Archaeologists at Hogwarts

Chapter 313 The Screaming Shack and Gjeon
Dumbledore is back.

Perhaps it was out of vigilance and worry about Toby that he made this decision instead of continuing to be an archaeologist outside.

The teachers and students naturally welcome this very much. Of course, this refers to those teachers and students who were deceived in the past-they took Toby's words seriously, thinking that Dumbledore was really killing Grindelwald He got injured and didn't show up until today.

However, some people still found that there was something wrong with the atmosphere at the dinner that day—for example, the Harry trio who had guessed earlier in the morning, they learned through Sirius that the corpse can also be pretended, and naturally they also suspected that Grindelwald The authenticity of the corpse.

And then there was Snape.

He had personally treated Dumbledore that night, and he had long suspected that there was something wrong with this matter.

But later Dumbledore refused to tell him the truth. Even at the dinner that day, he accepted Toby's lie - admitted that Grindelwald was solved by himself, and that Toby was also involved in this incident. A lot of effort was put into this matter.

It's a pity that Toby was not there, otherwise he would have suspected that Dumbledore had been dropped by Grindelwald in the Chamber of Secrets.

That's right, Toby had already guessed that the devil wandering around Hogwarts that night was Ariana on Dumbledore's body, because the timing was too coincidental, compared to the indifferent devil in the armor, the problem appeared in Dumbledore's body. Lido is much more likely.

Perhaps it was because of the embarrassment of the wrong judgment, or simply because Dumbledore came back too early, so that Toby could not continue to enjoy the taste of being the acting headmaster, or it might be because he was worried that his lies would be exposed in full view. Perhaps, Toby was complaining that Dumbledore went to see Grindelwald as soon as he returned to school, and refused to tell himself what he had gained from the trip, and he did not try to alleviate the contradiction between the two people's different attitudes towards the law of conservation of magic .

All in all, Toby had suddenly found Lupine.

In the Defense Against the Dark Arts office, Lupine was startled when he saw Toby strode in, and even his tone became a little stammered.

"Didn't you go to celebrate the principal's safe return?"

He thought that Toby had discovered something—for example, he had accepted Dumbledore's order to keep an eye on Toby's secrets.

"Now the principal's office must be full of people." Toby said casually: "And it just so happens that today is a full moon."

"What's wrong with the full moon?" Lupine became more nervous. He hadn't forgotten that it was Toby who erased his memory while he was turning into a werewolf.

Although he later learned that Toby was helping him, Lupine didn't understand what Toby was helping him at all-he didn't know there was such a thing as death.

"You should know the meaning of the full moon better than me." Toby's eyes became a little strange, and he even doubted Lupine's authenticity now.

This made him have to keep an eye on Lupine all the more.

Especially on a full moon night.

"What?" After hearing Toby's purpose, Lupine said decisively: "You want to go to the Shrieking Shack with me, no! What if you erase some of my memories again. And this It's very dangerous—what are you going to do?"

"It's very simple." Toby seemed to have known that Lupine would refuse, and he replied immediately: "I've had this idea since I knew you were pretended by Grindelwald throughout the first half of the semester-until now So far, I haven't been able to tell if there's anything wrong with you, especially after turning into a werewolf."

"You mean the effect of that erased memory?" Lupine thought of the huge ice cube all of a sudden.

Toby nodded, indicating that was the case.

"Really?" Lupine reconfirmed: "You would rather stay with a werewolf tonight than face Dumbledore who finally came back—you said there was no conflict between the two of you? Except Outside of the celebration, this is the second time you have acted like this."

"Is it so obvious?" Toby asked curiously.

Lupine said in shock, "I knew you had a question - what happened the night I was rescued?"

That was the only reason Lupine could think of.

And it happened to be the night of the full moon that day, which couldn't stop him from worrying.

Unfortunately, it was useless for Lupine to worry as much as he could.

Just as he was about to leave for the night at the Screaming Shack, Toby reappeared out of nowhere, looking very expectant.

