RNP Chapter 928 Forbidden Forest
Chapter 928 Forbidden Forest
That night, Martin and the other two were not involved in Harry and Ron's smuggling of the Ridgeback, and they did not know the follow-up of the incident until the next morning.
Harry, Ron, and Malfoy, each of whom had 50 points deducted from their respective houses for violating curfew by being outside the dormitory, illegally entering the astronomy tower and fighting. And Neville, who heard that Malfoy was going to report Harry and Ron, ran to tip them off - but he came later than Malfoy and was caught by the teacher. Therefore, he also violated the curfew, although he did not participate in the fight, and was also deducted 50 points.
This sky-high score was like the sky falling in the eyes of the children. Not only Harry, but also other Gryffindor students.
Gryffindor's situation in the house cup was not good to begin with, with Snape maliciously targeting it from outside and McGonagall ruthlessly within. Suddenly, 150 points were deducted from its score. After this news was announced, it seemed that all the students looked at Harry and the other two with complicated and uneasy eyes.
"Well... think about it on the bright side. At least you managed to keep the dragon secret." The six of them stood in front of the "College Cup" hourglass used for scoring in the school lobby. Martin was very calm:
"Don't worry, when the scores get too low, the nature of the situation will change, and the desperate students will start to lower their scores."
In order to prevent the students from giving up, the teachers of each house except Snape will tacitly find opportunities to give Gryffindor extra points, so that they will have hope that "we can still win".
Huiyuan Ai also said: "Don't have too much psychological pressure, the person next to you has more points deducted than any of you."
Hearing this, Martin proudly put his hands on his hips.
"Brother, Xiaoai is not praising you, right?" Ma Wu asked in an uncertain tone.
Of course, if the only punishment was deducting points, naughty students would soon become unscrupulous. So Harry and his friends had another punishment - detention, the specific execution time of which had not yet been announced.
After finishing their conversation, the group continued walking towards the classroom.
Then no one noticed that the pitifully few rubies in the hourglass representing Gryffindor's points moved a little, and then moved again, as if there were a little more rubies, and it bulged upwards...
……
a few days later.
"Mr. Martin, you will be kept after class as punishment for cooking snail noodles in Potions class, starting tonight." Professor McGonagall said with a straight face.
"OK." Martin shrugged. "Next time, grill large intestine wrapped in durian."
"Then it's Miss Mawu." McGonagall looked at the next person: "You tried to modify the Gryffindor points hourglass, causing the ruby to break the hourglass - you successfully reset Gryffindor's points to zero, and similarly, you will be punished by detention tonight."
Ma Wu stuck out her tongue in embarrassment. In fact, her blue bar had finally refilled at an inappropriate moment. Her superpowers went out of control again and took action on the Gryffindor points that she had been staring at. Unfortunately, this time it was only a physical change.
"And you, Miss Huibara." Unexpectedly, Professor McGonagall looked at the third person: "Professor Snape accused you of writing insults and slanders against him personally in your Potions homework. You also need to be punished by staying in class to reflect on yourself."
"Me?" Huibara Ai was surprised at first, then looked at the two restless guys beside her: Did you touch my homework book?
Not only did she complete her Potions homework carefully, but she also completed it with great care. Unless she had accidentally triggered some of Snape's taboos, there was no insult or slander in it.
But with a naughty kid who has a slight beef with Snape around, it's hard not to suspect that this naughty kid had added something to his homework.
Martin shook his head violently to show his innocence.
Professor McGonagall was obviously not interested in their explanation. Gryffindor students had caused six consecutive troubles in one week. The old-fashioned professor was already ashamed. "I hope this punishment will help you improve. After the evening class today, go to the hall to report to Mr. Filch."
Harry, Ron, Neville and Malfoy also received a note today, and their detention punishment was scheduled to be carried out tonight.
……
The word "Detention" is generally translated as detention, imprisonment, and seizure. It is also a common way to punish students in schools, that is, keeping students in school for a period of time after school.
However, some people believe that students need to suffer more, such as labor, in order to learn their lesson rather than being put in solitary confinement.
