Archaeologists at Hogwarts

Chapter 295 Flame Bat
294 Flame Bat
Through the thick curtains, the circus owner led Newt, Harry and his party from the big tent to the small one.

That's right, the three of Harry were also there, and it was thanks to Harry's previous recommendation that Ron and Hermione had the opportunity to see the flame bat.

Under the constant urging of Mr. Newt, the fat circus owner opened a pocket on the shelf, and a small, palm-sized thing flew out immediately.

It has two sharp teeth exposed, and its body is covered with fine scales. Every time it flaps its wings, it will creak, and two streams of gray smoke will come out of its nose, emitting sparks.

"It looks so much like a fire dragon." Ron exclaimed, "Hagrid must not see it, otherwise Hagrid will definitely use the Expansion Curse on it."

Harry agreed with Ron's thoughts in his heart, and Hermione was also staring at the flame bat in amazement.

"Does it have dragon blood?" Hermione asked.

"That's right." Mr. Newt looked at the little guy with interest, and said, "But it's definitely not as prone to anger as a fire dragon, so you can touch it and try it."

No matter how you look at this moment, it seems that Newt is habitually teaching the three of them, and Hermione and Ron immediately turned their heads to look at Harry - he took the initiative to stand in Hagrid's first protection of magical animals class come out.

It seems that this time is no exception.

Harry stretched out his palm cautiously, and touched the flame bat's head lightly. The dragon-like bat immediately tilted its head upwards vigorously, with a look of enjoyment.

"It likes you, Harry." Newt said happily, then turned his head impatiently and asked, "How much will it cost me if I want to buy it?"

"That's not certain." The fat boss rolled up his beard shrewdly: "It took me a lot of effort to find these little guys, and the price can't be cheap."

"But—" Just when Newt was worried that the excuse of the rocket crossbow would not work, the fat boss suddenly changed his tone and said, "If Harry Potter wants it, I can give it to you for free, as if it were me. Thanks in advance for the recommendation."

When Harry walked out of the circus tent with the flaming bat in his pocket, his mind was still dazed.

"Is this really okay?" He asked a little embarrassed.

"No problem." Mr. Newt, who came out with him, reassured him: "It's a thank you. But I remember Hogwarts doesn't seem to allow this kind of pets? Do you need me to introduce you? A few hidden locations, so as not to be confiscated by the professors?"

Hermione looked at Mr. Newt in shock, and he said with some embarrassment: "Magic zoologists are not so easy to cultivate. Sometimes, you have to do some radical things. Fortunately, Dumbledore is still very enlightened." of."

Harry was a little undecided. Just now he was thinking of giving this flaming bat to Mr. Newt, but he said that he would buy all the impounded stocks of the circus owner after a while, not missing this one.

"Why don't you give it to Hagrid to try?" Ron suggested, "It's not a real dragon anyway, it's quite cute."

Harry thought it was a good idea, and he didn't have to worry about Hedwig anymore—who knew if Hedwig would be jealous of having an extra competitor.It's just finished drama, just when encouragement is needed.

Thinking of Hedwig, Hedwig really came.

And not only itself, but also other pets, including Mr. Al.

"ah!"

It greeted the trio from a long distance away, it seemed that because there were too many foreign guests present, it didn't take out the little flying carpet, and sat on Hedwig, Crookshanks on the ground and The mice also ran over with them.

Harry happily caught Hedwig: "You're doing really well."

Mr. Newt looked curiously at Al, who sent the pet back. He knew that this was Toby's magical assistant, and he would do things that many sniffs could not do.

With a "ding", Newt conjured up a gold coin and a chain wrapped around his fingers, and shook it tentatively at Al.

That's how he usually dealt with naughty Nifflers, always successfully coaxing them into a cage full of shiny things.

Al stared at Newt and the gold coin in his hand strangely.

"Ding".

It imitated Mr. Newt's actions and took one out of its pocket.
"Is this Fox's feather?" Newt immediately rushed forward, but Al nimbly dodged it, leading him to circle around the crowd.

"How did you get it?" He ran panting, and kept asking: "Is there any more? My biggest regret is that I didn't have a phoenix of my own, but Dumbledore always Taking Fox around in front of my eyes, I suspect that he has been teasing me on purpose."

"Is it the same as what Mr. Al is doing now?" Ron asked abruptly, feeling that the old man was getting weirder and weirder in his heart.

Newt turned his head, and the first thing he saw were Hermione's dimmed pupils.

How did Dumbledore tell him to come before?

Oh, right, it's a little normal, Miss Granger can't stand any more disappointment.

"Um, this, me." He stopped, hesitating and trying to explain.

"Yeah?" At this moment, Al turned his head in doubt. It put away the phoenix feathers, and jumped onto Harry's shoulder almost instantly, wriggling its nose, sniffing around him.

"Is there a problem?" Harry asked nervously.

What he was most worried about happened. Before poor Hagrid saw this magical animal, Mr. Al first discovered the cloth bag used to hold the flame bat.

"Yeah." Al seemed to know that this thing couldn't be taken out in public. It was very experienced and directed Harry to follow it to a corner where no one was around. Ron and Hermione followed closely, and of course Newt didn't either. Except, he still said along the way: "Don't blame him for this, just treat it as a temporary storage for me. No, how come I also regard it as a professor?"

Taking advantage of the time when no one was looking over, Al signaled Harry to open the cloth bag, revealing the head of the little flaming bat.Sure enough, as Harry expected, Hedwig, who was standing on his other shoulder, immediately became vigilant after seeing the flame bat, and looked at Harry with a look of "how could you do this".

The strangest thing was the flame bat's reaction.

