Archaeologists at Hogwarts

Chapter 304 The Brand New Principal

No one in the school knew that the headmaster had turned into Toby. In addition, they didn't always appear in front of the crowd together, which greatly reduced Toby's suspicion.

At the same time, this did not delay Toby's time to teach the students.

In the classroom of ancient magic class.

"You've had a good first half of term, boys."

Toby praised the students sitting below: "Now all the students have mastered how to use the scepter in advance, and have also successfully learned the divination method of ancient magic, which is very good."

The students were incredibly quiet.

Did they hear correctly?Is Professor Highmore actually praising them?

Just as they were gradually relaxing, they heard Professor Haimer continue to say: "Although I don't belong to a specific school, I still hope to see you get more points for your school in the selection of the teacher recognition meeting. So, starting today, I officially announce that this will be our main course in the second half of the semester—to cope with the final assessment of the Teacher Appreciation Meeting. It just so happens that the content of the assessment is related to ancient magic, and I am also the examiner. What a coincidence gone."

Ron froze for a moment, he raised his hand stupidly and asked, "Excuse me, professor, do you mean that our exam has changed from one exam to several?"

"That's the thing." Toby said with a smile on his face: "I know that no one is forcing you to participate in every assessment, but the principal suddenly changed his mind. He thinks it would be better for the students to be exposed to ancient magic. ——After all, this is a sensitive period. You should all have heard about Grindelwald’s escape from Nurmengard. Maybe one day you will have to face him in person—oh, yes, and , don’t you want to learn more ancient magic?”

Judging by the looks on the students' faces, they knew deep down that this was not a good idea.

Who would have thought that Professor Haimo would change his mind, didn't he promise that as long as he successfully grasped the scepter, he would be able to pass this year's exam?
Why is there still a teacher commendation meeting this time!

"Keep going, my little soldiers." Toby encouraged: "Don't be so sad, think about the good things, if you have any good ideas, and implement them smoothly, maybe your works can be made even better." Add to the wish box. Gold, gleaming gold is waiting for you—forget it, it’s better for you to see with your own eyes—Al, bring them in.”

The door of the classroom was pushed open, and Al was floating in front on a small flying carpet, followed by George, Fred, and Wood who were supporting and smiling.

It seems that this is not the first time they have done this kind of work.

Toby asked the three of them to stand in front of the students, then took out a piece of parchment and said: "In order to commend the lucky charms made by Mr. Weasley, Mr. Weasley, and Mr. Wood, I hereby reward each of them with an extra Bagalon's reward. Don't look at the quantity as Miss Lovegood's anti-demon glasses, this is because the lucky charm appeared a little late, and there will be more in the future."

Under Ron's envious eyes, Al took out three small bags from his belly pocket and put them in the hands of the three people one by one.

But I don't know if it was a hallucination. When they left, Ron seemed to catch a glimpse of Mr. Al asking for the three small bags back.

No matter what, the effect of this gold reward is still very significant. In the next class, the students seemed to be pumped out, trying desperately to transform their scepters into various animals , it's a pity that none of them succeeded.

Especially Hermione, she suddenly found that her abilities had weakened, except for the one time she succeeded on the night of the full moon, she had never turned into such a lifelike cat or raccoon.

"What's wrong?"

Hermione was hiding in the abandoned girls' bathroom on the second floor. After checking that Myrtle was not here, she took out the Time Converter and planned to go back in time as usual, so that she could take the arithmetic and divination class at the same time.

But this time she was dizzy, and couldn't help thinking half-heartedly about the reason for the failure of the transformation.
Oops!

Hermione looked in horror at the clock hanging on the wall and the hourglass around her neck.

She set the time wrong, and there was an extra hour!

This scared Hermione terribly, and she tried to remember what she had done with the extra hour.Professor McGonagall clearly told her about the consequences of facing her past self—many wizards thought they had encountered black magic and killed their past or future self by mistake.

