Archaeologists at Hogwarts

Chapter 222 Al's Little Thoughts

In the corridor, Luna and Ginny walked forward furtively, for fear of disturbing Mrs. Norris under the stone pillar.

Ginny pretended to be watching an owl flying by outside the window, she asked in a low voice, "How is it, can you see it?"

Luna supported the temples of the anti-demon glasses with both hands, stretched her neck forward, stared straight at the scrawny gray cat, her eyes didn't blink, and she almost had a few big words on her head:【I have a problem , look, I'm staring at you. 】

Mrs. Norris squinted at the two students whose heads were not working well. It was arched, its back lifted up a little bit, and a few spikes appeared on the cat's paws.

Through the lenses of the anti-demon glasses, Luna saw a line of words floating above Mrs. Norris's head——

[Toys with bad brains. 】

"So we are toys."

Luna shouted happily, making Ginny tremble all over, and even Mrs. Norris took a few steps back. It tilted its neck and stared at the glasses on Luna's face, and disappeared into the corridor after a few jumps. .

"Didn't you agree to be careful?" Ginny complained, and then asked curiously: "Are you just saying that Mrs. Norris regards us as toys? Does she treat all the students as toys? !"

Luna nodded vigorously, her cheeks flushed, as if she had discovered something serious.

"I thought it would see us as female cats." Luna said cheerfully.

Ginny's reaction was much more normal. She said to herself with weird eyes: "How could it be a toy? It doesn't think this is its own castle. However, it can walk around freely every day." Go, no classes, no curfew—seems to be the case.”

Ginny felt a sudden pang of sadness—she didn't live as well as a cat, and didn't have as many toys.

Luna's eyes flickered, and she continued to look out of the window with her arms on her mirror legs. She saw short handwriting constantly appearing on the head of the owl passing by, and read it out in a low voice——

"It's going to be late, it's going to be late."

This is a fast-flying owl, panting.

"Come on, come on, come on! Qualified, qualified, qualified!"

This brown owl looks very excited and flopping about imposingly.

"Rest-work-rest-rest-rest."

The owl stopped suddenly. It flew to a branch and dozed off. The package under its feet swayed, and another word appeared on its head: "Sleep!"

"Thirsty, hungry, thirsty, hungry."

The owl noticed Luna's gaze and flew over with an expectant expression.

"Do you have anything to eat?" Luna turned her head and asked, "Water is also fine."

Ginny took out a water bottle from her backpack, poured a bottle of water and handed it over. The tired owl immediately drank gratefully.

"It's so wonderful." Ginny exclaimed, "Take a look at other places—oh, I didn't say it was the Forbidden Forest, don't forget the chaos that sprang up in the forest last semester, if you don't want to be caught by Professor Hammer If you put the glasses back, you have to be honest."

"It would be great if I could take care of magical animals sooner." Luna kept turning her head from side to side, trying to find more animals nearby.

"That may not necessarily meet thestrals." Ginny said with a hint of warning: "Want to go to Hagrid to see it? Fred told me that Hagrid specially prepared a nest of Nifflers, we can go and see See how they differ from Mr. Al."

Hagrid was digging a pit near the log cabin, holding Professor Highmer's shiny silver shovel in his hand, and swung it vigorously.

"What a rare visitor." Hagrid leaned on a shovel, smiling under his bushy beard: "Why are you here?"

They also know each other, and this is also due to the trouble caused by the acromantulas last semester. At that time, Hagrid ran into the Forbidden Forest anxiously. Ginny didn't know how Hagrid escaped later, but looking at it now It's okay, at least I have some strength.

"I heard from Fred that you have a litter of Nifflers." Ginny stood on her feet and looked around: "Can we take a look?"

"No problem." Hagrid said magnanimously, and then hurriedly asked: "You don't have anything shiny on you, do you?"

Ginny grabbed Luna's arm firmly to prevent her from running into the Forbidden Forest, and at the same time asked, "Are glasses okay?"

"Be careful not to let it reflect light." Hagrid took a few more glances at the glasses on Luna's face: "It looks very similar to the principal's glasses. Where did you get them?"

"This is Luna's magic circle item." Ginny followed Hagrid around the cabin, and she explained: "The anti-demon glasses can see through the minds of animals. Professor Haimer is planning to sell them. When the time comes You can buy a pair too."

"So that's it." Hagrid looked very surprised: "Speaking of which, Toby also took a lot of things from me, and almost wiped out my house, and said that he will give me some things when the time comes." A bonus, no matter how much I refuse, I refuse to agree. How much is that thing worth? It would be great if it could help the school—you should know that the school board has been disbanded, right?"

"I've known it for a long time," Ginny said, and the news was published in the college magazine in the common room, so it was hard to see it.

"Toby said that this will help improve the overall environment of the school and take back the power step by step." Hagrid said proudly, "Although I don't quite understand it, from now on the school's affairs will only be decided by the principal, and there will be no There's going to be something like kicking Dumbledore out of Hogwarts, so I'm voting for it, thanks to Toby who thinks highly of me, I'm still a professor in my first year after all."

