Archaeologists at Hogwarts

Chapter 309 Whose Soul?

Cedric and Harry are both Seekers, but in addition to the Seeker, there is also a goalkeeper absent from the Chudley Cannons. The place was given over to Harry.

He was worried at first, worried that it would interfere with the team's battle plan.

But the Chudley Cannons, who lost to the Tramps, had no battle plan at all.

Before the start of the game, as the captain, Gjen said to the audience, "Let us all cross our fingers and look forward to the most glorious moment."

Then they were beaten by the Holyhead Harpies.

It was an utter fiasco, and Harry had never been so desperate in a match.

Not only does he need to avoid Bludgers from opposing teams, but he also has to be careful on his own side.

What was even worse was Cedric. He slammed more Quaffles from his own team than from the opposing team. For a while, he couldn't even tell the number of the enemy team—whether it was seven or eleven.

In other words, Gjeon was relatively honest, but he was also almost not blown off his head by a bat from his team's batter.

This was a match between three players and 11 players, and it wasn't until the second half of the irregular fight that Harry felt the warmth from his own players. He was sent off without having time to cause too many problems for the opposing team - at most, he lost a few hairs, replaced the torn witch robe with a new one, and smoothed the broom's tail.

The final game ended with a score of 20:370. Harry had a chance to catch the Snitch, but was sent flying by a batter from the Cannons, almost breaking Harry's fingers.

"It's ok."

After the game, Gjen even had the mood to comfort the two little guys. He said with a smile: "I feel that our strength is almost equal to that of the homeless team. This is also an improvement."

Harry was wheezing and unable to speak, and Cedric looked at the Holyhead Harpies who were even perfunctory in celebrating, not at all reconciled in his heart.

The other members of the artillery team are already discussing going to the bar for a drink.

The spectators on the court began to leave their seats one after another. Slughorn also stood up after reflecting on the fierce game for a while. He said to Toby intentionally or unintentionally: "When Albus comes back, you must notify me. , The days of retirement are slowly becoming boring."

"Boring?" Toby deliberately stood next to Snape and said loudly, "Then come back and be the head of Slytherin. It just so happens that there is an old boy in the school who wants to retire-of course, he will definitely retire voluntarily." .”

Snape stared at Toby with unkind eyes, and he said gloomily, "If you really have such free time, you should take care of your proud disciple more."

"Ah, Severus." Toby turned around and patted him on the shoulder and said, "Of course, of course I have to take care of you, you will retire tonight, and I promise that the pension will be paid to you in time Yes, sure to get you a good life in Spinner's End."

Snape angrily shook off Toby's palm, and Slughorn said goodbye to them cheerfully, but finally glanced at the castle with some reluctance.

The match was over, and Snape, the referee, had nothing to do, but Toby still had things to do.

He came to the players' lounge and saw the Cannon players who were excitedly praising each other, as well as Harry and Cedric who were huddled in the corner.

"You just swung the ball really well, definitely at the World Cup level!"

"Your shot is not bad, it's so fast I can't see it clearly!"

"Please let it go."

Toby walked through the crowd while yelling. He found Gjeon and asked, "How is it? Are these two little guys okay?"

"Wonderful!" Gjeon said excitedly, "Can these two kids sign the contract now - I can fire those two guys who didn't show up when I go back!"

Harry and Cedric panicked.

"Don't!" Harry shouted hastily, "I still have to go to class!"

"Don't worry." Gjeon persisted: "We don't usually have so many games to play, and every game can be moved to the weekend."

"But we're not yet adults!" Cedric said desperately.

"Where's the guardian?" Gazeon looked eager to try: "I'm the best at persuading others. You may not know that the entire team is built by me now, and I'm the only one in the league without a team manager. team!"

There was a proud expression on his face, as if he took it as some kind of bragging rights.

Fortunately, the kind-hearted Professor Haimo made a timely move.

"You can wait and see." He said with a smile on his face: "You still have two college teams that you haven't seen-by the way, since you said that the entire team is now built by you, then the deal right?"

Harry and Cedric looked at the two figures walking away with their shoulders crossed. They turned their heads and exchanged a look, showing a look of horror at the same time——Professor Highmore really sold them, right?
No one knows what kind of deal Professor Haimer and Gjen made, but in the days that followed, Gjen would often show up at Hogwarts, almost every day, except for eating in the auditorium , the place where the students saw him most often was the Quidditch pitch.

The players in other academy training have heard the news, once Gjen appears on the field, they will immediately pretend that they can’t play – once Gjen appeared so abruptly that Flint and Flint ran into each other in a hurry. The barking Draco caused him to lie in the school hospital for several days.

"I said, if you really don't want to join, just say no to Professor Haimo."

In the corridor, Ron impatiently followed behind the sneaky Harry. They had to check in advance every time they went around a staircase along the way, so as not to be discovered by Gazeon.

"But how should I speak?" Harry said in a low voice, "Whether you join the team or not is one thing, the key is to attract that... that person who is like my father, I can't refuse before that, and I want to find he."

It was a real dilemma, as long as Harry wanted to find James, he had to attend every Chudley Cannons game, and who knew when James would come.

Relatively speaking, Cedric is much worse.

Harry and Ron stared silently at a figure that was much taller than them as they passed by. The other person picked up his backpack to cover his head, glanced forward from time to time, and then continued to move forward.

A second later, the figure stepped back again.

Cedric asked suspiciously; "Is Gjeon here today?"

"He's coming!" Hermione suddenly appeared from the stairs, startling all three of them.

"But he's watching Slytherin's training at the stadium now, so he doesn't want to disturb you." Hermione turned to Harry and Ron and said, "We should go, hurry up, we won't be able to catch up any later."

