Archaeologists at Hogwarts

Chapter 174 The Abnormal Notebook and the Chamber of Secrets

Of course Toby intends to do archaeology.

On the night of returning to Hogwarts, he first quietly went to steal a few roosters near Hagrid's cabin without disturbing anyone.

The crowing of the rooster is the Achilles' heel of the basilisk.

And Toby finally knew what the hell it was trying to kill him in the second attack-a huge basilisk, judging from its size, it might have survived for a thousand years.

This is simply ironclad evidence of the existence of the Chamber of Secrets.

Except for Slytherin, none of the founders would want to keep a dangerous basilisk.

Now that Principal Dumbledore has disappeared again, he seems to have forgotten his promise to take Toby to Azkaban to solve the danger of the pharaoh mask, but Toby no longer cares.

This is a rare opportunity.

That's why Toby didn't tell anyone about his return, even including Angela.

Toby didn't want to be disturbed during the archaeological work, and he didn't need any helpers. He was enough by himself.

Also, this is Salazar Slytherin's Chamber of Secrets.

Toby has always wanted to know why he was sorted into Slytherin house, and he wanted to find out for himself.

Due to the characteristics of the black walnut wand, Toby knew himself better.

He can't lie to himself.

After packing the roosters in special cages, Toby and Al came to the Black Lake together in the dark.

Water stains.

The trace of water that appeared twice with the basilisk was Toby's only clue, and led the hope of successfully finding the secret room to the location of the Black Lake.

Because the amount of water in the Black Lake is the largest, it is obvious.

Al saw Toby punching a hole in the frozen lake, the lake water under the ice layer was mixed with falling ice, it just looked so cold, let alone looking for traces of the basilisk at the bottom of the lake.

It whispered "Yeah" twice, trying to make its body look bigger, but no matter how you look at it, it looks like a fluffy doll, it can't grow stronger at all, and it doesn't look like it's keeping out the cold. look.

Toby looked at its strange appearance, so he put Al and the roosters in the cage together, and then cast a big bubble head spell on the whole cage, so that Al would not need to touch the cold lake water .

As for Toby himself, he just cast the Bubble Curse for himself, and then jumped into the lake with a "plop", diving deep in the darkness.

The witch robe was completely soaked, as if being blown by a fierce cold wind while swimming through the algae, but the expression on Toby's face did not change at all, the magic circle under the clothes flickered lightly, making the swimming fish avoid it automatically. Open, stay away from this dangerous breath.

The basilisk cannot live in the lake for a long time, and it appeared in Hogwarts castle twice, which made Toby's goal clearer - he didn't wander around in the black lake, but went directly to the black lake. Swim in the direction of Hogwarts Castle.

It didn't take long for him to find the goal of the trip - a wide water pipe extending into the black lake, which was winding. Toby got in without hesitation. After swimming around for a while, Float back to the surface and into the underground pipes below the castle.

"That should be it."

Toby opened the cage, and the water stains on the clothes turned into mist and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

Al shook the rooster feathers on his body and jumped out. It shivered twice in the face of the cold, then jumped onto the small flying carpet that had just been taken out, and walked deeper into the pipeline with Toby.

"First look for it first, I hope the secret room is at the end of these pipelines."
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Hogwarts' underground piping system is extremely complicated, and no one has noticed Toby and Al who are looking for the secret room back and forth in the pipes.

But Ginny was an exception.

Her mood had calmed down a lot after the trip to the Forbidden Forest, but Luna's unexpected news still made her uneasy again—how did Professor Haimo come back?Why was no one notified?
Could it be that Luna got it wrong?
She really hoped that this was the case, not because she didn't want to see Professor Highmore come back safely, but because if it was true, then what Tom said was also true—Professor Highmore obviously had something in the dark planning.

According to Tom, Professor Highmore is the real murderer, and he is the one who opened the secret room this time. He wants to control the monsters in the secret room.For some crazy purposes, Professor Highmore can do anything, even killing the students in the castle—because he put the experiment site in Hogwarts, which may endanger the students at any time, but don't care at all.

