My Hogwarts has a serious problem.

Chapter 509, Section 506: Pet Snake

Unicorns are hailed as the purest life form in the world.

Their blood is the world's most famous elixir, capable of keeping the dying alive.

However, if you kill a unicorn and forcibly extract its blood, you will be cursed with the most vicious curse, and even if you survive, you will be transformed into a grotesque creature.

Gabrielle was also moved by the sadness of the unicorns who died for their companions.

She held onto Xiaomai's arm and asked softly.

"Were their companions killed by some other wild beast?"

Umaru, however, knew the seriousness of the matter, and she shook her head with a serious expression.

"No, unicorns are the most powerful magical creatures in the entire Forbidden Forest. Apart from dragons and phoenixes, almost no other magical animal can harm them. The only creature that can kill unicorns and use their blood is a wizard."

Unicorn blood can prolong a wizard's life, but due to the consequences of the curse, only dark wizards usually choose to use this method to extend their lives.

Moreover, this is in the Forbidden Forest of Hogwarts, so the unicorn is essentially protected by the entire Hogwarts community.

Killing unicorns and taking their blood here would be tantamount to slapping Hogwarts in the face.

This matter is not only about the unicorn colony, but it must also be reported to Dumbledore and the other professors at the school as soon as possible that someone with ulterior motives has infiltrated the Forbidden Forest and killed a unicorn.

Just as Umaru was anxiously trying to figure out a way to get out of the Forbidden Forest and spread the news,

Lynn and Hagrid also came here.

This was the first unicorn colony Hagrid had found, and he happened to stumble upon what was happening.

"Lynn".

From afar, Xiaomai spotted Lynn's figure and waved excitedly at him.

The unicorns around them had a very good relationship with Hagrid, and they all made way for Hagrid and Lynn to walk to the side of the dead unicorn corpse.

After seeing Umaru, Lynn was about to tap her on the head to teach her a lesson when he also discovered the unicorn that had been drained of its blood and died.

Hagrid's face immediately turned extremely ugly. He cherished every creature in the Forbidden Forest, let alone the most precious unicorn.

"An evil man entered the Forbidden Forest to save his own life and killed him," he said gravely.

Lynn narrowed his eyes as he looked at the unicorn, thinking about something more.

"Do you remember what happened three years ago, Hagrid? It was also in the Forbidden Forest. Someone killed a unicorn and wanted to drink its blood, but failed."

Hagrid trembled upon hearing Lynn's words.

He certainly remembered the attack that occurred when Lynn was in second grade.

At that time, Lynn grabbed the thing whose name he couldn't even say, right in front of Hagrid.

Three years later, also in the Forbidden Forest, another unicorn was killed, strikingly similar to what happened years ago.

"No, no, you've already caught him, haven't you?"

Hagrid shook his head, unsure whether he truly believed it or was simply trying to comfort himself.

Lynn looked solemn as he gazed at the unicorn carcass lying on the ground. After a long period of contemplation, he spoke.

"Let's report this to Dumbledore first."

The unicorns continued to guard the bodies of their companions, while Hagrid and Lynn led the three children out of the Forbidden Forest and told Dumbledore what had happened there.

"Someone trespassed into the Forbidden Forest and killed a unicorn?"

Not only Dumbledore, but everyone else who heard about it was also filled with disbelief.

After all, although everyone knows that unicorn blood can save lives, due to its strong side effects, virtually no wizard in the magical world would use it.

Or rather, aside from evil dark wizards, no other respectable wizard would kill a unicorn for something like this.

With such an incident occurring in the Forbidden Forest, the second event of the Triwizard Tournament obviously cannot continue.

The match was temporarily suspended, and the referees will decide when to resume it after discussion.

The matter of Umaru taking a group of hostages was left unresolved, or rather, she shouldn't have been punished in the first place.

Because no one told them beforehand that this was part of the pre-arranged competition, and that she was even to be rewarded for discovering that the unicorn had been killed.

The investigation into who killed the unicorn was put in Dumbledore's charge.

But once Lynn returned to his office, he immediately used the connection magic he had used to communicate with Rita Skeeter privately to bring the unscrupulous reporter over.

Skeeter has not appeared in the wizarding world for many days.

The Daily Prophet has now handed over all its interviews for the Triwizard Tournament to other people.

Where she went was unknown even to her closest friends and colleagues.

Upon receiving Lynn's summons, Skeeter arrived at the office within ten minutes.

Without any unnecessary formalities, Lynn went straight to the point and asked.

"During your recent observation and tracking of Piqueli, have you noticed any unusual or abnormal behavior from her?"

"Nothing has been found yet," Skeeter said with a fawning smile.

"However, I can only follow her during the day. When they need to rest at night, they go back to the common room that Hogwarts has prepared for them. The entrance there is enchanted, and I can't go in without permission."

Upon hearing her words, Lynn frowned slightly. Just as he was wondering if his suspicions were wrong, Skeeter continued hesitantly.

"However, I did discover something, I'm not sure if it counts as special?"

"If you feel there's anything wrong, just say so."

"It seems she keeps a snake as a pet," Skeeter said. "There are indeed wizards who keep snakes as pets, but most of them don't have a good reputation. But since these people are from America, I'm not sure if they have a tradition of keeping snakes as pets there."

Hearing her say this, Lynn clearly sensed that something was wrong.

According to the information she obtained, Piqueli had never kept pets before, let alone snakes.

He looked at Skeeter with a serious expression.

"What kind of snake is it? A venomous snake or a python?"

"I only saw it once by chance; it looked very big, so I thought it was a python!"

(End of this chapter)