Hogwarts Archaeologist Toby

scepter?

The few people in the room had seen the scepter in Professor Haimer's hand during the last dueling class - it was white in general, only a little shorter than Professor Haimer himself, with a crown at the top and a full circle around it A bright red gorgeous gemstone.

At that time, Professor Highmore seemed to want to combine ritual magic with the magic circle, but judging from the later signs, many people thought that Professor Highmore was deliberately embarrassing Professor Lockhart and taught him a lesson. pause.

So the third test is to make their own scepter?

"Yes."

Professor Hammer seemed to know what the three of them were thinking. He said, "That's right, before the official appearance of the wand, most wizards used magic without a wand. But there are also very few wizards who have their own wands. That can also be seen as a symbol of status and power—you don’t need to go to the library to search for information, you won’t find it, these are all clues I found during archaeology.”

"All in all, the scepter is the most suitable tool for performing ritual magic, not everyone can have it, only a very small number of students who are enough to summon the patron saint have this qualification."

"Of course, this is still difficult for you." He looked at Luna and said, "So I don't mind if you go to other people for help, such as Miss Granger and Mr. Diggory."

"Mr. Digory successfully used the magic circle to make the first automatic casting wand. He has a certain understanding of magic circle and wand science. You can consider joining in, because I guess that the later wands were transformed from the original wand. Come on, there are many similarities between the two.”

"As for Miss Granger, she has learned some special wand learning during the special training process. To be more specific, it should actually be called scepter learning."

"I will leave the necessary reference books here for you to read. If you don't understand anything, come and ask me."

"Okay, let's go here today."

When Professor Highmore left, he conjured a tall stack of magic books in the corner.

Hermione walked up and flipped through a few books, and found that they were the same books she had read during the special training.

Could it be that Professor Heimer had already guessed that I would pass this exam?

Hermione felt Professor Heimer's affirmation of her, and she felt very comfortable and a little proud.

Cedric also felt the kindness from Professor Highmore—he must have asked Luna to ask him for help because he wanted to help him solve the subsequent problem of the automatic casting wand.

For a while, it didn't seem so important to complete the second test or not.And before Luna took the initiative to speak, the two decided to help Luna complete her own scepter, which would be beneficial to them-Cedric would definitely not let go of this opportunity to study the scepter and wand , and Hermione intends to learn more things, so it's like previewing the next semester's courses in advance.

So things settled down.

Luna got two helpers in a daze, and the three studied obscure books together-mainly Hermione and Cedric were talking.

"Let me look at the main materials first—wood, vines, stones, and bones—well, forget it, the last one must be removed. What are you going to use, Luna?"

"Wood, my wand is made of silver basswood, and the raw materials can be easily found in the Forbidden Forest."

"It's much easier that way—huh? The Forbidden Forest? Are you talking about the Forbidden Forest?" Hermione snapped.

Cedric explained in time: "Luna must be joking. But silver basswood...I remember that wands made of this material are very expensive, look very beautiful, and are suitable for things like Seer or Legilimency." It is estimated that it will cost a lot of money to have the characteristics of the wand. Looking at the core of the wand, I did not expect that the wand also has a wand core - phoenix tail hair, dragon's heart nerve, and unicorn's tail hair. These look pretty good. It’s quite normal. But what are the tendons? What kind of tendons are there? Do you have any pictures?”

"I advise you not to turn back." Hermione immediately stopped, "If you still want to be able to eat later."

Cedric resisted his curiosity and did not turn the page. He saw the disgusted look on Hermione's face.

"Just choose unicorn tail hair." Luna said: "It's the same as my wand. I don't want to choose anything else - I don't want to stuff my own hair, and I don't want to use human blood vessels... ..”

"What?" Cedric said in panic: "There are blood vessels? Why is such a thing needed in ritual magic?"

Hermione shook her head calmly. She had seen even more disgusting things before.

"There is one more important thing, which is also the biggest difference between a scepter and a magic wand." She said: "Decoration, or a special item rich in magic, is like the ruby ​​​​on Professor Heimer's scepter. It must be It's not an ordinary ruby, it probably grew on some magical animal, or - I don't know, maybe it grew out of the ground, at least it's not an ordinary thing."

Cedric deliberately refuted that gems could not grow from the ground, but in front of Hermione's sworn face, he suddenly became uncertain - if those gems were obtained from archaeological remains, then they were considered from the ground. Did it grow out of it?

It sounds a bit like...

Luna couldn't make all the decisions right now, she separated from the two, ignored the pointing eyes along the way, went back to the dormitory alone, spread out Pandora's notebook, but didn't write.

It’s better to leave the surprise until the last minute.

As time passed, Toby became more and more disappointed with the performance of the students. Except for Luna, Hermione, and Cedric, there were very few students who could pass the exam. The best, but even so, they couldn't last half a minute under the skeleton's hands.

But this is also understandable. Toby learned that none of the students had formally received courses related to the Patronus Charm. This was not within the scope of the Hogwarts curriculum, and it was a very advanced spell.

