Archaeologists at Hogwarts

Chapter 194 The Final Test and Reward

"Oh ha ha ha - Hu Shen Hu - eh ha ha - Wei - Hu Shen guard - ha ha ha ha! Don't look at - professor, I - ah ha ha ha ha!!!"

Loud laughter echoed in the classroom during the special training and spread deeper into the tunnel.Due to the distance, the laughter turned into a faint howl, which made Lockhart, who was writing the manuscript, feel chills in his heart.

He raised his head and glanced quietly at Al, who was lying on the flying carpet with legs crossed. Al noticed Lockhart's gaze, and grabbed a handful of savory beans with his paws: "Yeah? (Want to try it?)"

Lockhart hurriedly lowered his head, not daring to have other thoughts, pretending to write something on the parchment regardless of whether he was inspired or not.

He didn't expect that Haimo would dare to abuse the students so blatantly. If he didn't work hard, the punishment would fall on his head sooner or later.

On the other side, Cedric was lying on the floor weakly, his mouth was wide open, but he couldn't make any sound, only intermittent gurgling sounds from his throat.

Haimo waved his hand to let the skeletons with feathers disperse.

"Tsk tsk tsk." He lifted Cedric, placed him on the seat he had prepared, and said regretfully, "What a pity, Mr. Diggory. How can you make a real movie with this willpower alone?" self-casting wand? How do you get Hufflepuffs out of the slander?"

Cedric retorted weakly: "I didn't say that, professor, I never said the word scumbag, that's all you—"

"Okay!" Toby interrupted loudly, and turned to look at the other two: "It's your turn, Miss Granger."

Hermione trembled all over. She tremblingly walked in front of the skeletons, looked around at the feathers in their hands, and then said in a begging tone: "Professor, can I wait until next week? Give me one more week." practice time."

"Practice?" Toby said eloquently: "Then do you know how to practice the Patronus Charm, Miss Granger. In fact, the best way is to let you face the fear in your heart, but I am nothing after all. Devil, that's why I thought of the way that is easier to accept now. To be honest, I'm too soft-hearted. But this also has the effect of adding points to me, and it can bring me a better image. It will also allow me to take over the position of principal more smoothly, all in all—"

"start!"

"Huh? Ah? Ah?" Hermione frantically raised her wand, but unfortunately she didn't learn anything really useful in the dueling class, and was surrounded by skeletons in the blink of an eye, starting a new round of torture.

"Oh, oh, don't! Haha! Don't! Hahahaha! Hushen Hushen Hushen Hushen Hushen Hushen-hahahahahahahaha!!!"

Hermione held on for even less time than Cedric, and she seriously suspected that a special tickling spell had been cast on those two feathers.

After placing Hermione in place, Toby looked back and found that Luna was already standing in front of the skeletons. She was trying to take the feather from the skeletons, but the skeletons didn't make any effort at all. Arms raised high enough to keep Luna out of reach.

Toby looked at Luna who was bouncing around and said, "Okay, not a bad idea. From now on, as long as you can take the feathers away from the skeletons, you will pass the level. This is even more difficult than summoning a tangible Patronus." too much."

Hermione glanced at Cedric with her neck tilted—this seemed to highlight the special features of the skeletons. Before that, they never thought that the skeletons were so powerful.

Immediately afterwards, a new round of torture began.

Luna gave up her plan to stand up and fight back at the beginning. She immediately lay down on the floor, circling back and forth, raising her arms high above her head. No matter whether she was pointing in the right direction or not, she closed her eyes and shouted loudly. : "Hoo--hahaha! Ho-ho-hahaha! Hahahaha!"

This novel evasion method directly surprised Hermione and Cedric, but unfortunately Luna failed to cast the Patronus Charm until the end. On the contrary, she laughed louder than anyone else.

Tobiti slipped Luna by the collar and put her on the last chair. He looked at the three people and said, "I have to say, I am disappointed with your performance. But fortunately, this is a happy time. This This week's exam ends here, and you can decide whether to come again next week, which will not affect your final exam results for this semester, which are all excellent."

Hermione left the tunnel in a hurry, and she immediately shared this experience with Harry and Ron who were waiting in the common room early.

"The Tickle Curse?" Ron said in shock, "Professor Highmore never disappoints us."

Harry looked at Hermione, who was in a sluggish state, and worried: "Then do you still have to take the exam next week? It seems unnecessary."

Hermione did think about it, but—

"No!" She said resolutely, "I won't quit before Digory quits!"

Well, she was still thinking about the position of assistant, and planned to compete with him in the second test.

As for Cedric, he also said gently to the students around him in the common room of Hufflepuff: "This is an opportunity, I must pass more tests, so that I can be qualified to find Professor Highmore Helping with auto-casting wands, that's been bugging me for a long time."

"This is the black devil—oh no, Professor Highmore promised you in advance?" A student asked curiously.

"No." Cedric shook his head and said, "But I still haven't seen Mr. Al."

