The Wind and the Wings of Hogwarts

He took out his wand and turned the owl back into a block of wood, then picked up the panoramic telescope and began operating it.

As he turned the circular dial with his finger, he saw the image on the camera begin to rapidly recede, from the view of the common room back into the Forbidden Forest.

His fingers kept moving, and the image kept rewinding.

Because of the poor lighting in the forbidden forest at night, he had to look very carefully to make out what was in the picture.

Suddenly, he stopped moving his fingers.

At that moment, the scene he saw was very bright; it was a beam of red light from a curse.

Scott's other hand's fingers also began to move, slowing down the scene.

After repeated adjustments, the wizard fighting the centaurs finally appeared on screen.

However, because the owl was flying in the air and the panoramic telescope was an overhead view, and the wizard fighting the centaur was wearing a hood, Scott could not tell his identity.

Over the next few hours, Scott watched the footage of the battle repeatedly.

There was only one wizard in the Forbidden Forest, and his battle with the centaurs was not particularly intense.

The battle was short and ended in a draw, with no clear winner or loser, and neither side suffered any casualties.

The wizard quickly disappeared using Apparition.

From these images, Scott also found it difficult to determine the purpose of the other party's trip.

After some time, Scott watched the footage recorded by the panoramic telescope twice more.

Just then, Luna came running back, wearing slippers.

“I’ve already told Professor Flitwick,” she said, slightly out of breath.

Scott asked him, "Does the professor believe what you're saying?"

“Oh, of course he believes me.” Luna nodded solemnly. “He said he would talk to Professor McGonagall and then go check it out.”

After saying that, she and Scott said goodnight and went back to her dorm.

On Monday morning at breakfast time, the mail owls flew into the auditorium amidst everyone's anticipation.

“Oh, I’ve never looked forward to the Daily Prophet as much as I do today!” Eddie exclaimed, looking up at the owl flying by.

Scott held the milk jug in place with his hand to prevent the owl's feathers from falling in.

"coming!"

"It's The Daily Prophet."

The owl tossed several newspapers onto the table, and Eddie and Roger eagerly picked them up to read.

Meanwhile, Scott also received his copy of the newspaper.

"How is that possible! There's nothing there!"

Eddie flipped through the newspaper rapidly while loudly complaining.

"Did nothing happen yesterday?" Roger asked in surprise.

Milton said, "Perhaps this is a good thing?"

Scott flipped through the newspaper in his hand but found no valuable news reports.

“Noon,” he said to Eddie, “we’ll go to the Forbidden Forest again at noon.”

“Okay.” Eddie nodded repeatedly.

Almost all the students in the auditorium were very dissatisfied with the newspaper.

What they want to see is the Dark Lord battling the resurrected witch; who wants to see the construction progress of the Quidditch World Cup stadium!

Even the Slytherins who weren't hospitalized were dissatisfied.

"Nothing happened, which is enough to prove that the interview was staged by Rita Skeeter. That despicable woman should publish an apology!"

“This is an insult. She has insulted Slytherin’s daughter and she has insulted Slytherin House.”

Those Gryffindors who weren't hospitalized didn't believe the interview was fake.

They started arguing with Slytherin from afar.

"Just because it wasn't in the newspapers doesn't mean nothing happened!"

"Just wait, today's Evening Prophet will definitely report on this!"

"Yes, reporters need time to write their articles!"

Sandwiched between the two houses at the Ravenclaw table, all the Ravenclaws watched silently as the Gryffindors and Slytherins hurled insults at each other.

The already strained relationship between the two colleges became even more hostile following the large-scale brawl that took place on Saturday.

As the atmosphere grew increasingly tense, Professor McGonagall walked in through the auditorium door.

Her appearance was like a bucket of cold water poured over the heads of those hot-headed students, instantly silencing them.

Professor McGonagall pursed her lips with an unusually stern expression, her gaze sweeping across the crowd, with particular attention paid to Gryffindor and Slytherin.

In an instant, the auditorium fell completely silent.

“You are all students,” Professor McGonagall raised her voice. “You should be attending classes. Everything else is none of your business right now.”