It blinked, staring straight at Al standing in front of him and looking at him, and then he held his breath, and even the sparks in his nose disappeared, his expression was like seeing something extremely terrifying s things.

"Ah!" Al grabbed the flame bat that was trying to escape, threw it back into the cloth bag, and tied it tightly.

"They seem to know each other," Hermione whispered in surprise.

Al nodded, then asked in a serious tone they had never seen before, "Huh?"

"I guess—" Ron pondered Al's thoughts carefully: "It should be asking where we found this flame bat."

Ron was right in guessing.

The problem is, when they got back to the circus tent, they were told that the boss wasn't even here.

"What are you talking about?" An employee who was busy blowing bubbles said, "He drank too much at Three Broomsticks last night. wake up."

Harry felt a chill rise from the soles of his feet.

Mr. Newt stammered and asked, "The flame bat?"

"What?" The employee asked confusedly, "What is a flame bat?"

Gone.

All the flaming bats that Newt was expecting were gone, which was a lie.

When Dumbledore got away from all kinds of disturbed communication, he saw Newt with blank eyes, the trio with frightened faces, and Al holding a pocket.

"Let's talk about it, gentlemen and ladies." He asked calmly, "It seems that there is still a lot of trouble in this celebration, right?"

Al told Dumbledore the whole story in detail. Apart from someone pretending to be the owner of the circus, the most suspicious thing was the origin of the flame bat.

As it happens, Al happens to know where it once lived.

"Ah (temple)." It said cautiously: "Ah (a large number of flame bats lived in the temple that Toby and I explored, and where did we get the scepter and human-shaped devil)."

"But who could it be?" Dumbledore said with erratic eyes, Al immediately understood what he meant, and it glanced at Harry inadvertently.

There is no doubt that only the mysterious "James" is the most likely.

Before really figuring out the identity of this "James", Dumbledore told Al that it was best to keep Harry a secret first, lest he be traumatized a second time after he got hope.

But now it seems that Sirius' suspicion has become unreasonable, "James" has indeed met Harry, and even gave him a gift with his own hands.

"Yeah." Al felt that he couldn't stay here anymore, and anything related to the temple might become extremely important.And the theatrical show was over, it had to tell Toby about it as soon as possible.

"Take this too."

Before it left, Dumbledore put a silver ball engraved with golden patterns in front of Al.

Then Dumbledore personally sent the bewildered Al out of the tent, and said gently to it: "Since Toby doesn't want to see me, then you can help me hand it over to him. There is also a third skeleton , that will be sent to him at any time."

"In addition, I also need you to help me convey some words to him."
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In the Slytherin Chamber of Secrets.

"Slytherins are never afraid of Slytherins."

Toby repeated in a low voice what Al had just conveyed, and he explained to the bewildered Al: "The headmaster was almost assigned to Slytherin, and judging from some of his early experiences, he was not at all No worse than a normal Slytherin."

"He wanted to say, since I am so obsessed with pursuing ancient magic, then he will also get involved and try to see who can research the secrets of ancient magic first. But he has to do this, another humanoid devil , Arianna, even I can't explain why she appeared, presumably the principal needs to solve this problem urgently."

Al looked at Toby with some concern.

At this time, Grindelwald, who was trapped in the armor, asked out of breath: "He hasn't driven you away yet, and hasn't investigated your mistake of deliberately framing him?"

"I never thought of framing the principal." Toby stood up and said, "It's because he couldn't resist the desire in his heart. As I said earlier, ancient magic is very fascinating."

"Let's go, it's time to deal with our guests from afar."

He turned around and left the hall of the chamber of secrets. After walking away, Al couldn't wait to ask what to do.

"Are you talking about James?" Toby narrowed his eyes and said, "I guessed that he was still alive, but I still don't know how, after all, more than one person has seen his body with his own eyes, and I can't explain why he The reason why he has been refusing to show up. As for whether it is related to Grindelwald, no matter whether it is true or not, as long as he makes up his mind to hide it, no one can get the real answer from him. Want to deal with a superb Occlumency master? It's so easy, whether it's Veritaserum Potion or Legilimency, it's already useless, so there's no need to waste time on him."

"Instead of caring about these issues, it's better to solve the next problem first—did you just say that Akinbad came with you?"

The principal of Ouagadou also participated in the celebration as scheduled, but his purpose was somewhat different from others.

He had made an agreement with Toby to take away the devil after perjury for them. Later, Toby repented and planned to extend the time, so he paid for the opportunity of allowing Aginbad to enter the Mason Gate once.

Now, Aginbad is waiting for him in the ancient magic office.

When Toby pushed the door and walked in, he saw Akinbad carefully looking at the Mason door which was gradually returning to its original appearance.

"What a magical creation." He turned around and sighed.

"Creation?" Toby said vigilantly: "Isn't that a plant? Could it be that someone deliberately made a Mason door?"

"You are too vigilant towards me, child." Aginbad smiled kindly: "In this case, why did you entrust Angela to me to take care of?"

"Because I know that there are no good people who like to study ancient magic." Toby asked casually, "How is Angela doing now?"

"Everything is fine." Akinbad replied: "She should have arrived at Beauxbaton School of Witchcraft and Magic. I hope she can take on the responsibility this time."

"I hope so." Toby sighed, obviously not very optimistic about Angela's future. If it weren't for Akinbad's care, he probably wouldn't even be able to find a job.

"I can't wait." Aginbad urged, "Every adventure brings me closer to the mysteries of magic, but unfortunately I am too old to be as energetic as you, so I can only listen to the stories you tell. So, before entering this magical wooden door, is there anything else you want to tell me?"

"No more." Toby signaled Al to guard the door with his eyes, and then he said, "Because I will participate in this adventure with you, Principal Aginbad."

(End of this chapter)