Silan stopped being coy. "I'll be coming to the Forbidden Forest with that dark wizard. You tell your people to hide first, and then you'll cooperate with me."
Clop nodded.
"I'll pretend I don't know you then. Once I get him out of the way, we'll head straight for Norbert." Silan turned to Norbert. "I'll have Norbert prepare in advance to meet us."
"The three of us together against him?" Clop asked.
"That's right."
Silan placed Norbert in the Forbidden Forest as a precaution for his own safety.
Compared to other species of Dragon, the Norwegian Ridgeback has a natural advantage: it can master the ability to breathe fire much earlier.
In addition, the Dragon has very high magic resistance, making it a very suitable counter-strategy for Yin Quirrell.
Norbert has been hatched for almost a month now.
Because of Silan's proper training and Hagrid's excellent feeding, its size has increased several times over, and it is now only slightly smaller Hagrid's house. Moreover, it is incredibly strong, and can even fly nimbly while carrying Hagrid.
With a few days of intensive training, Norbert will soon be able to master the Dragonfire.
Even if they can't beat Quirrell in a head-on confrontation, they should be able to protect themselves.
"Why can't we just tell Dumbledore directly?" Clop asked curiously. "Wouldn't it be simpler to just let Headmaster Dumbledore deal with this dark wizard?"
Silan shook her head. "It's not that simple."
"I'm just a first-year student. Even if I told Dumbledore, he might not believe me. Most importantly, I can't explain why I know about dark wizards."
This is like a first-grade student telling the principal that he knows there's a strange teacher at the school who's planning to kill someone.
It's hard to explain clearly.
And it could very likely cause unnecessary trouble.
However, in this matter, Silan did not tell the whole story.
Besides being difficult to explain, Silan had other motives, such as getting in touch with Dumbledore.
He planned to go straight to Dumbledore after escaping from Quirrell, pretend to be a victim, and tell him that Quirrell had persecuted him.
This was to show that although he was Slytherin, he had been persecuted by the Death Eaters.
As a descendant of the Prewett family and sharing the same stance as his father, Dumbledore should at least offer him some preferential treatment.
This also laid the groundwork for his later encounter with the Philosopher's Stone.
I've shed blood and sweat for Hogwarts, so it's not unreasonable for me to ask to take a look at the Philosopher's Stone, is it?
Although he didn't quite understand, Clop felt that Silan's words made a lot of sense, so he readily agreed.
"I understand, I will cooperate with you."
Clop paused, a hint of worry in his voice, "But isn't this a bit too risky for you?"
Silan waved his hand, looking righteous and fearless, as if he were ready to die.
"For a friend like you, I'd be willing to take any risks!"
Clop's eyes widened.
What a noble spirit!
What genuine emotions!
Silan was actually willing to risk his life to drive out the black wizard for our sake.
That's so touching!
Clop believed that Silan was absolutely the noblest, most upright, kindest, bravest, most righteous, purest, and most honest wizard in the Wizarding World, and the one who would never lie to Unicorn.
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Clop's face was full of emotion.
Silan remained silent, simply absorbing the experience.
Over the next few days, Silan and Clop discussed the details of the operation and rehearsed it several times to ensure everything went smoothly.
During this time, Norbert also successfully mastered the fire-breathing skill, which greatly increased Silan's sense of security.
Dragonfire is not comparable to ordinary flames.
This is a powerful innate skill of the Dragon. Although it is not as Fiendfyre, it is extremely difficult to extinguish once it touches the skin.
Imagine a Dragon suddenly leaping out in the dead of night and then blasting you with a mouthful of Dragonfire —it's thrilling just thinking about it.
Even more cunningly, Norbert's all-black body provides natural camouflage, giving him a huge advantage in night battles.
In addition, Norbert's size has grown considerably.
To make it easier to call out to Norbert, Silan even made a dragon whistle from Norbert's shed horns.
These are tools commonly used by dragon trainers, as recorded in the book.
Once the Dragon is familiar with the whistle, it can follow commands and perform certain specific actions.
But for Silan, the Dragon Whistle's greatest use is that it allows him to summon Norbert from a distance.
After all, dragon whistles travel farther than human voices.
Moreover, this special sound is extremely penetrating to Dragon, allowing them to detect it even from a great distance.
After all that preparation, Silan felt much more at ease.
The last class of the day was Quirrell's Defense Against the Dark Arts.
Quirrell has been acting very strange lately.
Perhaps they still hadn't caught the Unicorn, or perhaps the Dark Lord was becoming increasingly irritable.
In short, he's been suffering a lot lately.
"Defence Against the Dark Arts... is... is a discipline that studies defense against Dark Magic..."
Although Quirrell continued to read from his book during the lesson, Silan clearly noticed that he was staring at her.
"It seems Quirrell can't wait any longer," Silan thought to herself.
During this time, Quirrell had approached him several times, subtly hinting that he wanted to take him to the Forbidden Forest to find Unicorn.
But Silan managed to drag them all away.
"Get out of class is over, students."
"Mr. Prewett, come with me."
When class ended, Quirrell walked up to Silan ahead of him, placed his hand on his shoulder, and glanced down at him sideways.