Seeing that everyone had calmed down, Professor McGonagall nodded in satisfaction and turned to leave.

As she reached the door, she turned back. "I want to remind the students of Gryffindor and Slytherin that your house points are almost depleted due to your misbehavior."

Chapter 349 The Battle of Little Hangleton Village

After the morning classes ended, Scott and Eddie met up and walked through the castle's back garden to the edge of the Forbidden Forest.

This time, instead of making a big show of themselves, they took a detour to a place where they wouldn't be easily seen.

"I wonder if the professor and the others found out anything about that guy who fought the centaurs last night," Eddie said, staring curiously into the depths of the Forbidden Forest.

Last night, after Scott returned to his dorm, Eddie also looked at the panoramic telescope that had "captured" the battle scene for a long time, but they still couldn't figure out the identity of the wizard who attacked the centaurs.

“The two things may be related,” Scott said, walking into the Forbidden Forest. “We just don’t know for sure right now.”

Eddie asked, "You mean the fighting in the Forbidden Forest last night and what happened in Little Hangleton?"

“Yes,” Scott said. “Of course, it could also just be a coincidence.”

“I don’t think there are that many coincidences. Although this is the Forbidden Forest, it is still part of Hogwarts,” Eddie said.

Scott understood what he meant. This was Hogwarts, and unless there were special circumstances, no other wizard would dare to come here.

“Right here.” Scott stopped short of getting far.

He had no intention of venturing deep into the forbidden forest.

After all, a battle took place in the Forbidden Forest last night, and those centaurs are probably still under martial law.

He reached into his hand, pulled out his wand, and waved it. "Flock of birds."

Several crows emerged from the tip of his wand, flapping their wings and cawing a few times.

“All we have to do now is wait here,” Scott told Eddie.

Before long, a dense chorus of flapping wings sounded, and a dark flock of crows flew in from all directions through the woods.

Eddie looked at this scene with some surprise. "Oh, I never knew there were so many crows living in the Forbidden Forest. How did you manage that?"

"Gah..."

With an exceptionally loud cry, Rimbaud descended from the sky and landed on Scott's shoulder.

Scott reached out and touched Rimbaud's wing, then smiled and said to Eddie, "If you can be friends with the Raven King, you can too."

Eddie stared at Rimbaud for a long time. "It seems you're hiding quite a few secrets."

Scott just smiled and offered no explanation.

As a proper Ravenclaw, Eddie was also very tactful and didn't delve too deeply into the matter.

"Where's our panoramic telescope?" He looked around. "Haven't those eagles returned yet?"

No sooner had he finished speaking than Rimbaud, perched on Scott's shoulder, called out again.

Soon, several crows, their claws gripping the panoramic telescope, flew out from the flock and placed it on the ground in front of Scott and Eddie.

Where is the eagle?

Although Eddie asked a question, he didn't actually care where the eagles went. He had already picked up a panoramic telescope and started looking.

"Oh, this is from this morning, the morning..." His fingers flew across the spinning wheel.

Scott crouched down and put all the panoramic binoculars back into the shapeshifting lizard skin bag.

“Let’s go.” He stood up and patted Eddie on the shoulder. “We’d better not stay here any longer.”

“Well, I haven’t found the footage we want to see yet.” Eddie shrugged.

He handed the panoramic binoculars to Scott, who promptly put them away.

"Let's go to Fred and George's studio first and see if we can find what we want before afternoon classes."

Scott turned and walked out of the Forbidden Forest.

"If that doesn't work... I need to attend the Transformation Club tonight, so I need you to find all the footage we need and organize the information first."

“No problem.” Eddie was extremely excited.

Scott nodded. "This is a troublesome matter..."

“I don’t think this is a problem at all,” Eddie interrupted him. “I can’t wait to see what’s going on.”

The two walked quickly through the garden into the castle and arrived at the corridor on the third floor.

"Separate left and right sides".

Eddie tapped the statue of the one-eyed hunchbacked witch with his wand.

“They’re all having lunch now,” he said. “We can go to the studio and look for our supplies.”

The statue cracked open, and Eddie ducked inside, with Scott following closely behind.

The two sat on the slide and slid down at high speed.