Mentor and Friends

The kids were allowed to go to bed later.

After dinner, desserts and some fresh fruit appeared on the long table. Not only the children need to communicate, but the professors need to talk.

Ron is not a law-abiding person, but in this situation, he doesn't know many people, and he feels that he can't blend in, so he would rather sit quietly with Harry, and then call all kinds of rogues yawn.

Like Ron, Harry is probably not interested in communicating with the people around him. He drank the pumpkin juice in the cup for a while, paused occasionally, and listened to the conversations of the people around him. , and intercept some of the information you want to get from it.

Sometimes, the situation in the wizarding world also reflects some things in the Muggle world.

Without Grindelwald's support, the war in the Muggle world is now overwhelming, and it may not be long before it ends.

Harry rested his chin on his hand, and although the process was different, the ending didn't seem to have changed much.

If this is the case, then he is also relieved.

Harry watched Ron yawning non-stop. In fact, he didn't want to stay here. Although he liked the excitement, he didn't like these scenes.

He felt that he wanted to go to the Gryffindor long table and continue to serve as the long table...

Suddenly, Harry seemed to feel something, and he stood up.

"Where are you going?" Ron asked almost reflexively.

Harry shrugged pretending to be indifferent: "Night Tour."

"It's not curfew time yet..." Ron stared wide-eyed, "Where do you want to go?"

In fact, Harry did go to the Forbidden Forest.

He left the auditorium without anyone noticing, and walked towards the Forbidden Forest alone.

The magic wand in his hand exudes a faint light. The atmosphere of the Forbidden Forest at night is always difficult to breathe. Layers of branches block the moonlight outside, and the entire Forbidden Forest is like a huge curtain. near all its light.

Harry's magical power is huge, and logically speaking, the simple "fluorescence flashing" should not have this level, but I don't know if Harry did it on purpose or because the Forbidden Forest is too dark.

For the faint of heart, this place is undoubtedly scary.

But for Harry, who regards the Forbidden Forest as his back garden, even though he knows that there are several magical creatures around, he is still as steady as ever.

There was a faint sound of horseshoes around him, and Harry stopped.

"It's dangerous here," said a hoarse voice behind Harry, "Wizard, you'd better get out of here."

"Did something happen in the Forbidden Forest?" Harry turned around and looked at the centaur. He was different from the few centaur Harry had ever seen. Harry could probably see that the hair on his head was also white, and the flesh of his horse didn't look as strong as the young centaur's, and the hair on the ponytail was already sparse.

This centaur is very old.

And Harry happened to know that the older the centaurs, the higher their status in the group, and the stronger their ability to read astrology.

Either way, Harry must respect the old man.

"You should know something." Harry said softly, "I can feel that something is wrong in the Forbidden Forest. Just for a moment, the magical fluctuations from the magical creatures here almost affected Hogwarts." Albus must have felt it , but it's not easy to get away, so Harry naturally bears the brunt of the situation here.

When Harry passed by the Forbidden Forest these days, he saw that the situation of many magical creatures on the edge was not right, and vaguely felt that maybe something happened in the Forbidden Forest.

"A guest came from the depths of the Forbidden Forest some time ago." The centaur looked at Harry. In the darkness, Harry couldn't see the color of his eyes clearly, but he could feel the vigilance appearing there, "It broke the balance inside."

"Breaking the balance?" Harry was stunned for a moment, "Is it the balance among magical creatures, or the balance of the food chain?"

The horseman was silent for a while, then started to walk deep.

Harry followed without a word.

However, he stopped suddenly after walking a few steps, and his wand was already pointing at a certain corner: "Come out." A spell was struck, and the person behind him narrowly escaped: "Harry, it's me. "

"Tom?" Harry frowned, "Why did you come to the Forbidden Forest?"

"I..." Tom seemed to be thinking about what to say to Harry, but on the other side, the centaur had already gone away, and he didn't stop to wait for Harry.

Harry had no choice but to take Tom with him and follow behind the centaur.

They didn't walk fast, there were too many magical creatures living in the Forbidden Forest, and at night, they were looking for food, and they had no intention of attracting this group of magical creatures.

Tom looked at the hands he held tightly with Harry, with a complicated expression on his face.

In the entire auditorium, he was probably the only one who noticed Harry's leaving halfway, and he, almost without thinking, just followed.

Originally, he simply wanted to see where Harry was going, but when Harry walked into the Forbidden Forest, he followed Harry almost without thinking.

I always felt that he was paying too much attention to Harry, so much that he was not used to it.

