Hogwarts Archaeologist Toby

"Ahhh-!"

Malfoy's screams stopped abruptly.

Until now, Harry and Hermione didn't understand why this scene happened repeatedly before their eyes - they saw a large ball of cloth extending from the monster's palm, wrapping Malfoy's whole body in the blink of an eye, It also made his next cry blocked in his throat.

Immediately afterwards, Malfoy, who was covered in bandages, seemed to be petrified, and fell to the ground stiffly, becoming one of the other mummies, motionless.

Harry was already stunned: "What the hell is this, we have been dealing with such dangerous things in class-uh!"

Hermione suddenly covered Harry's mouth tightly, and her other hand had already grasped the Invisibility Cloak, covering herself, Harry, and the little mummy on the ground.

Harry could clearly see the cold sweat on the tip of Hermione's nose, and knew that she was as frightened as he was.

Hermione put her finger to her mouth and made a shushing gesture. Harry saw through the invisibility cloak that the black-eyed mummy looked away from Malfoy and instead stared at the three people who had just disappeared.

Harry was so nervous that his heart almost jumped out of his throat. Fortunately, the mummy couldn't see through the invisibility cloak. The other party quickly looked away, leaving the other mummies on the floor alone, and walked back to the pharaoh's coffin step by step. , reached out and grabbed the lid, and closed it again.

The two finally dared to take a big breath, and they were almost suffocated.

"What's going on?" Harry asked in confusion: "Why does it want to go back?"

"Maybe it's a trap, just like the danger Malfoy encountered just now..." Hermione said thoughtfully: "Or maybe... maybe the mummy is really Professor Hemmer? This Just part of today’s lockdown?”

They all couldn't figure out why Professor Highmore did this... And Ron, can he return to normal after becoming a mummy?

But speaking of Ron...

Harry looked around, and suddenly, a chill came to his heart.

"Hermione..."

"what happened?"

"Ron...Ron, he's gone! He-ah!"

The little mummy that was originally covered under the invisibility cloak suddenly came back to life. It didn't know when it escaped from the range of the invisibility cloak, but it still grabbed Harry's neck through the invisibility cloak, strangling him until he couldn't breathe!

"Quick—let go!"

Hermione anxiously took out her wand and shouted in panic: "Everything is petrified!"

The spell worked, and the little mummy's body immediately straightened up, and fell to the floor, rolling back and forth several times.

Harry was crying and rubbing his red neck constantly. Hermione just wanted to help him, but then something even more terrifying happened.

The mummies that had been scattered on the floor were revived one by one. They got up and wandered aimlessly in the room, walking around.

Harry and Hermione were so frightened that they forgot to breathe until they saw two mummies bumping into each other and fighting slowly. Judging from the size of the two mummies, it seemed that one was Wood and the other was Flint.

It wasn't long before more mummies joined the brawl, and Harry vaguely recognized Alicia Spinnet, Angelina Johnson, and two identical mummies, presumably Frey Dick and George, who were messing around with the Slytherin mummy, messing up the office.

"I said..." Harry whispered: "How do they remember their identities? At this time, they still don't forget to reveal it to the outside world?"

Hermione's eyes lit up little by little as she thought of more.

"Professor Heimer." She suppressed her excitement and said, "So, Professor Heimer has not completely turned into a mummy. As long as we can help him return to normal, the confinement can be ended and others can be restored to their original state. ?”

Harry looked at Hermione in surprise and joy, but the next second he became depressed: "But what should we do...I seem to know, the Pharaoh Mask, as long as we can help the professor put it on The pharaonic mask comes off, just like Professor Haimer did to the rooster in ancient magic class.”

The two people quickly made a plan. They quietly bypassed the mummies who were fighting more and more violently. After passing by Malfoy who also got up, they finally came to the Pharaoh's coffin.

At this time, they were still hiding under the invisibility cloak. According to their plan, the two had to climb to the top of the pharaoh's coffin, and then jumped down after Professor Haimo came out again, so as to remove the pharaoh's mask.

This is the most unexpected way. They are not as tall as Professor Highmore, and they cannot stop each other face to face.

But how to climb up?

The surface of the coffin was smoother than Harry had imagined, and he knew that if they wanted to climb up smoothly, they had only one chance, otherwise they might alarm the professor in the coffin.

Harry turned to look at Hermione and said calmly: "I have a way. In a moment you step on my back and climb up - no, continue to listen to me -" He interrupted before Hermione could speak. : "I know this is dangerous, but...oh, admit it, Hermione, no matter what, I am a Quidditch player. You are much lighter than me. You can't let me step on you." . And I’m also more agile than you. I can attract Professor Heimer’s attention after he comes out and buy you time. If I’m lucky, maybe I won’t—”

He looked back at the mummies gathered together. To be honest, Harry felt that he was very likely to become one of them, and there was no way to avoid the consequences.

Hermione knew this was indeed the best way.

"You have to be careful, Harry," she said worriedly.

Harry nodded, and he bent down in an arch bridge position, while Hermione carefully stepped on his back, looking up at the top of the coffin.

