Archaeologists at Hogwarts

Chapter 376 The Approaching Competition

Tonks' interview soon appeared in the next issue of the "Daily Prophet". Harry immediately found the newspaper and read it carefully. He was surprised to find that Tonks's writing was not bad. Adapted to the identity of the reporter.

The response to this report was not bad, mainly because there was Harry Potter, the hero of England, and Cedric was also a member of the Chudley Cannons, which gave them a lot of encouragement. Letters, of course, but also love letters.

As for why there are two warriors at Hogwarts. Although Tonks reported the truth, few readers believed her words. Friendship extends to other events, even cheating is a piece.

Only the Weasley twins, plus Qiu's fans were slightly dissatisfied, thinking that this was a sign of betrayal.

"Why not five warriors! You guys are too much!"

It's a letter from a fan who is extraordinarily philanthropic, and unfortunately it's a yelling letter, yelled out in front of all the students at breakfast.

Harry was so embarrassed by this that he was too embarrassed to talk when he was dating Cho.

But Qiu thinks this fan is very interesting.

"I didn't expect that there would be fans who liked me. I always thought that I didn't perform very well."

"Don't say that." Harry looked even more embarrassed: "In fact, there are still quite a few people who came to see you, for example, uh"

Under Qiu's probing eyes, Harry quickly changed the subject and said, "By the way, you shouldn't believe what those people say, right? Cedric and I didn't vote for ourselves, and we still don't know who did it. , when I find that person—”

"What will you do?" Qiu asked curiously.

"Of course I'll catch him and give him a good lesson." Harry waved his fists in the air angrily, "Or put him in confinement like Professor Highmore did, and let the other party know how much trouble I've caused."

"I'd really like to see you take part in the Tournament." Qiu looked Harry in the eyes and said, "But I don't really want to see you in the limelight, otherwise I don't know how many people will write love letters to you."

"I didn't ask them to do that," Harry murmured.

When he saw the smile on Cho's face, Harry realized that Cho didn't seem to care about it.

"Are you free on weekends?" Qiu shook her hair and said, "I haven't been to Mrs. Puddiffe's teahouse with anyone else. Whenever my roommates see it, they will take a detour and keep complaining about why I don't have a boyfriend yet."

It was almost a blatant invitation.

There was a surge of joy in Harry's heart, but soon, he became disappointed.

"Sorry, I'm afraid I'm out of time."

"Professor Haimer's tutorial? Is that not over yet?"

"Yeah, I don't know when it will be finished, I guess it will take a while."

"Okay then." Qiu said disappointedly.

Harry couldn't change Professor Highmore's mind. He had to go to the Office of Ancient Magic with Ron on weekends, one to learn about devils, and the other to learn how to become the master of death.

Whenever the time to say goodbye came, Harry always felt that the date was still too short. He went back to the auditorium for dinner depressed, and sat down after seeing Ron.

"What's wrong with you?" Ron asked, grabbing the drumstick.

"I would like to apply to Professor Highmore to change the class time." Harry muttered, "Except for the one time we had a good talk, I haven't officially dated Qiu in Hogsmeade Village. Wander around the school."

"I can't help you with this." Ron stuffed the chicken leg into his mouth, and a big lump suddenly bulged on his cheek: "But I admire your courage, go ahead and try it out, but it's a pity that you have only been in love for a few months At this time, Qiu will lose his boyfriend, and he can only visit you like he is in prison."

"Professor Highmore wouldn't be so stubborn." Harry said guiltily.

On the weekend, Harry and Ron came to the Office of Ancient Magic together as usual.

"Let's start today's practice."

Toby sat behind the desk and said that he was reading the heavy book brought back from the Castle of Death, and he refused to even lift his head.

Until he noticed that the light in front of him was blocked by a figure.

"What's the matter?" Toby raised his head and looked at the extremely nervous Harry and asked, "Is it because you are not feeling well? Or did you eat badly in the morning?"

"Neither, Professor." Harry tried not to pay attention to Ron's terrified eyes and said, "I just want to ask, can the class time be moved?"

"No." After Toby finished speaking, he lowered his head again, and turned the book in his hand to another page. On this page, he not only wrote his name, but also drew an extra shiny gem—— Similar pages can always be found in this book, and it is estimated that some extra price has been paid.

