Archaeologists at Hogwarts

Chapter 160 Back to Hogwarts
[It's really funny to say, the student who was about my age ran away immediately after finding me, she seemed to be frightened, what do you think it was because of, Tom?Are you going to keep playing hide and seek with me, or have you found something I haven't seen, like a horned snorkel? 】

【Dear Luna, I'm pretty sure the Horned Snork is a non-existent creature, I don't know where you heard it from—】

[From my dad, I believe him. 】

【. Well, regardless of the horned snorkel, we can do some other interesting things. Shall we go to that abandoned bathroom again?And I know who the murderer who attacked Professor Haimer is——]

[Come on, Tom.You promised to help me find my mother at first, but she's not in the bathroom or near Hagrid's cabin.As for Professor Highmore, I think he might have been taken away by the Horned Snork. 】

【It was taken?Why do you think so? 】

[Because he didn't live in the school hospital like Mrs. Norris, and disappeared since he was petrified. Don't you think it's a cover-up? 】

【.I don't think so, Luna, listen to me—】

[No, you listen to me, I'm going to find my mother now, can you help me with anything?If not, forget it, I will keep you in the dormitory, lest you be stolen too. 】

【I really want to help you, Luna, trust me, but is Pandora really a notebook?Exactly the same as this one? 】

[Yeah, at least it looks similar, what's wrong? 】

[Then we need to go to the bathroom again, can you help me with this? 】

[No, I don't like myrtle, and I don't want to go to that bathroom.Goodbye, Tom. 】

Luna closed the notebook, thought about it, and hid it under the pillow again.

"Why is Mom pretending to be Tom Riddle?"

She said to herself suspiciously: "I don't like this game. I have mentioned it so obviously many times, but my mother still refuses to admit when it will end."

On the other side, when there was no one in the dormitory, Ginny quickly took out her notebook.But when the pen was about to be written, Ginny was rather hesitant.

How should I explain this to Pandora?

Luna has already gone to the chicken coop, what will she do next?Let there be another victim in the school?

Should I stop Luna then?But what to do?Should I return Pandora's notebook to her?

Ginny's mind became messed up, she had already been spotted by Luna once, and she escaped with great difficulty, and now she didn't even dare to secretly stare at Luna again.

At this time, a paragraph appeared on the notebook that had been left alone for a long time.

【You seem to have something on your mind, Ginny, can you tell me why?Is it about my daughter? 】

Ginny stared at this line of writing for a while, and she wrote tremblingly: "Sorry, Pandora, I was discovered by Luna, I... I don't know what to do at all."

[It's okay, Ginny. 】

Pandora was very understanding.

【I know what you're worried about. Even though you were bewitched by Bad Tom, you might still be punished, right?How about this, you don't need to stare at Luna anymore, I remember the Quidditch season is about to start.When the first match starts, I'll help you go to the Ravenclaw common room, there won't be many people there.Maybe we can find Bad Tom's notebook in Luna's dorm, what do you think of that plan? 】

"Ke Ke, what should I do with you? Should I return you to Luna? And Bad Tom, what if he tells Luna everything?"

[Listen to me, Ginny, I don't think you need to worry about this at all.Luna is acting like she usually does, isn't she?I think Bad Tom hasn't had time to reveal anything to her, maybe because of ulterior motives, but Luna must have been ignorant, otherwise she should have gone to the professors long ago. 】

[As for me, of course I can promise to keep it secret for you, but I also believe that you can't feel at ease because of this.Or that's it, you don't need to rush me back to Luna. 】

"are you serious?"

【Of course.In fact, I'm also very interested in another notebook.Besides, I still need to protect you. We can figure out a way to deal with another notebook together.Believe me, Ginny, I won't hurt you. 】

Ginny put away her notebook. She glanced at the date. The first Quidditch match would start soon, next Saturday.

I hope there will be no other troubles during this time.

Meanwhile, in the hallway on the fourth floor of Hogwarts Castle, Harry, Ron, and Hermione were wandering aimlessly.

After walking for a while, Ron couldn't help but hammered his sore thigh and asked: "I said, is this really useful? Can it really help us find the monster in the secret room? We don't even know what that is now." Not sure."

Harry stopped, and he said seriously: "But you don't have any other explanation, do you? It can only be the sound of the monster, and only I can hear it. And you all saw it with your own eyes, not long after that , Professor Highmore was attacked, and he fits the profile of the victim—a Muggle-born discriminated against by Slytherin."

"In this way, things will become much simpler. As long as we continue to wander around the castle, we will hear the next sound sooner or later. Then you will know if I am lying to you."

By the end, Harry looked excited and Ron was a little taken aback.

Hermione dissuaded: "It's not that we don't believe you, Harry, it's just that what we're doing now seems like a waste of time, and don't you need to participate in training? There's also a Quidditch match."

Harry became hesitant, he thought of Wood, and the new-looking Slytherin team, those people were as fast as cannonballs.

"Check this room again." Harry finally compromised: "I promise, this is the last time, and other things will be discussed after the game."

Ron and Hermione breathed a sigh of relief, and they looked to where Harry pointed, which was the prize room.Even though the room looked unlikely to contain any monsters, they made room for Harry so that he wouldn't go any further on the subject of the heir.

After entering the prize showroom, they realized that someone was already there—it was the new Professor Angela, who was standing in front of the list of previous Hogwarts student council presidents, frowning, looking from the list. Swept up and down over and over again.

"Sorry, Professor, we didn't know you were here."

Harry said he was about to take the two of them away, but Angela waved at them.

