The Ancient Wizards of Hogwarts

Hogsmeade.

George pushed open the trap door under Honeydukes' cellar and looked around before calling Ash and Fred to come up together. They walked down the stairs to the store, passed through the merchandise cabinets filled with all kinds of candies, and left carefully.

"Don't worry."

George winked at Ash and said confidently:

"Mr. Froome, the owner of Honeydukes, goes to bed at ten o'clock every night and gets up at seven o'clock in the morning. During this period, there is very little movement that can wake him up, so as long as you come back here before seven o'clock tomorrow, no one will notice you." .”

"But it doesn't matter if you miss seven o'clock. You can sneak into the cellar without him noticing. Trust me, it won't be difficult."

"I guess so."

Ash nodded, changed the subject and asked:

"Aren't you going to the Three Broomsticks?"

"Yes!"

George and Fred looked at each other and said in unison:

"But that's just the beginning! We don't want to be there all day!"

George said solemnly: "This is a complete waste of time."

Fred said with great pride: "That's why we are going to the Forbidden Forest!"

Ash raised his eyebrows slightly and said:

"I remember Dumbledore saying no students were allowed to enter the Forbidden Forest."

George said calmly:

"It doesn't matter, as long as it's not discovered."

Fred added:

"Hagrid has discovered us several times, but he has never caught us, and he won't snitch on us, so don't worry."

"Then I wish you good luck."

Ash listened to the two showing off, smiled and said goodbye to them, watching them go to the Three Broomsticks pub.

A hundred years later, although the general architectural style of Hogsmeade has remained almost unchanged, its scale has become much larger. After all, some wizards have chosen to settle here for more than a hundred years.

But fortunately, the geographical location here has not changed at all, it is still on the east side of the Forbidden Forest.

This allowed Ash to clearly find the path from Hogsmeade to the Forbidden Forest - even though a hundred years have passed, this path still exists and has even been widened a lot. This is of course Hogs Maud's wizards did it.

After all, the Forbidden Forest is only for students, and wizards in Hogsmeade are not prohibited from entering. Many of them even go to the Forbidden Forest regularly to search for those creatures and collect their hair and blood to prepare new potions or even cast certain spells.

Of course, these wizards also know what sustainable development is, so few people will try to harm the magical animals in the Forbidden Forest, and they will even spontaneously take on the responsibility of protecting these magical animals outside the Forbidden Forest. This can be regarded as a kind of mutual cooperation. tacit agreement.

One of the reasons why Ash came to the Forbidden Forest was to find a magical animal called 'Sniff' and 'protect' them, just like he had done for a hundred years -

Magical animals saved from dark wizards trying to poach them in the Forbidden Forest are protected in the Room of Requirement. There these magical creatures have access to an absolutely complete environment without the threat of poachers.

As a result, Ash can harvest a lot of materials from these magical animals every day, which can be regarded as mutually beneficial. But Dicko left Hogwarts with those magical animals. If Ash wanted to find a Niffler, he had to come to the Forbidden Forest himself.

But there is a new problem, that is, Sniff's lair is deep in the Forbidden Forest. If you want to go there, you will inevitably meet other aborigines in the forest, such as...

"Roar!"

A giant monster with a green body and a height of nearly four meters suddenly burst out of the forest, roared and charged towards Ash with a thick wooden stick raised.

Creatures like trolls are cruel and powerful by nature. If they are hit by this wooden stick, an ordinary wizard will be smashed into a pulp. Even a half-giant like Hagrid will be severely injured, even his internal organs will be damaged. So broken.

Unfortunately, before the giant monster launched its attack, a silver-white wand had already pointed its tip at it:

"Diffindo!"

Accompanied by a sharp sound that almost pierced the eardrum, an invisible wind blade pierced the giant monster's body.

Click!

The surrounding trees were cut in half and collapsed with an overwhelming creaking sound.

But the giant monster only paused slightly under such an attack.

The giant monster's abdomen was opened with a bloody wound by the wind blade, but it seemed to feel no pain and still roared and charged towards Ash.

This is one of the reasons why giant monsters are still extremely dangerous even though they are brainless. Their magic resistance is almost second only to giant dragons!

Smart wizards will not try to compete with trolls simply with magic spells, because the trolls' high magic resistance and thick skin allow them to rush in front of the wizard with several spells, and knock the wizard into paste with a mallet.

Therefore, wizards usually turn the ground under the trolls' feet into a muddy swamp for them to sink into, and then use various magic spells to slowly eliminate the trolls.

Ash, on the other hand, prefers to be more direct.

so--

"Diffindo!"

Another wind blade formed in the air, and with a sharp sound of breaking through the air, it accurately hit the bloody scar on the monster's abdomen!

boom!

The troll's legs roared and rushed in front of Ash. It wanted to raise its club and hammer the human in front of it flat.

However, when it tried to swing the mallet in its hand, it only heard a loud noise.

boom!

The troll's upper body fell heavily to the ground, and a large amount of blood poured out from the smooth cuts, making its vision gradually blurry.

Before completely losing consciousness, it seemed to hear another spell:

"Diffindo!"

puff!

The wind blade cut off the giant monster's head cleanly, causing blood to gush out from the carotid artery like a fountain. Ash avoided the area where the blood spurted with some disgust and approached the troll's body from the side.

This is a forest monster, and its green skin almost makes it blend in with the surrounding environment. In addition, as they are naturally magical animals, they are born with the ability to eliminate their own aura. Once the giant monster hides, ordinary people cannot detect it at all.

But alas, even though trolls weigh a ton, their brains are only the size of boogers. Their stupid intelligence is completely unable to learn to use their racial talents to hide themselves. They will only roar and rush forward the moment they see an enemy, for fear that others will not discover them.

But no matter how stupid they are, trolls are truly magical animals, and their skin is extremely resistant to magic. Ordinary wizards cannot break through the defense at all. Even if they can break through the defense, it is difficult to hurt their vital parts. In the end, they can only be beaten to death by the giant monster.

But trolls, like other magical animals, have extremely high use value for their body parts.

For example, their snot can be used to make invisibility potions.

Ash took out the glass bottle he got from Snape from his pocket and used his wand to collect some troll snot - the troll's snot had a disgusting odor, like durian+ The mixture of snail powder and Xiang was unbearable, and Ash's expression was obviously disgusted.

But as disgusting as this thing is, its value is also quite high and it is very popular in the wizarding world. After all, not all wizards can successfully defeat the troll alone.

After disposing of the troll's body, Ash figured out the direction and continued to move deeper into the forest.

The aborigines in the Forbidden Forest include not only trolls, but also centaurs. These two are considered the most threatening creatures in the Forbidden Forest. But the horse people generally live in the deepest part of the Forbidden Forest, and they have never had contact with the wizards, and they rarely have conflicts.

And the place Ash was going to was far from the settlement of centaurs, so there was no need to worry.

Ash sneaked stealthily in the Forbidden Forest, stopping from time to time in areas with slightly sparse branches to identify the direction.

"If I remember correctly, it should be right in front..."

Ash was mumbling to himself, and suddenly a howl came from his ears:

"Ouch!"

"Wolf?"

Ash's expression changed slightly and he murmured in a low voice: "I don't remember that there are wolves in the Forbidden Forest."

This is a lie.