Alvin returned to the dark Forbidden Forest and walked along the path for a while.
He was about to find a place to ambush Peter Pettigrew, but he stopped immediately when he heard something stepping on fallen leaves.
Ivan hurriedly hid behind the big tree beside him and listened attentively. He released the Animagus form and pulled out his wand. That sound was like a cloak dragging on the ground, getting closer and closer, could it be an acromantula? !
Suddenly, an arrow flew through the air and landed on the tree above Aiwen's head with a bang, the sound was creepy.
Aiwen's spell flew out almost instantly, and with the light of the spell, he saw a thing appearing in the open space in front of him. It looked like a human being with black hair and beard, but it was dark from the waist down. It has a shiny brown and black body, with a long black tail dragging behind it.
This is a centaur, he dodged the spell nimbly, and aimed at Aiwen with his bow and arrow.
"Who are you, human?" The centaur said with anger on his face, "Break into our woods and plan to attack me with magic?!"
"I'm sorry, it was a misunderstanding! I thought you were an acromantula, you know, I was attacked by them just now." Aiwen's wand had a faint light on it, "Let me introduce myself, my name is Ai Wen Vin Mason, from Hogwarts."
Aiwen tried hard to recall the content related to the centaur in his mind. In most wizard books and laws, the introduction of this humanoid magical creature is full of contempt.
For example, in Article 7 of the "Administrative Measures for the Management and Control of Magical Creatures", the definition of a centaur is: a magical animal with a human head, a torso, and limbs similar to a horse, with intelligence close to that of a human. Please pay attention to the words, close to human intelligence and animals, very humiliating words, which also represent the views of the vast majority of wizards on centaurs.
But the actual situation is not like this at all, the centaur is an extremely proud creature.
Generally speaking, they are full of distrust of humans, whether they are wizards or Muggles, there is no difference in their eyes. Centaurs are well-versed in healing magic, divination, archery, and astronomy, and enjoy a high reputation in these fields.
Centaurs often live together in groups, forming clans and tribes.
The centaur clan in the Hogwarts Forbidden Forest is the largest known centaur tribe and has existed for more than a thousand years. Before the Big Four established Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, the ancestors of the centaurs lived in this magical forest that was later called the Forbidden Forest.
Aiwen is not stupid enough to get along with a centaur according to the content of the book, unless he wants to anger the other party and die faster. He tried his best to see the other person as a person exactly like himself, and tried not to look at the other person's lower body, although this seemed really strange.
"I'm avoiding acromantula"
"Acromantula!!!" The anger on the centaur's face seemed to grow stronger, and he said angrily, "I don't know when, the number of these ferocious and hateful guys in the woods has increased, and they wantonly Attack other creatures, and occupy the territory that originally belonged to us."
Aiwen came to a sudden, no wonder the giant spider was rated as one of the most dangerous magical animals by the Ministry of Magic, and was clearly listed as a Class A non-trading commodity by the Department of Management and Control of Magical Creatures.
Perhaps their individual attack ability is slightly weak, but their ferocious personality, super high intelligence, and strong reproductive ability give Acromantus a strong ability to invade species and cause great damage to the ecological environment. From the tone of the centaur, it can be seen that Aragog and his descendants must have caused pain to the centaur in the Forbidden Forest.
There was a sudden movement in the bushes, and Ai Wen hurriedly raised his wand.
He thought it was an acromantula, but it turned out that it was just the second centaur, with red hair and a brown body, and looked thinner than the first centaur.
"Good evening, Evan Mason!" The second centaur who appeared was much gentler, and he said in a melancholy voice, "My name is Ronan, this is Bane, I hope we didn't scare you! You are Castle The foal in it? Did you learn much at school?"
"It's okay, I can learn a little bit," Aiwen said modestly, deliberately ignoring the other party's words. For horse people, a child is probably a pony.
"It would be great if you can learn a little bit!" Ronan sighed, "Although you humans waste most of your life on useless things due to racial restrictions, you have to admit that you have still achieved a lot. Some impressive magical achievements."
This sentence sounded like a compliment, but Ivan didn't know how to answer it.
Ronan didn't seem to expect Ivan to answer, he suddenly raised his head, stared at the sky, and said in an extremely melancholy tone, "Mars is very bright tonight."
He seemed to have forgotten about Ivan and the acromantia, and stared upwards without blinking, as if he saw something in it.
Ivan also raised his head and looked, Mars was indeed very bright.
He didn't know what this meant. In his opinion, this was just one of the natural phenomena of the movement of stars, but for the centaurs, it was obviously not the case. For centuries, they have been persistently observing and recording the movement of various celestial bodies, trying to Look out for symbols that show great evil or tides of transformation there.
"What does this represent?" Ivan asked softly.
Considering that the key to the secret treasure of Gryffindor is being kept in the centaur tribe, Ivan felt that it was necessary for him to establish a good relationship with the other party.
Maybe, ask them to help him catch Peter Pettigrew. With so many giant eight-eyed spiders, it is impossible for him to defeat them alone.
"The flames of war are about to ignite, and the innocent are always the first to suffer!" Ronan sighed again, "It has been like this for hundreds of years, and it is still like this now."
"Yeah." Ivan dragged his voice, he didn't know what the other party saw, he tried to say, "I went to the Forbidden Forest tonight to catch an evil wizard, and I can't let him run away, otherwise It will have an extremely bad impact on the future, and you will also be implicated. Presumably, you have also noticed the abnormality"
"Mars is very bright tonight." Ronan repeated again, with an emphasis, "It's very bright!"
"I know, you just said, about catching that evil dark wizard, I hope you can help me.
He turned his head to look at Bane, who didn't seem to see him.
He came over and stood beside Ronan, looked up at the sky, and said slowly, "Mars is very bright tonight."
It was this sentence again, Ai Wen sighed, he found it really difficult to communicate with the horse people, they may know a lot of things, but they never say it directly, they are tight-lipped about what they observe.
Like Professor Trelawney, they always like to tell others the omens they have observed, the warnings from the sky, but they often turn a blind eye to what is obviously happening around them.
Aiwen suddenly discovered that it was even more difficult to get help from the centaur in catching Peter Pettigrew. (.)