"Come here." She ordered, her tone was exactly the same as that of Professor Highmore when he was harsh.

After the three approached cautiously, Angela asked them: "Is this the whole list?"

Harry and Ron were completely bewildered, and only Hermione blushed and replied, "It should be, Professor. Any questions?"

"Problem?" Angela suddenly became angry: "Of course there is a problem. Even at Hogwarts, the chairman of the student union should be awarded to the best student, right? But why isn't Toby on it?"

"Huh?" Ron opened his mouth wide in surprise, he thought he had heard wrong.

Haven't these two been at loggerheads?

Angela continued: "Among the students in Toby's grade, Lily Evans and James Potter won these two honors. Does anyone know who they are?"

Harry bit the bullet and stood up: "They are my parents, Professor."

Angela's gaze was fixed on Harry for a moment, and she looked towards his forehead, where she found the lightning scar.

"Harry Potter," she said slowly, not sounding kind at all: "I know you, the Boy Who Lived."

Just when Harry was feeling puzzled, he suddenly heard an extremely familiar question.

"Have you finished your homework?"

Just before Angela was about to become impatient, the three of them scrambled to say: "It's over, professor, we've finished it a long time ago."

"That's right." Angela showed a dangerous smile: "You can do me a little favor, check all the trophies and medals in this room, and look for Toby Highmore's name, Let me know if you find it."

Ron asked weakly: "But what if you don't find it?"

Now, even Angela's gaze became dangerous.

"Then keep looking." She said sternly.

The three who were regarded as coolies for no reason immediately started to work. Harry and Ron exchanged a pitiful look, and the light in Hermione's eyes faded a little bit.

Angela looked at the old list again, wanting to tear it into pieces angrily.

"I knew that Toby was treated unfairly at Hogwarts. He didn't even have an honor. This must be Dumbledore's intention to target him. When will Toby be willing to do it?"

"No! The heir of Slytherin, wouldn't that be Dumbledore's secret method to get rid of Toby? This seems very likely. Apart from Dumbledore, Toby should have no unstoppable enemies in Hogwarts." right."

Just as the atmosphere in the prize showroom became more solemn, Al suddenly broke in. He sat on the small flying carpet, floated near Angela, and whispered something.

"Are you serious?!" Angela was surprised. She ignored the three people who were still checking the trophy, and hurriedly followed Al and left.

The three remaining people looked at each other silently.

"Do you think Angela has found clues about Professor Highmore's victimization?" Harry boldly guessed, "Otherwise, I don't understand why she suddenly became so agitated, or Mr. Al came here to inform her."

"But what's the use of all this?" Ron walked towards another trophy dejectedly: "That's Angela, who is almost exactly like Professor Haimer, what do you think she will do when she finds out that we left without authorization? We have to keep looking for the trophy." So far, let’s continue to work honestly.”

Angela quickly rushed to the door of Guda's magic office. She pushed the door open in excitement, and saw a figure wrapped in a black witch robe standing in the middle of the room.Although she couldn't see the other person's face clearly, Angela knew that it must be Toby Highmore.

"You are finally back!"

Angela stepped forward to grab Toby. She looked left and right, but she didn't see what she wanted. Instead, she found a suitcase in Toby's hand, which happened to be the one she brought. exactly the same.

"What are you looking for?" Toby asked.

"The scepter." Angela rummaged around unwillingly. She stood far away and looked at Toby suspiciously: "Why didn't you bring the scepter back? Then what should I use to get the scepter?" Against Dumbledore?"

Toby was taken aback: "What?"

"You're not pretending, are you?" Angela asked suspiciously, then looked at Al again: "Since when did you revert to this attire? Are you going to do those sneaky things again? "

"That's called archaeology." Toby said angrily. He grabbed Angela's arm and led her towards a closet-like thing: "Follow me."

"What are you taking me for?" Angela still didn't understand. She watched Toby close the cabinet door from the inside, and when she opened it again, they had already appeared at the foot of a mountain. On the mountainside, a magnificent building was vaguely outlined and shrouded in mist, which seemed to be floating in mid-air.

"Is this the disappearing cabinet?"

Angela looked back at the cabinet behind her and asked, "We're back in Waggadu now? Where did you get it?"

"From a dark magic supply store." Toby said, pushing the suitcase into Angela's arms: "I stole it, so as not to leave any evidence, and let no one know that the other disappearing cabinet is in You here."

"Now I need you to take this disappearing cabinet back to Ouagadou and put it in your office. If there is a need, I will come to you."

Angela heard something was wrong: "Is there a need? What is the need? You haven't said why you asked me to go to Hogwarts?"

"Sorry, Angela." The deep eyes under the hood were rare and sincere: "You should know that I can't give up my research on ancient magic. I've fallen too deep, too deep to be saved. I can't be sure that Dumbledore Whether Lido can tolerate me like this is just an insurance policy, and I hope it won’t be useful one day.”

Before Angela could figure it out, Toby had already got into the cabinet again, and when he opened it again, he had disappeared.

"Deep beyond redemption."

Angela stared at the empty cabinet and murmured, "How could it be irreparable, Toby, what are you hiding?"

On the other side, Toby returned to the ancient magic office.He stopped Al, who wanted to talk to him, and said to it, "Don't worry, I'm fine."

"I just need to have a good talk with the headmaster. Yes, Al, there's no need to hide from him now, I'll come back as soon as I go, I can be alone, you just stay here, nothing will happen. "

After Toby's figure gradually faded under the influence of the magic ball until it disappeared, he finally added a sentence.

"hope so"

(End of this chapter)