Hogwarts Archaeologist Toby

Harry finally has a new bedroom!

On the day he returned to Privet Drive, Harry moved out of the storage room under the stairs, dragging the suitcase and Hedwig in the cage, and watched excitedly as the Vernons took the toys out of Dudley's second bedroom. Move out and make room for him.

Halfway through the move, Dudley lost his temper and ran to the kitchen in a fit of rage. Aunt Petunia ran after him, howling.

Vernon was holding a car and staring at Harry.

"I don't mind if you keep the other half of the toys," said Harry.

This was obviously impossible. Vernon was unwilling to leave any toys for Harry, so he piled them all into Dudley's room next door.

Compared with the stairwell, this newly vacated bedroom was much better. Harry rushed in impatiently. He was about to open the cage when he saw Vernon standing at the door, panting, staring at him.

Just staring, Vernon seemed to suddenly become mute and stopped shouting at Harry.

Inexplicably, Harry gained confidence. He said, "I just plan to let Hedwig fly out for a few laps, only at night, so the neighbors won't find out. I didn't plan to write to Professor Highmore right now."

It definitely worked.

Vernon's face flushed with anger, and he slammed the door shut, venting meaningless anger.

Harry opened the cage, and proudly said to Hedwig, who was thumping happily, "Look, I knew it would work."

This was so useful that Harry had no idea what exactly Professor Highmore had threatened them with, but the mere mention of the name was enough to scare Uncle Vernon away. Even though Harry was eating dinner alone in his bedroom, he was so eager to do so that he didn't want to see the family at the table.

Until he fell asleep in his new bedroom at night, Harry still couldn't believe how easily it all happened.

He even vaguely saw Mr. Al's hallucination. Maybe he should learn more about Xiu Xiu's favorite food. Should he write to Hermione? She knows everything.

Hmm, why hasn’t Mr. Al disappeared yet?

Is it beckoning to me?

"Yeah." Al said, standing at the head of the bed, staring directly at Harry.

Harry sat up in shock, rubbed his eyes vigorously, and put his glasses on.

"Mr. Al?"

"Yeah." Al nodded, letting Harry know he was right.

Mr. Al actually showed up.

It...could it be here to check the homework?

Harry was suddenly startled.

I just had a vacation now...

Al stretched out his paw and shook it at Harry, telling him to keep his voice down and not wake up the Vernon family.

Then it put its hands behind its back, sat on the flying carpet, and circled back and forth in the room several times.

Harry looked at this scene in a daze, thinking it was a dream.

Al opened the wardrobe and looked inside, then got under the bed and took a look. Just as he opened the desk drawer, Harry asked in a low voice: "What are you looking for, Mr. Al?"

Al, of course, came to see Toby.

It secretly caught up with the Hogwarts Express train, but it didn't expect to find traces of bone age algae at the station just after getting off the train. This must be the clue left by Toby.

So it followed it all the way, and chose the shortest one among the many branch roads—that is, the one leading to the Vernon family.

The clue to the bone age algae was broken near here.

It's just that this kind of thing can't be explained to Harry. The students thought that Professor Highmore stayed at Hogwarts and never left.

Of course, this is all thanks to the skeletons in Haimer's collection.

Al was not in a hurry to answer Harry's question. It seems that Toby is not here, so he can only follow the traces of other bone age algae.

"ah."

Al waved his hands happily, sat on the flying carpet, and floated out of the window.

Harry lay prone by the window, watching the fleeting figures on the street.

He was moved.

It must be because he was worried about himself that Professor Highmore sent Mr. Ayer over to see if the Vernon family had kept their promise.

Professor Heimer is a really good guy.

On the other side, Al took advantage of the darkness and his skill in pretending to be a doll to arrive in front of a row of houses without any danger.

The house number opposite it is No. 11, No. 10 is on the left, and No. 13 is on the right.

House number 12 is gone.

Al can tell at a glance that this must be the effect of protective magic, and it is also a combination of many extremely complicated magics.

It's extremely difficult to break these spells, let alone get a Niffler to do so.

