Crossing into Regulus

It took a lot of work to find the unicorn, and the Death Eaters disturbed everything in the Forbidden Forest so badly that the animals went into hiding.Of course, the Death Eaters paid a price too.

But soon a centaur came out to look at Severus and his party.

Harry was fearless, but he refrained from opening his mouth. He knew that the centaurs were hostile to humans. Perhaps only Dumbledore could barely talk to them. Now he only hoped that the other party could ignore them and let them pass. If necessary, he can also open a way out.

The centaur looked at Severus and the people behind him for a while, and his eyes lingered on Regulus for a while.

"That—" the centaur raised his head towards Regulus, "what did you bring him here for?"

Hermione swayed back, apparently remembering her last failed conversation with the centaur.

Severus folded his hands in front of him, expressionless but relaxed, "Crossrow, we're here for help." His voice was still low, but at least he didn't have the disgust and indifference towards Harry, if Leaving prejudice aside, Severus' voice should actually be standard politeness now, neither too warm nor too cold.

Harry wasn't sure if it was the right thing to say, he remembered that Hermione had been self-defeating, but Severus looked calm from the back.

Keluo didn't get angry, he just pawed his hooves and walked back and forth without raising the bow and arrow in his hand.The centaurs around him looked at Regulus quietly.

But with Regulus in Harry's arms, it gave Harry the illusion that the stud was staring at him, which was really uncomfortable.

Severus said nothing more, he had been waiting quietly.

Crossrow said after a moment, "We want him." His finger pointed at Harry, but of course it was Regulus.

"Oh, this won't work."

Hermione whispered.

The horsemen drew their bows and arrows and pointed at them.

Hagrid moved his bulky body slightly.

Ron couldn't help but look around.

Severus continued to wait without moving, as if he hadn't heard anything.Keluo didn't raise his bow and arrow, although his expression seemed unreasonable.

Harry took a deep breath and suddenly couldn't understand why they had to treat the centaurs so cautiously. The Forbidden Forest didn't belong to the centaurs, it should belong to all living things.Since he wanted to come in, he could come in without asking for the consent of these guys.

Severus shook his head slightly, repressing Harry's desire to speak, and then he said, "May I ask what you want him for, Crossroe."

Crossrow raised his eyes slightly, this time he was looking at Harry, as if he had seen through Harry's silence, but he was neither angry nor any other emotion, he said, " 17 years ago, we observed a strong light from a dead star, which was unprecedented, not in the history of your humans, but in the records of our centaurs, and there were several different differences between us The opinion needs to be verified." He didn't say much, but raised his chin, and continued to stare at Regulus.

Harry's anger was held back by Hermione's surreptitious hand.She whispered in Harry's ear, "No, Harry, centaurs are good at healing magic, we have to bear with it."

"Then if they want to study Rael's astrology, they have to revive him first." Ron continued excitedly.

"Maybe they just want to watch Rael die undisturbed." Harry gritted his teeth. "Stars are always the most important thing, remember? The centaur didn't want to save me in first grade because The stars are disturbed."

"Uh..." Hermione and Ron fell silent.

After the three of them hurriedly ended their unhappy conversation, they found that the centaur on the opposite side had disappeared, and Severus looked at them sideways, beckoning everyone to continue walking.

Harry hurried to follow.

Hagrid lowered his voice and said, "Hey, that's exciting. Centaurs have their day."

Harry didn't have the energy to ask what kind of forceful method it was, he just hummed a few times and followed Severus in front.

After leading the crowd to a sunny clearing, Hagrid turned around to look at the exhausted crowd, and as if suddenly realizing it, he said, "Oh, I think we need to get some wild strawberries, crab apples, and mountain cherries. ’” he said, using his umbrella to conjure a bunch of juicy little fruit (Severus stood with his eyes downcast, not commenting on this), “and, of course, the pure witch.” He looked Looked at Hermione.

The latter looked at both sides at a loss, and then stammered with a blushing face, "Well, so, so you want me to, um, stay, stay here?"

Hagrid nodded with a smile, "Yes, Hermione. Well, the rest of us can back off." He raised his arms, driving the wizards away as if directing music.

Harry placed Regulus carefully next to the crabapple, and backed away.

Hermione stood by and didn't know what to do. After a while, she looked around and saw Harry and the others hiding behind a tree seven or eight meters away.In fact, it's not considered hiding, they didn't mean to cover their bodies.Hermione coughed and looked away.

There was a little light in the bushes at the edge of the clearing, too faint in broad daylight.But it was accompanied by some rustling movements, and a warm and cheerful atmosphere permeated the air.Hermione realized all of a sudden that it was the unicorn coming, and she braced herself tightly.

An adult unicorn emerges in a clearing through the bushes.

Hermione blinked and tried to improve her expression, then noticed that her tongue was a little knotted. "Hi-hi, you, hello..."

The unicorn tilted its neck slightly, looking at Hermione with its beautiful pure blue eyes.

Hermione could feel the burning eyes staring at her from behind, and then she tried to clear her throat with a cough, but the sound was so loud and startling that it seemed to scare the unicorn away.

The opposite effect manifests itself.

