Archaeologists at Hogwarts

Chapter 367 The Last Chair
Al, who was chewing broccoli dryly (it didn't realize that he had gained weight until he put on a tuxedo), and Angela, who was slicing the steak gracefully, noticed Toby's strangeness at the same time.

"what happened?"

Angela put the sliced ​​beef into her mouth and asked, a small piece of high left cheek bulged.

Some of Toby seemed to be answering her doubts, and some seemed to be talking to himself: "That's why I will spare no effort to get Dumbledore to leave Hogwarts. He really knows me too well and knows me. The possibility of not going to Lockhart is to work with Grindelwald. But then it becomes very obvious what we are targeting."

"Cooperation?"

Angela quickly figured out part of the reasons: "You are finally going to attack Dumbledore? When did this happen? And what do you mean by cooperation?"

Al also looked up at Toby curiously.

Toby very naturally brought the plate of steak that Angela had cut in front of him, picked it up piece by piece with a fork and put it in his mouth, chewing slowly.

This scene makes Angela look like Toby's servant.

She was about to explode, but soon, her silver eyes widened a little bit.

"Is it because of me?"

"Yeah?" Al looked at Angela in surprise, his eyes seemed to be asking when did you become so smart?

Toby pushed all the steaks that hadn't eaten a few bites to Al, so that he wouldn't have to suffer from the broccoli anymore.

"Moody once asked me a question."

He said in a low voice, so as not to be heard by others nearby: "He knows that I have made promises to many people, but he can't tell the reason why I insist on holding the Triwizard Tournament."

Of course Angela remembered such a thing.

In the original plan, Toby planned to ask the Goblet of Fire for help to find out whether Angela was the resurrected Lily, but since he took away the notebook from Death Castle, Toby completely overturned this idea .

Because that ledger had Lily Evans' own name on it.But the Castle of Death was not the place where Angela first met Toby, and it was difficult to link it with Lily's death date on a specific timeline.

Because Angela is not without earlier memories, people living in the same tribe as her can also provide proof.

"Actually, I had no intention of changing my decision from the very beginning."

Toby looked into Angela's eyes and said, "That's what you mean, why Hai Erbo let you go so easily——you've always wanted to know the reason, right?"

It turned out to be because of Angela.

Toby was right about one thing—Angela had indeed tried to find her true identity, especially her special magical talent, which made her think for a long time that she was not a pure wizard, but something similar to According to legend, the witch in the lake who imprisoned Merlin.

"So that's how it is." Angela looked deeply moved.

At this time, Al interrupted suddenly: "Yeah."

[Don't get too excited, although we don't know if Dumbledore has guessed Toby's intentions, but he made it clear from the beginning that he didn't want Toby to follow Haierbo's thinking to seek clues.He always thought it was an obvious trap, but what can we do?Archeology is never a foolproof thing, you have to take some risks. 】

Angela nodded frequently, and she said to Al with strange eyes: "Don't talk to me in such an elder tone, it sounds weird—but, how is he going to stop you?"

The moment Angela asked this question, the door of the auditorium was pushed open.

A man walked in.

It was Rufus Scrimgeour, who walked past the eyes of the students intently, impressing them with his long disheveled hair.

After coming to the direction of the teacher's long table, Scrimgeour found the only empty chair and sat down. He glanced in the direction of Toby intentionally or unintentionally, and then started talking with Lockhart who looked nervous.

"Now we know."

Toby nuzzled in Scrimgeour's direction and said: "Dumbledore has arranged enough people to restrict me at Hogwarts. In order to avoid exacerbating this conflict, he can only turn his target to this Grinder Wo students."

"Don't forget, Fudge is still missing."
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"Excuse me, do you still eat this plate of miscellaneous fish soup?"

Harry, who was discussing Quidditch tactics with Krum in a low voice, raised his head. He was the first to see a long cascade of silver hair hanging in front of his eyes. This girl had big blue eyes and a white mouth. The neat teeth are amazingly beautiful.

Ron on the side was completely dumbfounded.

"Why are you doing this again?" Hermione said contemptuously, then pushed the plate towards the girl in front of her and said, "It's okay, take it away."

Ron watched as the girl smiled at them and then went to sit near the long table in Ravenclaw. Luna was sitting next to her. I don't know how this position was assigned, but Rowan Well don't care.

"I remember that Ginny and Luna were good friends." He said dryly, "Maybe I also have a chance to meet her."

Harry couldn't help laughing.

"What's so funny?" Ron's voice was still hoarse. "I swear, she's definitely a Veela! Isn't it, Krum?"

Ever since Krum sat down, Ron has been trying to strike up a conversation, hoping to get closer to him.

"There is no portrait of your professor." Krum glanced at the direction of the teacher's long table and said, "Principal Lockhart never mentioned to us that you still have a Veela professor."

"Ms. Angela is not a Veela." Hermione said impatiently, she didn't understand why these boys' eyes were so short-sighted: "Did no one find that she was far more beautiful than a normal Veela? No sudden sharp mouths—I thought you'd figure it out."

Krum looked up at Hermione, then said nothing, and lowered his head again.

The atmosphere became awkward for a moment, and Harry didn't know how to explain to Krum that Hermione was not usually so sharp.

So he simply ignored it and just buried his head in eating, only occasionally looking in the direction of Ravenclaw's long table.

Of course, what he looked at was not the girl just now, but Qiu.

Finally, after dinner, the main event is coming.

Headmaster McGonagall stood up and gave a brief speech in which she explained Scrimgeour's identity to the students - it has to be said that in such a competition, the presence of the head of the Auror office is very unusual.

Then Mag turned to look at Toby.

