After this long night and a thrilling night, when Harry Potter got up the next morning, he saw the Durmstrang exchange students in the lobby, sitting at the Gryffindor table Next to it, as the trio dined, one could even hear conversations coming from the opposite side.
"Hey! Did you know that there's an interesting forest behind this school," whispered a large wizard.
"What is this school? It's Hogwarts!" Hermione whispered to the trio indignantly, "They're so rude!"
Harry turned his head and saw the little man (Yakov) who was on the dueling ring that day said to the big man who had just spoken with a swearing expression on his face: "That is the Forbidden Forest, a restricted area of this school. It is said that the history is very special. Long ago, there lived many kinds of magical creatures... there were a lot of strange things there including werewolves, I heard."
"Werewolves!" the Durmstrang exchange students exclaimed in low voices.
This reminded Harry of his first night in contact with the Forbidden Forest. At that time, Neville said the same thing, but Neville said it in a crying voice, his voice seemed to be choked same. And these Durmstrang exchange students were full of anticipation and excitedly mentioned the werewolf legend in the Forbidden Forest.
Harry Potter heard a very familiar smell in this tone, the omen of trouble that Gryffindor is most familiar with.
"Cool!" Yakov said loudly: "Are they protecting werewolves? We in Russia don't know how to protect werewolves. I heard from my father that at his time, werewolves in Siberia and Ukraine were still very common, and then gradually disappeared. Already!"
"Killed by Muggles!" added his larger companion.
"Muggles are terrible... At that time, those Muggles would carry guns and go into the forest in winter to hunt bears and werewolves. They found werewolves who had nowhere to look for food in winter. They were usually a pack, with alpha wolves Lead them, then kill them all, and pull out the werewolf skins to make jackets." The big man added.
"It is said that there are many other protected magical animals in the Forbidden Forest, centaurs and unicorns, acromantulas and hippogriffs... that would be great! Keeping these little animals behind the school, It's not far from the school... It would be great if we in Durmstrang could do the same!" Yakov praised sincerely.
Hermione finally couldn't help but interjected: "You know the Forbidden Forest, but you don't know how dangerous it is... those dangerous magical animals..."
"Dangerous?" Yakov nodded and said, "It's really dangerous... We must not be caught by the professor and the Ministry of Magic. You know, the magical animal protection law here is very strict, and those magical animals are in a very dangerous situation... Many They are almost extinct! Those tall and strong centaurs, the werewolves who go crazy on the night of the full moon, and the trolls, including the biggest mountain monsters among the trolls!"
"Oh my God! My dream is to hunt a troll!" A thick Slav exclaimed in surprise, "I've killed enough of the smelly and slippery things like deep divers! A troll... I can kill it!" Mount its head on the wall by my fireplace."
"Hunting trolls is illegal!" Yakov warned him.
"So I just want to play with it!"
Hermione's warning didn't have any effect, and it seemed that Durmstrang's exchange students were only more fascinated, until after breakfast, they were still chattering about those wonderful magical animals, discussing their fangs and claws , venomous and deadly, Harry felt as if five or six Hagrids had gathered together, all with glowing eyes.
"They will definitely be going on a night tour to the Forbidden Forest tonight!" Hermione concluded.
Both Harry and Ron quite agreed with her judgment, but Hermione then said: "So we're going to tell Professor McGonagall!"
"How can that be?" Ron almost jumped up: "I'm not a traitor, think about it, if someone tells the professor during our night tour... I will break up with him!"
"But you don't have any friendship with them." Hermione pointed out calmly.
"That's not our turn to inform!" Ron was very indignant when he said it: "There are too many people like you... only tell the professor, report to the professor. Gryffindors are never afraid..."
"If we don't tell the professor...they might die!" Hermione said emphatically.
"I think..." Ron said eagerly: "We should follow behind them and protect their safety. We went to the Forbidden Forest last time, and this time we have time to stop them!"
Hermione understood Harry's eyes, and she said nervously, "Harry, you won't agree with what he did, will you?"
When night fell, the lounge in Gryffindor gradually became quiet, and the door of Harry's dormitory opened silently. At the door of the lounge, the fat woman was sleeping. She was woken up and exclaimed: "Who is that?" Who's there?" But there was no one in front of or behind the opened door, and the small, rustling sound of feet rubbing against the floor carried on down the hallway, where Hermione suddenly came out from the side and stared at the empty room. Wu's air said: "I knew you wouldn't give up."
Suddenly a human head popped out of the air, and Ron whispered, "Hermione? How did you find us?"
Hermione sneered and said, "You stepped on the salt on the ground!" Ron noticed that there was a line made of salt sprinkled on the ground. The shamans have a close bond, they believe that salt is sacred, it can exorcise evil spirits, it can stop evil spirits... that should be why."
"It can be used to make something invisible... Muggles use it to protect themselves."
When Harry and the others came to Hagrid's cabin in front of the Forbidden Forest, they found those Durmstrang students without any difficulty. There were four of them, and they quickly came from the Hogwarts castle. After escaping, Hermione was the first to meet her.
"Hey! Look what I found? A group of like-minded people!" Yakov was overjoyed.
The big man opened his arms: "Welcome to join our Forbidden Forest expedition team!"
"I didn't come to join you." Hermione said angrily, "Do you know how dangerous it is here? Werewolves will bite your throats off, and acromantulas will inject venom into your body."
"Acromantula?" Ron screamed.
Harry hurriedly covered his mouth, and whispered: "Don't wake Hagrid!" Those Durmstrang students also whispered: "It's not safe here, go, let's go in and talk."
Hermione's eyes widened and she wanted to refute, but Harry had already pulled Ron, who was struggling, into the Forbidden Forest, and Ron yelled as he struggled, "You didn't tell me there were spiders in the Forbidden Forest!"