Hogwarts and the Atypical Wizard

Chapter 156 Death of the Unicorn

The next day Sainz went to visit Hagrid, "I heard that a unicorn died in the Forbidden Forest?"

"How did you know that?" Hagrid frowned. "Humph, someone must have said something nonsense!"

"I heard some people talking about this. I think Hagrid must have the most say in this kind of news. After all, if something like this really happened in the Forbidden Forest, how could it have escaped your search, right?"

Hagrid smiled smugly, then said angrily, "We don't know what it is, but there is something hunting unicorns. At least two unicorns have been killed by it, that's what we know, and there may be others in unknown places."

"Really? Why only unicorns? Are other animals hunted?"

"That's what I can't understand. The other animals are all fine, only the unicorn was killed." Hagrid paced back and forth in the room anxiously, making the floor creak under his feet.

"Whatever it was, it was definitely very cruel. The unicorn was not killed directly, but was tortured for a week after being attacked, until it bled out and died."

"Were the two you found like this?"

"All of them! I really don't understand why it tortures them?" Hagrid said irritably: "Whatever that thing is, it must have come from somewhere else. It doesn't belong to this jungle."

"Hagrid, was the place where the unicorns were attacked deep in the Forbidden Forest?"

"No, it was killed just outside the Forbidden Forest."

"Really? But there's one thing I can't understand, Hagrid. Why did they run out from the depths of the Forbidden Forest, come to the outskirts, and then be killed?

I guess maybe they didn’t come to the outskirts of the Forbidden Forest of their own accord.”

"You're right, Sainz, maybe it's true, that thing drove them out!"

“Then why did that thing drive them to the periphery before killing them?

Unless it has a reason to do so, wouldn't it be more discreet to move deep in the Forbidden Forest?"

Hagrid had a deep understanding of animal habits. "You're right, that should be the case. The thing's territory is actually outside the Forbidden Forest. It finds it troublesome to go deep into the Forbidden Forest to hunt every time, so it drives the unicorns to the periphery. This way it will be more convenient for it?"

"I think that's a fair guess, Hagrid."

Hagrid thought about it for a moment and nodded in agreement. Otherwise, it would be impossible to explain why a unicorn, which had always stayed away from humans, would suddenly run so close to Hogwarts and be killed here.

"Hagrid, you said that you found the unicorn had been injured for many days. Generally speaking, injured creatures always tend to flee back to places they are familiar with. But after such a long time, why didn't it return to the depths of the Forbidden Forest? Unless that thing prevented it from returning."

Hagrid nodded repeatedly, "Yes, yes, that must be the case."

Sainz continued: "Hagrid, did you notice what this looks like?"

"What?" Hagrid looked at Sainz in confusion.

Sainz was a little helpless and had to say bluntly: "Is this like storing food?

It's just that most wild animals would kill their prey when storing food, but this thing chose to let the unicorn get hurt, but it couldn't escape."

Hagrid couldn't agree more, "Saenz, you are so smart!"

After analyzing for a while, Sainz revealed his ultimate goal, "Sorry, Hagrid, maybe it's a little impolite to ask this, but do you have the unicorn's corpse..."

"Buried? Of course, they are all buried on the edge of the Forbidden Forest!"

Sainz drank his tea and said with pretended concern: "Look, since this thing is storing food, is it possible for it to dig up their bodies?"

Of course he knew that Voldemort had no interest in the corpse and was only concerned about the unicorn's blood, but he did not lead Hagrid to discover this, otherwise it would be difficult to persuade him to go to the burial site to check.

Hagrid was a little hesitant when he heard Sainz's statement: "No way? According to your previous inference, that thing seems to only like living unicorns."

"Yes, under normal circumstances, it should be so, but you are chasing it, and you are chasing it too quickly. It has no time to hunt a live unicorn, so it's hard to say.

In fact, if you can gather all the unicorns together, you don’t have to worry about it not showing up if there is no food.”

Hagrid was persuaded, and he wanted to confirm whether the burial place of the unicorn was safe. Sainz wanted to go with him, but he refused.

"Young wizards cannot enter the Forbidden Forest."

"Okay, please be safe."

If a time traveler can abide by various prohibitions, he is no longer a time traveler.

After Hagrid's inspection, Sainz was very sorry to receive two unicorn materials containing powerful curses that night.

Two long horns and two tufts of tail hair.

These two unicorns died miserably and helplessly. They were highly intelligent creatures and knew that they did not die from the natural cycle but from the evil rituals of wizards, so these two pieces of materials were full of curses on wizards.

This kind of death is rare. If processed, it will become a very excellent and precious material, much rarer than normal unicorn materials.

When collecting these materials, Sainz had no contact with them at all. He stored them in a special stone box prepared in advance and did not plan to take them out in the short term.

After returning to the Room of Requirement, he immediately cleaned the traces of the spell on the "twist".

He visited Hagrid several times in the next few days to follow up on the development of the matter, and Hagrid adopted the solution he provided.

He tried his best to gather all the unicorns he could find, but those unicorns were full of fear and refused to be approached by others, so Sainz lost the opportunity to observe live unicorns up close.

Previously, he was worried about the materials he collected from unicorns, and whether there would be any special smell that could be sensed by them. For this reason, he specially wore the bracelet given by Hagrid as a cover, but he was turned away in the end.

He had known for a long time that he had no chance to meet unicorns, otherwise he wouldn't have wandered around the Forbidden Forest so many times without encountering one.

Whatever! It's just a magical animal anyway!

No matter how magical it is, can it be more magical than a wizard?!

After three failed encounters, Sai gave up the idea of ​​getting close to a live unicorn.

My curiosity was not satisfied, which is a bit regrettable, but it doesn’t matter. Eight out of ten things in life are not as we wish, so just let it go.

In a blink of an eye, it is May 5th, the last Friday of this school year.

After class, Ben and Adam played like crazy, as if they were trying to get rid of all the tension in the months after Easter.

"Sainz, are you going to hide and read again today? Please, you have memorized all the books! Come with me!" Ben dragged him stealthily to the edge of the Black Lake.

"You look like a thief, what are you going to do?"

"Look!"

Sainz had already noticed, "Adam is dating! So?"

"So what?" Ben raised his eyebrows. "Aren't you curious?"

"What's there to be curious about? Let's go. If you have time to spy on others here, wouldn't it be better to find one yourself?!"