Chapter 486: Unicorn pre-strike event (1/2)
Hagrid has been in a bad mood ever since Xiaolong Noble was sent away by Harry. He also wrote several letters to Charles in Romania, asking about Norbert's recent life. Because they are too far apart, it takes a long time to receive a reply each time.
However, a bad thing happened in the Forbidden Forest, and Hagrid had to withdraw the energy devoted to Norbert and refocus his attention on his work.
Not long ago, Hagrid found a pool of silver blood in the Forbidden Forest. In the limited memory of this hunting ground guard, among the various magical creatures living in the forbidden forest, only the blood of the unicorn is this unique silvery white.
This means that a unicorn in the Forbidden Forest is injured.
Hagrid had never seen anything in the Forbidden Forest that could harm a unicorn.
Unicorns not only possess powerful magical powers, but they also run extremely fast. Few creatures can catch up with them in the Forbidden Forest.
This is by no means a good sign.
Having been a hunting ground guard for so long, Hagrid had encountered this situation for the first time. He had to figure out what creature had hurt the unicorn.
At this moment, in the hunting hut, Hagrid was debugging the crossbow he hadn't used for a long time, carefully inspecting each arrow in the quiver to make sure that they would not lose the chain inexplicably when they were needed.
Before leaving, Hagrid raised his head and glanced at the umbrella beside the bed, but finally did not bring his own magic wand.
If possible, Hagrid did not use it as much as possible so as not to cause unnecessary trouble to Dumbledore.
”Ya Ya keep up.”
When Hagrid closed the door of the wooden house and was about to enter the woods to look for the injured unicorn, he vaguely heard someone greet him not far away.
”Hagrid, are you going into the woods?”
Albert looked at Hagrid's equipment, probably already guessing what was going on.
”A unicorn is injured.” Hagrid explained, ”I'm going into the woods to find it.”
”At this time?” Albert asked suspiciously, looking up at the sun above his head.
”Is there anything wrong?”
”It should be hard to find at this time!”
Hagrid was a little puzzled and didn't understand the meaning of Albert's words.
”I remember that the blood of unicorns is silvery white. It glows slightly at night. It is obvious in the forbidden forest. It is easy to find them. But if you go into the forest during the day, you can find the injured unicorn. It's not easy anymore.” Albert noticed the change in the expression on Hagrid's face and casually explained.
”Oh, what you said is correct. But I have to go.” Hagrid raised his hand and scratched his head, but he still didn't give up the idea of going into the woods to search for unicorns now.
”Don't worry, even if you enter the woods now, you won't find the unicorn for a while, tell me what is going on with this!” Albert naturally did not intend to let this opportunity go. I'm ready to give it a try and see if I can get a new task from this matter.
Hagrid hesitated, and finally told Albert about his discovery of a unicorn injury in the forbidden forest.
”It was this morning that I found the blood of the unicorn in the Forbidden Forest. After careful searching, I found blood stains from the unicorn in many places. At least since last night, it has been in the Forbidden Forest. Li stumbled around.” Hagrid recalled: ”I've never encountered such a situation.”
”Hagrid, have you ever thought about what caused the unicorn to be injured?” Albert asked suddenly.
”This...” Hagrid obviously hadn't thought about this question.
”It's not that easy to catch a unicorn. This magical creature itself has strong magic and has strong resistance to magic.” Albert reminded, ”Don't forget, unicorn The beast lives in the forbidden forest and has almost no natural enemies. If the unicorn wants to escape, it is also difficult to be caught.”
”What's right about this,” Hagrid murmured.
”Why do unicorns run around? It will undoubtedly increase their injuries.”
”You mean...”
”I think it is very likely to avoid the enemy who hurt it.” Albert said his guess.
”Did you find something?” Hagrid felt that he had to listen to Albert's speculation. Although it may be speculation or nonsense, it does not hurt to listen.
”As you said, this kind of thing has never happened.” Albert said calmly: ”Killing a unicorn is an extremely cruel thing, and ordinary creatures are not alone. The opponents of horned beasts, let alone hurt them, unless they are cubs. Why can't we change our minds? Humans are actually their natural enemies.”