"A little bit."

"Okay, when I count to three, you jump up, one...two...three!"

Harry raised it up with all his strength, his face flushed, and at the same time, Hermione leaped vigorously, covering most of her body on the coffin, and hurriedly moved her legs to it.

In the next second, Hermione's toes were brushed, and the coffin was opened from the inside.At this time, the bandages on the mummy in the coffin had turned into pitch black, and the pharaoh's mask seemed to be a real face. His smoky eyes opened and landed on Harry like sharp arrows.

In this short moment, Harry felt that he was shrouded in infinite fear, unable to move any more, and the bait plan he had thought up before could not be carried out.

I don't know when, the mummies gathered together stopped beating each other. They were attracted by their higher status and bowed slowly involuntarily.

The black mummy raised its steps, walked up to Harry, lifted him up, and stared directly into his eyes, those stunning green eyes...

At this moment, Hermione, who was standing on the top of the coffin, jumped down. She hooked the shoulder of the black mummy, and held the edge of the mask tightly with one hand, trying to pull it off forcefully.

A shrill scream resounded throughout the classroom, and the black mummy threw Harry away at once. Its arms kept tossing back and forth, and countless strips of cloth stretched out from its body, and it was about to turn Hermione into a Mummy, and the rest of the servants are coming—

"what--!!"

The screams suddenly became countless times more terrifying. Harry, who had regained consciousness, rushed to help. He jumped up and grabbed the edges of the Pharaoh's mask with both hands - at this time, the mask looked like them. Just like what he saw in the hallucination during class, he came to life alone, staring at Harry in front of him with malicious eyes.

In the same way, the other pair of eyes behind these eyes saw the face in front of them, and the familiar eyes on it.

"Do not......"

Another voice appeared among the screams, which was Professor Heimer's original voice.

Harry felt a huge force coming from the other party. He could no longer hold on to the mask, and was violently thrown out. He crossed a high parabola and landed on the soft sofa at the other end of the room. Even Hermione was thrown into the pharaoh's coffin.

"Cough cough..."

Harry coughed hard twice, he glanced at it inadvertently, but he couldn't look away immediately, he could only watch the horrible scene in the room - all the mummies went crazy The black mummy jumped on them, and they desperately pressed their hands on the pharaoh's mask, unwilling to let Professor Haimo, who was awake, tear it off his face.

The screaming became more and more piercing, and Harry covered his ears in pain as he saw the mummies thrown all over the place like cardboard men, leaving a clearing in the blink of an eye.

The black mummy clasped his hands on the edge of the Pharaoh's mask, tearing it outward little by little. Unwilling howls continued to come from the mouth of the mask. Under the mask were densely packed rotten cloth strips, connected to the face behind. These cloth strips were also It was pitch black and didn't seem to belong to the original mask, but even so, it didn't want to be taken off.

The two fought each other desperately, and the mask was pulled farther and farther away from the head. Suddenly, a dark, dim light shone from the black mummy, and it became brighter and brighter in the blink of an eye, almost blinding the eyes.

Harry quickly raised his arm and finally put it down after the light gradually dissipated. He quickly touched his body and found that he was still alive.

For a split second, Harry thought that the hallucination experience in the classroom would be re-enacted in the office - when Professor Highmore cleaned up all the mummies.

In the reality in front of him, Professor Haimo finally returned to normal, with long hair drooping in front of his eyes, holding the Pharaoh's mask that no longer changes in one hand, and clenched his other hand tightly, twitching non-stop, as if Suppress sharp pain.

"Teach...professor..."

The first person to react was Hermione, who couldn't believe what she had seen.

"Is that a magic circle?" She asked in disbelief: "Professor, are you covered with magic circles?"

Magic circle? !

Harry and Hermione exchanged a distant look. They both knew how dangerous the magic circle was, and it would explode if you were not careful... But Professor Hemmer actually carved magic circles all over his body?

Is he...is he committing suicide?

"ah!"

Al appeared from nowhere, sitting on the flying carpet, holding a dustpan and broom in his hand, miraculously swept all the mummies on the ground into it.

Then it flew up to Hermione, tilted its neck and looked at her a few times.

"Mr. Al, Professor Heimer, is this...?"

"ah!"

Al had no intention of explaining at all. He handed the dustpan to Hermione's hand, then flew behind her and pushed her towards the office door, taking Harry with him by the way.

After arriving in the corridor, Al roughly pointed in the direction of the campus hospital and gave them a look that said they should seize the time.

"ah!"

After a final farewell, the office door closed in front of Harry and Hermione.

One of them was holding a dustpan and the other was holding a broom. They had not yet recovered from this series of changes.

"Those patterns really seem to be magic circles..." Hermione murmured: "The professor has been using himself to complete research on ancient magic...there are so many unknown risks... ...How did he survive until now..."

Harry opened his mouth. There were many doubts in his heart, but he couldn't utter a complete sentence.

Is this the house he almost got sorted into - Slytherin?