Archaeologists at Hogwarts

Chapter 72 The Curse of the Vampire
Since the assignment of magic array items, the students gradually began to realize the extraordinaryness of the ancient magic class.

They don't need to practice those similar or identical spells, and they don't need to complete the exact same homework, but they can all make decisions on their own—except for some ideas that are too unreasonable, Professor Haimer promised the students Requirements for crafting special magic circle items.

This made the following ancient magic class very interesting. In each class, students would ask various questions, and Toby also showed super patience and a wealth of knowledge about magic circles Comprehension, usually in a very short time to point out the mistakes of the students, to avoid causing a larger explosion.

That's right, it is the most common consequence of the failure of the magic circle - an explosion.

In the next short period of time, some students always exploded while walking.Of course, it wasn't the students who were blown up, they didn't have the guts to engrave magic circles on their bodies.

The pockets and schoolbags of the students are usually blown up.As for the location, there are more variety - dormitory, common room, washroom, classroom, and some students even exploded in the school hospital, probably accidentally created a magic circle of thunderbolt fireworks.

This farce did not end until Professor Haimer strictly prohibited it. Everyone had to draw a perfect magic circle on the parchment before applying it to their respective items.

However, according to Marcus Flint, who happened to pass by the principal's office, Professor Highmore made up his mind after wearing a big swollen bag on his forehead. It is speculated that Professor Highmore was forced to make this decision.

As a result, Marcus was imprisoned by Toby for three days, and almost missed the next game of the Slytherin team.

It seems that everything in the school is moving in a better direction.

Except Quirrell.

He is living like a year now, and every morning after waking up, he has to check whether he is still alive, for fear that the curse of the vampire will suddenly kill him.

In his vague memory, that mysterious vampire had the ability that he could not resist anyway, which made Quirrell unable to resist at all, and did not dare to disobey the order of the curse parasitic on his body.

Quirrell knows that the curse has a way to take his life in an instant, which is more terrible than the death curse.

Fortunately, the curse also seems to know that stealing the Philosopher's Stone is not a simple matter. Even after Quirrell told how to pass various organs, the curse did not keep urging Quirrell, but patiently waited for the opportunity.

Until the eve of the latest Quidditch match.

It will be a game between Gryffindor and Hufflepuff, and almost all the students and professors will watch it. The scoring of the game is related to the ownership of the final Quidditch trophy, and it is the last game of the season. Contest.

Quirrell finally received orders from the vampire's curse.

"Go through the trapdoor and try to figure out what trap is in the last room."

Quirrell didn't understand the meaning of this order. He originally thought that the other party would ask him to take the opportunity to take the Philosopher's Stone away, but this step was not considered by the other party.

The curse acted as if it was very sure that there would be a trap in the last room, and it was obvious that Quirrell had told the other party that there was nothing there, only a Philosopher's Stone.

In any case, Quirrell decided to do what the other party said.He happened to know that Dumbledore would leave the school to attend the Wizengamot meeting on that day. It is said that this meeting was related to Professor Highmore—someone submitted an anonymous letter reporting that Highmore's mental condition was very unstable and he was not suitable to stay in school. If Li continues to be a professor, it may even endanger the students.

Quirrell felt that Professor Haimer's spirit was quite normal, especially after the Christmas holiday, he became more and more normal.But regarding the point of endangering students, Quirrell has seen many students who suddenly exploded in class, but similar behaviors were stopped in time.

Although there is no need to steal the Philosopher's Stone in this plan, Quirrell still has to be prepared to break through other agencies, and shorten the time as much as possible to avoid being discovered by others.

But before Quirrell's preparations were completed, Toby came to the door first.

"Is-what's the matter, Professor Highmore?" Quirrell stammered.

"There is indeed one thing." Toby lowered his voice, and he said mysteriously: "I came to help you solve the curse of the vampire."

Quirrell opened his eyes wide: "Huh?"

"Don't hide it anymore, Professor Quirrell." Toby said with a wave of his hand: "I know what's going on, even the students can guess it-you must have been attacked by a vampire in Romania, so That's why it smells like garlic."

Upon hearing this reason, Quirrell finally felt a little relieved, his heart was about to jump out just now, and he thought that Toby had seen through the curse parasitic on him.

And Toby cleverly skipped the real reason for the dream messenger, and he also came to Quirrell with another purpose——

"Aphasia Curse? Stuttering Curse? Hagrid has told me about the changes that have happened to you, and you've been completely different since you came back. Whatever the curse is, I'll try to help you out, and it helps me Go find the mysterious vampire."

Quirrell was taken aback: "You-you-what are you looking for him for?"

"Of course it is for the study of ancient magic." Toby said as a matter of course: "I have never been to Romania, and I never knew that there are such powerful vampires there. I have to see and see, maybe it has something to do with some ancient ruins ——I just don’t know if Gringotts has a branch in Romania, and without the help of goblins, it’s still hard to find these mysterious guys.”

"Don't worry, Professor Quirrell."

After seeing Quirrell's face gradually pale, Toby encouraged him: "It just happened to give you a chance to experience the power of the magic circle, you can't imagine what you can do with the magic circle - wait a minute. "

Toby suddenly frowned and said, he walked to the door of the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor's office, and opened the door inward at once—

Hermione, who was eavesdropping behind the door, didn't expect such a scene to happen. She fell down and fell all of a sudden.

"Professor." Hermione stood up blushing, and she quickly explained: "I came to see Professor Quirrell, and I wanted to ask about the content related to the Muggle Studies class. It was me just now."

She carefully looked at Professor Haimer's gloomy face, and almost didn't cry.

"I was wrong, Professor."

In the end, Hermione didn't dare to lie in front of Professor Highmore.

Toby narrowed his eyes and stared at her: "Sneaky and eavesdropping on the professors' conversations, and being caught so easily - five points deducted from Gryffindor, you need to have a good memory, Miss Granger. "

Hermione, who was depressed, couldn't tell for a while whether Professor Highmore was deducting points for eavesdropping, or because he was caught and needed a long memory.

(End of this chapter)