Archaeologists at Hogwarts

Chapter 234 Lupine and Divination

"The situation at that time was really dangerous. Scrimgeour almost couldn't help but want to attack me, but he gave up the plan somehow—probably because Al scared him, and Al was always watching me. Scrimgeour, waving the quill so fast in his hand, could easily be regarded as some kind of dangerous ritual—"

"Wait a minute, you're not referring to the way Al is now, are you? It's also staring at me and writing something. You're sure there's no risk in this, right?"

"Of course, we are good friends, Remus, how could I harm you."

"I hope you think so too—but it suddenly occurred to me that I still had some things to do, and I'm afraid I have to leave for a while."

"Don't be in a hurry, I haven't finished telling you—and then Scrimgeour agreed."

"It's not surprising, is it? If the festival is scheduled for the weekend, the students will go to Hogsmeade village. Fudge shouldn't want to stop everyone. That's too obvious."

"Yeah, not surprising, but what—a celebration, Remus."

"what?"

"Hold a celebration, or what do you think I asked you to come here for?"

"I?"

Lupine's eyes widened in surprise.

"Yeah." Toby nodded: "It's you, otherwise who else could I turn to? Others are not easy to handle, and many professors have also been my teachers. As for Severus-well, he still Forget it, I don't want anyone to be poisoned to death at the ceremony."

"But—" Lupine said puzzledly: "I have a very doubtful question now, have you told the headmaster about Scrimgeour?"

Toby looked at Lupine dissatisfied and said, "Who do you think I am, how could I hide it from the principal——Okay."

Under Lupine's see-through gaze, Toby admitted helplessly, "I didn't notify the principal."

The look on Lupine's face was no surprise.

But then, just a few seconds later, he shouted excitedly: "I understand! You want me to pretend to be Dumbledore? You didn't even think about having the principal attend?!"

This is easy to understand - Toby has agreed to Scrimgeour's conditions, but on the other hand, he has not informed one of the parties involved - Albus Dumbledore.

At that time, who else can be present in place of the principal?

The talkative Lupine, of course!

No wonder Toby didn't want to ask Snape for help, the whole thing was absurd enough, Snape certainly wouldn't want to get into this trouble.

"Calm down." Toby persuaded: "I can explain it clearly-you think about it carefully, has nothing happened to Grindelwald in Nurmengard yet?"

"Which one do you mean?" Lupine asked.

"Extra sentence or something, or voluntary escape, no matter what." Toby said: "But Grindelwald did nothing, do you still think this is a very normal behavior? He has succeeded Having contacted Fudge once, do you think that will be the first Minister for Magic he has contacted?"

Lupine's face immediately became much more serious.

This is indeed questionable.

Toby seized this opportunity and continued to bewitch: "Don't you want to share your worries with the headmaster? Think about it, Remus. I still remember that when we were in school, the headmaster called me and Severus into the office specifically to let We keep your identity confidential."

Lupine looked touched - he had always been grateful to Dumbledore for all his help.Otherwise, a little werewolf would not be able to study at Hogwarts.

"But it's still too risky." Lupine frowned. "I know you're guessing that Grindelwald has plans to make trouble at the celebration—but, I'm not worried about my own danger, but how do you think I Can you pretend to be Dumbledore perfectly?"

"Compound Potion." Toby said bluntly: "When the time comes, you can drink the Potion Potion, and then talk less, smile and nod more, no one will see you through - because I will follow along Go, I'll cover it for you."

Lupine asked a new question: "Polyjuice Potion? Are you going to ask Snape for help?"

"Of course it is."

After finishing Lupin, Toby said easily: "Who else can you find if you don't find him? Come with me."

Lupine glanced back at Al, who was writing furiously, and it still didn't stop waving the quill.

This was really strange, and Lupine knew very well that Al wasn't usually like this.

When the two came to the corridor, Lupine greeted the passing students one after another. He was particularly good at the Defense Against the Dark Arts course. He was one of the few serious professors in many years, and every class was very interesting.

