Archaeologists at Hogwarts

Chapter 271 Harry and Cedric

"Cedric Diggory was the first to learn devil divination, who would have guessed that."

Ron said with a sigh, he turned his head and asked, "Hermione, you said—Hermione? Why did she disappear again? She was here just now."

Harry didn't speak, all he could think about was how to complete the special homework assigned to him by Professor Highmore - trying to control his own demons.

It was easy to say, Harry could now control the rune snakes with Parseltongue.But this time Professor Highmore expressed a completely different meaning-these alone are definitely not enough, Harry must also be able to not be affected by the dark side of ancient magic.

But how is this possible?
No matter how you look at it, devils are a more dangerous species than black magic.

Who but the most wicked of wizards would imprison another's soul in a never-ending torment?
Perhaps Professor Highmore is an exception, he has become an almost devil himself.

But since the first-grade teacher's commendation meeting was reported, everyone knows that Professor Haimo is completely desperate when he studies ancient magic. Up to now it can be regarded as a miracle.

This instead shows the difference between Professor Highmore and the dark wizard - he would rather take risks himself than use other people for experiments.

This is completely different.

But back to Harry's "homework", he couldn't help but think—he couldn't just learn from Professor Highmore to do it, right?
Leaving aside the specific method, Harry estimated that even if he knew, he would kill himself before Voldemort.

He didn't think he was as knowledgeable as Professor Highmore.When the danger that Professor Highmore encountered came to him, he might not be able to escape once.

"Harry, look!"

Ron's low voice pulled Harry out of his thoughts, and he looked in the direction Ron pointed, and found a person at the corner of the corridor—it was Cedric.

In addition, there is another girl, Harry remembers that the other party's name is Qiu Zhang, the seeker of the Ravenclaw Quidditch team, Wood has mentioned the name of this witch many times, every time The purpose is the same - so that Harry must not show mercy during the game.

Harry could see that there was some awkwardness between the two of them, as if there was a dispute going on.

"Get it for me." He said suddenly, handed the backpack to Ron, and strode over.

"Why have you been absent so many times recently?"

"Nothing, I've explained it to Professor Flitwick, and he understands."

"Can't you tell me why? Is it related to Professor Highmore? I remember that you seem to be his assistant—"

"No, it's the assistant's assistant. To be precise, Professor Highmore's assistant is only Mr. Al, and no one else—so that's it, Harry, are you here to see me?"

Harry watched the girl named Qiu Zhang leave in frustration, and Cedric explained awkwardly: "We are partners in the Charms Club, but due to time conflicts, I was absent many times-no Way, I can't miss Professor Haimer's tutoring class, that's too important."

Harry turned his head back, and said in a low voice, "Is it more important than the devil's divination?"

Cedric's expression became a little surprised, he didn't expect Harry to know about it already.

"Don't worry, not many people know about it," Harry explained, "Professor Highmore told me about it—and, by the way, can you tell me how you did it?"

"Are you sure?" Cedric looked at Harry strangely, not knowing why he became like this.

"Is there any problem?" Harry asked suspiciously: "Professor Highmore assigned me almost the same homework. This matter is very important to me. I must learn devil divination as soon as possible—"

"That's not called divination by the devil." Cedric interrupted suddenly: "That's not the real name of that magic, the devil—well, the devil is not the most important thing. Forget it, I can't explain it clearly, you have now time?"

Harry looked back at Ron, who was looking over curiously.

"You can also call him over." Cedric said indifferently: "As long as you don't mind."

"Hey!"

At this time, Hermione suddenly came down the stairs, and she said excitedly: "I thought of a good way, maybe I can try to grasp what Professor Highmore just taught, you——what are you doing? Tonight Are there any tutorials?"

Harry could only look at Cedric.

"Three people are fine." Cedric was unexpectedly easy-going, but he still reminded Harry: "The premise is that they know enough about the devil. I don't mean Professor Highmore's textbooks."

"Don't worry," Harry said, "They all know."

Cedric's eyes suddenly became envious. He hadn't taken the initiative to tell anyone about his devil, because he knew that it was impossible for everyone to understand his decision.

"Where did you go just now?" Ron asked Hermione as he returned the backpack to Harry, "You didn't even miss Harry's story, did you?"

"Talk?" Hermione looked at him blankly at first, and then immediately realized: "Oh, I forgot, what did Professor Highmore call Harry for?"

Just as Ron at the back was recounting helplessly, Harry, who was walking in front, couldn't help asking curiously: "Where are we going now, is it the classroom where Professor Haimer taught us?"

"No, it's not that magical room." Cedric shook his head and said, "But you have to go up to the top of the castle. It depends on luck, and you may not come across it."

Harry became more and more confused. Seeing what Cedric meant, does this have nothing to do with Professor Highmore?
Was it someone else who really taught Cedric divination?

"It can't be Professor Trelawney?" Harry said suddenly, terrified.

Fortunately, Cedric acted like he was taken aback, otherwise Harry really didn't know what to do.

"How is it possible?" Cedric said, "I heard that she has always disliked the courses taught by Highmore, and she said it in public."

"It's true." Harry recounted the previous divination class.

Cedric also couldn't understand that Harry's ominousness came from becoming the prefect of Slytherin House.

"How come?" he said. "Aren't you from Gryffindor? I never knew a student could be transferred."

"I haven't heard of it either." Harry replied somewhat perfunctorily.

In fact, he already roughly figured out why he was afraid of this matter, it was all because of the warning that Headmaster Dumbledore had given him—maybe there is such a possibility that Harry's devil has nothing to do with Voldemort, but All his own.

