Harry Potter and the Old Ones

One more trip to Hogsmeade in the last week of this term—

Everyone was happy except Harry.

And it wasn't just that Harry wasn't happy because he couldn't go to Hogsmeade.

It was because "Tiera" disappeared again——

To be precise, "Tiera" refused Harry's company——

Harry used to ride one of the school brooms at team practice, an ancient Shooting Star, slow and wobbly, and he definitely needed a new broom of his own -

Although Harry's parents left Harry a large fortune, Harry needs to use that money to last until the seventh grade, so he can't spend it indiscriminately except for gifts for Tierra.

Harry wanted to discuss with "Tiera" what kind of broomstick he should buy next term—

Although I don't know why, "Tiera" seems to have a lot of research on Quidditch suddenly, so Harry wants to hear Tiera's opinion——

But Tierra rejected Harry's invitation, and hasn't appeared since last night.

Harry felt a little resentful and a little emotional about this, and he didn't know why he was like this. In order to distract his attention, Harry had to hold the "Sorting Broomstick" borrowed from Wood by himself, and decided to put this A day is spent learning about the different styles of broomsticks.

On the Saturday morning when everyone went to Hogsmeade Village, "Tiera" still didn't show up, and didn't even return to the dormitory at night. Harry said goodbye to Ron and Hermione who were wearing cloaks and scarves, and then Stepped up the marble staircase back to Gryffindor Tower alone.

There was snowflakes outside the window, and Hogwarts castle was very quiet.

"Hey, Harry!" Harry turned halfway in the fourth-floor corridor to see Fred and George peering at him from behind a statue of a one-eyed hunched witch.

"What are you doing?" Harry asked curiously, "Why didn't you go to Hogsmeade?"

"We came to give you a little festive spirit before we go," said Fred, blinking mysteriously. "Come here, it's time for you to join the gang of big brothers."

Fred nodded to an empty classroom to the left of the one-eyed statue, and Harry followed Fred and George into it.

George closed the door softly, then turned, smiling all over his face, to look at Harry.

"An early Christmas present for you, Harry," said George, and with a wave of his hand George drew something from under his cloak and placed it on an empty table.

It was a big, square, old parchment with nothing written on it.

Harry thought it was another Fred and George joke, and stared at it.

"What's this?" Harry asked, "the product of your new research hoax?"

"This is the secret of our success," said George, and taking out his wand, touched the parchment lightly and said:

"I solemnly swear that I have done nothing wrong."

Immediately thin lines of ink, like spider webs, began to appear from where the wand had just touched.

These lines meet and intersect each other and extend to every corner of the parchment; then writing begins to appear above the parchment, in large curved green letters, which read: Moonface, Wormtail, Supplementary Supplier to Magical Mischief-makers Gentlemen of Padfoot and Prongs proudly present the Marauder's Map showing Hogwarts Castle and the grounds in every detail.

But the really noteworthy things are the little dots of ink that move along the map, each marking a name in tiny letters.

Harry was so surprised that he leaned down to take a closer look. A small ink dot in the upper left corner shows Professor Dumbledore pacing the study; Filch's cat, Mrs Norris, is prowling the third floor, while the mischievous ghost Peeves is hopping around the prize room. Harry's eyes flicked up and down the familiar corridors. At this time, he noticed something again.

The map showed a series of passages he had never entered before. Many of these passages seem to lead to...

"It's the one that leads to Hogsmeade," said Fred, pointing his finger along one of the passages. "There are seven of them. Now, Filch knows the four...huh?"

Fred suddenly exclaimed, and Harry followed Fred's gaze——

Harry saw a very familiar name appear on the map in the passage from the one-eyed witch statue to the cellar of the Honeydukes candy store——

Tierra Lockhart.

A feeling of betrayal and shame rose in Harry.

...

After getting off the boat with the residents of Leng, two toad-like creatures that seemed to have escaped from a nightmare appeared on both sides of Tierra——

These two moon beasts each stretched out the tentacles in front of their heads, climbed up Tierra's arms, and pressed Tierra like a prisoner towards a tall peak in the center of the city——

Along the way, Tierra felt that everything was so novel and disgusting, but it made people want to take another look——

Every now and then a small band of slaves dressed like the dark merchants would be driven off some galley, followed by a whole horde of toad-grey, slimy creatures—some of them officers , some are navigators, others oarsmen.

Tierra saw that almost human-like creatures were preserved for less strenuous but more inglorious tasks, such as cooking, fetching and carrying, and communication with the earth and others. People on the planet bargain. These creatures must be very convenient to move around on earth, because as long as they put on clothes, shoes and headscarves carefully, they look just like humans, enough for them to bargain in human shops without any embarrassment, or is to make any strange explanations.

Most of them were naked, save for those who were either emaciated or disease-ridden, and all were crated and hauled away in lumbering wagons pulled by incredible creatures. port.

Occasionally, Tierra also saw some other creatures being unloaded and packed into crates, some of which were very similar to these humanoid creatures, some were not so similar, and some had no similarity at all——

There is no doubt that these crated creatures will be transported inland to be eaten and enjoyed by those cruel and terrifying moon beast nobles, officers and priests——

Moonbeasts are unimaginably cruel creatures who feed only on living things, but before eating, they spend a great deal of time beating and torturing as a pastime, seeking out from the pain of other creatures Ugly joy, when they've had enough, they'll eat the "food"—

From the body and soul of "food", a special substance they need is drawn.

Escorted by two moon beasts, Tierra approached the city whose appearance and smell were hard to describe in words.

The streets of the city were hung with red lanterns, and slaves with torches patrolled them.

Soon, Tierra came to the end of the street, where there was a huge square, and behind the square was the mountain that Tierra was going to—

Some kind of procession is stationed in the square—

The procession consisted of ten toad-like creatures and twenty-four humanoid torchbearers—eleven on each side and one on the front and rear—blocking every path leading from the square to the mountain.

When Tierra and the two moon beasts escorting him approached the square——

One of the ten moon beasts stationed in the plaza stopped them from going any further.

The moon beast who stopped them seemed to be an officer or a nobleman, and Tierra saw one of the moon beasts escorting him respectful to that moon beast.

The two moon beasts entangled their tentacles and communicated for a while in this way——

The high-ranking moonbeast then pointed to one of the passages guarded by humanoid slave creatures, seemingly giving them permission to enter there.

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