He was worried about this. After all, he was Mr. Al's assistant, and he always felt that it was because Professor Highmore was dissatisfied with him that he didn't let Mr. Al see him.

At the same time, by the Black Lake, Ginny opened her mouth in surprise as she listened to Luna's narration.

"Merlin, that sounds really scary." She wondered, "Then why do you continue to take the next week's exam?"

Now there is an extra book in Luna's hand, which is Toby's most original work - "Ancient Magic", which contains the most comprehensive knowledge of ancient magic, but it is only because the description is not thorough enough, and the reading threshold is high. Sales were dismal.

She turned the book to the page related to ritual magic, and said in a tranced tone, "It's for ritual magic, and it's also for giving mom a surprise."

"I have a hunch that this time I will succeed."

A week is not a long time.While dealing with the magic circle items of the freshmen, Toby checked the exam results of the senior students, and occasionally met with Lockhart a few times, giving him some comfort while giving him the requirements for the essay, so that he didn't have to go to school every day. come over.

Lockhart didn't dare to say that he came here to avoid trouble from the students, but on the other hand, Snape didn't have so many scruples.

He broke into the ancient magic office one Friday morning and had a very bad attitude.

"I suspect you are aiming at Slytherin!" He asked sinisterly, "Why have Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, and even Hufflepuff passed the exam, but there is no Slytherin house?" student!"

Toby is sitting on the sofa checking a pair of shoes. This is the homework that Ginny has just handed in. After wearing it, he can jump up to a height of 7 feet, but it is far worse than Ginny's imaginary goal of flying. some distance.

"Look at what you're talking about, Severus." Toby said without raising his head, "What is [even Hufflepuff], I need you to pass this on to Spo Dean Lauter?"

Snape sat indifferently across from Toby, and Al reluctantly moved aside, glaring at him angrily.

Toby finally raised his head and asked, "You didn't come here because of the content of the exam, did you? Don't tell me you haven't been able to summon the Patronus until now."

"This has nothing to do with you." Snape said coldly: "And don't forget, I haven't seen your Patronus, who knows if you can cast the Patronus Charm normally now."

"Oh, that's your purpose." Toby said in an exaggerated tone: "Are you accusing me of becoming a dark wizard? It's really rare that I am still deeply loved by you A day in which the wizards of the dark arts accuse."

"Go back, Severus," he said finally.

"Those children who haven't stepped out of the school, they will call out their patron saints, even Slytherin students are no exception."

Just that afternoon, a new bulletin appeared in the college magazines in the various common rooms, written by Professor Higher himself.

The general idea of ​​the content is that he knows that many students think that it is not time to learn the Patronus Charm, but he has deliberately taken care of the lower grade students, and he does not even ask those people to summon the invisible Patronus, as long as they can concentrate It is not difficult for them to pass the exam if they can only recall happy memories, which is also one of the prerequisites for summoning the Patronus.

Immediately afterwards, the tone of the announcement changed abruptly. Professor Haimer wrote in an unquestionable tone: There is such a consensus in the magical world that only true dark wizards cannot summon patron saints. Of course, they don't need to be so evil. Patronus.If there are still students who have resentment about the way they passed the exam, then he can come to the Office of Ancient Magic in person, and Professor Highmore will check these specific students to see if they have met the standards for dark wizards.

Professor Haimer also carefully mentioned that even if you want to become a dark wizard, it is not so easy, you must be extremely evil, and you need those wizards to have done very evil deeds, such as killing innocent lives.

But the good news is that being evil does not mean being strong. Professor Haimer told about many dark wizards he met during archaeology, and also mentioned the fate of those people by the way—some of them were almost drowned, and some of them were almost drowned by an avalanche. Some died of suffocation, and some were even almost killed by meteorites.

They are all close.

Of course, the well-meaning Professor Haimo is not a person who kills at will. The end of these people is without exception. They are all grateful to Professor Haimo, change their minds and become wizards again.

Finally, Professor Haimer welcomes the little black wizards in the school at any time.

Originally, there were still some voices of resistance in the school, all of which were concentrated on the ignorant senior students, and the lower grade students, especially the Slytherin students, who had the largest number of students, and many of them disdain to study guardianship. Divine curse, proud of the dark wizard.

As a result, after this announcement appeared, none of these people dared to make any dissenting voices.

What else could they do?
To die at the Office of Ancient Magic? !

Oh no, almost died.

That doesn't work either!
They can all think of Professor Highmore's way to deal with themselves-the endless confinement alone is enough to torture people.

All in all, this incident ended with the captain of the famous Slytherin Quidditch team, the guy nicknamed the troll-Marcus Flint appeared in the library.

According to those present, he was learning the Patronus Charm while shedding tears. He looked disgusting and pathetic!
On the other hand, after just one week passed, Toby did not welcome any students who passed the first test, not even the seventh graders who were about to graduate.

This pissed him off, and one could imagine how low Hogwarts' previous Defense Against the Dark Arts education had been!
For this reason, Lockhart, the current scapegoat, was vaguely ordered to write twice as many manuscripts.