Harry, who was resolutely rejected, could only sigh, he knew that this matter was really going to go wrong.

The training time flew by, and Harry couldn't calmly face the gaze of death for the time being, but Ron had an unexpected harvest - he tried to imitate the movement of the sweater several times, and found that there was a trace of black mist rising.

"Nice job, Mr. Weasley."

Toby discovered this earlier, he smiled and encouraged: "Keep working hard, if it goes well enough, maybe we can know what your devil looks like before the first game starts."

Ron excitedly expressed that he was also looking forward to it.

"Go back and rest first, Harry, you stay."

Ron and Harry exchanged a look, and it was the first time Professor Highmore asked one of them to stay.

Ron only thought it was something inconvenient for Professor Highmore to tell, and he didn't pay much attention to it, because there was a high probability that Harry would tell himself when he came back.

After Ron left, Harry asked cautiously: "Are you dissatisfied with my performance, but I really can't deal with Death, just its sight makes me unbearable."

"Very good." Toby said with a smile: "You can already observe the sight of the god of death, which is a very good progress - dementors, devils, and god of death, you should have also discovered the differences between these three. It's getting harder and harder to deal with. But don't worry, the reason I let you stay has nothing to do with this matter, we can take our time."

Why is that?
Just when Harry was wondering, he suddenly heard a knock on the door.

"Professor, are you looking for me?"

Cedric asked, showing his head.

"I have something to tell you."

Toby nodded: "Come with me."

He walked out of the office first and came into the corridor, Harry and Cedric followed behind him obediently.

Harry asked Cedric what was going on with his eyes, but he didn't know from Cedric's eyes.

The castle was empty on weekends, the senior students had all gone to Hogsmeade village to play, and the younger students were unwilling to leave the warm and comfortable common room, so there were few people on the playground under the night.

Gradually, after leaving the castle, Harry found that there was something wrong with the direction they were going.

"professor?"

"Are you asking why we're going to the Forbidden Forest, Harry?"

"Forbidden Forest?!"

The last cry came from Cedric, who looked at Harry in bewilderment, as if to say—what did we do wrong?
When the two were both players of the Chudley Cannons, Cedric learned that Harry had been punished for patrolling the Forbidden Forest for making mistakes. Judging from the expression on Harry's face at the time, he was terrified. light.

"Not punishment."

Professor Haimer seemed to have eyes on his back, and he turned around and smiled at the two of them.

"The Tri-Wisdom Tournament will start in a week. How are you two preparing?"

"We." Harry glanced at Cedric uncertainly, and he got the same answer from his eyes.

"Have no idea what to do, do you?"

Neither of them could tell whether it was good or bad from Professor Higher's tone.

At this moment, they happened to pass by Hagrid's hut. The people in the room seemed to see someone passing by the window, and the wooden door was pushed open immediately.

Hagrid showed his big hairy head, and after seeing who the people outside were, he asked in a low voice, "Toby, are you going to take them to the Forbidden Forest?"

"Yeah." Toby said, without stopping.

"Are you sure you want to do this?" Hagrid's next words startled Harry and Cedric: "Didn't Professor Al and Angela do a good job before? I met Bane, he Let me tell you that as long as you dare to show up in the Forbidden Forest, I will make you look good."

"Who is Bane?" Cedric asked in surprise.

"It's a centaur." Harry recalled the other person's appearance, and he explained: "He had some trouble with Professor Highmore, and then..."

"Then I dealt with it severely." Toby's tone was very calm: "I'm afraid it's not just Bane himself who thinks so? It seems that they still don't recognize their status - because Hogwarts allowed , so they can live in the Forbidden Forest, not their self-righteous territory."

"It's all right, Hagrid, I'll have a good talk with them, there won't be any problems."

"That's good." Hagrid seemed to take Toby's words seriously.

It didn't take long for them to reach the edge of the Forbidden Forest, and then Toby began to circle around with the two little guys behind him.

Just when Cedric was quietly taking out his wand for self-protection according to Harry's suggestion, he heard Professor Highmore, who was walking in front, say: "You have doubts about the fact that your name was thrown into the Goblet of Fire. Has anyone been chosen?"

