Hogwarts: Don't call me Wandmaker

Chapter 58 Mars Tonight...

Hagrid disliked Filch very much, especially the way he threatened and intimidated students at every turn, especially when the people he threatened were Harry and Ciarán.

So when Hagrid came over, he immediately waved his hand impatiently, "Your mission is completed, from now on I will be in charge."

"I'll be back at daybreak to clean up their mess." Filch said harshly and turned to walk towards the castle.

As soon as he left, Malfoy began to complain and said he didn't want to go into the woods at all.

But Hagrid ignored him, even when Malfoy brought up his father, the school's director.

"You can go back now," said Hagrid. "If you think your father would like you to be expelled, go back to the castle and pack your things!"

Malfoy didn't move. He looked at Hagrid angrily, but then lowered his eyes and reluctantly followed Hagrid and a black hound into the woods.

"A unicorn has been attacked." Hagrid said in a heavy voice, "This is the second time. I found one dead last Wednesday. We must find it as soon as possible..."

"No, I don't want to go!" Malfoy began to back down again, with uncontrollable fear in his voice, "What if the thing that hurt the unicorn is still there."

"As long as you're with Fang or me, nothing in the Forbidden Forest will hurt you," Hagrid said, and then went on to tell them what to do next.

Malfoy looked at the dark path behind him, and finally gave up the idea of ​​returning the same way, and followed him muttering.

"Relax, just think of it as camping." Xi Lun thought about it and comforted him.

There was really no need to be afraid, even in the Forbidden Forest. Dumbledore would never watch his students die, especially with Harry among them.

Maybe the principal is looking over here from his office right now.

Xi Lun turned his head and looked through the swaying shadows of the trees at the castle in the distance.

Where is the window of the principal's office?

Xi Lun couldn't find it for a while, but what was certain was that there was still light coming through several windows at the highest point of the castle.

"Xi Lun, were you listening to me just now?"

Hagrid's voice brought Xiren back to his senses. He nodded and said, "Of course. Be careful. Don't act alone. Don't leave you and Fang's side. If you encounter any danger, shoot red sparks into the sky immediately."

Hagrid was silent for a moment...had he just gone into so much detail?

"Yes, that's right." He nodded, "We need to split into two teams later..."

"I want Fang!" This time Malfoy didn't get distracted and said hurriedly.

His expression was firm, as if he had chosen not a hound but a dragon.

Xi Lun stared at Malfoy, and couldn't figure out which part of his brain made this decision. He actually thought that staying with a two-foot-tall hound would be safer than an eleven-foot-tall half-blood giant?
Hagrid naturally would not refuse his request.

When they reached the fork in the road ahead, the team split into two groups.

Ciarán, Harry, and Hagrid went one way, while Malfoy, Neville, and Fang went the other.

The forbidden forest was silent at night. Even the chirping of insects had disappeared. The only sound they could hear was the rustling of fallen leaves as they stepped on them.

There was a very strange smell in the air, like green grass dripping with morning dew, or like fallen leaves floating in the middle of a deep pool.

Xi Lun didn't know why he could distinguish the smell of morning dew and fallen leaves, but that was his first reaction.

"This is all unicorn blood." Hagrid looked at the silver-blue bloodstains on the fallen leaves, his face becoming more anxious.

"Could it be a werewolf that killed the unicorn?" asked Harry.

"Not so fast," said Hagrid. "Unicorns have very strong magic and werewolves can't hurt them so easily." Hagrid walked faster and faster, so that Harry had to jog to keep up with him. Neither of them even noticed that there was one person missing from their group.

Xi Lun was originally following Hagrid, but when he passed a silver-blue bloodstain, he suddenly stopped, and then took out the Whomping Willow from his pocket with a puzzled look on his face.

The body of this staff had been completed long ago, and the separate sections were engraved with complex magic runes.

But now, one of the magic runes was flashing and emitting a silver-blue light, which contrasted with the unicorn blood on the ground.

"The wand core rune - Contract and Protection." Xilun murmured to himself, "The unicorn is calling for help..."

This is a very ancient rune, and the only one whose function is to protect the wand core.

According to legend, this rune records every wand core it "sees" and creates a magical resonance with it under certain conditions.

As for what that specific time is, according to Garrick Ollivander, it is when the wand is broken, destroyed, and the core is on the verge of extinction.

This is why most wands can still be used for a while after being broken as long as they are wrapped with a piece of magic tape.

But now there is no core in it at all.

There is only one possibility, that the unicorn that left this silver-blue bloodstain had its tail hair made into a wand core, which was then recorded in magic runes.

Then when Xilun passed by here, the homologous magic contained in the unicorn blood was captured by the magic runes on the staff, and a magical resonance was generated.

After figuring this out, Xilun immediately placed the staff flat in his hand and brought it close to the unicorn blood.

In an instant, the magic runes became brighter, and under the guidance of some subtle magic, the staff slowly shifted in one direction.

Without hesitation, Xi Lun got up and ran.

Ten minutes later he caught up with Hagrid and Harry, who were talking to two centaurs.

"Ronan, have you seen a student? He's lost and I have to go back to find him."

The centaur craned his neck and stared at the sky. "Mars tonight..."

"Hagrid!" Siren shouted, interrupting their conversation.

"Xi Lun?" Hagrid turned his head and said in surprise: "Thank God, where did you go just now? I have been looking for..."

"I know where the injured unicorn is." Xiren ran to his side, breathing heavily.

"what?"

"It's too late to explain..." Xilun glanced at the silver-blue light on the staff that was getting dimmer and dimmer, took a deep breath and continued to run in one direction.

"It's about to die, we have to hurry!"

Before he could finish his words, Xi Lun had already run far away.

"Stop, Xi Lun, don't run so fast in the Forbidden Forest, it's dangerous!" Hagrid chased after him without thinking.

Harry followed suit shortly after.

In just a blink of an eye, only two centaurs were left here.

The reddish-brown centaur named Ronan stood there, staring blankly in the direction they had left. After a long moment, he opened his mouth slightly, as if waking from a dream, and uttered a few words with a stubborn yet determined air.

“…very bright.”

(End of this chapter)