"I think you'll have to think twice before you break the school rules again, won't you?" Filch, the dormitory warden, a weird old man hated by all the students, looked at them sideways and continued, "Oh, yes... If you ask me, I have to say that hard work and suffering are the best teachers... It's a pity that they have abolished the old-fashioned punishment method... Hang your wrists and hang you from the ceiling for several days. I still have the chains in my office and I keep them oiled from time to time. Maybe they will come in handy one day... Well, go away, don't think about running away. If you run away, you will suffer even more."
The dim oil lamp, the scary-looking old man with an even uglier heart, led a group of people out of the gate of Hogwarts and walked into the dark night. Neville was almost crying, and Ma Wu was also very scared, holding on to Rabbit tightly and not letting go.
Malfoy shrank at the end of the team. There were six Gryffindors here, six of whom he had offended, especially today when he didn't have the two tall followers as bodyguards. He was afraid that he would be beaten up once Filch left.
But he didn't know that Filch was a Squib - if those six wanted to beat him up, Filch would be powerless to stop them.
As Harry walked, he felt that this road was very familiar. As he walked forward, Harry became more and more certain that this was the road leading to the entrance of the Forbidden Forest, and Hagrid's hut was nearby.
"Is that you, Filch? Hurry up, I'm leaving." Hagrid's powerful voice came from the darkness, followed by the tall figure walking out of the darkness.
Hagrid was carrying a shotgun, not a wand, but a real shotgun, and behind him was a hound named Fang.
Now the number of people Malfoy has offended has become seven.
And after sending them there, Filch immediately left in anger.
Malfoy took a step back. "Wait? We're going to the Forbidden Forest? No! This won't work! There are werewolves in the Forbidden Forest!"
"If you don't want to be expelled, you have to go." Hagrid knew that the reason why he had to send Norbert the Ridgeback away was because of this brat, and he was already very annoyed with Malfoy: "Who told you to make a mistake."
Malfoy protested again, even bringing up his father, the chairman of the board, but Hagrid ignored everyone. In the entire Hogwarts, he only obeyed Dumbledore.
Finally Hagrid led the children into the Forbidden Forest.
"Now listen carefully. What we are going to do tonight is very dangerous. I don't want anyone to be in danger. Come over here with me first."
Hagrid explained the situation. There was a dangerous creature in the Forbidden Forest that was hunting unicorns. Of course, their mission was not to find that dangerous creature, but to find a wounded unicorn.
For the sake of efficiency, Hagrid wanted to split them into two groups, one led by himself and the other led by the hound Fang. "The three of us can form a separate team." Martin said with his hands in his pockets. He planned to take Ma Wu and Xiao Ai for a good walk in the Forbidden Forest and take this opportunity to broaden their horizons.
No one present would doubt Martin's fighting ability, but Hagrid, as a faculty member and a responsible person, still rejected him: "No - the three of you can form a team with me, and the four of you, take Fang with you."
"As long as Fang or I are here, no animal in the Forbidden Forest can hurt you. But Fang is very timid, and he will be the first to run away if something happens."
The groups were divided in such a simple and rough way, and then Hagrid led everyone into the Forbidden Forest.
"Are any of you able to cast the Fireworks spell?" Hagrid confirmed. "If you see a wounded unicorn, use red fireworks. If you're in danger, use green."
The Fireworks spell is a very simple spell that does no harm and is just a spell that uses a wand to launch fireworks.
The two teams separated, and Hagrid whispered about the dragon as he walked.
As the dragon was sent away, his fanatical mind finally calmed down a little, and he realized that everyone was doing it for his own good. After expressing his gratitude to Martin for his help, he continued to talk about the dragon.
"Ha... it's really cold. Don't they say that after the Eastern New Year, it will slowly turn into spring?" Hagrid exhaled a breath of white air, caught the cold air with his two big hands and rubbed them hard.
