Archaeologists at Hogwarts

Chapter 374 Interview
Ever since Dumbledore brought up the problem of solving Azkaban, the Ministry of Magic has suddenly become extremely short-staffed - especially the Aurors.

Because the ministry’s current solution is to send Aurors to Azkaban in batches, on the one hand to protect the guards of Azkaban, and on the other hand to find any dementors left behind—they are It will keep multiplying in the mood of forgetting, and it will become more and more if you are not careful.

But Tonks, who was originally an Auror, suddenly appeared at Hogwarts, and just when he was in urgent need of someone, he changed his position—a reporter for the "Daily Prophet".

This was undoubtedly Dumbledore's order, because as Tonks' former boss - Scrimgeour, he only nodded flatly when Tonks greeted him.

It is estimated that he only found out not long ago that his subordinate turned out to be Dumbledore's.

Harry and Tonks knew each other, and he lived in the Tonks' house during the holidays, and James and his friends were also there, which was ordered by Dumbledore himself.

Ever since Tonks had been in the house, she had approached Harry very graciously.

"I didn't expect you to become a Hogwarts warrior. How does it feel?"

Harry glanced at Professor Higher's gaze, and could not stop the chills on the soles of his feet.

"Not too good," he whispered, "how did you come to Hogwarts?"

"Of course I'm here to interview you." Tonks' tone was taken for granted. "It's my first time being a reporter. What questions do you think I should ask?"

"I think it's better for you to run away quickly."

"what?"

At this time, another person entered the room.

Mr. Ollivander, proprietor of the wand shop in Diagon Alley, has arrived.

"Let's get started." Toby nodded expressionlessly.

Mr. Ollivander began to check the wands of the warriors one by one. Taking advantage of this time, Toby got up and walked to Tonks.

Tonks was holding a notebook and thinking about what questions to ask for a while, when she raised her head, she saw Toby's icy face at a glance, and the smile that had just been raised suddenly became stiff.

"Hi Toby?"

"Dumbledore asked you to come?" Toby asked, frowning.

Tonks' eyes rolled around: "Yeah, what's the problem?"

"What do you think?" Toby's gaze became a little bit hostile: "Why don't you tell me how many people he will send to Hogwarts, and is he planning to move the entire Ministry of Magic?"

"How is that possible." Tonks said with a guilty conscience: "It's just an interview—by the way, you don't mind being interviewed with Alastor, right?"

I don't know when, the long hair on Toby's forehead drooped in front of his eyes a little bit.

"Are you kidding me?"

Everyone knew that the relationship between these two people was not very good, and they were short of a life-and-death duel.

"Actually, it's okay." Tonks said helplessly, "You may not know, I was Alastor's student before I became an Auror, and I was also his last student. The conflict between the two of you is what Dumbledore asked me to do, if you have any questions, you can talk to him, can you not embarrass me, a little reporter."

"Little reporter?" Toby sneered, and he looked back at the expression on Scrimgeour's face.

Apparently, the Auror Chief of Staff was also aware of the relationship between Tonks and Moody, and he guessed it.

Toby stared at the restless Tonks for another moment.

"follow me."

He left the room with a relieved Tonks, and the solemn atmosphere dissipated immediately.

Ollivander, who was lamenting the wonder of Cedric's wand, suddenly said, "I never thought I would meet him at Hogwarts."

"You mean Professor Highmore?" Harry asked curiously.

"Yes, boy," said Mr. Ollivander sincerely, and the others looked at him.

"What's even more unexpected is that I can still see the day when Dumbledore becomes a minister."
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"What did Dumbledore say before you came?"

"The minister said he was worried that you would lose control when you knew the result of the Triwizard Tournament, and that you would doubt Moody, and he didn't want to mess yourself up before the enemy showed up."

"Didn't he ask Moody to come to Hogwarts? It sounds like it's all my fault."

Tonks couldn't answer this question, so she had to change the subject and ask, "Where's the girl with long silver hair next to you?"

"Why?" Toby asked immediately, "Has Dumbledore started to doubt Angela again?"

Tonks opened her mouth, but she simply fell silent.

The two walked through the long corridor in silence, and finally came to the door of an office.

Tonks saw that Toby was not moving, so he had no choice but to knock on the door himself: "Teacher, are you in?"

There was no movement in the room, and it seemed to be empty.

"Back back," said Toby suddenly.

Before Tonks could react, Toby suddenly grabbed her by the collar and yanked it backwards. At the same time, the door of the office was pushed open very hard. Moody pointed his wand at Toby. A magic eye kept sweeping back and forth over him.

"Look who's here."

Moody said gruffly, holding the wand firmly in his hand: "Our vice principal has finally decided to attack the staff—"

"That's not the case at all." Tonks said in a tone that he had already guessed, "Dumbledore asked me to come."

"Of course you would say that."

Moody didn't act like he believed what he said at all, but he moved away a little bit, and his magic eyes kept staring at the calm Toby and said, "Come in, and see that the great Dumbledore has passed on again. some words."

His tone was slightly sarcastic.

Tonks rearranged her collar, she walked into the office first, and Toby walked in without hesitation.Moody was so displeased with his confidence that he snorted heavily as Toby passed him by.

This office has been decorated in different ways by its former owners, and now Moody's features are also very obvious in this room, it is almost like an Auror's war preparation room, with various testing items placed in the room On the table and the floor, the most glaring thing is a stack of books.

Toby walked over. He didn't reach out to flip it, but he had already seen the title on the cover of the book—"Ancient Magic and Ancient Wizard".

"I never knew I had such a loyal reader."

An expression finally appeared on Toby's face, but it was not very friendly: "Do you need me to sign for you?"

