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Elwyn returned to the pitch-black Forbidden Forest and walked along the small path for a while.
He was looking for a place to ambush Peter, but he immediately stopped. He heard the sound of something stepping on fallen leaves.
Elwyn quickly hid behind a tree and listened carefully. He deactivated his Animagus form and pulled out his wand. The sound was like a cloak dragging on the ground, getting closer and closer. Could it be the eight-eyed spider?!
Suddenly, an arrow flew through the air and landed on a tree right above Elwyn's head with a bang. The sound of the arrow was hair-raising.
Elwyn's spell flew out almost at the same time. With the light of the spell, he saw something appear in front of him. It looked like a human, with black hair and a beard, but below the waist, it had a shiny brown body of a horse, and a long black tail.
It was a centaur, he agilely dodged the spell, nocked an arrow and aimed at Elwyn.
"Who are you, human?" Fury was written all over the centaur's face, his tone rough. "Intruding into our forest, and planning to use magic to attack me?!"
"I'm sorry, this is a misunderstanding! I thought you were an eight-eyed spider. You know, I was just attacked by them. " The tip of Elwyn's wand glowed faintly. "Let me introduce myself. I'm Elwyn Mason from Hogwarts."
Elwyn tried his best to recall anything related to centaurs. In most of the magician books and laws, the descriptions of these humanoid mystical creatures were filled with disdain.
For example, in the seventh article of the 《Magical Creatures Management and Control Method》, the centaur was defined as: A magical creature with a human head, a horse's torso and limbs, and a human-like intelligence. Please take note of your choice of words, close to human intelligence and animal, a very humiliating term. This also represents the majority of wizards' views on centaurs.
But the reality was completely different. Centaurs were extremely prideful creatures.
Generally speaking, they were full of distrust towards humans. Wizards and Muggle were the same in their eyes. Centaurs were proficient in healing magic, divination, archery and astronomy, and enjoyed a high reputation in these fields.
Centaurs tend to live together in groups, forming clans and tribes.
The centaur tribe in the Hogwarts Forbidden Forest was currently the largest centaur tribe, having existed for more than a thousand years. Before the four magnates established the Hogwarts School of Magic, the centaur ancestors lived in this magical forest that was later known as the Forbidden Forest.
Elwyn was not foolish enough to act according to the contents of the book and interact with a centaur, unless he wanted to infuriate the centaur and hasten his death. He tried his best to see the man as someone identical to himself, trying not to look at the man's lower body, even though it did look weird.
"I am hiding from an Eight-Eyed Giant Spider."
"Eight-eyed Giant Spider!!!" The fury on the centaur's face seemed to burn even brighter, he angrily said, "I don't know when it started, but these savage, hateful fellows have been increasing in numbers in the forest. They wantonly attack other creatures, and even occupy the territory that originally belonged to us."
Elwyn suddenly understood, no wonder the Eight-Eyed Giant Spider was classified as one of the most dangerous magical creatures by the Ministry of Magic, and was classified as a class A non-tradable commodity by the Magical Creature Management and Control Department.
Perhaps their single target attack power was slightly weaker, but their savage nature, high intelligence and extremely strong reproductive ability allowed the Eight-Eyed Giant Spider to possess an extremely strong invasive ability, causing great damage to the environment. From the centaur's tone, it could be seen that Aragok and its descendants must have caused the centaurs in the Forbidden Forest endless pain.
There was a sudden movement in the thicket, Elwyn hurriedly raised his magic wand.
He thought it was an Eight-Eyed Giant Spider, but it turned out to be a second centaur. It had red hair and a reddish-brown body, looking slightly weaker than the first centaur.
"Good evening, Elwyn Mason!" The second centaur that appeared had a much gentler personality, he spoke with a melancholic voice, "I'm Ronan, this is Ben, I hope we didn't scare you! Are you a pony in the castle? Did you learn a lot in school? "
"Not bad, I was able to learn a bit." Elwyn spoke modestly, deliberately ignoring the other's choice of words. For centaurs, a child was probably just a pony.
"To be able to learn a bit, that's already quite good!" Ronan sighed, "Even though you humans waste most of your lives on useless things because of your racial limitations, but I have to admit that you humans have still achieved some remarkable achievements in magic."
These words sounded like praise, but Elwyn didn't know how to respond.
Ronan didn't seem to expect Elwyn to be able to respond. He suddenly raised his head and gazed at the sky, speaking with an extremely melancholic voice, "Tonight, Mars is very bright."
He seemed to have forgotten about the matter of Elwyn and the Eight-Eyed Giant Spider. His eyes gazed upwards without blinking, seeming to have seen something from within.
Elwyn also raised his head to look. Mars was indeed very bright.
He didn't know what this meant. From his perspective, this was just one of the natural phenomena of the celestial bodies. But for the centaurs, this clearly wasn't the case. For centuries, they persistently observed and recorded the movements of the celestial bodies. They tried to find the symbol of the great evil or the tide of transformation.
"What does this mean?" Elwyn asked softly.
Considering that the key to Gryffindor's secret treasure was currently kept within the centaur tribe, Elwyn felt that he needed to build a good relationship with them.
Perhaps, he could even ask them to help him capture Peter the dwarf. It was impossible for him to defeat that many Eight-Eyed Giant Spiders by himself.
"The flames of war are about to ignite. The innocent are always the first to suffer!" Ronan sighed a few times, "It's been like this for hundreds of years, and it's still like this now."
"Yeah." Elwyn dragged out his words. He didn't know what the other had seen. He tried to speak, "Tonight, I went into the forbidden forest to capture an evil wizard. I can't let him escape. Otherwise, it will have an extremely bad influence on the future. You guys will also be implicated. I'm sure, you've also noticed the abnormality. "
"Mars is very bright tonight." Luo Nan repeated once more, and he emphasized his words, "It's abnormally bright!"
"I know. You just said it. I hope you guys can help me with the matter of capturing that evil dark wizard.
He turned his head to look at Ben. Ben acted as if he didn't see him.
He walked over and stood beside Ronan. He raised his head to look at the sky. After a long time, he slowly said, "Mars is very bright tonight."
It was this sentence again. Elwyn sighed. He discovered that communicating with the centaurs was indeed very difficult. Perhaps they knew many things, but they would never say it directly. They were tight-lipped about the things they observed.
They were the same as Professor Trelawney. They always liked to tell others about the various omens they observed, the warnings from the sky. However, they often turned a blind eye to the things that were clearly happening around them.
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