"Dumbledore didn't stop you?" Lupine asked absurdly.

"There's nothing to stop it." Toby said indifferently: "Can you still hurt me? If you really have this ability, then I couldn't succeed at all in the snow mountain."

In fact, the main reason is that the third skeleton pretending to be Grindelwald is staying in the Ministry of Magic for processing. Without the three skeletons, Toby cannot fully reproduce the magic that disappeared in history. Ritual.

Lupine can only accept this, and Toby's undisguised approach is better than a look of other purposes.

Taking advantage of the coming night, the two left the noisy castle and walked towards the Whomping Willow on the playground.

"Where's your assistant?" On the way, Lupine noticed that Al wasn't with him.

"It's about to pack up and run away." Toby shook his head full of disgust and said, admitting that Grindelwald's body was faked in disguise: "I'm probably packing up in the office, as long as Dumbledore pursues it at the dinner party, he will immediately Leaving England with all the property—well, Al probably intends to seek refuge with Angela, she happens to be in France now, and she will return to Ouagadou after a while."

"What about you?" Lupine, who knew the truth, then asked: "Then what are you going to do? At that time, Al will send you a message so that you can escape directly from the Screaming Shack?"

Toby stopped before hitting the Whomping Willow.

The night obscured his sight and expression, but the wind could not prevent Lupine from hearing what he said next.

"No, I won't leave like this-it turns out that my decision to come back is not wrong at all. Only here, only at Hogwarts-at the starting point of everything, can I achieve all my ideals."

Lupine didn't ask what Toby's ideal was, he added dryly: "And ambition - you are acting like an ambitious man now, anyone will think you are the Dark Lord successor."

Toby turned his head and gave Lupine a big smile.

He corrected in a piercing tone: "No, it's the first generation of black devils—I prefer people to call me that."

Lupine was not frightened by Toby's tone. He was used to Toby's style long ago, so he just asked one more question: "The others you are talking about include the principal?"

This can be regarded as Lupine repeatedly confirming whether there is a conflict between Toby and Dumbledore - after all, the black devil is not a well-meaning title, only the enemy will call Toby by that.

"Trust me." Toby quickly admitted: "The headmaster must have mentioned this name in his heart more than once, and even he would think it is so appropriate-there is no better title for me. "

Lupine stared at Toby silently for a moment.

"Okay," he sighed, watching the Whomping Willow calm down after being hit by the rock.

"Hopefully it doesn't affect my career - a job is a career, do you know how hard it is for a werewolf to find a job?"

Toby walked towards the tree hole of the Whomping Willow and said, "I'm sure I didn't fight the principal—let's go, the werewolf will appear at the dinner party if you continue to delay."

They went to the Whooping Willow, got into the hole in the trunk, and walked along the dark secret passage.

During this time Lupine kept asking Toby for more things - like Grindelwald's whereabouts - which was announced after the Christmas dinner and that Grindelwald had indeed escaped from Nurmengard.

Toby couldn't tell Lupin the truth, and the less people knew about Grindelwald's hiding in the secret room, the better, so as not to be discovered by his group of students.

After ambiguously coping all the way, the exit is coming soon.

But at this moment, Toby and Lupine stopped at the same time.

Listening to the faint sound of breathing, they exchanged surprised glances with each other.

There were other people in the Screaming Shack.

They extinguished all the lights on the wands, and the two of them raised their wands and walked towards the exit vigilantly.

Toby, who was leading the way, came to the final exit. He glanced inside cautiously, and suddenly shouted: "Gjean, why are you here?"

Toby didn't expect that it would be the captain of the Chudley Cannons in the room, and Lupine, who followed him, also walked in, and saw Gjeyn sitting on the sofa snoring. He was sleeping soundly, and Toby repeatedly called out a lot Woke him up the next time.

"Ok?"

As soon as Gjeon woke up, he saw Toby. He asked in a daze, "Is the game about to start? Oops, I forgot to inform the Wayne brothers. Do you have any good hitters?"