Harry didn't know what was going on in Tom's heart. He was just worried about the situation in the Forbidden Forest. You must know that if this year's Triwizard Tournament really wanted to use the venue of the Forbidden Forest, then the situation in the Forbidden Forest would definitely not happen.

Soon after, they came to a meadow. There were no trees in this hollow area, only a piece of green grass, and occasionally a few small flowers could be seen standing alone on the grass.

Harry recognized this place. This is the favorite place for unicorns. When the sun is shining during the day, they will come here to bask in the sun.

"What happened to the unicorns?" Upon seeing this place, Harry's first reaction was whether something happened to the unicorns.

"It's not just them." The centaur shook his head. He looked at the small grassland with a little sadness in his eyes. "Even some people who usually like to come here are not spared."

"It targets this area?" Harry frowned, and walked forward tentatively. In the center, Harry looked around with his wand, and could vaguely find a few bloodstains.

Harry checked the surroundings carefully, and then he found the corpse of a small animal. He was startled, and then stepped forward to check.

Not long after, he turned his head to look at the old centaur, with obvious anger in his eyes: "That outsider... that outsider..." Almost his whole body was shaking, Tom had never seen him so angry The look, that kind of anger mixed with heartache, all showed that Harry's mood fluctuated a lot now.

"Harry," Tom hurried forward and took his hand, "calm down, there's something wrong with you, Harry."

The old centaur stepped forward slowly: "Did you find out?"

"No matter how weak and inconspicuous an animal is, there are always one or two treasures in it, whether it is used as a potion or a black magic circle." Harry trembled his hands, and Tom was shocked by his words. He could vaguely guess what Harry had discovered, thinking so, he turned his head to look at the animal at Harry's feet.

In just a split second, he realized what was going on.

This situation happened to him once when he went to Knockturn Alley.

"While they are still alive, take their flesh and blood..." Harry's hands were shaking all the time, such a cruel thing, such a cruel thing...

Tom didn't know what to say. He actually took these things very lightly after being exposed to advanced black magic. When he was young, he once killed someone's rabbit in the same orphanage, and then asked Nagini to scare him. On the other side, when he killed the Riddle family, he also used the killing curse without hesitation.

He often goes to Knockturn Alley, and he has seen the various ways the dark wizards of Knockturn Alley treat animals and plants.

The blood or flesh of some animals, or even the internal organs, can only be used raw to have the greatest effect. Tom has learned a lot from Knockturn Alley. When facing this matter, he is not so like that, and his mood swings are huge. .

Harry...wasn't that kind?

Tom thought in his heart that it was probably because Harry was so kind that he couldn't bear what happened now.

"The animals in the Forbidden Forest are all terrified now," the old horse man said about the recent situation in the Forbidden Forest. The horse people always think that they should not reveal the future they got from stargazing at night, but they don't mind talking about the current situation. "That 'guest', no one knows who he is, or what he is, maybe it's not 'he', but 'it'."

"Even you don't know?" Harry asked.

"We can't see clearly." He shook his head slowly, his voice was a little old, and there was a little meaning in his tone, "We can't see clearly about your future."

Tom was sure he felt Harry's hand tremble again, somehow, he felt as if he could feel Harry's mood.

That is a fear.

A fear that Tom didn't know.

Harry was silent for a while, and seemed to have finally made up his mind: "I will tell the headmaster about this matter," he said, "Although wizards are not suitable for getting involved in the Forbidden Forest, this matter cannot be resolved by the operation of the Forbidden Forest itself. Lin's existence concerns Hogwarts, so the headmaster needs to know about it."

"If you can restore the peace in the Forbidden Forest, I can represent most of the Forbidden Forest and agree with your decision." The old horseman nodded.

"So..." Harry's words suddenly stopped, and he turned his head to look at a certain corner, where the little unicorn was looking at them restlessly, with a warning sound in his throat.

Harry paused, and held out his hand to it.

The unicorn walked back and forth anxiously on the spot a few times, and actually came towards Harry. He stopped in front of Harry, stuck out his tongue, and licked Harry's palm timidly. .

"It's dangerous here," Harry said softly to it, "you should go back to your clan."

The unicorn rubbed his hand, but subconsciously avoided Tom, who was beside Harry.

"It's really rare." The centaur looked at the interaction between Harry and the unicorn. "Unicorns like pure people or things, especially young unicorns. I have never seen any unicorns who would get close to them." A man full of murder."

Harry smiled bitterly, but said nothing.

Tom looked at Harry, remembering his previous evaluation of Harry's "kindness", and then the words of the Pima people, his eyes widened instantly.

Harry... covered in bloodshed?

The author has something to say: Whether it is Harry or Tom, the Triwizard Tournament is destined to be incomparable o(╯□╰)o