Archaeologists at Hogwarts

Chapter 371 Cat Ears and the Reporter

370 Cat Ears and the Reporter

The Three Broomsticks has always been one of the students' favorite places to go, not to mention that it is the weekend, the place is already full of guests, and there is no empty table left.

There was no way, Harry and Qiu could only be brought to the bar by Ms. Romesta.

Coincidentally, there were already two younger guests here.

"Hi, Harry. And you, Harry's girlfriend."

While greeting Luna, she bowed her head and fiddled with a headband. There were two furry cat ears on this headband, which were being gently fiddled with one after another. It was very elastic.

Another little guest was Ginny. She also had a headband and wore it on her head. After seeing Harry walking over with Qiu, her expression became a little unnatural, but she still gave Harry a slap in a low voice. Hello.

In order to prevent the atmosphere from becoming more awkward, Harry had better put on a curious tone and asked, "What is this?"

"It's my new work." Luna handed the headband to Harry and said, "You can observe the wearer's mood according to the changes in the ears. I will show it to Professor Highmore soon."

Harry was really curious this time, he knew that last year Luna became the new head of the Black Devil Club because of the anti-demon glasses, and many people are waiting to see if she will make a new magic circle this year thing.

Didn't expect it to be here.

"Would you like to try it on?" Luna said, looking Harry in the eyes.

Her gaze was irresistible.

"Okay." Harry put on the headband helplessly, his eyes were still looking up, trying to figure out if there was any change in it now.

At this moment, Mrs. Romesta took another bottle of Butterbeer from the box under the bar and placed it in front of Harry.

"Thank you." Harry was finally able to quench his thirst. He took two big gulps before turning his head to look at Qiu beside him.

Qiuzheng rested his hand on his chin in a daze, while shaking the wine bottle with the other hand.

"What do you want to talk about?" Harry asked, taking a deep breath.

Luna also heard this sentence, and she looked to her left almost subconsciously, just in time to see Ginny was quietly looking at Harry and Qiu, and the cat ear headband on her head gradually changed—— The ear at one point was drooping, but the ear closer to it was secretly erected, as if it was eavesdropping.

Luna took out a pen from her pocket, then opened the Pandora Notebook, and wrote on a blank page: "Cat ear headbands are also useful for those who have a crush on them."

"What are you doing?" Ginny noticed Luna's actions, but Luna closed the notebook before she could see clearly.

"Some experimental results." Luna sipped her drink and said, "You can continue to eavesdrop on yours, and leave me alone."

Ginny blushed instantly.

More importantly, Harry also heard this sentence, his expression suddenly became extremely embarrassed, and even the cat ears on the headband were twisted into circles.

Qiu should have heard it too, but she didn't care about it at all.

"How do you think we should get along in the future?" She asked in a low voice.

The cat ears on Harry's head straightened instantly, and it was obvious that he didn't like hearing this question very much, and the inexplicable anger in his heart had not completely disappeared.

"I don't know." Harry said smotheredly.

"Can't you even explain the reason clearly?" Qiu asked aggrievedly, "You don't even want to explain one more sentence?"

Harry really didn't want to bother with the question.

"From now on, you can't discuss with others whenever you have something to do, and you want me to pretend that you don't know?" Qiu kept asking, "Who is your girlfriend, me? Or—hmm?"

Qiu seemed to have discovered something suddenly. She stared directly at the top of Harry's head and said, "Because you don't like me enough? Hate me? Neither? What is that? Is it really not suitable for me? How could it be true? "

"What are you talking about?" Harry turned his head and asked, subconsciously attracted by Qiu's shifting gaze.

"How can it be inappropriate? Is it because you are worried that I will hate you in turn if I know more?"

Unbeknownst to Harry, the ears on his head immediately nodded up and down, with a blank expression still on his face.
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Ron, who was not far away, craned his neck to see this scene, and he said, "It's a pity, I guess it's not a good show-oh, no, I mean, I really feel for Harry." Happy, he doesn't need to break up, don't you think?"

