Ravenclaw's Blue Gem

"You and him are better, you know." Zoe declined her, "Anyway, looking at his face, you can still give birth to the desire to defeat, I don't want you to stay here."

"That's not the case." Daisy gritted her teeth. "He is always underestimating me. He is always cautious. He doesn't even want to cast a spell on me. He keeps trying to persuade me how I should practice. Ah. I am annoyed by that look!"

"That's because he cares about you and doesn't want you to be hurt." Zoe drew his wand. "Do you really think you can stay?"

"It won't take you to worry about it." Daisy casually looked at Neville, who started practicing with Zacharias, as clumsy as before, making people worried that he would pronounce the wrong spell at a critical moment, "I will practice it well. "

"Or you are not confident that you can defeat me, Siegel. After all, you have been defeated by me once in front of so many people!" Daisy looked at her defiantly."Except for your weapons!" As the answer was Zoe's precise disarming spell, "Do you think you really think you have won with your three-legged cat skills?"

After patrolling for a while, Harry found that Hermione's opinions were very relevant, and many of them really needed to be consolidated from the beginning.Even if the disarming spell can be regarded as an easier spell to learn, its power will vary with the user.Some people may be powerful enough, but the accuracy is very poor. They often knock the magic wand in the opponent's hand, but the cushion on the side or the books on the bookshelf.

Harry leaned forward to avoid a thick book flying towards his face, and wiped a cold sweat."I'm sorry, Harry!" Colin Creevey yelled at him. The book just now was his masterpiece."Be careful!" Harry waved to him. Colin had troubled him a lot as his ardent admirer, but in general he was still a very brave boy.

There was an incident in the second grade. At that time, the Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher Guidro Lockhart (an unusable flower pillow) opened a duel club for the limelight and attracted many students who were interested in it. .In order to demonstrate to the students, he chose Severus Snape (the old bat Harry hated most) as his opponent.

At that time, Snape used a disarming spell to control the enemy, but the power he used at that time was so powerful that he almost caused Guidro to fall into a coma.Probably no one in the room can do this, especially when Harry saw that many people not only couldn't knock down the opponent's wand, even the spell directly on the opponent could only make them take a step back.

"Except for your weapons!" Hermione worked hard enough. Harry and Anthony passed by, and the boy slumped his face in frustration and ran to pick up the wand that was rolling on the floor.Harry had been friends with Hermione for almost five years. Although in his mind, Hermione would always go all out to do something, but she is more motivated today than ever.

Although Anthony was already one of the few people who did better, he still couldn't last long under Hermione, but he refused to admit defeat and kept challenging.But this was in Hermione’s arms. She did not give Anthony a chance. After all, this was a practice. But every time she attacked, she would make Anthony’s wand spin and fly as far as possible. it is good.

The person who has a similar end to Anthony but is worse than him is Daisy. The girl will let go every time she gets her wand for less than a minute, even if she tries to avoid it, except from time to time because she bumps into others. After watching the human error, Harry discovered that the reason why her failure rate appeared to be high was also because Zoe would guide her actions.

Daisy didn't say a word of complaint. She watched Zoe's movements carefully, not willing to relax a bit.Soon the one-sided situation eased slightly, and the time to lose the wand was extended a lot.

The practice did not end until after nine o'clock.Everyone was very excited to have an event, even the most reluctant people, at this time, it is inevitable to laugh and fight with their companions.

"When is next time?" Dean asked eagerly, "If we can gather earlier, we can practice more time." Many people also agreed with his views.But many people have their own business. Each student has a different class schedule, not to mention that this year's Quidditch competition will start soon. The team needs time to practice.

"We can temporarily set a practice time according to everyone's free time, and only need to set the next meeting time each time, which also helps to keep confidential." Hermione said."We are tentatively scheduled for next Wednesday, how about?" Harry's proposal was approved, and then he took out the live spot map to confirm safety, and the others left one by one.

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"I have warned you not to come to the Forbidden Forest anymore, Siegel."

Day by day, the climate has gradually become colder. When the cold wind can even squeak the closed windows, there are even more students gathered near the fireplace in the lounge than the previous two months combined. Some of the above, but Zoe is missing from there.

Zoe likes to drill in the Forbidden Forest more than ever, a place where she still has scruples until now.Usually she chooses to avoid the position where the horsemen are patrolling, or supplemented by the phantom spell to avoid the horsemen's attention, but the latter she occasionally misses, such as this time.When she tried to pass the position guarded by Firenze, the phantom spell that had been maintained before suddenly disappeared.

"I want to find out this dangerous guy, it will also be a threat to other people in the castle. Firenze, this is not just a crisis for the horses." Among the horses, Firenze may be the most The one that is easy to persuade, it is more reasonable than its fellows, and more based on reality, not simply indulging in the dream of staying away from war.