Today is the day for the trio to learn the Patronus, and the returning Lupine still assumes this responsibility.

Few people know about his transfer in the first half of the term, and Harry and the three are not included.Of course, Sirius didn't care to tell them, but Lupine thought that the fewer people who knew about it, the better, and there was no need to add trouble to a few children.

When the three of Harry came to the office of the Professor of Defense Against the Dark Cube, they found that Professor Lupine was trying to tame the flame bat of unknown origin.Surprisingly, Professor Haimer is also there, he is trying to convince Lupine: "Flame bats are difficult to tame easily, the best way is to find the soil where they live, and then rub it on your hands. They feel familiar."

Hermione, who was at the end, closed the door quietly, and Toby turned his head in time and said to them: "But the habitat of this flame bat—that is, the temple has been almost destroyed, no matter who it is, , I don’t even recommend that anyone go there to explore again, a chaotic ruin is very dangerous.”

Harry and the others knew for a long time that this flaming bat came from the temple that Professor Haimer had explored, and it is said that the scepter and the humanoid devil were also obtained from the temple.

Harry and Ron also saw the photo of Professor Haimer snatching Angela's scepter in front of the temple.

"It seems that it can only be locked like this." Lupine stood up and sighed. The flame bat writhed uncomfortably in the cage, and from time to time it bit a tooth mark. Ron grinned straight as if the tooth mark It appeared in his hand.

In fact, he had already begun to think this way—the appearance of the flame bat here would not be a coincidence, and it was even more impossible for Professor Haimer to be a coincidence.They all remembered that the flaming bat was given to Harry by the person suspected to be James, but Harry was asked to leave by the professor before Harry could stay for long.

This is completely in line with the rules. It is impossible for students to keep such dangerous pets in the school, not to mention that no one knows whether the so-called "James" is dangerous or not.

Now, the Flame Bat, and the person who took the Flame Bat back, are back.

The next lesson, shouldn't it be for them to deal with this fire crow bat?
The tragedy of the pharaoh's mask is still deeply engraved in the hearts of the three children, as well as the mummy rooster
"Children, the curriculum has been temporarily changed."

As soon as Lupine came up, he announced, which made the three of them shudder.

"About the Patronus Charm, I have already taught you everything I can, and all that remains is practice. However, Professor Haimer came to me today and said that he had another good idea."

The three of them silently looked at Professor Haimo, waiting for the other party to say what this good idea was.

"Don't be so sad." Toby saw through their thoughts at a glance and said, "Just considering your current progress, I think maybe you can use your time in more useful places."

schedule?

What progress can be made?

The three of them immediately lowered their heads obediently like students who have done something wrong.

They didn't make any progress in learning the Patronus, and Hermione managed to summon the silver smoke a few times occasionally, but nothing happened after that.

"It's not your fault." Toby said in a rare gentle tone: "The Patronus Charm is still too difficult for you, which is easy to understand, maybe you have to wait until the higher grades, it seems This year's final assessment also has to be put on hold."

"Huh?" Lupine turned his head and asked, "You were going to actually teach the students the Patronus Charm?"

"That's why I switched to the assessment of the Teachers' Appreciation Association later." Toby rubbed his chin and said, "Just wait for the Patronus to see if it's feasible next year."

"You should know that it's hard for even grown-up wizards to learn—"

"Listen, children."

Before Lupine finished speaking, Toby interrupted: "Then you have only one task, and that is to take good care of this flame bat and find out what secrets it hides."

Lupine shook his head helplessly and didn't say anything about Toby's decision.

But the trio was in a hurry, especially Ron and Hermione. They had always learned the Patronus Charm to help Harry solve the Horcrux problem. How could they suddenly stop now?
And what about Voldemort's problem?
Toby carried the cage, and he walked back to his office with the three of them who were full of problems. Al was lying on the flying carpet and dozing off. Two skeletons pushed the flying carpet back and forth, as if they were wandering. swing.

"I know you have a lot of questions for me."

After the door was closed, Toby turned around and said to the three of them: "But now there are more urgent problems to be solved, and"

He turned his gaze to Harry: "Have you ever thought about it, Harry, the creation of Horcruxes must take the lives of innocent people, if I mean if, the night the mysterious man found your parents, your The parents survived by luck."

"Then whose soul is hidden in your body?"

Harry opened his mouth wide in horror, and Ron and Hermione looked at Professor Highmore in disbelief.

"Could it be that my mother too," Harry asked in a last-ditch hope.

"No." Toby didn't give Harry much time to rejoice. He shook his head and said, "There are no clues about your mother yet. This is just a guess. Now the guess has shifted to your father——Jen Tom Potter, one of the few insiders, we can only hope to get answers from him."

"Speaking carefully, this is the clue given to me by the person suspected of James himself - instead of rushing to see you at the celebration, he gave priority to meeting Black. Perhaps the friendship between them is very deep, but no matter Anyway, this seems too abnormal, as if he doesn't worry about you at all."

"But how could it be?"

Toby narrowed his eyes.

If James Potter really became Grindelwald's subordinate, how could he not know what Voldemort did to Harry?

On that night more than ten years ago, Toby now knows that Grindelwald ordered Peter Pettigrew to reveal the secret.

So is there such a possibility, in fact, the Potters have already had to seek refuge with Grindelwald because of this leak, and they have played a good role for Voldemort?

In front of Grindelwald, who is so good at deceiving people, if he uses Harry's life to indirectly blackmail the Potters.

That doesn't seem impossible either.

But in this way, Harry's problem is somewhat uncertain.

Whose soul is hidden in his body?
(End of this chapter)