Of course, Hermione may not do this, she knows that she has a time-turner, but other people may not think so-especially Professor Highmore, if in case Professor Highmore meets the redundant self. She Will he be caught and mistaken for Grindelwald's spy?

But what they are afraid of will come.

Hermione, who was hiding in the bathroom, heard the door of the bathroom opened, and then quickly closed again.

At the same time, Professor Highmore's voice sounded, causing Hermione to cover her mouth in fright.

"Do you think this method is feasible—let Dumbledore go to see Grindelwald, and can he get more secrets out of his mouth?"

"Yeah..." Al showed some hesitation, and it wasn't too sure.

"Then there is no other way." Toby sighed, and then there was no movement.

Hermione felt her heart beating so loudly, it sounded like a drum beating in her ears, beating non-stop.

She held her breath and listened for a while, the bathroom door was opened and then closed again, which allowed her to finally let out a long breath.

But what did Professor Highmore mean by what he just said?What does it mean to ask the principal to meet Grindelwald? Does the professor know where Grindelwald is hiding?

She pushed open the door of the compartment in bewilderment, and the expression on her face froze in the next second.

Toby was standing in front of her with his arms folded, his hair drooping in front of his eyes, and his eyes and eyes could not be seen clearly.Al sat on the small flying carpet and floated next to his head, with a human smile on his mouth, he greeted Hermione: "Yeah!"

Hermione's legs went limp, and she fell crookedly, but was held firmly by a pair of big hands.

"Professor." Hermione's tone was filled with tears: "I—"

"Miss Granger." Toby interrupted without a doubt: "I remember meeting you in the corridor just now, and you turned up here again. Could it be that you still have abilities that Dumbledore doesn't have?"

"I—" Hermione didn't know whether to say about the Time-Turner.

At this time, the bell for class came from outside, and the corridor became quiet.

"Come with me," Toby said, turning around.

Hermione thought that Professor Highmore was going to take her to the office, but what she didn't expect was that the other party walked to the faucet in the bathroom instead.

She remembered that there had once been an entrance leading to the Slytherin Chamber of Secrets, and it was where she, Ron and Harry had been imprisoned.

When they were in the second grade, the three of them were smart enough to accidentally injure Professor Haimer who was dealing with the basilisk, and then they were locked up for a whole night.

That was really impressive.

"I was wrong, Professor!" Hermione cried, even if it was Professor Highmore's office, but the Chamber of Secrets was not acceptable, it was too scary, and there was a corpse of a basilisk.

Al was startled by Hermione's crying, Toby also turned around and looked at her, and said in a strange tone: "What's wrong with you, isn't it a time-turner, I didn't say you want to Punish you. Besides, you haven't done anything wrong, at most it's—"

He glanced at the time on the clock: "It's been an hour more, if I don't come, you can just hide here for an hour, and you don't have to worry about anything."

Hermione stopped crying, she stared blankly at Professor Highmore, it turned out that he already knew, but why did he scare herself just now?
"It was Al's idea." Toby said casually, "It wants to play a joke on you. Besides, did you hear the conversation between us just now?"

"A little bit." Hermione said honestly, and stared at Al complainingly, making him feel embarrassed.

"Now that you know." Toby said slowly.

"But I don't know anything." Hermione said innocently: "I don't understand what you just said at all, and Grindelwald, I don't want to know where he is hiding, but —do you really know where he is?"

Toby stared at Hermione for a moment.

"No." He said, "I don't know either, it's just a simple thought—forget it, you better stop following me, go to the Ancient Magic Office, go as soon as possible, and avoid this hour first."

Hermione didn't know if what Professor Highmore said was true, but she had learned how to avoid her curiosity. Many experiences proved that students like them were not necessarily smarter than the professor.

After Hermione left, Toby and Al looked at each other, and he saw confusion and curiosity in Al's eyes.

Al didn't understand why Toby had suddenly changed his mind again.

"I thought of a better way." Toby said, he used Parseltongue to open the passage of the secret room, and got in together with Al.

