Archaeologists at Hogwarts

Chapter 240

Al was kicked out of the Hog's Head by Aberforth.

Aberforth clearly recognized that it was Toby's pet. In the first year Toby returned to Hogwarts, he and Al traded with a mysterious guest in the Pig's Head Bar, which was all caught by Aberforth. Buforth saw it.

Al was screaming in anger, and the students who came to the village on the weekend looked at this scene curiously—this is really strange, Mr. Al is here, but Professor Haimer has gone somewhere.

As soon as she left the Pig's Head Bar, Luna was dragged back under the invisibility cloak by Ginny again, she said regretfully: "It's a pity, I can't see Mr. Al when he is drunk, it must be very interesting .”

"Yeah, it will be very interesting." Ginny muttered, "It will be even more interesting if you don't hold Mr. Al back. What if the news of it sneaking out of the school reaches Professor Highmore—— "

At this moment, a curious voice interrupted Ginny's thoughts.

"Huh?" Ron, who was holding a big bag of candy, just came out of Honeydukes, his eyes widened in shock: "Mr. Al? Why are you here?"

Ayrton suddenly became more angry - what's wrong?Sniff can't eat sugar?Which law stipulates it?

Ron couldn't understand why Mr. Al suddenly yelled at him, and he didn't have demon-proof glasses, so he had to drag Harry over to disperse the fire—by the way, Hermione was also there, and since the time-turner was taken away, she had More time to enjoy campus life - which made Harry and Ron, who didn't know the truth, thankful, they just felt that Hermione in this state was much more approachable.

Seeing that Mr. Al was also yelling at him, Harry quickly asked, "Where's the Invisibility Cloak, sir? Why aren't you wearing the Invisibility Cloak?"

"Oh?" Hermione suddenly became interested: "And the invisibility cloak? Mr. Al also needs it. Does the invisibility cloak exist?"

Her eyes became a little suspicious - Hermione thought the same as Harry at the beginning - where does Mr. Al need to use the invisibility cloak to go?It is a professor's assistant in the school. It has almost the same power as a professor, and it doesn't need to do things secretly.

Ginny under the cloak is about to freak out - what to do?She is only in the second grade now, and she is not old enough to be allowed to come to Hogsmeade village on weekends. What if her parents find out?
Al was stunned for a moment, and it suddenly shook its body, with a serious expression on its face, but it looked a little dissatisfied when it stared at Harry.

Then it turned around and flew away on the small flying carpet without looking back.

It was a Niffler, and it wasn't supposed to talk to wizards, it was normal.

But only Al thinks this way, and even Ron opened his mouth in surprise: "Mr. Al is guilty? Am I right?"

"Of course not." Hermione said, biting her fingernails, "but why did it happen?"

It wasn't just Hermione who couldn't figure it out, even Toby couldn't figure out how he came across it.

Just when Al was about to leave to try his luck at Mrs. Puddiffe's teahouse, he suddenly bumped into Toby who had just come out of Zuko's joke shop—God knows why he came here from the Three Broomsticks?Could it be that the black devil is tired of confinement and wants to take more severe punishment?

These are all the voices of the students who saw this scene.

But the fact is completely different from what they thought - after saying goodbye to Fudge and the others, Lupine and Snape also left. It's hard to say whether their arrival helped Toby much, but at least they don't He was alone, and sometimes their words were more believable than Toby's—at least with Fudge, because he couldn't find a more bizarre reservist than Toby's charges.

Then Toby came all the way to Zuko's joke shop, not to find inspiration for punishing students, but just to see if the sales of multi-flavored juices attracted wizards other than students, and maybe he would have a relationship with the shop owner Zuko Mr. reached some cooperation or something.

This goes well until Toby meets Al who sneaks out at the door.

"Why are you here?" Toby walked over and said, "Why didn't you tell me in advance? I thought you were helping with rehearsals at school."

Al fell down on the flying carpet, opened his mouth, and screamed: "Yeah!" [I still want to ask you!Didn't you come to see Fudge?Why did you sneak behind my back to buy—well, buy these gadgets—hey, what is that? ] It suddenly turned its head and stared at a pair of dentures displayed in the window and asked.

"Bitting braces." Toby happened to be curious about the function of that pair of dentures, so he knew what they were for after asking the boss: "As long as you wear them, you can grow sharp teeth like sharks, and you can go back and forth. It bites non-stop, it is said that even stones can be crushed.”

"Ah!" Al bared his teeth and paws excitedly, shouting that I want to try it.

"No problem, no problem." Toby took out a few silver Sickles from Al's belly pocket and said, "The price is not expensive anyway, it's around four Sickles, I can't remember exactly." .”

Al sits on the small flying carpet and flies towards the door of the store, but finds that the distance has not changed at all.

"ah?"

When it looked back, it found that Toby was holding on to the edge of the flying carpet, with a very angry look: "I knew you had something to hide from me, otherwise why would you even take money from your pocket?" Don’t care about it? At least you have to protest twice!”

Al hurriedly wanted to make amends—not to apologize to Toby, of course, but to make up for the process of protest—but it was too late, Toby picked it up from the flying carpet and shook it vigorously, and found that it had come from his belly. There was nothing unexpected thrown out of the pocket, but a black notebook was suddenly blocked by something - but there was obviously nothing there, like a transparent wall.

The notebook suddenly opened automatically, and words quickly appeared on it: "Ginny, dear, is that you? Help me, come and save me, Ginny! Toby Highmore is crazy, he—"

Before the little Tom in the diary could tell all the sufferings, Toby closed the diary tightly, and hammered it twice with his fist—this was obviously not an ordinary fist, Ginny saw The diary turned into a look that was about to shatter, and it was about to fall apart.

