Archaeologists at Hogwarts

Chapter 422 Family Dinner (End)

421 Family Dinner (End of Volume [-])
Tonks' home.

kitchen.

"Do you know how to deal with this thing?"

Sirius stared at a particularly large egg in his hand, he frowned and asked, "This is supposed to be a dragon egg, right? Don't burn the house down for a while."

"That's called an ostrich egg." Tonks snatched the egg over and said, "Just treat it in the same way as an egg, am I right?"

She asked another person in the kitchen with some uncertainty - Lupine was slowly shaking the spoon in his hand, staring unblinkingly at the boiling broth in the pot.

"I don't know either."

He tasted the broth, added some salt after thinking about it, and said, "Perhaps you can try, and if you fail, you can get James to buy extra eggs on the way back."

Tonks stared at the ostrich egg for a while, then directly handed the difficult thing to the impatient Sirius: "It's up to you."

Sirius couldn't take it anymore.

"Why are the three of us preparing dinner?" He said angrily.

"Because I let my parents go on vacation." Tonks said, rolling up his sleeves, "in case they hear something they shouldn't hear-they still think I'm really a reporter for the "Daily Prophet" Journalists will never go back to being Aurors."

Lupine turned his head and gave her a gentle smile: "Speaking of this matter, I would also like to thank you. If it wasn't for your help, I wouldn't have published the plight of those werewolves in the newspaper. This is very important to my work. Very helpful."

"What are you talking about?" Sirius asked, holding the ostrich egg.

"I recently interviewed an isolated werewolf with Remus." Tonks explained, "Then I tried to ask the minister if I could publish it, and Dumbledore agreed. Now the newspaper has received many letters, I guess the Minister is also hoping to attract the werewolves to our side."

"Guess?" Sirius snorted, "He still has the heart to care about werewolves? I've heard James say it - of course, Harry told him about it - it is said that he almost got into a fight with Highmore It's a pity that Dumbledore was just so close to—"

"Sirius." Lupine interrupted with a serious expression: "You are not the only one who has heard this story. If you still want to greet our guests with this attitude in a while, then I can only invite you in advance. left."

Sirius said disdainfully: "Don't talk like you are the owner of this place!"

"It's okay." Tonks blinked at Sirius: "I should be the master of this house, right? I allow him to do that."

Sirius looked around at the two of them, and his eyes gradually became suspicious: "You two guys... can't you? Did I understand it wrong, or...?"

Lupine waited patiently for a while, and after realizing that Sirius hadn't continued, he asked curiously, "Or what?"

Tonks shot Sirius a cold look.

"It's nothing."

Sirius shook his head and said, looking at the ostrich egg in his hand, he suddenly felt a little redundant.

Lupine looked back suspiciously. He didn't put too much thought on this matter, but picked up the previous topic again and said: "About Toby and Dumbledore. It's best not to mention Dumbledore's name in front of you."

"Or, until we figure out what Toby's plans are going to be, we'll never mention the name again—we'll wait until the limelight passes."

"There's no such thing as limelight." Sirius returned to his mocking attitude: "Angela is Hai Erbo's Horcrux, and the only Horcrux. As long as she is still alive, this burst of limelight will never pass away." Dumbledore is fighting Highmore over Angela's ownership again - do you think they will have a better way of handling it?"

"How is it possible, that's Dumbledore's only sister! And Dumbledore has been feeling guilty about her death. Hai Erbo completely caught the handle of these two people, and by the way, he also carried out Grindelwald's plan So thoroughly—hasn't he been trying to get Highmore and Dumbledore to break up. I guess he's having fun hiding somewhere now."

Lupine stared at the boiling soup in silence for a while, then shook his head, as if wanting to say something more.But until the end, he couldn't say a word of rebuttal.

"Hmph." Sirius snorted triumphantly.

"What's there to be happy about?" Tonks stared at him strangely. "Do you know that this will push an enigmatic wizard to the opposite of us?"

"Who are you talking about?" Sirius sneered: "Toby Highmore? Or Dumbledore? Anyway, with me, Toby Highmore will never be a friend."

"I can understand that." Tonks didn't hold onto him, "Toby did almost kill you, although it's also because you almost killed Snape—"

Before Sirius made a high-profile statement, Lupine interrupted loudly: "I can't finish talking about grievances and grievances. There are too many entanglements, and there is no point in discussing them now--in addition, I seem to hear someone in the yard. What's the matter, is James and the others back?"

As soon as Lupine had finished speaking, they heard the sound of the door opening, followed by a series of rapid footsteps - a head emerged from the edge of the kitchen.

"What are you looking at?" Tonks asked curiously.

Harry took a closer look at the three people in the kitchen, and said calmly, "I'm looking at the possibility of a duel tonight, and now it seems very high."

"They won't fight."

A palm was pressed on Harry's shoulder, and then this person also walked into the kitchen—Angela, by the way, brought Al who was sitting on the flying carpet, and greeted several people in the room together .

There was silence in the kitchen for a few seconds. Lupine was the first to react. He said in surprise, "I'm sorry, James didn't tell us that you would come with us. We thought it was only Toby."

"He changed his mind."

Angela ignored Sirius' odd gaze, and Tonks's stealthy pinch of Sirius' arm, so that he wouldn't be so obvious.

"At the beginning, Toby felt that I needed to be alone, but he was also worried that Dumbledore would take the opportunity to approach me and snatch me away. You should have heard of it, right? "

None of the three people who had obviously heard the story spoke.

"It's not a big deal." Angela said indifferently: "I don't remember anything anyway, I guess this is probably the aftereffect of using silence to save me-but these are not important. The important thing is that magic There is no way to bring people back from the dead, and Dumbledore is a wizard with a criminal record. Toby dare not let me approach him—what if I die again? Hai Erbo is probably waiting for such an opportunity .”