He smacked his mouth twice and ended with "Toby is really amazing now", then pointed to the shed surrounded by a pile of hay next to the wooden house and said, "Xixiu is here, thanks to Professor Kettleburn helping me Contacted Mr. Newt, otherwise I would have to worry about where to get such a nest of snuffers."

The snuffers in the shack were closed by a wooden door, otherwise they would definitely run around. There were also a bunch of shiny things inside, including glass balls, and a lot of gold coins.

Hagrid opened the wooden door, hugged two bulging bellies and sniffed them out, one for Ginny and one for Luna.

"Is this a real gold coin?" Ginny asked curiously, and Xixiu, who was lying in her arms, was too lazy to move, and just clutched her belly tightly.

"No." Hagrid said proudly, "It's the leprechaun's gold coin, and it will disappear in about a week. The pit I dug just now is to bury the gold coin, and the students can put the gold coin back in during class." Dig it out, with the help of Sniff."

Ginny carefully picked up Xixiu and looked at it for a few times. No matter how she looked at it, she didn't think she was as smart as Mr. Al.

But it might also be because this Xixiu is too lazy to talk to her.

At this time, Luna held the one in her arms and asked, "Have you ever found a powerful one like Mr. Al's? For example, the one that can serve as a professor's assistant."

"No." Hagrid said distressedly, and took out a much smaller shovel from his pocket. Ginny recognized that it belonged to Mr. Al, but Hagrid borrowed both shovels.

"Don't mention being an assistant, you can't even dig a hole, you're much more stupid than Al—by the way, do the anti-demon glasses work?"

Luna nodded: "This one wants to go out and play for a while, so does the one in Ginny's hand. And Fangya—"

"What's wrong with Fang?" Hagrid asked nervously, looking at the hound under his feet uneasily.

"It's okay, but my stomach feels a little uncomfortable, did I eat something bad?"

"It's just a little rock cake." Hagrid said worriedly, squatting down and staring at Fangya: "There shouldn't be any problem."

Ginny had heard about Hagrid's craftsmanship, and she had also seen with her own eyes the rock cakes that Ron brought home, which were harder than steel, and almost knocked a big hole out of the table.

"It's a big problem." A voice suddenly sounded, and Toby walked over from the other end of the cabin, with Mr. Al still standing on his shoulder.

"Did you really feed Yaya rock cakes?" Toby said with strange eyes: "I've wanted to tell you a long time ago, not everyone can accept your afternoon tea set."

Hagrid looked hurt.

"Really? But obviously everyone likes it—"

"That's because they couldn't bear to provoke you." Toby said, waving his hands, and then asked, regardless of Hagrid's frustrated eyes, "Where is Nixiu? Oh, it's here, go and see your kind, Al .”

Al immediately jumped off Toby's shoulders, and it ran to the shack with small steps, and looked at Xixiu inside through the wooden door.The snuffers in the shack also stopped fighting, and all gathered at the door, staring curiously at the professor assistant.

"Mr. Al, haven't you seen your own kind?" Ginny asked with interest.

"I haven't seen it before. I haven't had time to help it fulfill this wish until today." Toby walked over and quietly asked Al: "How is it? Are they suitable for part-time jobs? Can they make magic alone? Items?"

Luna looked over with her glasses on, and saw that the short words that popped out of the heads of Xixiu in the shack, such as "want to go out", "golden gold", "let's play together".

Only Mr. Al's head popped out—[It's a little troublesome, these sniffs are still too common, none of them are as smart as me, I guess even the magic wand——]

Luna will not be able to see the later content.

Al suddenly called out strangely, and waved his head, erasing all those words like a blackboard eraser.

Toby immediately looked back at Luna.

"Why are you so careless." He complained to Al, then stood up, walked towards Luna with a smile: "It seems that the function of the anti-demon glasses still needs to be improved, let me see—"

Luna immediately backed up holding her mirror legs, as if she refused to agree to anything.

"Won't the anti-monster glasses work on Mr. Al?" she asked.

Toby also stopped altogether, crossed his arms to his chest and said, "Yeah, it's my assistant after all, some things are still inconvenient for students to know, and neither can others—forget it, You keep it first, I will ask you for it in a few days, and then I will mass-produce it. But you have to find suitable workers first, and it is best to be obedient enough to keep the secret of the magic circle. I I really don’t want to find the goblins anymore, getting involved with them is not a good thing, we have to equalize the distribution of power.”

He snapped his fingers, and Al came over step by step, turning his head three times, stood on Toby's shoulder and waved goodbye to the other Snuffers.

"Where's Buckbeak?" Toby asked Hagrid at last.

"Stay in the Forbidden Forest." Hagrid said sadly, "Follow that path, and you'll see it in a short time."

Just as they were about to leave, Luna ignored Ginny's eyes and suddenly asked, "Can I go there too, Professor?"

"Are you going to the Forbidden Forest too?" Toby turned around and said, "That's right. I have to experiment with the ability of the anti-monster glasses, but I don't have time. Let Al, and Hagrid—Hagrid, are you free?" ?”

"Time is tight." Hagrid muffled, "I have to dig all the holes before the next class."

"It's not easy!" Toby snapped his fingers, causing the shiny silver shovel to stand up automatically, as if some transparent person was holding it and shoveling on the ground.

