[HP] Illusion

Harry and McGonagall retreated to the front of the students. There was no movement for a while, and most of them looked at the little unicorn with bated breath.

Although Harry was a little nervous at the beginning, but when McGonagall successfully fed the medicine to the little unicorn, the pressure disappeared completely. For him, the biggest problem was not his potion, but Will the little unicorn drink the medicine?

The Forbidden Forest in the afternoon is much softer than the dark night without light. The weather in early spring is still a bit cold. On everyone's bodies, the little unicorn's golden body was also stained with some soft and warm spots.

The little unicorn's wound was slowly healing at a speed visible to the naked eye. I don't know if it hurts anymore. It stood up unsteadily, and it took a while to stand firm.Seeing this, the little unicorn's parents also approached it. Looking at the little unicorn that had recovered, the two adult unicorns were so excited that they took turns licking its face.

McGonagall breathed a sigh of relief, and gave Harry a thumbs up. Hagrid hugged Harry and slapped him hard on the back, almost knocking him down, "Good job!" , Harry!"

I don't know who started the head and clapped their hands. The infected students applauded one after another, and even the professors present joined the ranks. This made Harry a little embarrassed, and his pale cheeks were quickly stained. A touch of red.

Two adult unicorns brought the little unicorn slowly to Harry, and bowed to him and McGonagall to express their gratitude. The little unicorn shyly followed behind its parents, poking its head out secretly. He glanced at Harry, and followed his parents' example and bowed to the two of them.

One of the unicorns approached Harry sideways, bending his back slightly so Harry could reach out and touch it.

The unicorn's body is strong and muscular, with graceful and smooth lines, which is extremely beautiful. Under the sunlight, the silver-white hair seems to be shining, which is unbelievably beautiful.

It was also the first time for Harry to see a unicorn clearly at such a close distance. This distance was much closer than the safe distance that Hogwarts students learned in the Protection of Magical Creatures class, but this posture also made him Harry doesn't know so, what is this for?

When the unicorn saw that Harry didn't move, he became visibly agitated again—as expected, the unicorn was docile on the outside, but he was very irritable on the inside.

"It means that it allows you to pluck some hairs from its body. This is their way of expressing gratitude." At this time, Firenze was still able to do the translation reliably.

Harry was stunned. Unicorn hair is usually used to make wand cores, so it doesn't make any sense to give it to him.Of course, he didn't miss the opportunity. He reached out and patted the opponent's body twice. The unicorn's smooth silver-white hair felt soft and soft to the touch—Harry quickly withdrew his hand and waved it towards the unicorn. Put it down to show that you don't need it.

"Firenze, please tell them that I appreciate their kindness, and this is what I should do. There is one more thing, please remind them that spring is coming, and the animals in the Forbidden Forest should come out of hibernation Wake up, if you don't want to hurt the cubs again, don't let them be alone again."

When Firenze began to translate, Harry also took this opportunity to say to all the students: "You are the same, the Forbidden Forest is the most dangerous in spring, and I will dispel your stupid idea of ​​going to the Forbidden Forest for adventure."

When the crisis was resolved, the unicorns expressed their thanks again and then left. Harry and McGonagall took all the students back to the castle. Firenze said that it would walk in the Forbidden Forest, and Hagrid stayed to deal with the aftermath.

On the way back, the students were still thinking about what happened just now, and many of them were eager to get close to Harry, but there was Mag standing next to Harry, so in the end McGonagall and Harry walked side by side. At the end.

McGonagall smiled rarely, and she spoke highly of Harry's performance today, "If you hadn't brought the medicine, maybe we would have had to fight the unicorns today. You handled it better than I imagined just now. Whether it’s transfiguration, potion science, understanding of unicorns, or on-the-spot adaptability, I am impressed.”

Harry blushed a little, this is what he should do, but someone still said cheekily: "It's rare to get such a compliment from the most serious Headmaster McGonagall, it really makes me ecstatic, actually This time was really lucky, I brought a lot of potions, just needed, if not possible, it will be troublesome."

"Is that the potion you made yourself?" McGonagall was obviously curious about the three bottles of potion Harry took out. She knew that Harry's NEWTs had an O in Potions, but judging from his performance before the sixth grade, this The results are still quite unbelievable, which also puzzled many professors at Hogwarts.

"Well, I did it in my spare time, and the effect looks pretty good." Harry said modestly.

"To be honest, the speed at which your potion grades improved is really surprising." She paused, and added, "Perhaps it can be said to be amazing. I have never seen a student's improvement in Hogwarts all these years." The level of potions can improve so quickly. I have seen your original scores in all subjects, which are much higher than your Defense Against the Dark Arts scores, and of course, much higher than Transfiguration scores."

Harry scratched his already messy hair, and smiled awkwardly: "This doesn't sound like a regular compliment, Minerva, there is no gold, no one is perfect, but let me take it as a compliment Bar."

