Archaeologists at Hogwarts

Chapter 365 Beauxbaton and Durmstrang
The announcement in the foyer had a palpable effect on those who lived in the castle.

Especially Harry.

After learning that Krum was Durmstrang's student, Harry once again became the target of attention - but it may just be because the fans want to use this opportunity to get close to him.

While avoiding trouble, Harry noticed that the castle seemed to be undergoing a thorough cleaning.Several grimy portraits were scrubbed clean, much to the displeasure of those scrubbed.They sat huddled in their frames, muttering sullenly, and grinning in pain every time they touched the new pink tender flesh on their faces.The armor suddenly became shiny and stopped creaking when it moved.The caretaker, Argus Filch, threw a vicious tantrum at the sight of a student who forgot to wipe his shoes, driving two first-year girls into hysterics.

Other faculty members also seemed extremely nervous.

"Weasley, please do me a favor, and don't let you know that you haven't even mastered a simple conversion spell!" Headmaster McGonagall shouted at Ron who was at a loss. In time to find a new professor of transformation class, he can only take charge of the class by himself.

Ron found plenty of excuses for this.

"After all, the dean is also the first time to be the principal. It will not be so easy for anyone to encounter such a big incident just after taking office."

"But you turned the wand held by the statue into gold." Harry said with strange eyes, "How short of money are you?"

"Surely no famous football player has money," Ron hummed.

Besides Dean McGonagall, even Professor Highmore didn't let them go.

When the students learned that their ancient magic homework hadn't decreased at all, they finally understood that no matter what happened, they couldn't stop Professor Haimer's determination to let them study hard.

"I'm not going to be imprisoned in front of students from other schools, am I?" Ron wailed uncontrollably.

"I think Professor Highmore is more likely to treat us equally." Harry said calmly.

"What do you mean?"

"Perhaps students from other schools will be locked up by Professor Haimo at that time."

That doesn't sound like a possibility.

Ron stared blankly at Harry for a while, and he murmured, "I guess not. If that's the case, can the principals of the two schools agree?"

Hermione, who was flipping through the history of the Goblin Wars, said abruptly, "When did you see that Professor Highmore had to get permission from others—except Dumbledore, and Dumbledore is no longer at Hogwarts."

No matter how amazed Ron was in his heart, Hogwarts inevitably arrived a week later.

When the students went downstairs for breakfast, they found that the auditorium had been decorated overnight.Huge silk banners hung on the walls, each one representing a Hogwarts house: Gryffindor on red with a golden lion, Ravenclaw on blue with a bronze eagle, and Ravenclaw on yellow with a golden lion. The one with a black badger is Hufflepuff, and the one with a green background and a silver python is Slytherin.Behind the staff desks hung the largest banner with the Hogwarts crest: Lion, Eagle, Badger, and Snake joined together, surrounded by a large letter H.

This made the students feel a lot of joy during the class. In the class, no one was paying attention to the class. Everyone thought that the people from Beauxbaton and Durmstrang would come tonight.

Of course, this must rule out ancient magic lessons.

This week happens to be the time to test the Patronus Charm.

Professor Haimer really moved all the flame balls back into the classroom, and kept yelling at them: "Surely you don't want to welcome the guests in disgrace, right? Now is the time to test your learning results. Everyone To pass through the flame ball safely—you should be glad that you have such an opportunity, if it wasn’t for Principal McGonagall’s strong resistance, I would have set up this link in the process of welcoming it a long time ago!”

Many people stared at him with wide-eyed eyes because of these words. Toby said in a very natural tone: "What's the matter? I just thought of inquiring about the news for you in advance, and weighed the level of those people."

Fortunately, no one dared to ignore Professor Haimer's instructions. Each of them successfully passed through the flame ball, which showed that these students still had the possibility of learning the Patronus Charm.

"Very good." Toby was very satisfied with the performance of the students.

He showed kindness and asked the students to finish class half an hour earlier - the school had originally arranged this, otherwise the guests might have to wait for Professor Haimer's arrival.

