Archaeologists at Hogwarts

Chapter 238 Meeting
237 Meeting
The Three Broomsticks, Hogsmeade.

At a table near the corner, Fudge looked out of the window with an uneasy expression, then took out a gorgeous wristwatch and glanced at it, finally set his eyes on Scrimgeour next to him, and asked countless times: " You're sure you've got people around, right? This guy has a history of blackmailing foreign ministers, and it's not clear if he thought it would be fun to do it again."

Scrimgeour was like a lion, and he said with authority: "Of course, the village is full of our people, and even Kingsley was brought back by me from the Department of Mysteries—it's a pity that I can't invite Mad-Eye , He has been retired for too long, and it is said that he is mentally abnormal."

"Maybe that's a good thing." Fudge shook his head. "I don't want to see two crazy people bump into each other."

They waited silently for a while under the curious eyes of Ms. Romesta, until the third glass of red currant rum was drunk by Fudge, he finally realized that something was wrong, took out his pocket watch and looked at the movement of the hands again. bit.

"Why is he late?"

Fudge said confused and uneasy: "Could it be that Highmore is secretly setting up something—a trap?! Could there be a trap?"

He turned his head back and forth quickly, looking very ridiculous.

But Scrimgeour did not ignore the problem.

"Tonks!" He shouted loudly, and let the silver-haired female Auror sitting at the bar come over, holding a glass of freshly mixed apple juice and rum in her hand, with a smile on her face: "Director, let me tell you, Ms. Romesta's story is very interesting. It's about a goblin who compares height with a dwarf—sorry, Director."

Scrimgeour's gaze immediately made Tonks serious, and she asked solemnly, "Do you have any orders?"

"Go outside and have a look." Scrimgeour ordered: "Let the people around you check it out again and pay attention to see if there are any traces of excavation——Toby Highmore was an archaeologist, this is his It is very likely that the special skills have been hidden under our noses."

Tonks hurried off to deliver the instruction, and returned in a short time.

"Nothing." She asked confusedly: "Is it really necessary to do this? It was fine when I was in the Ministry of Magic last time, and I didn't see that he had any intention of doing anything."

"That's because Dumbledore was there." Fudge said in an anxious tone: "Toby Highmore trusts Dumbledore, and there is evidence that he has been in correspondence with Dumbledore for so many years-it is hard to imagine, he in the end How to tame such a fellow--unless it is more evil than him."

The last words were whispered by Fudge, and no one heard them except Tonks and Scrimgeour.

The reactions of the two were also somewhat different - Scrimgeour was indifferent and seemed to agree with what Fudge had said.

As for Tonks—she had it all written on her face, her nose turning into a comically pointed corner.

"Pay attention to the occasion!" Scrimgeour warned sternly.

Tonks immediately put away the ability of Transfiguration Magus, and just as she was about to leave with an unfinished cocktail, she suddenly caught a glimpse of a black shadow flying in the distant sky.

"Is that him?" Tonks pointed out the window and asked, "Why does he look wobbly?"

Fudge immediately stood up nervously, Scrimgeour squinted his eyes and stared at it for a while, then he suddenly instructed: "Let the customers in the store hide - this is an attack! I repeat! This is an attack on the minister! The carriage is coming towards us They are rushing over, no one knows what's in there, everyone hides and prepares to fight!"

"Merlin, Merlin." Fudge opened his mouth wide and said, "I knew it would become like this! I shouldn't have worried so much before, I should have called him directly to the Ministry!"

"It's too late to say this now!" Scrimgeour asked Tonks to block Fudge behind him. He drew out his wand and pointed at the carriage in the air. The coachman—truly a black devil!There's even a Suicide Squad!

Scrimgeour had already seen the shadow of the Dark Lord in the opponent.

At this time, there was a sudden indistinct cry from the front of the carriage.

"What is he talking about?" Fudge asked, looking at Tonks all at once.

"If I heard you right." Tonks said puzzledly, "He seems to be telling us to get out of here quickly? The Explosive Curse? Is it true or not? There will be an Explosive Curse soon—?"

"boom--"

A loud noise interrupted Tonks' narration, and the carriage in mid-air became torn apart, exploding into a ball of thick flames, which stunned the people below.

Now, even Scrimgeour didn't know how to respond to Fudge's doubts—what is this, a fireworks show?In broad daylight?

