Archaeologists at Hogwarts

Chapter 10 Lesson Preparation
Although Toby returned to Hogwarts with the purpose of archaeology, as a formal professor, he also had to carefully prepare the teaching content.

Spellbreaker is a position in Gringotts, the wizarding bank.Cursebreakers are those who can break curses in tombs or other historical sites and bring treasures back to Gringotts.This is a rather dangerous and serious profession, where they may be killed by ancient jinxes, poisons or curses in the course of their work, but the rewards are correspondingly high.

Toby didn't like the title of Cursebreaker. He preferred to call himself an archaeologist. The articles he published in the magazine alone deserved this reputation, but he rarely did so later up.

Later, Toby had more academic exchanges with Dumbledore alone in the cover letter, which benefited him a lot.The principal doesn't like his research, but on the level of magic, the principal is always willing to bring him some novel ideas, and those ideas are very interesting and inspiring.

Toby wouldn't have insisted on writing cover letters for so many years if he didn't receive feedback.

Of course, he also played tricks in the letter. He would not mention his job application at the beginning, but pretended to mention it inadvertently in the last few lines.

Headmaster Dumbledore would always ignore those last few lines, until this year he changed his mind and promised Toby to return to Hogwarts.

Regarding lesson preparation, although Toby thinks he is the only archaeologist in the magic world, it is obviously not suitable for teaching. It is super-class content for students, and there are not so many ancient ruins waiting The students went to dig, and the dangers contained in the ruins alone were difficult to deal with.

Therefore, Toby intends to split the content of archaeologists into two parts, one of which is ancient magic, which is also the main content. inevitable encounter.

The other part is the adventures that Toby experienced personally. This part of the content is not recorded in detail in "Ancient Magic", but it is only mentioned occasionally, and some even directly grab some fragments, which seems endless.

But this is just enough to prevent those dark wizards with ulterior motives from finding the exact location of the ruins, God knows what they will find.Toby had seen some of its power with his own eyes, and an even smaller part was hoarded by him, in the vaults of Gringotts.

Once the crazy dark wizard gains something from it, it is definitely a consequence that Toby does not want to see.

As for the content to be taught in the official class, it is very simple. In fact, Toby has already prepared it, and it is written in his book "Ancient Magic". It is not difficult to extract the seven-year courses from it.

And Toby doesn't need to do it completely in the first year, because this is a brand new course. Whether it is for seventh graders or freshmen, he only needs to prepare similar courses. A slight change is required.

For example, the introductory course of ancient magic is also the simplest one - the magic circle. Freshmen need to successfully draw the magic circle of the floating spell, while the seventh grade students will learn more complicated things, such as the flying spell, transfiguration, and even the magic circle. Apparition, these are all prepared in advance.

"I don't know if the students will like the course."

Toby was uncommonly a little apprehensive, but when he thought that even Snape could become a Potions professor and head of Slytherin House, plus those weird black people Toby met when he was in school Professor of Defense Against Magic.

To be honest, Toby felt that no matter how bad he was, he was no worse than a hag, right?Not to mention the pale vampire, like the dominatrix, they looked at the students as if they were looking at food, and they never ate with teachers and students, so as not to disgust them.

Thinking about it carefully, professors for this course are really scarce.

I hope my new colleagues can persist for a long time. It should be possible, right?
That Quirrell is not simple at first glance.

If it wasn't because he was sharp enough, Toby might have been fooled by him.

Toby believed in his intuition. This talent had saved him many times during his exploration of ancient ruins, and it was one of his few divination talents.

And it was all due to his wand—twelve and a quarter inches long, with a core of a dragon's heart nerve, very powerful, and capable of magnificent magic.

The most important is Toby's wand wood - black walnut.

Black walnut is less common than walnut wands in general, and generally seeks out its owner with keen intuition and insight.It looks beautiful, but it is not easy to control.

Black walnut also has an obvious quirk, that is, it cannot properly coordinate internal contradictions, and its power will be greatly reduced if its owner deceives itself.

This requires Toby to be honest with himself and others, and he must have enough self-knowledge. Once he succeeds, the black walnut wand will become the most loyal and impressive of all wands, and it will be the most influential one in all wands. Each type of spell has a special talent.

Although this honesty is not always welcome (such as Snape), Toby still does a good job, which makes the black walnut wand work its due power, and saves danger on many occasions.

Toby is an honest Slytherin. He had a bursary fund when he was in school, which was not much, but Toby would rather use second-hand textbooks, wizard robes, or even a quill, and have his own wand.

He'd had enough of it, and now he'd chosen the office he'd set his sights on -- Dean Slughorn's.

This office is located on the seventh floor of the castle, with a wide view, and it is also very large, larger than the principal's office, and it is the largest office Toby has ever seen.

Professor Slughorn is a very enjoyable person. Toby heard that he left Hogwarts the same year Voldemort was defeated. He doesn't know why the dean chose to retire, but this office is still cheap for him up.

Toby didn't have the idea of ​​suffering. Just exploring the ancient ruins was hard enough, and he often couldn't eat a normal meal for many days.

So he really couldn't understand that Snape's office is actually in the basement, even the Potions classroom is there, it's cold and damp, and his hands and feet are freezing in winter, isn't he still in the Slytherin dungeon? Is it enough?
The dungeon is not as comfortable as the seventh floor. Toby leaned on the velvet sofa and put his legs on the footstool, feeling warm all over his body.

Al also enjoyed the blessing. He picked up a pile of multi-flavored beans in his left hand and another pile in his right hand, threw them one by one into the sky, and then caught them with his mouth, and then let out a scream.