He turned his head and saw that Hermione and Cedric were chatting again at some point, and the discussion was intense.

"What the hell are you going to do with my wand?"

"It's just a small change. Haven't you read the books that Professor Highmore gave us?"

"It wasn't given by him, it was just loaned to us temporarily."

"It's almost the same, don't digress - what I want to say is, why don't you try to get the magic circle right first, and then combine it with your wand?"

"I don't think this method is feasible, and it's hard to guarantee that it won't make my wand bloated—unless you can engrave a magic circle on the hair."

"Ignorant pure-blood wizard, you don't understand anything at all."

"Don't call me that, it sounds so mean."

Ron couldn't understand either. He looked at the two crazy people, and then at the bewildered Harry and enthusiastic Qiu on the other side.

"Oh, it's boring—that's it?"
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"Damn it, did you all see it?"

"Of course, sir, Harry Potter and his girlfriend are reconciled."

"Idiot, I didn't say him, I mean Luna Lovegood, she has a new work, this woman really doesn't know how to be content, she's too greedy, she won't let go of the position of minister .”

"Shall we warn her, boss?"

"You?" Draco said sarcastically, "If you are not afraid of being locked up by Professor Highmore, go ahead."

Both Crabbe and Goyle visibly hesitated after hearing this.

But Draco is still very angry. If he can't beat Luna in his work, he has only one way left - that is, the magical potential of wizards to break through the limit that Professor Haimo talked about in class, for example Giant-sized Patronus.

But that's a lot harder than creating a hit, no matter how it sounds.

"Can I sit here?"

A voice sounded suddenly, and Draco saw a woman with heavy makeup appearing in front of them. He just wanted to refuse, but the other party had already sat down by himself and spoke at the same time.

"I didn't mean to eavesdrop on your conversation - but you seem to know Luna Lovegood?"

When Draco heard the name, his expression became contorted.

"none of your business?"

The woman smiled happily after hearing this answer, but the smile was a little greasy, which seemed very exaggerated.

"Let me introduce myself first, Rita Skeeter, I am a reporter."

Draco took her business card suspiciously. It didn't say where Skeeter was working now, but he had the experience of working in the "Daily Prophet".

"You want to interview me?" Draco finally became interested.

"Maybe we can wait until we're done interviewing Lovegood on this one." Skeeter finally revealed her target.

"Who are you talking about?" Draco said in disgust.

"Don't rush to refuse." Skeeter said slowly: "Everyone knows that she is the creator of the anti-demon glasses, but there are not many reports about her. I believe you will like these questions. , after all, according to what I just overheard, you don't seem to get along very well."

As she spoke, she pushed a small notebook over, and Draco looked down to scan it, and he saw Skeeter's purpose at a glance.

"You want to discredit Lovegood?"

"Not exactly," Skeeter said. "It's just that my readers need the truth, and I'm sure they'd be absolutely interested in a young billionaire."

Unexpectedly, Draco actually avoided Skeeter, he threw the notebook back in a hurry, and then quickly called Goyle and Crabbe to leave.

"What's the matter, boss?"

After they finally left the Three Broomsticks, Gore asked puzzled, "Why didn't you promise her?"

"Fool!" Draco yelled angrily, "Do you really think Professor Highmore will be affected by these reports? Don't forget who paid Lovegood's bonus. This stupid woman will have it soon You’ve suffered a lot, don’t implicate me when the time comes, I’m still waiting for the next minister—go, go back, if it doesn’t work, try to find the new dean, I remember he has a very good relationship with Professor Haimer, There might be a way."
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Meanwhile, Draco's new Headmaster was hanging out with his favorite student.

Office of Ancient Magic.

Slughorn stared at the huge block of ice in the corner of the room, and asked curiously, "Is there something in it? Did you hide something good?"

It seems like everyone who has been in this room has this question.

"It's just a small collection." Toby came over with two wine glasses and said, "Would you like a drink?"