"We will find it, and will not let it attack you." Firenze insisted, "You will encounter danger here. You don't know about this forest."

"But I have found the true face of that monster." Zoe looked at Firenze cautiously, and waited until he saw surprise on its face before continuing. "I dare you to say that you have never seen a Chimera like this here. thing."

"Chimera?" Firenze's tone became solemn, "If it is such a dangerous creature, we must continue to strengthen the protection during patrols." It looked at Zoe, "How did you find its true identity? ?"

"I carefully investigated the places where it later appeared." Zoe did go to survey the place where the monster appeared.Since it killed a horseman, it will appear in different places every once in a while, taking away some big guys every time.Although the horses did not reappear because of their concentrated guard, the death never stopped.

Once Zoe even saw the corpse of a dead unicorn, with silver-white blood dripping all over the floor. The beautiful creature had long since died, with his eyes open, but nothing was left.There were many scars on its body, and its body was bloody and bloody, as if it was repeatedly bitten and torn apart by something, and eventually it became broken.

Unicorns are very smart. It is rumored that they are not only rare in number, but also sensitive to danger. More than that, although unicorns are friendly to women, they are very aggressive. They are not weak creatures. .

Chimera's intelligence is not high. Once a monster that relies on its instinct to act encounters a creature that can be called a prey when it is hungry, it will certainly develop into a predatory behavior.Zoe looked around the unicorn's corpse and successfully found blood on the tip of the unicorn's broken long horn. The broken horn was a certain distance from the corpse, and there were signs of biting.

It should be that the unicorn injured the Chimera in the battle, and Chimera tore the unicorn to pieces in madness, and also broke the horn.But that made it inconvenient to move, and finally bit out the cut corner that plunged into the body.

Zoe told Firenze of his judgment."Are you saying that the monster is probably seriously injured now?" Firenze was puzzled. "It was just stabbed by a horn. The wound is not serious."

"It attacked unicorns, not other prey." Zoe said, "Unicorns carry a curse on their bodies, so they can not be slaughtered by greedy wizards when they are full of treasures. Even if it's just predation in the usual sense, the curse of slaughtering the unicorn will still be rooted in that monster."

"The unicorn was found dead in the afternoon three days ago. Generally, it will prey once a week, and there are not many days left until the next killing." Firenze didn't say anything, but looked at it meaningfully. For Zoe, it did not expect the girl to be so familiar with these situations, indicating that she had never given up looking for monsters, and they had rarely noticed this before.

"Maybe it will speed up its predation because of its weakness." Zoe did not notice his exposure, "but if we can seize this opportunity, we can kill it when it is weak."

"You make sense." Firenze said, "Come on, I'll take you back." It lifted its front hoof and planned to leave.

"I probably found the monster's range of activity, maybe even its lair." Zoe shouted, and Firenze stopped, turned to see Zoe's eyes become serious, "I will tell you. But I also want to go with you." Zoe said solemnly.

Chapter 69 The Fight of the Trapped Beast (1)

"I can't make this decision." Firenze thought for a while, "I will take you back to the camp, but don't have much hope."

"The horses still decided to stand as a bystander?" Zoe followed Firenze, walking through the woods, perhaps because the horses continued to expand their range of activities, guard patrols, and even faintly filled the air. Nervous and cold killing intent.

"It's not just that." Firenze didn't want to say more, but it might be a good thing to let Zoe get out of trouble. "The elders have left us, and the new candidates have not yet been decided. Patrols and battles have always been organized. Bain and Ronan are in charge, but Bain’s reputation in the clan is higher than Ronan. We still don’t have a convincing elder choice, so the more popular horses in the group, the more they can influence others. decision."

"Although Ronan's temperament is more gentle and sensitive than Bain, he is used to making decisions by Bain. What you need to face is not to talk to the wise elders and persuade other tribesmen, but to face directly. Question to Bain. Do you think it would be willing to let a human intervene in the horseman war?"

"Even if I have key information in my hands, is it reluctant to talk to me?" Zoe asked, her feelings for Bain are very complicated. On the one hand, she has no affection for the rude and extreme guys, but on the other hand. And because of the guilt and pity that both sides shared, she couldn't imagine that Bain's hatred of humans was a bit of her own.She couldn't judge Bain simply and directly.

"Oh, that's probably the case. But things might turn around, if the person talking to Bain is you." Firenze's statement scared Zoe. She didn't expect Firenze who was still serious before. , But suddenly let go, giving her a glimmer of hope.

