What Cowen confides is so unbelievable that it becomes an atmosphere destroyer.
In the end, Dumbledore could only briefly expose Cowen's situation, and the case was completely closed.
Let Hagrid go back to rest first, and then Dumbledore asked Professor McGonagall to take the twins back to the Gryffindor lounge.
In the end, only Kewen himself was left in the office.
After seeing off everyone, Dumbledore began to meditate, pacing in the office with his head down.
Ke Wen could only watch in silence, obviously Dumbledore must have left him alone because of something else.
Not long after, Dumbledore finally stopped, looked at Ke Wen, pondered for a while and said, "Let's walk with the old man again."
Ke Wen didn't ask anything, but silently nodded in response.
Afterwards, the two left the principal's office and the castle, and re-entered the Forbidden Forest to Cowen's surprise.
While walking into the depths of the Forbidden Forest, Dumbledore broke the silence: "Are you very puzzled?"
"Yeah." Cohen walked beside Dumbledore and admitted aloud.
"Although it's not good to say that..." Dumbledore said easy-goingly: "But I have already had some ideas about the acromantula group."
"Could you tell me, Mr. Principal?" Ke Wen gave a timely laugh with great insight.
"Of course." Dumbledore said happily, as if he could finally share a long-held secret with others.
On the way forward, Dumbledore said: "The Forbidden Forest belongs to the academy, so some ethnic groups living in the Forbidden Forest will occasionally contact me as the principal, or ask for help, or reflect something to me. .”
Ke Wen didn't make a sound and listened quietly.
Dumbledore's 'sharing' continued: "In recent years, various groups in the Forbidden Forest have reported the same thing to me, that is, the group of acromantids is developing too fast.
If this continues, it will oppress the living space of other ethnic groups in the Forbidden Forest.
This will be detrimental to the ecological balance of the Forbidden Forest. "
Ke Wen spoke up at the right time: "So, is the punishment for us not so severe this time, Mr. Principal?"
"There must be some reasons for this." Dumbledore thought for a while, then nodded and admitted.
Afterwards, Dumbledore seemed to be emotional, and continued to say, as if teaching: "Kevin, you have to know that spiders are cruel creatures, and creatures like acromantula have the instinct to attack humans. "
"Then are they the School of Fear?" Ke Wen knew clearly, but interrupted him pretending not to know, "So the acromantula in the Forbidden Forest never came out to attack the students?"
"No." Dumbledore shook his head, and said softly: "This is all thanks to Hagrid, who made an agreement with the patriarch of the acromantula, agreeing that 'Aragog' would strictly order its descendants not Come out of the Forbidden Forest to attack humans."
"Of course." When Dumbledore said this, he added with some helplessness: "The reason why the group of acromantids can appear in the Forbidden Forest is also because of Hagrid."
"Wait a minute, Mr. Principal!" Ke Wen suddenly stopped Dumbledore.
"What's wrong?" Dumbledore stopped and looked down at Cowen.
Cowen raised his finger forward: "I remember a large group of 'Billywigs' ahead, so we'd better avoid them."
Dumbledore glanced at the direction Cowen pointed, then showed a sudden look, nodded with a smile: "Okay, thank you for your reminder, then let's go this way."
Moving forward in another direction, Dumbledore continued: "Where did you say it before? Oh, I remembered."
Dumbledore's "The Book Continues": "You know, as the headmaster, there are too many things that require my attention every day, so I haven't had the opportunity to see the situation of the acromantid group in person.
You made a mistake this time, just reminded me of this, so take this opportunity, let's go and observe where their ethnic groups are located. "
"Okay, Mr. Principal." Kewen still didn't understand why Dumbledore brought him with him. Wouldn't it be more convenient to come here alone
However, Ke Wen didn't talk too much to ask the bottom line. After responding, he remained silent, and followed Dumbledore all the way to the depths of the Forbidden Forest.
The two walked for more than half an hour. When they saw the first acromantula, Dumbledore cast the 'Disillusionment Curse' on the two of them, making him and Ke Wen invisible.
Therefore, after avoiding the crowded places of the acromantula all the way, after twists and turns, they finally arrived at the acromantula's lair.
Did not show up, Dumbledore took Ke Wen to hide next to a big tree on the edge of the lair, and carefully observed the entire lair.
Not counting the giant eight-eyed spiders that went out to forage, the number of spiders that can be seen near the nest is more than three hundred.
This made Dumbledore frowned, looking a little worried.
After observing for a while, Dumbledore raised his hand and waved it in front of the two, then said, "You can speak now, they can't hear us now."
"Sir, there are too many of them!" Ke Wen said with a serious tone, "As far as I know, ordinary spiders lay thousands of eggs at a time, and even if the survival rate is not high, there are hundreds of them." The baby spider survived!
And the book also said that the lifespan of 'Acromantula' is very long, so... I'm afraid they should really limit the development of their group! "
Dumbledore nodded solemnly, stared at the lair in silence for a moment, then bowed his head and said to Ke Wen: "Okay, let's go back."
"Good professor." Ke Wen responded.
But what Dumbledore did next made Ke Wen stunned.
I saw Dumbledore took out his wand, waved it, and said 'Curse Stand'.
The next moment, the 'Illusion Curse' and 'Silencing Curse' on the two of them suddenly dissipated, exposing their figures to the eyes of all the giant arachnids.
"Sir?" Cowen immediately drew out his wand.
Dumbledore didn't respond immediately, instead he shook his wand and fired a beam of magic light, hitting an acromantula.
The giant eight-eyed spider didn't even make a sound, its huge body shrank suddenly, and then fell to the ground powerlessly.
Dumbledore then waved his wand, and under the silent 'Transformation Summoning Curse', he replaced the spider's body somewhere.
Until then, Dumbledore lowered his head and asked testily: "Faced with this situation, what do you think is the most appropriate way?"
Ke Wen was very puzzled by Dumbledore's thoughts, but the current situation did not allow him to think too much.
Facing the 'tide of giant eight-eyed spiders' rushing towards them from all directions, Ke Wen instantly calmed down and entered a calm state with no distractions...
(end of this chapter)