Then Al took out a rag doll from his belly pocket, and the doll immediately came to life, took the pocket on Hagrid's waist, and buried all the leprechaun's gold coins in the pit in order.

"Miss Weasley, you come too." Toby called his name suddenly: "I see you have brought your schoolbag, and I will write down the thoughts of the animals in the Forbidden Forest with Miss Lovegood in a while, and I will check them when I come back." - I'm going first."

Holding the scepter he took out of Al's pocket, he took a step ahead and quickly disappeared into the path of the Forbidden Forest.

Luna looked very happy, Ginny was distressed by the extra homework, and the snuffers were completely surprised by the scene when they just took out the scepter, they hung upside down on the wooden door one by one, trying to see if they could put it Put it in too.

"Okay, don't try it." Hagrid cheered up. He caught the Nifflers and put the two outside the cage back in by the way: "If only you could be half as smart as Al, you can make Al I save a lot of trouble."

Al laughed out loud, and it took out a small flying carpet and sat on it, floating as high as Ginny and Luna's heads.

Ginny had already started to prepare for going to the Forbidden Forest. She watched Hagrid pick up the crossbow and asked if there were any weapons that she could use. It seemed that the experience of last semester had frightened her a lot.

Then Hagrid passed Al's small shovel, and Ginny looked at this "silver chopstick" worriedly, it was not as long as her own wand.

At this time, Al floated over, and it whispered, "Yeah."

Luna stared at it curiously, and then explained to Ginny: "Mr. Al said that there is a special spell that can turn this shovel into a shield. It's very simple, you just need to do this, and then do this—— "

As she spoke, she raised her wand and waved it, and said a spell that Ginny had never heard before. The spell hit the small shovel, and it flashed with a "bang", turning into a door taller than Ginny. The shield, which is covered with various patterns, looks weird, but it has a wonderful sense of beauty.

"It looks really good." Hagrid supported Ginny, who was almost pinned down, and then raised the shield and swung it back and forth twice. It was very easy to use.

"It's great." Ginny said with bright eyes, "But how do I change back?"

Al waved his hand in a petty way: "Yeah."

Luna explained again: "You don't need to do anything, it will change back by itself after a while."

Sure enough, within half a minute, the small shovel returned to its original state, and Ginny held it in her hand lovingly, intending to use it when she had the chance.

At this time, Al caught a glimpse of a figure flying out of the Forbidden Forest, it was Toby riding Buckbeak.

The three of them also set off with Al, and Al quietly pulled Ginny and Luna's hair to make them walk slowly, and then whispered: "Yeah."

"What did Mr. Al say again?" Ginny asked interestedly, "Is it a new spell?"

"Not exactly." Luna blinked: "It said that the premise is that we have to secretly buy some wine for it, and we can't let Professor Haimer know - you can also entrust other people to do it, and don't worry about the money. , I will have enough gold when the anti-demon glasses start selling."

Ginny covered her mouth in surprise, and she took a peek at Hagrid who was walking ahead: "It really said that?"

There was no need for Luna to answer, and Al nodded solemnly, and then said again: "Yeah."

"It has long wanted to taste the magma wine." Luna translated conscientiously: "Before this, it only tasted the black devil wine once, but after that, Professor Haimo refused to let him drink it gone."

"Did Mr. Al explain the reason?"

"No, it says it doesn't remember what happened."

"Then what are you going to do?" Ginny stared at Luna eagerly, racking her brains to think of an excuse not to be punished: "Doing things for Mr. Al shouldn't be considered a violation of school rules, right? It can also be regarded as one of the professors in the school Yes, though only as an assistant."

Al suddenly interjected, "Yeah."

Luna saw above its head: "Temporarily, it's just an assistant for the time being, and sooner or later it will become an official professor."

Luna laughed at Mr. Al's words, and when she said them, Ginny giggled too.

Al stared at them angrily.

"I'm not." Ginny said out of breath, "Of course Mr. Al can become a formal professor, but where should Professor Highmore go then?"

Al smiled strangely.This time Luna didn't see any writing on top of its head, it was obviously erased deliberately.

Not knowing why, Ginny came up with a thought that even frightened her—is Mr. Al going to drive Professor Highmore away?Or is it the existence that has been silently manipulating Professor Haimer?
Mr. Devil Al is probably Professor Highmore's devil, right?But it doesn't look like it, it's not a dark fog, it's obviously fleshy.

Al brushed away Ginny's poking fingers, looking sacrosanct.

"Why are you so far away from me?" Hagrid suddenly turned around and said, "Come closer, the Forbidden Forest is very dangerous."

Just before they were about to follow, Ginny grabbed Luna and whispered, "What do you think? Are you really going to secretly buy wine for Mr. Al after earning money?"

"It won't take that long." Luna helped her temples and said, "The pocket money my father gave me hasn't been spent yet, and the sales of "The Quibbler" have improved a lot, when can I go to Hogsmeade Village , we can ask the seniors for help—how ​​is your brother?"

Ginny said with a sad face, "He's not old enough, maybe he has to go to his brother's brother."

(End of this chapter)