Archaeologists at Hogwarts

Chapter 193 The Second Test and the Responsible Professor
It's a pity that Luna failed to summon the Patronus. She is only a first-year freshman, and she has only met the initial clearance requirements-focusing on recalling the happiest memories she can think of.

But that's enough.

Because this is also a necessary condition for successfully summoning the Patronus, Toby deliberately lowered the requirement considering the difficulty of the Patronus Charm.

That's right, the Patronus Charm, this is the key to successfully appease the flame ball.

Toby had acted exaggeratedly before and deliberately asked the students to attack the flame ball, but this was actually just an indirect hint-what would happen if he attacked Moran with hostility?
Of course it was counterattacked.

Originally, the silent person's mental state was extremely unstable, so how could the students be allowed to pass the level in this way.

Moreover, the unstable mental state of the Obscure is actually a reminder, because Toby has emphasized more than once that Obscurity is the most similar example to ritual magic.Students must then exhibit the opposite of that trait to qualify.

Therefore, the Patronus Charm became the key to passing the exam-concentration, positive attitude, and calmness when facing the fire ball, all of which were considered in the process.

Only those who meet these requirements are eligible to learn ritual magic.

That will also be a formal course in the third year.

Now that Luna has completed the first test, she also shared her happiest memory with Toby: that was the moment she got the Pandora notebook.

There are two more tests to come, Luna decided to continue to participate.Toby didn't reject her because she was a freshman, but asked her to come to him on Sunday, and then arrange follow-up checkpoints for her.

The fact that Luna successfully passed the test was not publicized with much fanfare, so when she said it casually in herbal medicine class, Ginny was stunned, and she didn't even notice the devil vine that had climbed to her shoulders.

"Ginny Weasley!" Mrs. Sprout hurried over and slapped the vines away. She asked angrily, "What are you in a daze for?! How can you be distracted at such a time?!"

Ginny said blankly, "Luna passed the exam."

"What exam?"

"Professor Highmore's exam."

"Toby?"

Professor Sprout looked around at the students who didn't know when they had calmed down, and she asked, "Is it a magic circle item? It's only April, it's really early--but it can't be a reason for you to be in a daze reason."

She understood the particularity of Toby's exam, and she was unique among the professors. Even she had considered whether to change the exam time limit for herbal medicine class, so that students could successfully raise a biting cabbage or something.

Ginny gradually came back to her senses, she didn't continue to explain, she blushed and lowered her head to dig the flowerpot.

But when class was over, she and Luna were surrounded by curious students.

"So fast, how did you do it?"

"I've read your thesis, have you successfully made anti-demon glasses?"

"Can you tell us the secret?"

Luna looked at them blankly, and Ginny suddenly changed her silent attitude, and she shouted angrily: "Please make way! Get out of the way!"

She grasped Luna's arm tightly, squeezed a way out of the crowd, and complained endlessly after walking a distance: "These people are really too much. I don't usually see them willing to talk to you, but now they ask you when they come up." What kind of secret do you want. I dare say that among those people, there must be guys who hide your shoes, stay away from them, there is no good person."

Luna stared at Ginny's cynical look, and she suddenly let out a short and loud laugh, looking weird, and Ginny stared blankly.

They came to the lake together, and when Ginny wanted to find a place to rest for a while, she found Harry, Ron, and Hermione sitting under a beech tree not far away, discussing in a low voice with serious faces What, Hermione was still writing and drawing in a notebook.

Ginny wanted to change places, but Harry, who was sitting opposite her, spotted them, Hermione saw them, and finally Ron turned his head to look over, and the expression on his face immediately became weird.

"What are you doing?" Luna asked breaking the silence.

"Preparing for the exam." Hermione said, holding up the notebook, which was covered with handwriting: "What are you going to use for the exam?"

This is obviously asking about the exam content of the ancient magic class, only this class will start the exam in advance.

In front of Harry, Ginny became embarrassed to speak again, and the person who answered was still Luna, she said, "I'm going to make demon-proof glasses, and Ginny is going to make jumping shoes."

Sounds like two fantastic ideas.

Under Hermione's curious questioning, Ginny explained in a low voice what jumping shoes are - the inspiration came from her new shoes, she originally wanted to make a flying shoe, just like flying The broom, but after realizing that it was too difficult, I changed it to jumping shoes-the kind that can jump high once you jump up.

"Sounds really good." Hermione asked with interest: "What about the anti-demon glasses?"

Luna's answer is about to look a lot weirder.

"You can recognize the monster's glasses at a glance." She said seriously.

"Ghosts?" Hermione asked curiously, "You mean creatures like vampires and hags?"

"Not exactly." Luna shook her head, and the Goldigan earrings on her ears dangled back and forth: "There are also monsters, annoying and unpredictable monsters."

"Okay." Hermione looked at Ron for help, hoping he could answer.But Ron was trying not to laugh, his face flushed.

