Chapter 40 - Encountering the Centaur and a werewolf (1/2)
After the Dueling incident, rumors about Harry being one of the Slytherin's descendants began to fly around and then after knowing how reckless and rule-breaking Harry is, a weird rumor started by Malfoy.
He again brought up the buried incident of the dead cat, Mrs. Norris, and writings on the wall stating the heir opened the chamber of secrets. Since Harry is a Parselmouth, many students thought that Harry believed himself as the heir of Salazar Slytherin and wanted to frame Neal, the true heir by killing Filch's pet but didn't know that the chamber has already been found by Neal.
As all the logic is against Harry, Ginny began to feel sorry for him because she was almost sure that she's the culprit. Harry, Ron, and Hermoine decided to catch the real culprit at all costs. Their biggest suspicion is Malfoy as he kept on making trouble for them from the moment they met.
As the librarian was a fan of Lockhart, Hermoine used his autograph, which she got as a prize in one of the quizzes, in exchange for a potion book in the restricted section. She then began to brew the Polyjuice Potion in Myrtle's bathroom.
Meanwhile, Neal went to the Forbidden Forest with his suitcase along with Isle while looking at the detailed map he found in the vault of Fear, one of the five cursed vaults. He slowly made his towards the centaur colony base taking a detour from the area where Forest Trolls live.
But when he was nearing it, he saw all of them are gathered for something. Upon spotting him, they led him inside to meet Magorian, the leader of the Centaurs. He greeted Neal with respect, ”Mr. Neal Slytherin. You are here. I've been waiting for your arrival for a while. I'm really in need of that map of yours, now”.
Neal asked, ”what's happening?”. Magorian's face turned dark, ”the war is here”.
One Year Earlier.
At a random place in the Forbidden Forest, A dozen centaurs were standing behind Magorian. Beside him, few wolves and their leader stood. In front of them, five to six Giants stood. The Giant leader spoke, ”We have a lot of brothers who will migrate here. The food also won't be enough for us. You have to move to the edge of the forest”.
Magorian replied furiously, ”the forbidden forest belongs to us. Why should we give our way to outsiders like you guys”. The leader of the giants smirked, ”please understand our issue while I'm being polite. Both of your tribes have one year to settle elsewhere.
After one year, we'll use force if we have to drive all of you from the forest”. The wolf leader suddenly attacked the Giant. As the other wolves started to attack them, the centaurs too joined them but as the leader of Giants roared before his last breath, the ground began to shake as they saw a dozen Giants started to run before them.
Meanwhile, Neal was just roaming inside the Forbidden forest examining the little animals, trees and noting down names and their behavior. Just then, he saw the birds and the animals began to run away while the ground is shaking.
As Neal's trying to balance himself, Isle hissed, ”let's get away from here quick”. But before he could even move, he saw a centaur with heavy injuries running weakly and a few Giant beings of 20-25ft high which have an appearance of humans running towards him.