"So I'm here—tonight's dinner with you. And judging from what Toby means, I guess I'll follow him wherever he goes in the future."

"Oh?" Tonks squinted at Lupin. Isn't this just how she got along with Lupin recently?Work together and live together after the end.

"You sound so close," Tonks said meaningfully, making Sirius nauseous.

After hearing Tonks' comments, Al shook his head tut-tut, and the expression on Angela's face became a little unnatural.

"You wouldn't say that if you'd seen Toby's latest magical experiments. Now I'll have to watch them too--although I always think he's trying to push the ball back on purpose. Never mind, in a minute I'll ask him about it again."

"Why didn't they come in?" Lupine asked, looking out the window. "Is there that much luggage in the car?"

This time the one with the unnatural expression was Harry.

"Snape is here for some reason. Dad is arguing with him, and mother is trying to persuade him. As for Professor Highmore, he must be watching the fun."
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Farther outside the house, there is a magic car parked here-this is James deliberately borrowed from the Weasleys, specifically to pick up Harry.

But now he is arguing with another person with a red face.

"You will never be allowed to get close to my child—you failed Death Eater, who knows if you are Haierbo's lackey now, and you may even become Grindelwald's subordinate."

"Really? Why do I feel that you are scolding yourself? A poor loser, in the end you relied on your old opponent to help you get everything back. How can there be such a poor person like you in this world."

Leaning on the hood of the car, Toby casually watched the quarrel between James and Snape, clapped his hands casually and said, "Fight, fight. Can you stop talking nonsense, I'm not for I just came here to see you guys quarreling, so I need to do some exciting scenes—”

"Snapped!"

Something hit Toby on the back of the head, and when he reached out to touch it, his palm suddenly became sticky.

After turning his head, Toby saw those amazing green eyes staring at him angrily.

Lily was holding a basket of eggs in her arms, which she bought on the way back, saying that the Tonks family must not know what to do with ostrich eggs.

She picked up another egg and tossed it up and down.

"I warn you, Lily Evans—"

"Snapped!"

"Do you know who you're messing with? The black devil that even Dumbledore wouldn't dare to mess with—"

"Snapped!"

"enough!"

Toby dodged back angrily: "A woman who doesn't know how to be grateful at all, no wonder Harry was almost assigned to Slytherin. It turned out that I learned it from you."

Lily narrowed her eyes again, and Toby simply shut his mouth.

Snape and James also looked this way.

"You really want to invite this guy to dinner?" James asked loudly, pointing at Snape.

Snape pushed James' fingers away with a cold expression.

"I'm leaving now, and if Toby hadn't threatened me, I wouldn't even have come over - I'll leave you alone, give me the car keys."

He stretched out his hand and waved it up and down twice in Toby's direction, and Toby signaled Snape to look back with his eyes - the car keys were in Lily's hand.

It wasn't until this moment that Lily spoke her first words after returning.

"Today is a day for me to get together with my family and friends, and I don't want anyone to upset me. Do you understand?"

Snape took a step back with an unnatural expression, and James also looked a little disappointed.

Only Toby asked kindly while washing his hair: "Does the family you mentioned include Penny? Do I need to invite her over? I'm sure he won't refuse—"

"Snapped!"
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There is a short distance from the car to the house.

Snape was on the left, James was on the right, and Toby was sandwiched between them.

The three walked silently behind Lily, and at the same time secretly "communicated" in low voices.

"Lily is much tougher than before," James said worriedly.

"Anyone who is locked in a kerosene lamp will become like this." Toby comforted: "And you can't forget that she was similar when she was in school?"

"That's true," James confirmed.

Lily had a personality from an early age.

"But what about you?" Snape stared at Toby maliciously and said, "Didn't you just treat her as an assistant before? How could you still obediently listen to her?"

"Oh, Severus." Toby said exaggeratedly: "Do you have to put two more knives in my heart? Dumbledore's plan succeeded, he taught me how to value emotions— —So sometimes I feel bad, such as when I mock you—well, I was joking, how could someone become unhappy because of mocking you? This is mainly because—”

At this time, Lily, who was walking in front, stopped suddenly, causing the three people behind her to also stop in a hurry.

"Because I know Toby better than you do, Severus."

Lily turned her head and said: "I knew Sirius better than anyone else on the night when Sirius almost killed you. If it was before, Toby would never listen to my advice to help you——unfortunately I realized that too late, and then he tried to kill Penny, so I couldn't forgive him."

"Cold-blooded." James shook his head tut-tut, as if he didn't want to be with Toby.

"Shameless," Toby said, staring at him.

"Hmph." Snape just snorted.

Lily stared at the three of them silently, she suddenly sighed.

"Maybe it's because I spent too much time alone, which made me afraid of being alone—you know? In the Castle of Death, there are a group of half-dead monsters, and the world behind the Mason Gate is also very scary. Now I It's hard to come back, no matter what happened before, can't you just have a good meal together for me, only this time?"

"Look," said Toby, shaking his head. "Here we go again, the great Lily Evans' usual pathetic look. Let me see—James got it, Severus—how do you look? Worse than Lily? It seems that the two men beside me agree with your proposal."

"What about you?" Lily stared at Toby and asked, silently picking up another egg from the basket.

"I?"

Toby seemed to be thinking seriously, and suddenly he pushed all his hair back to the back of his head, and said with a gentle smile:
"Dark devils are never afraid of any invitation - well, don't look at me like that, I promise I'll keep my mouth shut and never say a nasty word."

Lily glanced over the faces of each of them, and after getting confirmation, she turned around and opened the door.

"Harry, take the eggs into the kitchen - wait a minute, I remember you had a girlfriend at school, didn't you?"

"You must tell me about her."

(End of Volume Four)
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