At this moment, there was a rustling sound coming from the front. The two men immediately kept silent. One of them raised his shotgun and was ready to fire, while Martin made a sword gesture with his hand, and three flying swords flew out from behind him. The flying swords floated in the air and pointed firmly at the bushes in front, which was the location of the unidentified object and the unidentified sound.
Haibara Ai pulled Ma Wu behind her, and Tuji stood in front of them, with a faint glow of Taijing appearing on his body.
The thing stepped out, a centaur.
Above the waist it is a human, with red hair and beard, but below the waist it is a shiny brown-red horse body with a long red tail trailing behind.
"Good evening, Hagrid." The Centaur's expression was as low and sad as his voice. "You want to shoot me with that weapon?"
The Centaur knew Hagrid, or was friends with him, and his name was Ronan.
Hagrid introduced Ronan, Martin and the other two to each other, and then asked: "Ronan, I'm glad we met you, because there is a unicorn injured - did you see anything?"
"Mars is very bright tonight." Ronan simply said, "Abnormally bright."
"Which Mars are you talking about?" Martin asked casually. After all, after the major accident that drained Ma Wu's blue bar, there are now three Mars hanging in the night sky. "
"..." The Centaur fell silent.
Centaurs are a race that is very good at astronomy, or rather, they are very dependent on it. Every Centaur looks at the starry sky and believes that it is destiny interpreting the truth of the world to him.
For a race like this, the fact that the number of stars in the sky has increased and has multiplied several times is even more terrifying than the end of the world.
But in fact nothing happened, the stars are still stars in the end, and the method of interpretation has not changed.
Hagrid tried to ask about more obvious and simple anomalies, but Ronan would only respond to Hagrid's words to prove that he was not a human machine, and repeat the answer "Mars is very bright tonight."
"Swoosh!" Suddenly a long, shrill sound was heard, and everyone turned their heads to see a ball of green fireworks flying into the sky - that was the signal that Harry's team should send when they were in trouble.
"I'll go take a look!" Hagrid said anxiously, and said to Martin: "Stand here and don't move!!"
After saying that, Hagrid picked up his shotgun and his wand, which he had stuffed into his umbrella to hide his presence, and chased in the direction where the green fireball flew.
After Hagrid left, Martin was about to talk to the Centaur Ronan. He wanted to ask the Centaur how their stargazing theory viewed the stars outside the solar system?
Because not only did a few more stars appear when Ma Wu's ability got out of control, but Martin had made them into ten stars long before that, but nine of them were temporarily invisible.
But the Centaur looked up at the sky, and what he said still revolved around the unusually bright Mars. Then suddenly his face changed drastically, and he turned around and ran away as quickly as a horse.
Martin, who was about to study the Centaur's spinal structure carefully, sighed and put away the surgeon's saw and scalpel in his hands.
"Something is coming." Martin summoned the flying sword again and played the role of an oriental monk to the end.
Whoosh—a black shadow passed by and then stopped in front of them.
Quirrell, the Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher, always stutters and is often laughed at by his classmates.
Quirrell was wearing a black robe and a black cloak. If he hadn't taken off his hat to reveal the thick turban wrapped around his head, he would have been unrecognizable.
"Hello, classmates. I'm surprised to see you in a place like this." Qi Luo looked at Huihara Ai: "But since we've met, can you give me one of your medicine?"
"This request is not at all convenient." Haibara Ai shook her head and refused.
Suddenly she smelled a pungent smell of garlic, and it was a little familiar...
"It's you!" Huiyuan Ai suddenly realized: "It was you who created chaos among the students and tried to kidnap me!"
"That's right." Quirrell was no longer stuttering at this time. "I did it all! Who would suspect poor stuttering Quirrell? It was me who spread the excitement powder and caused the accident. But I failed, so I stole your homework and wrote something in it that Snape would never tolerate. In this way, you will be punished by detention."
However, what was beyond Qi Luo's expectations was that many more people were punished by detention than he thought. If the boss had not been supervising on the spot right above his head, he would have given up this opportunity and made another plan.
Quirrell revealed everything he had done, and then said in a timid tone: "Give me the elixir of immortality!" (End of this chapter)