Archaeologists at Hogwarts

Chapter 88 The news that came out

Al left the castle on a flying carpet and arrived at Hagrid's cabin all the way. Toby opened the wooden door to welcome him in: "How does it feel to be in class for the first time?"

"Yeah." Al raised his head, and there was a little disdain in his relaxed eyes, as if he was mocking that Toby would be his assistant soon.

Toby curled his lips and said, "It's easy to think about, do you think the principal might agree?"

"Ah!" Al put on small half-moon glasses, exactly the same as the principal's glasses.

"The name of an admirer is not enough. Even in Ouagadou, I haven't seen any official professor of animals."

"Yahahah!!!"

The two were arguing back and forth, and Hagrid looked at Al enviously: "That's great, I didn't expect you to be able to teach the students, maybe that day Norbert can do it too - this is what I gave to Charmander." What do you think of the name you chose?"

The name is not bad, but both Toby and Al feel that the proposal to let Noble take classes is impossible.

After a while, the trio who had just finished the herbal medicine class also arrived, and Professor Haimo allowed them to watch the scene of Charmander's birth, which made them extremely excited.

"Stand back, a little further back, Hagrid and you too, don't get so close to the dragon egg."

Toby made them huddle together and huddled in the corner of the cabin. Hagrid could only try his best to stretch his neck and look at the dragon egg, which already had a deep crack.

Toby stood at the forefront, with his wand hidden in his sleeve, and Al stood on his shoulder, his little eyes became vigilant in a direction that few people could see.

Suddenly, with a harsh scratching sound, the egg cracked.The little Charmander was waddling and flopping on the table.It wasn't really pretty; Harry thought it looked like a crumpled black umbrella.Its spiny wings are very large compared to its thin black body.It also has a long, large nose with white nostrils, horny bumps on its head, and bulging orange eyes.

It sneezed and spewed sparks from its nose.But other than that, nothing happened, and there was no sudden explosion or curse or anything, which was completely different from what Toby expected.

This is just an ordinary fire dragon, although it looks extremely fierce from the face.

Am I guessing wrong?
Toby could only think so.

Hagrid couldn't hold back his excitement and stepped forward. He touched Charmander's head, and Charmander bit his finger, showing its sharp long teeth.

"Jesus, look, it knows me!" said Hagrid.

"Hagrid," said Hermione, "how fast did the Norwegian Ridgeback grow?"

Hagrid was about to answer when he suddenly turned pale - he jumped up and ran to the window.

"what happened?"

"Someone was peeping through the curtains just now—a boy—running to school—eh? Is that Toby?"

Toby found out much earlier than they did. When they all focused on Charmander, he quietly left the cabin and caught the student who was peeking outside—it was Draco Malfoy.

Harry remembered that in the herbal medicine class just now, the three of them discussed the matter of breaking the dragon's shell for a while, but Malfoy accidentally overheard it. He didn't expect him to hear so much.

Malfoy, with a pale face, was captured and returned to the cabin. He never expected that Professor Highmore was here.

Harry quickly told Professor Highmore what had happened, and Toby nodded silently, then stared at Malfoy calmly.

Draco had to say, "It's because I want to find a chance to get revenge on Potter."

This was exactly the same excuse he used to follow Neville back then. Harry looked at Professor Highmore anxiously, wondering what he would do with Malfoy.

Only Charmander was left screaming in the whole wooden house. Al jumped over and patted its head hard with a small shovel, which made it quiet, and immediately became dizzy.

The four students watching this scene trembled with fear, but Hagrid felt very sorry for Charmander.

And Toby was thinking about Draco's true intentions.

In his guess, Lucius Malfoy may also be the candidate to help Voldemort.

Although Draco's reason is very good, he is Lucius' son after all, and it is possible to inform the secret.In addition, the timing of Draco's appearance coincided with the time when Charmander broke its shell. Could Lucius be the mysterious guest who handed the dragon egg to Hagrid?
This time Toby no longer decided to let Draco go, he said with a gloomy face: "Mr. Malfoy, once again, you want to frame students from other houses, and Slytherin will be detained for three years for this." Ten, you will also be imprisoned."

Harry was going crazy with joy, he wanted to see Malfoy be punished so much, although Professor Highmore's decision seemed to be partial, but finally there was a professor from Gryffindor College, just like an annoying Snape was as partial to Slytherins as he was.

Draco's face became extremely pale, and he stared resentfully at Harry and Ron who were snickering.

However, Toby ignored them. He walked up to Hagrid and asked, "Can you describe the scene when you saw that guest again? Did he ask any questions that shouldn't be asked?"

Since there is no problem with the fire dragon egg itself, Toby can only think about it from this direction, perhaps because the other party wants to get some tricks from Hagrid.

"Shouldn't ask? Let me think about it." Hagrid frowned and recalled vigorously: "He mentioned Hogwarts, I told him my occupation, and then he kept buying me drinks , asked me about the Forbidden Forest, he seemed to be concerned about the animals in it, especially the ones that died recently - oops, I shouldn't have let the students know about these things, it would arouse their curiosity."

Hagrid stared warily at the four students, who were all eavesdropping.

But Toby didn't care about it. He continued to ask: "The animals you are talking about, are you referring to those who died inexplicably some time ago?"

"You know that too?" Hagrid was surprised, "Oh, I forgot, Firenze mentioned you to me a few days ago, and those centaurs suspected that you did it."

"Yeah, of course they will think so." Toby said: "But Dumbledore gave me a guarantee, so there is no problem for the time being."

Hagrid didn't bring up this topic anymore, he asked cautiously: "What should I do now? Do you want me to put Norbert in the Forbidden Forest to raise him?"

Draco already knew about it, and he was sure to inform it.

"Don't worry about it, Hagrid."

Toby comforted, and then looked at the four students. They immediately lowered their heads, but they were horrified to hear Professor Highmore continue to announce——

"Let's see if they can come back alive from the Forbidden Forest, which is where you're going to be locked up—tonight."

(End of this chapter)