Harry on the side managed to hold back a few words: "Unpredictable monsters? I wish I could see the anti-monster glasses sooner—do you need any help? I mean, after all, we have already passed the first grade exam."

Luna happily joined them, and even Ginny was pulled over together.

Ron stared suspiciously at Harry, and then at Ginny with flushed cheeks. He wondered if the two had made an appointment to meet here in advance.

At this time, it was Luna again, she glanced at Hermione's notebook, and immediately said: "No, your method is wrong, even if you use fishing nets to catch all the flame balls, you can only get a passing grade at most." score, that's not appeasement."

Hermione showed some disapproval. This is the content of the exam only in the second grade, and has nothing to do with the first-year students.

As a result, Luna said again: "Only by following the direction of learning the Patronus Charm can you pass the exam."

Harry had been paying attention to what Luna said, and he asked suspiciously, "What is the Patronus Charm?"

Hermione quietly raised her ears, she didn't expect that Luna already knew the Patronus, let alone her subsequent explanation would be so reasonable.

"How do you know?" Hermione asked in surprise, which startled the absent-minded Ron and almost fell into the lake.

Harry held Ron's arm desperately to prevent him from falling, and suddenly he heard Luna say, "Because I have passed your exam, I will go to the next exam this weekend."

Harry froze, and then heard a splash—

Ginny said blankly, "Ron fell into the lake, he can't swim! Hurry! Hurry up and get him up!"

Ten minutes later, Ron, who kept sneezing, returned to the shore. He shook his arms tightly and said with bright eyes, "Patron saint? Did I hear you right? We are going to get rich! I didn't expect one day I can also steal Fred and George's business, which will make us a lot of money!"

"Ron!" Hermione reminded, holding her wet shoes, "It's not you who are going to get rich, it's Luna! It's all her idea, and I didn't expect that you would be the first to guess it. A first-year freshman!"

"Is that okay?" Harry asked hesitantly, "Will it really be okay to tell us the answer directly?"

"It's okay." Luna said nonchalantly, "Professor Haimer doesn't care, and I don't think it's a big deal."

Now that Luna said so, Harry was completely relieved, Hermione couldn't wait to go to the library, and the disgruntled Ron was also taken away by them, and they warned him repeatedly not to try to make money with the answers, That doesn't belong to him.

"But it's only one Galleon short." When Ron was frowning.

After returning to the common room to change their clothes, the trio hurried to the library. When they were looking up books related to the Patronus Charm, they happened to meet Fred and George who were also studying hard. Don't want to miss every opportunity to make money.

"Don't look for it." Ron sent all his complaints to them: "The key is the Patronus Charm, hurry up and learn the Patronus Charm. Also, don't expect to make money with this answer, this is what Luna told us, She was the first student to pass the exam."

He repeated what Harry and Hermione had said, and the smug expression on his face hadn't faded away before he was kicked out of the book by Mrs. Pince who heard the movement.

"Don't make noise in the library!" She warned solemnly, looking like a vulture hunting for food.

The news spreads once to two, then to four, and to four to eight.It didn't take long for word to spread throughout the school that Ravenclaw had produced a gifted student, a freshman, who even spread the word selflessly, without asking for any compensation.

Careful students found that the funnel of Ravenclaw College was a lot higher, a full fifty points.

Now, Luna suddenly became the benefactor of all the students except the first-year students, even surpassing Harry, a talented Quidditch player!
In any case, at best Harry had contributed to a good game, plus credit for Gryffindor.

But Luna almost saved everyone's life!

The biggest advantage of this matter is that when Professor Haimer learned that the news had spread throughout the campus, he no longer forced any students to take the exam.

Because that doesn't matter anymore.

When the standard answer came out, Toby didn't need to make any prompts for them.

Luna suddenly became popular.After waking up one morning, she found that the lost shoes had all returned by themselves.

She shared the good news with Ginny immediately.

Ginny sighed and said, "You really need a pair of anti-monster glasses, so that you can see clearly who are monsters with ulterior motives."

Luna's eyes lit up all of a sudden: "How did you guess the real function of the anti-demon glasses?"

In any case, under the influence of the ancient magic class, there was an upsurge of learning the Patronus Charm among the students.

Professor Lockhart also became a favorite, because the Patronus Charm is one of the contents of the Defense Against the Dark Arts class.

But all of a sudden, the students found that Lockhart was nowhere to be found. On the contrary, it was a long report in the "College Magazine" - the serial number of ancient magic warriors suddenly increased a lot.

This is a series of stories that revolve around the great ancient magic warriors and various dark creatures. It contains a lot of interesting ancient magic knowledge, and has gradually become the top report of "The Quibbler".

In the depths of the tunnel, Al stared at the sales data rising again and let out a yappy laugh.And Lockhart, who was hiding here, was looking at the blank manuscript paper in front of him and was worried. He really didn't know what to write, but he couldn't go back to his office, otherwise the students who came to find him would leave him. The office is packed.

Isn't this also in Professor Haimer's plan?

