Archaeologists at Hogwarts

Chapter 310 Flame Bat
More puzzles emerged one after another.

In Toby's previous attempt (Chapter 247), he successfully found clues that Harry was a Horcrux with the help of Myrtle, and he also had some inexplicable connection with Voldemort—the shadow of young Voldemort penetrated into the Harry's body seemed to have found his destination skillfully.

That's why Toby guessed that Harry was a Horcrux accidentally made by Voldemort.

But if the Potters are really still alive, and Voldemort failed to kill anyone on the night he was tricked by Grindelwald, then his process of making Horcruxes is destined to be incomplete-it must be done through killing.

In this way, the source of another piece of soul in Harry's body becomes confusing - if it doesn't belong to Voldemort, then who else?
Moreover, how did this unknown soul enter Harry's body?

Whose Horcrux is he?

But all of this is just Toby's guess, and there is no way to fully confirm it.

who can confirm this conjecture.
Except for Grindelwald, who refused to speak, the only remaining insider is James Potter, who exists in suspicion.

Only by finding James and hearing from him that Lily is still alive can Toby be proved right.

As for the other person who experienced this speculation——Harry, he didn't know how to think about this problem at all.

Professor Highmore did not hide it from him, and told Harry all his thoughts, but Harry found that he could not understand what Professor Highmore said.

What is not Voldemort's soul?

Who else could that be?

Could it be his father's?Or his mother?
Or did he split two souls himself, one belonging to Gryffindor and the other a shrewd Slytherin?

But whether he understood the question was not that important, Harry only needed to know one thing - all the clues were hidden in the flame bat.

This was a gift from the person suspected of James to Harry, and now Professor Highmore asked the trio to give up the Patronus class, which hadn't made any progress, and instead focus on the flaming bat.

Toby believes that perhaps only those closest to James can solve this mystery.
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Since the flame bat is a magical animal, Harry naturally thought of who to ask for help.

Taking advantage of Monday afternoon when there was no class, Harry left the castle with Ron and came to the playground with his bulging schoolbag on his back.

Hermione also came with them, but before she came, she asked some weird questions: "We're going outside the castle, right? Are you sure you won't be back before two o'clock?"

Ron couldn't help but suspect that Hermione was deliberately showing off for Crookshanks, so that she could keep an eye on him, so that Crookshanks would have a chance to eat a little bit (Ron's pet mouse).

Just after Ron secretly decided that he must go back early, he still couldn't help asking Harry again: "Are you sure you want to ask Hagrid for help? Professor Highmore said it, even Newt Scamman Dodd can't see what's wrong with this flaming bat, and are you sure asking Hagrid isn't helping you? What if he likes the flaming bat and wants to use it to teach us?"

The flame bat looked so much like a dragon, it was hard for Ron not to wonder where Hagrid would focus.

"It won't be a problem." Harry said with determination, "Don't forget, the number of flame bats is already very small, and Hagrid can't go to the ruins of the temple now, he can't find any more flame bats." gone."

That's a good reason.

The three came to the cabin and knocked on the door forcefully.

They waited quietly for a while, but there was still no sound from the room.

"The crossbow is still here." Hermione pointed to the giant crossbow placed at the door and said, "It's unlikely that Hagrid will go to the Forbidden Forest. Maybe it's around here. Let's look for it first."

So the three walked around the house again, and then came to the adjacent paddock, looking through the fence made of fence.

Sure enough, Hagrid was in the paddock, and Fang, who smelled the smell, rushed towards them so fast that he almost knocked Harry over.

"Why are you here?" Hagrid walked over and said with a serious expression.

"What's wrong with us?" Harry asked curiously.

"Something went wrong." Hagrid frowned and looked into the paddock. "I heard a sound nearby last night, but I don't know who made it, so I'm going to try to find it today."

"Isn't it because of the Sniff?" said Ron. "Or because of the Centaur? They left the Forbidden Forest?"

He didn't take it too seriously, the noise might all have been created by Hagrid's "textbook".

"It won't be a centaur." Hagrid shook his head and said, "They won't leave the woods casually—forget it, let's talk about your business, and I can look for it later."

So Harry stood there and opened his schoolbag, revealing the flaming bat locked in a cage inside——Sure enough, Ron was right, and Hagrid immediately asked with interest: "Fire dragon?! Huh?" Lee, this is—"

"No! No!" Harry quickly shook his head and denied, "It's not a fire dragon, it's a fire bat. Have you seen this kind of creature before?"

"Fire bat?" Hagrid shook his head regretfully, "It's a pity it's not a dragon cub, I've never heard of this kind of animal—is it really impossible for it to grow bigger?"

"Forget it, Hagrid." Hermione said angrily, "Even if you use the Expansion Charm."

"Shh." Hagrid reminded shyly, "Keep your voice down, don't let other people hear you."

Hagrid's wand was supposed to be broken, but Harry and the others knew that Hagrid's wand was preserved wonderfully, occasionally used on a big pumpkin for Halloween.

They didn't leave immediately, because Hagrid really, as Ron thought, had a strong interest in this flame bat, and kept poking it with his fingers, even if it was bitten several times, he didn't care.

"I think it already knows me." Hagrid moved, "Maybe I should give it a name to commemorate Noble."

Harry and Ron exchanged a look, and he decided it was time to leave with the Flame Bats.

At this moment, Hermione, who was standing a little further away, suddenly screamed. She pointed to the hedge behind her and said, "Hagrid, is this the person you're looking for?"

"Who?"

Hagrid turned around immediately, and Harry and Ron also turned their heads to look at the past.

They saw, just inside the dense hedge, lying a man whom they had never expected.

Captain of the Chudley Cannons - Mr. Gjenn.
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"Ah, I'm sorry, I drank too much last night, I thought it was a bedroom, but I didn't expect it to be—hahahaha."

