Archaeologists at Hogwarts

Chapter 96 The Crime of Toby Highmore
The original confinement arrangement for the few people was to bury the bodies of those inexplicably dead animals in the Forbidden Forest, but Harry didn't know what happened to Professor Highmore, and suddenly let them go back to the castle, and there was no need to do this anymore.

But after returning to the common room, Harry told Ron and Hermione what happened in the Forbidden Forest.

Their eyes widened in surprise. They seemed to have heard something extraordinary—the murderer who killed the animals turned out to be Voldemort?

"But he's dead." Ron said incredulously: "Many people say he's dead, and he was defeated by you."

"I never thought I could defeat Voldemort. I was just a baby and I didn't know anything."

Harry said agitatedly that he could not sit down comfortably and walked up and down the fire, still shaking.

"Voldemort is going to get the Philosopher's Stone so that he can get the elixir of life without risking killing more animals. He must have been the one who was going to steal the Philosopher's Stone in Gringotts. Who the hell is helping Voldemort?" It is impossible to suddenly appear in the Forbidden Forest."

"Don't say that name again!" Ron whispered in horror, as if worried that Voldemort would hear.

Harry wouldn't listen to him.

"Firenzie saved me, he shouldn't have done it Bane was very annoyed saying that would mess with what the fate stars foretold. The astrology must have shown that Voldemort was coming back and Bane thought Firenze should let Voldemort kill me I guess That's also shown in the astrology."

"Can you please stop saying that name!" said Ron in a low voice.

"So now I'll just have to wait for Voldemort to steal the Philosopher's Stone," Harry went on excitedly, "and then Voldemort will come up here and kill me, and I think Bane should be happy now."

Hermione looked terrified, but she still wanted to say something to comfort Harry.

"Harry, everyone says that the only person that You-Know-Who has been afraid of is Dumbledore. With Dumbledore here, You-Know-Who won't hurt a single hair of your hair. Besides, whoever says the centaurs must be right? I think that A set that sounds like fortune-telling, Professor McGonagall said, a very imprecise type of magic."

"and"

Hermione hesitated, looking at Harry and Ron, convinced they were going with her.

"Do you still want to piss off Professor Highmore tonight? We have made the same mistake twice, we must not mess around again. This is the first time I have seen Professor Highmore so angry, he will definitely. "

Hermione stammered, and Ron got out what she hadn't finished.

"He's going to kill us."

Ron said: "Professor Highmore will kill us before the mysterious man makes a move."

On the other side, Toby was sitting on the sofa in the ancient magic office, and Al was sitting opposite him, babbling and telling what happened in the Forbidden Forest—including the reason why Al didn't continue talking to him. The reason why Bane fought down.

They terminated the battle ahead of time, otherwise Bane would definitely be injured more seriously, and the bow and arrow alone could not hurt Al.

And the reason why it did this was because it witnessed the mysterious figure in a black wizard robe - judging from the timeline, this happened not long after Firenze rescued Harry.So Al gave up his plan to duel with Baine, and chased after that figure.

It's a pity that Al failed to catch up with the opponent, and even the speed of the flying carpet was not fast enough.

This is not unusual, Toby knows Al's ability very well, knows what treasures are in its belly pocket, it is impossible not to catch up with a wizard who can only run with his head buried.

"ah!"

Al said with a solemn expression an extremely important discovery.

Immediately afterwards, Toby's face also became gloomy.

"You mean, the opponent floated without using a wand—this is the ability to fly without a wand?"

A wizard wants to fly through a series of magical creations and magical animals such as broomsticks, flying carpets, and thestrals, but the real ability to fly without a wand is an extremely rare problem—especially the fast one.

Toby knew that Dementors had the ability to levitate, but even Dementors couldn't fly much faster.

And the only wizard he knew who could do it was Voldemort.

Voldemort is the only wizard who can fly without a wand, which was demonstrated during the last wizarding war.

"But how is that possible." Toby frowned and said, "It's impossible for the mysterious man to be resurrected now, otherwise he wouldn't need the Philosopher's Stone."

"Unless the mysterious man gave this magic to his helper."

"Or, that figure is some kind of powerful dark creature, maybe it's really a vampire."

The reason why Toby pays so much attention to the other party is because Al saw the fox carcass in the other party's hand, that is, the guy who stole all the animal carcasses.

Toby didn't pay much attention to these corpses at first, because he was busy doing archaeology in the Forbidden Forest at that time, and the key point was that he had checked these corpses and found nothing wrong.Despite traces of black magic, the Forbidden Forest is inherently dangerous, and there may be dark creatures hiding there.Moreover, these corpses are not unusual compared with Toby's previous archaeological discoveries.

He still remembered the characteristics of those corpses, but besides that, was there any clue that he hadn't discovered?
By now, the whole incident has been sorted out clearly.

First, a mysterious guest appeared in the Pig's Head Bar. The other party confuses Hagrid through the fire dragon egg and asked about the situation in the Forbidden Forest, focusing on the dead animals.

From the very beginning, these corpses were the other party's purpose. The other party was worried that the corpses would be discovered, so they planned to take them away and destroy them.And this mysterious guest did the same thing. Tonight, all those dead animals disappeared.

The question now is, who is it that stole the animal's carcass?

The target of Toby's suspicion at first was Draco Malfoy, because Lucius made him have to stay in school for probation, unable to leave the school, and it happened that the incident of the mysterious guest happened during this period.

That's why Toby put Draco in detention too, and used it to observe the child.But once the Forbidden Forest is involved, this matter seems a little unreasonable - Draco has no ability to appear in the Forbidden Forest without authorization, and it would take a lot of risk to enter secretly.

And early the next morning, the "Daily Prophet" brought by the owl also completely dispelled Toby's suspicion that Lucius had contacted Voldemort.

The reason why Lucius put Toby on probation was only so that he would not have the opportunity to leave the school and find out what happened in Egypt.

Larry, the goblin supervisor who was rejected by Toby unceremoniously, was interviewed by a female reporter named Rita Skeeter and wrote a shocking article, which was published on the front page of the newspaper.

And the title of the article is -

[Toby Highmore's crime! 】

(End of this chapter)