Harry Potter’s Raven’s Claw

The little girl Betty's words made the atmosphere in the whole tavern tense.

Lily, who was walking towards the kitchen not far away, suddenly stopped. She turned her head slowly and looked at Victor. The bloody forest's bone-chopping knife appeared in her right hand again at some point.

Victor felt that Lily looked at her as if he was looking at a piece of raw meat, his body stiffened instinctively, and he unconsciously grasped it with his right hand.

His wand was now tucked away in the battle wand holster on his right arm, which had used up all the galleons he had borrowed from his fellowship.

But the effect is also very good, now as long as he thinks about it, the wand will fly from it into his hand.

At this moment, he really wanted to summon the magic wand to cast a flame spell here, because Lily's pressure on him was too strong.

Although Lily was tall and strong, the distance between the two of them was not close at the moment, and he was sure to kill her directly.

But after that?

There are werewolves outside here, and the surrounding area of ​​Hatch Village is also full of wilderness. In this case, even if he can break out of the encirclement, he will be chased and killed by these werewolves in the end.

After thinking about it again and again, Victor finally gave up the urge to do it directly, and began to throw out the rhetoric he had prepared before setting off.

"Oh! That's where I put my souvenirs. My real luggage is here."

Victor patted the big backpack on his back in a relaxed tone, and then smiled at Betty.

It's just that this smile seems to contain some other flavors.

"Is that so? Uncle, you must buy more beef when you go back! The beef here is the best!"

Betty enthusiastically recommended.

Victor heaved a sigh of relief. It seemed that the little girl's IQ was not high. After thinking about it, he turned his gaze back to Lily who was not far away.

"Betty, you should call me brother. This little brother is not that old yet."

"Huh? Really?"

"Ah, yes, I am 16 years old."

"Brother, you are so young! Betty is wrong, I have been calling your uncle just now." The little girl Betty lowered her head and said aggrievedly, but before Victor could comfort her, she asked like a cannonball, "Brother, what are you doing?" What's your name? Where did you come from? Are you still in school?"

Victor has been watching Lily from the corner of his eye, and seeing her slowly approaching while the two of them were talking, he backed away quietly, and replied with a smile at the same time:

"My name is Victor Dawn, you can just call me Victor. Also, I am from London and I am currently studying at Eton College."

After hearing Victor's answer, Lily, who was holding a bone cutter, suddenly showed a look of surprise on her face, and said:

"Isn't Eton College the famous aristocratic school? Unexpectedly, Mr. Dawn, you are a noble young master. But it's also good, can you tell me if there are not many girls in Eton College?"

"Um, ma'am, unfortunately, Eton is a boys' school, so..."

Victor didn't say the second half of the sentence, but Lily already understood what he meant. She covered her chest with her free left hand, and said a little embarrassedly:

"Oh! I am so ignorant that you laugh at me.

Mr. Dawn. "

"Nothing, just call me Victor."

Victor heaved a sigh of relief. Lily acted very much like a village girl's reaction when someone exposed her ignorance, but he knew that Lily was already suspicious of him, and the question just now was to test himself.

If I follow her question and start describing how the girls in Eton are, I'm afraid that the bone chopping knife will come over in the next moment.

Then Lily asked Victor a lot of questions, some of them were probing, some of them were simple questions, such as why you came here at such a young age.

Fortunately, Victor was well-prepared. He had thought about the answers to most of the questions before setting off, so he answered them fairly smoothly.

Compared with Lily, the little girl Betty has more questions, but the object of her curiosity is obviously not Victor, but the legendary London.

Her eyes were shining, and countless questions about London came out of her mouth.

And Victor knew everything about her problems, and he could tell that this little girl should have lived in the countryside since she was a child, so she yearned for a big city like London.

The cross-examination of the two went on for a long time, and Lily didn't stop until it was close to 16 o'clock, letting Betty lead Victor to the room.

Betty obviously still had more to say. She pouted and brought Victor to the room sullenly. Before leaving, she asked Victor if he could continue the topic at a later date.

Victor, of course, agreed.

Who can refuse the request of a cute little loli? What's more, children of this age are the easiest to obtain information.

Lily didn't lie to him, the room she brought him was very clean, and it seemed that it was cleaned frequently.

It's just that the room is relatively small, there is no toilet inside, and the bed is also a hard single bed.

But Victor didn't care too much about this, because he didn't intend to sleep here.

To be precise, he wasn't going to sleep for the past two days. After all, this was a wolf's den, so he might be snapped when he slept.

After taking a shower, the tavern was already full of excitement when Victor came downstairs again. Dozens of men and women crowded in such a tavern to eat and drink under the bright yellow lights, and bursts of laughter would erupt from time to time in the crowd. laugh.

But when Victor appeared here, everyone stopped and looked at Victor who had just come down the stairs.

The atmosphere started to get weird, Victor backed away slightly, ready to run away at any time.

At this time Lily came out from the counter, she grabbed Victor, and said in a very embarrassed way:

"Guests, we don't really welcome strangers here. So... so can you go back first, and I will ask Betty to deliver your dinner later?"

Lily's words were exactly what Victor wanted, he nodded slightly, and slowly backed away.

As soon as he stepped on the stairs, he quickly turned around and ran upstairs as fast as he could.

He acted like a frightened child, and everyone in the tavern was very respectful and burst into laughter.

But when Victor reached the second floor, he suddenly stopped. A black and brown wand appeared in his hand. He waved the wand and whispered the spell at the same time. The next moment, he saw a circle of transparent ripples in the air. Rippled, and with the appearance of this layer of ripples, Victor's figure also began to become blurred, and finally disappeared in place.

