A broken Hogwarts

Chapter 36
On Friday, a notice was posted on the bulletin board in the Slytherin common room, announcing the news to first-years that flying lessons would begin next Thursday.

"Going with Gryffindor?" Draco narrowed his gray eyes, then looked at Crabbe and Goyle with warning eyes, "Don't embarrass me, you two!"

The two big guys were secretly stuffing small cakes into their mouths. Hearing this, they hurriedly stuffed the cake in their mouths, puffing out their cheeks and nodding.

"Great! I hope I don't make a fool of myself..." Harry said eagerly, unable to contain his excitement.He has been looking forward to flying in the sky on a broomstick for a long time.

"If you fall off a broomstick, you'd better hope I catch you," Draco said, raising his pointed chin. "I've been flying thousands of miles on a broomstick since I was five years old." feet in the air, and when I was ten I nearly crashed a Muggle helicopter . . . I would have easily joined the Quidditch team if first-years hadn't been ineligible for it."

Harry kept smiling, and didn't intend to tell him that if a person crashes into a helicopter, there is a high probability that the person will be knocked off, or both will fall off and die...

"Flying class, is it already this time?" Owen glanced at the bulletin board and lost interest.Of course he learned to fly when he was at home, after all, who wouldn't want to take to the sky on a broomstick?He even flies pretty well and can do some pretty tricks.But he had no interest in the savage, irrational sport of Quidditch, which was anything but elegant.

"I'm okay, I'm flying so-so, a bit slower than a Muggle plane." Blaise said with a reserved expression.

Hey, you are even more outrageous, okay?Harry grumbled inwardly.

"Then you have to work harder, I can fly much faster than a Muggle plane." Draco boasted loudly, "I was flying in the air for a long time once, if my mother didn't find me, I almost crossed The ocean flew to other countries..."

Owen happily listened to their bragging, and spread out the parchment to write the transfiguration homework.Daphne also listened with a smile, asking Owen some questions about his studies from time to time.

As the night deepened, the common room became quiet, only the footsteps of students standing up and going back to their dormitories could be heard from time to time.

"Owen, are you going out tonight?" Harry asked before going back.

"Yes." Owen had just packed his schoolbag.

"Good luck," said Harry.Anyway, he won't go looking for that thing.

"In my opinion, you're just wasting your time." Draco snorted slightly, "I can guarantee you won't find it for a whole year, do you want to bet?"

"Go back quickly." Owen waved him away.

He breathed out lightly, recited the three-piece suit of the illusion spell, the silent spell, and the breath-shielding spell to himself, and then left the common room with ease.

The lights in the auditorium in the middle of the night have been completely turned off, and those gorgeous sculptures and long tables and benches have all turned into dark black shadows at this time, looking a little gloomy.The enchanted ceiling faithfully reflected the weather outside, with dark clouds, lightning and thunder, and it looked like it was going to rain soon.

Owen walked quickly through the empty auditorium, opened the side door and entered the small room where he had been staying these days.This room was not big, and there were some tables and chairs in it. Few people would come in, even Filch and his cat would not come here to inspect—the little wizard who wandered at night was not interested in it at all.

The air was filled with a wet and cold atmosphere before the heavy rain, and Owen tightened his cloak tightly, and with some difficulty, he looked away from the unlit fireplace in the house.As much as he wanted to enjoy the fire, it was too arrogant to light the fireplace here.

He curled himself up in an armchair that he had cleaned spotlessly, closed his eyes as if falling into a deep sleep, but actually his mind entered the wall space, practicing the spell as usual.

Because he spent most of his time on the Disillusionment Curse and Occlumency these days, he didn't make much progress in advanced spells such as the Iron Armor Curse, but now he can think about it carefully.

However, tonight is destined to be an extraordinary night.

After waiting for less than an hour, a hazy silver-white figure came through the wall, it was Ms. Gray.She still had a flat but slightly haughty expression on her face, her gorgeous robes swept the floor, and her skin was pearly white.

Owen opened his eyes and looked over.

"My birds found the fax machine. It's in the Forbidden Forest," Ms. Gray said straight to the point. "The rainstorm is coming. It's hard for them to fly in the heavy rain. If you want to go, you have to hurry up."

"Come on." Owen pulled out his wand, and walked quickly to the field outside, "Ms. Gray, do you still keep birds?"

The female ghost nodded: "I entrust Ravenclaw students to help me feed them, and they usually listen to me."

As she spoke, she stopped inside the gate of the castle, and pointed to a raven hovering outside to Owen: "Just follow it."

"It's so convenient." Owen sighed, and then said, "Ms. Gray, don't you go with me?"

"I don't like the feeling of rain passing through my body." Ms. Gray said, looking up at the dark sky, not very enthusiastically.

"Okay, thank you very much." Owen followed the raven across the field and came to the edge of the Forbidden Forest.The shiny black bird circled him once, then flapped its wings and flew into the jungle.

Owen took a deep breath, and after reading the three-piece night tour to himself again, he put the hood of the cloak on his head and chased him in.

The road in the Forbidden Forest is very difficult to walk. Although there is a winding path hidden deep in the black forest, the ravens flying in the air obviously don't care about the road on the ground.Because the wind and rain are coming, it flies along a straight line impatiently, and "quack" from time to time as a reminder.

The sky was extremely dark, and the interior of the Forbidden Forest was even more gloomy. Owen chanted "Flashing Fluorescent Light" before he could barely see the road.

"If that's the case, my illusion spell can't cover the light... That's all, that's it."

Relying on the illumination of his magic wand, Owen struggled to climb up and down slopes one after another, stepping on large and small stones, passing through deep tree pits and dense bushes with fallen leaves, and avoiding wanton branches from time to time , the small shadow of the raven in the sky appears and disappears in the gaps between the branches and leaves.

Occasionally, there will be bursts of deep, long, sharp and piercing howls in the jungle, which sound creepy.From time to time, there were crackling and breaking of branches, but when Owen looked carefully, he found nothing.

A dazzling flash of lightning flashed across the sky, illuminating everything brightly.As the thunder rumbled from the sky, the big raindrops fell down, and it was painful to hit people's skin.In an instant, those roars seemed to disappear, and only the crackling of raindrops on the branches and leaves remained in my ears.

"Water and fire don't invade." Owen recited a spell to himself to keep his body from getting wet from the rain.He raised his head and searched in the sky, intending to read aloud for the leading raven, but its small figure could no longer be seen in the dense rainstorm.

"Where did you go?" Owen raised the glowing wand in his hand, and had no choice but to continue walking in the original direction.After a while, until he thought he had completely lost track of the raven, the black bird slanted down from the gap between the branches, and stood on Owen's shoulder, flapping its water-soaked wings .

"Water and fire are invincible... Clean it up!" Owen chanted a spell on the raven and cleaned up the water on it.But it still stood on Owen's body, its black claws clutching his robe tightly, its body trembling.

"Okay, keep going this way, right?" Seeing that it would not be able to fly for a while, Owen pointed to it.The raven flapped its wings, wondering if it understood.

The ground under his feet became more and more muddy and difficult to walk, and there was only the sound of rain all around. Owen looked at the back road and felt that he had already entered the Forbidden Forest: "How far is it?"

As soon as he turned his head, he saw a pair of round eyes like light bulbs lit up in the dense darkness under a thick tree trunk hugging two people in front of him.

(End of this chapter)