Archaeologists at Hogwarts

Chapter 253 Teachers' Recognition Meeting

In the Gryffindor common room, the students gathered around the house magazine.

Ron strutted his feet vigorously and read: "The new teacher recognition meeting will start next week-it's just about Christmas, and the school is going to send Christmas gifts everywhere again?"

The note that said "Merry Christmas" stuck with Ron, who thought it was a thoughtful gift when he was a freshman.

But if you do it again, it will seem a bit old-fashioned.

"Probably not." Hermione calmly analyzed: "If the result is still the same, then there should be no need for the school to hold this event again—I am more concerned about whether it will affect the celebration, and the time is getting closer , I had a hard time convincing my parents that I don’t need to go home.”

"I'm not going back either," said Ron. "It's said that the minister will come to the school for dinner, but Percy didn't go home either, and the twins said that he needs someone to accompany him—who doesn't know these two people?" I think about making money all day, probably because it is inconvenient for my mother to see, so I refuse to go back."

His tone was a bit sour, there was no way, no one would like a sweater that was only used to teach others, otherwise he would have a chance to make a fortune.

"Harry is back." Hermione turned to look at the entrance of the passage: "Hey, Harry!"

"What's going on?" Harry asked hurriedly, curious about the assembled crowd.

"Don't rush to ask this." Hermione stared at him and said, "Where did you go just now? Why did you disappear in the blink of an eye?"

"I just went to find Professor Lupine." Harry said strangely in his heart, "I want to ask some other things, you should know."

"I understand too well, buddy." Ron nodded pretendingly: "What's going to happen next? Are you suddenly in love with studying, and then you may get angry at us anytime, anywhere?"

Hermione looked at Harry suspiciously, she thought the Time Turner was at Harry's place.

"Teacher Appreciation Meeting." Harry finally saw the announcement in the college magazine: "No wonder Professor Highmore went to see Professor Lupine. It turned out that it was because of this incident—by the way, I have one more thing to tell you."

He found an empty corner and told the two of them the news he had just heard.

Especially about the sworn enemy.

Ron laughed dryly after listening: "Professor Haimer must be joking, right? You must have discovered that Professor Haimer often acts a little exaggerated."

"It's different this time." Harry said seriously: "I can feel that Professor Highmore really doesn't like—" He hastily lowered his voice: "I really don't like Sirius—it's the devil who made me feel , nothing wrong."

"The devil?" Hermione's eyes widened. "To what extent has it affected you? Don't you understand, Harry, it's not your devil, but—" She also lowered her voice and said, " —You-Know-Who's devil, you shouldn't have anything to do with that snake anymore, it's dangerous."

"It's okay, just treat it as practice in advance." Harry's attitude was not serious, and before Hermione continued to ask, he immediately changed the subject and said: "By the way, will there be interviews at this teacher recognition meeting? Don't know if Professor Highmore will continue to explain his scars. And Professor Lupine, don't know what he will say."

"Then I definitely won't apply again." Ron said timidly, "I was quite scared last time, but—"

He glanced at the twins who were muttering something under their breath, and Percy muttered with an excited face, "There must be someone willing to do this-don't forget, Slytherin has a minister."
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Slytherin dungeon.

"Minister, it must be you who went to interview this time, right? The black devil—"

Malfoy turned his head to look at the other party, his tone sounded cold: "Don't use this address in front of me, remember it later."

Then he turned around and returned to the dormitory with Crabbe and Goyle, who were clenching their fists behind them.

As soon as they entered the door, they praised clumsily:
"Boss, you were so imposing just now, you scared that kid to death."

"When will we get more subordinates, let Gore and I bring a few younger brothers—"

"Close the door." Draco said without turning his head, his tone still bad.

After Goyle closed the door, Draco finally couldn't help it. He clenched his fists tightly and shouted at the two of them: "You two idiots, don't you understand now? If you don't understand at the end of the term If there is a way to hand over more influential works, then the position of minister will be taken away by Ravenclaw! There are also college points that should have been awarded to us, and there is nothing left!"

This is the rule that Toby has laid down from the beginning.