Another full-grown unicorn emerged from the bushes opposite, its hair shaved and matted as it passed through the branches, giving it a somewhat reckless and cute look.

The two unicorns rubbed their heads together.

Hermione tried to catch her breath.

The previous unicorn took a few steps forward, curled up its limbs and lay down beside Regulus, leaning against him, as if warming him.

The later one paced slowly in circles around Hermione and Regulus, shaking its head.Hermione couldn't help laughing, and ran her hand down its fur as it approached.

The unicorn stretched out its head and rubbed it against Hermione's hand.

One after another unicorns came to the clearing, and the shimmering light from their bodies gathered together and gradually became stronger, and they could be seen clearly even in daylight.

Hermione was a little surprised, the area was almost crowded with unicorns at the moment, and she was rubbed by several of them.

On the ground, Regulus was surrounded by unicorns, and his face shone brightly.A small one leaned over to lick his face.

The wizards hiding behind slowly came forward.

The herd of unicorns fell silent for a moment, and several pairs of blue eyes watched the wizards.Hermione was smiling, and then tensed again at the sight of the unicorn.

Harry bit the bullet and took a step forward.

Well, the unicorns didn't leave, and some of them took a few steps away, and Harry wasn't sure if that was to make way for them to go in, or if they didn't like wizards.

He dared not leave.

Hagrid didn't care. He walked briskly into the crowd of unicorns, touching the nearest one with a finger.The unicorn didn't shy away. "To be honest, it's rare to see this kind of scene in my life. It's really worth remembering."

A juvenile unicorn came and bit Harry's pants.Harry felt it tugging slightly at him, and he was flattered to follow it, a little knotted.

Then out of the corner of his eye he saw Snape impatiently surrounded by the unicorns, more intimate than Hagrid and Ron, and his eyes widened.

The little unicorn led Harry closer to Regulus.

Harry knelt down, touched the unicorn next to Regulus, and said uncomfortably, "Uh, thank you."

The unicorns shook their heads slightly, staring at him with innocent eyes.

Regulus, lying in the unicorn's twilight, really looked like he was just asleep.

Harry burst into tears.

A unicorn approached to lick the tears away.

More tears flowed.

The unicorn tilted its head, its big eyes showing doubts.

Harry fell to his knees, hugging his head and weeping loudly.

Hermione separated from the unicorn and rushed to hug him, "Harry..."

Ron didn't dare to be as rude as Hermione, he sidled carefully through the gap between the unicorns, squatted down beside Harry and Hermione, patted Harry on the back, and didn't know what to say.No matter how pure the unicorn is, dozens of Unforgivable Curses are not so easy to dispel, and he dare not say that having the unicorn Rael will get better, but, but...

Don't give up hope.

Harry and Hermione were missing from those returning to the castle, and Severus said they had to keep someone there in turn to cast the Patronus Charm at the right time.Of course the witches had to be kept every time, Hagrid added.For now they were left alone.

When Severus and his group entered a small courtyard, they were surprised to find that it had been restored, and the speed was too fast.

Several people sat and chatted together.

Ron noticed their conversation.

"...Just saying, 'Please return to the way it was before, I'm so tired', the stones flew up by themselves and assembled into a whole piece, and then the whole wall was built up. Look at the pattern, it's not at all That's right..."

"Yes, me too, that's what I said over there, the broken branches grow back."

"If you ask me, the wall may be the reduction spell, but what about the tree?"

Ron noticed that Severus glanced at the few people who were resting on the railing.

"Don't say that again, that 'resume please,'" Severus snapped at them.The other party was so scared that he quickly closed his mouth.

Then he quickened his pace, almost coasting, and Ron had to trot to keep up.Hagrid asked Ron inexplicably, "What's the matter?"

Ron didn't know either.

In the next moment, people within the castle area heard a voice, which resounded through the air, and it said, "Now, please come here to the hall, I have something to announce, and besides, don't make a wish." Ask the castle to automatically restore."

Ron looked at the black waves rolling up behind Severus, and suddenly understood.

It wasn't the castle itself that restored it, but Regulus.

When he thought of this, he couldn't help but shiver.

Restoring the castle... that's going to take a lot of power.

But another thing made him happy again. He hadn't heard about automatic repair when he went out before, so he can be sure that the unicorn works.

Don't give up hope.

Ron read it again silently, hurriedly wrote a note and folded it into a plane to fly out.

The plane stumbled all the way through most of the Forbidden Forest, and found Harry hovering above his head, but Harry didn't reach out to catch him, he was sitting in a daze among a bunch of unicorns.

The plane hit Harry's glasses directly.

Startled, Hermione lifted the plane and opened it, then she looked up at Harry, "Harry..."

"Ok?"

"...it worked," whispered Hermione, as she handed the note to Harry.

It was scribbled on it, and Ron said the castle was being repaired, it was Rael.

Harry blinked and cleaned his glasses again.Hermione looked at him laughing, then covered her mouth with her hands, and tears fell from the corners of her eyes after a while.

"Great……"

Harry looked back at Regulus who was lying quietly, and couldn't help muttering to himself, "Yes, this is really wonderful..."