Chapter 318: Evil Pet Devours Its Master? The Ominous True Identity

Ron chased Scabbers for a while and caught him in his hand.

The three people chasing him stopped in a daze, looking at a big tree behind Ron.

"Whomping Willow." Aaron smiled reluctantly, "If I remember correctly, the mouse is his pet, right?

Bring him under the Whomping Willow, it's the rhythm of devouring the master!"

"Ron, run." Harry shouted hurriedly.

The Whomping Willow seemed to have noticed that someone had invaded the edge of its territory, and several branches danced slowly, ready to go.

Ron heard the sound and subconsciously raised his head, but before he realized his situation, he pointed at the three people with a panicked face, his fingers twitching constantly.

"Run, it's ominous."

The three turned around immediately, and saw a big black dog growling and staring at the three people with sharp eyes.

"Harry." Aaron said with some disdain, "Is this the Ominous you saw?"

"It's scary, isn't it!" Harry said nervously, "I've seen it several times."

Aaron curled his lips, drew out his wand and stood in front of the two men, "Leave Ominous to me, and Ron, the unlucky guy, will be left to you."

Before he finished speaking, the big black dog roared and rushed over.

Aaron waved his wand, and several earth walls rose from the ground, blocking the black dog's path.

But to his surprise, the black dog had no intention of attacking them. It quickly bypassed the first three walls, stepped on the fourth earth wall and leaped towards Ron.

It bit Ron's right leg and dragged him back.

"Harry." Ron made a miserable cry for help, but the big black dog was too strong, and his struggle was useless.

Harry chased after him quickly, but Aaron was faster and grabbed Ron's arm in time to prevent him from being dragged down.

"I saved you once." Aaron said, and then pointed his wand at the big black dog that was biting him tightly, "Petrify all."

Bang!

Harry bumped into Aaron, and the petrification spell missed.

"Watfa..."

Aaron opened his eyes wide in disbelief, never expecting Ron's best friend to stop him.

He was about to ask why, when he heard the whistling wind, and a long willow branch hit the place where he had stood before, leaving a shallow gully on the ground.

Aaron couldn't help but gasp when he saw this.

If this willow branch hit a person, the skin would be torn apart, and even he would probably hold the wound and cry out in pain.

The Whomping Willow seemed to be annoyed, and several thick branches tightened like fists. Countless willow branches creaked in the wind and whipped back and forth like whips.

Aaron immediately let go of Ron and narrowly avoided several thick branches that were whipped at him.

The big black dog suddenly exerted force and dragged Ron into the tree hole, and he only had time to let out a scream.

"Sorry, this is really not intentional." Aaron said awkwardly to Harry and Hermione who entered the attack range of the Whomping Willow. The situation just now was really a bit out of control.

He held the wand in one hand and grabbed Ron with the other hand to play tug-of-war with the big black dog. For the active Whomping Willow, he was a live target, and his mobility was almost negligible.

In fact, he could not let go, but then Ron would become a fixed target without any defense ability. If a few branches hit him, he would at least be disabled for life.

"Don't talk about this, we have to go in and save him quickly." Harry said while panting, jumping up and down, left and right repeatedly to avoid the attacking branches.

"We have to find someone to help." Hermione said anxiously. Her performance was even more embarrassed than Harry, and her arms were bleeding.

"No, there's no time. When we get back, Xiangxiang will have eaten him."

"But we can't get in by ourselves." Hermione wanted to cry but had no tears. As she spoke, a branch swept her legs and knocked her to the ground. Then the huge tree canopy hit her like a fist.

"Help, help..." Hermione cried on the ground, her heart full of despair.

If she was hit by this tree canopy that was bigger than her, she would be disabled if not dead, and she might have to lie in bed for the rest of her life.

Bang!

Several gray stone pillars rose from the ground, encircling Hermione inside and blocking the "fist" of the Whomping Willow.

Hermione opened her eyes nervously, and then looked at the gray stone pillars around her blankly.

"Don't be so loud, I can hear it." Aaron picked his ears and helped Hermione up.

"What about me?" Harry shouted anxiously.

"Wait a minute!"

Aaron took a deep breath and rushed out of the stone pillar circle quickly.

He dodged several branches and clenched his right fist. The red flame was particularly conspicuous in the night.

"The iron fist of the fire dragon."

Boom!

Aaron punched the center of the Whomping Willow, and the flame shock wave instantly covered almost half of the tree.

The Whomping Willow seemed to be in a sluggish state, motionless like an ordinary tree, but the green leaves on the tree fell off almost instantly.

"You... killed it?" Harry asked in surprise.

"Are you concerned about the wrong person?" Aaron said speechlessly, "If we don't deal with it, we will be miserable.

