Archaeologists at Hogwarts

Chapter 392 Map
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Fleur's suspicions were not without reason.

First, there is the magic circle inside the golden egg, and then there are Hogwarts students who sneak into the carriage and the big ship to solve the puzzle. The strangest thing is that only the person holding the golden egg can see the magic circle. changes, but no one else.

It seems that Professor Highmore made up his mind to keep them secret from the very beginning - neither Beauxbatons nor the headmaster of Durmstrang will allow students from other schools to come on these two vehicles .

Early the next morning, the four warriors reunited.This time they gathered in an empty classroom in the castle so as not to be disturbed by others.

Cedric was the first to open the golden egg. For some reason, the magic circle hidden inside had disappeared.

Then came Krum. After he also opened his own golden egg, the room began to gradually change—two beams of light emanated from the golden egg at the same time, and intertwined together, making the magic circle combined last night gradually. Appear.

"I figured it out."

Cedric said helplessly: "Only the warriors who solve the puzzles together can continue to explore this map. That is to say, now Krum and I have become a team, and then it will be you."

Furong slammed it loudly with her mouth.

"What do you mean?" Harry asked angrily, "I don't want to be in a group with you either. If you are so dissatisfied, you can go to Professor Highmore and ask him to reset our golden eggs."

Before Fleur could refute, Krum looked the three of them back and forth, and then said, "I don't think it's necessary."

He obviously felt that Cedric was the most reliable of the three.

"Don't be too happy." Fu Rong glared at him and said, "It's possible that the ones who are put into a group are not teammates, but opponents."

"Then let's try to find him." Krum immediately said, "Is your Professor Haimo easy to talk to?"

"Of course it's easy to talk." Harry sneered, "The premise is that he has to give you a chance to talk."

Cedric clutched his forehead with a headache, he really didn't want the three of them to fall apart before the start of the match - even though they were opponents in the first place.

After arguing openly and secretly for a while, the room finally calmed down.

"Can we start studying the map?" Cedric sighed.

This time they finally put their minds on studying the map constructed by the magic circle, and soon, Harry and Cedric, who had studied the magic circle, really researched something. something comes out.

"Look, the magic circle at the location of the Black Lake is not complicated, it can be deciphered - have you brought your textbook?"

"I'm taking it with me." Harry immediately took out the textbook for the first semester - "Ancient Magic and Magic Circles" from his backpack.

Krum and Fleur leaned over to look at it in bewilderment, Harry pushed them away dissatisfied, and then got together with Cedric to study.

"What's the matter?" Fleur asked a little uneasy: "You can't just exclude us like this, Hogwarts' partiality is too blatant."

Krum also said: "Don't forget that we played the World Cup together, don't be so stingy."

"Shh!"

Harry stopped the two angrily, and he and Cedric looked at each other.

"You—forget it, you should all hold the golden egg."

Harry originally planned to ask them to bring the golden egg, but with the lessons learned from the past, no one can guarantee that this will not prevent them from seeing the changes in the magic circle.

Krum and Fleur also thought of this, and they immediately hugged their golden eggs tightly, but they got together as Harry had told them, and put all four golden eggs between them.

"Now that we know the location, the next step should be the specifics."

Harry said and took out his wand, and Cedric did the same.

Then they raised their wands, aimed at the position of the black lake in the two magic circles, and waved them at the same time.

The remaining two magic circles immediately burst into shining light, and Harry said happily: "I knew it would not be difficult to solve the puzzles of these two magic circles—huh?"

He suddenly exclaimed: "Did I see it wrong? Can you see it too?"

A sniff—it looks exactly the same as Mr. Al, but the only difference is that this sniff is made of lines of a magic circle.

It floated above the heads of the four golden eggs, turned around in place, and had a panoramic view of the four of them.

"It seems that you have already solved this riddle."

This Nixie is obviously different from Mr. Al, at least the words he speaks can be understood, and the voice is exactly the same as Mr. Al.

"I'll just say the next thing. Then all the evidence will be completely destroyed—oh, no, it's the clues, the clues related to the second project."

The four of them exchanged doubtful glances—so there was indeed something wrong with the magic circle that enveloped the carriage and the ship at first?
As if to make up for his fault, Xixiu's speech speed became very fast, and he had to concentrate to hear clearly.

"There are hidden treasures everywhere in the Black Lake. Whoever finds them first will get the highest score. And all this must be done by yourselves. No one can help you. There may be a battle , unless your ability to dodge is high enough, that's all, goodbye."

"Wait a minute!" Seeing that the Niffler was about to disappear with the magic circle, Harry hurriedly asked, "Excuse me—er, Mr. Niffler, isn't the second project also designed by Professor Highmore? Didn't he just Are you in charge of the first project?"

Sniff stared at Harry for a short while.

"Because someone broke the agreement that was made in advance. In this case, there is no guarantee of what will happen next."

Finally, everything completely returned to calm, and the only four people in the room looked at each other in blank dismay.

After a while, Fu Rong was the first to speak: "So, we don't need to be divided into groups? Do we still have to participate in the suddenly changed program?"

No one answered her question.

"I really don't want to stay in this school any longer." Fu Rong stood up angrily and said, holding her golden egg and leaving the professor in a hurry, not even wanting to say goodbye.

Krum stood up after him.

"The treasure at the bottom of the Black Lake, it seems that your professor of ancient magic is planning to test our ability to hold our breath. Fortunately, I have always had the habit of winter swimming."

He is gone too.

Cedric could see that Harry was thinking about something.

"What's wrong?" He asked nervously, "Do you know more information, for example. Why did you suddenly become Professor Haimer to design more links?"

Harry didn't know how to answer him.

