Archaeologists at Hogwarts

Chapter 37 Portraits

Chapter 37 Portraits
"Mr. Al?"

Hermione said in surprise, "How did you come—no! How did you get in here?"

Even if Al knew the password, he couldn't say it himself, after all, he was just a sniff.

Al flew in front of Hermione, it suddenly took out a skull from its belly pocket, and put it on its head, its small eyes looked at little Hermione through the hollow eye sockets.

Hermione was frightened, and what was even more frightening was that the skull opened and closed its mouth and started talking!

"Is it Miss Granger?"

At first, Hermione thought it was Al talking, but after a few seconds of being stunned, she finally realized that it was Professor Highmore's voice.

It's just that the voice of the other party is extremely low, so small that it is difficult to hear clearly, and it seems that they are in a situation that is not suitable for speaking loudly.

"Professor Highmore?"

Hermione asked tentatively.

She didn't know where to look for a while, the eyes of Al and the skull overlapped, but Hermione really didn't want to look at the skull, so she lowered her gaze and stared at Al's belly pocket.

Al immediately covered his pocket, stared at Hermione vigilantly, and pointed to the skull's head.

Hermione had no choice but to look back, and at the same time she saw the skull's mouth open and close again, uttering Professor Highmore's voice: "It's me, it seems that Al has found you, fortunately you are not like Mr Diggory Falling asleep, I originally wanted to put the skull head next to his pillow, but after thinking about it, I decided to forget it, after all, you have been frightened once."

"Long story short, after I got back to the office, I already knew what was going on - the two skeletons were just one of my collections, and while they looked scary, they were actually quite shy, just Wanted to say hello to you. And they got punished, as you can see—I took their heads off, and one of them is in Al's hands."

is on its head.

Hermione muttered something in her heart, and felt a little warm and grateful for no reason at the same time. She didn't expect Professor Highmore to comfort people.

"Will you forgive me then, Miss Granger?"

"It's nothing, Professor. I haven't been hurt after all."

"That's great."

Not knowing if it was an illusion, Hermione felt that the skull in front of her laughed happily: "Then you wouldn't tell Principal Dumbledore about this, would you?"

"Huh?" Hermione froze.

"The thing is like this." The skull explained patiently: "Well, this is a surprise for Principal Dumbledore, but you can't let him know in advance, then there will be no surprises, right?"

"It seems to be the right professor, can I ask a question?"

"Just ask."

"When are you going to show this surprise to the principal?"

"It's not sure yet, but the later the better."

"Is there a specific time?"

"This is the second question, sorry I can't answer it."

Hermione's expression gradually became weird—is Professor Highmore worried that he will sue?

He actually has people to be afraid of? !

"This is very dangerous, Professor!"

"Archaeology is inherently dangerous. I coexist with the danger. The danger is myself. Otherwise, it would not be me to control ancient magic, but ancient magic to control me."

".what?!"

Hermione felt as if she had heard something extraordinary.

"It's nothing, just pretend that you heard it wrong. Well, if that's the case, then this matter is settled."

"What's settled?"

"It can't be disclosed to Principal Dumbledore in advance, isn't that what we talked about from the beginning?"

At this time, a strange voice suddenly came from the skull——

"I seem to have heard the name of Headmaster Dumbledore Toby, can you explain what you are doing? The appearance is really funny, whispering to the skull in the corridor in the middle of the night."

It was Snape's voice!
Hermione's eyes widened. Seeing that the situation was not good, Al quickly put away the skull's head, flew the flying carpet back into the passageway, and left the common room.

Meanwhile, in the corridor on the fourth floor.

Toby covered his heart with one hand, and held another skeleton's head in the other, with a half-terrified look on his face: "Are you a ghost? You don't even make a sound when you walk!"

Snape stared at him unkindly: "Don't try to change the subject in front of me, tell me! What are you wandering in the corridor in the middle of the night, and why did you mention Principal Dumbledore? Oh——"

He suddenly said in a clear tone: "I understand, you have caused trouble again, and you are worried that you will be called by the principal to talk."

Toby put away the skeleton's head, and he threatened unabashedly: "So what. Do you want two people to be called to talk? Do you want the principal to find out that two professors are dueling in the school corridor in the middle of the night?" ?!"

"Don't argue with me, come with me, I'll take you to see the principal!"

"Let go, Severus, I warn you, let go! Also keep your voice down! Don't wake up the portrait!"

"portrait?!"

Snape turned his head slowly, the schadenfreude in his eyes deepened: "So you're thinking about a portrait, don't tell me it's also related to archaeology."

Toby didn't speak, he tried his best to break away from Snape's hand.

Snape narrowed his eyes, he looked Toby up and down: "Are you serious?"

Toby snorted coldly, and he walked in front of a portrait. This is the portrait of Aberric Groning—he is the inventor of the dung bomb and one of the members of the Chocolate Frog Card. Now he is lying flat on the portrait sleep on deep beds.

Toby gently lifted the picture frame and looked at the back of the portrait and the wall behind the portrait respectively. Aberric Grunning's body turned twice involuntarily, but Toby's movements were particularly familiar, obviously not the first time. It was the first time to do this kind of work without letting the other party really wake up.

After the inspection, Toby sneered disdainfully: "Ignorant guy, do you know how many organs are hidden behind the portraits? I have experienced countless things, not to mention the countless organs in Hogwarts. Qing’s portraits, there may be secrets hidden behind any of them.”

"But you also said that this is Hogwarts—"

Snape grabbed Toby's arm again: "It's not a place for you to do archaeology! I have to take you to see the headmaster today, let him take a good look at what you have done! I want to see if you can still be in school stay How long!"

Toby said "Aha", he raised a finger, which was almost touching Snape's forehead: "I knew you didn't completely stop thinking about driving me away, if you don't let go, I will really Let you meet the headmaster in person—the dead headmaster! How about Phineas Black, he and you are a perfect match, you can form a 'who is more annoying' combination!"

Just when the two were about to wrestle (they didn't dare to use their wands), Filch appeared out of nowhere. He watched the scene in shock, but he still took the time to say: "Mr. Snape, I listen I heard the students sneaking out!"

(End of this chapter)

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