"If it were me, I wouldn't ask this question." Moody closed the door with his back on his back, as if he didn't want to put his back in front of Toby's eyes for a moment.

"Two, can you listen to me first?"

Tonks interjected helplessly: "I really don't want to take this job, but I can't help it. Only I can do it—I did bring you a message from Dumbledore."

"It really surprises me." Toby said sarcastically: "Obviously a note can solve the problem, and I don't remember that it's not the time for Fox's nirvana."

"How do you remember this kind of thing so clearly?" Tonks asked in surprise, and then she heard Moody say maliciously: "Doesn't this just prove the ambition of our vice-principal? Go to Dumbledore."

"I don't think he needs you to remind him." Toby said coldly; "Dumbledore knows who the real enemy is better than you."

"Merlin"

Tonks had expected the job to be difficult this time, but she hadn't expected it to be this difficult.

"Can you listen to me first? I just rushed back from Azkaban, and I don't want to face two wizards who are more terrifying than dementors."

Azkaban?

Toby finally shifted his gaze.

Similarly, Moody also looked at Tonks, who seemed to have been waiting for this sentence for a long time.

"How did it turn out?" He asked warily.

Tonks shook his head and said, "Dumbledore checked it himself. It wasn't Grindelwald, and it couldn't be Toby. Fortunately, the minister drove the dementors away in advance, otherwise I really don't know what would have happened."

They were talking about information that Toby didn't know at all.

Tonks took two deep breaths and explained: "The minister has been busy with this matter recently. For some reason, the dementors in Azkaban seem to have noticed the change in the attitude of the Ministry of Magic towards them. Well, old Barty didn't have any problems there until some time ago, around the start of Hogwarts, when some of the dementors went into hiding."

"At the beginning, few people noticed this abnormality. Only Old Batty noticed something was wrong, but he didn't dare to act rashly, because according to the original plan, these dementors would all be driven to the same small building. Island, so as not to endanger other people."

"It wasn't until half a month ago that the problem was completely exposed. Old Batty's suspicions were confirmed to be true. Those dementors seemed to have suddenly become smarter. The Ministry had to send a large number of people to maintain stability. Unfortunately, they were still careless. A small part escaped, and now I don’t know where it is floating in the sea.”

Toby frowned tightly, and he asked seriously: "Where is the culprit?"

Upon hearing this question, Tonks' expression immediately became unnatural.

"Are you doubting me?"

"Eh, not exactly." Tonks felt guilty again.

"That's it."

Moody suddenly raised his voice and shouted: "Don't think that no one knows that you went to Azkaban secretly. Just two years ago, Dumbledore asked me personally, saying that one of his students continued to go there to save own life, but then what?"

"I've heard Dumbledore say that Grindelwald has the ability to command dementors. Who knew that this ability would be targeted by Dumbledore's own students, and he lied that he had to go to Azkaban— —now that we know the answer, who else but you, Toby Highmore?"

Toby understood.

This involves a long thread.

At the end of Toby's second year as a professor of ancient magic, Voldemort created a special magic circle item through the knowledge of ancient magic absorbed from the magic ball, and left this item in the stomach of the elf Dobby, Use this to control him.

This was part of Voldemort's plan.

At that time, both Toby and Dumbledore speculated that Voldemort planned to use a riot of the acromant to create prisoners, and hid in Azkaban together while the prisoners were being escorted, in order to rescue their former servants.

Voldemort undoubtedly needed help back then.

Later, with the help of Dumbledore, Toby also sneaked into Azkaban, and fought with Voldemort possessed by the plant Animagus until he found the coffin at the bottom of the prison.

It contained the remains of Ignotus.

The later Voldemort disappeared, and he didn't appear again for a whole year, and his sense of existence was gradually replaced by the more threatening Grindelwald.

Although no one knows exactly where Voldemort is, at least one thing is certain now.

That is Toby has been to Azkaban himself.

And the riot of the dementors was inevitably connected with him. No one knew whether he went to find Voldemort, or took a group of dementors as his subordinates by the way.

At least Moody thinks so.

"No wonder you didn't deal with me from the beginning."

It wasn't until today that Toby finally understood why Moody was so hostile to him. It was not only because of Dumbledore's description of himself, but more because of Moody's imagined "betrayal" of Dumbledore.

"Isn't it?" Moody said in a deep voice, "A wizard who can't summon the Patronus is the most suitable friend with a dementor."

Tonks looked left at Toby and right at Moody, and she felt the room grow icy again.

"You...have you forgotten what I just said?"

She said in surprise: "Dumbledore's original words are that it can't be Grindelwald or Toby who caused all this. Both of them have been ruled out of suspicion."

"Then I really have to go and thank him in person." Toby said sarcastically: "Thanks to him for hiding it from me for so long, and by the way he suspected me for so long, until today he revealed the truth, thinking that I will not unite Dementors against the White Lord's rule—what else? Goblins? Giants? House-elves? Who does he think my helpers will be? Underage students, perhaps?"

"I see that trend." Moody seems to really think so.

"I" Tonks looked at the two people speechlessly: "Can you listen to me before arguing? Dumbledore found that those dementors had no helpers, or they themselves were helpers. I didn't understand this paragraph at first. The meaning of the words was not made clear to me until later by Dumbledore."

She shifted her gaze to Toby.

"Don't tell me you forgot about You-Know-Who."

Toby's eyes tightened.

Tonks went on to say: "Although there is no way to be sure yet, Dumbledore said that the most likely cause of all this is the mysterious person who absorbed ancient magical knowledge."

"He's somehow possessed the dementor, now."

"He is back."

(End of this chapter)