Chapter 188 186. Hailey and Colin
Hayley is an owl who graduated from the special training of the Auror Command.
Compared to the pet owl of ordinary wizards, it not only never gets lost, but also has the absolute determination to complete the task.
Three years ago, it completed all the assessments on the Wizard Tactical Owl, successfully graduated, and was finally assigned to its current owner, Not Scabio.
To be honest, its owner treats it really well.
Usually there is food and meat, and from time to time I still talk to it in private to have some intimate conversations, but in fact, when Aurors are performing tasks, they rarely encounter situations where they need to use owls.
So although life is comfortable, Hayley hasn't performed any critical missions for three years. At most, she helps Scarbio to deliver some letters between friends.
This made Hai Li, who has received professional training, always worry about it. In the past three years, she has gained a lot of fat reluctantly under her feathers.
And today is finally the opportunity for it to show its talents. It can see that its master is currently facing a very critical situation. The letter it holds in its claws is very likely to be the key life-saving straw.
So after Haili lifted off from the building, she was very determined, and according to her racial talent, she started to fly close to the ground along the direct line to the UK!
On Azkaban Island, under the influence of these gray fogs, it couldn't fly too high, otherwise, even with the pendant Scarbio showed it the way, it would get lost in the vast fog, and finally A good way is to ensure that the ground or sea remains within its field of vision.
But just as it broke through the gray fog and was about to fly out of the land of Azkaban Island, an old wooden boat docked by the coast suddenly caught its attention.
Colin saw Hogwarts with a telescope 10 seconds before Hayley spotted it.
After Jon and Fred landed on the island, the students who stayed on the ship did not stay on the ship idly.
Neville almost assigned observation positions from the bow to the stern, and at the same time kept Colin, who had always been a watchman, on standby at all times, keeping vigilance on the surrounding situation at all times.
Not only should we pay attention to whether there will be a spark signal on Azkaban Island, but also observe the appearance of abnormal creatures like dementors, so that they can be fully prepared in the first place if something goes wrong.
But the whole morning passed, and Colin held up his binoculars to guard the top of the mast for a long time, but he didn't find a single living thing around the island.
This is like a dead island, except for the depressing gray fog floating around, there is no other movable object.
Even in this piece of sea water near the coast, there are no fish and shrimps, and it is lifeless. It reminds Colin of the kind when his parents took him to visit the grave of his hometown cemetery in the countryside when he was still in Muggle primary school. Sense of rundown.
But Colin never put down his telescope.
He likes to take pictures, and he has always longed to have a camera of his own. Originally, this wish was about to come true when he was about to go to middle school, but he was coaxed by the professor named Barty Crouch to sign him. Notice that taking pictures has become a luxury.
However, after entering the sea, the work of acting as a lookout made up for Colin's emotional vacancy in taking pictures.
He really likes the feeling of holding up the telescope and looking into the distance. Whenever he finds a very clever angle and sees an excellent scenery, he will imagine that there is a picture on the telescope at this time. The shutter button, as long as he presses it lightly, he can freeze the beauty of this moment.
Even on the desperate and dead island of Azkaban, Colin can find many alternative wonderful things.
He has been observing the huge castle looming in the gray mist all morning. Under such an atmosphere and sense of oppression, there is a different kind of magnificence.
He didn't ignore this little black spot. After a whole morning of vigilance, he had already determined that there were no living animals on the island, so the bird-like creature that suddenly appeared now was obviously very abnormal.
So, at the first moment, Colin put down the binoculars in his hand, grabbed the railing, and shouted at Neville who had stayed on the deck and never returned to the cabin since Jon and the others left.
"Report to the second officer! There is an unidentified flying creature approaching us at the three o'clock direction of the bow!"
On the deck, not only Neville, but also George Hermione around them all heard Colin shouting.
Everyone looked in the direction of Colin's report. Even without a telescope, they could already vaguely see a small black dot approaching their position.
Even without Neville's reminder, everyone present drew out their wands vigilantly.
"What's that?" George asked, frowning.
Neville narrowed his eyes solemnly, he could already vaguely see the flying animal.
"Like... an owl?"
"owl?"
Hermione asked calmly: "When Jon and the others landed on the island, did they bring an owl down?"
"No, Hogwarts does not keep owls in the carriage or the current cabin. Because the owls raised and used by wizards in the UK now have independent numbers, so that the Ministry of Magic can check at any time whether the animals that deliver letters are from them. The owners of the owls are legally in possession, and if they are found to be delivering letters from illegal owls, they have the right to see the contents of those letters."
"It is difficult for us to get such a regular number, so Hogwarts has never used owls since the exile."
Neville explained, his eyes never deviated from the owl that was getting closer and closer to them.
"So this owl can only belong to other people on the island."
Ja Siyan swallowed a mouthful of saliva, he was a little nervous.
"So what do we do now?"
Neville was unusually decisive.
"Shoot it down! No matter which person on the island is sending the letter, intercepting the letter is the most foolproof!"
Under his command, all the students on the entire boat raised their wands and aimed at the owl that was getting closer to their boat.
Haili, who was breaking out from the gray fog, just discovered the big boat under her at this moment, and the countless magic wands on the boat that were aimed at it, with red tips flashing!
The feathers all over its body were stimulated to blow up, and the memory of the long-term training was awakened, and it subconsciously began to perform evasive movements in the sky.
However, the next second.
An overwhelming beam of light shot out in its direction!
(end of this chapter)