In the hall of the Chamber of Secrets, Grindelwald was still the same. As soon as he saw Toby, he asked, "Did you bring me any new news?"

"There are some." Toby said calmly: "I originally thought of an idea-since you refuse to tell the truth in front of me, what if I pretend to be Dumbledore? For this reason, I also thought of asking A student came to assist me, but then I realized that students shouldn't be involved, and it's hard to avoid that you don't see it."

"However, other people may not be sure, they will definitely believe it."

Grindelwald stared at Toby with interest, until he saw Toby take down a pair of Polyjuice Potion, then changed into Dumbledore's witch robe, and finally asked Al to take out a camera, he finally couldn't help it up.

"What are you going to do?" Grindelwald asked warily.

"I want to make Hogwarts safer," said Toby.

He let the armor control Grindelwald to go to the corner, making it impossible for people to see the specific location here, and then let the armor bring Grindelwald to the floor, looking like he was caught without a fight.

"Good night." Toby cast a stun spell on the struggling Grindelwald, causing him to fall asleep immediately.

Then, in the "click" of the camera, there was a photo of Dumbledore, who was extremely tall, facing the unknown Grindelwald.
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In the next three days, the students unexpectedly discovered that neither Professor Highmore nor Principal Dumbledore had disappeared, and even Mr. Ayer, who usually substitutes for Professor Highmore, was not at the school, and no one knew where they were going. What's wrong.

Until the fourth day, Toby returned to school with a seriously injured body. As soon as he came back, he was surrounded by the professors in the school.

Headmaster Sprout of Hufflepuff College carefully helped Toby to the school hospital. She and Ms. Pomfrey checked Toby's injuries carefully. Both of them were surprised that Toby survived like this .

"Where have you been?" Dean McGonagall asked nervously, "Where is Dumbledore? Why didn't he come back with you?"

"Headmaster, he, he." Toby's weak tone made people think that he was about to die. Professor Flitwick screamed in horror, and Hagrid's crying sounded throughout the corridor.

"he got hurt."

Toby's next words almost made these people choke to death. Under Snape's suspicious eyes, he continued: "The headmaster suffered a serious injury, ten thousand times worse than me, and he won't be able to come back soon. , You have to wait until the injury heals."

"But we brought back Grindelwald's body."

For a moment, the atmosphere in the school hospital froze.

"What did you say?" Snape stepped forward suddenly and said, "Whose body did you bring back?"

"Gellert Grindelwald, that's him." Toby kept coughing up blood and said, "He's dead, at the hands of the principal, and it's too late for me to stop it."

"He said he wanted to end a war that hadn't started, and I think ... whoever was there at the time couldn't stop him."

"He finally told me to let me be the acting headmaster of Hogwarts, and the rest will be discussed when he comes back."

Before these people could ask more questions, Toby just passed out.

The professors in the school hospital looked at each other, especially Snape and Lupine, who had the most complicated expressions on their faces.

"Impossible!" Snape roared, looking very excited, and was quickly stopped by McGonagall, who forced him out of the school hospital, so as not to disturb Toby's rest.

That afternoon, the disgraced Al came back with Grindelwald's body, and what he said was exactly the same as Toby's description.

In fact, it originally wanted to add an additional sentence, allowing itself to be the vice principal, but it was rejected by Toby.

Then the very next day, a new article appeared in The Quibbler—

[Dark Lord’s nemesis——Albus Dumbledore, and Toby Highmore. 】

Among them, the photos taken in the secret room were printed on the headlines of every magazine, making the magazine's limelight completely overwhelm the "Daily Prophet".

At the same time, Dumbledore's reputation is higher than ever before, and the voice of the Ministry calling for Fudge to step down is becoming more and more obvious-he is really the most incompetent minister ever, not only wrongly judged Green Devore's situation, before he even had to do anything, let Dumbledore solve all the troubles ahead of time.

And Hogwarts finally ushered in a brand new headmaster——

The esteemed Professor Toby Highmore.

(End of this chapter)