Hogwarts Card System.

Chapter 261: The Undead and the Relics in the Forbidden Forest (Two in One)

After returning to school, the few people continued to pester Professor McGonagall to ask about the zombie dog.

When Harry and the others heard that someone had suggested sending Dementors to search the Forbidden Forest, their expressions looked extremely ugly.

Harry: "Professor, they wouldn't really do that, would they? Zombie dogs and Dementors, I don't know which one is more worrying!"

She was kissed by the Dementors and passed out!
Professor McGonagall pushed up her glasses. "Although we are indeed short of manpower, the Muggle community seems to be in a lot of trouble right now. The Department of Magical Accidents and Catastrophes and the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures of the Ministry of Magic have to work overtime every day, and all departments are very short of manpower... But Fudge still did not agree to send out the Dementors in the end."

Jerry shrugged and whispered, "Maybe he's afraid of what happened last time. After all, I think those monsters are more interested in us than looking for clues about zombie dogs!"

That’s right, the Dementors simply regarded the positive emotions of the young wizards as the ultimate delicacy, and it was hard to resist being so close.

If it happens again, Fudge might not even make it to the end of his term but be impeached.

However, zombie dogs that can spread the "curse of the undead" are indeed very scary and should not be taken lightly.

There are now dozens of people in the Forbidden Forest divided into small teams, conducting a carpet search.

I hope they gain something.

……

Although the atmosphere outside the school was tense, because the incident was not reported in the newspapers and was silenced, not many students knew about it, so the little wizards continued to live their lives.

The happy life in the ivory tower is hard-earned!
There is a divination class today.

Before this, Ted had found time to talk to Professor Trelawney.

About her talent, how to master it, how to develop in the future and so on.

Ted plans to use some psychic methods to let Trelawney show her talent for divination and slowly train her to develop her own abilities.

Although Trelawney felt somewhat ashamed at the thought of asking her own student for advice and following his plan.

But the obsession of nearly twenty years really makes people have no choice but to follow it.

How should I put it? Although the magic world has existed for such a long time, there are really not many things accumulated about divination.

Firstly, it is not easy for wizards to have prophets, especially in the land of Great Britain.

So much so that only one or two gifted fortune tellers and prophets appear every several generations, and everyone has to rely on themselves to explore.

As for Trelawney, she didn't inherit anything and could only learn the knowledge available on the market.

She wasn't even sure if she really had the ability to do so.

If it weren't for Ted, she would have gradually fallen into despair.

Now, at least there is a way to go, so why bother about who points the way?
Well, in this way, in addition to Professor McGonagall and his own dean, Professor Flitwick, Ted now has a new supporter, Professor Trelawney!

Today's divination class was a little special as it was held in the middle of the night.

Because today's class is about astrology, or stargazing, anything goes.

It can be said that the entire human divination and prophecy began with looking up at the stars.

Whether it is the strange constellation divination methods in the West or the Yi Li and numerology in the East, they all summarize experience from the laws of the movement of stars, and then use them to create divination and calculations.

Therefore, the astronomy classes in the previous two years were mainly for laying the foundation.

However, divination is already a very rare talent, and stargazing can be said to be a precious talent that is one in a million.

The entire Western magical world is not very good at this thing. Instead, wizards in the Arab region and some races with a talent for star sensing are more proficient at it, such as the centaurs in the Forbidden Forest.

On the astronomy tower, two people are in a group, one watches and the other draws.

Neville and Jerry were in the same group, but Neville's eyes became dazzled when he looked at the starry sky in the camera.

"I seem to see two Neptunes. That's not right, right?" he asked with some confusion.

"right?"

Jerry laughed. He imitated Trelawney's action of pushing up his glasses, and his tone became unreal. "Oh, Neville, two Neptunes are a bad sign! You have to be careful, be careful~"

Neville didn't react for a moment and asked, "Be careful about what?"

Jerry: "Be careful, there is another one who wants to plot against you~"

Seamus and Dean, who were drawing pictures on the side, couldn't help but giggle when they heard this, and they couldn't even straighten their backs.

However, their laughter did not attract Professor Trelawney's attention because it was drowned out by Lavender Brown's louder screams of excitement.

"Oh, Professor, look! I have a planet in an incorrect position! What is this planet, Professor?"

How should I put it, this little girl is a bit tea-like!

Professor Trelawney looked down at the chart and said, "Oh, it's Uranus. This is Uranus."