It was already late at night, but Ginny didn't go back to sleep in the dormitory.

She was sitting on the sofa in the common room, looking at the flames in the fireplace in a daze, and at the same time she was very entangled in her heart, not knowing who to listen to and what to do next.

At this time, a gentle voice suddenly sounded beside her.

"You look troubled."

Ginny turned her head and found that it was Professor Angela. She appeared in the Gryffindor common room at some time, and she was sitting on the sofa not far from Ginny.

How did she get in?What about the password?Why didn't I hear anything?

Angela is no longer that cold look, she looks so charming that Ginny sees nothing but her, and her eyes gradually become lax.

because she is professor angela ah she is so beautiful
"Can you tell me why, Ginny."

"Of course, Professor."

Tom Riddle's notebook, witch-robed paint, a suspicious Professor Toby Highmore, plus a Thestral that Luna recognizes.
Ginny said it all, completely oblivious to what she was doing, with a fascinated look on her face.

"You've done well, Ginny. Now, give me Tom Riddle's notebook, and then you go back to sleep and forget about it."

Ginny put the notebook into Angela's hands like a walking dead, and then she walked towards the spiral staircase in a daze, and left the common room.

Afterwards, Angela also left. She came to the empty corridor, still holding Tom Riddle's notebook in her hand, but she didn't open it, but walked down the stairs.

Of course, she would not forget Ginny's anomaly when she was being questioned outside, so she purposely came to Ginny tonight.

As for the method just now... She didn't learn anything from Toby, besides, Angela didn't actually do anything extra at all, she just wasn't so restrained anymore.

No more restraint, the charm of the witch in the lake.

That's much more amazing than Veela, and people who don't have strong willpower can't stay awake.

Angela regarded this as her own curse, even though Toby had comforted her that she was not a witch, but a fairy of the lake, but this did not change the fact that she caused a lot of trouble.

But why is Toby?

Angela left the castle involuntarily, came to the dark playground, and walked aimlessly.

She suddenly became like Ginny, completely unaware of what she was doing.

After walking into the edge of the Forbidden Forest, she accidentally tripped over a branch, and Tom Riddle's notebook fell from her hand, but it didn't attract Angela's attention at all.

Still thinking about Toby, she forgot all about the notebook.

Nobody was notified of Toby's return. Plus the missing Headmaster Dumbledore
Could it be that he secretly solved Dumbledore and was preparing to become the new headmaster?
Ok.

Angela thought about it carefully before returning to the castle.

It really seemed like something Toby would do.
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At the same time that Toby took the blame, Tom Riddle's notebook suddenly floated up and flew deeper into the Forbidden Forest.

No one knows what it does because those important people forget it exists.

Toby Highmore, Al, plus Angela who almost got it.

The unknown magic changed their impression of themselves, making Toby completely forget the fact that there was such a notebook after waking up, and Al also forgot to remind him that Angela was controlled by the notebook.

As for the rest of them, Ginny, Luna, and Lockhart, they couldn't afford to let them use such mysterious methods.

But this also used up the few magic powers of the notebook, and staying away from Angela was the best effort it could do.

It needs to be hidden until the day Higashiyama comes again.

"Snapped!"

Suddenly, something grabbed the notebook floating in the air, and it couldn't escape no matter how hard it tried to break free. It was placed in front of an even more unusual mask by this unusual palm.

The armor that was ordered to hide in the Forbidden Forest looked at the notebook in its hand, and it felt that it seemed a little familiar, and it seemed to be related to the reason why Toby made him stare at Lockhart.

But why is this notebook appearing here?
Armor is not good at thinking, its inherent mission is to fight, to fight non-stop.

So, it made the same decision as usual, opened the lid of the coffin behind it, and planned to throw the notebook into the coffin, and let Toby take a look at it later, leaving everything to the other party to worry about.