The position of the head of the Black Devil Club does not remain unchanged, but will be judged based on the magic array items handed in by the students.

But now who can compare to Luna's anti-demon glasses?

It hasn't been officially sold in the UK yet, so the pre-order price has doubled several times. I don't know how Vichy came up with this coup.

Both Crabbe and Goyle were dizzy from being scolded. They looked at Draco helplessly, and Draco's face became very ugly. He ignored the two of them and paced around the dormitory as if no one else was there. Talk to yourself.

"No, I have to figure out why Professor Haimer held the Teacher Appreciation Meeting. It has been held once, and it will definitely not be the same as last time—is it because he wants to prove his popularity? Or is he trying to get along with the teacher?" Compared with the shabby guy who teaches Defense Against the Dark Arts? This may be because of him. Among all the positions, this is the only subject that has changed. Compared with Lockhart, Professor Highmore obviously pays more attention to Lupine. Some - I know!"

He stopped in his tracks and said, "As long as you help Professor Haimer win this competition—the bite box, the key lies in the bite box for voting! You two, go and keep an eye on it!"

Draco suddenly ordered to the two: "Keep an eye on when the bite box will appear in the common room at any time, and find a way to solve this trouble, let it spit back all the votes that did not write Professor Haimer's name !"

Even if Crabbe and Goyle's brains were combined, they couldn't figure out how Draco made such a decision.

"But there are three other colleges." Crabbe said blankly.

"We'll talk about it at that time!" Draco said with a frown, "Either let my dad find a way to buy an invisibility cloak, or I have to use other means, maybe I can get away with it, and secretly put the bite boxes of other colleges as well. Changed—potions."

He looked at the two and said, "Do you think Dean Snape would be willing to do me this favor?"

"It's not feasible." Gore muttered: "The dean will not be willing to help the gangsters——Professor Haimer won the selection, and their relationship doesn't seem to be very good."

Crabbe chuckled. "Not so good? Just not so good? They fought when we were in first grade—sorry, boss."

After seeing the cold expression on Draco's face, he immediately shut his mouth.

"Then find a way to hide the dean from it!" Draco said ruthlessly, "Only by unscrupulous means can I have a chance to get the power I want! I will never give up the position of minister, whether it is pulling Winclaw, or Gryffindor!"

Well, Hufflepuff was once again overlooked.

What Ron thought was that Draco would strongly fight for the position of reporter, but no one thought that Draco would actually think of attacking the bite box.

On the other hand, Cedric Diggory, shortly after he heard the news that the Teachers' Award would be held again, unexpectedly received an invitation from Professor Highmore to visit the Office of Ancient Magic.

This is really rare!

Has the professor finally figured out how to solve the problem of auto-casting wands?
Strictly speaking, Cedric has not been doing very well recently.

After the last time, that is, after he ran into Professor Lupine and Professor Highmore in the corridor (including the first time he knew about the upcoming celebration, they went to meet Professor Trelawney together.).

It was that encounter that allowed Cedric to learn an extremely disappointing fact from Professor Highmore—that is, the idea of ​​an automatic casting wand is completely unrealistic.

It was also impossible to successfully engrave the second magic circle on a wand.

Professor Haimer also gave an example of the Patronus Charm-wizards can only summon the Patronus through happy emotions, which is universal.Therefore, each wand can also be regarded as a unique patron saint, and the magic circle may be regarded as an emotion-only emotions like "happiness" can take effect.

In other words, apart from this, it is impossible to have other emotions that summon the patron saint, and it is impossible to engrave a second magic circle that automatically casts spells on the wand.

This question troubled Cedric for a long time.

Moreover, he has never dared to disclose it to others, including his best friends, and members of the Quidditch team.

Qiu Zhang asked him this question more than once, whenever he seized the opportunity, he would ask him if he had succeeded in making more magic circles.

But Cedric couldn't answer. He didn't want to disappoint his classmates, nor did he want Hufflepuff to lose this rare honor.

Fortunately, things seem to have turned around.

Finally, after many days, Professor Haimer took the initiative to ask him to go to the office - Cedric knew very well that it was absolutely impossible to fail the homework, and he would double check the homework given to Professor Haimer three times Over and over again, you can't go wrong.