This is what caused Harry to feel strange. He was more willing to push some evil things to Voldemort, but he couldn't accept that it was another real self.

In this way, wouldn't he be no different from Voldemort?
At this time, the two people behind were also discussing about the same. Hermione came over suddenly. She patted Cedric on the shoulder and asked, "How on earth did you do it? I haven't noticed that you have so much to learn before." A gift for ancient magic—I don't mean self-casting wands, but those special kinds of magic, the kind that only Professor Highmore knows."

They can be considered to have worked together for a while, and they both worked under Professor Haimer.

Cedric was silent for a while, and he said seriously: "You're right, even I didn't think I could learn the devil. It looks dangerous, a lot like black magic, doesn't it?"

"Of course." Harry said immediately, "But does it have anything to do with you being the first to complete Professor Highmore's teaching task?"

"That's right," Cedric admitted. "Auto-casting wands, that's important to me, maybe even more important to Hufflepuff House. Listen, Harry, some magic just doesn't work. The language explanation is clear, but what I can tell you is that I was able to learn the devil, and the first way to complete divination with the devil is related to the automatic casting wand."

Harry also wished he had an autocasting wand, but it never occurred to him to make one himself, it would be too difficult.

"That's right." He asked: "Professor Highmore said you succeeded in doing it. What did he mean? Did you complete the divination? Or did you really foresee yourself successfully making the automatic casting wand?"

After he said this, both Hermione and Ron fell silent, all eyes on Cedric.

"I succeeded?" Cedric frowned and said, "Professor Haimer really told you that? I thought it was a failed divination - the result was very vague and very unclear. Anyway, I didn't see anything." .”

Ideas diverged here.

Harry and Cedric show completely different perspectives on the same thing.

"Didn't Professor Highmore tell you directly?" Hermione asked curiously.

"No." Cedric shook his head and said, "He asked me to leave after the divination was completed, without saying anything."

"So what was the result?" Hermione demanded.

Cedric said with a look of reminiscence: "It's very simple. Mr. Al took out a handful of multi-flavored beans, and then my devil badger ate one of them. The taste is not very good, but at least it can be accepted. All There are so many divination processes, and I don’t know whether it is a success or a failure—I’m referring to the content of the automatic casting wand that was successfully produced in the prophecy. As for whether the method of divination is correct—I can only say that there are some places It's really different—"

"What is it?" Harry asked quickly.

"It's my devil badger." Cedric said puzzled, "it suddenly seemed to come alive, more real. At first I just thought that the way I controlled it was wrong, but later I figured it out. It is simply impossible, unless the Devil Badger voluntarily escaped from my control."

"Hey hey hey." Ron said frightenedly: "Isn't the devil just a magic? How can it still be alive? The humanoid devil in the armor—oh, I forgot, it was originally alive, a living person Turned into that ghost-wait a minute!"

Not only Ron, but at this moment, even several other people noticed something was wrong.

Since the devil, this rare summoned object, can be transformed by a wizard, is Harry and Cedric's devil really just as simple as magic?

Will there come a day when Harry's Cedrics are gone and only their demons remain.

And only then will the devil really come back to life, and have completely replaced the two of them.

Harry saw the same thought in Cedric's eyes.

"You said. Is this possible?"

"Professor Haimer probably wouldn't do that. He has already witnessed the tragedy of a human-shaped devil with his own eyes, and he has taken many safety measures in advance just learning ritual magic. How could it possibly put us in real danger?"

Cedric's thinking was very clear. He didn't change his mind easily because of Ron's few words, and he still had full trust in Professor Haimer.

Moreover, these inferences of his did reassure Harry a lot.

That's right, before letting the students learn ritual magic, Professor Harry successively prepared a substitute for the scepter, and two preparations for being qualified to summon the Patronus.

He had no reason to want to turn Harry and Cedric into real monsters.

Even if it went to a worse situation - Professor Haimer already had a collection of humanoid devils, and two more would become redundant.

But——Harry suddenly thought of the skeleton in the office. There was more than one collection in that collection, and it was very useful. Messages could be passed between two skeletons without interference.

Professor Highmore wouldn't frame himself and Cedric just because he wanted to test whether the devil also had the same function?

Just as Harry was getting more and more cranky, Cedric stopped in front of a gate and said, "Here we are."

None of the three took the initiative to open the door.

"If I'm not mistaken." Ron showed hesitation, he looked at the familiar sign on the gate, which read——

"Black Devil's Club? Are you sure?"

This is a bit different from what Cedric revealed. He clearly revealed that the person who helped him was actually someone else, not all Professor Haimer.

"It's here, that's right." Cedric said, "But we have to change the way to open the door. I don't know when Professor Haimer completed the arrangement. Just watch."

The door is perfectly normal, and it only needs to be pulled hard in the direction of the corridor to open.

But Cedric opened the door in a different way. Instead of grabbing the doorknob, he pressed his palm on the other end of the door, and then pushed hard.

The way the door was connected to the wall changed. The end of the doorknob didn't move at all, just bent in, allowing the door to be pushed open from the other end.

The three of them watched this scene in surprise, and when Cedric pushed the door open completely, a very ordinary-looking classroom inside was revealed.

Harry was sure that this was definitely not the Black Devil's Club, because the eye-catching luxury sofa and chairs in the room were gone, and there were ordinary tables and chairs.

Moreover, someone was already in the house.

Luna buried her head in a notebook and wrote something. Ginny had leaned over to read it. When the door was pushed open, she looked up and said, "You're a bit late, Seid—Harry!"

"Why are you here too?"

(End of this chapter)