Victor didn't stop there. After releasing the Disillusionment Curse, he released the Silent Curse to cover his footsteps, and then slowly walked down the stairs.

The tavern on the first floor was still extremely lively. Victor leaned halfway in the corner of the dark stairs, silently observing the people in the tavern.

The clothes on these people were all dirty, and most of their boots still had mud on them. They should all be farmers from nearby farms, riding horses to the tavern for a drink after a busy day.

After eavesdropping for a while, Victor discovered that the topic they were talking about was actually him.

"Hey, Lily, why did you take that kid in, don't you know it's dangerous?"

"This kid is different from us at first glance. Who knows if he will find out our secret and go out to inform him."

"That's right, those wizards would not allow so many of us to live in this place. If they found out, they would definitely drive us away. I don't want to leave here. The life here is too comfortable."

The atmosphere in the tavern became gloomy, and everyone lowered their heads in silence.

Suddenly, a bearded man raised his glass and drank it in one gulp, then roared angrily:

"Then kill him! It's not the first time anyway!"

The opinion of the big man was quickly endorsed by many people. Perhaps they had been prepared to do this long ago, but they were not far away from taking the name of the instigator.

Under the stimulation of alcohol, the men were so excited that they could not wait to rush upstairs to kill Victor immediately.

At this moment, Lily slammed down on the counter. Everyone seemed to be afraid of Lily, and they were all stunned by the loud noise.

"Shut up! We are humans, not beasts! Logan, you are really capable now! Have you forgotten who was crying and crying and came to us to accept you? Huh?"

As soon as this remark came out, the bearded man, who was still in high spirits, immediately withered away, and after a while, he said aggrievedly:

"I... I'm doing this for the good of everyone."

Everyone agreed.

Although these people are werewolves, most of them are not born with werewolf disease, but infected with werewolf disease.

Just like some extreme AIDS patients in Muggle society, some werewolves like to turn others into their own kind.

They would often attack farmers living on remote farms and nibble each one on the arm.

Thus, a new litter of werewolves was born.

Lupine also contracted werewolf disease in this way, but compared with him, other werewolves are obviously more pitiful.

First of all, people around will regard them as monsters, and when they transform into big things, the Ministry of Magic will come to the scene, register and erase the relevant traces, and then tell them not to appear in front of Muggles again, and finally put them Throw it into the wilderness to fend for itself.

The wizards call this humanity, and in their view, it is kindness not to kill the werewolf immediately.

But it was a nightmare for those victims!

Wolves are pack animals, and so are humans. The nature of these werewolves has prompted these werewolves to gather together to form this village.

But the Ministry of Magic does not allow werewolves to live, because it is easy for a force to resist the Ministry of Magic, so once this village is discovered by the Ministry of Magic, then destruction is their only end.

Thinking of this, and recalling the tragic experience of these people, a look of unbearable flashed in Lily's eyes, and she sighed and said:

"Well, I don't care about you. But remember, even if you want to do it, you can't do it in my tavern. Betty is still here!"

As soon as Betty was mentioned, the crazy eyes of everyone present softened.

Betty is their little angel.

To be precise, every child is their angel, and Betty is an angel among angels.

The reason is very simple, Betty's heart is too pure, so pure that they are not willing to hurt her at all, whether it is physically or mentally.

These people have killed many people in order to protect the secrets of the village.

Their minds also began to become more and more like beasts in these killings, which made them very afraid.

And Betty's lovely smile is the secret medicine that can make their souls rest in peace!

That's why they were so nervous when they found out that Betty was in contact with that stranger.

"We know, Boss Lily." Logan, the bearded man, sat down again after thinking for a while and said, "Let that kid live another night."

Everyone seemed to be convinced by this man named Logan, and after he made a decision, they all sat back in their seats, but they were all a little depressed, as if they remembered the tragic experience before.

Lily at the counter slammed down the counter when she heard the words, and roared with a ferocious face:

"How many times have I said it! Don't call me Boss! Call me Sister Lily!"

When she got angry, Logan immediately turned into a quail. He shrank his head, lowered his head and said in an extremely low tone that could be heard by everyone present:

"I see, Boss Lily."

As soon as this remark came out, everyone in the tavern burst into laughter, and Lily originally wanted to teach Logan a lesson, but when everyone laughed, the angry expression on her face could no longer be contained, and she also wanted to teach Logan a lesson. Laughed like everyone else.

The cheerful atmosphere in the tavern was restored.

Victor, who was in the shadow of the stairs, had a serious expression on his face.

At the moment he is very tangled.

He knew very well about the origin of werewolves and werewolf disease, so he naturally knew that these werewolves in front of him were all poor people and victims.

Especially the little girl named Betty.

From their discussion and the girl's address to Lily, it can be heard that the little girl named Betty is not Lily's biological daughter, but was adopted by Lily after escaping from outside.

And a cute girl who was as old as Betty was infected with werewolf disease by those ugly and disgusting werewolves, and Victor felt a burst of anger.

At the same time, there was a trace of pity in his heart.

He felt as if a voice kept repeating in his ear:

'They are all poor people, or else, just let them go, anyway, you still have a whole night to run now, and they shouldn't be able to catch up with you. '

He was almost convinced several times. After all, this game has just begun, and he still has a lot of time to hunt and kill other black magic creatures. If he lets them go, he may not necessarily lose.

But rationality told him that due to the International Law of Secrecy, gathering places with hundreds of werewolves like this was very rare, and he might never encounter so many black magic creatures again in the future.

"What should I do!"

Victor clenched his fists tightly, his short nails pierced the skin, and after a while, drops of blood dripped down.

Harry Potter Raven's Claw

Harry Potter Raven's Claw