Ron, who was standing beside him, heard this and looked at the star map drawn by Lavender. He decided to copy her homework and asked, "Can you let me take a look at Uranus, too, Lavender?"

Then Professor Trelawney, with a red face, assigned Ted and the others a lot of homework - a twelve-foot-long essay on the nine planets!
When climbing the tower after class, Jerry was still wondering, "Why is Professor Trelawney so crazy today?"

Seamus and Dean couldn't help but burst out laughing again, while the girls all hid away with red faces.

Neville's face turned as red as a monkey's butt, and it was obvious that he understood why.

When Jerry saw this scene, he panicked: How come they all know what's going on, and I'm the only one who is kept in the dark?

He looked at Neville, who didn't dare to look him in the eye. Then he looked at Ted, who waved his hand quickly: "Let's say goodbye here. Good night!"

Jerry: But we haven’t reached the fork in the road yet!
Ted: I don’t want to be that boy who understands everything instantly!
Jerry didn't understand because he was not as familiar with English as the local little wizards.

Uranus is pronounced the same as Your anus, which is why Professor Trelawney is angry...

In other words, it's not easy to take action, otherwise Trelawney would hang Ron upside down on the top of the tower!

The car sounds like the wind and the sound like arrows, and the wheels are like flying swallows rolling over my face.

This guy is a car king, okay? He's almost on the highway!

At such a young age, he has already used the drainage ditch to turn the corner. His future is limitless.

However, as Ted later learned, Ron was also a man of his word.
……

The Uranus incident in the divination class was just a small episode in the daily life of the campus. Everyone just treated it as a joke and forgot about it in a few days.

However, one thing deeply affected the young wizards - Professor McGonagall said that Hogsmeade village was being renovated and students would no longer be arranged to go there on weekends in the near future!

The little wizards were in mourning.

Ron was like a deflated ball. He had already agreed with Jerry that they would drink butterbeer at the Three Broomsticks all day!

Jerry: I'm embarrassed to say that. Are you going there to drink butterbeer? You're just greedy for someone's body!
Ted joked: "Ron, you can open a bar in Hogsmeade in the future and call it Big Bird Turn!"

Ron: I don't think you said anything nice!
For Ted and his team, it only affected their weekend holidays, but the Ministry of Magic and professors in the school were greatly affected.

This week, the Aurors of the Ministry of Magic were not idle. They divided into six or seven teams and conducted a carpet search in the Forbidden Forest.

However, things are not that simple.

The reason why the Forbidden Forest is called the Forbidden Forest is that it is really special.

Let me put it this way, a few hundred years ago, this place was called the Black Forest.

If ordinary people dare to come in, they don't have to think about going back. Even if wizards come in, they dare not go too deep, it is really dangerous.

Even now, decades into the modern era, the dangers of the deep Forbidden Forest remain.

Do you think the main danger to the Forbidden Forest poachers is Hagrid? It's the Forbidden Forest itself!

It can be said that except for the team led by Hagrid, the other teams had a hard time, if not a single move, in the Forbidden Forest.

It is all too common for the reconnaissance team to come into conflict with all sorts of weird and magical creatures these days.

At the beginning, the other team members were very nervous and rushed over to provide support.

Later on, I stopped going. I just took care of my own business and just asked, "What are you fighting about again?" and considered that I had fulfilled my obligation.

Some Aurors complained privately, saying that it was like they had to take a magical creature combat class again!

Hagrid next to him is an expert in this field, isn't that a coincidence?!
However, the Ministry of Magic also knew the seriousness of the situation and made up its mind to continue the investigation despite all difficulties. In the end, they found out some things.

Just yesterday, a team of wizards finally found a clue, an undead horned rabbit?
The rabbit had a hole in its side and the blood had dried up, but it was still moving.

It also has a strong desire to attack, and keeps trying to attack the Aurors with the short horns on its head.

Once a clue is found, other people will be contacted immediately to start a detailed investigation based on this clue.

Just two days later, another undead deer was discovered. This demon-spotted deer had a natural magic pattern on its body, which made it difficult to distinguish in a complex environment, as if it had been cast under an illusion spell.

But now, on top of its huge antlers, there is another stag’s head...it’s so scary!
After that, more and more undead magical animals were discovered, and even undead magical plants appeared, and their combat effectiveness began to increase!

The strongest undead encountered so far is an undead wind pterodactyl.

Normally, this kind of large flying reptile should not be infected with curses by attacks.