But Al is no ordinary sniff.

It looked down at its belly pocket, where the ancient scepter was.

Five minutes later, Al, with a solemn look on his face, kicked open the door of House No. 12 and broke in.

The ritual magic did not make much noise, nor did it cause serious damage to Al like Angela.

The only thing worth mentioning is that Al went bald - literally.

The fluff on its head was gone, making it chilly.

But now he no longer cares about so much. In Al's sight, this suspicious house is filled with the aroma of algae.

It broke into the dark hall vigilantly, dragging a scepter many times longer than itself with its two paws, and its small eyes darted around.

The house was filled with a damp smell of decay and a rotten smell, giving people the feeling of an abandoned and empty house.

There was no one on the first floor, and no one on the second floor either.

Al saw a row of crumpled heads hanging on the wall of the stairs, and realized that they were the heads of house elves. They all had the same ugly big noses, and Al looked disgusted.

Along with a rustling sound, Al arrived at the highest floor. It found Toby's belongings in the room near the stairs, which were piled up into a small mountain. Then it immediately rushed to the next room and saw Toby lying on the floor, with his hands still tied. , looking like he had been dead not long ago.

"ah!"

Al screamed, and he ran over to check Toby's nose and found that he was still breathing.At the same time, I saw the dense magic circle on Toby's body moving like a worm, and it was about to climb up Toby's face along his neck.

This immediately made Al understand that Toby did successfully remove the pharaoh's mask, but the powerful aftereffects still caused him a lot of damage, perhaps involving soul damage.

Al knew what to do.

It put its eyes on Toby's head and opened it wide, but unfortunately it couldn't help blinking after holding on for half a minute.

After discovering that this method didn't work, Al's expression suddenly became pitiful.

It took out a small bottle of red powder from its belly pocket, and on the bottle was a skull breathing fire.

Al took a deep breath, then opened the cap, and desperately sprinkled the bottle on his eyes.

The effect was immediate. Al's eyes became red, as if there were flames burning inside, and tears flowed into Toby's mouth like a stream.

In Fantastic Beasts , where the phoenix's tears have miraculous healing properties, sniffable tears aren't so precious.

But Al is no ordinary Niffler, he was brought out of the Mason Door by Heimer.

So, after subconsciously swallowing a few tears, Toby's soul injury gradually healed, and the magic circle on his body also returned to calm, and a voice that was about to dry up came out of his mouth:

"Why is there chili... What I want is obviously pineapple pizza..."

All in all, all in all.

It may be embarrassing to say it, but Toby passed out from starvation, and now he is also awake from starvation!

He slumped on the floor, devouring the mashed potatoes and pies brought by Al. Al also set up a simple grill nearby, and the steaks were sizzling on the iron plate, exuding a charming aroma.

Toby began to describe his experience after being kidnapped to this house: "Just after I heard the noise downstairs, Sirius Black disappeared. I guess he planned to starve me to death. It was a cruel and inhumane execution method." . Anyway, he never showed up again, and he almost succeeded until you came looking for him."

Al handed him the grilled steak, the skill was much better than that of Sirius, and it didn't taste like blood.

While Toby continued to recover his strength, Al also took out a bottle of milk, inserted a straw into it and drank it.

Miraculously, it didn't take long for the fluff on the top of Al's head to grow back, reflecting a soft shimmer in the moonlight.

After seeing this scene, Toby put forward his own advice at the right time: "You'd better not use the scepter indiscriminately in the future. If it really doesn't work, you might as well rob Mr. Ollivander and steal the unregistered wand from him." .”

"Yeah." Al shook his head, he couldn't break the protective magic of this house with just the magic wand, it was too difficult for a sniff.

Although it's not your average sniff.

After that, Al also began to talk about the process of finding this place. It originally thought it had to go to Azkaban, but it didn't expect it to turn out so smoothly.

Then the two simply tidied up and collected all Toby's things.

The witch robe originally worn by Sirius remained, and Toby's wand was also there.

After counting them carefully, Toby found that the only missing item was the magic ball.

