Chapter 75 Professor Quirrell in action
The next two nights were not peaceful.
Once Harley and the others met the red hat, which is a kind of fine creature and looks 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-like thing on their head, often stained red with the blood of creatures they have killed. That's where it got its name from.
Hundreds of years ago, they often appeared in the ruins of the battlefield, killing those wounded soldiers. Or hide in the dark and attack careless solo travelers.
If Ted hadn't been following in the dark, Harry and the others really wouldn't have noticed that they were being followed by a red hat.
Ted was not polite at all, and directly shot a Frostbolt, attacking the red hat who was planning to sneak attack. With a direct blow through the chest, red blood gushes out in the form of red ice crystals.
Ted got 120 experience points and a card with no function.
A white light with trailing flames is drawn on the card.
【Fair Spirituality (White)】
Material card
Fey creatures are born with spirituality.
This experience is quite rich! Level 4 monsters give more experience than trolls, maybe because they were killed directly this time instead of defeated?
Another night, Malfoy and the others encountered a giant thorn tree, and Goyle was almost injured.
In normal times, this thing looks like a weird plant with flowers blooming on the top. But if someone approached carelessly, he would see the giant thorn tree "blossom", and of course he might not be able to see the sun tomorrow.
The giant thorn tree is not a native product, but a magical plant from another world.
It is like a piranha flower as tall as a person. It usually camouflages, and when it launches an attack mode, the flower becomes a huge mouthpart—it eats meat. Moreover, there will be sharp thorns erected on his body, and vines like tentacles.
Moreover, the juice of these gadgets is corrosive and sometimes splashes.
At night, the three inexperienced little wizards almost fell into a trap.
Fortunately, Hagrid grabbed the vines of the giant thorn tree and tore them off, saving the bound Goyle.
Actually, Hagrid knew of 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 still move slowly, at about five kilometers per hour.
"When did it come here?" Hagrid muttered.
Finally, in order to prevent it from approaching the castle and threatening the safety of teachers and students, Hagrid still took out a huge crossbow and shot it to pieces.
After these few nights, Malfoy has deeply realized his mistake, and vowed never to break the 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 in the forbidden forest is still very meaningful.
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After stumbling around like this for a week, Ted managed to kill a few monsters and collect hundreds of experience points.
However, he did not let his guard down, because according to his understanding of Professor Quirrell, he must be doing some secret things recently, and there has been much less private communication.
So he never gave up communicating with Hagrid, telling Hagrid to be vigilant.
In the afternoon, Hagrid finally got news: "A unicorn was injured. Something attacked it. It's unbelievable. There shouldn't be any creatures in the Forbidden Forest with this ability!"
"I have to hurry up to find it and heal it. I also have to find that thing that only attacks unicorns... You must be careful!"
Ted's heart tightened, knowing that Quirrell and Voldemort had taken action.
Quirrell failed to obtain the Sorcerer's Stone for a long time, but his body began to fail-Voldemort's possession is no joke.
The little animals possessed by Voldemort before exhausted their vitality and died in almost a day or two.
Although Quirrell is a wizard and his strength is not bad, he can't sustain the waste of more than half a year.
Moreover, in Voldemort's resurrection plan, the blood of the unicorn is also indispensable.
Although this thing has a curse, for the legendary dark wizard, the curse is also a kind of power.
Now Quirrell can't take it anymore, and Voldemort can't wait any longer.
It has been eight months since the 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 is no further progress, Quirrell doesn't know what Voldemort will do.
So, although he knew that drinking the unicorn's blood would bring him a severe curse, he had to do it.
Unicorns are powerful magical creatures with great strength, speed, intelligence, and high magic resistance. Older ones can even use the magic power in their bodies to cast spells.
But facing the professor-level Quirrell and the crippled Voldemort, it is just a dish.
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. Maybe even Quirrell did it on purpose.
But Voldemort is not easy to fool, really think anyone can be Snape?
So, the killing of the unicorn is a foregone conclusion, unless Dumbledore now subdues Professor Quirrell.
However, although Dumbledore had already seriously suspected Quirrell, he had no intention of making a move.
Quirrell is nothing at all, Voldemort is the key.
Now Dumbledore only suspects that Voldemort is not dead, and there is no real evidence.
And once it was confirmed that Voldemort wasn't dead, the bigger question came - why wasn't he dead? How to let him die?
These two questions are not clear, Dumbledore will never take it lightly.
It can be seen from Lao Deng's resume that since he was deceived by Grindelwald when he was young, he has evolved from a typical Gryffindor lion to a manticore! If you don't move, you will die, if you move, you will kill.
It was like this when he defeated his old lover. During the most rampant period of Voldemort, he was not sure of victory and did not choose to confront it head-on.
Otherwise, if he invites Voldemort to a duel with great fanfare, it is absolutely impossible for Voldemort to avoid the battle.
As long as he wins, even if Voldemort is not dead, his prestige will be greatly reduced. But he didn't.
Old Bee is actually a strategist, not a general.
No wonder he is best at Transfiguration, not spells or anything like that.
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Today is the last night of confinement, Ted discussed with Hagrid, and suggested that Hagrid relax his inspections because the Forbidden Forest is currently in danger.
Hagrid naturally agreed, so in the past two nights, the two teams were wandering around the edge of the Forbidden Forest, not going inside. So let alone Voldemort, unicorns, and even ordinary magical creatures, I only encountered a few Bowtruckles on the tree-and almost got eaten by Ansu.
Bowtruckles grow like green stick insects matured, like twigs put together.
The whole body is green, but there are differences. Some are emerald green and some are dark green. Generally speaking, there is no threat.
But you have to be careful, if you provoke them, they may jump over and blind you - the probability is about the same as drinking cold water to choke to death.
Bowtruckles generally live in symbiosis with big trees, and actions that damage the big trees will trigger their counterattack.
However, there are workarounds. Ted used a few of their favorite ground beetles, and successfully won the favor of those Bowtruckles. As a result, a branch as long as a walking stick was obtained from the century-old law-protecting tree.
The guardian tree is a magical sorbet tree, and even in the Middle Ages, many Muggles used it to make amulets.
Two days of easy night patrols made these little guys who don’t remember to eat but not fight relax again. It feels like they are not here for confinement, but for an outing.
Ron and Jerry had already taken out the hidden food and ate it, and even brought drinks, so they almost didn't light the bonfire to barbecue.
Wearing an invisibility cloak, Ted, who has been hiding behind a tree without moving, is so hateful!
"嗖~" A sharp sound suddenly cut through the silence of the Forbidden Forest. It's a red firework flying into the sky!
Not good, something happened to Hagrid.
Although Ted concluded that Voldemort would not easily kill anyone—worried that Dumbledore would intervene, there was no guarantee.
That's Voldemort after all, he's out of his mind.
Ted immediately said: "You retreat first, go to Hagrid's cabin. Ansu, send a message to Professor McGonagall!"
After Ted finished speaking, he hurried into the woods wearing an invisibility cloak.
The friends only heard Ted’s words, but they never saw Ted’s person.
In fact, they could all feel his tension and importance through Ted's behavior of not showing his face at all for more than ten nights, and even using magic to cover up his voice.
Ted didn't know why, but 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 called.
"Well! We are all prepared." Ron exclaimed immediately.
Jerry and Neville also nodded.
"Tell Ansu to deliver the letter, let's follow up and have a look, don't get too close. Be careful!"
The little lions of Gryffindor are indeed not the masters of peace. Let them be obedient, it is a dream!
Follow-up reading is very important, and it should be on the shelves in a week or two.
Follow-up is related to recommendation, please don’t keep books first, thank you~
(end of this chapter)