Chapter 318 An evil pet devours the master? Ominous true identity

After Ron chased Banban for a while, he swooped down and caught it in his hand.

The three people chasing behind him looked at a big tree behind Ron and stopped in a daze.

"The Whomping Willow." Aaron smiled forcefully, "If I remember correctly, that mouse is his pet, right?

Take him under the Whomping Willow, this is the rhythm of the Lord Devourer! "

"Ron, run." Harry shouted hurriedly.

The Whomping Willow seems to have noticed that someone has invaded the edge of its territory, and several branches are dancing slowly, ready to attack.

When Ron heard the sound, he subconsciously raised his head, but before he could realize his situation, he pointed at the three of them with a panicked expression, and his fingers kept twitching.

"It's unlucky for you to run away."

The three of them turned around immediately and saw a big black dog growling and staring at the three of them with sharp eyes.

"Harry." Aaron said with some disdain, "Is this the ominous thing you saw?"

"It's scary, isn't it!" Harry said nervously, "I've seen it several times."

Aaron curled his lips, pulled out his wand and stood in front of the two of them, "Leave the bad luck to me, and leave Ron to you as the unlucky one."

Before he finished speaking, the big black dog roared and rushed over.

Aaron waved his wand, and several earth walls rose from the ground, blocking the black dog's path.

But what surprised him was that the black dog had no intention of attacking them. It quickly bypassed the first three walls, stepped on the fourth earth wall and jumped towards Ron.

It bit Ron's right leg and kept dragging him back.

"Harry." Ron made a miserable cry for help, but the big black dog was too strong and his struggles were useless.

Harry chased after him quickly, but Aaron was faster and grabbed Ron's arm in time to prevent him from being dragged down.

"I saved you once." Aaron said, and then pointed the wand at the big black dog that was biting him and refused to let go. "Everything turned to stone."

boom!

Harry bumped into Aaron, causing the Petrification Curse to miss.

"Waterfa..."

Aaron's eyes widened in disbelief, never expecting that Ron's best friend would stop him.

Just as he was about to ask why, he heard the howling wind, and a long willow branch was struck where he was standing, leaving a shallow ravine on the ground.

Seeing this, Aaron couldn't help but gasped.

If this wicker hit someone, the skin would not be bruised, and even he would probably have to hold the wound and cry out in pain.

The Whomping Willow seemed to be annoyed. Several thick branches tightened like fists, and countless willow branches creaked in the strong wind, whipping back and forth like whips.

Aaron immediately let go of Ron, narrowly dodging several thick branches that were pulled down at him.

The big black dog suddenly exerted force and dragged Ron into the tree hole, only having time to let out a scream.

"Sorry, this was really unintentional." Aaron said awkwardly to Harry and Hermione who had entered the attack range of the Whomping Willow. The situation just now was really out of their control.

With his wand in one hand and Ron in the other, he was tug-of-war with the big black dog. He was a living target for the active Whomping Willow, and his mobility was almost negligible.

In fact, he could not let go, but then Ron would become a fixed target without any defense ability. If a few branches were hit, he would be disabled for life.

"Stop talking about this, we have to go in and save him." Harry gasped, jumping up and down, left and right, to avoid the incoming branches.

"We have to find someone to help." Hermione said anxiously. Her performance was even more embarrassing than Harry's, and her arms were bleeding.

"No, we don't have time. When we come back, we'll eat him."

"But we can't get in at all." Hermione was about to cry, but as she spoke, a branch hit her legs, knocking her to the ground, and then the huge tree crown was knocked down like a fist. .

"Help, help..." Hermione shouted while lying on the ground, her heart filled with despair.

If this tree crown, which was bigger than her, was hit, she would be dead or disabled, and she might have to lie in bed for the rest of her life.

boom!

Several gray stone pillars rose from the ground, trapping Hermione inside and blocking the Whomping Willow's 'fist'.

Hermione opened her eyes nervously, and then looked blankly at the gray stone pillars around her.

"Don't be so loud, I can hear you." Aaron picked his ears and helped Hermione up.

"And me?" Harry shouted eagerly.

"Hold on!"

Aaron took a deep breath and quickly rushed out of the circle of stone pillars.

He dodged a few pulled branches and clenched his fist in his right hand. The red flame was particularly conspicuous in the night.

"The Iron Fist of the Fire Dragon."

boom!

Aaron punched the center of the Whomping Willow, and the fire shock wave instantly enveloped almost half of the tree.

The Whomping Willow seemed to be in a sluggish state, motionless like an ordinary tree, but all the green leaves on the tree fell almost instantly.

"You...killed it?" Harry asked in shock.