Toby immediately understood, he clapped his hands lightly twice, and the door of the auditorium opened again—then a figure that was very familiar to all the students walked in, and when the other party walked through the long tables, he would let out a heavy sigh. footsteps.

Especially the long axe, which silenced all those who had seen it and those who hadn't.

The silver armor walked all the way to the teacher's long table, and put the Goblet of Fire in front of Toby.

Afterwards, it stood quietly by the side, not leaving an inch, and the long ax held in the other hand exuded a sharp cold light.

"As you can see."

Toby stood up and explained: "In order to prevent underage students from being tempted, after the goblet is placed in the hall, your old friends and new friends from different schools—that is, this armor, it Will stand by the Goblet of Fire all day and all night."

"This time is not a test, children. Don't try to challenge the armor's patience. It has been very unhappy recently. No matter how I persuade it, it will not let go of the longaxe in its hand-so, I wish you luck."

When he said the last sentence, Toby not only looked at the students, but also looked at Moody, Scrimgeour, and Lockhart on the other side.

In his eyes, the threat was extra obvious.

The Triwizard Tournament kicked off with such a weird atmosphere.
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Although many unpredictable things happened at the dinner to welcome the guests, and everyone finally heard that it was not just the armor that was in a bad mood, but also the even more terrifying Professor Haimer.

But in the next few days, Hogwarts still spent in an extremely peaceful atmosphere.

More changes continue to take place in the magical world outside the school—Dumbledore finally passed the "Azkaban Guardianship Act" despite all objections, and the old Barty Crouch also brought the latest The first batch of Aurors were stationed on the small island where Azkaban was located. It was rumored that the dementors on the island would be expelled and exiled to an unknown island that could not be marked.

This has had a very strong impact on the magical world in the UK, and wizards are worried that the reduced number of Aurors will not be able to maintain the stability of the magical world.It's just that no results can be seen in a short period of time, so there is not much opposition.

After going through such a big change, no one knows what Dumbledore's next plan is, and no one can guess his mind.

Fortunately, it seems that even Dumbledore is aware of the impact of the reduction of Aurors. He did not continue to raise more seemingly impossible opinions, but kept silent on this, and finally he was willing to start going around like a normal minister. attend a meeting.

According to an unknown Weasley, Percy was very happy about this. He had seen a lot of big people, and his status had risen accordingly. Fortunately, Dumbledore was in charge, otherwise he would not have wanted to Went home for dinner.

Still, no matter what became of Azkaban, it couldn't divert the attention of the Hogwarts students - all eyes were on the Triwizard Tournament.

On the second day after the Goblet of Fire was installed, someone was finally willing to take the risk of being beheaded and put a note with his name into the flames of the Goblet of Fire. endlessly.

Those underage students could only watch this scene enviously.

"Krum has signed up."

In the library, Harry briefly put down the unfinished thesis in his hands, wanting to find a topic to chat and take a good rest.

"Sooner or later." Ron opened a book called "Ancient Greece and the Dark Ages" and said, under the influence of Professor Haimer's course this year, this book is gradually becoming more popular, and it is used to look up information a good helper.

Perhaps because of the holding of the Triwizard Tournament, the current Professor Haimer has not shown too much ambition in the ancient magic class. Not only are those dangerous courses missing, but even the private lectures that were originally arranged Harry and Ron have not received any notification.

This made the students think that Professor Highmore's temper had been changed, or that he had switched identities with another professor——

Alastor Moody.

Since he intentionally or unintentionally alluded to the black devil in the first class, he began to teach the students some very unacceptable spells.

For example, the Three Unforgivable Curses.

And according to Professor Moody, this is just a foreshadowing for the beginning, and a more dangerous spell is yet to come.

Even he seemed to think that the Killing Curse alone would not be able to defeat Professor Highmore.

When Lockhart, the principal of Durmstrang, learned of the news, he immediately told the students in his own school to stay away from Moody.

Before coming to Hogwarts, he had already warned these boys not to provoke Toby Highmore. I really don't know when he will mention all the professors at Hogwarts.

At least these students now know the reason - not everyone can have such a penetrating armor collection, which makes many students who originally planned to take advantage of it completely lose their minds, after all, they can't grow a second head.

Ron whispered again how terrible that armor was, and would stare at it whenever a student passed by, talking in great detail.

"You haven't given up on the idea of ​​participating in the competition, have you?" Harry finally realized, "How many times have you tried?"

"Not once." Ron said sullenly, "That armor stares at us very closely, it seems to remember everyone's age."

"I advise you to keep going." Harry looked around, and then said, "Don't forget, there is still a devil imprisoned there."

Hogwarts students all know that this armor is also a tool used by Professor Highmore to imprison the devil.

"It's okay if you don't mention it." Ron rolled his eyes, and he asked curiously, "Can you use your own devil to bypass this trap?"

"I haven't tried it." Harry shook his head quickly and said, "I don't want to try it either."

Ron snorted, and his hopes for the one thousand Galleon bonus became more and more hopeless.

At this moment, Hermione poked her head out of a tall stack of books, and she said angrily, "I really don't understand why some people just refuse to obey Professor Highmore's rules, even if you are really selected Nothing good will happen either."

Ron hummed and said nothing.

Harry noticed the name of the book Hermione was reading - The Science of Wands.

"When are we going to learn "Wand Science"?" He asked puzzled, "Is there such a course?"

"That's not the case."

Hermione said without raising her head: "It's nothing to do with homework, it's because Cedric and I plan to study the auto-casting wand - besides, he doesn't plan to participate in the Triwizard Tournament, and he has already decided to use this All the free time during the term is spent studying wands."

"Then he must be crazy." Ron slammed his mouth and commented, his eyes were full of regret and regret.

(End of this chapter)