Hagrid also said that this thing can only be seen on the cliffs of the mountains more than 160 miles away, and it shouldn't appear here.

However, the traces are increasing.

Even some environments in the forbidden forest began to change.

Many trees that had lived for hundreds of years began to wither, the grass and shrubs on the ground turned gray and dead, and if you dug a few centimeters into the soil, it would turn into a sticky, smelly gray color.

This is not a good sign.

The wizards have conducted tests and analyses, and found that the dangerous curse has begun to seep into the soil!

……

Ted and the others don't know what happened in the Forbidden Forest. They are studying ancient magic and the secret library.

Sirius finally got the secret from hundreds of years ago out of his great-great-grandfather Phineas.

Phineas also participated in the battle and fought against the goblin rebels who tried to get their hands on the ancient magical power.

Although he did not experience the entire process, as the principal, he naturally knew everything.

After Sirius's constant persuasion... and more importantly, after Phineas learned about what happened in the Forbidden Forest in the headmaster's office and other places, he made up his mind to tell the secret of that year.

Unlike other animated magical portraits, the portraits of past principals in the principal's office were incredibly flexible and had incredibly high authority.

It is as if the original person's personality, thoughts and memories have been copied into the portrait.

So that they can continue to contribute to this school after their death and continue to live here.

Phineas Black, the only headmaster from Slytherin House (so far), has a pessimistic attitude towards the phenomenon in the Forbidden Forest. Or rather, a radical attitude.

He felt that things might have become extremely serious and urgent, and the changes in the world now made it difficult for an old antique like him who lived a hundred years ago to understand.

But since the enemy is strong, we can't be too weak.

So maybe it's time for ancient magic to work.

Of course, he might not have been willing to let this power be buried in history. A few decades after his death, the opportunity finally came~
Then, Ted and the others got the specific location... in the Forbidden Forest.

Boil
Ted could more or less imagine the situation in the Forbidden Forest, but it was not appropriate to go to such a dangerous and complicated place now.

But ancient magic is really good!
Ted and his friends obtained a piece of memory that Phineas had secretly left in the old Black house before his death. Using the meditation basin under the restricted area, they saw some memories about ancient magic.

It should be the guardian of the previous generation who obtained the memory of Morgana from the memory left by the previous guardian.

Morgana was a rising star who, with the help of ancient magic, surpassed the older Guardians in just a few short years and became quite powerful.

One of the scenes is the enhanced version of Avada Chain Lightning modified by Morgana!

When an Avada goes down, the pale green spell bursts out among the enemies like lightning, and more than ten enemies eat the big melon together!

That scene! Oh my god!
This is much more powerful than Voldemort!
We can even imagine the scene where the two sides meet:

Voldemort: I killed someone.

Morgana: How many?
Voldemort: 100.

Morgana: Not bad, what about yesterday?
When he learns the ancient methods one day, he will be able to laugh at those lying on the ground and not be considered a demon!
There are also some powerful weather spells.

Like when they were in the Fire Land before, more than a dozen outstanding wizards helped Ted expand the weather spell and transform the blizzard.

But looking at the scene in memory, one guardian was able to make a heavy rain fall within a radius of ten miles! It was several times more powerful than the one Ted and his team had!
How can the modern magic system compare to this power?

Now even if Dumbledore casts a weather spell, he can only affect the school at most, and at most as far as Hogsmeade village, no larger.

It's not a question of who is stronger, it's a question of who has more authority.

Ted felt that this was not due to the magic power or the level of the spell, but because the principles of the two sides were different.

The modern magic system is like a series of APPs, exquisite and accurate, practical and convenient, and with diverse functions.

But ancient magic is like root privileges, able to fundamentally exploit the rules.

There is definitely something interesting going on here!

As for the Forbidden Forest, we are very familiar with that place!
There was a period of time last year when I went to the woods for night walks every day.

"How to do?"

"It looks like it's only three and a half kilometers to Hagrid's hut!"

"We don't have to get too deep into this, right?"

"We'll be back soon..."

The friends are all fascinated by ancient magic.

What else could Ted say? He wanted to give it a try, too!

Ted: "Then we have to be careful~"

Hermione rolled her eyes but didn't say anything in response.

Let’s go to the forbidden forest first. If conditions really don’t allow it, we’ll have to postpone it.

I've had a few drinks, so let's leave it at that for now, please bear with me...

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(End of this chapter)