"Not yet, Professor," said Harry, and Cedric replied in the same way.

"Then it seems we have only one solution left."

Toby's tone didn't change at all.

"One thing I have already said at the school opening dinner, that is, because the competition was held too hastily, the Ministry of Magic had no time to make more preparations, so after getting the permission of Minister Dumbledore, it was decided I will arrange the content of the first game session."

"I'll reveal the specifics to you in a while—don't be so surprised, cheating has always been one of the off-court links of the Triwizard Tournament, and it has become a custom."

Cedric asked in disbelief: "The other two schools, they also know-"

"No." Toby said without turning his head, but just by hearing his tone, one could imagine how serious his expression was at this time.

"Except for me, Al, and Angela, no one knows what you are competing with, even Mrs. Maxime, and... your dear Professor Lockhart is no exception."

"This is what I ordered deliberately, in order to find out the person who threw your name into the Goblet of Fire. You must listen to these words carefully, and I will not say it a second time——"

Harry gradually realized the seriousness of the problem, and Cedric was no exception. The breathing of the two of them slowed down at the same time, and their steps became heavier.

"Although no one knows who violated the rules at the moment, it is not difficult to imagine that this person intends to cause trouble for us-especially you two, you should know that in previous games, there is death in the Triwizard Tournament. A precedent, right?"

Toby's tone seemed to be talking about something that couldn't be more ordinary. He didn't care about the gradually frightened eyes of the two behind him and continued: "Same, I think so this time, someone wants to kill you, so Only then will the target be placed on your head."

"According to this idea, I came up with a plan—since someone is going to kill you, it's better to let me fulfill the other party—but of course, I don't really want to kill you, but create a It is an illusion, an illusion that makes the other party think that the goal has been achieved."

"This matter still needs your help. Only in this way can we find out this person as soon as possible, so as not to let the other party disturb the next game."

"Okay, I'm almost done, do you have any objections?"

objection?

Harry didn't know what to say at all, how could it suddenly become that someone was going to kill him?
"But, professor." Cedric said hesitantly, "I didn't feel that anyone was going to kill me. I didn't offend anyone, and I did my homework well."

"Huh?" Toby looked back at him with strange eyes: "Are you talking about me? Do I look like the kind of person who kills students if they can't finish their homework?"

"Of course not." Cedric didn't know how he said what was in his heart, maybe because his mind became a little confused, and he had no idea what he was talking about.

By this time they had traveled so far around the edge of the Forbidden Forest that the castle and lake were out of sight—until Harry heard movement ahead.

"ah."

"I don't know why Toby hasn't come yet, I can't control it any later - can you use the scepter, Al?"

"Yeah [I don't think so, I can only become a Thestral for a while——Toby is coming]!"

The two people behind saw Mr. Al sitting on the flying carpet waving at them from a distance, while Professor Angela was holding the scepter tightly. She seemed to be trying to control something, and the expression on her face was very laborious. .

Toby walked over, stepped out of the way, and finally let Harry and Cedric see what was hidden behind the bushes.

Cedric's eyes widened, and even Harry subconsciously took two steps back.

A mummy tightly tied with cloth strips is lying on the ground, with its hands clasped on its chest, it seems to be sleeping peacefully.

"It shouldn't be difficult for you guys." Toby said, looking at the mummy on the ground.

"Think of a way to deal with it?" Cedric asked nervously.

Toby looked at him, his eyes seemed to say how dare you have such thoughts.

"No, it's turning into another mummy, this is your destination."

Harry really didn't want to recall this memory, and he asked tremblingly, "Is there no other way, Professor?"

"You can talk about it." Toby replied: "If it is useful, I will adopt it."

Harry blushed, but couldn't even come up with an idea.

So, he changed the question.

"May I know why it's a human-shaped mummy this time? There's really a person in it?"

Cedric was taken aback when he heard this question, he must not be alive.

"You guessed right."

Toby said with satisfaction: "Because if I'm not wrong, the person who violated the rules is unlikely to be a dead person."

"Otherwise, things would be much easier to handle."

In Merlin's gift to Toby, the pharaoh's mask quietly covered the mummy's face, motionless.

Because no matter how much you pursue eternal life, you can't match the wizard who has defeated death.

(End of this chapter)