Chapter 43

During Charms class on Monday morning, Solim saw Draco's pale face and knew that the shock he had received last night had not eased his strength.

After class, Draco walked at the back of the crowd with Solim, their next class was a herb class. Draco figured he wouldn't be able to sleep tonight if he didn't figure out what that dark shadow was.

After Solim's warning, Draco was mentally prepared for confinement. But he still didn't expect the school to make such an arrangement: at eleven o'clock at night, new students like them would enter the Forbidden Forest to search for an injured unicorn. Draco wasn't Harry or Ron, he knew how powerful a creature or wizard could be to injure or even kill a unicorn. He even took out his father's name as Hagrid protested, but in the end he couldn't stop them from entering the Forbidden Forest.

The Forbidden Forest is dark enough during the day, let alone at night. If it weren't for the occasional faint moonlight, if it weren't for the dim light in my hand, I wouldn't even be able to see anything here. Draco couldn't remember how many times he had hit trees in the Forbidden Forest, how many times his robes had been cut by branches and low bushes. The Forbidden Forest is not flat land, the terrain here is high and low, and it is easy to stumble when you can't see the road clearly.

Draco was assigned by Hagrid to be in a group with Harry and Toothtooth, and Hagrid to Ron in a group with the two of them and a dog searching the path in the Forbidden Forest. Speaking of searching, they even walked bummerged, most of the time they were staring at the road under their feet, and they didn't have time to look around.

But even if they walked cautiously like this, trouble still found them. They found a dead unicorn in a clearing in the Forbidden Forest, the unicorn's distinctive silvery white blood all around, and just as he and Harry were about to fire green sparks with their wands, a dark shadow emerged from the trees, clinging to the ground and covering the unicorn's body, and began to drink its blood. Draco, who had never seen such a horrific scene, screamed and ran away, leaving Harry alone. Although the men had joined together intact and the confinement was over, the terrifying dark shadow had lingered in Draco's mind.

"Solim, what the hell is that dark shadow? I've never heard of anything like it. Draco asked Solim his question after recounting what had happened last night.

"You saw that dark shadow drinking unicorn blood, right?" Solim asked, "and do you know what happens if you take untreated unicorn blood?"

"You mean...... That dark shadow I saw was a wizard?".

Obviously, the only one who can take unicorn blood is a wizard. Any magical creature, they may kill unicorns, but they will never use unicorns for food. The blood of unicorns is only accessible to wizards, and knowing this, one can figure out that the dark shadow is definitely a wizard.

"But...... Isn't it ...... to take unicorn blood directly" Draco hesitated a little, is there really such a wizard?What kind of consequences will happen if you take unicorn blood directly, Draco is clear, after all, this is common knowledge in the wizarding world. Could anyone really be willing to be cursed like that and drink the blood of a unicorn?

"That's right, a short life, but eventually a brutal death. Solim added to Draco's unfinished words, "Only wizards who have nothing left to lose will use this extreme method to prolong their lives. "

"But why in the Forbidden Forest?" Draco asked a good question.

Unicorns are not magical creatures endemic to the Forbidden Forest. If you really want to get the blood of a unicorn, there are also in the black market, as long as you pay the starting price. Even if you choose to hunt unicorns by yourself for the sake of insurance, there is no need to come to the Forbidden Forest of Hogwarts, although there are not many unicorn habitats in the Ying Kingdom, but it is better to be safer than in Hogwarts and on Dumbledore's territory.

"Why? Of course, it's because the unicorn here is closest to the wizard. Solim replied.

After thinking about it, Draco's face changed, "You mean...... That wizard is near Hogwarts, or even in the school?".

"It's not too stupid, isn't that obvious?"

Voldemort's current condition must be terrible, so bad that he would risk his life by hunting unicorns in the Forbidden Forest. Voldemort possessed Quirrell and was able to control his body to a certain extent, which meant that Voldemort and Quirrell's soul were somehow connected, and the life force provided by unicorn blood would be replenished into Voldemort's soul through Quirrell's body, but cursing Voldemort certainly wouldn't want it at all.

"What a pathetic man. Solim sighed.

"What?" Draco didn't understand what Solim was talking about.

"Remember the final event I told you about the other day? "Solim was going to call Neville and Draco to see the scene, and by the way, Evans - it was one of his jobs.

If Draco was frightened, Harry felt fear.

Ferencze, the unusual centaur told Harry's scalp a tingling truth: Voldemort, the murderer of Harry's parents, was alive and ready to make a comeback, and the Philosopher's Stone was the key to his resurrection.

Harry didn't have time to think about final exams anymore, or the school rules, Quidditch, or the House Cup. The only thing he had to do now was to stop Snape from stealing the Philosopher's Stone, or else Voldemort would resurrect him...... Harry didn't dare to think about the terrible consequences.

He doesn't revise anymore, and spends all his spare time watching Snape's whereabouts. He told Ron and Hermione about his plan, and once Professor Dumbledore left Hogwarts, it was probably the time for Snape to do it, so they had to keep an eye on Snape, otherwise if he stole the Philosopher's Stone, it would be all over.

Ron though a bit ...... It's not a little, it's supposed to be very scary. But he still promised his good buddy at the first time that he would do everything possible to help Harry. Hermione hesitated, for Hermione, seeing that the exam was coming, it was really difficult for her to give up her revision time to keep an eye on Snape's tip. But Hermione also knew that if what Harry said was true, then it really didn't matter what the exam was. If Voldemort is really resurrected, then the wizarding world will definitely be involved in another bloody storm, the last time Voldemort and his men wreaked havoc on the wizarding world, Hermione already knew a lot through books. What's more, she herself is a Muggle-born wizard, which is within Voldemort's range of blows. So whether it's for her own sake, or the sense of justice in her heart, Hermione won't allow her to refuse.

Hermione decides to help Harry protect the Philosopher's Stone, but the method is debatable. After all, judging from the past deeds of Harry and Ron, there is a high probability that they will mess things up. And the protection of the Philosopher's Stone is absolutely not to be lost, otherwise the consequences will be extremely serious.

And even if Snape was really going to steal the Philosopher's Stone, Hermione didn't think that the three of them could stop him from associating with Solim...... During the conversation, Hermione had heard more than once that Solim had spoken of Snape. The three of them had little chance of succeeding against an ordinary adult wizard, let alone an elite wizard like Snape who could be a professor at Hogwarts.

In the small classroom they frequented, Hermione had seen Snape's Transfiguration firsthand, and she couldn't think of how to resist it.

So Hermione thought they needed to ask for some help.