Chapter 105 Defense!
Professor McGonagall and the other professors looked at the huge creature with a human face, a lion's body, and a long scorpion tail vigilantly.
It is said to be a human face, but in fact it barely looks like a human face.More like the silhouette of a lion.So the expression on that face was not as dynamic as that of a human being.Closer to the look of the beast.
Now it is standing in the middle of the corridor, blocking in front of the professors.
It came out of nowhere.
And when it appeared, the team of professors headed by Professor McGonagall knew very well that they couldn't turn around and go back to protect those students.
Once he turned around, he might face a real attack.
Although Professor McGonagall is not good at the study of magical animals, she is still clear about the fact that she cannot give her back to the enemy when facing the enemy.
"We may have been fooled."
Professor McGonagall looked at the lonely manticore in front of him, and sighed helplessly.
"This thing cannot be dealt with by a single person."
Professor Sylvanus Kettleburn said on the side: "Like the fire dragon, apart from not being able to breathe fire, this thing is no easier to deal with than a fire dragon."
Although the professor of the protection of magical animals, his favorite magical animal is the fire dragon.Even if he used part of his limbs for this, he still enjoys it.
But even if he is like this, U Coin can deny that the guy in front of him is difficult to deal with.
"If you're looking for efficiency, I suggest using a powerful killing spell directly. If you ensure that the killing spell is powerful enough, then it's not impossible to directly kill the killing spell."
Professor Kettleburn gave his most mature advice when faced with such a situation.Compared with the dragon's scales, although the manticore's fur is equally tough and able to resist spells, it does have some shortcomings in reflecting spells.
They are more dangerous than fire dragons because of their considerable intelligence and more insidious ways of acting.
Possesses the powers of a formidable predator, but prefers to act like an assassin from the shadows.In literary terms, this is called not having the self-esteem of the strong.To put it simply, this magical animal, from a human point of view, is a bit more shameless than a fire dragon.
As for the way of life, you can disagree with it, but you can't criticize it.
Although Professor Kettleburn gave suggestions, to be honest, among the few professors present, I am afraid that few of them can really use the Killing Curse well.
Avada Kedavra, a very simple spell.When using it, there are even fewer points to pay attention to when casting spells than Qingshui Ruquan.
But... to be able to use it superbly, with infinite power, it depends on persistent accumulation.
Huge magic power output, and strong killing intent output.
As far as magic power is concerned, the professors are fine.But the killing intent... This thing can't be suppressed by the teachers.
While they were discussing, instead of making a move, the manticore over there seemed to be watching them with great interest to discuss countermeasures.
This state made Professor McGonagall very disturbed.
The current state should not be to the point of using that spell.But the anticipation and apprehension in my heart still couldn't help but emerge.
But after a while, she still restrained her thoughts.
That spell was to be used as one of the cards in the defense of Hogwarts.
Using it now will only make other people fearful and take precautions.
"Anyway, get ready to fight!"
Professor McGonagall pointed forward the wand in his hand, and the ground under Manticore, who was looking at it with relish, suddenly became soft, and his body sank involuntarily, as if he had fallen into quicksand.
But that half-human face showed a humanized mocking expression at this time. It smiled contemptuously, and then broke free from it with a sudden force on its body.
Of course, it was followed by several spells of different colors.
Paralyzing Curse, Sleeping Curse, Detonating Curse...
The effects of drowsiness and paralysis are not noticeable at all.How many hairs did the blasting spell seem to blow off?
The damage was so slight that Professor McGonagall didn't even see it clearly.
"Are their defenses so outrageous?!" Professor McGonagall couldn't help but look at Professor Kettleburn, and questioned himself.
Professor Kettleburn opened his mouth and looked at the giant beast opposite, as if he was a little absent-minded.
After a while, he responded, "I don't know!"
"But, theoretically, this shouldn't be the case."
The expression on Professor Kettleburn's face gradually became serious.
He doesn't think it's a matter of individual differences in one manticore.This degree of difference is obviously not a problem that can be explained by individual differences.
"There may be artificial factors involved. Seriously, although I'm sorry, but Professor McGonagall, if possible, we'd better keep this one alive."
"If possible, the one on the students' side, I will keep it alive for you to study."
Of course, Professor McGonagall would not be surprised by the high magic resistance of this manticore.
If magic resistance is high...
Professor McGonagall waved his wand, and a huge knight's lance immediately appeared on the castle wall, stabbing fiercely at the abdomen of the manticore.
Manticore eats pain.After howling, it flew towards this side.
At this time, Professor Kettleburn and several other professors stepped forward naturally without commanding, and activated their respective best protective magic, or blocking magic, and sent the sphinx that was about to protrude forward. The tailed beast stopped in front, preventing it from getting close to Professor McGonagall.
And knight spears, giant swords, and even large meteor hammers appeared one after another on the wall.They waved and attacked this manticore inhumanely.
What other professors have to do is just protection.Or occasionally put two useless spells to brush the damage.
Although not much.
The whole process is orderly and straightforward.
Professor Kettleburn couldn't help sighing, if the action against the fire dragon had been so easy, maybe he wouldn't have lost his leg.
He now has only one and a half limbs left. Of course, those lost are not just an accidental result, but the accumulation of decades.
However, he also knew that this kind of graceful fighting style was hard to see in most places except Hogwarts.
Professor McGonagall is not just a well-known transfiguration master in Britain.She is a well-known transfiguration master all over the world.
Such a transfiguration master cannot be hired by those fire dragon reserves.
