Chapter 286: Hunt down the half-blood giant

"I'm just a little uncomfortable... nothing else..." Astoria replied vaguely.
Jon shook his head calmly and asked again: "I heard Daphne say that you used to go to St. Mungo every summer vacation to be hospitalized?"
Astoria raised her head, nodded slightly, and said softly: "Yes, it's just a little old problem...no...nothing..."
Then she hurriedly changed the subject: "Sister... Sister, does she know your true identity?"
"I don't think she should know." Since Astoria is unwilling to answer this question directly, Jon has no choice but to nod his head: "You are fine..."
"Yes, I'm fine..." Astoria said in a small mosquito-like voice.
They continued to talk a few words in the Forbidden Forest. Astoria has always been a little restless, and a lot of words were a little incoherent... There was a tree guarding pot climbing on her shoulder, and she did not notice. .
Jon simply told her to pay attention to her body, and then the two returned to Hogwarts Castle.
...
Just after returning to the castle, Jon met Blaise Chabini.
"Christopher, Principal Umbridge asked you to come over!" Shabini approached and whispered.
Jon couldn't help but stunned: "I haven't eaten dinner yet."
"Principal Umbridge told you to go there as soon as possible, there is an urgent matter..."
"Okay." Since the principal had ordered, Jon had to postpone his dinner time and hurried to the "new principal's office" located in the corridor on the first floor.
"I don't know what the this pink toad is making?" Jon thought secretly.
But when he stepped into Dolores Umbridge's office, he almost understood it all.
In addition to the principal who is not recognized by Hogwarts, there are five Auror-dressed wizards in the office...Among them, Jon is more familiar, the Auror who was crushed by the stone monster. Dalis.
Five heavily armed Aurors, they also brought a few very thick ropes, which Jon felt were reliable for restraining the dragon.
Was this battle ready to deal with Hagrid?
A few minutes later, Malfoy, Montage, Avery and several special operations team members rushed over.
"Christopher!" Umbridge was wiping her wand, and at the same time he ordered: "You guys also get ready, wait until we do everything... This time, we can't do the same as Trelawney or Moody. , What went wrong!"
"What are we going to do?" Draco Malfoy who just came in asked curiously.
"Let's catch that half-blood giant." Unsurprisingly, Umbridge said without thinking: "We will set off as soon as it gets dark, don't disturb anyone."
"Wow, that's great!" Malfoy shouted excitedly.
Jon also tried to make a very happy look, and at the same time learning Umbridge, began to wipe the plum wand that should have belonged to Barty Crouch Jr.
But there are many thoughts in my heart...What should I do, should I warn Hagrid?
I remember that Hagrid was also attacked in the original book, but with his strong resistant skin, he abruptly highlighted the encirclement... But this time, Umbridge seemed to be more prepared and the number of people was more.
What if Hagrid didn't resist this time and was executed on the spot?
But it would be too difficult to warn Hagrid without drawing Umbridge's attention; if he found an excuse to leave now, Hagrid fled Hogwarts before them; Umbridge would definitely doubt himself.
Only one step can be counted as one step.
Jon pondered, learning how a few Aurors were, and finally put on a dragon skin coat.
...
As soon as the sky turned dark, the group secretly set off from the castle, six adult wizards, plus five students, a total of one person.
Before that, Jon had been staying in Umbridge's office along with several other Slytherin students, and had not found any chance to contact Hagrid.
Taking advantage of the darkness, a group of people sneaked out of the castle, through the grass, and finally approached Hagrid's hut a little bit.
When they were more than a hundred yards away from the hut in front of them, there was a sudden commotion from Hagrid's hut; Umbridge quickly made a gesture and they hid behind a bush next to them.
I saw Ruber Hagrid walking out of his hut wearing a moleskin coat, carrying a bag of things, and then hurried toward the forbidden forest.
"We follow him and attack as soon as we get closer!" Umbridge whispered.
Jon suddenly had an idea. Instead of looking at Umbridge, he turned his head and asked Sean Avery, "Sean, do you remember the afternoon's magical animal protection class?"
"Remember..." Avery nodded quickly: "He hurried to the forbidden forest after class~EbookFREE.me~."
"If I remember correctly, I have seen him sneak to the forbidden forest many times before." Blaise Chabini on one side also added: "You should remember that I mentioned it before."
"Yes." Malfoy nodded first and looked at Blaise Chabini: "I remember this..."
Jon saw that he had successfully brought up the rhythm, and quickly closed his mouth with interest.
But Umbridge had already heard their conversation, and she turned to look at Avery and Shabini: "You mean... this hybrid giant, often sneaks to the Forbidden Forest alone?"
"In my impression... Ruber Hagrid seems to be Dumbledore's most trusted subordinate." Jon added aside.
"It looks like..." Umbridge frowned, realizing that it was not simple: "Maybe Dumbledore left something in the Forbidden Forest, and let this hybrid giant take care of it?"
"I think it's possible, Minister Umbridge." After a calm analysis, the Aurodes at the side came to this conclusion.
"Then do we want to..." Another curly-haired Auror asked with some confusion.
"Wait a minute!" Umbridge decisively issued an order: "Don't attack yet, let's follow this hybrid giant... He will definitely not be able to find us, and he is likely to take us to Dumbledore. Something left at Hogwarts."
The members of the squad slowed down tacitly, and then followed Ruber Hagrid far, and two Aurors used concealed spells.
They finally got into the forbidden forest together...
Jon pretended to have lost his shoelace and stopped to tie a shoelace.
Then it was logically shrunk to the back of the team.