"Now?" Slughorn rubbed his hands embarrassedly and said, "Isn't it too early? Forget it, I'd better give me a little less, and it happens to be the weekend."

The wine bottle automatically flew over and poured half a glass for each of them. Slughorn took a sip, looked around at the weird collections in the office, and said with emotion: "I really didn't expect There will still be opportunities to work with you, I remember that you and Albus had a fierce quarrel back then, and I thought I would never see you back in my life."

"Fortunately, I changed my mind in advance." Toby said, looking at the playground outside the window: "It turns out that my idea is really good. I should have come back earlier."

The two chatted for a while without saying a word, and the topic was naturally drawn to Toby's former classmates.

"What's the matter with Severus?" Slughorn asked with a flushed face, and he still couldn't help drinking a few more glasses: "Does anyone know why he left Hogwarts?"

"I don't know." Toby shook his head and said, "After all, the two of us haven't seen each other for a long time, and we are not as close as we were when we were young. He has changed a lot, but the annoying point remains the same. If Lily is still alive, she probably thinks so too."

"Yes, Lily." Slughorn fell into silence and memory.

After a while, he spoke again: "I've seen Harry Potter with my own eyes, his eyes are exactly the same as Lily's, except for his potion talent, it's really terrible, a hundred ha It's a pity that Lijia is not as good as Lily."

"Fortunately, he inherited James' Quidditch talent." Toby continued: "Otherwise, he would be really useless—at least I think so, except for some worrisome traits."

"What is it?" Sure enough, Slughorn began to feel curious: "Could it be that the process of his election to the Warriors was really tricky? I didn't expect him to be so courageous."

"Who says it's not." Toby said very naturally, acting as if he really thought so.

"I remember that James liked to make trouble very much when he was in school, and Harry was even worse. He didn't even like to make trouble, but also had many ideas that even I thought were dangerous."

Under Slughorn's astonished gaze, Toby slowly spit out a word: "Dark magic."

"That's impossible!" Slughorn retorted subconsciously: "Aren't the magazines all promoting Harry Potter as the savior of the entire wizarding world? How could he be interested in black magic?"

But the look in Toby's eyes made him suspicious.

"Are you serious?" he asked in surprise.

"I'm also having a headache with this problem." Toby said with a sigh: "But I dare not tell other people, especially Dumbledore, I have no idea what Dumbledore will do if he knows about it." To treat Harry, is it necessary to drive him away? But in this way, no one can help him even more."

"I think you should be able to understand this idea, after all, you were the one who helped me integrate into Slytherin more smoothly."

"It's all because you are good enough." Slughorn murmured, "But why is Harry like this?"

"I can only guess that it probably has something to do with James." Toby said puzzled: "Who made him get into so much trouble when he was a child, and Harry has become even worse, what do you think?"

"I" Slughorn visibly hesitated.

Toby waited patiently and silently, sipping the wine in the glass, showing no hurry at all.

It was some time before Slughorn finally spoke again.

"There was a time when Lily secretly asked me many questions about black magic, and she begged me not to tell anyone else, but I don't think she would care about it now."

Toby remained silent throughout Slughorn's narration.

But he found strangely that many of Lily's problems were related to the ancient magic he had studied when he was a child.Well, those spells do look a lot like black magic.

But Toby is sure that he has never studied Horcruxes, which is something he didn't come into contact with until he was in the temple in Egypt.

"anything else?"

Toby asked with a look of sudden realization: "I really didn't expect the real reason to come from Lily, but did she ask any more outrageous questions later? Also, do you know where she came into contact with these black magics?" Maybe it will help me help Harry. You know, Harry was part of the team I bought and I can't bear to see him go down this wrong path."

"Where did you get in touch?"

Slughorn thought carefully.

"She complained to me once by chance, it seems to be related to the relationship between Severus, saying that they are getting more and more estranged, so she doesn't know what to do"

Toby got it.

It was still Snape, the real key still came from him——

This Haierbo's servant.

(End of this chapter)