In the last week of this term, I can go to Hogsmeade Village again--

Everyone was happy except Harry.

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

But because "Tiera" disappeared again——

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

During team practice, Harry rode a school broom, it was an old shooting star, slow and swaying, he definitely needed a new broom of his own—

Although Harry's parents left Harry a large fortune, Harry needed that money to last until the seventh grade, so he couldn't spend it other than to buy gifts for Tierra.

Harry originally wanted to discuss with "Tiera" what kind of broom he should buy next semester——

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 Tiera declined Harry's invitation, and hasn't shown up since last night.

Harry had some indignation and a little emotion about this. He didn't know why he did this. In order to distract Harry, he had to hold the "Classification Broomstick" borrowed from Wood, and decided to put this Spend the day learning about the different styles of broomsticks.

On the Saturday morning when everyone went to Hogsmeade, "Tiera" still didn't show up, and he didn't even come back to the bedroom that night, Harry said goodbye to Ron and Hermione in the cape and scarf, and then Went up the marble staircase alone to go back to Gryffindor Tower.

Snow was falling outside the window, and the castle at Hogwarts was very quiet.

"Hey, Harry!" Harry turned halfway up the hallway on the fourth floor to see Fred and George peeking at him from behind a statue of a one-eyed hunchbacked witch.

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

"We're here to give you a little festive spirit before we go," Fred said, winking 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 in.

George closed the door softly, then turned, smiling, and looked at Harry.

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

It was a large, square, very 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. "Your new prank product?"

"That's the secret of our success," said George, then took out his wand, touched the parchment lightly, and said:

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

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

The lines meet and cross each other, extending to every corner of the parchment; then writing begins to appear above the parchment, in large curving green letters: Magical Mischief Maker's Auxiliary Supplier Moonface, Wormtail , Bigfoot and Prongs, gentlemen proudly present the Marauder's Map, which depicts Hogwarts Castle and the grounds in every detail.

But what's really noticeable are the tiny dots of ink that move along the map, each marked with a name in tiny letters.

Surprised, Harry leaned over to take a closer look. A small dot of ink in the upper left corner shows Professor Dumbledore pacing the study; Filch's cat Mrs Norris wandering the third floor, and Peeves the teasing ghost hopping around in the prize room. Harry's eyes swept up and down the familiar hallway. At this time, he noticed something again.

The map showed a series of passages he had never been in before. Many of these passages appear to lead to...

"It's the one leading to Hogsmeade," Fred said, pointing his finger along a passage. "There are seven of them. Well, Filch knows these four... eh?"

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

Harry saw a name that Harry knew very well in the passage from the one-eyed witch statue to the cellar of Honey Duke's candy store on the map—

Tierra Lockhart.

A sense of betrayal humiliated Harry's heart.

...

After disembarking with the Lengyuan residents, two toad-like creatures that seemed to have run out of a nightmare appeared on both sides of Tiera—

The two moon beasts stretched out their tentacles in front of their heads and climbed onto Tiera’s arms, pressing Tiera like a prisoner to a tall peak in the center of the city—

Along the way, Tiera felt that everything was so novel and disgusting, but she couldn't help but want to take a look—

Every now and then a small group of slaves dressed like the swarthy merchants was driven off some sailboat, and behind them was a swarm of those toad-gray, slimy creatures—some of them officers. , some are navigators, some are paddlers.

Tierra saw that nearly human-like creatures were preserved to perform less-than-effortless, but more ignominious tasks, such as cooking, fetching and carrying, and dealing with the earth and other People on the planet bargain. These creatures must be very convenient to move around on Earth, because as long as they are clothed, shoes and headscarves are carefully put on, they look just like humans, enough for them to bargain in human shops without feeling any embarrassment, or Is to make any strange explanation.

With the exception of the emaciated or disease-ridden slaves, most of them wore nothing and were crated and dragged away in hulking caravans pulled by incredible creatures. port.

Occasionally Tiera also saw other creatures unloaded and packed into boxes, some very much like these humanoids, some not so much, and some that didn't look alike at all—

Undoubtedly, these boxed creatures will be transported inland to be eaten and enjoyed by the cruel, terrifying moonbeast nobles, officers and priests—

Moon beasts are unimaginably cruel creatures, they only feed on living things, but before eating, they spend a lot of time beating and tormenting as a pastime, seeking from the suffering of other creatures Cruel joy, when they've had enough, they'll eat the "food"—

From the "food" body and soul draw a special substance they need.

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

The streets of the city are covered with red lanterns ~lightnovelpub.net~ and patrolled by slaves holding torches.

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

Some sort of team was stationed in the square—

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

When Tiera and the two moon beasts that escorted him approached the square—

One of the ten-moon beasts stationed in the square stopped them from moving on.

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

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

Then the high-ranking moon beast pointed to one of the passages guarded by humanoid slaves, and seemed to instruct them to enter there.