But Ginny's mind was just blank.

What the hell?Why does that diary know my name?it knows me?

No - now is not the time to think about this kind of question, Professor Highmore found us!
Staring at the empty ground, Toby rubbed his chin and said, "If I'm not mistaken, it should be Harry's Invisibility Cloak. I've already guessed that this Cloak is different, unlike other The invisibility cloaks are all a little different and hard to spot - come out, Miss Weasley, or are you going to find a place where no students are staring at you and don't want them to discover the cloak?"

What else could Ginny do?

All the hopes in her heart came to nothing, and she quickly changed her mind to a few times of confinement, hoping that Mr. Al could help them intercede.

She was just about to lift off the invisibility cloak, when she suddenly found that Luna on the side took out another notebook—this is Pandora's notebook, and the personalities in it are very real, if Luna hadn't told her that it was all because of Professor Haimer's help, Jin Ni thought Luna's mother had really turned into a book.

After Luna took out the notebook, something miraculous happened—a simple face was drawn on one of the blank pages, which looked like a beginner’s drawing, but the mouth was the best—and then The mouth opened, and a sound came out directly.

"I think it's you who wronged me, Toby."

Ginny was speechless in shock, and even Toby's palm froze for a moment - he was going to take the initiative to take off the invisibility cloak.

"Pandora?" Toby tentatively asked in a low voice, then turned his head and looked at Al suspiciously: "You asked Al to secretly bring you out?"

"That's what happened!" Pandora's tone became cheerful: "Staying in the castle all day is really boring, so I thought about walking around—but I don't have legs, and Al is very tired. If you are happy, agree to do me this favor—”

It's a pity that Pandora couldn't see the expression on Al's face—its mouth was wide enough to stuff a whole pie, and the shock didn't look like it was fake at all.

Toby lifted off the invisibility cloak.

"And then, I met you—wait a minute, was that you, Toby? So, you saw me, and you saw Luna? Well, one last request, please? Less Put them in confinement for a few days, I really don't like staying in the same room with your skeletons, they always remind me of my appearance after death Toby? Toby?"

Toby didn't speak, but the expression on his face was very serious.

Five minutes later, Ginny, with her head down, followed Toby to the Hog's Head Bar again, but there were no customers there. Al was not happy.

"Four butterbeers."

"Eight Sickles."

The dirty bottles were brought up, and Toby wiped off the dust with his wand, then put two of the bottles in front of Luna and Ginny, and took a bottle for himself.

Al naturally stretched out his claws to take the last bottle, but Toby slapped it off with his fingers immediately.

"Ah!" It complained angrily about the injustice it encountered.

"Only milk." Toby said angrily, "I'll warm it up for you at most."

After Al pursed his mouth and drank the hot milk, the atmosphere suddenly became quiet.

"Cough cough."

Toby coughed twice, and he tried to ask in a less weird tone: "So, when did this start?"

"When?" Luna said, looking up, the foam still on her lips.

"I mean Pandora." Toby finally asked, "Since when was Pandora able to speak?"

"It's been a while." Pandora's mouth reappeared on the page of the notebook, and she replied herself: "It's really amazing in detail—how did you do it, Toby? Are there any magic feathers left?" ? If there are a few more, maybe I can really grow hands and feet."

Ginny, who was silent, imagined the scene - slender and thin limbs grew beside the diary, and she was not as tall as Mr. Al. She walked unsteadily and might fall at any time. Paji It fell on the table with a bang.

She almost couldn't help laughing out loud, the corners of her mouth twitched violently, swinging back and forth between cramping and expressionless.

"Well," Toby suddenly had nothing to say.

But he really didn't expect those black feathers to have such a magical effect.

Originally, he thought it would be miraculous to make Pandora appear in the form of a diary—but now?She has grown her mouth!

After a while, will Toby be able to see Pandora's ghost with his own eyes?

What about Toby?
Toby himself used a black feather after being attacked by a basilisk last term.

Will he also see his own ghost?One morning, it suddenly came out of my mind, and by the way, I greeted myself with a smile?

"Yes." Toby said in a brisk tone: "The reason why I didn't say it in advance was to give you a surprise—just wait and see, the real surprise is yet to come."

"Really, Professor?" Luna asked with wide eyes, "How long do we have to wait?"

"It's hard to say clearly." Toby said with a embarrassed face: "It's also hard to judge—but if there are any signs of changes in Pandora, you can come to me earlier, and it should be very clear by then."

Ginny couldn't believe that she and Luna were not punished in any way. After drinking a bottle of butterbeer, they left the Hog's Head Bar and entered Honeydukes' secret passage under the cover of Professor Highmore, all the way back to Hoag Watts.

By the way, now Toby also knows the secret of the secret passage, and he has also found the Marauder's Map that Al borrowed from the twins-it looks really good.

But now is not the time to study the map.

After returning to Hogwarts, Toby took Al and left in a hurry, saying goodbye to Ginny, Luna, and Pandora.

Then they wandered around the castle, picking out places where there were few people.

finally--

"Okay, okay, I didn't expect him to be the first ghost to be discovered. We have no choice now, do we?"

While Al was trying to hold back his laughter, Toby waved his hands and shouted, "Barrow! Hey! Don't go, I have something to ask you!"

The bloody Baro slowly retreated from the wall, and he slowly floated in front of Toby. The blood on his clothes was very clear. He stared at Toby with those godless eyes, and asked in a dull voice:

"I knew you'd figure it out one day, Toby Highmore, be the ghost of Slytherin, and help me end this never-ending fate."

(End of this chapter)