It was dark and silent in the Forbidden Forest.

They walked silently, their eyes fixed on the ground.Every now and then, a ray of moonlight shone down from among the branches above, illuminating a silvery-blue bloodstain on the fallen leaves.

Harry could see that Hagrid was looking anxious.

"Could it be a werewolf who killed the unicorn?" Harry asked. Professor Quirrell mentioned it in class a few days ago, but are there were werewolves in the Forbidden Forest?

"It won't be so fast," said Hagrid. "It's hard to catch a unicorn, and they're very magical animals. I've never heard of a unicorn being hurt before."

They walked past a mossy stump.Harry could hear the gurgling of water; there was clearly a stream somewhere nearby.On the winding path, there are still spots of unicorn blood.

They walked for a while, and soon saw a fork in the road.

"As long as you're with me or Fangya, nothing in the Forbidden Forest will harm you," said Hagrid. "Don't leave the path. Well, now we're going to split up and follow the blood. Everywhere. It's all blood, apparently it's been stumbling around since at least last night."

Harry and Draco glanced at each other, and Harry asked, "Can we go together?"

Hagrid pursed his lips, and shrugged his huge shoulders: "Well, I don't think there's anything wrong with it, Fang Fang, follow them." Hagrid lifted the lamp and shone it on his face: "If you find the lonely Horned Beast, just shoot green sparks, get it? Get your wands out and practice a bit - by the way - and if anyone's in trouble, shoot red sparks and I'll come to you - ok, y'all Be careful—I'm going first." Hagrid nodded at the two of them, and headed down the path to the right.

Draco raised his chin at Harry with the lamp in his hand: "We're leaving too, we must find the unicorn tonight."

"I know, I hope Bambi is okay." Harry took Draco's extended hand and followed cautiously, while Fang hopped up and down to lead the way, sniffing the blood on the roadside for a while, and then He ran up to Draco and barked twice.

Feeling that Harry behind him was a little unsteady, Draco's flat voice sounded slowly, "Don't worry, since the unicorn is so badly injured, it's impossible to go very far, and Bambi won't be so uneasy. With luck, I think we'll be soon - no, there's something ahead!"

Harry felt himself being jerked by Draco, turned around and opened his eyes, and they hid behind a tall oak tree.Leaning against the thick tree trunk, he watched Draco covering his mouth vigilantly while he was poking his head out to check the situation outside.

The two didn't dare to make a sound, they only felt that their breathing seemed to be noticed, and there should be something swishing and sliding on the fallen leaves nearby: the sound was like a cloak dragging on the ground.Draco squinted his eyes to check the dark path, and after a few seconds, the sound faded away.

"I think," Draco looked into Harry's eyes and let go of his hand covering Harry: "There is one thing, it didn't belong to the Forbidden Forest."

"Werewolves?" Harry asked, instinctively thinking of what Professor Quirrell had said.

"It's not a werewolf, and it's not a unicorn." Draco said affirmatively, "I don't know what it is, well, let's go and see, you have to be careful, I don't know if I can take care of it later You, I feel the unicorn is there." They walked more slowly than before, their ears pricked up to pick up the slightest sound.Even the sound of crushing dead leaves under their feet made them extremely nervous.

Suddenly, in the open space ahead, they clearly saw something moving. "Who's there?" Draco caught Harry behind him who was about to rush over to have a look, and he shouted, "Come out—" His right hand quickly pulled out his wand.Seeing Draco pull out his wand, Harry did the same.They were in no rush to send the signal, Draco didn't trust it, and Harry didn't think it was necessary.

Yaya screamed and rushed over without fear, and kept shouting at that thing in the open space, and the voice became louder and louder.

The thing walked into the open space in response, and touched Yaya's head—is it a human or a horse?Above the waist is a human with red hair and beard, but below the waist is a shiny brown horse with a long red tail behind it.Harry opened his mouth wide in surprise.

"Hello, who are you?" Draco raised his eyebrows, handed the lamp in his hand to Harry who was dazed behind, and poked him twice with his elbow.

"Good evening, I'm Ronan the centaur." The centaur on the opposite side looked down at the two of them, looking a little distant. "Are you students? Did you learn a lot in school?"

"What's the problem?" Draco didn't understand the intention of the centaur in front of him. After a long time, Harry came out from behind and said with a sneer, "What's more, what's less, what can be learned is limited. The limited ones are also incomparable with our own family."

"Really? That's pretty good too." Ronan sighed.He raised his head and stared at the sky. "Mars is bright tonight."