Suppressing his excitement, he came to the gate of the ancient magic office and knocked on the door.

"Professor? I'm Cedric Diggory—" he said from the doorway.

Before he could finish speaking, the door opened by itself.

The situation in the room was a bit inexplicable-the sofa was moved to the wall of the office, and Toby and Al sat on it with serious faces.Standing across from them was—well, first a mouse, with a clever, but nasty gleam in its eyeballs.

The mouse barked a few times in front of a furry cat lizi that looked like a little tiger.Crookshanks lay motionless on the carpet, but the slight lifting of his eyelids made the mouse ecstatic.

Then, Diandian circled around on the blanket, found Mrs. Norris, who had a sinister expression, and leaned over to whisper a few words.Cedric noticed that Mrs. Norris' pupils shrank suddenly, revealing a dangerous aura.It stared at Dian Dian for a long time, and Cedric thought it was going to eat Dian Dian soon, and the atmosphere was frighteningly depressed.

"very good!"

Toby suddenly stood up and clapped his hands vigorously and said, "This look is very good, you must keep it when the official performance is over - Mr. Filch, please take good care of Mrs. Norris, and don't let it show anything before the performance Question - don't cry, calm down, everyone will suddenly become famous one day, and you will feel better in the future."

Filch, who was so excited to tears, hugged Mrs. Norris, and kept saying some incomprehensible words, while Al called more animals together, and announced something solemnly, and then Some seem to be giving lectures.

"Okay, that's all for today's rehearsal." Toby waved his hand and said, "Please send them all back to their owners, Dobby, where are you, Dobby? Go help, but don't let them go." My actors are lost."

Dobby popped out of the air, and he bowed deeply to Toby, hugging Crookshanks, Hedwig, Dot, and a snake - covered in animals, following Fei Wilkey left the office behind him.

"Come in." Toby said to Cedric who was waiting at the door: "Oh, by the way, I forgot to thank you for the last thing - it was the thing that let you spread the news of the celebration everywhere, you did a good job .”

"It's all thanks to George and Fred." Cedric said with some embarrassment; "The news really spread after I told them about the celebration."

Toby nodded. While waving his wand to clean up the traces left by the animals in the office, he asked Cedric, "How is your scepter practice?"

Speaking of which, Cedric's scepter is the most special among the students - because it is his wand, but it has a magic circle engraved on it.

Moreover, the amazing thing is that Cedric found a way to control the scepter in advance without waiting for the full moon course. A silent spell will do.

This is very rare.Silent spell is a subject that only sixth graders learn, but Cedric is only in fourth grade now.

Of course, only he himself knows how much effort it took to achieve this.

"It's getting more and more proficient." Cedric asked hopefully: "Excuse me—professor—is there any eyebrows about the method of making the automatic casting wand?"

"I'm still waiting for you to tell me," said Toby, smiling.

Cedric laughed dryly.

But he soon realized that Professor Highmore wasn't joking at all.

"Are you serious?" He said in shock, "but how can I—I can't."

"About this." Toby said slowly: "Mr. Cedric, do you think the teacher's commendation last time was a bit too ordinary?"

"Is there?" Cedric was puzzled: "I think it's still pretty good—especially after the voting results later, I have never received such a gift."

He felt as if he had just got the answer right, because Professor Haimer's tone became much more enthusiastic.

Only few people know that the last teacher recognition meeting was also held by Toby, and Cedric was not included.

"That's good." Toby said kindly: "I'm looking for you today because of the Teacher Appreciation Meeting—the interview method is a bit outdated and nothing new, so—I haven't had time to inform you. This year, the method has been changed to allow students to impart knowledge, and the identities have been changed.”

"so--"

He looked at the stunned Cedric and said, "Let's start today's lesson, Professor Diggory."

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Meanwhile, at the potions office.

Marcus Flint was too frightened to stand still, not daring to meet Snape's eyes.

Did he hear it right?
He was actually asked to teach Dean Snape something?

study what?
Quidditch?Or how to wash your hair?

Too bad, why did Dean Snape's eyes become more and more frightening? !

(End of this chapter)