Archaeologists at Hogwarts

Chapter 45 Confrontation
After all the students were gone, the three of Harry sneaked up to the fourth floor, but just as they walked up the stairs, they heard hurried footsteps behind them.

"Prize room!" Harry quickly reminded in a low voice.

Thankfully, Harry remembered the trophy room, where Malfoy had originally challenged him to a duel.

The three of them quickly hid in the prize showroom with their waists bent. They poked their heads out quietly and looked into the corridor, but the person they saw was Snape.

"What is he doing?" Harry asked in a low voice.

"How do I know?" Hermione hissed, and hurriedly moved their bodies back into the room so they wouldn't be seen.

Snape didn't notice the three of them, he just left from the other direction, which Harry remembered was also the direction of the room where the small package was hidden.

A terrible guess suddenly appeared in his heart.

"Snape is Professor Highmore's classmate. Didn't he go to meet Professor Highmore? These two are accomplices!"

"Come on." Hermione said impatiently: "The two of them fought once in school, do you think this is the behavior that accomplices should do?"

"Why not?" The more Harry thought about it, the more frightened he became: "Have you ever heard of a professor going out to fight during class? It was obviously for us to see, and for everyone to see, just to make others I know they are at odds. Also, why did Snape appear in Professor Highmore's office without incident during the last confinement? Maybe they were discussing a specific action plan."

Ron's eyes widened: "It's really you, it's conceivable."

Hermione looked at them in shock: "There are really some of you, one dares to guess randomly, and the other really believes it."

"Whether it's a random guess or not, we will know soon."

Harry was about to walk out of the prize showroom as he said that, but the next second he silently backed away, and made a shush gesture to the two of them.

The three of them soon heard another sound of footsteps. They looked carefully and found that the person walking up this time was actually Professor Highmore, and Al appeared on his shoulder.

"did you see it?"

After Professor Highmore walked away, Harry said confidently: "I knew I was right. First Professor Highmore led the three-headed dog away, and then Snape was going to steal the small package. Now Professor Highmore has successfully escaped and is going to join Snape."

"I have a question." Ron said suddenly, "Why do you call Snape just Snape, but why do you add an extra title of professor to Highmore?"

"What if he overhears you?" Harry said quickly, "It's not like you don't know how careful Professor Highmore is. It's always right to be careful."

Ron nodded approvingly.

Hermione was completely out of words, but she was surprised to find that Harry's logic was getting more and more perfect, and even she couldn't pick out any rebuttal points.

"I don't think I won't have new books to read in the future."

Hermione reluctantly followed behind them, and quietly came to the corridor, intending to find out.

On the other side, Quirrell, who made a detour, first arrived at the rightmost room in the corridor on the fourth floor, but he became cautious when he got here. The three-headed dog almost bit off a piece of meat from him just now. Fortunately, he Dodge it in time enough, or you might be swallowed alive by the three-headed dog.

There was a big hole in the wall of the room where the trap door was hidden, and the door had disappeared. It was smashed open by a three-headed dog. It was so dark that nothing could be seen clearly.

Quirrell didn't dare to rush in, what if the three-headed dog came back, he didn't know whether it would be safer to use the lighting spell or go in singing the school song.

Just as he was hesitating, unexpectedly, but of course, Snape's voice sounded from the corridor behind him, startling Quirrell, wondering why Snape had arrived so soon .

"What are you doing?" Snape strode over sullenly, and Quirrell could clearly see that he was clenching his wand tightly in his hand.

"I-I-I'm looking for clues."

Quirrell didn't look into the room anymore, he stammered and explained: "I-I'm very good at dealing with giant-trolls, and I can also chase-track them, and maybe I can find the three-headed dog through the same-same method .”

Snape had already walked across from Quirrell, and he stared closely at Quirrell: "Then have you found any clues? Do you know who released the three-headed dog?"

"Let-let it out?" Quirrell looked terrified: "Why would-would-would you think so?"

Snape stared into Quirrell's eyes coldly, and just as he was about to continue questioning, another voice came from the corridor——

"I seem to be missing something."

Toby stepped out of the shadows, and he looked around at the two of them: "Can anyone explain? Why are there so many people gathered here? I remember that the Halloween dinner was held in the hall of the auditorium."

Al pointed at the broken wall and yelled twice, Toby had already noticed the strangeness: "It seems that I am not the only professor who can fight, I didn't expect Quirrell, you are so brave, you dare to fight with Snape In a fight, he is not so easy to deal with."

He obviously mistook it for the duel between Quirrell and Snape.

Then he asked another question: "Where is the three-headed dog? Is the three-headed dog still in the room?"

Neither of them answered.

Quirrell was secretly speculating about the purpose of Toby's appearance. Although Voldemort told him not to worry about it, Toby still appeared again, and they had just met in the Forbidden Forest, which happened to interrupt Quirrell's plan to capture the troll.

And Snape didn't plan to tell Toby too much because he remembered Dumbledore's instructions.

"Oops."

Toby's face darkened a little bit, he stared at the two of them, and quietly clenched his wand, Al also took out a small shovel from his belly pocket, staring at them vigilantly.

It wasn't just the three-headed dog's escape that was bad.

These two people who didn't say a word made it worse.

Who made them appear at the door of the room where the Philosopher's Stone is hidden?

On the other side of the corridor, the three of Harry were walking forward quietly with their waists down. There was a long line of armor beside them, which made them dare not walk too fast, for fear of causing a tragedy during the midnight duel and causing the armor to fall. The sound of falling resounded throughout the castle again.

"Did you see it?" Hermione, who was walking at the back, asked, "Do you see where anyone is?"

"Not yet." Harry said anxiously, "I don't dare to walk too fast, the corridors are all dark, I'm worried that I'll run into them—"

"Uh..." Ron, who was caught in the middle, said hesitantly: "Did you smell a familiar strange smell? I can't tell why it is familiar, but you—"

"Stop it." Hermione's voice trembled, she turned her head and glanced back, three huge heads appeared silently from the darkness, and the noses of each head were sniffing around.

"It's a three-headed dog." Hermione warned in a suppressed terrified tone, "It remembers the smell on us, and it might have been hiding at the other end of the corridor before, and now it's coming to us!"

Ron and Harry looked back at once, just at this moment one of the heads of the three-headed dog lifted up, its ferocious eyes rolled around, and its eyes slowly aimed at them.

Before Ron could scream, there was a loud singing from behind the three-headed dog, and Harry swore it was the best school song he had ever heard.

"Hogwarts, Hogwarts, Hogwarts, Hogwarts!"

"Please teach us knowledge,"

"Whether we're bald old men or kids with a broken knee—"

The song was sung to the melody of "Symphony of Destiny". The three-headed dog's six eyes drooped uncontrollably. He fell to the floor and fell into a deep sleep.

Dumbledore came around from behind the three-headed dog, walked up to the three stunned children, and smiled gently at them:

"Looks like I'm ahead in the race to catch the three-headed dog, boys."

(End of this chapter)