Hogwarts Card System.

Chapter 75 Professor Quirrell in Action

The next two nights were not peaceful.

Once, Harley and her friends met a red hat. It was a fey creature that looked very ugly.

Goblins are already ugly, and red hats are like ugly goblins. They know how to wear simple clothes, are vicious by nature, bloodthirsty, and good at sneak attacks.

They have a fur cap-like thing on their heads, which is often stained red with the blood of the creatures they have killed. This is the origin of its name.

Hundreds of years ago, they often appeared in the ruins of battlefields, killing wounded soldiers, or hiding in the dark to attack careless lone travelers.

If Ted hadn't been following them in secret, Harry and the others would never have noticed that they were being followed by a red-hatted creature.

Ted was not polite at all, and shot an ice arrow directly at the red hat who was about to launch a sneak attack. The arrow went straight through his chest, and red blood gushed out in the form of red ice crystals.

Ted gained 120 experience points and a card of unknown function.

The card showed a ball of white light with a trailing flame.

[Fairy Spirituality (White)]

Material Card

Fey creatures are born with spirituality.

That's a lot of experience! Level 4 monsters give more experience than giant monsters, maybe because they are killed directly this time instead of defeated?
Another night, Malfoy and his companions encountered a giant thorny demon tree, and Goyle was almost injured.

Normally, this thing looks like a strange plant with flowers on the top. But if someone approaches carelessly, he will see the giant thorn demon tree "blooming", and of course he may not see the sun tomorrow.

The giant thorn demon tree is not a local product, but a magical plant from another world.

It is like a man-eating plant that is more than one meter tall. It is usually camouflaged, but when it is in attack mode, the flower becomes a huge mouthpart - it eats meat. It also has sharp thorns and tentacle-like vines.

Moreover, the juice of these things is corrosive and sometimes splashes.

At night, three inexperienced little wizards almost got into trouble.

Fortunately, Hagrid grabbed the vines of the giant thorn tree and tore them apart, thus rescuing the tied-up Goyle.

In fact, Hagrid knew about the existence of this thing, but it had always been active in the depths of the Forbidden Forest near the foot of the mountain - yes, this thing could move slowly, at a speed of about five kilometers per hour.

"When did it get here?" Hagrid muttered.

Finally, in order to prevent it from getting close to the castle and threatening the safety of teachers and students, Hagrid took out a huge crossbow and shot the thing to pieces.

After these few nights, Malfoy has deeply realized his mistakes and vowed never to violate school rules again.

As long as he is not allowed to come to the Forbidden Forest, anything is fine!

It can be seen that the confinement of the forbidden forest is still very transformative.

……

After stumbling around like this for a week, Ted managed to kill a few monsters and gain a few hundred experience points.

However, he did not let his guard down, because based on his understanding of Professor Quirrell, he must have been doing something secret recently, and his private communication with him had decreased a lot.

So he never gave up communicating with Hagrid, asking Hagrid to be vigilant.

That afternoon, Hagrid finally had news: "A unicorn is injured. Something attacked it. It's incredible. There shouldn't be any creature in the Forbidden Forest that has this ability!"

"I have to find it as soon as possible and heal its wounds. I also have to find the thing that attacks unicorns... You must be careful!"

Ted's heart tightened, knowing that Quirrell and Voldemort had taken action.

Quirrell was unable to obtain the Philosopher's Stone, and his body began to fail - Voldemort's possession was no joke.

The small animals that were possessed by Voldemort before had their vitality drained away and died within a day or two.

Although Quirrell was a wizard with considerable strength, he could not withstand the exhaustion of the past six months.

Moreover, unicorn blood is also indispensable in Voldemort's resurrection plan.

Although this thing is cursed, for the legendary dark wizard, the curse is actually a kind of power.

Now Quirrell can't bear it anymore, and Voldemort can't wait any longer.

It has been eight months since school started in September last year.

However, Professor Quirrell only got the content of the first level, which made Voldemort, who was already in a very bad mental state, furious.

If there was no further progress, Quirrell didn't know what Voldemort would do.

Therefore, even though he knew that drinking the unicorn's blood would bring him a serious curse, he had to do it.

Unicorns are powerful magical creatures that are strong, fast, smart, and resistant to magic. Older ones can even use their magic power to cast spells.

Ordinary wizards are no match for them. But facing Quirrell, a professor, and a crippled Voldemort, they are just a piece of cake.