And according to Al's findings, it only found clues to the bone age algae when Sirius came, but not after he left.

That was deliberately covered up.

The situation today is not good, but Toby is calm, and he has encountered even the worst situations.

The first decision he made was to go to St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Injuries and Injuries, and found that Lockhart had disappeared, and there was no case of him left in the hospital, and no therapist had even seen the patient. .

After discovering the telephone hall by accident, Toby realized that the stories Lockhart wrote in "The Quibbler" were not all fabricated. He had really studied the magic circle, and even used the magic circle to deal with a werewolf.

He tricked everyone into thinking Toby and Dumbledore that he was just an unlearned liar who only used the Oblivion Curse to steal experiences.

He also learned the art of Occlumency, and coupled with this disguise of a liar, Toby did not notice anything strange.

In short, Lockhart was completely missed by Toby.

However, after leaving the hospital, Toby did not rush to follow Lockhart, but instead came to No. 4 Privet Drive first.

Poor Harry was forcibly woken up not long after he fell asleep. He opened his eyes in a daze, and was frightened by Professor Hemmer and Mr. Al who were both staring at him.

The first time I could still think of it as caring about myself, but this second time...

"Can you wait any longer, Professor?" Harry begged in a low voice, "I'll start my ancient magic homework tomorrow, tomorrow!"

"Huh?" Toby frowned: "Tomorrow? So you haven't finished your homework yet? What did you do after the exam? Are you just waiting for the holiday?"

After giving Harry a stern lesson, Toby finally spoke of his purpose of coming here: "You should have heard about Sirius Black's escape from prison."

Harry nodded, wondering in his mind whether Professor Hemmer was thinking about the bounty?

"He's your godfather."

Harry suddenly became dumbfounded.

"It seems you don't understand yet." Toby frowned and said, "Black is your godfather. He knows your parents and is said to be the keeper who protects them. However, during the war, he betrayed your parents. He leaked the secret to the mysterious person, so he killed them.”

Harry opened his mouth wide, feeling sad, shocked, and at a loss for a moment——

"But this matter is a bit suspicious."

Toby said suddenly again: "He came to see you secretly. Not long ago, I found clues around this house that Blake had come. Have you found it? The photo on the wanted warrant, or Have you ever seen a big black dog?"

Harry subconsciously said, "Big black dog? I seem to have seen it at the train station, so I thought it was a mistake."

Toby and Al exchanged a look, which is right, Al came to No. 4 Privet Drive following the clues left by Black at the train station.

"this is for you."

As Toby said, he handed a white object to Harry. Harry quickly held it with both hands, but he almost didn't throw it away after seeing that it was a skull.

"Take it." Toby said sternly: "This is for you to save your life. If you find any signs of Black appearing again, use it to send me a message immediately, and I will come to rescue you."

For some reason, Professor Highmore jumped out of the window like Al did, but didn't go through the main entrance.

This time Harry didn't look at their backs anymore. He heard a movement from downstairs and next door, and knew that everyone in the room had been awakened, but he didn't dare to hear the voice of Professor Highmore. come here.

Under the reflection of the moonlight, Harry was still staring blankly at the skull in his hand. Before he could fully recover, he subconsciously hugged the skull even tighter.

By the way, Professor Highmore's pharaoh mask is gone, Harry just realized that.

Also, he couldn't help thinking—

Wish he was holding the skull of Sirius.

After leaving No. 4 Privet Drive, Toby took Al and used his least favorite way of traveling - apparation, and came to a narrow alley.

Toby turned left and right along the alley, filled with the smell of corruption that had locked him into the house.

Finally, he came to a door that was about to rot and knocked a few times.

The door opened quickly, and the people inside seemed to be asleep.

Remus Lupine pushed open the door, wearing a patch on his pajamas, and looked at Toby in surprise, looking a little helpless and a little surprised. Then he looked at Al suspiciously, and finally said with a gentle smile: "Is that your pet? Xiu Xiu, it suits you very well."

"No, it's the assistant." Toby said coldly, "Tell me, Remus."

"Did Blake come to see you?"