Harry sat with Hagrid for a while before he kicked him out.
?Because it is already past nine o'clock and almost ten o'clock, and Hogwarts is about to start a curfew. If Harry goes back later, he will be deducted house points if he is seen by other professors
Although few people in Gryffindor care about that stuff now.
After coming out of Hagrid's hut, Harry habitually took out the Marauder's Map, intending to see if Rita Skeeter's annoying cow was lurking beside him again.
"I solemnly swear that I will do no good."
Harry tapped the parchment in his hand with his wand, and whispered a spell. Countless ink dots emerged, forming a map on the parchment.
Harry quickly found the location of Hagrid's hut on the map. There were two small black dots inside the house, namely Hagrid and Fang, and three black dots next to the house, one of which marked Harry , and the other two that almost overlapped each other didn't show any names - those were the two remaining snails that Hagrid kept.
Then he checked the nearby black dots again. The large group of black dots not far away should be the students in Beauxbaton's carriage, and the twelve rune horses next to them are less numerous.
Then Harry subconsciously glanced at the direction of the Forbidden Forest on the map. Due to the limitation of the map itself, the Forbidden Forest can only show a small part on the map, but Harry himself just wanted to see Rita. Skeeter was around him.
Within the scope of the Forbidden Forest, the deeper the Forbidden Forest goes, the more black spots there will be. Some of these black spots have names¡ªthey are magical creatures like Wuwu and Buckbeak, but most of them are black spots without names. ¡ªmostly common animals, but also some magical ones.
Harry also didn't understand the mechanism of the Marauder's Map. The black dots with names were not just human beings or magical animals. Pets like Fang, Hedwig, and Mrs. Norris could also display their names. , and magical animals such as Bowtruckles and Fairies mostly have no names.
At first Harry thought they had no names, but later when Fish introduced friends to him, he discovered that even Bowtruckles had their own names although most of the names were just weird.
According to the speculation of the twins and Hermione, whether to display the name is probably related to the cognition of the students in the school. For example, Wuwu, most of the students can't see it, but they know its existence from Fisher's mouth. Naturally Just show the name on the map. .
So, if one day everyone thinks that "Draco Malfoy" is "Brain Gate", then the name displayed on the map will be "Brain Gate"?
This was the first possibility that Harry thought of after hearing this speculation, and every time he unfolded the Marauder's Map, he couldn't help but think about it
Shaking his head and throwing these messy thoughts aside, Harry ignored the black spots in the depths of the Forbidden Forest, and only searched the edge of the Forbidden Forest near him
There were only a few scattered black spots nearby. Harry guessed that they were probably animals like mice and hares. Of course, they might also be Bowtruckles that came out to take care of the trees. All of a sudden more.
The reason for this is because Hagrid raised the snails, those irascible guys made all the small animals living nearby run away.
But Harry still found a named
Is it really Skeeter's cow?
Harry excitedly moved closer to the little black dot, only to find that "Barty Crouch" was written in extremely small characters next to the black dot.
"Mr. Crouch?"
Harry was taken aback, and after reconfirming that he was not mistaken, he hesitated for a moment, but still grabbed the map and wand and ran in that direction.
In the Forbidden Forest, Harry really met Mr. Barty Crouch, but his condition seemed to be not very good, the knee of his robe was torn, bloodstained, his face was covered with scars, and his beard was unshaven , pale and haggard
It looks like he has been wandering outside for many days.
In addition, Mr. Crouch's mental state is not very normal. He seems to regard the tree in front of him as Percy, and he is gesturing to say something.
"Wetherby, after you finish this, send an owl to Dumbledore to confirm the number of students in Durmstrang for the Tournament. Karkaroff sent a message saying that there are twelve indivual¡¡"
"Mr. Crouch?" Harry leaned over cautiously.
And Crouch didn't seem to hear, and continued to talk to the tree, until Harry came to him, he suddenly grabbed Harry, panting heavily: "Dumbledore! I want to See Dumbledore"
But that's what he said, but his hand was still holding Harry tightly and refused to let go. Even if Harry wanted to go to Dumbledore as he said, he couldn't do it.
But soon, Crouch took the initiative to let go of Harry, and started talking to the trees again. Harry was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly ran out of the woods, wanting to find Dumbledore, but he hadn't run out of two One step later, Crouch caught him again, and started talking nonsense fragments again, which seemed to involve the Dark Lord, but Harry couldn't connect them at all.
After repeating this several times, Harry finally escaped from Barty Crouch and rushed out of the Forbidden Forest.
He looked back with lingering fear, and found that the other party hadn't chased him out, so Harry stopped hesitating and ran quickly into the castle.
When Harry flew all the way to the castle, out of breath, he suddenly patted his forehead annoyed He should have notified Hagrid of the nearest one just now, at least someone could help him look after Mr. Crouch.
However, it would be a waste of time to turn back at this time, so he could only continue running to the principal's office.
When Harry rushed to the stone monster on the third floor, he found that he didn't seem to know the password of the principal's office.
"Lemon Sherbet?"
Harry recalled the password Dumbledore had used when he brought him to the headmaster's office but it was several years ago, and it was probably changed.
As a result, as he expected, the stone monster continued to stand there motionless.
"Get out of the way!" Harry yelled at it, "Hurry up! I have something important to ask Professor Dumbledore!"
Apparently, if this was the way to keep Hogwarts' magical caretakers out of the way, Sirius wouldn't have had to bother trying to sneak into the Gryffindor dormitory last year.
Harry continued to try to recall the scenes he had visited the headmaster's office several times
Well, it seems that most of the time, Fish brought him here.
so¡¡
"Meow?"
Harry unconsciously meowed.
After calling Harry, he knew that he was stupid. How could he learn how to meow and open the secret door of the principal's office?
Just when he was smirking and trying to find Fish or Professor McGonagall for help, the stone monster in front of him suddenly moved under Harry's surprised gaze.
It suddenly jumped to the side, exposing the wall behind it, and then, the empty wall cracked from the middle, and opened to the left and right sides, revealing the standing behind the wall