Not knowing what the centaur was up to, Draco said bluntly, "I'm sorry we don't have time to chat right now, because one of the unicorns is injured—do you see anything?"

Ronan didn't answer right away.He stared upward without blinking, then sighed again. "It's always the innocent who suffer first," he said. "It's been that way for hundreds of years, and it's still going on."

"We're in a hurry now." Draco frowned, obviously starting to get a little impatient. "So, didn't you see it, Ronan? Yes or no, please tell us immediately, we can't waste time now, it's a life."

"Mars is bright tonight." Ronan repeated, even Harry was a little bored. "Extraordinarily bright," said Ronan. "Yes, but I mean, is there anything out of the ordinary near our house?"

Harry rolled his eyes and spoke, no one could see the dark Forbidden Forest anyway. "Didn't you notice some strange movement?"

Ronan still didn't reply.Finally, he said: "There are many secrets hidden in the forest." Harry rubbed his forehead, he has completely disliked this centaur, he was like a bard, but he didn't know if he was an astrologer or a seer thing?

There was a sudden movement in the bushes behind Ronan, and Draco raised his wand again. It turned out that it was only a second centaur, with black hair and a dark body, and looked wilder than Ronan.

"Ronan... oh, hello! Are you Hogwarts students?"

"Yes." Draco nodded, "My name is Draco Malfoy, and this is Harry Everson. I was just asking Ronan, have you seen anything weird here recently? One of the unicorns was hurt—do you know something about it?"

Bane came and stood beside Ronan, looking up at the sky. "Mars is bright tonight," was all he said.

"We've heard this sentence before." Harry pointed out very bluntly, don't centaurs only say this kind of thing?He made gestures of surrender - even though they couldn't read them.I can't stand these horse people. "Okay, if any of you see something, please come and tell us quickly, okay? These are very important to us. Okay, Fangya, let's go!"

The two continued to set off towards one of the blood-stained paths in the clearing. Harry was a little annoyed: "Oh, don't the centaurs answer straightforwardly? They like to beat around the bush so much! Are the stars so beautiful?"

"They are not interested in anything except the things around the moon." Draco thought for a while, and explained to Harry the information he read about the centaurs in the book: "Their prophecies are very accurate, but not It’s easy to prophesy for others, and these centaurs are always unpredictable... tight-lipped, although they still have good intentions.”

"Do you think the movement we heard earlier was also a centaur?" Harry asked again. "Do you think that sounds like horseshoes? If you ask me, I don't think so, it's the guy who killed the unicorn - I've never heard that sound before. Well, Draco, don't use Look at me like an idiot, I just want to find something to say."

They continued on through the dense, dark woods.Harry kept looking nervously over his shoulder.He had an uncomfortable feeling that someone was watching them.He was very happy to have Draco by his side all the time, a boy who was about his age gave him a strong sense of security.

They walked for nearly half an hour, getting deeper and deeper into the forest, until the trees became so thick that the trail was almost impassable.Harry felt that the blood on the ground was getting denser.The roots of a tree were spattered with blood, as if the poor animal had writhed and writhed in agony nearby.Through the tangled branches of an ancient oak tree, Harry could see a clearing ahead.

"Look—" he whispered, holding back Draco, who was walking ahead and examining the blood on the ground.

A white object shone on the ground not far away.Little by little they approached it.

Yes, that was the unicorn, but it was dead.Harry had never seen anything so beautiful, so miserable.Its slender legs straightened unnaturally in the same position as it had fallen; its mane was spread like pearls on the black fallen leaves.

Harry just took a step towards it, when a sudden rustling sound made him stop in his tracks, and stood there dumbfounded.A bush trembled at the edge of the clearing... Then, out of the shadows, a hooded figure appeared, crawling slowly on the ground like an approaching beast.Both Harry and Fang stood there dumbfounded, but Harry realized it quickly.The cloaked figure approached the unicorn, lowered its head, aimed at the wound on the side of the corpse, and began to drink its blood.

"Be careful!" Suddenly a person rushed over from the dark place and threw Draco and Harry down who wanted to rush to save the unicorn: "The unicorn is dead, don't be impulsive."

At this time, there was another person standing in the dark and casting a spell at the hooded person.

The author has something to say: Brother Tao is still rushing to rush homework today == it’s the end of the term, I can’t afford to be hurt! ! !

There may be an exam tomorrow night, either tomorrow night or the night after tomorrow, elective courses /(ㄒoㄒ)/~~ I haven’t gone to a few classes

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