Hogwarts: What bad intentions could a little Hufflepuff have?

A breeze stirred through the woods.

The bloodstained leaves drifted with the wind.

Little by little, they floated into the depths of the forest...

Before long, while Black was still happily practicing Transfiguration, a strange sound suddenly came from deep within the woods.

It was like...

the roar of some kind of predator!

Black immediately stopped warily.

He frowned and looked into the depths of the forest.

It was somewhat dark there.

Black could not see very clearly.

But he still keenly sensed that something over there was staring at him!

Black felt a faint, almost imperceptible aura of danger...

"Thump! Thump! Thump!"

Suddenly!

The sound of something heavy striking the ground came from far away, drawing closer!

It seemed as if something was pouncing toward him!

But Black, who had been on guard, was astonished to discover

that there was absolutely nothing in front of him!

Just as Black was stunned, he abruptly saw footprints appearing out of thin air on the ground!

This was...

This thing was invisible!

Black cried out.

His body lunged to the side.

Boom!

The sound of something heavy landing came from behind Black.

If he had not dodged just now, then he would definitely have been pinned beneath that thing.

Even if he did not die, he would have been gravely injured!

Black quickly scrambled to his feet.

He stared fixedly at the deep pit in the ground!

At that moment, it was as if a transparent curtain in the air was slowly being lifted.

A monster appeared out of thin air before him!

It was a strange creature with silvery-white fur.

It looked a little like a skinny bear.

But it was very tall.

And it walked upright like an ape.

It looked at Black with a greedy gaze.

As if it had just seen a plump roasted chicken...

The monster only revealed itself for an instant.

Then it vanished from Black's sight again!

This thing had turned invisible again!

At that moment, Black realized

he had been attacked by a magical creature!

Black thought of the bloodstained leaves he had casually thrown away.

He immediately understood why this monster had come...

"Thump! Thump! Thump!"

Heavy footsteps rang out again!

Clearly.

That thing had pounced over again!

But...

Black didn't panic!

He stretched out both hands.

The magic he had prepared long ago surged out!

The next second.

The trees on both sides bent sharply at the waist!

Countless branches quickly turned into vines.

Then, at incredible speed, they wove themselves into a net in front of Black!

Swish!

Sure enough, that thing charged straight into the net!

An angry roar came from within the net of vines!

At the same time.

That huge net made a sound that left Black uneasy.

Snap! Snap! Snap!

That was the sound of vines breaking!

The net formed from vines.

Couldn't fully and completely trap this monstrously strong creature at all.

However...

It was more than enough to slow it down!

As long as there were enough vines to form a large net.

It could buy Black more precious time to escape!

It wasn't that Black wanted to run away.

It was because Black was still too young right now.

Although his technique was already more than sufficient.

The magic in his body still wasn't enough for him to defeat a magical creature of this size.

If only I had a bit more magic...

Black thought helplessly.

But the movements of his hands didn't pause in the slightest!

The surrounding trees began shaking violently!

Countless branches turned into vines one after another.

Then quickly climbed down.

Twining toward the thing that was wrapped up.

The thing that was struggling madly!

At the same time.

Black felt his body rapidly growing weak!

Magic was generally tied to a wizard's physical strength.

The changes Black felt in his body.

Were precisely the signs of his magic being massively consumed!

Black didn't dare delay.

When he saw that countless vines had already wrapped the monster up like a rice dumpling.

He immediately turned and ran without hesitation.

But at the edge of the woods, he ran into someone unexpected.

Hermione was staring, dumbfounded, at the thing not far away that was completely wrapped in vines.

The "rice dumpling" that was still struggling and roaring...

"What happened..."

Hermione hadn't even finished asking.

When she saw Black run past right in front of her.

"Run if you don't want to die!"

"There's a huge tiger over there!"

Black shouted as he ran.

Hermione froze for a moment.

"A tiger? How could there possibly be a tiger in a place like this?"

But seeing Black looking as if his backside were on fire, it really didn't seem like he was lying...

So, before she knew it, she started running after Black too!

"What on earth is going on?"

It had all happened so suddenly

that Hermione hadn't gotten a clear look at whether the thing bound beneath that mass of vines was a tiger or something else.

But that furious roar really didn't sound like any ordinary beast...

Even if it wasn't a tiger, it was still a savage predator!

So Hermione wasn't running slowly at all.

There were just a lot of questions in her mind.

Leaving aside what that thing was for now, why had Black been in the little woods?

And what was going on with those vines?

Even if there really was a "tiger."