Study Days at Hogwarts

  Chapter 487 Unicorn pre-raid event

  Since the little dragon Norbert was sent away by Harry, Hagrid has been in a bad mood. He also wrote several letters to Charlie in Romania, asking about Noble's recent life. Because the distance is too far, it takes a long time to receive a reply each time.

  However, something bad happened in the Forbidden Forest, which forced Hagrid to take back the energy he devoted to Norbert and refocus on his work.

   Not long ago, Hagrid found a pool of silver blood in the Forbidden Forest. In the limited memory of the hunting ground guard, among the various magical creatures living in the Forbidden Forest, only the blood of the unicorn is this unique silvery white.

   This means that a unicorn in the Forbidden Forest is injured.

  Hagrid had never seen anything in the Forbidden Forest that could harm a unicorn.

  Unicorns not only possess powerful magical power, but also run extremely fast. Few creatures in the Forbidden Forest can catch up with them.

   This is never a good sign.

   After working as a gamekeeper for so long, this was the first time Hagrid encountered such a situation. He had to figure out what creature hurt the unicorn.

  At this moment, in the hunting ground hut, Hagrid was adjusting his long-unused crossbow. He carefully checked every arrow in the quiver to ensure that they would not lose the chain inexplicably when they needed to be used.

  Before he left, Hagrid glanced up at the umbrella beside the bed, but he still didn't bring his wand with him.

   If possible, Hagrid tried not to use it as much as possible, so as not to cause unnecessary trouble to Dumbledore.

   "Keeping up with teeth."

  When Hagrid closed the door of the wooden house and was about to go into the woods to look for the injured unicorn, he vaguely heard someone greeting him not far away.

   "Hagrid, are you going into the woods?"

   Albert looked at Hagrid's equipment and probably guessed what was going on.

   "One of the unicorns is hurt," explained Hagrid. "I'm going into the woods to find it."

   "At this point in time?" Albert looked up at the sun above his head and asked suspiciously.

"Is there anything wrong?"

   "It should be hard to find at this time!"

  Hagrid was a little confused, and didn't understand the meaning of Albert's words.

"I remember that the blood of unicorns is silver-white, and it glows slightly at night. It is very obvious in the Forbidden Forest, and it is easy to find them, but if you go into the forest during the day and want to find injured unicorns It's not easy." Albert noticed the change in the expression on Hagrid's face, and explained casually.

   "Oh, you're right. But, I have to go." Hagrid raised his hand and scratched his head, but he still didn't give up the idea of ​​going into the woods to search for unicorns now.

"Don't worry, even if you go into the forest now, you won't be able to find the unicorn for a while, so tell me what's going on!" Albert naturally didn't intend to let go of this opportunity, I'm going to try it out and see if I can generate new tasks from this matter.

  Hagrid hesitated for a while, and finally told Albert that he found the unicorn injured in the Forbidden Forest.

"Just this morning, I found the pool of unicorn blood in the Forbidden Forest. After searching carefully, I found the blood left by the unicorn in many places. At least since last night, it has been in the Forbidden Forest Stumbling around here and there." Hagrid recalled, "I've never been in that situation before."

   "Hagrid, have you ever thought about what caused the unicorn to be injured?" Albert asked suddenly.

   "This..." Hagrid obviously didn't think about this question.

"It's not so easy to catch a unicorn. This kind of magical creature itself has strong magic and is also very resistant to magic." Albert reminded, "Don't forget, the unicorn The beast lives in the Forbidden Forest, and there are almost no natural enemies, and if the unicorn wants to escape, it is also very difficult to catch."

   "There's nothing wrong with that," Hagrid murmured softly.

   "Why do unicorns run around? Doing so will undoubtedly aggravate their injuries."

   "You mean..."

   "I think it is very likely that it is avoiding the enemy that hurt it." Albert said his guess.

   "Did you discover something?" Hagrid felt that he needed to listen to Albert's speculation. Although it might be just speculation or nonsense, it would not hurt to listen.

"As you said, this kind of thing has never happened before." Albert said calmly: "Killing a unicorn is an extremely cruel thing, and ordinary creatures are not unicorns at all." The opponents of horned beasts, let alone hurt them, unless they are cubs. Why can't we change our thinking, humans can actually be regarded as their natural enemies."

   "The one who hurt the unicorn is probably a dark wizard!"

   "Dark wizard, why does the dark wizard hunt unicorns?"

   "Garon," Albert speculated, "Unicorn horns, fur, and other things are very valuable. Sometimes, anything can be done for Garen."

   "For Canon?" Hagrid was almost roaring: "Killing a unicorn for Canon? This is simply an unforgivable thing."

"Of course, there may be other reasons." Albert scratched his ear with his little finger, and after Hagrid's roar ended, he suddenly asked: "Hagrid, do you know what the unicorn's blood is used for?" ?"

   "Unicorn blood?" Hagrid's eyes were confused.

"Unicorn blood can be used to keep people on the verge of death alive." Albert said in a low voice, "Perhaps a dark wizard tried to use the characteristics of unicorn blood to keep himself alive in order to keep himself alive." go down."

   "My God!"

  Hagrid was stunned by Albert's guess.

   "If this is the case, you'd better hope that the person has succeeded, or failed and died." Albert continued.

"Why?"

"It is said that the blood of a unicorn needs to be drunk while it is still alive to be effective." Albert glanced at his task panel that finally had a movement. After talking so many things to Hagrid, he finally triggered a helper Grid found the wounded unicorn quest.

Not easy!

   "If that person fails to drink the blood of the unicorn before it dies, I'm afraid there will be another attack."

   "My God, we have to stop him." Hagrid jumped up from his chair, holding his crossbow, ready to go into the woods to search for the possible dark wizard.

   "This is just speculation."

   "Speculation?" Hagrid looked at Albert deeply, and couldn't help but sigh with emotion, "No, it's not like speculation at all, but seeing what happened at that time with his own eyes."

   "A long time ago, I predicted this would happen in a divination class, and I told you about it." Albert glanced at Hagrid and reminded. "However, because of Norber's relationship, you probably put this matter behind you!"

   "You continue..." Hagrid was a little embarrassed. He had indeed forgotten about it, so he quickly changed the subject and let Albert continue. He also wanted to hear what was going on.

"The situation is probably that a famous black wizard used magic to seriously injure a unicorn, but the unicorn itself is a kind of magical creature with strong magic power, and its speed is also very fast, so it is not so easy to be killed, so the wounded unicorn The horned beast's dark wizard didn't get his way.

   You can only chase unicorns and run around in the forest, which is why you will find unicorn blood everywhere. "

   "It makes sense." Hagrid nodded.

   "You don't mind if I go with you to find the unicorn!" Albert and Hagrid walked side by side to the Forbidden Forest ahead: "If you haven't seen what's going on with your own eyes, the information you get is very limited after all."

   "Don't you have classes this afternoon?" Hagrid asked suspiciously.

   "Don't worry, I have other ways to solve the class problem." Albert comforted casually.

"no."

  Hagrid finally had a showdown with Albert. If that dark wizard is still hunting unicorns in the Forbidden Forest, I'm afraid I can't protect your life.

   "Don't worry, I guess that dark wizard won't show up during the day."

"Why?"

Why?

  Albert was speechless for a moment. It couldn't be said that Quirrell needed to teach in class in the morning.

  (end of this chapter)