Gazeon was woken up by Hagrid's vigorous shaking. As soon as he got up, he checked the surrounding situation. Judging from the expression on his face, even he didn't expect that he would sleep here.

Yesterday happened to be the game where the Chudley Cannons lost to the Holyhead Harpies. It seems that no matter how indifferent Gjeon was at the time, he couldn't escape the suspicion of drinking to drown his sorrows.

"It's fine." Hagrid also said with some headaches, "But how did you get in yesterday?"

Gjeon tried hard to recall for a while, then grinned and said: "I forgot, hahahaha. Once I get drunk, I often do things that I can't even think of. This time it's not bad—" Once I woke up and found that I was not in England, but somehow went to Egypt—is that a flame bat? I remember that was the first time I saw a flame bat—"

"You know the flame bat?" Harry asked in surprise.

"Oh?" Gjeon was interrupted and wondered: "Is it more rare to know it than to go to Egypt? I didn't expect our new Seeker's brain circuit to be so outrageous-but it's just right for the Chudley Cannons. "

"I haven't said I want to join—"

Before Harry could finish his thoughts, Hermione suddenly stopped her and said, "Can you elaborate more, sir? This is an important factor in whether Harry can join the team, and determines his future."

"Oh?" Gjeon suddenly became serious: "Then I have to talk about it, but before that—do you have anything to eat?"

He rubbed his stomach, and looked at the castle with hopeful eyes: "I remember that it seems that it will be lunch time after a while, but I'm going to be hungry."

Hagrid immediately agreed to the matter.

In the cabin, Gjeon stared at the rock cake in his hand miraculously. He picked up another piece and bumped the two together. Crack a biscuit.

"Okay, I've seen your new bat." He put the biscuit back on the plate and said, "Now can you tell me where the food is? I can take it myself."

Hagrid looked hurt.

"You can try soaking the biscuits in tea"

Gazeon glanced at the boiling hot tea, he couldn't tell for a while whether he didn't hear what Hagrid said clearly, or there was something wrong with his brain—since he couldn't break the biscuit, how could he break the rock skin? How about the cake in such a small teacup?
"Well, maybe we can put this aside for a while?" Harry tentatively said, "Can you talk about the flame bat again, Mr. Gjeyn?"

Gjeon silently pushed the plate full of rock cakes away, and then he said in a cheerful tone again: "No problem, where did I just talk about-oh, yes, it's Egypt. That's several It happened years ago, and it was also the time when the Chudley Cannons narrowly beat the Wigtown Wanderers-yes, we beat them. Then I accidentally drank too much when I was happy, and when I woke up, I found myself In a strange place - like today."

"Then I went to a bar and asked about it, and I found out that I accidentally went to Egypt - I didn't even know how I did it, but I was there. But one thing to say, one of the wines in that bar It tastes really good, it seems to be called some kind of devil, black devil, or is it?"

"Dark Devil Wine!" Hermione said in surprise.

"That's it!" Gazeon clapped his hands suddenly, and he said in surprise: "It's the black devil wine. I also asked the owner of that bar, but it turned out that there was not much stock of this wine, and it couldn't support me. Drunk, but it would empty my wallet—I was thinking of drinking one more time, so that when I woke up I might find myself back in England with a lot of travel money left over."

"Although the wallet is empty, I still met an interesting customer in that bar. He played cards with me for a while and bought me a drink. At that time, I saw this little guy hiding in his arms. It looked like Like a fire dragon, I thought he was a rich smuggler. As a result, the man told me that he was not, but came to inquire about some information. He introduced the flame bat to me, and asked me if I knew the ancient spirit The ace spellbreaker in the pavilion—but who can I know. Fortunately, that person is not bad, even if he knows that I don’t know the ace, he still treats me to a lot of wine.”

James!

The person who went to find Professor Haimer must be the guy suspected of James!
Harry didn't expect to have such a harvest, he hurriedly asked: "And then?"

"Then?" Gjen thought for a while and said, "Then that person went to ask the owner of the bar. I remember that many people in the bar seemed to know the trump card, and many people bet whether he still had the trump card." How many days will it take to come back, and I made a small bet myself, and I don’t know if I won or not—oh, by the way, the owner of that bar is still a goblin, who seems to be called Wei or something.”

wich.

Harry looked at Gjen in shock—the man had gone to Professor Highmore and found the Veil Bar.

Then the trio said goodbye to Hagrid and Gazeon in a hurry, and they ran towards the castle without stopping.

"Huh? Where's Hermione?"

Just before entering the castle, Ron turned his head and found that Hermione, who had been following behind, had disappeared again.

"Where did she go?"

Harry, who didn't have time to stop, had already rushed up the stairs, just at that moment a tired Hermione appeared from the corner of the stairs with her schoolbag in her arms.

"How did you run so fast?"

Harry felt something was wrong with his head.

Hermione yawned slowly and said, "Because - by the way, where are we going?"

"Go to Professor Haimer." Harry said with a confused face: "Gazeon just told us that he met that suspicious person in the Veil Bar. At that time, the other party also had a flame bat, and he must tell the news to him as soon as possible. Professor—you don't remember?"

"How is that possible." Hermione waved her hand and said, "Then hurry up, I just saw Professor Highmore returned to his office, there should be time to find him now."

Harry had no choice but to temporarily put aside the surprise in his heart. He, Ron and Hermione came to the door of the Office of Ancient Magic, and knocked on the door.

"Please come in."

Professor Haimer's voice could be heard in the room. He was sitting behind his desk playing with a locket. When he looked up and saw these three people, a smile appeared on his solemn face.

"It seems that you have made some progress, let's talk about it."

"Tell me, what did you find out?"

(End of this chapter)