Now Professor McGonagall doesn't know what the sighing professor is thinking.She didn't care at all.An old professor who is older than her, she doesn't need to worry about psychological problems.
Luke's safety is what she worries about now.
When she thought of that smiling, harmless little bastard, her teeth itch with hatred.
She didn't believe at first that Luke knew nothing about it.And Luke didn't believe he could hide it from himself at first.So he said all he could say.The rest is undoubtedly what Luke knows and can't say.
Professor McGonagall even felt that Luke knew the type and quantity of the creatures in the attack.
But would such information really be given out casually?Previously, Professor McGonagall was not sure what the purpose of such information was.But now, she knows.
No matter what kind of preparations Luke made, it seems that the strength of the remaining three magical animals should far exceed Luke's expectations.
Listening to the angry roar and painful howl of the manticore not far away, Professor McGonagall felt more and more uneasy in his heart.
If the information in that letter was sugar-coated, then these strange magical animals must be cannonballs.
They, no, what are they behind them trying to do? !
Thinking of this, Professor McGonagall couldn't help but increase the output again. Two huge axes stretched out from the ceiling of the corridor, and slashed at the manticore one after another.
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On the other side, the door of the auditorium was easily pushed open.
The latch didn't help much.However, Luke still noticed that although the tool for knocking on the door was an iron rod, the two gorgeous doors were not damaged at all, and even the relief paintings on them were not damaged at all.
It was really strong enough, reminding him of his previous life. In the game he played when he was young, there was a hero with a gate as a shield.
If the door can be removed, it might be a good shield for Klopp.The magic resistance of the giant itself, together with this shield, is definitely enough to take on the important task.
It would be better if he was smarter.
Three magical animals entered one after another, one looked vicious and brutal, the other looked sinister and dangerous, and the last one looked...
Vicious but stupid?
Luke couldn't describe the feeling.I always thought that giant monster was naive, but for some reason, Luke didn't react when he saw Voldebat, but when he saw this giant monster, he subconsciously felt dangerous.
He has always had this kind of unreasonable intuition, but after his intuition makes a sign, he often checks it before taking action.Of course, in general, intuition is accurate.
The three magical animals didn't attack immediately as soon as they came in, which also gave the students a little bit of confidence.
"They don't seem to dare to move."
Pansy Perkins sat in his seat and said with a sigh of relief.
Her voice was not low, and Luke, who was not far away, naturally heard it.
He followed the voice and looked over. This girl is a very interesting character. In the original book, she is bitter, mean, and ugly. All the words you can think of that are related to beauty seem to be included in Rowling's description. Find the corresponding place on the body.
In the movie, the original actor was changed because he was too beautiful, and then changed roles many times, probably because Rowling really hated this role, so the actors became uglier each time.
But the girl in front of her, although she can't be said to be very beautiful, has nothing to do with being ugly.The short black hair looks clean and neat, and there is a proud face in it.
Not a very standard appearance of a noble young lady.It seems to be a lot more low-key.
It may also have something to do with the family style of Parkinson's family.A pure-blood, but was not part of the lineup of the two Dark Lords on both occasions.Sensible to an astonishing degree.
Although it may not be as easy as the Malfoy family's adapting to the wind, it is so easy to enjoy both ways.But the Parkinson family doesn't need to eat too much.Keeping a low profile is their way of protecting themselves.
One of the few conservatives among the nobles.
Pansy seemed to only notice Luke's gaze on her, so she blushed a little and said in a low voice, "Because they really didn't move."
She thought Luke was looking at her because she said something wrong.
Of course, Luke won't think that this girl has a good temper just because of her soft-spoken voice now, because after talking to him, Pansy stared at the eyes of a mixed-race classmate. go back.
No wonder this is a good stubble.
Although it's a long story, in fact, everything that happened in front of me was just a few seconds of stalemate.
I don't know if it's an illusion, but Luke always felt that the giant looked at him.
At this time, Professor Sprout and Hagrid had stood up and walked closer.
Looking at the three magical animals staring at Professor Quirrell and roaring, and looking at the entire auditorium with vigilant and greedy eyes from time to time.Professor Spratt took out his wand. The appearance of the wand was unpretentious, and it looked like a longer chopstick.
Like Professor Spratt, her wand is somewhat unremarkable.
Especially when Hagrid held up his red umbrella, everyone else's wands became a nondescript thing.
"Get out of here! If you have no place to stay, you can stay in the Forbidden Forest first. We will find a suitable place for you and send you back."
Hagrid wasn't a professor, but now, here, he could only speak.Because he is very familiar with the three magical animals in front of him, although his familiarity with Voldebat is only on paper.
But he was not stupid. Looking at the three magical animals in front of him, although he felt that it was a good thing that they didn't attack immediately, it also made him feel a little strange.
Why not just do it?What are they afraid of?
And at this moment, he just stared seriously at the manticore that seemed to be the leader.Want to have a dialogue with it.But he didn't notice that the troll seemed to glance at Slytherin's position inadvertently.
Then even with a roar, there was a big steel club waving.
Opposite it is Professor Spratt, one of the four deans, but he has no fear!
Looks like a really silly batch.
Quirrell struggled in his heart, but decided to speak.
"Professor Sprout, be careful! That troll is not simple..."
But before he finished speaking, Voldebat rushed towards his face again, interrupting his words.
At the same time, the long tail stabbed at Hagrid.Hagrid had that reaction of not being the size he should be and ducking.And holding the little red umbrella, he started a counterattack.
At this time, Luke gave Marcus, who had stood up and was ready to fight, a look.