Chapter 257 Buckbeak's Iron Mouth
Chapter 257 Buckbeak's Iron Mouth
The moment the quarrel was heard in the house, Sainz knew it was time to act. As Old Dumbledore was speaking, he had already floated out of the Forbidden Forest.
While Old Deng was attracting everyone's attention, he came to Buckbeak in stealth. Buckbeak, who didn't know he was wandering at the gate of Hades, was still leisurely combing his feathers.
In order to prevent others from discovering the flaw, he did not cut the chain or use magic, but manually untied the chain.
Buckbeak watched in bewilderment as the chain was untied, not knowing what it meant, but he stood up from the ground because the chain was pulling him tight.
Sainz often feeds it. He only needs to reveal a little bit of his breath, and it will immediately look around excitedly, knowing that there is an invisible familiar person in front of it.
Then Sainz pulled the collar around its neck and quickly moved towards the forbidden forest.
Buckbeak seemed to understand what his invisible friend meant and his speed increased until he was running so fast that his chain left a long trail on the ground.
After entering the forbidden forest, Sainz did not let it stop, but continued to run forward for a long distance and then took off directly. He only put it away after it flew up.
He looked back and saw that the traces left at the scene proved that Buckbeak had escaped.
It did not fall to the ground at all, and there was no trace. There were only traces of the hippogriff running towards the forbidden forest, and the iron chain was dragged on the ground, proving that there was no one pulling it and it moved on its own.
Sai didn't have the habit of returning to the scene to check whether there were any traces of his actions like some people did. After putting away Buckbeak, he turned invisible and left in another direction.
As for how angry the executioner of the Ministry of Magic would be, whether he would hack away at random to cover up his incompetence, or whether Malfoy would accept this result, how Fudge would try to smooth things over, how Hagrid would be happy, and so on, he had no interest in knowing.
From now on, Buckbeak is the first large animal in Sainz's zoo.
After arriving at the Room of Requirement, Sainz released it, removed the chain used as a leash, and changed the shape and color of the collar around its neck. After a period of time, even if it was released again, no one could say that it was the former fugitive.
After all, magical creatures are not human-like creatures, and they all look the same to humans. As long as Sainz insists that his name is not Buckbeak, there is nothing others can do.
"Your iron-gray mouth is like a steel guillotine, so I decided to call you Iron Mouth." Sainz led it to the exclusive area.
"Golden Bell~"
"gentlemen!"
"Bring ten pounds of beef to Tiezui."
"Yes, sir."
After Jinling brought the beef, Sainz asked him to come closer, "Jinling, you come and feed the beef to it... Tiezui, he is Jinling, and he will be responsible for your diet from now on, so don't be mean to him."
Jin Ling approached with the beef tremblingly, and Tie Zui stared at him intently, "Don't be nervous, Jin Ling, I'm watching you, you can bow to him... Yes, that's it..."
Tiezui looked down at the little creature in front of him and the fresh beef in his hand. His bright yellow eyes blinked, and he also bent his knees slightly and bowed his head. "Okay, Jinling, Tiezui has recognized you. You can feed it the beef."
Jin Ling followed instructions and fed the beef in her hand to the big guy opposite. The guy opened his iron mouth to catch it and swallowed it in two or three bites.
Sainz patted its neck gently and said, "Go and play."
Tiezui had been chained for eight or nine months, so you can imagine how happy he was after being released. He ran around the field at will, but running for a while was not enough, so he flapped his wings and flew up, flying freely along the border of the Room of Requirement.
"Golden Bell~"
"Sir, at your service."
"Perhaps you have heard something about it. It was not originally called Iron Mouth."
"Yes sir, all house elves know it. Its name is Buckbeak and it was imprisoned by the Ministry of Magic for hurting students."
"Yes, it has been sentenced to death, and the executioner from the Ministry of Magic has just arrived."
Jinling covered her mouth in horror, "Oh...Merlin...it was the master who saved it...the master is such a kind wizard!"
"So, Jinling, don't spread this matter and don't mention it to anyone."
"Jin Ling knows that if other people knew about this, it would bring trouble to the master. Jin Ling would never tell anyone about it even if she died. Jin Ling would not allow such a thing to happen."
“I have no doubt about your loyalty, Jinling.
Oh, and one more thing. From now on, its name will be Ironbeak. When you feed it, emphasize this several times so that it will remember this. There will be no more Buckbeak in the future."
"Yes, sir!"
The next day, when Sainz was preparing for class with Hager, he said mysteriously, "Saienz, I have good news."
Sainz joked in his heart that if he said he didn't want to know at this time, Hagrid might get internal injuries from holding it in.
Fortunately, he didn't have such a bad taste, and chose to be a qualified listener: "Then I have to listen."
Hagrid chuckled at first, then pretended to be sad and said, "Buckbeak was sentenced to death yesterday."
Sainz expressed his grief at the right time, "I know, you told me yesterday, forgive me, Hagrid, forgive me for not coming to accompany you, I really can't bear to see that cruel scene."
"I understand you, Sainz, I understand," Hagrid patted his shoulder sympathetically, and then said sneakily: "But you don't have to be sad, Buckbeak ran away!"
He spread his hands triumphantly, flapping his arms up and down like wings, as if he had seen it with his own eyes. "It escaped right under the noses of the Ministry of Magic. That fellow called McNeill got angry and chopped down the stump where Buckbeak was tied, but I was kind enough not to make a fuss about it."
"Who is he, the McNeil you're talking about?" Sainz pretended not to understand the situation.
"Him!" Hagrid snorted, "He's the executioner of the Committee for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures. What a hateful executioner!"
"Was he the only one who came yesterday?"
"And Fudge and Malfoy... hehe... you didn't see Malfoy's distorted face... Buckbeak escaped... he almost lost his mind, and he wrongly accused Dumbledore and me without any basis, insisting that we let it go!
If Fudge hadn't said something fair, I would have been tempted to punch him hard in the face for being so pretentious!"
"So Fudge is pretty good?"
Hagrid said disdainfully, "Great? Without Dumbledore's support, he would never have been able to keep that chair!"
He obviously knows this himself!"
Hey, I don't know if Hagrid is wise but foolish or if everyone else said this and he heard it.
Since even Hagrid knew that Fudge had to see Dumbledore's face, one can imagine Fudge's dissatisfaction with the old man beneath the smile he tried hard to maintain.
It is hard to say whether Fudge did not take the opportunity to test the mastermind behind the Buckbeak incident.
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