267 Duel Competition, Ancient Magic, Disadvantages
The Forbidden Forest is the most mysterious place in Hogwarts besides the castle.
Of course, there are not many mysterious places in Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The most mysterious places are the castle, the Forbidden Forest, and the Black Lake.
In addition, there are locations like the Quidditch pitch, gates, greenhouses and gardens, and Hagrid's hut, but their mystery is much reduced.
The Black Lake is difficult for students to explore in depth due to its own reasons. After all, deep water is still more difficult than the ground.
And the only commendable existence in the Black Lake is the giant squid. It has an extremely docile personality and has always been friendly to the students.
There was also a rumor about the origin of the giant squid: it was actually an Animagus, and its true identity was Godric Gryffindor, one of the founders of Hogwarts.
Every evening, a giant squid rises from the lake and transforms into Gryffindor.
Gryffindors would wander around the campus and return before sunrise.
This rumor was obviously unreliable, because Karan had left the castle at night more than once, but he had never seen anything like this.
The giant squid's body was so big that it was impossible for him to ignore it, and it was impossible for previous students to ignore it.
And it was hard for him to imagine that any wizard's Animagus would be so big. It was like a giant-sized patron saint. It was simply unbelievable.
But there seems to be some doubts about the giant-sized patron saint.
Andros was a famous ancient Greek wizard. He mastered wandless magic and learned the Patronus Charm, which allowed him to summon a giant-sized patronus, but the specific form is still unknown.
Because of this incident, he was dubbed "Invincible" and even appeared in a chocolate frog cartoon called the Invincible Andros.
However, this matter obviously cannot be truly verified, and Karan's current mind is not on the Patronus Charm.
And compared to the Forbidden Forest, the reputation of Black Lake is much safer.
At least he had never heard of any student drowning in the Black Lake.
But in the years since Hogwarts was founded, students have disappeared in the Forbidden Forest.
Professor Kettleburn also spent a lot of time exploring the Forbidden Forest during his teaching career, which was the main reason why he became missing arms and legs.
The Forbidden Forest is a very large forest with very old trees. After Karan rose into the air, he finally understood why Professor Kettleburn insisted on exploring in such a stupid way as to risk his own life.
Because the trees inside were so dense, even if the weather turned cold, he couldn't see the ground clearly through the thick branches.
The Forbidden Forest may be the same age as Hogwarts Castle, or even older than the castle. If that rumor is true - the guys who created the Forbidden Forest are actually centaurs living in it. It was cultivated by them from saplings, and this is why they claim that the Forbidden Forest belongs to the centaurs.
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Karan didn't think that the school's previous principals would allow such a proud race as the centaurs to run amok around the castle, waiting patiently for them to plant saplings here, and like a fool, they thought that this would not cause any trouble to the school - —You know, there are noisy students everywhere, and trying to calm them down is like asking centaurs to actually kowtow to wizards.
Either use the Imperius Curse, or only a dead centaur can do that.
So Karan is more inclined to the view that the Forbidden Forest existed from the beginning, and the castle was built later.
Of course, this is all based on the rumors being true.
But the truth has long been lost in history, just like the secrets hidden deep in the castle, which cannot be recorded.
Karan was not in the mood to deal with centaurs either.
Although he was also interested in the stars, he didn't just want to stay on the ground and observe their tracks day after day.
He is currently controlling the height of his flight to avoid being hooked on the invisibility cloak by tree branches. He is also careful not to make the front handle look too obtrusive, trying to make it blend with the branches as much as possible.
It's not that he hasn't thought about putting on a second invisibility cloak, but the control would be too difficult, mainly in terms of precision, which is completely different from simply making objects float.
And Karan hasn't practiced the Levitation Spell for a long time. He has been reading the book "Advanced Transfiguration" recently.
After rising into the air, Karan did not search blindly, but went straight into the forbidden forest as if he had a certain target.
Finally, he stopped over a small lake.
This is the Forbidden Lake, the same spot where he discovered the Marauder's Map last semester.
It looks the same here as last year, and it's probably going to freeze over soon.
But Karan has never forgotten the missing door and the inexplicably deleted memories of Snape and the others.
The architecture inside is obviously the reason for this.
Gryffindor, and Slytherin.
And the third stone door that cannot be opened.
There are also those two huge sculptures - the lion and the snake.
Karan stared at the calm lake and narrowed his eyes slightly.
[If we could make these two sculptures come alive through deformation...]
This is obviously an unattainable goal, just like summoning a giant-sized patron saint, it is simply unbelievable.
But Karan remembers something else.
Gryffindor's research on the lion statue is an attempt to make the armor come alive to protect the school in the face of crisis.
The most important thing is that he succeeded in doing this.
That's why there is the spell "Stone Pier", as well as the statues and armors scattered around Hogwarts.
This is also unbelievable - just a simple spell can activate such a terrible effect.
This even sounds a bit like ancient magic, but it avoids the disadvantages of reciting spells for a long time.
In the duel competition in 1379, this shortcoming was particularly obvious.
In the finals, Elizabeth Smachlin faced another contestant who began by reciting a long and complex spell that, if he had the chance to finish it, would bring down a city. The mountain rose from the ground and fell on top of Smachlin's head.
Unfortunately, Smachlin struck first and quickly recited the disarming spell, causing the opponent's wand to fly out.As a result, she won the title of "Best Duelist", and the disarming spell became one of the practical spells for duelists.
However, there are different views on the origin of the disarming spell. Some people believe that it was invented by Merlin, while others say that this spell was widely used in Madagascar in the 11th century. Miranda Gorshak, author of The Book of Spells, believes that Elizabeth Smachlin was the original creator.
But these have nothing to do with Callan. He learned little Harry's trick very early, but he didn't think that this spell would allow him to successfully deal with Voldemort.
Karan didn't stay here for too long. He needed to spend a lot of time studying the missing stone gate, and it was obviously someone who wanted to hide it there. Otherwise, there would be no backup plan to erase the memory.
This was completely different from the Room of Requirement, and Karan didn't think that just walking around the bottom of the lake twice would make the stone door reappear.
This requires long-term planning and requires him to continue to wait.