After the students left the classroom in a hurry, Toby put away the teaching tools and returned to the ancient magic office alone.

Al and Angela are waiting for him.

When Toby came back, they immediately turned their heads and looked at each other, one after another like a cannonball: "Are you really going to attend?"

"Yeah [don't go, Toby]."

"If you want me to say, you might as well ask for sick leave."

"Yeah [I also don't think you need to see Mrs. Maxim, what if you make her angry?]"

In Toby's long past, he would always provoke some people for various reasons.

This includes the principal of Beauxbaton School of Magic, Olim Maxim.

In fact, to be precise, Mrs. Maxim was completely implicated by her school.

At that time, Toby was still young. When he stayed in France, he personally went to the place where Grindelwald gave a speech, and then wanted to visit this equally famous school to see how they lost in Hogwarts. What's the point.

How could he lose at Hogwarts? With this attitude, he couldn't be welcomed, not to mention that he didn't have a serious identity, not even a spellbreaker.

So Toby resorted to a little trick to avenge his unpopularity.

This is of course the wrong approach, but after all, Toby was young at the time, and he had countless excuses to shirk-well, he was not a very good person at that time, although he does not fit this description now.

But through some clues, Mrs. Maxim still knew who the culprit was, but at that time they could not catch Toby who had left France long ago, so they could only issue a ban unwillingly—forever This man named Toby Highmore is not allowed to set foot in Beauxbatons.

"Aren't you very popular there?" Toby looked at Angela and said, "This kind of question is not easy? As long as you take the initiative to come forward, wouldn't it be over if you said a few more nice words?"

"Um..." Angela explained hesitantly: "You may have underestimated the impact of your actions. They should also be the first people outside to call you a black devil."

"Well." Toby rubbed his chin and stared at them for a moment.

"So how long are you going to wait?" He suddenly asked, "Hurry up, it won't be too late. Also, Al, remember to change into your tuxedo and wear it more grandly."

It seemed he was determined to attend.

Well, it's very Toby Highmore, never afraid of any difficult problems.

When the group of them came to the hall, Principal McGonagall was waiting for them with a serious face.

"Vice Principal Highmore."

Toby almost thought that McGonagall was possessed by Dumbledore.

"You are the vice-headmaster of Hogwarts now, how can you be so careless?"

"It's not because he didn't do a few good things before." Angela muttered softly.

"Huh?" Mag looked at Angela all of a sudden, and then slowly turned his gaze to Toby, gradually having a bad premonition in his heart.

"Vice-Chancellor Haimer"

"It's time to go, principal, don't wait here." Toby interrupted in time: "It can't be changed to let guests come to welcome us?"

No matter how bad it is, Mag can't do this kind of thing.

They came to the grass outside the hall, and the students had already arrived ahead of time. These little guys were shivering from the cold night, but many people gathered around Hermione.

"Don't squeeze, don't squeeze." Hermione said awkwardly, "How many flame bottles can I make?"

Ron hugged the one in his arms tightly, and he warned the students who were staring at him: "Yes, no one wants to take this one from me!"

"Hey!" Harry said with a flushed face, "Who is it? Who is sneaking up on me? I warn you not to mess around!"

"Professor Highmore is here!"

The group of people immediately dispersed and fled. Ron said sharply, "Why is there a girl whose face is so red?"

When the two principals came to the front of the crowd, they finally all fell silent.

Angela stayed behind with Al, who was wearing a tuxedo, and the two guys were still muttering, discussing what to do if Mrs. Maxime had a problem with Toby.

"If it really doesn't work, I can only go to Beauxbatons to be the vice-principal." Angela said reluctantly, "But I still don't want to go. Beauxbatons is not as comfortable as Hogwarts."

When going to Beauxbaton on behalf of Ouagadu, Angela was strongly invited by Madame Maxime because of her unique magical talent, but she declined.

"Yeah." Al said contemptuously, "[That's because you don't have to do anything at Hogwarts, and I'm not as busy as me.]"

"There are a few people who are busier than you." Angela snorted and said, "I found that you and Toby are no longer like archaeologists, one is more like an educator, and the other has become a complete entrepreneur." .”