But today those students seemed to have seen a ghost, and they didn't dare to look at Lupine. No matter where Toby looked, they all bowed their heads and walked quickly, for fear of being called by the other party's name and locked up by the way. confinement or something.

Except for Cedric Diggory, who had come forward of his own accord.

"Professor." Cedric greeted him a little cautiously. Recently, the publicity of Minister of Magic Draco Malfoy brought him a lot of sense of crisis, which made Cedric once again doubt whether the professor really The assistant who forgot himself the assistant.

Auto-casting wand.

Cedric's self-casting wand has never been able to successfully engrave the second magic circle. It seems to be fixed like this, and there is no progress at all.

"Mr. Diggory." Toby took a few steps forward and then backed away, looking Cedric up and down.

"You come with me too," Toby said suddenly.

Cedric was a little excited. It turned out that the professor hadn't forgotten himself.He couldn't wait to ask the question that he had never had the chance to ask——

"Professor, self-casting wands—"

"Success?"

"Not yet, the second magic circle—"

"Successful too?"

"No, professor, neither of these two goals has been achieved, and I can't figure it out."

"Then don't think about it, Mr. Diggory." Toby said casually: "This is an unsolvable problem. I have already tried it. A second complete magic circle can never be engraved on a wand. , a very strange phenomenon, very rare. If you have to compare it, it’s like a Patronus. Summoning a Patronus can only be done with a common emotion among wizards—happiness. You can think of a wand as a Patronus, It has long been occupied in advance and cannot accommodate other types of magic."

Cedric listened dazedly, dimly aware of one thing—that he would never be able to make an autocasting wand.

Knowing how to disarm spells alone is far from enough.

"What are you talking about?" Lupine asked curiously.

After learning about Cedric's ambitions, Lupine pondered for a while and said, "It's really wonderful magic. I've never seen this type of magic."

"Of course!" Toby said proudly, "I don't even look at who excavated these histories, that's—"

"Yeah! Yayah!"

Al didn't know when he also caught up. It sat on the small flying carpet and rushed to Toby's side, muttering something in a low voice.

Lupine looked at them and sighed, "No matter how many times you watch it, it can't make this scene less novel. Seriously, Toby, can you really understand what Al is saying?"

"Of course." Toby frowned at Lupine, then at Cedric.

He was silent for a while, then suddenly said: "The result of the divination is not good."

Divination?

Cedric was still dazed, but Lupine immediately thought of Al's gesture of swishing the quill just now—it turned out that it was a divination ceremony, and it was still divination by Al.

Lupine was so surprised that he couldn't speak. After more than ten seconds, he hurriedly asked: "What did you divination?"

"A lot of things," said Toby, frowning. "There's Scrimgeour, and maybe Fudge in a while, and the development of The Quibbler, which is very complicated and confusing—oh, yes, and you."

"With me?" Lupine's eyes became a little strange, just now Al - what kind of ceremony is this?
"Yes, with you." Toby whispered, "I don't want to go through the process of going to school again."

Lupine put on a helpless expression. After turning into a werewolf, he could not control himself at all, and would even desperately want to kill people close to him.That is to say, the better the relationship with him is, the more likely it is to be attacked by Lupine the werewolf.

"Then what should we do?" Lupine asked. "Is the celebration included in the prophecy?"

Cedric finally couldn't help but asked curiously: "Celebration? Professor, will Hogwarts hold a celebration?"

"No." Toby waved his hand and said, "The exact location is Hogsmeade Village, and the news will not be announced until some time later."

"I see, Professor." Cedric said that he would definitely keep his mouth shut.

"It's good that you understand." Toby said with satisfaction: "I've worked hard for you these few days, and it's best to inform every student. For some reason, it's not easy for the college magazine to announce this news. You're done."

This was totally different from what Cedric had imagined—how could there be anyone who voluntarily revealed the secret?
On the contrary, Lupine guessed the general reason. He frowned slightly. Toby obviously didn't intend to go to Dumbledore himself, but informed him in this disguised way.

