Archaeologists at Hogwarts

Chapter 287 The Night of the Full Moon
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Quietly, Harry walked through the passageway and returned to the common room.

"Harry!"

A deliberately low voice startled Harry, and he turned his head to look around and saw Ron and Hermione emerge from the back of the chair.

"Dude, why are you back so late?" Ron yawned and said, "Did Filch do anything for you?"

Hermione put it more bluntly.

"We need to talk." She said seriously. "Is there anything you plan to tell us? Or do you really feel that you have been faking it well all this time?"

Harry opened his mouth, but found himself speechless.

What more could he say?

Now that the rune snake's lightning-scarred head had been eaten, it also brought Harry back to memories of his infancy - something that couldn't have happened just happened.

Is he going to describe the scene in memory to Ron and Hermione in detail?

No, Harry didn't want to do that at all.

Professor Highmore was right, it was a choice he had made, but Harry still didn't expect it to be such a torment.

It's almost like that humanoid devil, it is constantly suffering from painful punishment, and it will never be able to get rid of it.

"I have to go back to rest." Harry said in a muffled voice, unable even to pretend that nothing happened, and gave Ron and Hermione a lonely back.
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Meanwhile, Toby sat in the quiet office, waiting for someone.

"Knock knock knock."

There was a knock on the door, and Lupine, whose face was as pale as paper, walked in. He said weakly, "Come on, Toby, it's tonight. I hope we still have a chance to have a wonderful Christmas."

"As long as Severus doesn't poison your potion." Toby said, standing up, and Al jumped on his shoulder naturally.

"Is it going too?" Lupine shook his head distressedly: "You really like to mess around."

"Don't underestimate Al." Toby said while stopping the flailing Al, "It's my assistant, and, to be honest, it's much more competent than you, and it can do it even if its tail freezes off." Don't care."

Lupine glanced at the back of Al's body. Its tail was so shockingly short that it looked almost the same.

"Okay." He said helplessly, and coughed twice: "I hope you will be careful enough not to pull my tail when I'm drowsy."

Al made a face at Lupin, and then the three of them set off together into the quiet corridor, passing Filch who was watching the night on the way.

"Are you going...?" Filch looked at the group in confusion, "Are you going to find Professor Snape together?"

There was deep suspicion in his tone.

This was something that couldn't be helped. Not long after Toby joined the job, Filch saw Toby and Snape nearly duel in the corridor in the middle of the night.

Now, looking at their posture, I feel a little suspicious no matter what.

"Maybe you should go to the prize room and have a look." Toby said casually, "I just saw Peeves—"

"Peeves?" Before Toby could finish speaking, Filch ran away angrily.

It wasn't until he completely left the gate of the castle that Lupine asked strangely: "Do you usually do this? I don't just mean school, but also when you were archaeological."

"What do you want to say?" Toby said indifferently: "Don't you think that cheating a castle administrator is more serious than what we will do in a while? Can you imagine what would happen if the Ministry of Magic found out about your True identity, what will happen to Fudge? He will go crazy, and I promise, there will be no celebration."

Lupine was silent for a moment.

"You're right," he admitted quietly.

After the relationship between the Ministry of Magic and Hogwarts finally eased, Lupine's identity as a werewolf would be another bomb, rekindling the flames of war that had finally subsided.

Toby looked at the full moon in the sky, which was about to be completed.

"So, there is nothing wrong with the decision you made. When you transform, someone has to watch you. Have you ever thought that the reason why you divination to Black is actually because of his Arnie?" Is Magus a big black dog? From some angles, it looks a bit like a fallen werewolf, maybe it’s the key to your being cursed by the position—because someone else found out your true identity, and expose it.”

The silence lasted longer this time, the moon was covered by dark clouds, and the playground gradually became darker. Toby and Lupine walked silently in the direction of the Whomping Willow.