And I was still measured in my actions. I didn't kill it, I just knocked it unconscious. I don't want to pay the school money."

Gulp!

Harry and Hermione looked at each other and swallowed their saliva together.

This is the Whomping Willow. One punch will make it behave. No one will believe it if you tell others about it.

But after the shock, it is infinitely fortunate.

With such a teammate, a little ominous should not be a problem.

"We have to hurry."

Harry walked to the side of the tree trunk and slid into the tree hole, followed by Aaron and Hermione.

"Lumos." A ball of white light lit up at the tip of Aaron's wand, illuminating the dark tunnel, "This should be the secret passage in the Marauder's Map!

Harry, where does it lead to?"

"I don't know." Harry shook his head, "George and Fred haven't been in either. It leads to the edge of the Marauder's Map, which should be Hogsmeade Village."

"Where is the map? Let me see."

"Professor Lupin confiscated it."

Aaron:......

You are really good. You can confiscate such an important thing.

The three of them moved quickly along the secret passage. After walking for an unknown period of time, they finally saw a glimmer of light.

After passing through a trap door, the three of them carefully drilled out of the secret passage, not daring to make any sound.

The exit was a messy room with broken furniture, as if it had been swept by robbers.

Aaron wiped the dust off the stairs and frowned slightly, saying, "No one has been here for a long time."

"This is normal." Hermione looked at the windows sealed with wooden boards and swallowed hard, "This is the Shrieking Shack, a famous haunted house in Hogsmeade Village. Legend has it that it will make strange screams at night."

"Really? I don't think there are any ghosts here.

Even if there are, we are wizards, and it's not certain who will clean up who!"

"Shh!" Harry made a gesture to silence, and then pointed to the stairs, "Listen."

Ron's crying came from upstairs. The three looked at each other and walked up the stairs carefully.

There was an irregular mark in the thick dust, which was obviously caused by Ron being dragged by the black dog.

The three of them moved forward lightly along the mark and climbed onto the platform of the stairs.

Listening to the sobbing coming from inside, Aaron frowned slightly, "Wait, don't go in yet, something seems to be wrong."

The ominous thing is that the big black dog spent so much effort to catch Ron, but from the sound, it seems that it didn't do anything to him.

It didn't treat him as food, nor did it treat him as an enemy. It seemed that it treated him as an irrelevant thing and threw him there.

"I can't care so much." Harry kicked open the tattered door.

Aaron wanted to hold him back, but he didn't have time, and accidentally let Hermione get in with him.

Ron was sitting on a bed covered with curtains, holding his bleeding leg, looking extremely embarrassed, but surprisingly not in danger of life.

"Ron, I'm glad you're okay." Hermione breathed a sigh of relief.

"Where is the dog?"

"He is the big dog, he is an Animagus." Ron pointed to the opposite side bitterly, "Harry, this is a trap."

The two were stunned for a moment and followed Ron's gaze.

At the end of a row of plum blossom footprints stood a middle-aged man with messy hair, sunken eye sockets, and skin and bones. He looked like he had escaped from a prisoner-of-war camp. It was Sirius Black on the wanted poster.

"Disarm you." Sirius shouted, and used Ron's wand to cast a disarming spell, knocking down Harry and Hermione's wands, and then calmly closed the door.

He grinned, revealing his yellow and black teeth.

"I expected you to come to save your friends, and your father would do the same to me.

You are very brave and didn't run to find the teacher, so it's much easier."

Harry heard this and felt that it was a mockery of his father. His father had treated his friends like this, but was betrayed by his friends and lost his life.

He subconsciously wanted to rush out and fight, but was held tightly by Ron and Hermione.

"No, Harry, no." Hermione said almost beggingly.

"If you want to kill Harry, kill us too." Ron said firmly.

A touch of bitter relief flashed in Sirius's eyes, and he shook his head slowly and said, "No, only one person will die tonight.

In addition, you'd better lie down, otherwise your leg will be injured more seriously."

Crack!

The door suddenly opened, and Aaron quickly cast the disarming spell.

"Expelliarmus."

A flash of white light passed, and the wand in Sirius's hand was knocked off.

"Maybe you are right, only one person will die tonight." Aaron said calmly, and then walked to the three people, "I told you not to go in first, why don't you listen?

Fortunately, I am here, otherwise you guys will definitely be in danger."

"Sorry." Hermione lowered her head in embarrassment, not daring to look at Aaron.

Sirius was about to pick up the wand, and Aaron pointed his wand at him, "Don't move, although I haven't learned the killing curse, I am pretty good at the heart curse.

Believe me, you don't want to try it."