Hagrid has been in a bad mood since Norbert was sent away by Harry. He has written several letters to Charles in Romania, asking about Norbert's recent life. Because they are too far apart, it takes a long time to receive a reply each time.
However, something bad happened in the Forbidden Forest, forcing Hagrid to withdraw his energy from Norbert and refocus on his work.
Not long ago, Hagrid found a pool of silver blood in the Forbidden Forest. In the limited memory of the gamekeeper, among the various magical creatures living in the Forbidden Forest, only the blood of the unicorn was this unique silver-white.
This means that a unicorn is injured in the forbidden forest.
Hagrid had never seen any creature in the Forbidden Forest that could harm a unicorn.
Unicorns not only possess powerful magical powers, but they can also run very fast. There are only a few creatures in the Forbidden Forest that can catch up with them.
This is never a good sign.
Having been a game keeper for so long, this was the first time Hagrid had encountered such a situation. He had to find out what creature had hurt the unicorn.
At this moment, in the hunting lodge, Hagrid was debugging his crossbow that he had not used for a long time, carefully checking every arrow in the quiver to make sure that they would not fall out of control when they were needed.
Before leaving, Hagrid looked up at the umbrella beside the bed, and ultimately did not take his wand with him.
If possible, Hagrid tried not to use it, so as not to cause unnecessary trouble to Dumbledore.
"Face up."
When Hagrid closed the door of the cabin and was about to go into the woods to look for the injured unicorn, he vaguely heard someone greeting him not far away.
"Hagrid, are you going into the woods?"
Albert looked at Hagrid's equipment and probably guessed what was going on.
"There's a unicorn that's been wounded," Hagrid explained. "I'm going into the woods to look for it."
"At this time?" Albert looked up at the sun above his head and asked puzzledly.
"Is there something wrong?"
"It should be difficult to find this time!"
Hagrid was a little confused and didn't understand what Albert meant.
"I remember that the blood of a unicorn is silvery white and glows slightly at night. It is very obvious in the Forbidden Forest and it is easy to find them. But if you enter the forest during the day, it is not easy to find a wounded unicorn." Albert noticed the change in Hagrid's expression and explained casually.
"Oh, you're right. But I have to go." Hagrid raised his hand and scratched his head, but still didn't give up the idea of going into the woods to search for unicorns.
"Don't worry. Even if you enter the forest now, you won't be able to find the unicorn for a while. Tell me what happened!" Albert naturally did not intend to miss this opportunity. He was ready to give it a try to see if he could get a new task from this matter.
Hagrid hesitated for a moment, but finally told Albert that he had found an injured unicorn in the Forbidden Forest.
"It was this morning that I found the pool of unicorn blood in the Forbidden Forest. After a careful search, I found traces of unicorn blood in many places. At least since last night, it has been stumbling around in the Forbidden Forest." Hagrid recalled: "I have never encountered such a situation before."
"Hagrid, have you ever thought about what caused the unicorn to be injured?" Albert suddenly asked.
"This..." Hagrid obviously hadn't thought about this question.
"It's not that easy to catch a unicorn. This magical creature has strong magic and is also very resistant to magic." Albert reminded, "Don't forget, unicorns live in the Forbidden Forest and have almost no natural enemies. If a unicorn wants to escape, it will also be difficult to catch it."
"That's exactly right," muttered Hagrid.
"Why would a unicorn run around? Doing so will undoubtedly aggravate its injuries."
"You mean..."
"I think it's most likely avoiding the enemy that hurt it." Albert expressed his guess.
"Did you discover something?" Hagrid felt that he needed to listen to Albert's speculation. Although it might just be speculation or nonsense, there was no harm in listening to it.
"Like you said, this has never happened before." Albert said calmly, "Killing a unicorn is extremely cruel, and ordinary creatures are no match for unicorns, let alone injuring them, unless they are cubs. Why can't we change our thinking? Humans can actually be considered their natural enemies."
"It's probably a dark wizard who hurt the unicorn!"
"Dark wizards, why do dark wizards hunt unicorns?"
"Gallon," Albert speculated, "Unicorn horns, fur, and other things are very valuable. Sometimes, for the sake of Gallon, people will do anything."
"For Galleons?" Hagrid almost roared, "Killing a unicorn for Galleons? This is simply unforgivable."
"Of course, there could be other reasons." Albert used his little finger to pick his ears, and when Hagrid's roar ended, he suddenly asked, "Hagrid, do you know what unicorn blood is used for?"
"Unicorn blood?" Hagrid's eyes were confused.
"Unicorn blood can be used to keep dying people alive." Albert whispered, "Perhaps a dark wizard tried to use the properties of unicorn blood to keep himself alive."
“Oh my God!”
Hagrid was stunned by Albert's guess.
"If that's the case, you'd better hope that the person has succeeded, or failed and died," Albert continued.
"Why?"
"It is said that the blood of a unicorn is only effective when drunk while it is still alive." Albert glanced at his task panel which finally showed some movement. After talking to Hagrid about so many things, he finally triggered a task to help Hagrid find a wounded unicorn.
It’s really not easy!
"If that person hadn't been able to drink the unicorn's blood before it died, there would probably have been another attack."
"Oh my God, we have to stop him." Hagrid jumped up from his chair, holding his crossbow and preparing to go into the woods to search for the possible dark wizard.
"This is just speculation."
"Speculation?" Hagrid looked at Albert deeply and couldn't help but sighed, "No, it's not like speculation at all. I saw what happened with my own eyes."
"I predicted this happening in a divination class a long time ago, and I told you about it." Albert glanced at Hagrid and reminded him. "But, because of Norbert, you probably forgot about it!"
"You continue..." Hagrid was a little embarrassed. He had indeed forgotten about this matter. He quickly changed the subject and asked Albert to continue. He also wanted to hear what was going on.
"The situation was probably that a famous dark wizard used magic to seriously injure a unicorn, but the unicorn itself is a magical creature with very strong magic power and is also very fast. It is not so easy to kill, so the dark wizard who injured the unicorn did not get what he wanted.
All you can do is run around in the forest chasing unicorns, which is why you find unicorn blood everywhere."
"That makes sense," Hagrid nodded.
"You don't mind if I go with you to look for the unicorn, do you?" Albert and Hagrid walked side by side towards the Forbidden Forest in front of them: "Before you see it with your own eyes, the information you get will be very limited after all."
"Don't you have classes in the afternoon?" Hagrid asked puzzledly.
"Don't worry, I have other ways to solve the problem of attending classes." Albert comforted casually.
"no."
Hagrid finally confronted Albert and said, "If that dark wizard is still hunting unicorns in the Forbidden Forest, I'm afraid I can't protect your life."
"Don't worry, I don't think the dark wizard will appear during the day."
"Why?"
Why
Albert was speechless. He couldn't say that Quirrell needed to teach in the morning.