Coupled with an irresponsible professor like Lockhart... He has been hiding in the tunnel for many days in a row. Even in class, he made many slips of the tongue and mentioned magic circles. Listen, The students were dizzy.

Instead of going to Dumbledore to make a fool of himself, Toby came up with another coup.

On the eve of Easter, when the exam was approaching, the students of various colleges suddenly found a quill with a strange shape in the common room, hanging above the fireplace.

At the same time, a new notice appeared on the bulletin board: This quill is called the pen of truth, and it can only write the truth, but cannot describe lies. It can help students recognize their hearts and try to find out what makes them feel happiest time.

This is undoubtedly Professor Heimer's message.

Seeing that the final exam deadline is approaching, the pens of truth often disappear inexplicably, and then are quietly put back to their original positions.

No student is willing to reveal their innermost feelings easily, and almost all students only quietly write their innermost thoughts when no one is around.

Neville: "I'm happiest when I see my parents awake."

Percy: "When I was a prefect, no doubt."

Ron: "Buying my own new wand—eh? No? Because you haven't achieved that goal yet? Earning your first Galleons seems okay."

Harry: "Winning the Quidditch match for the first time was indeed a blessing."

Draco: "Buy seven Nimbus 2001 for the team - damn, lost the game after that, damn Potter. What would that be? Pocket money you got before coming to Hogwarts?" This won’t work either…”

Finally, Draco stared at the two lines of handwriting, one deep and one shallow, and fell into deep thought.

The shallow line is that he successfully produced his own magic circle item last semester - a green badge engraved with a silver snake. The engraved snake can move freely under the influence of the magic circle, and can also attack people who want to remove it. Anyone other than himself who touched the badge hoarse in protest.

It is now placed in the cabinet at his home and kept safe.I didn't bring it to school, so as not to let other people find out how much I value this item, or how much I value the course taught by Haimo.

As for the dark line of writing, it is obviously more in line with the requirements of the real pen, so the writing appears a little darker.

This also happened last semester.

The fact that he was saved by Harry in his first flying lesson, that didn't break his neck.

Annoyed, Draco tore up the parchment. He stared at the Pen of Reality for a long time, but in the end he didn't break it, but put it back in place without anyone else seeing it.

In any case, after Toby made "remedial" measures, the number of students who passed the exam was rising at a rapid rate.He also happened to meet Marcus Flint, who passed the exam, and the answer he heard was that Flint was happiest after the first Professor Highmore's confinement.

Touched, Toby forced Marcus to experience the contents of the second test. He originally did not intend to take part, but laughed until he convulsed, and finally passed out from exhaustion.

Regarding the second exam - after the specific exam content spread, the proportion of students who planned to take it was not as large as Toby imagined, and was even much lower. Valley

The most critical reason is still that they have not formally studied the content of the Patronus Charm, and no professor has taught them such a course.

So even after a long time, Luna was still the only person who passed the test, which made her look even more abrupt, and made her talent look extraordinary.

While Toby was disappointed, he was also thinking that maybe he should find a professor who could cast the Patronus Charm.He decided that even if Lockhart survived the term, he would have to find a way to replace him in order to find a more competent Defense Against the Dark Arts professor.

"Okay, let's go here today."

On another Sunday, Toby clapped his hands and said.

There were not many students in the room, except for the original three, there were Harry and Ron who were pulled by Hermione, Ginny who was pulled by Lunara, and the Hufflepuff students who were called by Cedric— —They hoped to win more honors for Hufflepuff like Cedric, but without knowing it, they added more shadows to their hearts, which lingered.

The Black Devil is no longer just Professor Heimer, but has become a combination - with the addition of those two weird skeletons, there is no way to escape the attack of feathers.

These people are the fastest runners, for fear of being captured by the black devil.

Cedric's expression was a little awkward, but Toby didn't care about it. He reminded Luna: "It's time to prepare the materials for making the scepter."

"Soon." Luna whispered.

Hermione and Cedric looked at her puzzled. Although the silver basswood and the unicorn's tail hair had been determined long ago, the most special item was still undecided. They didn't understand that Luna was waiting for something. what.

Toby didn't urge, he turned and left, ready to see how Lockhart's new manuscript was written.

This time it was a story about a warrior using a magic circle to conquer a vampire. He was very curious about what kind of ending Lockhart would write for the story.

After finishing the last class of the day, Ginny spotted the absent-minded Luna far away in the auditorium. She immediately stood up from her seat and chased after her curiously: "Where are you going?"

"The Owlery," Luna said. "I was waiting for a package, but Dad never sent it."

"I'll go with you," Ginny said kindly.

She recently discovered that something was wrong with Luna's state, and she suspected that it was related to the scepter that she was supposed to make, which made her a little worried.

The two came to the owl shack together, and Ginny accompanied Luna to find Mr. Lovegood's owl.

