Archaeologists at Hogwarts

Chapter 266 Memories of Flight Lessons
In the first flying lesson of his first year, Draco deliberately provoked Neville, then got into a fight with Harry, and both of them took to the sky on broomsticks while the professor was away.

As a result, Harry was found to be a once-in-a-century genius, and made an exception to allow him to join the Gryffindor Quidditch team as a freshman.

Draco became a laughing stock, not only because he lost to Harry, but also because he was saved by Harry when he nearly fell.

This incident brought him an incomparable humiliation, even more embarrassing than saying hello on the train before enrolling and being refuted.

This is another story. Just when Draco thought he was "kind" and wanted to keep Harry away from Weasley, a member of the family who could never get rich, he was resolutely rejected by Harry.

This was the beginning of all the contradictions, and the incident of the flight class exacerbated the conflict.

In other words, there is absolutely no possibility of reconciliation between them.
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"Is this how you came up with to help Harry?"

In the office of the Defense Against the Dark Arts class, Toby appeared for some reason. He also wondered why the student who taught Lupine was Draco Malfoy, so he just asked this question again.

Lupine didn't hide it, and his answer was exactly the same reason he told Dumbledore - he wanted to take this opportunity to ease the relationship between Draco and Harry, so that Harry could have fewer enemies at school.

Draco must have never imagined that all his attempts to hide from Professor Highmore had failed because of Lupine.

"This is a great opportunity." Lupine explained, "If it weren't for the teacher's commendation meeting, I probably wouldn't have thought of this method."

"Indeed." Toby glanced at the sky outside the window, and the moon was gradually becoming full: "You have many things to be busy with."

Lupine showed some helplessness: "Don't tell me that you came to me in the middle of the night just because you wanted to inform me of the full moon. Don't worry, I can't make mistakes on this kind of problem, since I can remember , and never fell behind.”

"Sounds terrible." Toby responded perfunctorily.

Lupine stared at Toby strangely.

"Wait a minute." He suddenly became alert: "Could it be your trick of teaching the training again? What are you going to ask me to do this time? Don't tell me it has something to do with the full moon—could it be a werewolf?"

He took a few steps back subconsciously, and glanced at the direction of the door, wondering in his heart that the magical snuffer might be guarding outside, so as not to let him escape.

"How is it possible." Toby said with a smile: "The principal is still in school, and it's not time for me to do whatever I want—ah, that's not what I mean, and I have no idea of ​​using you for research at all. Really, you trust me."

The tension on Lupine's face eased quite a bit.

"Could it be Sirius?" He frowned and asked again: "Have you successfully solved my previous prophecy? Or did you think of a way to bring Sirius back from the dead?"

Some time ago, Lupine took the initiative to find Toby, saying that he used ancient magic to divination the scene predicted by Toby in the first teaching training-he was attacked when he became a werewolf.

According to Lupine, he saw Sirius in divination.

But the problem was that Lupine had no idea that Sirius was actually alive, and only thought he was dead, as most people in the wizarding world were told.

This is the top secret and involves the dangerous Grindelwald, so neither Dumbledore nor Toby intends to continue to disclose it.

Of course, the three of Harry are an exception, especially Harry, who has been involved in this matter too deeply, and has been involved since last semester's vacation. In addition, he needs to learn how to deal with Voldemort's soul recently, so It's better not to create a too low state, so as not to sink deeper and deeper into the dark side of ancient magic.

There was nothing wrong with Lupine's question now, of course he would think so.There must be a reason why Toby came to him in the middle of the night, and all he could think of was the prophecy.

"neither."

Toby replied unexpectedly: "Actually, I came to you for something else—look at this, I think you should be able to recognize it."

Lupine saw Toby take an old parchment out of his pocket, unfold it, and hold it out in front of him.

Lupine recognized the parchment at first sight - it was the Marauder's Map he had used at school.

"It seems that you really know." Toby saw the answer he wanted on Lupine's face.

Lupine sighed and said, "Can you tell me where you found it? I clearly remember it being confiscated by Filch in seventh grade."

"Coincidentally." Toby smiled and said, "They are also students, and they are all Gryffindors—the twins of the Weasley family, they found this parchment in Filch's office, and then It was taken out secretly."

"The Weasley twins?" Lupine thought carefully for a while, and it didn't take long for two identical faces to appear in his mind, and no one could tell them apart.

"I remember these two students, they are very talented." He said: "And, many times, I felt that they were an upgraded version of James and Sirius."

"I don't think you're talking about talent." Toby pointed at the Marauder's Map with a finger: "The Weasley twins are indeed good, but compared to those two guys, they are still far behind. .”

"I mean close connection." Lupine also said with a smile: "After all, they have a real blood relationship, they are brothers, and James and Sirius just look like brothers."

"It's almost the same." Toby curled his lips and said, "Okay, let's stop chatting here. I came to you because I really need to ask."

Lupine said in a rare Tao Kan tone: "Could it be that you can't do anything with this map—by the way, maybe I shouldn't tell you this is a map now—"

"It also marked everyone's name and location." Toby interrupted: "Yes, I know there is such a thing-even if I can't guess it, I can ask it from the students, it's nothing rare."

Lupine looked a little embarrassed, he forgot who this person was in front of him - Toby was the one who almost froze his own tail, there was nothing he couldn't do.

"Then why did you come to me?" He could only ask, "Is it related to the nickname written on the map?"