"Sounds reasonable." After a long time, Lupine wondered: "But who could it be? Who else would casually break into the Whomping Willow? I remember a student was almost blinded when I was in school. Eyes, no one will go anywhere near that."

"What do you think of Severus?" Toby said suddenly, "He hates you, at least not willingly to help you make potions. It makes things so much easier, he doesn't even You need to take the initiative to do something, as long as you add a little bit to the wolfsbane potion-"

"Don't talk about it." Lupine shook his head: "There is nothing wrong with the potion that Snape prepared for me. After all, I have been drinking it for half a semester."

"But this time is different." Toby insisted: "This time, I will go over to watch you. If it goes well, he may be able to solve two problems at once-me, and you."

"Is this possible?" Lupine asked in surprise, "Did you tell Snape what happened tonight?"

"No." Toby said with strange eyes: "What I'm more curious about is why you don't have any doubts at all. Do you even think that Snape is going to kill me?"

Lupine stared straight at Toby, as if he had told some joke-doesn't it matter, when they went to Hogsmeade village to meet Fudge in the carriage, the two almost gave him away. By the way, he was killed.

"That was just an accident." Toby said casually, "I have always been at odds with him. Who would want to approach such a dark wizard."

"Perhaps only darker ones will do." Lupine smiled, but was soon too coughing to speak.

"Look, I'll tell you." Toby stopped him and said, "Snape must have added something to your potion."

"No, no." Lupine leaned down with difficulty and said, "It's me. I drank a cup of hot chocolate before I came. It's really bad. I obviously did what Snape asked and didn't put it in the potion. Adding sugar, I didn’t expect it would still cause trouble. It should be fine when I fall asleep later.”

Al smacked his mouth twice, and Toby clicked his tongue and said in amazement: "You really are a pampered werewolf—do you need help? I think you don't want to transform on the playground, do you?"

Breathing hard and evenly, Lupine said, "Don't worry, there's still time—but can you help stop the Whomping Willow?"

Now they were walking near the Whomping Willow, but that was within range of the branches.If you want to get into the tree hole passage smoothly, someone must hold down a scar on the trunk.

This kind of thing used to be done by Pettigrew, who could turn into a mouse, but he didn't know which cell he was in now.

But of course this kind of small mechanism can't be difficult for Toby, and it's even more difficult for Al-it is a real archaeological assistant, and it can't accompany Toby to live today without any skills.

Lupine saw Al jumping off Toby's shoulders nimbly. Just when he thought Al would rush over with a flexible posture, he found that Al took out a small shovel from his belly pocket and aimed it carefully in one direction. He took aim, and then threw the small shovel out with a voice of "Yah", chopped off the debris and snow all over the ground, and nailed it firmly to the scarred part of the trunk.

The Whomping Willow paused abruptly, and then remained motionless.

"Shouldn't it be killed?" Lupine said worriedly, raising his head.

"It has to be replaced with my own shovel." Toby pushed Lupine forward, and he said, "Hurry up, if you are later, the story of more than ten years ago will be repeated, and you don't want to Face me alone in the passage again? You should understand what I mean, if something really happens to me, you will probably die of guilt."

They slid in through the hole between the roots, Lupine first, then Al, and finally Toby.

After Toby slid down, he declined Lupine's extended arm, for fear of accidentally pulling Lupine over again--he is now so weak that he can hardly even pass a slippery slope, and he can't even breathe when he speaks. Get angry.

He continued the previous topic and said: "You reminded me, I remember that today is the same time as it was more than ten years ago, both on the same day."

"Yeah," Toby patted himself up and stood up: "If I wasn't there that day, um—James had to be added. If neither of us was there, today should be replaced by going to Sneaker." Put flowers on Pu's grave, be regarded as an untimely death."

Lupine smiled bitterly, and he and Toby walked deeper into the passage again, soon becoming out of breath.But even so, he still had time to ask Toby a question: "I still remember what you said later - even if you weren't there, James would have saved Snape."