Days passed by, and with this undiminished enthusiasm, finally came the day when the second test began on Sunday.

Hermione, who came to the tunnel full of joy, looked left and right in shock.

Standing to her left is Luna with messy hair.

Standing to her right is Cedric with a worried look on his face.

There were three of them standing in the entire tunnel.

Empty three students.

"So little?" She didn't dare to say, "How is this possible?"

"Tut tsk tsk." Toby came from the deeper part of the tunnel, and he regretted, "Look, under the leadership of the great Dumbledore, the Patronus Charm has become such a difficult magic. Just focus It’s difficult for a large number of students to recall the happiest memory, and it’s time for Hogwarts to change, and it’s in my hands in the not-too-distant future.”

Luna acted as if she didn't hear her. Hermione was unsurprisingly frightened. Cedric was still wondering whether Professor Highmore had forgotten his assistant's assistant. Why didn't he see Mr. Al?Could it really have forgotten itself?
"follow me."

Toby turned around and said, leading the three of them to the fork room that was originally used for special training.

Hermione noticed that the piles of books had disappeared. As for the Bludgers, they had also been moved to other places because of the exams. The armor needed to guard the exam room 24 hours a day to record the performance of the students.

But the two skeletons remained the only ones that Ron faced during the special training.He also complained that his happiest memory was buying his own wand, but this memory hadn't come yet, which made him unable to pass the exam now.

The familiar skeletons intensified Hermione's guess about the little white mice. Fortunately, they did not hold a deterrent wide wooden sword in their hands, but each held a long feather, which looked a bit like a rooster's. Feather enlargement becomes.

Toby stood among the skeletons, and the black fog under the hood turned towards the three of them.

"This is the second test you are about to face."

"You have successfully passed the first test, and now you all know that the key to the answer lies in the Patronus Charm. I deliberately lowered the difficulty in that test, as long as you can complete the prerequisites for summoning the Patronus, it is enough to do it. to pass the exam."

"The second level will continue the test of the first level. I know how difficult it is for you to summon a physical patron saint. Even among adult wizards, very few people can do this. So I am very grateful Your next goal will still be less difficult, and you don't need a physical Patronus, you only need an intangible one to complete it-smoke to be precise. Summon a cloud of white gas or smoke from the top of the wand."

Toby did not use his wand to demonstrate, but manipulated the magic ball to simulate a small illusion, so that the three could see clearly what his request was.

"But of course that's not enough on its own."

Then Toby suddenly changed his tone and said, looking particularly malicious.

"Don't be nervous, Miss Granger, I didn't intend for you to duel with skeletons, that would be outdated long ago. However, you need to dodge, just like dodging Bludgers—forget it, it's better to let you See for yourself, Mr Diggory, you come up and give a demonstration first, as a Quidditch player, I believe you have sufficient experience in avoiding Bludgers."

Cedric walked nervously in front of the two skeletons. The heads of the skeletons turned to him, reminding Cedric of the day when he first noticed the strangeness of the skeletons. , said hello.The skeletons also responded slowly.

"A good start." Toby said with satisfaction: "Now all you have to do is to try to summon the Patronus while trying to dodge it—but it's okay if you don't dodge successfully, because the skeleton assistant can also help you. "

"Okay, let's get started."

Cedric couldn't understand what Professor Haimer said, but he could at least understand the first two words.

As soon as the words fell, he immediately raised his wand, and while recalling the first time he successfully engraved a magic circle on the wand, he shouted loudly: "Holy protection——"

Before he finished chanting the spell, the skeletons suddenly moved at a strange speed, so fast that people couldn't see clearly—neither he nor Hermione had ever imagined that their speed was so fast. People are deceived by their slow speed before.

But then the behavior of the skeletons was a little weird—they came to Cedric's side from left to right, quickly stretched out the feathers in their hands, and flapped them up and down.

Hermione was stunned, what kind of test is this?
But at this moment-

"Push!"

"Hahahahaha!"

"Quick! Stop!"

"Call for protection—hahahaha!"

She watched Cedric squirm left and right, and even tried to escape, but he couldn't get out of the range of the feathers.

At the end, Cedric was lying on the ground as if covered with springs, jumping and jumping, and let out a hysterical howling laugh: "Ah-hahahaha! Ah-hoo god-protection-ahhh-haha Haha! No! No way! Hahahaha! Ah——!”

Hermione's face suddenly turned pale, and she couldn't help but took a step back. She wanted to turn her head to see Luna's reaction, but found that Luna was farther back than her, and was almost at the door.

At this time, Toby suddenly walked quickly. He put his palms on the shoulders of the two and pushed them back to their original positions little by little.

At the same time, an extremely friendly voice came from under the hood.

"Using happiness to help you successfully summon the Patronus, I don't think there is anything more touching than this. The headmaster should have handed over Hogwarts to me—"

"Where can I find a more responsible professor than me?"
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happy New Year!

(End of this chapter)