Is it a preview program before the celebration?

"There are still people up there." Tonks murmured in shock, "He must have been killed by the bomb."

"Soon--"

Remus Lupine rushed out of the flames, his whole body became ashen-faced, with a simple platform and wings made of wooden boards underneath, it was this little trick that kept the three from falling to their deaths—as for the Thestrals, They were untied long before the explosion and escaped.

As for Toby and Snape—they were also on the wooden shelf, and they looked much worse than Lupine.

Snape was holding a copy of "Potion of Evil" that was mostly burned, and threw it to the ground angrily, staring at Toby viciously.

And Toby, wearing a torn black witch robe, walked straight towards Fudge as soon as he landed, and Fudge was so frightened that he didn't even take a few steps back to avoid the pair of black hands, watching helplessly. While patting his shoulder, he wiped it a few times, making the emerald green witch robe on his body suddenly dirty.

"Sorry, we are late." Toby said happily, and wiped his hands back and forth: "I was delayed on the road for some time, I hope the compensation for the carriage will not be too high-by the way, I haven't asked you yet, Have you ever tasted Gamp? How's it like?"

Fudge stared at Toby's black hands, his tone was blunt, and he said with a pun: "It's really not very good."

Toby raised his eyebrows: "What a coincidence, I think so too, Minister."

The sensitivity of the title almost prevented Fudge from immediately ordering Toby to be arrested. Fortunately, he was rational, and Tonks' sudden question interrupted him.

"Where's the silver-haired lady?" Tonks asked, looking around. "Didn't she come with you?"

"She needs to work so that she can support herself." Toby said casually, "Come on, Minister, we should also talk about work. Is this the welcome ceremony you prepared for me?" He pointed to the pile of The vigilant Auror said, and at the same time was very surprised to see Kingsley's face in the crowd.

How could this be?Didn't Dumbledore inform the Ministry of Magic of this man's suspicious identity?

Or, in fact, Fudge and Scrimgeour already knew that he was Grindelwald's insider?
Really tricky ah X2.

Toby and Fudge, who silently looked at each other, thought at the same time.

The Dark Devil/Dark Lord, sure enough, is not that easy to deal with.
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On the other side, at Hogwarts.

"Yeah yah!"

"Don't worry, Mr. Al, I'm looking for it—oh, this invisibility cloak is really inconvenient. How can someone walk around wearing it? Don't you think it's in the way?"

"Ah, ah, ah, ah."

"Just practice a few more times? But how can there be so many opportunities? Isn't this Professor Haimo's invisibility cloak, he must use it."

"Yeah? Yah."

"What? It's Harry's?!"

Ginny's voice was so loud that the passing students turned their heads, but they couldn't see anything except the blank wall.

"Did you hear that?"

"I heard it. You said, could it be?"

"Ghost? Do you mean ghost? There are female ghosts more troublesome than Myrtle? Go, go!"

Looking at the two students who ran away immediately, Ginny's face turned red a little, and Al giggled.

"I found it." Luna said suddenly, she checked the Marauder's Map carefully, pointed to a statue and said, "The one-horned witch statue, this is it!"

The three came to the statue, and Luna took out her wand and tapped it twice, muttering: "Left and right are separated."

Immediately, the hunched back of the statue opened, allowing a thinner person to slip in.

"Yeah!" Al excitedly urged them to get into the secret passage quickly, and it jumped in first.

"Wait for us, Mr. Al - oops!"

Ginny felt herself slide a long way down the stone slide and then fall to the cold, wet dirt.Luna's screams came from behind, and Ginny quickly stepped aside, even though the surroundings were pitch black, she could still imagine the expression on Luna's face: "It was so much fun! I want to play it again!"

"Let's talk about it when we get back." Ginny cast the Illumination Charm, and only then did she realize that she was in a narrow and low dirt passage. Mr. Al was already sitting on a small flying carpet and floating to the front, turning his head and urging They quickly follow.

"I want to ride the flying carpet too." Ginny muttered, pulling Luna and running over quickly.

"Huh?" Al turned his head. It looked at the flying carpet under its feet, and then at the shoes of Ginny and Luna. It estimated that there was still a long way to go.