"Look there!" Luna said suddenly, pointing to a sleeping owl with a small envelope tied to its paw, puffed up a bit.

"Why did it fall asleep?" Luna asked doubtfully.

She was just about to poke the owl awake with something, when suddenly she saw that the binding of the envelope became loose a little bit, and the contents inside seemed to be very light, and it was blown out of the window by a gust of wind, drifting more and more. Far.

"Floating away." Luna said in surprise, leaning out the window little by little, raising her arms high.

"Don't go!" Ginny hugged her waist tightly in fright, and dragged her towards the stairs a little bit: "Don't worry, just look outside the castle, and you will find it."

So they quickly ran down the stairs again, passing through a group of students, and after running out of the castle, they found the envelope faintly landed on top of a quiet willow tree.

"It's okay." Ginny breathed a sigh of relief.

The next second, the branch of the willow tree twitched violently, swept it on the envelope that had just fallen, lifted it high, and then floated further away.

Ginny looked dumbfounded: ",,,,,,"

Luna had already hurried over again, and Ginny stood there blankly. She suddenly took out her wand and tapped her shoes. Then she jumped lightly and jumped ten feet high and far away. Falling in front of the amazed Luna, he waved to her: "Come here quickly, hold on to me, I can catch up with you as long as you run!"

On the other side, the trio passed by an unattended chicken pen. They came to the door of Hagrid's cabin. Harry knocked hard: "Hagrid! Hagrid! We have to talk!"

The door was opened from the inside, and Hagrid covered one of his cheeks, pretending to say, "There's nothing to talk about, don't you need to prepare for the exam? Come on, go."

"No!" Harry said angrily, "Don't lie to us again, we have seen you injured several times, don't say that you really raised another dragon in the Forbidden Forest!"

"You mean Norbert?" Hagrid's expression suddenly became sad, and tears fell down: "I saw it during the Christmas vacation, it, it -"

Hagrid walked into the room and burst into tears, and the three of them followed suit. Hermione covered her mouth in surprise, "Noble died?"

"No." Hagrid wiped away his tears and said, "But it doesn't recognize me anymore, and it doesn't recognize Mama anymore."

Ron tried to comfort him: "It's nothing, Hagrid. I don't remember what happened when I was just born."

"Norbert is not as cold-blooded as you said!" Hagrid suddenly said excitedly: "Later, when I was wrestling with it, it remembered me again. What should I do? When I think of it, it is growing up. Then you will forget me again, I——"

Ron opened his mouth twice, he was speechless.

"What's that?" Harry suddenly caught a glimpse of some movement outside the window. He pointed to two tightly hugging figures in the air, sliding across the roof of the wooden house, and landed far away on the edge of the Forbidden Forest. Then the two It seemed that they argued for a while, but then one of them jumped up again, leading the other party and disappearing into the Forbidden Forest.

Ron recognized the red hair, which was so dazzling.

"It's Ginny." He said in shock: "Ginny actually broke into the Forbidden Forest. Isn't she afraid that her mother will scold her? Percy alone is difficult enough to deal with."

"The other person is Luna." Hermione murmured, "So what she said is true—she really went to the Forbidden Forest!"

Harry subconsciously said: "No, we have to get them back quickly - that's not right, we should go to Professor Hemmer, we can't make any more mistakes - Hagrid! Hagrid! Where are you going?!"

Hagrid raised the crossbow and turned back, "Don't go to the professor, I'll bring them back."

Rescued?

Why do you want to save it?

Harry stared at Hagrid's back without knowing why, he looked left and right, Ron and Hermione also heard something was wrong from Hagrid's tone.

"No!" Ron said suddenly, "I have to find Ginny myself, there must be something wrong in the Forbidden Forest!"

"Don't!" Harry stopped him suddenly: "Don't rush to refute me, listen to me, Ginny is obviously wearing jumping shoes, we can't catch up with him alone, and Hagrid can't catch up either. Hurry up and find Professor Haimo." After hesitating for a second, he said, "Professor Haimo has been to the Forbidden Forest and is very familiar with it, so he probably knows something."

"Leave the rest to me, and I will get them back."

"What are you going to do?"

When Hermione asked this question, she saw Harry raised his wand and shouted: "Here comes the broom!"

Then he explained to the two: "This is the Flying Curse. It was a pity that it was interrupted in advance during the next stage of special training. Later, I thought about using this method to appease the flame balls and call them over one by one. Then put them back together again—unfortunately, you also know later that you have to use the Patronus Charm to pass the exam."

"I don't know if I can succeed this time - huh?"

Harry looked at the black dot flying in surprise. It was really a broom. After it landed in front of Harry, he found that it was actually the Nimbus 2001 that Professor Highmore asked him to use in special training. Much better than his own Nimbus 2000.

"Listen to me and do it this way! Hurry up and find Professor Heimo!"

Harry stepped on the broom hurriedly and said, disappearing from sight of the two together, and disappeared into the Forbidden Forest.