Hogwarts Card System.

Chapter 74: Adventure in the Forbidden Forest

Everyone was shocked!

I spent too much time here and ended up alarming Professor McGonagall.

"Great! You're strolling around in the middle of the night and making a lot of noise. That's too arrogant!"

Professor McGonagall saw that there were four people from her own college and three from Slytherin. Well, it must be a group crime.

"Deduct 20 points from each person! Put them in solitary confinement for a month!"

The next day, the students discovered at the entrance of the auditorium that in the house score hourglass, Gryffindor had lost 80 points and Slytherin had lost 60 points. They were shocked.

It took Ted more than half a year to deduct points from every class with the full assistance of Professor Snape, and the full deduction was 100 points. You can deduct 80 points in one night? It has to be you!
The students from both colleges looked at those who deducted points with strange eyes.

Ted: Is there a chance for the House Cup? Impossible, absolutely impossible, Dumbledore is still there to back us up!
What worried Ted even more was that none of the professors had anything for the students to do, so Professor McGonagall gave the job of detention to Filch.

All Filch could think of was cleaning toilets and wiping trophies.

However, Harry Malfoy and the others were habitual offenders of detention, and Filch was particularly malicious, so he directly arranged for them to help patrol the Forbidden Forest.

Well~ I couldn’t dodge it after all!
That's the forbidden forest!

It's dangerous enough at ordinary times, with man-eating eight-eyed spiders, very unfriendly centaurs, all kinds of dangerous dark creatures and magical animals. Just walking in the woods at night is scary enough.

After Malfoy found out about him, he would spend two hours wandering in the Forbidden Forest at night for nearly half a month, and he almost didn't write a letter to call him dad.

It was Harley's laughter that irritated him, but he was still very scared.

The next night, Filch, with his ugly face smiling brightly, brought a total of seven people to Hagrid.

“Don’t make it too easy for them,” he said.

Hagrid didn't like him very much, "I know what to do, I don't need you to teach me."

Speaking of which, it is difficult for people who have studied at Hogwarts to have a good impression of Filch. He is indeed a bit annoying.

Watching Filch walking away with the lantern, Hagrid looked at the seven little ones in front of him and felt a headache.

He was in the Forbidden Forest, which was like a back garden. But for a young wizard, the Forbidden Forest was indeed a little dangerous.

Not to mention that there are seven of them now, how can I take care of them all?
Oh, I don’t know how to take care of people at all, that’s okay.

Hagrid had no choice. Of course, detention could not be faked. That would be a violation of school rules.

Finally, he added himself and Yaya to the seven people and divided them into two groups.

"You three will form a group with me." He pointed at the Malfoys.

"Harry, the four of you will form a group with Fang. Although Fang is timid, he is very familiar with the Forbidden Forest. If you follow him, the creatures in the Forbidden Forest will not harm you."

"Oh, by the way, if you encounter any problems, set off green fireworks. Have you learned that? If you encounter danger, set off red fireworks."

In this way, the soldiers split into two groups, each holding torches, lanterns and magic wands, and entered the woods.

The so-called patrol of the forbidden forest was, of course, just a pretense to scare the children.

Could they really go deeper into the forbidden forest? Yaya led the way and only walked around the path they usually took.

After walking for a few minutes, Harry called softly, "Ted? Ted? Are you there?"

Although Ted had made up his mind not to set foot in the Forbidden Forest this year, things were different now.

If they really met Voldemort, they would surely die. Could they rely on the protagonist's halo?

If I attack from the dark, I still have a chance to delay time.

Now that Voldemort was in such a terrible state, he could only pin his hopes on Quirrell and the Philosopher's Stone. He did not dare to make a big fuss, fearing that it would alert Dumbledore and affect his plan of resurrection.

Therefore, as long as he could delay him for even a few tens of seconds, Quirrell would definitely run away, instead of insisting on killing a few little wizards, which would only have a counterproductive effect.

So, Ted finally gritted his teeth and borrowed Harry's invisibility cloak, put it on, and went to the Forbidden Forest with his friends.

To be honest, he was much more nervous than his nervous friends.

They were just afraid of the dark and the beasts that might appear, but Ted was worried about Voldemort.

"I'm here. Don't make any noise, just pretend I'm not here. Follow Fang and don't run around. The Forbidden Forest is very dangerous, you must be ready to fight at any time, just like when we had the 'duel'..." Ted responded in a low voice and stopped talking.

Even his friends don’t know where he is.

Because when he was speaking just now, his voice floated around, sometimes in front, sometimes behind, suddenly on the left, suddenly on the right.

At this time, Ted had already entered a state of preparation for battle. He used the art of sound illusion when speaking, and usually surrounded himself with a silencing spell to ensure that the sounds of his footsteps and breathing would not be heard.

He even sprinkled himself with a potion to eliminate the smell, and the cards in his mind were ready at any time.

...The forbidden forest was very dark at night. The trees were too tall. Even though the moonlight was bright, it was broken after passing through the layers of branches.

It is only mid-May now. If it were August or September when the trees are lush and green, it would probably be pitch black now.