Al was stunned for a moment, and then couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth triumphantly.

The Black Devil Foundation has many industries, and it is gradually expanding - what Toby learned from Muggles is very useful and very helpful for making money.

At this time, they heard Toby who was standing in front suddenly shouted to the students: "They are coming."

"Huh?" Mag pushed her glasses calmly, her mouth didn't move, but a slight inquiry came from her throat: "Did you see it? In which direction?"

Slughorn on the other side also asked in the same way: "Why do you have such good eyesight? Probably much better than Albus."

There was also an unfriendly murmur from behind them.

"Otherwise, how could he have caused so much trouble? Sometimes too good eyesight is not a good thing—"

"It's there!" Toby interrupted Moody's voice in time, he pointed to a direction in the sky and said, "It's there!"

He was right.

Over the Forbidden Forest floated a monstrous thing—a powder-blue carriage the size of a house flying toward them, drawn in the air by a dozen winged horses, silver-maned horses, each They are about the size of an elephant.

The carriage flew lower and was landing at an extremely fast speed. Then, with an earth-shattering bang, those horseshoes fell to the ground with a bang, each of them was as big as a vegetable plate.In the blink of an eye, the carriage also landed on the ground, vibrating on the huge wheels, and at the same time the golden horses shook their huge heads, and their big fiery red eyes rolled around.

These animals are all pegasus, but they are also very rare rune horses, and they only drink single malt whiskey.

Toby looked a little unnatural when he saw these pegasus-it seemed that he couldn't help but want to laugh.

Fortunately, Principal McGonagall did not notice this scene. She was shaking hands with the tall lady who came down from the carriage and said hello to her.

"Long time no see, Olim."

"Yeah, long time no see, Minerva, you are already the headmaster of Hogwarts—and you have a new deputy."

Although she is very tall, Madame Maxim is also very elegant.

Then all this elegance dissipated the moment he saw Toby, and the anger couldn't be stopped in his eyes, as if he wanted to burn Toby to death.

McGonagall didn't understand what was going on, but she knew it must be bad.

"I don't think we need to lose face in front of the students," she exhorted.

"I agree with the principal's statement." Toby showed a big smile, which made Mrs. Maxim, who had finally given in, dizzy with anger.

"Toby, Highmore." She said through gritted teeth, but she didn't forget to maintain her demeanor. Fortunately, the others were far away from them, otherwise she might think what she would think—the Hogwarts side might not have too much trouble. Big question.

After all, it is Professor Haimo, and none of his former "old friends" seemed to be able to get along well.

Fortunately, another sound appeared in time at this moment, interrupting Madame Maxime's condemnation.

A mast was hoisted on the surface of the Black Lake, and out of the water a great ship shone brightly in the moonlight.It was eerie, skeletal, as if it were the wreck of a freshly salvaged ship, and the portholes shone with dim, misty lights that looked like ghostly eyes.At last, with a splash and splash, the ship emerged fully, bobbing on the choppy water, and began to drive towards the shore.A moment later they heard a splash as an anchor was thrown into the shallow water, and with another snap a plank hit the shore.

The people on board were going ashore, and Madame Maxime had to look back at Durmstrang's people together—these people were all wearing a kind of fur cloak with tangled fur.

Except for the man at the head, the material of the cloak on this man was very noble, soft and smooth, much like his hair.

The students who originally planned to look at Krum were all attracted by this person. Principal McGonagall held his glasses in disbelief, as if he couldn't believe what he saw.

Toby's face darkened in an instant, as if there was a thick black fog hovering above his head, faintly sounding the horn of death.

The visitor had long, blond hair that was very loose, and now it was all drooping in front of his eyes, blocking a pair of very beautiful blue eyes.

This person, who was obviously imitating Toby's appearance, showed a smiling face that had won several best smile awards, and his white teeth gleamed.

Then, a low voice of greeting came from Gilderoy Lockhart.

"Long time no see, Principal McGonagall. And you Toby Highmore."

"It's been a long time."

(End of this chapter)