Chapter 53 Centaur Firenze

In the early morning, the night gradually faded in the sky above Hogwarts Castle, and the light of the stars gradually dimmed. A ray of sunlight quietly penetrated the clouds in the sky and slanted in the dense forbidden forest.

However, the Forbidden Forest of Hogwarts is not as peaceful as it appears on the surface. The atmosphere deep inside is extremely solemn and tense.

"Hagrid, lower your head now, look at your friends, look at Ronan's pain!" Bain stared at Hagrid's unshaven face and asked sternly, "You still think that such a cruel existence is just A harmless Hogwarts professor?"

Hagrid hesitated for a moment, but then realized that Dracula was one of his own who had Dumbledore's trust, and the centaurs were actually just outsiders.

His eyes became firm and he wanted to defend Dracula.

Hagrid had a quarrel with Bain, but due to his clumsy tongue, his neck turned red and he never said anything about Bain.

In the end, he reluctantly gave up the verbal communication with the centaurs, rolled up his sleeves and prepared to fight Bain.

At this moment, the encirclement of the centaurs silently opened a passage.

"That's enough, Bane!"

A centaur with extremely outstanding appearance walked over from the passage and said in a gentle but suppressed angry voice.

His hair is white blond and he has the body of a silver-maned horse.

"Why are you here, Firenze?" Bain looked at the centaur and asked doubtfully.

"We are the first to take action, Bain. If you are not as skilled as others, there is no need to show off." The white-blond centaur named Firenze did not answer Bain's question and went directly to the topic, "The war is coming. We cannot impose crimes that do not belong to others because of the stereotypes we have formed all along. This will only benefit our real enemies!"

"Do you know what you are talking about, Firenze?" Bain said angrily, "Remember, Firenze, we swore an oath and never disobey God's will! You think I didn't see the trajectory of the planets? Is it an omen?"

After hearing this, Ronan, who was still lying on the ground, raised his eyes and glanced at Dracula, his face became a little uneasy, and he kept digging at the snow on the ground with his hooves.

I don't know what mechanism Bain's words touched. Firenze's face instantly darkened, and he suddenly stood up on his hind legs in anger.

"Didn't you see that unicorn?" He changed his gentle tone and roared to Bain, "Don't you understand why it was killed? Now I really doubt that you are stupid enough to not see it. Uncover the secrets revealed in the planetary trajectories!”

"I must resist the guy lurking in our forest, Baine. Yes, if necessary, I will stand with any group that may unite!"

After speaking, Firenze ignored Bane and walked straight towards Dracula, who was surrounded by centaurs.

"Professor, please let Ronan go once, and I will ensure that you leave the Forbidden Forest safely." He bowed slightly to Dracula, and then looked thoughtfully into Dracula's eyes.

"Firenze, you better know what you are doing!" Bain saw this scene and continued to say sternly, "What does that matter have to do with us? Centaurs have always been neutral and only care about the astrology. It’s just a prophecy! We don’t need to violate the principles of the group and go with those evil creatures just to fight against the wizard’s enemies!”

However, Firenze was too lazy to pay attention to him at this time, and just stared straight into Dracula's burgundy eyes with astonishingly blue eyes, like light sapphires.

Looking at the unusual centaur in front of him, Dracula chuckled.

"I didn't expect that there would be such an interesting centaur like you in this stubborn and old tribe." He glanced at the nervous centaurs around him and said to Firenze with a chuckle, "For your sake, That’s it for today. Of course, if there’s another time, I won’t show any mercy.”

When he said the last sentence, Dracula's tone became extremely cold.

Bain opened his mouth in embarrassment and wanted to say a few more words of rebuke and ridicule, but he suddenly found a tiny bat with sharp teeth beside his ear, flapping its wings and flying towards the sky above the Forbidden Forest.

He felt an extremely dark and dangerous aura from the bat's teeth, but he had no sense of it before.

As the first tiny bat flew away, the sound of flapping wings was heard endlessly. Countless smiling bats flew over the Forbidden Forest where there was a hint of sunlight, and turned into a piece of powder in the sunlight and disappeared.

Bane noticed that each bat flew from the centaur's ear. None of the centaurs were left behind, and each one had a corresponding bat.

He looked at the sharp teeth of these bats and felt their dark breath. He was horrified and subconsciously looked at Ronan lying on the ground with questioning eyes.

Ronan looked solemn and shook his head at him.