The corner of Mag's mouth curved again, "Of course... I'm just curious."

"Actually, I have today, thanks to one person."

"Who? Hora—"

She was only halfway through when she was interrupted by someone.

"Severus Snape."

"But……"

Mag's words stopped at the beginning. Under the soft and bright sunlight, the young man in front of him still had a smile on his cheek, but for a moment she clearly saw the sadness that was hidden behind the smile—— When the young man spoke the name of the former headmaster.

For just one second, it's like what she just saw was her illusion.

When he said that name, perhaps only Harry knew it, he almost exhausted his strength.

But the feeling of admitting it in front of others is exceptionally good.

"Although you can see that my Potions performance only improved after the sixth grade, I cannot deny that Professor Snape has helped me a lot." He looked down at the stone road under his feet, " It's very big—ah, here it is." The two were walking to the gate of the castle, Harry smiled and nodded towards McGonagall, "This afternoon's class is wasted, but I still have to go back and give them homework, and Correcting the papers for the in-class test, so I have to leave first."

He nodded slightly, and quickly walked up the steps, only leaving Mag with a thin back.

The shy and thin boy in my memory has grown into a reliable and powerful man after so many years of experience, and even became the new spiritual pillar of the magic world after Dumbledore.

Inexplicably, Mag was a little worried about the figure that hastily disappeared from his sight.

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Harry didn't always sleep well, and even if he had to take a sleeping potion or a dreamless potion before going to bed when he was busy the next day, those things didn't do much for him.Most of the time, he still wakes up in the middle of the night.

The dreamless potion can indeed shield a person's dreams, but it cannot shield a person's heart.

That night he lay in bed, unable to sleep again.

This time it's a little different.

What reverberated in his brain was not the curse-like "forget it all", but the relationship between the unicorn parents and the little unicorn after he and Mag treated the little unicorn in the afternoon. deep picture.

Harry lost his parents when he was one year old. He spent his childhood at the Dursleys' house and didn't feel much family warmth.Later, he met Ron, and felt the love from parents to children from Molly and Arthur.Harry has always felt that parents may nagging, but their love is the strongest pillar behind their children.

Until he saw how Irene Snape hurt little Snape, he allowed his child to be abused when he was capable.

Even unicorns would fight against humans for their children, but there are such chilling parents in the world. Has Snape's childhood been full of such things?

Harry got up from the bed, then took a cloak and put it on, and set out towards the outside of the castle.

Harry, who hadn't traveled at night for a while, found out that the place he wanted to go was actually the Forbidden Forest when he left the castle, although he didn't know why.

It's nice to be a professor, even if you wander around in the middle of the night, you can find an excuse, even if you break into the Forbidden Forest, there is a "reasonable" explanation - for example, you suspect that some students have violated the regulations and wandered in the Forbidden Forest at night.

The night wind at the end of March was still icy cold, the night devoured the whales and devoured the earth, and there was only the faintly visible moonlight in the sky covered by clouds and mist. There was silence in the depths of the dark Forbidden Forest. They whimpered as they shuttled through the woods, crying like ghosts and monsters, deep and terrifying.

Harry's cloak was blown open, and the cold wind poured in from the opening and closing gaps of the cloak, making Harry, who hadn't used the Warming Charm, shiver several times.

He didn't go deep into the Forbidden Forest. The trees in the depths of the forest became taller and more luxuriant, and the top seemed to be covered with a dense green net without leaving a single gap. Moss, and grass that can cut people and is half the height of a person... The Forbidden Forest is full of various unknown creatures and plants, but creatures generally do not go out of the Forbidden Forest, and implement the principle of drawing a line from humans .

Most people would indeed not come to the Forbidden Forest at this time.

Suddenly there was a rustling sound in front, and then there was the sound of something pedaling on the ground one after another. It would be fine if it was a deer, a centaur, or a unicorn, but if it was another more ferocious creature , the situation is even worse.

Harry immediately became alert, and the hand hidden under the cloak immediately grasped his wand.

In front of the blurred vision, a small pointed horn suddenly poked its head out from behind the trunk of a big tree. It didn't move much, but Harry saw it at a glance.

Harry didn't move, while the other party dawdled for a while, a little unicorn's face sneakily appeared from behind the tree trunk, the little guy looked a little vigilant, poked his head out, then retracted, coming After going back and forth several times, he finally walked out generously.It occupies the center of the road, and its little hoofs kick and kick on the mossy road that can be vaguely seen. It looks like it is waiting for Harry to walk past, probably because it is a little impatient to wait, and it "da da da" Xiao ran over, looking a little shy.

——Of course Harry wasn't sure if he was wrong.

The little unicorn stopped a few feet in front of Harry and gave him a slight bow.