But the forest is not silent. There are all kinds of insects chirping not far away, and occasionally there are some strange and indistinguishable calls from somewhere farther away.

Sometimes the wind blows the branches, the leaves rustle, and the grass and trees rustle.

Malfoy followed Hagrid, his calves were throbbing with pain. He just wanted to hide behind Hagrid and hug his thighs tightly. The contempt he had in the past was gone at this moment.

However, Hagrid's one step was three times theirs, and even though he had slowed down, it was still difficult for them to catch up.

I was afraid but I chased after him at the same time, as if there was something behind me, and as if there was something behind every shadow and every tree. After only ten minutes, my forehead was already covered in sweat.

You know what, there are quite a few weird things in this forbidden forest.

Growing on a tree trunk more than two people tall, it blooms in the middle of the night, emitting a strange blue light.

A large beetle whose cry sounds like an erhu.

Crouching on a branch, after being startled by Malfoy and the others, an unknown bird let out a strange cry like a ghost and flew into the sky. Malfoy and the other two were so scared that they sat on the ground.

To make matters worse, they ran into a strange creature that roamed at night.

It was a strange creature about 1.5 meters tall, covered with dark red camouflage scales. It was as if invisible in the dim night of the Forbidden Forest. The two sides did not notice each other until they were only three steps away from each other.

At first glance, this thing looks like a slender velociraptor? It has a big head, a beak like a bird, not small but short, and a fleshy crown on its neck that can open. When it is frightened, it opens, just like a dark red antenna dish.

It has a pair of wings that are a bit small in proportion, a long tail behind it, a pair of long legs that are like an ostrich but covered with scales, and are very thick. The four-fingered claws are very sharp.

"Ah~~" Malfoy screamed, and his voice almost turned into a dolphin sound.

Goyle and Grubb turned around and ran away in panic. Fortunately, there were tree roots on the ground, which tripped the two fools and then they were held down by Hagrid. Otherwise, it would be troublesome if they got lost in the Forbidden Forest at night.

"Relax, it's safe... Can you stop screaming?" Even Hagrid, who was as brave as a bucket, was terrified by Malfoy's horror movie heroine-like scream.

He finally calmed the three little wizards down and kept them behind him like an old hen.

"This is a giant monster bird, it's not dangerous. Look~" He reached out to touch the giant monster bird and was pecked hard. However, Hagrid didn't feel any pain at all. He just thought that the bird was playing a joke on him and laughed.

Malfoy rolled his eyes immediately: Is this still safe? I think it wants to eat people!

This beak, these claws, this size? How safe is it?
Also, it is covered with scales without any hair, like a cross between a fire dragon and an ostrich, so why is it called a giant monster bird?
Malfoy was so scared that he was about to change his job to become a complainer.

However, although the big monster bird looks scary, it is not really too dangerous. It is just very curious and still poses a certain threat to the little wizard.

As for Hagrid, an underage dragon isn't dangerous.

……

Malfoy encountered a giant monster bird, and Harry and the others weren't having a smooth sailing either.

Although Yaya was an old dog who knew the way and was very familiar with the Forbidden Forest, and took them around for a long time and avoided many strange things, they still encountered something they had never seen before.

Ron was tired, so he leaned against a big rock to take a rest. Suddenly, the big rock moved, and a head popped out!
The shape of the head was simply weird, and it looked a bit like jade, with some bumps and lines.

A mouth that is sunken inward like a chrysanthemum, two pairs of big golden eyes, the pupils are a scattered black, and there are several rugged fleshy tentacles on the head, which can even extend!

It was a gigantic snail with a shell nearly two meters high!

The thing retracted into its shell and remained motionless, disguising itself as a rock, without even a smell. Yaya didn't even notice that there was a monster sleeping here.

Ron screamed "Oh my god" and almost jumped up the tree.

Harry and Neville drew their wands immediately.

Fortunately, Ted spoke up in time to stop it: "Don't move! It's safe!"

If Malfoy were here, he would find this sentence familiar~
Ted's voice floated over: "This should be the giant land snail, a magical animal that is harmless to humans. The only harm it might cause is crawling into your vegetable garden and ruining the vegetables. But it usually doesn't go to places where humans live."

"This is a magical creature from another world that appeared in this world after the first conjunction of the stars. I have only seen pictures of it in books before. This is the first time I have seen the real thing."

"I heard that the mucus secreted by this thing when it crawls can make the road very smooth. It is a very good magical building material..."

Hearing that it was a magical creature from another world, Jerry suddenly felt a sense of familiarity when he saw it. Maybe it was a fellow villager!
This giant snail was indeed docile. It looked at everyone with its four big golden eyes, then retracted its head into its shell and remained motionless.

However, the snail shell was like a camouflage, turning into a large rock. Natural camouflage!

Ted was exhausted after patrolling the Forbidden Forest on the first night. Not only did he walk for two hours, but he also had to stay alert at all times.

As a result, although they encountered some magical creatures on the first night, they did not encounter any danger under the leadership of Yaya.

But when he thought that there was still half a month left, Ted felt a little desperate.

(End of this chapter)