"@#$^&%!$#!" It said something it couldn't understand, clutching its neck tightly with both hands.

But Toby understood it unexpectedly.

This is so hot that it probably tastes like Mexican peppers.

Toby snapped his fingers unhurriedly, and immediately a house elf popped out of the air.

"A glass of iced milk," Toby demanded.

The house elf bowed deeply, and when he came back, he was holding a glass of cold milk in his hand, and Al took a few sips quickly to reduce the spicy taste in his mouth little by little.Then it lay slippery on the coffee table and burped comfortably.

"*&%￥&@34%#!" Al started raving again.

"That's right." Toby agreed, "It's indeed much better than Egypt, and the weather isn't that hot. But don't just enjoy yourself, we still have serious things to do. This is Hogwarts, and everywhere It is an undiscovered treasure, I now have a few places of suspicion, and I need you to find an opportunity—”

The house-elf suddenly coughed hard.

Toby gave him a strange look: "Why haven't you left yet?"

"Sir." The house elf bowed again: "The headmaster asked you to hand over your lesson preparation notes to him."

After a pause, he added, "As soon as possible."

"Understood." Toby waved his hand impatiently, and after the house elf left, he muttered in a low voice: "I haven't seen him care so much about the professor's lesson preparation before, and the deliciousness of the blood can be regarded as an official content." ?”

He still remembered the reminiscing expression on that vampire professor's face.

He was hungry after watching it!

Toby reluctantly took the notebook on the oak coffee table, and the quill in the middle immediately stood up, eager to write.

It's just that the place where it is sandwiched is still the first page, and it's even blank.

The teaching content of each professor at Hogwarts is different.

Some operations are relatively strong, such as Transfiguration and Charms, which basically require the use of wands.

Some have more theoretical content, the most prominent is the history of magic course, all of which need to be memorized and recited.

There are also parts that depend on talent, such as divination classes.

There are also comprehensive courses, and the potion class is a comprehensive class. It not only involves operations, but also needs to remember the uses and processing methods of various raw materials.

Ancient magic is also a comprehensive class, and Toby has made up his mind that the teaching content of each school year will be completely different.

Instead, it was a bit like the Defense Against the Dark Arts class he had in school, with a different professor every year and a completely different teaching style.

But there is still a difficult problem to solve, and that is the teaching materials.

Toby spent a lot of effort on the book "Ancient Magic", in addition to some magical knowledge, there are also many of his exploration experiences.

It's just that Toby has always remembered Principal Dumbledore's exhortation, so the content of "Ancient Magic" is incomplete, which also leads to a poor reading experience of this book and low sales.

If Toby hadn't accidentally saved the life of a publishing house owner, his book wouldn't even have been published.

More ideas only exist in Toby's heart and in the letters exchanged with Principal Dumbledore.

"But now?"

Toby muttered for a while.

Now that Dumbledore has let him return to Hogwarts, it doesn't seem like a big deal to let him teach some super-class content, right?

Al glanced sideways at the quill pen he was writing, and the excited eyes behind the long disheveled hair. It yawned lazily, and didn't want to care about anything, just wanted to sleep well.

An hour later, Toby's lesson preparation notes were handed over to Dumbledore's desk.

Dumbledore flipped through it roughly, and before he could put the notes back on the table, he was grabbed by the other hand unceremoniously.

Snape read for a while, frowning, and the longer he read, the deeper the frown became.

"You really want him to teach these things in the classroom?"

He asked with a gloomy face: "He will be targeted, and your connivance will kill him!"

Dumbledore looked at him seriously: "I really didn't know you would care about Toby, Severus, I thought the relationship between you was not good."

"I wish he could die!" Snape said through gritted teeth, "You shouldn't have let him back! What good would it do you?!"

"More than benefits."

Dumbledore shook his head and said, he met Snape's angry gaze frankly.

"You and I both know that Toby is not a hypocrite. He is too sincere, too sincere to lie. Unless I drive him away, I can't decide what he wants to teach in class."

"I believe Toby himself is aware of this point. Promoting hypocritical ideas is simply more uncomfortable than killing him."

"He won't compromise, otherwise he wouldn't have been unwilling to return to Hogwarts, or even England for so many years."

"Then why did you let him back?" Snape stared at Dumbledore.

Dumbledore sighed heavily, his eyes full of sadness.

"The reason could not be simpler," he said.

"The war not only traumatized you, but I also feel sorry for it. Many people are preaching that we have won, but I know very well that one day, Voldemort will return, holding an even stronger force."

"In my opinion, the past war was just a lost war. We need to prepare in advance to reduce more sacrifices. That's why I let Toby come back. He trusted me and deserved the same trust from me. Just like you, Severus. I know you resent him, but you also trust Toby."

Snape completely ignored the last words of the waiter: "I remember you said that you were waiting for Toby himself to give you a satisfactory answer. Have you waited for it now?"

"Yes. Yes, Severus, I did say that. I didn't see it until Toby showed up. He hasn't changed in all these years."

"I think this is enough to satisfy me. At least it didn't deepen the gap between teachers and students. I'm glad for that."

"Go ahead, Severus."

Dumbledore said at last, looking out the window, Snape looked down for a moment, but he could only look together.

Just outside the gate of Hogwarts, there was an uneasy figure standing, even from a distance, it could be seen that this was a cowardly person.

"Time to welcome our Defense Against the Dark Arts professor."

Dumbledore said.

(End of this chapter)