"Wake up, wake up." Toby abruptly pulled him up and asked, "There's no competition, it's night—how did you find this place?"

Gjeon woke up from his sleep a little bit, and his tone became cheerful: "You mean the screaming shack? This was an accident. I was drunk after the last game, and when I woke up, I found myself lying in bed. Next to the school's log cabin - I found this place after thinking for a long time, oh, yes, there is a secret passage, I didn't know there was such a secret passage before - but that secret passage is useless, But this house is different, and will save me a lot of lodging bills—I can't even afford the Hog's Head now, as you can see."

He emptied his pocket left and right, and there wasn't even a Knut in it.

Toby and Lupine figured out that Gjen was living in the Shrieking Shack to save money—seems like hauntings don't scare the poor.

Pale-faced Lupine gave Toby a look—he was going to transform in the Shrieking Shack tonight, but now there were outsiders.

"How did you get in here?" Toby asked.

"Of course it came in through the broken window." Gjeon pointed to the loose wooden board at the window and said, "I probably thought it was a Bludger when I was drunk and wanted to snatch it away, but I accidentally took it away." The boards are coming apart—hey, where are you taking me?"

"I forgot to tell you." Toby gave Lupine a reassuring look, then turned to Gjeon and said, "As a team invited to come to Hogwarts to hold a competition, the school will pay extra A fee, specially used for arranging the accommodation of the players - I will take you to the Pig's Head Bar now, as for my colleague, he will stay and fix the windows, and then go back to the school along the secret road."

Gazeon showed no concern for Lupin's thoughts at all, and he put all his attention on the first half of the sentence: "You want to invite me to live in the Pig's Head Bar? How long can I stay? Does the drink count?"

Toby stepped over the broken window. He watched Lupine seal the window from the inside with his wand, then decisively shook his head to the expectant Gazeon and said, "Of course not. As a famous magic school, we It's impossible to sponsor the players' drinks and it would have a bad influence on the students."

This reason is very good, and Gjeon can only accept it honestly.

"Well, only the accommodation fee is fine."

On the way to the Pig's Head Bar, Toby asked Gjen why he was in such a predicament—he was not a werewolf, and not long ago, the Chudley Cannons had just finished a game, so there should be a share of tickets correct.

Gjen didn't mean to hide anything. He said truthfully: "Half of the reward was spent on drinking and drinking that day-don't look at me like that. If you don't do this, the team will be disbanded. As for the other half, it will be spent on recruiting the team manager. Up there, someone has to do the job—even the Tramps have their own manager, a troll, but at least a manager."

It seems that the Chudley Cannons are indeed having a miserable time, which makes Toby very relieved.

He asked with satisfaction: "Then do you have any plans to trade the team?"

"Why do you want to trade?" Gjen seemed completely unable to understand the question. He asked back: "Hasn't the team disbanded yet? As long as there are games to play and spectators to watch us, the Chudley Cannons will not Necessary to sell."

Toby persuaded him all the way, but Gazeon refused to let go, and he claimed that he would never be a sinner who sold the team, and he was very stubborn.

When Sirius saw that it was Toby walking into the bar, he immediately showed disgust.

"Prepare him a room." Toby pointed at Gazeon and said angrily: "The school funds are limited, so we want the cheapest one."

Ok?
Sirius glanced at Gjeyn, who was still unaware.

A wizard who can make black devils helpless?
He suddenly became interested.

"Thank you for your generosity." Gazeon sent Toby away with a smile. He turned his head and was startled by Sirius staring at him.

After hesitating for a while, Gjeon asked carefully: "How much did Hogwarts pay you, can you ask for it, and it's okay to exchange it for wine."

He seems to be planning to trade all his expenses for booze and move on to the Screaming Shack.

But Sirius refused to let him go.

"I've got plenty of wine here." He walked back behind the counter, pulled out a bottle of Aberforth's Reserve mead, and slammed it down on the table.

"But only if you tell me how you provoked Hammer?"

(End of this chapter)