked at Hagrid, who was coming, and motioned for Harry to do not talk.

Harry understood what he meant and kept silent in cooperation.Because of what happened during this confinement, Hagrid sent them back to the castle early.

"Snape wants to get the Philosopher's Stone for Voldemort. Voldemort is waiting in the Forbidden Forest. I thought Snape stole the Philosopher's Stone to sell it for money."

Harry's voice began to tremble with excitement. He walked forward while talking to his friends around him.

"Bain also said that Firenze disturbed the instructions of the Star of Destiny. In his opinion, Voldemort should kill me. That must be what it says above."

"Harry." Eric interrupted his chattering, "Calm down, now, you should take a good rest, relax your mind, stop thinking about what just happened, and we will talk about this matter tomorrow. "

Only then did Harry realize that he was indeed too excited, and that his excitement was a bit unusual.

"Eric is right, Harry, your body was shaking when you just spoke." Hermione echoed.

At noon the next day, in the library.

"So we do nothing, wait for Snape to steal the Philosopher's Stone, and then Voldemort comes and kills me," Harry complained.

"Listen to me, Harry." Hermione tried her best to comfort Harry, "As long as Dumbledore is here, You-Know-Who will not touch a single hair on your head. And who says what the Centaur says is definitely right? . I feel like it’s a bit like fortune telling, Professor McGonagall said it’s an imprecise magic.”

This topic was quickly stopped by Hermione, and they chose to continue reviewing to temporarily forget what happened in the Forbidden Forest.

The exams came, and Harry couldn't remember how he spent those days in fear.Every day he was afraid of Voldemort's sudden appearance, and the scar on his head kept hurting.

Ron and Hermione didn't seem to understand how he felt. They didn't have the damn scar, nor had they seen the horrific sight Harry saw in the Forbidden Forest.

The only one who can understand him is Eric.Unfortunately, Eric was not with Harry all day like Hermione and Ron, so Harry had to endure it silently and devote himself to the exam wholeheartedly.

The large classroom where the questions were answered was extremely hot and stuffy, making the students who were taking the exam drowsy and unable to concentrate on answering the questions well.

There are also practical operations.Professor Flitwick asked them to go into the classroom one by one and see if they could tap dance a pineapple across a desk.

Professor McGonagall asked them to turn a mouse into a snuff box. The more exquisite the pattern on it, the higher the score.

During the potion test, Professor Snape passed behind each student quietly, like a ghost. They could even feel Professor Snape's breath on the back of their necks.

The last subject was the history of magic. As long as they answered that the old wizard invented the automatic crucible, they would be completely liberated and have fun for a week until the test results came out.

When Eric finished writing the last word and put the quill on the table.He exhaled a long breath. He hadn't felt this urgent feeling for a long time. The feeling of returning to his student days was really nostalgic.

After the exam, it was time to get the Philosopher's Stone next. Eric began to think about the next action. The incident in the Forbidden Forest gave him a more intuitive understanding of Voldemort's strength for the first time.

Voldemort is stronger than he thought, which means that the risk of getting the Sorcerer's Stone this time is higher than Eric estimated.