But think about it, Dumbledore probably wouldn't allow Toby to take other people's risks, let alone become Dumbledore's double, it is very likely that he will face Grindelwald in person, not everyone can handle it Gotta get this thing.

"We have arrived."

After turning left and right for a while, Toby took the two of them and Al completely deviated from the original direction, instead of going to the basement floor, he walked to the west tower and stopped at a circular living room. In front of the board door, a circular trapdoor.

Cedric didn't need to read the words on the sign to know where it was - the classroom of divination class.

Lupine realized this too, and asked, "Are we here for Professor Trelawney?"

"The principal told me that Professor Trelawney's ability is very special." Toby said and looked up at the ceiling. At the same time, the door slowly opened.

Toby smiled and said, "Look, she already knows we're coming—huh?"

The reality was somewhat different from Toby's imagination. Trelawney obviously didn't foresee the arrival of these people in advance. She was carrying a large bag of bottles, bumping back and forth, making clanking noises.

The sharp-eyed Al immediately saw that those were wine bottles, and he always wanted to taste the spirits, but Toby refused to agree.

Trelawney saw the people downstairs almost as soon as she opened the door. She was so frightened that she whimpered, and the bag in her hand seemed to smash the heads of those people below—fortunately, three People moved at the same time, even Cedric was no exception. He didn't chant a spell, he just waved his wand casually, not even a formal gesture of casting a spell, and then the wine bottle immediately flew upside down and hit the ground. The wall turned into debris.

"It seems that we came at the wrong time." Lupine reminded kindly.

Trelawney burped, as though she had just had a drink.

"No, there's no need." She said slowly, "Come on, all come up. I knew that there would be an unexpected guest today, so I deliberately waited in the room for a long time, but I still didn't escape the prying eyes of the Celestial Eye. "

The Celestial Eye is a term in divination that refers to the mind of a prophet.

Cedric didn't know whether the two people in front of him were familiar with Trelawney, but many people felt disapproving of the inexplicable divination—of course, this did not include the really talented prophets.

But the problem is that there are very few such wizards.

As for whether Professor Trelawney is such a wizard, there is still a lot of room for doubt.

"Follow me." Toby said first, he wanted to see with his own eyes the abilities of the wizard that Dumbledore had praised in disguise.

Toby didn't know Trelawney, who didn't show up at Hogwarts until after he graduated.When Toby was in school, there were divination classes, but he rarely studied them seriously. At that time, he hadn't discovered that he had the so-called talent for divination. It wasn't until later that he learned more about ritual magic that Toby really started. access to this field.

The room is very stuffy, and the smell of Xun Xiang is so strong that it takes time for people to get used to it.

"You have something on your mind, boy."

Trelawney stared suddenly at Cedric and said that neither Toby nor Lupine would have thought it was their own.

"I—" Cedric, who followed up together, was stunned. He did have a lot of things on his mind, but he didn't know which one Trelawney was talking about.

"Wait patiently." Trelawney said in a deep voice, "You must not act in advance, or you will be looked down upon by the other party."

Why does it sound like emotional counseling?

Lupine tried his best to look at Toby with calm eyes, but Toby didn't intend to waste any more time. He asked directly, "Professor Trelawney, do you need a crystal ball? Or a card?"

Trelawney looked at Toby all of a sudden, his eyes three times the size of ordinary people.

"What you expect will happen." She said: "But don't care about the process, there will be good results."

Lupine had been thinking about this all the way back to find Snape.

"What exactly does she mean? Is the celebration really dangerous?" He looked at Toby and asked.

Toby opened his mouth with a complicated expression, and he suddenly said, "Tell me, is there a possibility that Principal Dumbledore actually has Alzheimer's disease, but he just kept it from all of us."

"What are you talking about?" Lupine asked in surprise.

Toby said in a strange tone: "Otherwise, how could the principal feel that Trelawney is talented, and can even be compared with Grindelwald."

"It seems that he is really old and confused."

(End of this chapter)