Firenze did not want to talk more.It doesn’t know whether that idea was correct, but Bain’s irritability did ease after that. Just after the girl behind him apologized to death, Bain still obstructed Firenze’s thoughts even though he hated humans as always. To persuade his compatriots to form an alliance with humanity, but turn a blind eye to its practices from time to time, Firenze's treatment in the ethnic group has not been worse.

Firenze is very good at observing. He probably guessed that Bain's inconsistent attitude was based on changes and confusion about his own thinking.Perhaps Bain's long-standing prejudice and stubbornness towards humans has suffered an extraordinary impact after that.But the long-standing concept is so easy to change, which makes Bain's behavior strange.

"Why are you—" Firenze wanted to ask why she had to kneel to the horseman. Even for humans, kneeling should be a humiliating behavior with meanings such as submission and showing weakness.For a horseman, kneeling is never allowed in this life. Whether it is because of timidity, exhaustion, or to survive, kneeling means that you have abandoned the horseman’s pride and self-esteem, and equated yourself with ordinary livestock. Every horseman has been taught since he was a child that he must not bend his knees even when death is approaching.

To horse people, humans are undoubtedly arrogant.Even Firenze will not change this view. It can be more tolerant than its compatriots, not because it likes humans, but precisely because it does not treat humans as the same thing.For Firenze, humans and horses are equivalent. They are both a race in this world. Like humans, horses need to look up at the stars, follow their own destiny and life, and need to be hungry. You need to sleep if you are sleepy, and you will die if you are injured. Therefore, it can gently look directly into the eyes of humans, and can actively suggest alliances with humans when the war approaches, because it is very clear that no one can avoid being involved in the war. , If they want to thrive in the forbidden forest, they must fight.

The prerequisite for the antagonistic heart is to care. Although the horses are independent and on the sidelines when they open their mouths, the sensitivity and hatred beyond common sense violates the horse people's original belief that they are far away from humans.Self-proclaimed noble horsemen abound. As long as they talk to humans, even if they are legitimate requests, they will be regarded as the beginning of slavery.

This is so sad.Firenze was helpless. It could not convince the horse people, because the despicableness of human beings was a fact, just as the horse people had a prejudice against humans, which they themselves provided.Continuous wars, droves, enslavements, and killings. As one of the bystanders, the horsemen didn't want to choose "knowing the current affairs" at first, but they didn't have many choices.

"Who is Dumbledore?" Firenze asked nonchalantly.

"He is my guardian." Zoe told the truth."I respect Dumbledore very much." Firenze said softly, "He is... a human who feels like a starry sky." It omitted the second half, that is, whether it is broad or mysterious.

Zoe's mood improved all at once: "Of course, he is the best person in the world!"

"The initial memory of Hogwarts as a group of ours is probably that we migrated here a few centuries ago. The forbidden forest is very suitable for horses to thrive and does not need to face too many humans. Although it is not safe, We can deal with these dangers." They came to the place where the big tree could be seen again. Firenze did not look back, but did not stop talking.

"The principal of Hogwarts at the time accepted us, but not only because the Ministry of Magic deemed us harmless. The Ministry believed that since we have high intelligence, we should be classified as intelligent creatures like humans, but we refused. The horse people do not want to interfere in human affairs and do not want humans to interfere with us. We choose to register ourselves as beasts and accept a certain degree of jurisdiction as magical creatures, but we still choose autonomy."

"I heard the last elder mention that the principal at the time was very friendly. He had a very good relationship with the elders at the time. It may be unbelievable now, but they are very close friends." Although Zoe did not know why Firenze Suddenly mentioned this matter, but listened patiently.

"Some horse people in the ethnic group simply think this is just a joke, because horse people should abide by their pride, rather than make friends with humans. I once agreed with the latter part of this view. Humans build friendships. But when I first met Dumbledore, he was also talking to the elders, and I suddenly wanted to understand."

"He does not regard himself as a human being as capital to be proud of, nor does he consider it shameful to obey the rules of our horses. He sees the existence of other races in his eyes, and he is willing to regard them as harmony. He has the same existence. He will bring some small gifts when he comes to us, just like visiting us, but he doesn't appear humble."

"Perhaps only you in this world can change Bain's decision." Firenze stopped and looked at Zoe meaningfully.

"No, I can't change your companions, but I hope you can see my sincerity." Zoe shook his head and said seriously.

"That's fine." Firenze pushed aside the bushes in front of him. "We're there."

It's still that familiar vacant land, but compared to the laid-back and casual atmosphere here a few years ago, the atmosphere is very tense.There were at least four or five horsemen patrolling the surroundings, all equipped with hard bows and bows and arrows, and the arrows had even been placed on the strings, looking vigilantly everywhere, and one or two horsemen were maintaining their weapons.