"Nickname, I can probably guess that." Toby said, "Didn't you tell me about the Animagus of the three of them? It's easy to think of one - James is the sharp Fork, Black is Padfoot, Peter is Wormtail, and you are Moonface."

"But none of this is why I came to you."

He said seriously: "I want to know, who actually made this map?"

"All four of us have a share." Lupine said without hesitation for long. Anyway, the Marauder's Map had appeared in Toby's hands, so there was nothing to hide.

"We mapped out the internal structure of the castle bit by bit, and we also used the best trace spell on it, which can make the map show the whereabouts of everyone in the school area - you should have seen this."

Toby nodded. Of course he understood the functions of the Marauder's Map. It was so exquisitely made that it was hard to believe that it was made by a group of students.

When this information alone is not enough.

"Did you fully participate in the whole production process?" Toby asked again.

"That's about it." Lupine frowned and said, "What do you think? Do you think James and Sirius are hiding something from me?"

"Almost?" Toby didn't answer this question, but noticed Lupine's words: "What is almost, and what are the places you haven't participated in."

"I already feel like it's an interrogation." Lu said with a flat face, "But, well—what else, of course it was at the very beginning, it was always James and Sirius who made up their minds, They are the ones leading."

"So—" Toby continued to ask: "You don't even know how this parchment came about?"

"Parchment?" Lupine finally understood what Toby wanted to ask.

"You mean this piece of paper is weird?" He repeatedly looked at the Marauder's Map in his hand: "I can only feel the magic power in the map—but it's weird, where is it weird?"

"I'm going to ask you." Toby didn't answer truthfully.

He already knew the answer, and it was related to the reaction of Bloodman Barrow when he saw the Marauder's Map and the Book of Access some time ago.

[So you already know. 】

This is what Barrow said at the time. He mistakenly thought that Toby was studying the soul, and he even made good progress, so he planned to help Toby.

Judging from Baro's eyes at that time, the Marauder's Map and the Book of Access must be related, and they may all be a page torn from it—it's a pity that Toby didn't read it in the Book of Access If you don't see any traces, otherwise it will be much easier to judge.

Toby had an idea—maybe he should really go to Barrow for help.It's been such a long time, yet Barrow never came to take the initiative to disturb him once, and he didn't know what he was doing recently.

You can't be studying the soul alone, right?

Or maybe it's just wandering around.
Lupine waited patiently for a while, and after finding that Toby didn't respond, and even meditated on his own, he simply unfolded the Marauder's Map and stretched it out in front of him, as if intending to make sure what was on this piece of paper. question.

At this moment, a palm suddenly pulled the Marauder's Map away.

"It shouldn't be yours now, right? Even if it used to be yours, it has to be rearranged."

"You mean the order of entry?" Lupine shook his head and said, "Forget it, it doesn't matter anymore. You can take it away, I don't need it now."

"Okay then." Toby happily put away the Marauder's Map, and he waved his hand at Lupin: "That's it for today, I should go back too—wait a minute, it seems that someone is coming to you again. "

There was a slight sound of footsteps from outside the door, very light, but Toby noticed it.

Lupine looked over suspiciously, he didn't know that there would be other guests tonight.

Toby walked to the door in twos and threes, and opened the door.

"Professor Lupine, I'm coming to--Professor Hay-Hymer."

Draco, who was standing at the door, was too scared to speak by Toby. He made a lot of determination to sneak out after the curfew, and even prepared to be deducted points in advance—but It definitely does not include encountering black devils.

And Toby——before he said what he wanted to be locked up for a month, he suddenly remembered that Draco was the professor who taught Lupine.

Besides that, there was another thing - that was the way Lupine had just said to help Harry, and that would start with Draco.

So, Toby didn't say a word, not even a verbal criticism. Instead, he wanted to stay and see what would happen next, but Lupine said as if he knew it in advance: "Then That's all, goodbye, Toby. And, come in, Mr Malfoy."

Draco was shocked to see Professor Highmore leave alone without even deducting a point, which was so uncharacteristic.

He really didn't know that Lupine could have such abilities.

"Okay." After Draco walked into the office, Lupine said softly, "Surely you wouldn't just show up in the hallway after curfew? Let me guess - this is the same as before." Is that relevant? Are you ready?"

Draco did think for a long time in the dormitory.It was precisely because he had thought about the answer that he rushed over impatiently, wanting to make that magical item as soon as possible, the sooner the better.

He couldn't wait to see the look on Harry's face, it must be wonderful.

"I've figured it out." Draco asked, "When exactly are we going to continue?"

"No." Lupine suddenly refused: "It's not time to continue. Before that, the class must be safe, and it's getting late, so——can you tell me what you want Is it clear what it is? Or do you plan to continue to conceal it? If it is really inconvenient to say, you can only reveal a small part of it-this is all for the sake of safety, after all, ancient magic is the most unpredictable .”

Draco knew that what he said was true. Professor Highmore had warned them more than once about the dangers of ancient magic. The magic circle in the first grade alone had demonstrated how dangerous failures were, and they used immersive Fantasy way.

At this time, Draco suddenly remembered that he hadn't seen the magic ball beside Professor Highmore for a long time, so it must be lost, right?
Before the thoughts in his head became even more chaotic, Draco said darkly: "Harry Potter, this has something to do with him, we have been fighting, no one likes that egomaniac."

Lupine didn't scold Draco, he shook his head with a regretful expression on his face.

"Harry Potter? I thought it was Toby Highmore."

Draco didn't move, he was completely stunned.

(End of this chapter)