Volume 5: The Burning Golden Flame Chapter 363 Rescue the Centaurs
"Firenze told me that three years ago, seven centaurs in their tribe, led by a centaur named Bane, tried to break out of the Forbidden Forest for the last time. But they were only half successful. The place they chose was flatter, but after they broke out of the Forbidden Forest, the Aurors blocked their way as if they had telepathy. None of the centaurs led by Bane escaped. Most of them died under the Aurors' spells because of resistance, and some were captured."
Hagrid's eyes turned red as he listened to Jon's story.
"I know Baine. He has a bad temper, but I have watched him grow up. When he was just born, his parents invited me to attend the banquet held by their tribe... He is a brave centaur."
They all understood Hagrid's feelings. Except for John, everyone sitting there had experienced the feeling of losing comrades and loved ones countless times.
But today they didn't come here to be immersed in sadness.
Kingsley stared at the map Jon had drawn by hand and said after thinking for a moment.
"The problem of complex terrain is simple. Since the centaurs can't get out, we can just go in. The range of anti-apparition magic within Hogwarts is not that exaggerated. It is definitely not covered in the Forbidden Forest near the edge of Hogsmeade. We just have to be careful here near Hogwarts. The British Ministry of Magic will have stricter magical monitoring around here. But since we can get here safely, we can naturally find a way to leave safely."
"The only problem is the unknown magical surveillance that you mentioned, which covers the edge of the Forbidden Forest. We need to study carefully what kind of magic is deployed there."
Kingsley was a typical pragmatist. He immediately found the difficulty in rescuing the centaurs, and had no intention of procrastinating. He did not rest for long in the Hog's Head Inn. In the afternoon, he and Jon Hagrid avoided the eyes of everyone else in the town and quietly came to the edge of the Forbidden Forest.
Hagrid had been a gamekeeper for nearly fifty years, so he was naturally familiar with every location in the woods.
"This place used to be one of the territories occupied by Aragog and his descendants. Other animals in the Forbidden Forest were unwilling to come here, and from here on out, there were signs of human beings. There was a period of time when some wizard poachers sneaked into the Forbidden Forest from here, wanting to hunt some endangered magical animals in the Forbidden Forest. It was from that time that Dumbledore also deployed some magic in this place to guard against those people. Oh, and I remember that the Department for the Protection of Magical Creatures of the Ministry of Magic was also involved at that time."
Jon hadn't had time to tell Hagrid about the death of the seven-eyed giant spiders, so he wasn't too sad about it for the time being.
Listening to Hagrid's explanation, Kingsley had already reached the edge of the steep hill.
He and Jon did not rush to climb to the top of the hill, but instead pointed their wands at the sparse grass.
With a clear goal, Kingsley soon made some discoveries. He frowned and pinched his chin and said.
"There are indeed obvious traces of magic here. It is a warning spell. The method to remove it is not very difficult, but the method is very clever. Even if this spell is removed, it can still provide a warning effect."
Following Kingsley's guidance, Jon soon discovered the warning spells placed around the Forbidden Forest.
It is indeed as he said, it is not difficult to destroy these magics, but because of their characteristics, even if the magic itself is destroyed, the caster can also sense it, then there is no difference between destruction and no destruction, which makes the problem become very troublesome.
Before they even entered the forbidden forest, they encountered difficulties outside, which made things go wrong right from the start.
Naturally, Jon had no good idea of how to deal with such magic. The second gem on the ring could absorb magic power from magical items, but the warning spells placed around it were pure continuous magic and were not attached to anything.
And even if the ring can absorb it, the problem is the same. At the same time when these magics are no longer effective, the Aurors who set up such alerts will naturally be able to detect it.
During the Triwizard Tournament, they must not provoke conflict with the British Ministry of Magic. This is the content of the blood oath sworn by Dumbledore and Voldemort, and no one will violate it.
Just as they were frowning about entering the Forbidden Forest, Jon suddenly thought of something and turned to look at Kingsley.
"If I could find you something that you could use to get into the Forbidden Forest without alerting anyone, would you be able to reverse engineer it?"
Kingsley nodded affirmatively.
"I can't give you an absolute promise, but the probability of success is very high, as long as the magic on that thing is not to a level that I can't understand."
"That shouldn't be the case. I even think the magic on it can be called crude."
Jon waved his hand, turned around and left in the direction of Hogwarts. He thought of the way Cedric entered the Forbidden Forest before, using an arrow given to him by the centaur.
There were obviously no traces of advanced magic on it, but instead there were some magic unique to the centaurs. But even if Kingsley couldn't imitate the centaurs' magic, it didn't matter. There were more than one centaurs in the Forbidden Forest in the whole of Europe. They could go find centaurs from other places to try to imitate the arrow.
However, before Jon had taken just a few steps, he turned back again.
Facing the puzzled looks from Kingsley and the others, he scratched his head embarrassedly.
"Well, the advanced Transfiguration class is not until the seventh grade, and I don't know it yet. Can you help me turn into a bird so I can fly back?"
Kingsley: "..."
Sometimes Jon's actions would make them subconsciously ignore his age, and only then would they remember that Jon was only in the fourth grade this year.
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It was almost evening when Jon sneaked into Hogwarts Castle.
With the completion of the first project, the defense around the castle was not relaxed much, but relying on the invisibility cloak and the live map, he still easily entered the enemy's base camp.
According to the agreement made with Cedric when they separated in the Forbidden Forest, he drew an obscure mark on the corridor on the first floor of the castle, and then came to the secret passage behind a , where he waited.
He didn't have to wait too long. Probably after the mixed-blood students' dinner, he saw Cedric's name on the Marauder's Map and was walking towards the fourth floor.