"Are you concerned about the wrong person?" Aaron said speechlessly, "If we don't deal with it, we will be miserable.

And I was very measured in my attack. I didn’t kill it, I just knocked it unconscious. I didn’t want to lose the school’s money. "

Gulu!

Harry and Hermione looked at each other and swallowed.

This is the Whomping Willow. One punch will make it honest. No one will believe it if you tell it.

But after the shock, I felt infinitely happy.

With such a teammate, mere ominousness shouldn't be a problem.

"We have to hurry."

Harry walked to the tree trunk and slid in along the hole, followed closely by Aaron and Hermione.

"Fluorescence." A ball of white light lit up at the tip of Aaron's wand, illuminating the dark tunnel. "This should be the secret passage in the Marauder's Map!

Harry, where does it lead? "

"I don't know." Harry shook his head, "George and Fred have never come in. It leads to the edge of the Marauder's Map, which should be Hogsmeade."

"Where's the map? Let me take a look."

"Professor Lupine confiscated it."

Aaron: ...

You are so good, you can confiscate such important things.

The three of them moved quickly along the secret passage. After walking for an unknown amount of time, they finally saw a glimmer of light.

Passing through a trap door, the three of them carefully emerged from the secret passage, not daring to make a sound.

At the exit was a messy room with tattered furniture, as if it had been raided by robbers.

Aaron wiped the dust on the stairs, frowned slightly and said, "No one has been here for a long time."

"This is normal." Hermione looked at the boarded-up windows and swallowed hard, "This is the Shrieking Shack, a famous haunted house in Hogsmeade. Legend has it that it makes strange noises at night. 's screams.

"Really? I don't think there's anything ghosty here.

Even if there is, we are wizards, and it’s not certain who will deal with who! "

"Shh!" Harry made a silencing gesture, then pointed to the stairs, "Listen."

Ron's crying was heard from upstairs. The three of them looked at each other and walked up the stairs carefully.

There was an irregular mark in the thick dust, which was obviously caused by Ron being dragged by the black dog.

The three of them followed the traces and climbed onto the landing of the stairs.

Listening to the sobbing coming from inside, Aaron frowned slightly, "Wait, don't go in yet, something doesn't seem right."

Ominous, that is, the big black dog spent so much effort to catch Ron, but from the sound, it didn't seem to do anything to him.

He was neither regarded as food nor an enemy, as if he was thrown there as an irrelevant thing.

"I can't control that much." Harry kicked open the dilapidated door.

Aaron wanted to grab him, but before he could, Hermione accidentally got in too.

Ron was sitting on a bed covered with curtains, holding his injured leg that was still bleeding. He looked extremely embarrassed, but surprisingly his life was not in danger.

"Ron, it's okay." Hermione breathed a sigh of relief.

"Where's the dog?"

"He is the big dog, he is the Animagus." Ron pointed to the opposite side bitterly, "Harry, this is a trap."

The two were stunned for a moment and followed Ron's gaze.

At the end of a row of plum blossom footprints stood a middle-aged man with messy hair, sunken eye sockets, and skinny bones. He looked like he had run away from a prisoner of war camp. He was none other than Sirius Black on the wanted poster. .

"Expelliarmus," Sirius shouted, using Ron's wand to cast a disarming spell, knocking off Harry and Hermione's wands, and then calmly closed the door.

He grinned, showing yellow and blackened teeth.

"I expected that you would come to save your friends, and that your father would do the same to me.

You are very brave and did not run to the teacher, which would make things much easier. "

When Harry heard this, he thought it was a mockery of his father. His father had treated his friends in this way, but was betrayed by his friends and lost his life.

He subconsciously wanted to rush out and fight for his life, but he was held tightly by Ron and Hermione.

"No, Harry, no." Hermione said almost pleading.

"If you want to kill Harry, kill us too." Ron said firmly.

A flash of relief mixed with bitterness flashed in Sirius's eyes, and he slowly shook his head and said: "No, only one person will die tonight.

Also, you'd better lie down, otherwise your leg will be injured more seriously. "

Crunch!

The door suddenly opened and Aaron quickly cast a disarming spell.

"Expelliarmus."

There was a flash of white light, and Sirius' wand was knocked off his hand.

"Maybe you are right, only one person will die tonight." Aaron said calmly, and then walked up to the three of them, "I told you not to go in yet, why didn't you listen?

Fortunately I'm here, otherwise you guys would definitely be in trouble. "

"Sorry." Hermione lowered her head in embarrassment, not daring to look at Aaron.

Just as Sirius was about to pick up the wand, Aaron pointed the wand at him, "Don't move. Although I have never learned the Death Curse, I am pretty good at the Cruciatus Curse."

Trust me, you won't want to try it. "