Mastering Thunder from Hogwarts

"After crossing the river, let's conduct a range survey centered on the crossing point. If we can find clues, continue. If there are no clues, we can only go back the same way." After Anduin made his plan, he used the floating technique to float across without hesitation.

River bank.

After crossing this river, we have gone deep into the hinterland of the Forbidden Forest. No one can give an answer to how big the Forbidden Forest next to Hogwarts is.

Anduin looked at the time and saw that it was almost evening. In this case, he could only seize the last moment and try to find some clues.

Anduin placed a tracking talisman at the river crossing point as a location, and then started a carpet search centered here.

At the beginning, Anduin explored the lower reaches of the river. If he were the werewolf, he might move downstream after crossing the river.

But after half an hour of fan-shaped search, neither the trace spell nor the echo spell found anything, which made him feel a little discouraged.

But adhering to the principle that good will end well, he apparated back to the original location, and then began to search upstream.

In the two months since he returned to Hogwarts, with the help of Professor Flitwick, Anduin finally mastered the magic of Apparition. This is what he dared to explore alone in the Forbidden Forest.

The reason is that this ensures that he can escape quickly if he encounters any situation that is difficult to control.

"This is?" Unexpectedly, Anduin searched for less than a kilometer in this direction before he found something.

He found traces of a fight in an open space not far away.

No, this may not be a fight, but a hunt. A wild deer was disemboweled and lay on the ground in a miserable death state. There were large claw marks on its neck and torso, which were similar to the werewolf scratches Anduin had discovered before.

Basically consistent.

The deer carcass was about ten meters away from the river source, and close to the river, Anduin detected the werewolf's aura signal again. Although it was very faint, it was still there.

"It seems that the target swam some distance upstream before landing. No wonder there are no clues near the crossing point. Judging from the decomposition of the body, it was within a day, but the werewolf was the hippogriff that attacked two days ago.

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"That is to say, this werewolf stayed here to rest for a while, then found a wild deer, hunted and ate it, and then continued to move. It seems that it is not far from the target."

This discovery gave Anduin a lot of confidence. The intelligence he collected along the way showed that the werewolf seemed to be irrational, and its movements were very erratic, often darting left and right.

Therefore, the werewolf may not be far away from him in a straight line, and it seems that there is hope of catching it within today.

Anduin has been very persistent since he discovered that the target was a werewolf. On the one hand, in order to ensure the safety of the outer reaches of the Forbidden Forest, leaving such irrational werewolves alone would pose a great threat.

At the same time, he also hopes to enrich his living material library by capturing a werewolf. He is also very curious about this highly contagious creature.

However, after making new discoveries, he did not rush to catch up. Instead, he carefully explored the surroundings. For dangerous creatures like werewolves, he must be more careful.

And soon, Anduin discovered a suspicious point.

On the carcass of the wild deer, Anduin accidentally discovered a broken arrow. After removing the arrowhead, it could be seen that it was not a modern bow and arrow style, but a very traditional handicraft.

"Could it be that someone other than the werewolf was hunting this wild deer at that time? This arrowhead is large in size and does not look like the specifications commonly used by humans. Could it be that there are horsemen nearby?"

This discovery made Anduin more vigilant. The centaurs near Hogwarts were not good men and women. They were very xenophobic, refused the approach of humans, and regarded the entire Forbidden Forest as their own territory.

He occasionally heard Hagrid talk about his stories with centaurs. From his description, most centaurs were very hostile to wizards, and only a few were willing to communicate with humans.

The wizarding world also has a very different attitude towards centaurs. On the one hand, they classify centaurs as human beings, but they also open a centaurs office in the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures. This is simply a provocation to them.

"Hey, let's follow up and check the situation first. If the werewolf is killed by the centaurs, then retreat quickly. It's best not to conflict with them as much as possible, otherwise you will be annoyed to death if you enter the Forbidden Forest in the future."

I originally thought that we only needed to worry about werewolves, but now it seems that there are still centaurs whose positions are unclear, so we can only take one step at a time.

After making up his mind, he continued to search and move forward following the aura captured by the tracking spell. What was different from the past was that this time the werewolf's trajectory actually became normal.

Although there are certain twists and turns, it generally goes in a fixed direction, as if something is attracting it in that direction.

Although Anduin didn't know why the werewolf suddenly changed his behavior, he could detect something strange, and then accelerated his pursuit.

After another hour of chasing, Anduin could sense that he was getting closer and closer to the opponent, and he could clearly see the werewolf's footprints.

The traveling mode is more like the original werewolf form, sometimes walking on two legs and sometimes on four legs. It does not seem to be a person infected with lycanthropy.

But although the distance was getting closer, the sun was gradually setting, and it seemed that it was too late to go back before dark.

After thinking about it, Anduin used the communication amulet to report to Hagrid that he was safe, and informed him that he would not go back at night, and then chased forward with full power again.

However, as he got closer and closer, he also received more clues that surprised him, and other footprints appeared not far away from the trail.

After his identification, it was confirmed that they were horse hoof prints, and there were more than one. It seemed that there were indeed centaurs involved, but to his surprise, the horse hoof prints were actually in front, and the werewolf tracks were moving closer to the centaur tracks.

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In other words, is this werewolf chasing the centaur ahead?

But the fighting power of the centaurs is not weak. There is more than one centaur, and aren't the centaurs all famous for their bravery and fighting? They will not run away when faced with a werewolf.

In an instant, a reasonable but unreasonable idea came to Anduin's mind.

Could it be that this werewolf is following these centaurs, but it shouldn't be. Who gave it such courage to risk its life?

With many doubts in his mind, Anduin quickened his pace again. This time he didn't even need to use the trace-finding spell, he just ran wildly following the footprints.

As he got closer, Anduin soon discovered something even more surprising.