What's more, according to Hagrid's tracking, the injured unicorn was only a sub-adult individual.

Ted thought it was incredible that it could escape from Quirrell. It might even be that Quirrell did it on purpose.

But Voldemort is not easy to fool. Does he really think that anyone can be Snape?
Therefore, the killing of the unicorn was inevitable, unless Dumbledore took action now to subdue Professor Quirrell.

However, although Dumbledore had serious suspicions about Quirrell, he had no intention of taking action.

Quirrell is nothing, Voldemort is the key.

Now Dumbledore only suspects that Voldemort is not dead yet, but there is no solid evidence.

And once it was confirmed that Voldemort was not dead, the bigger question became - why was he not dead? How could he be killed?

Dumbledore would never act rashly without clarifying these two issues.

From Dumbledore's resume, we can see that since he was deceived by Grindelwald when he was young, he has evolved from a typical Gryffindor lion to a manticore! If he doesn't move, he will die. If he moves, he will die.

This is how he defeated his old lover. It was during Voldemort's most rampant period. He was not sure of victory and did not choose to confront him head-on.

Otherwise, if he had challenged Voldemort to a duel with great fanfare, Voldemort would definitely not have avoided the fight.

As long as he won, even if Voldemort didn't die, his prestige would be greatly reduced. But he didn't do that.

Old Bee is actually a strategist, not a general.

No wonder he’s best at Transfiguration, not spells or anything like that.

……

Today is the last night of detention. Ted has discussed this with Hagrid and suggests that Hagrid relax his patrols as the Forbidden Forest is currently in danger.

Hagrid naturally agreed, so for the past two nights, the two teams have been wandering around the edge of the Forbidden Forest, and neither of them went in. So let alone Voldemort and unicorns, even ordinary magical creatures, they only encountered a few Bowtruckles in the trees - and they were almost eaten by Anzu.

The Bowtruckle looks like a green stick insect that has become a spirit, and looks like small branches put together.

The whole body is green, but there are differences. Some are emerald green and some are dark green. Generally speaking, they are not threatening.

But you have to be careful, because if you provoke them, they may pounce on you and blind your eyes - the probability of this is probably the same as choking to death from drinking cold water.

Bowtruckles usually live in symbiosis with large trees, and any behavior that damages the trees will trigger their counterattack.

But there is a workaround, Ted used a few of their favorite earthworms to successfully gain the favor of the Bowtruckles, and thus got a branch from the century-old guardian tree that was long enough to be used as a walking stick.

The guardian tree is a kind of mountain pear tree with magical powers. Even in the Middle Ages, many Muggles used it to make amulets.

Two days of relaxing night patrols made these little guys, who only cared about food and not punishment, relax again. They felt like they were not here for confinement but for a picnic.

Ron and Jerry had already taken out the hidden food and started eating it, and even brought some drinks, and they almost lit a campfire for a barbecue.

Ted, who was wearing an invisibility cloak and hiding behind a tree without moving, was so hateful!
"Whoosh~" A sharp sound suddenly broke the silence of the forbidden forest. It was a red firework rising into the sky!

Oh no, something happened with Hagrid.

Although Ted was certain that Voldemort would not easily cause a loss of life - and was worried that Dumbledore would intervene, there was no guarantee.

That was Voldemort after all, he was not in the right mind.

Ted immediately said, "You guys retreat first, go to Hagrid's hut. Ansu, go tell Professor McGonagall!"

After Ted finished speaking, he put on his invisibility cloak and quickly rushed into the woods.

The friends only heard what Ted said but never saw Ted.

In fact, they could all feel Ted's nervousness and importance through his behavior of not showing up for more than ten nights and even using magic to disguise his voice.

For some reason, Ted was very worried about everyone's confinement in the Forbidden Forest.

"What do we do?" Ron asked.

"I told you to get ready. Are you all ready?" Harry shouted.

"Yes! We are all prepared." Ron shouted immediately.

Jerry and Neville also nodded.

"Let Ansu deliver the letter. We'll follow and see. Don't get too close. Be careful!"

The little lions of Gryffindor are not quiet people. It is simply a dream to expect them to be obedient!
It is important to follow up and read the book. It should be available on the shelves in a week or two.

Following reading is related to the recommended position, please don’t keep the book for now, thank you~
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(End of this chapter)