Then Toby broke into the headmaster's office, belittled Dumbledore in a kind way, and said bluntly that Hogwarts does not need such a low-level headmaster, and only I, Toby Highmore, can save it!

Then Toby was forcibly controlled by Dumbledore, and Snape poured a spoonful of Living Hell Potion while yelling, and the remaining large bottle of rash potion was stopped by Dumbledore in time, and the rest The potion, which looked weird at first, didn't let Snape take it into the headmaster's office.

Looking at Toby and Al who were sleeping peacefully on the sofa (of course it was going to applaud and demonstrate for Toby), the two were silent for a long time.

It wasn't until 10 minutes later that Snape said in a low voice: "The pharaoh's mask is affecting him more and more deeply, have you figured out how to solve it?"

Dumbledore looked out the window.

"Wait." He said calmly, "Just waiting is enough."

When he woke up the next day, Toby finally recovered from the hidden danger of recurrence.

As soon as he opened his eyes, he saw Dumbledore enjoying breakfast in his pajamas. Fortunately, the fog covered his face so that Dumbledore did not realize that he had woken up.

So Toby quietly touched Al with his finger.

"Huh?" Al turned around in a daze.

Toby touched it twice more.

Al didn't seem to wake up. He habitually wanted to take off his nightcap, but it was in vain, and his head was empty.

After calming down for a few seconds, Al sat up all of a sudden, his small eyes widened, panic tinged with shock.

It recalls everything that happened yesterday.

At this time, Dumbledore looked at it with a smile: "What do you want, or savory beans? Maybe it's not so good to eat beans in the morning, how about pies?"

At this moment, Toto stood up like a gust of wind, ran towards the door quickly, and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

Al immediately realized that he had been betrayed, and he screamed angrily, but his movements were not slow at all. It took a few seconds to complete a series of actions such as taking out the flying carpet, jumping on it, and flying to the gate.

At this moment, Dumbledore suddenly sighed.

"I have had breakfast with no one for years, except in the auditorium."

Al hesitated, and it flew back again, stretching out its claws towards Dumbledore's plate: "Ah! (Pie, it's good!)"

Dumbledore's blue eyes twinkled, and he conjured up another plate of pies, and joined Al for this untimely breakfast.

On the other hand, after paying the price of Al, Toby felt guilty for a second, and then he came to the special training classroom seriously.

There, Cedric, Hermione, and Luna had arrived early, and no one was absent.

Cedric was practicing the Patronus Charm silently, and occasionally looked at Hermione who refused to admit defeat and stared at him in surprise, and she was also hurrying up to practice.

Luna was sitting on a chair for rest, fiddling with a pair of half-moon glasses, which were originally given to Hermione by Toby to protect her eyes, but now Luna borrowed them, looking very interested.

"Can I make it into demon glasses?" Luna asked enthusiastically.

Hermione didn't really want to give away this pair of glasses, because she thought they were really useful, and she didn't want to become like Harry one day.

However, she has also gotten used to wearing this pair of glasses when she was studying recently. Has this changed or hasn't changed?
At this time, Professor Haimer walked into the room, he glanced casually, conjured up another pair of glasses, and flew directly into Luna's hand.

He still has a lot of similar glasses, all of which he got from the glasses house conjured up by the Room of Requirement.

"Okay." He said seriously, "Let's start today's exam."

For a while, loud laughter spread throughout the tunnel——1 minute later, Cedric was dragged into a chair by Professor Higher in shame and sat down.

Hermione's laugh was much sharper.Although she is young, she has a loud voice and makes no less noise than Cedric.

Fifty seconds later, Hermione was also lifted by Professor Higher's collar and placed on the seat, like a sleeping cat.

Both of them failed, but they persisted longer than last time.

That leaves Luna.

She walked up to the skeletons and lay down on the spot, as if she was going to use the last method.

But this time she didn't roll back and forth, and the skeletons didn't have to chase her around, and the feather quickly made Luna laugh hysterically.

Cedric and Hermione were too tired to show their expressions. They stared blankly at Luna, and suddenly saw Luna slowly raised her wand, and she laughed wantonly for a while, at the moment of breathing, suddenly Shouted before laughing again: "Call the gods to protect you!"

A group of almost invisible silver-white gas floated out from the tip of the wand, and the skeleton and the two were stunned, they all looked at Professor Haimo and saw him clapping his hands vigorously: "Very good! "

Toby said with satisfaction: "It couldn't be better. You have completed the test, Miss Lovegood, and you have reached the minimum standard for the third test—successfully summoned your own patron saint. Although it looks weak, I can't see what it is, but you did it!"

"Next, I will tell you the content of the third test, and you two can listen to it too." He said to Hermione and Cedric, who hadn't yet passed their gods, and then completely shocked them with one sentence speechless.

"The essence of the third trial is a reward. It's time to make your own scepter, Luna. It will also be the most suitable utensil for you to perform ritual magic."
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