Archaeologists at Hogwarts

Chapter 132 Black Notebook

acquisition?

Xenophilius Lovegood thought he had misheard, turned around, and said as he walked: "So you are here to buy newspapers? It is not common for customers like you to come to the door in person-two Sincerely, Nat."

"Ah, it seems that there is some misunderstanding between us." Toby didn't move, he said to the confused Xenophilius: "I didn't come to buy the newspaper, but to buy the newspaper. To avoid repeating Again—so to speak, I'm here to buy all the Quibblers."

Xenophilius stood blankly, looking like a ball of cotton candy.

"All?" he asked. "You mean the ones upstairs?"

It seems that the printing presses for the newspapers were placed on the second floor.

"I'm afraid it will include all of the subsequent "The Quibbler." Toby smiled and said, "I want every copy."

Before Xenophilius could recover, he suddenly lost the ability to blink, and his eyes were staring straight.

Toby continued: "Speaking of which, it's all about your daughter, she—huh? Where did she go?"

Luna was not in the house.

Toby turned his head and found that Luna appeared outside the house at some time, standing in front of the Thestral near the fence, and slowly stretched out her slender palm, wanting to touch the Thestral's cheek.

"careful!"

This startled Toby, although Hagrid promised that the thestrals in the school were well domesticated, but this is a 4X level magical animal, not only looks scary, but also very aggressive, especially when facing strangers before.

He and Xenophilius rushed out of the house almost at the same time. Toby even had the magic ball ready, and he was worried about the problem of returning—he didn't want to take a wounded Thestral with him. Back to Hogwarts.

Surprisingly, however, thestrals did not show the slightest resistance to Luna's palm, it silently lowered its dragon-like head, allowing Luna's little hand to slide slowly across its face.

Toby stopped involuntarily, and Xenophilius also stopped.

"She doesn't look scared at all. Do you have any magical animals in your house? They are huge and dangerous."

Xenophilius shook his head in confusion.

"Does the fresh water ball fish in the creek count?"

Toby looked at Xenophilius with a "you're kidding" expression.

He had to go on to add: "What about the Crooked Horned Snork? Have you heard of the Crooked Horned Snork?"

Toby's expression became even weirder: "Never heard of it. Have you seen it?"

Xenophilius shook his head, his long white hair was like a dandelion, as if it would all be blown away with a slight blow.

"Me neither." He said, "Luna and I are still looking, hoping to find it."

"Okay then." Toby was a little embarrassed, it was the first time he really had nothing to say.

Luna, who was gently touching the Thestrals, ignored the communication between the two of them. She stared straight into the eyes of Thestrals, and saw her reflection in them, as well as an inexplicable sense of familiarity in her heart.

"Mother."

She said quietly.

Ten minutes later, Xenophilius led Toby to the second floor of the house. It seemed to be both a living room and a workshop. There were piles of books and papers everywhere. There were delicate animal models hanging from the ceiling. Haha Those whom Leigh didn't recognize were flapping their wings or moving their mouths.

Down there is a wooden thing that is making a lot of noise and has many cogs turning by magic.It looks like a cross between a workbench and a bunch of old shelves, spitting out copies of the latest Quibbler.

Toby was sitting by the window, and Xenophilius was sitting opposite him. The two looked at Luna who was staying with the Thestrals outside the window for a while, and then Toby turned his head and said, "Then let Let us go on, Mr Lovegood."

"Oh." Xenophilius came back to his senses: "I just never thought that Luna would like thestrals. Although I can't see them with my own eyes, they must not be as cute as the fresh water ball fish."

"I agree with that," Toby said.

He went on to tell the original story of the whole thing-in Luna's letter, he asked whether ancient magic could bring people back from the dead, and at the same time Toby noticed the strange "Quiet" magazine, so he thought Come and visit in person.

"Wait a minute." Xenophilius said, he walked to the corner of the house, which was the only clean and tidy place, and there was a stack of newly purchased books.

He picked up a copy of "Ancient Magic and Magic Circle" and walked back. While looking down, he said, "Is it because of this book? I heard that Hogwarts has opened a new course, and it is said that it is responsible for this course." His professor is not simple, he made Hogwarts go crazy as soon as he took office—”

"Cough cough!"

Before Xenophilius said more bad things, Toby coughed hard twice.

"I think it's me you're talking about, Mr. Lovegood."

He stretched out his palm, wanting to introduce himself: "Toby Highmore, an archaeologist, is also a professor of ancient magic at Hogwarts."

Xenophilius did not dare to stretch out his hand again, he remembered how strong Toby was.

"Sorry." He said, but his tone became uncontrollably excited: "The magic about resurrection from the dead——"

"It doesn't exist." Toby flatly denied: "I've been doing archaeology for so many years, but I've never seen magic that can truly bring people back from the dead. This is an insurmountable boundary."

"Also, can you let me know who you want to resurrect? Miss Lovegood didn't specify this in her letter."

Xenofilius became extremely depressed at once. He looked at Luna outside the window and said sadly: "Pandora is Luna's mother. She died in a spell experiment. Luna witnessed that scene with her own eyes. At that time, they were in the courtyard. Here, I was upstairs writing an article in the newspaper, and I didn't find it in the first place, so it was too late. Everything was too late"

Toby took a black notebook out of his pocket and took out a quill, also completely black.

"Pandora"

While writing in his notebook, he asked, "Can you tell me the exact date of her death? By the way, let me know when she was born."

Xenophilius kept these things in mind, and he watched Toby's continuous writing movements.

"What are you doing?" he asked.

Toby didn't answer directly.

"A little bit."

He murmured, looking back and forth on the notebook, as if he wanted to stare at something from it.

"photo."

He suddenly raised his head and said, "Is there a picture of Pandora?"

Xenophilius felt that something was wrong, he stood up with an uncertain expression, took Toby to a higher floor, then opened the door, walked into a clean bedroom, and the printing room downstairs. The rooms are completely different.

"This is my daughter's room."

Xenophilius stepped aside so that Toby could also enter.

He pointed to a large photo beside the bed and said, "That's a photo of Pandora and Luna."

In the photo, a young Luna is hugged by a woman who looks like her.Luna inside was very beautifully dressed. It seemed that the impact of Pandora's death was not only psychological, but also made it difficult for Xenophilius to take good care of his daughter like before.

"If you can sell me The Quibbler, you can spend more time with your daughter."

As he spoke, Toby stepped forward and tossed the black quill in his hand.The moment the quill came into contact with Pandora's portrait, both of them disappeared, turning into a cloud of black with brilliant colors, which entered the black notebook in Toby's hand.

"Give you."

Toby said, shoving the notebook into the hand of Xenophilius who looked astonished.

Xenophilius opened the notebook bit by bit, the first page was blank, but a line of text soon appeared under his sight.

【Xie Nuo, dear, is that you? 】
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The second update everyone, don't wait tonight, and post it later.The data fluctuates a bit, which is very bad. I will try to open Fangdao once.

Finally ask for a monthly ticket, thank you everyone.

(End of this chapter)