HP - Shadow Monarch!

Chapter 39 - Saturday 03.

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Third Person POV

Hogwarts.

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Hagrid continued walking through the forest with the bulldog illuminating the area with his lantern, while wondering what that thing was a while ago that seemed to be a scream of fury from a creature in the distance... causing him to worry about Horn.

Horn was an animal that he had acquired some time ago, from an acquaintance found on one of the coasts of the Scandinavian countries north of England. Its parents were hunted, as the skin of a Graphorn is extremely expensive in the market, due to its hardness, so much so that it took dozens of dark wizards to take down two Graphorns, which were Horn's parents, while the cub survived due to being in a hidden place and that became inaccessible with the fight, the acquaintance of Hagrid found him and sent him to England hoping that Hogwarts would have a better solution for the animal.

Hagrid was very excited about this magical animal, even trying to keep its guard while hiding it at the beginning of the Black Forest so no one would see it, what he did not imagine was that the animal would leave its place, which was a region protected by centaurs and was behind him wondering where he should go, with a worried countenance.

He walked until some centaurs approached him. "Hagrid! What are you doing here?" one of them immediately asked, with a tone of urgency.

"I'm after Horn... He left the nest and we're after his scent..." Hagrid said, although he was quite surprised by how the centaur spoke to him, they were dressed for a fight as well. "Has something happened?" He asked at the end.

"That your animal? Was it him that caused this... If so, he must already be dead..." The centaur murmured thoughtfully and Hagrid was at a loss for words to what he heard.

The centaur sighed before continuing. "Come with me, something is happening in the forest." He spoke and began to walk, Hagrid glanced at his dog a moment before they followed him into the fog of the forest.

When they emerged, Hagrid was surprised to see a giant line with over 200 centaurs preparing for a fight as they looked toward the forest.

"What's going on here?!" Hagrid immediately asked, surprised by it.

"Something irritated the witch of the forest... there are at least 1000 Acromantulas running through the forest, we're preparing so they don't come into this territory..." The centaur said.

"1000 Acromantulas?!" Hagrid couldn't have been more surprised by that. Wondering what was happening.

"Wait! Horn! I have to rescue him!" Hagrid immediately shouted, remembering that the scent led to that territory!

"You can't Hagrid, do you think you can handle even one Acromantula?" The centaur mocked, preventing the man from making a mistake while standing in his way.

"But Horn is in danger!!!" Hagrid immediately shouted.

"Forget that your animal, he must be dead now, we just have to protect this area, if you go in there, you will die too." The centaur warned him severely.

"..." Hagrid couldn't help but stop feeling the ground at that moment, his world was collapsing with the idea that Horn was dead right now. The bulldog beside cried as tears came out of its eyes. "Why... why did this happen? Horn..." Bitterness and regret filled Hagrid's heart as he stared lifelessly ahead where hundreds of centaurs shouted orders and waited for the spiders to come to their territory while the fog of the forest prevented a deeper view from there.