"Ah!" it shouted again, and took out a folded handkerchief from its belly pocket, and then opened it and opened it again, as if it couldn't be unfolded completely, as if it had been folded countless times.

"This thing is called Feipa." Luna, who was wearing anti-demon glasses, translated: "It is a magic item specially used for outdoor travel, just like a magic tent."

Ginny climbed onto the floating flying handkerchief lightly, and sat up softly, somewhat like a hammock that had been set up, full of novelty in the thrill.It startled Luna when she jumped onto it all of a sudden, rolling along the vortex in the middle.

"look!"

Luna kept talking.

In their eyes, the small flying carpet under Al's feet seemed to be an engine, which could easily pull the flying handkerchief that was many times larger and float forward together, and the speed was much faster.

Ginny looked around in amazement, and she asked curiously, "What did Mr. Al say again?"

"It said that it's a pity that flying carpets are prohibited items in the UK." Luna stared at the bubble text on Al's head and said, "Otherwise, we can change the mode of transportation, and maybe Quidditch can also change the rules."

Change the rules of Quidditch?Is it to replace the broom with a flying carpet?
It felt like every player could be a keeper, a hitter, and, oh yes, a Seeker—just trap the Snitch with a flying carpet and score.

Al chattered a lot of stories to them along the way, including similar magical items that were also banned in the UK. In fact, it hid a lot of them, and no one could find them.

Ginny was skeptical - where else but Mr Al's belly pocket?

"Yeah." Al shook his paw left and right, showing a mysterious smile, but this time Luna could no longer see the text on top of its head, which was covered by Al actively.

"We seem to be arriving soon." Ginny said reluctantly, she felt that the direction of flight was gradually rising, and she didn't want to leave the flying handker so soon. It's so fun to sit up, and it's not like the cart in Gringotts Thrilling, or disgusting.

After 1 minute, Feipa came to the bottom of a dilapidated stone staircase, which extended to an invisible place above.Along the stairs, Al slowed down the speed of Feipa, and at the same time told Ginny and Luna to sit firmly so that they would not accidentally fall down—the number of stairs seemed to be quite a lot, and Luna said suddenly: "You said , if we dig under the steps, will we find the bones of the people who fell to death in the ground?"

Ginny immediately showed a disgusted expression, and at the same time was a little scared.

"It's archaeology." Luna said: "Isn't this also archaeology? This secret passage must have existed for a long time. Don't you wonder who built it? It couldn't have started from the time of the founder. "

"Yeah." Al said without looking back.

Before Ginny could ask, Luna explained: "It seems unlikely—Hogsmeade village was established later than Hogwarts, and there was only one bar here at first, and it doesn't seem to be It’s too much like the end of this tunnel, which has nothing to do with the founder.”

"Mr. Al knows a lot." Ginny sighed.

Slowly, the three finally came to the top of the stairs, where there was a trap door, and after pushing the door open, they found that it was a store's basement storage room, full of candy and snacks.

To avoid wasting time here, Al promises to buy them each a big bag of candy when they get back to school.

Surprisingly, the three finally squeezed out Honeydukes from the crowd, and the next thing was much simpler, just find a place to buy wine for Mr. Al.

Where can I go?

Ginny saw the signboard of the Three Broomsticks in the distance, but Al stopped her before she could open her mouth. It quietly hid under the invisibility cloak and pointed, allowing Ginny to see the traces of the explosion remaining on the ground, and the inside of the glass window. A few people who are talking.

Toby picked up a glass of magma-like spirits, took a sip under Fudge's surprised gaze, let out a pleasant cry, red lights appeared in his ears and eyes, and the heat emitted, making Lupine sit unobtrusively. farther away.

"Celebration, yes." Toby put down his glass and said, "Hogwarts has specially prepared a program."

"What show?" Fudge asked tentatively, as long as it didn't cause too much trouble.

"Yes--"

Toby suddenly turned his head and glanced out the window, his eyes narrowed a little bit.

"What's the matter?" Scrimgeour also looked over immediately, and then the rest of the people also turned their eyes, but there were only scattered students outside the window, and it didn't seem like there were any characters that attracted Toby.

"It should be an illusion." Toby turned around and said: "Oh, yes, drama. Yes, I have already figured out what the specific program is. The plot will be a bit complicated, but the name is still easy to come up with-"

"It's called The Legend of Sirius."

(End of this chapter)