Archaeologists at Hogwarts

Chapter 130 A New Book Fan
Professor Highmore's early departure ended the photo session, and Harry was surprised he didn't do it on the spot, but the thought that Lockhart was recruited to the school by Professor Highmore himself was a little bit of asking for trouble.

Anyway, Harry finally didn't have to continue being blinded by flashing lights, he was holding a whole set of Gilderoy Lockhart's works, and he poured them all into Ginny's new cauldron.

"These are for you," Harry said vaguely, "I'll buy them myself—"

"You must like that, Potter?" said a voice he could never have misheard.

Harry straightened up and met Draco Malfoy with his usual mocking smile on his face.

Draco also came to buy a new book. He didn't plan to show up, but after seeing Professor Highmore finally left, he couldn't help but want to move around.

"The famous Harry Potter," said Malfoy, "could not even go into a bookstore without being front-page news."

"Don't talk nonsense, he doesn't want that!" said Ginny.It was the first time she had spoken up in Harry's presence, glaring at Malfoy.

Harry looked at Ginny in surprise, and Malfoy drew out, "Potter, you've got a girlfriend!"

At this time, Ron and Hermione also pushed forward, each holding a stack of Lockhart's books.

"Oh, it's you." Ron looked at Malfoy, as if he saw something disgusting on the sole of the shoe: "I can't believe you dare to appear in Diagon Alley, why, Professor Highmore didn't teach you a lesson Are you unhappy?"

Malfoy immediately sank his face: "What about you, Weasley, buying such a pile of books may make your parents hungry for a while."

Ron blushed, threw the book into the cauldron, and was about to charge Malfoy.Harry and Hermione grabbed his shirt from behind.

After a while, Mr. Weasley also arrived, followed by Lucius Malfoy, and they quickly quarreled.

Lucius saw the Grangers who were following Mr. Weasley, and he said contemptuously: "Look at the friends you have made, Weasley, I thought your family had fallen to the limit."

With a clang, Ginny's cauldron flew out.Mr. Weasley lunged at Mr. Malfoy, knocking him into a bookshelf, and there was a sudden commotion, with the twins yelling, Mrs. Weasley screaming for Mr. Weasley to stop—

Then, a louder voice rang out, and a thick smoke filled the bookstore-this familiar scene made the three of Harry stunned, even Lucius Malfoy was stunned, and he quickly shouted Said: "Draco, come here—"

Before Lucius could finish speaking, a small thing sprang out of the smoke, scurrying back and forth, Lucius felt himself being hit many times, followed by Mr. Weasley, he felt Something was stuffed into his pocket.

The smoke came and went as quickly as it came, and Hagrid burst into the crowd, pulling Mr Weasley and Malfoy apart in the blink of an eye.

Mr. Weasley's lip was broken, but Lucius looked much worse than him, with a bruised nose and swollen face, as if he had been severely beaten.

The twins were shocked, they didn't expect their father to be so powerful.

"Is it boxing?" Fred asked excitedly, "Dad, did you secretly practice boxing?"

Mr. Weasley pressed his pocket, and Lucius stuffed the old Transfiguration textbook into Ginny's hand. There was a malicious light in his eyes, but it was not directed at Ginny, but towards The crowd, but did not find the most suspicious figure.

He broke free from Hagrid's arm, waved to Draco, and rushed out of the shop.

Only then did Mr. Weasley open his pocket, and he took out a piece of parchment from which the names of various dark magic items were written on it—this was a list.

"This seems to be the parchment that Lucius took out in the Borgin-Bock store." Harry, who was watching from the side, whispered: "Professor Highmore really doesn't miss any opportunity to teach Malfoy. "

"Hammer?" Mr. Weasley wondered, "What does this have to do with Hammer?"

"The smoke bomb just now." Ron said, "It's almost exactly the same as what happened at the train station during the holiday - but this time Professor Highmore must have learned his lesson and didn't show up on his own initiative."

"Oh my God"

Mr. Weasley finally realized what this parchment meant, and it was even Malfoy's trick.

"I have to go back to the Ministry of Magic quickly." He said hurriedly, "Honey, can you send the children back alone? It will be too late when Malfoy finds out that the parchment is missing."

Toby, who was watching this scene from a distance outside the store, threw the bottle into the trash can casually. Al, who returned from the sneak attack, jumped back on his shoulders, and Toby staggered away.

Toby first saw Malfoy and his son in Gringotts. After finding out that the two were acting suspiciously, he quietly caught up with them, came to Knockturn Alley, and happened to find Harry who had just come out of the fireplace , I also learned about the parchment from Harry, and it was Toby who was eyeing this kind of parchment, and finally found a suitable opportunity in the bookstore.

Although the plan was successful, it didn't make Toby happy at all.

His signing was abysmal.

In contrast, Lockhart's autograph session was nothing short of a success.

The most exasperating thing is that Lockhart was the one who asked to be recruited into Hogwarts on his own initiative, but he didn't expect to make such a fuss for himself in the end.

But it's too late to say anything now, Lockhart has just announced that he has become the next Defense Against the Dark Arts professor, and his attitude towards Hammer has also changed, obviously from the famous Harry Potter. business opportunities - can bring more sales for his new book.

In the ancient magic office, Toby and Al were sitting opposite each other on the sofa, both of them had extremely serious expressions.

"Ancient magic is less valued than we imagined. Wizards have long since no longer needed the complicated method of casting magic like a magic circle, and even the success of automatic casting wands can't attract them."

"ah."

"Huh? Hasn't this been reported yet?"

He picked up the "Daily Prophet" and took a look, and found that there was no news about Cedric on it, and his automatic magic wand was not known to everyone.

Afterwards, Toby took a look at the bestseller list in the newspaper again - Gilderoy Lockhart's "I Can Be Magical" topped the list, and it has been on the list for a long time, but Toby's own "Ancient "Magic and Magic Circle" can't even see a shadow, and it doesn't even have the qualifications to enter the list.

Although this has become a textbook for first-year freshmen, the number of freshmen is not large enough to bring in too many sales.

Toby put the newspaper back on the coffee table with a heavy face.

Five minutes later, he picked up the newspaper and took another look, only to find that the list hadn't changed at all.

After 10 minutes, there was still no change in the list.

Twenty minutes later, the newspaper had been torn and scattered on the floor.

"No reason!"

Toby got up angrily. He could ignore Cedric's auto-casting wand, but he couldn't tolerate wizards not paying attention to the magic circle.

Proving the power of ancient magic is related to Toby's long-standing ideas. In the past, Toby was busy with archaeology and didn't bother to organize it into a book, but the current result is unacceptable to Toby anyway.

Al also said indignantly: "Ah! Yah!"

"It's not just about the magic circle." Toby squinted his eyes and said, "There's also this damn bestseller list. Shouldn't such an important list use the transformation spell? Isn't it worth paying attention to?"

At this moment, an owl flew into the office, interrupting their conversation.

Al was in charge of feeding the owl. Toby impatiently opened the package in the owl's claws, and was the first to find a piece of parchment with neat handwriting on it.

"Could it be another letter from a book fan?"

Toby muttered and looked at the letter paper, and he was quickly attracted by the contents of the letter——

【Dear Professor Haimo, can ancient magic bring people back from the dead? 】

Toby read the letter silently, and there was a gift from the sender in the package—a newspaper.

The newspaper had an odd name, The Quibbler.

Toby looked again at the sender's name—Luna Lovegood.

This made him ponder.

After a while, he said, "Get ready to go, Al."

"ah?"

"Next, there are probably a lot of things to keep us busy."

(End of this chapter)