But at this moment, the little magic power left in the notebook was added out of thin air. It successfully affected the armor, making it no longer remember itself, but it still couldn't stop the other party from throwing itself into the coffin.

After the lid was closed again, the armor stood in front of the coffin, standing motionless for a long time.

What did it just do?

Forget it, it has nothing to do with a piece of armor that just needs to hide anyway.

It picked up the long axe, carried the coffin, and walked deeper into the Forbidden Forest.

It's better to hide that way.
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Hermione and Ron heard about Harry's encounter with the basilisk, and they discussed it for a while, but couldn't come up with a decent answer.

"I don't understand." Ron said, "How did you suddenly become the heir? What kind of basilisk is that? It's obviously a liar."

Facing the gazes of Hermione and Ron, Harry summoned up his courage and said, "It's true, the Sorting Hat once considered sorting me into Slytherin—yes, you heard me right."

He finally spoke up about it.

At this moment, Harry felt as if he had lifted some heavy burden, and continued under the shocked gazes of the two: "I know it's unbelievable, I didn't like Slytherin House at first, and Snape didn't like it either. Very annoying. But Professor Highmore is different, he changed my view of Slytherin house. Besides, he was originally a special case, he was sorted into Slytherin as a Muggle-born, so a Gryffindor Duo was almost sorted into Slytherin, it doesn't seem so difficult to accept."

Ron was shocked: "What do you mean, are you going to be transferred?"

Hermione also stood up, and she said with a trance-eyed look: "This should be unprecedented, I'll go to the library to look for it—"

"Come back!" Harry hurriedly pulled her back: "I never thought about it that way, how could I go to Slytherin, I just... just don't want to hide this matter anymore. And the matter of Professor Highmore, What do you guys think?"

After being silent for a while, Ron and Hermione came to a common conclusion—they had no opinion and could only continue to implement the plan of compound potion, hoping to get more useful clues from Malfoy to This is to confirm whether all these speculations are true.

"Okay," said Harry finally, "we'll wait until Christmas then."

On the other hand, after encountering Professor Angela's questioning at night, Ginny really forgot everything.

But she subconsciously came to the prize showroom at the appointed time, and asked suspiciously after seeing Luna: "What am I looking for you for? I don't remember anything."

Luna glanced at her, then lowered her head and wrote in her notebook: "Mom, Ginny seems to have lost her memory, should I tell her?"

[No, dear.I still hope that you can live a happier life, and leave the troubles to the adults. 】

So Luna didn't say anything, but asked about Ginny's Christmas vacation plans.

They were all planning to go home, so Luna wanted to invite Ginny to visit her home during the holidays, and let her taste the delicious Goldigan tea at home by the way.

"Is it really good?" Ginny asked suspiciously.

Luna nodded affirmatively.

In the school, Angela was still looking for the stolen wizard potted plant. Lockhart complained loudly that it was a pity that there was no teacher recognition meeting this year, otherwise he would definitely win No.1. Principal McGonagall's classroom became more and more difficult. The more serious it was, the students knew why she became like this——Principal Dumbledore still hasn't returned to school and disappeared.

Thankfully, there have been no further attacks, and it seems that even the heir wants to have a good Christmas and not want to get into trouble.

Harry was very happy to hear about Malfoy's plan to stay in school. He, Hermione and Ron spent all day in the abandoned bathroom, carefully caring for the Polyjuice Potion that was about to be brewed.

Remarkably, the basilisk never reappeared, allowing Harry to concentrate on his scheme to trick Malfoy.

In such a cheerful atmosphere, Christmas came.

And Toby, after checking the countless water pipes below, he carried the cage, in which there was only the last rooster that managed to survive, and appeared at the end of one of the tunnels together with Al.

Before them stood a solid wall carved with two intertwined snakes, with large, shining emeralds in their eyes.

"It seems that we have found the secret room." Toby said.

(End of this chapter)