This must be caused by the conflict between Professor Highmore and Dumbledore, but the question is—how did Professor Highmore get Dumbledore to agree?
In Harry's view, Dumbledore was not so easily persuaded.
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Office of Ancient Magic.

Toby was at his desk correcting the students' homework, and Al was sitting on the sofa in the distance, secretly squinting at it.

"If you really have nothing to do, you can actually help me share part of the work." Toby said without looking up.

Al snorted, as if he learned it from Angela.

"Ah! [I'm not going to help, Angela said that you've been just using us all this time, asking us to work for you for free, you've got a really bad heart.]"

Toby looked up suspiciously.

"Don't you have the key to the vault of Gringotts? When did it become a part-time job for me?"

Al's wobbling body stopped, and it became a little awkward.

"Yeah【Don't change the subject!】"

It suddenly said: "【When are you going to call Angela back? She is homeless now, so you have the heart to let her live outside alone?】"

Toby shook his head and said nothing.

Al said more and more angry: "Ah! [It's just an apology, is it so difficult? I really don't understand the point of what you are doing now, even if you get more work from Dumbledore What's the benefit, this is what the Ministry of Magic should do, it's their job.]”

"【If you go to the Three Broomsticks Tavern later, I think Angela will really go to Dumbledore's side. I'll see what you do then.】"

"Then just wait and see."

Toby said casually, still not taking it seriously.

"See if Dumbledore can make Angela change her mind."
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Three brooms.

in a room.

Bang bang bang.

Angela, who was staring blankly out of the window, heard someone knock on the door.

She didn't answer, and seemed to be distracted.

Bang bang bang.

The knock on the door became urgent, and James' voice came from outside the door.

"Angela, are you in the room? Can you open the door? Someone is looking for you."

Angela frowned.

"Who is it?" She asked coldly.

An unexpected voice came from outside the door.

"It's me, Albus Dumbledore."

After Angela opened the door, James immediately said to Dumbledore: "Then I'll go back first, Minister, you can talk slowly."

He hurried away, as if he didn't intend to get involved in this matter at all.

Angela frowned and stared at Dumbledore, the only one who stayed in place.

Even in the face of such dissatisfied eyes, Dumbledore still maintained a gentle smile on his face.

"Won't you invite me in for a sit down?" He asked kindly: "In order to get this opportunity to communicate with you undisturbed, I handed over the design of the next competition to Toby, he is not so A good talker."

"He traded me for it?!" Angela walked back into the room angrily, and kept circling around the room.

After Dumbledore walked into the room, he closed the door gently, then turned around and said, "Why do you look so angry, after knowing him for so long, don't you know what kind of person he is? I didn't mean to speak ill of my student, but he was unscrupulous at times, even at the expense of his own life."

This passage seemed to hit Angela's sore spot.

"But he never broke his word!"

Angela growled and said, her beautiful face faintly foreboding of collapse.

"He will never break his promise to me!"

Dumbledore looked at her calmly.

"Even if it's just for a dance?"

Angela fixed her eyes on Dumbledore all at once.

"You won't understand." Her tone was full of wordless anger: "Since Hai Erbo's plot was exposed, Toby is the only one who won't lie to me, but he just did it now. "

"But I remember Al." Dumbledore said unhurriedly: "It often visits you, and it is much more reliable than Toby."

"You know very well that they are all the same thing." Angela became impatient: "What do you want from me? Don't tell me it's delusional to ask me to help you deal with Toby, you know it's impossible .As much as I'm mad at him, I don't like you either, and I don't like you when I've never met you."

"It seems that my students have said a lot of bad things about me." Dumbledore said with a smile, not taking it seriously at all.

"Yes, Angela, I know you don't like me. From the first moment I saw you, you have always been hostile to me. I can understand this, no one can get everyone love, and I am no exception."

"Actually, I came to you this time for a purpose, otherwise I wouldn't have spent so much unknown price."

When he said this, Dumbledore's tone suddenly paused.

Angela looked at him suspiciously. If she wasn't asked to help deal with Toby, then why?
"Do you want to know who you really are?"

Dumbledore finally asked the question.

"What are you talking about?" Angela asked puzzled.

"Don't you know?" Dumbledore continued: "Toby has stated more than once that his purpose of holding the Triwizard Tournament is to use the Goblet of Fire to find out your true identity. Now we all know, Hai Erbo The attention paid to you is unusual, and you are even willing to keep you by your side. If this is the case, do you still want to know who you are so much?"

"This is also the biggest disagreement between me and Toby. I don't want to see him walk into such an obvious trap set by Hai Erbo, but he just wants to know the answer-just like he did before, sacrificing myself, and occasionally others."

"I think this time, it might include you too."
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Office of Ancient Magic.

Bang bang bang.

"Go and open the door, Al."

Toby is still grading homework, he said without looking up.

Al whimpered and got up from the sofa, and slowly took out the flying carpet, intending to let it do it for him.

But the people outside the door seemed to be getting impatient, the door was kicked open, and Al was stunned to see Angela walking in angrily.

She came all the way across Toby's desk and asked loudly, "Is that what you thought, using Dumbledore to force me back?"

Toby raised his head, and he said calmly, "Yes."

Angela shouted again: "You bastard, you actually used me to make a deal!"

Toby's tone remained calm: "That's right."

Angela stared at him viciously. If eyes could kill, Toby would have died ten thousand times long ago.

Suddenly, Toby asked abruptly, "He doesn't know you at all, does he?"

"If it's someone else, it might be a problem." Angela said unwillingly.

"But you are no one else."

Toby stood up and said, he walked over and stretched out his hands, Angela was still staring at him dissatisfied, but still did not refuse Toby's hug.

"Look, we are always misunderstood."

Toby said in Angela's ear.

"But I promise, there will be a day because then they won't be able to say no."

"Nobody can."

(End of this chapter)