Bain raised his hand, stopped the centaurs' pursuit, and watched Firenze leading Dracula and Hagrid disappear into the shadows blocked by trees not far away.

"Ronan, did you stop me from taking action just now because you knew those evil bats?" Bain stared at the retreating figures of a centaur, a vampire, and a hybrid giant. The moment they disappeared, He walked quickly to Ronan, bent down and asked.

"Well, if my judgment is correct, those small bats are the ones that the legendary vampire used on the two clan leaders more than a hundred years ago." Ronan said with difficulty,

"If Firenze hadn't appeared, he would have turned all of us centaurs into vampires!"

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At the edge of the Forbidden Forest, Dracula said goodbye to Firenze and Hagrid, held up a parasol, and walked on the Hogwarts campus under the pale spring sunshine.

The day was Wednesday and he had a class in the afternoon. It is a Defense Against the Dark Arts class for first-year Gryffindor and Hufflepuff wizards.

When Dracula came to the classroom, all the first-year wizards were already here, sitting upright and neatly paying attention to their Defense Against the Dark Arts professor.

Dracula nodded with satisfaction and picked up the lesson plans and textbooks that Quirrell had carefully prepared from the desk.

It was rare for him to follow the pace of the lecture and reach the point where he was supposed to talk about this lesson.

At this time, Harry, who was sitting in the audience, suddenly raised his hand.

"Mr. Potter?" Dracula looked at him with some confusion.

"Professor, Hagrid told us at noon today that some dead animals with their blood drained appeared in the Forbidden Forest. Let us stay away from the Forbidden Forest." Harry said, "Hermione said that only vampires can do this kind of death. , we want to know if there are really vampires in the Forbidden Forest?"

Hearing Harry's question, the corners of Dracula's mouth twitched.

He really didn't expect that the "tight-lipped" Hagrid didn't even persist for half a day and directly told Harry and the three young wizards about the situation in the Forbidden Forest.

Of course, Hagrid's intention was probably good. He didn't want these three dishonest little wizards to get close to the dangerous Forbidden Forest, so he revealed a little bit about the situation in the Forbidden Forest, hoping that they would be afraid.

...But what he didn't consider was that this level of danger might not be able to stop the Gryffindor among the three Gryffindors from wanting to commit suicide. It was even more likely that it would further trigger their desire to commit suicide. curiosity.

In addition, the innocent vampire was once again involved, and the Earl was unhappy, very unhappy!

So he motioned Harry to sit down, disrupted the teaching plan again, threw aside the lesson plan written by Quirrell, and then flipped the "Dark Arts: Self-Defense Guide" on the desk to the position near the end——

"Since Mr. Potter mentioned vampires, let's talk about vampires today." He said to the little wizards in the audience, "Turn your textbooks to the second to last chapter!"

The little wizard in the audience has long been accustomed to Dracula's unconventional teaching style, and he quickly opened the catalog.

There was a sound of turning books in the classroom.

"Before we start the lecture, can any of the students who have previewed this lesson tell me how the wizarding world defines a vampire?"

Since Dracula himself had never read the textbook for this lesson, he thought of a good way to quickly understand the contents of the book.

He cast his gaze on the little witch with messy hair in the first row.

Hermione indeed lived up to Dracula's expectations. She had previewed the contents of this chapter more than once and quickly raised her hand:

"Vampires are dark creatures that feed on the blood of living things. They are afraid of the sun and cannot go out during the day, so they often roam and forage at night, and they are extremely evil and pierce the throats of their victims with their fangs..."

Dracula was still listening with great interest to the wizard who compiled the textbook's views on vampires. However, as he listened, he felt more and more something was wrong, and his face gradually darkened.

He quickly glanced at the textbook and saw the words above -

"Vampires are dark magical humanoid creatures known for biting human necks and sucking blood. They belong to the category of living dead creatures together with zombies, and are highly contagious and highly dangerous..."

Dracula exhaled and suppressed his irritability.

"You memorized the definition very well. One point for Gryffindor." He interrupted Hermione's rambling recitation and said calmly.

Hermione was enjoying the recital, but she still had some unfinished thoughts after being interrupted, and the extra points this time seemed too stingy. She felt like a beggar who had been dismissed.

However, Dracula's traditional intimidation prevented her from refuting, so she could only pout and sit back on the stool.

"Okay, let's close the textbooks." Dracula was silent for a moment and then suddenly said.

Upon hearing this instruction, the little wizards who had just opened the book raised their heads in shock.

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