"Why, don't you believe it?" Toby raised his eyebrows and asked.

"It's not just me." Lupine shook his head and said, "Everyone knows the grievances between James and Snape, and even I suspected at one point that it wasn't just Sirius who planned to frame Snape, James Maybe involved too. Can you tell me what exactly made you think so? What broke the grudge between him and Snape?"

"You should really look in the mirror." Toby sneered: "Look at you now, it's exactly the same as the principal, he usually talks to me like this, always trying to make me understand something, but he doesn't understand It didn't work. Actually, I can tell you why right now—because I saw it, it's as simple as that."

"Of course Severus was in danger, so I had to show up. Almost at the same time, I saw James was also preparing to go to rescue Severus. If only I was later, when the time comes Let's see if Severus will be so blunt and continue to deceive himself."

"If you didn't see it with your own eyes—" Lupine sighed: "Who would believe such a thing? It would be fine if it was someone else, but if it was Snape and James...it's really unimaginable."

"It's normal if you don't remember." Toby patted Lupine's shoulder heavily and said, "After all, you have become a werewolf, so how many things can you remember?"

"I really don't remember," Lupine could only admit silently.

They were still walking inside, and on the way Toby took out his wand and cast an illuminating spell to help them see the road under their feet.

After walking for a long time, they turned a corner, and the moonlight came in ahead, which was a small exit.

It was a room, a messy, gray room.The wallpaper was peeling, the floor was stained, the furniture was all broken, as if it had been smashed, and the windows were boarded up.

"It looks really bad." Toby looked at it in disgust, and Al kept slapping back and forth under his nose with his little paw.

"Something worse than this will happen in a while." Lupine walked into the room habitually, and he explained: "I rarely have the heart to cast spells here, and once I wake up, I don't want to stay for a second. Just wanted to get out, so, you see, it makes the room a bit rough, but it's perfectly safe."

Toby followed the moonlight to observe the scratches on the wooden boards that blocked the windows.

"It's really safe." He nodded and commented.

Since entering this room, Lupine acted as if he was eager to fall asleep, unwilling to wake up for a second.

"I will go to the attic bedroom to transform." He said: "Are you going to follow, or--I strongly recommend that you don't go there together, if it's just for guarding, you just need to stay in the living room , there is absolutely no need to take more risks for this.”

"What a coincidence, I thought so too." Toby was surprisingly easy-going: "Did you drink the Wolf's Poison on time?"

"Drank it when Snape first delivered it," said Lupine.

"Then I can put away the big shovel." Toby exaggeratedly let out a sigh of relief, and Lupine said in a helpless tone after seeing it: "This joke is not funny at all, even if it is true, I hope you will chop it up by then." It's only my tail that fell off, not my head or anything. I'll go up first, and you'll be fine."

He walked across the hall and up the nearly crumbling staircase.

Toby and Al heard noises from upstairs in the living room, and it sounded like Lupine had also shut the door of the bedroom tightly, but he didn't know whether it was to protect Toby and Al, or to avoid such an accident when the time came. Two guys would come in at random and use themselves to do some dangerous experiments or something.

After the bedroom door was closed, Toby randomly found a fairly quiet chair in the living room and sat down, picked up "The Quibbler", and read the latest Quidditch match report.Al also ate Bibi multi-flavored beans one by one, and the bites were crunchy.

Time passed by minute by minute.

As the full moon approached, a black shadow sprang out from under Toby's feet, extending from the witch robe to the floor, and then slowly stood up.

At the same time, a few figures quietly appeared from the entrance of the passage—two skeletons, both with heads and without heads—they were casted with the Silent Curse, and no sound came out.

There was a muffled growl on the roof.

Toby listened in silence for a while.

It wasn't until the voice slowly stopped that he stood up from the chair and ordered, "It's tonight."

"Go ahead, my dear collectors."

(End of this chapter)