Fang led Lynn charging wildly through the Forbidden Forest.
Following Hagrid's scent, he kept going deeper into the Forbidden Forest until two Centaurs stopped them.
"Stop, human cub and dog. Our tribe lies ahead. You may not enter without permission!"
Lynn grabbed Fang, who had been about to charge forward, and invoked Hagrid to establish some connection with them.
"I'm here looking for Hagrid. Have you seen him?"
The two Centaurs exchanged a glance and shook their heads.
"No. Hagrid has not come here."
Lynn pointed at Fang. "You should recognize this dog Hagrid raised, right? He tracked Hagrid's scent here."
"We have been searching the Forbidden Forest for missing members of our tribe recently. No outsiders are allowed into the tribe, including Hagrid, so he could not have come here."
The moment Lynn heard the Centaur's words, his eyes lit up. He narrowed them as a wicked scheme began brewing in his mind.
"So you're the ones Hagrid was talking about!" he said in sudden realization.
The Centaur guards were confused. "What do you mean, us?"
Lynn began his performance. "Hagrid entered the Forbidden Forest earlier, saying he was going to help some Centaur search for his companion. When he found something, he hurriedly sent Fang back to find me and asked me to locate the Centaur's kin and pass the news on to them. So you're the Centaur kin he was talking about."
One of the Centaur guards looked at him suspiciously.
"Then why didn't you say so earlier?"
"How was I supposed to know you were Centaurs?" Lynn played dumb. "I'd never seen you before. I thought Centaurs were people with horse heads."
Lynn's words were somewhat irritating, but he was only a "cub," so the Centaur guards could not be bothered to argue with him.
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