Hogwarts Archaeologist Toby

Ron and Hermione froze like Harry in front of the Boggart-turned-Sirius.

Ron: [What is Harry afraid of?Worried that Sirius' innocence was all a lie? 】

Hermione: [Oops, how can I let Professor Lupine see it!What if he knew that Sirius was not dead? 】

As early as the trial that foreshadowed the confrontation between Hogwarts and the Ministry of Magic, news of Sirius' death spread throughout the wizarding world, still as an innocent person.

But today, the scene that happened in the office is a little hard to explain.

As the person involved, Harry's mind became extremely confused. He could not think that Hermione was as far-sighted as Ron. He still exposed his inner fear - what if all this was false? What if Sirius is not innocent?

After all, he had never seen the other person in person, and he still held an unfulfilled fantasy in his heart - hoping that he could leave the Dursleys and never have to go back to suffer.

At this time, Lupine suddenly stood in front of Harry and shouted towards Sirius: "You are dead. I am deeply sorry for this, but don't disturb the living and go back quickly - funny!"

Sirius acted as if he suddenly stepped on something slippery and fell hard, then he stood up quickly, pretending that nothing happened, the expression on his face was extremely embarrassing.

If he hadn't seen this scene with his own eyes, Harry didn't think anyone could bring the Boggart to life like this.

Then, the Boggart suddenly changed again and was spinning in circles. Before the three of them could see clearly, Lupine shouted in anticipation - "Funny!"

He cast the Funny Charm again, and the Boggart was thrown back into the box immediately, only to be silent after two bangs.

Harry fell to the floor as if he had lost all strength, cold sweat dripping down his face, Hermione and Ron hurried over.

"I'm fine..." Harry gasped, as if he had just run a marathon. He looked up at Lupine, who had his back to the three of them: "Professor, you...do you know Sirius?"

Hermione and Ron looked over in surprise and found that Professor Lupine's back had become much older in an instant, and they could not hide the gray temperament.

"We did know each other when we were in school." He said in a low tone: "He, me, James, and Peter Pettigrew, we often hung out together. Later he even thought about helping me, finding a job or something - But you should also know what happened next.”

Harry's heart became stinging. He really couldn't understand what Peter Pettigrew had done, and he couldn't reconcile himself to Sirius's inexplicable suffering.

But Sirius is obviously still alive——

Harry suddenly noticed that Hermione pinched himself so hard on the inside of her invisible arm that she almost cried out in pain.

"Oh, right." Lu Ping said as if he had come back to his senses: "You guys should go back and rest first. That's all for today's class. Remember to review well and don't forget to eat chocolate - do you still have it? You can get some from me, I’ve prepared a lot in advance.”

When the three of them left with bags full of chocolates, Harry rubbed his arms and asked, "Why did you pinch me so hard just now?"

Hermione stared, looking exactly like Professor McGonagall.

"Did you just want to tell Professor Lupine that Sirius is actually not dead yet?" She asked, "Did you forget that Professor Highmore asked us to keep it a secret?"

"Really?" Ron asked confusedly: "I really don't remember. Did Professor Heimer say that? I only know that the matter of transforming into a devil must be kept secret..."

"Even if you don't have one, you can't talk nonsense." Hermione said angrily, "Who knows where Sirius is hiding now, did Professor Highmore tell you?"

Harry shook his head in frustration. Ever since they discovered Sirius' traces at Hogwarts, Professor Highmore had never revealed anything related to Sirius to him, and it seemed that he had forgotten it long ago.

"But why doesn't Professor Lupin know?" Ron said confusedly: "He said he was Sirius's friend, and he seemed to have a good relationship with Professor Hemmer - I mean, he even promised Hemmer Professor Mo helped us tutor the Patronus - but why didn't he get any news from Professor Heimo? Is it because Professor Heimo didn't trust him? Do you think so?"

Harry obviously didn't think so. This was the first time he had seen a professor who had such a good relationship with Professor Highmore - Snape was certainly not included, that was at best a blood feud.

"Actually..." Hermione said hesitantly, "I seem to know part of the reason."

The two looked at her eagerly, but Hermione was unwilling to continue: "This matter is of great importance. I must provide more evidence. I can't just say it casually - especially during this critical period."

"When will we have to wait?" Ron asked dissatisfied.

Hermione said cautiously: "Perhaps, just wait until the next ancient magic class."

Ron quickly took out his class schedule and looked at it, and found that there was a class tomorrow - he suddenly panicked. After remembering that he had finished his homework, he calmed down again. He breathed a sigh of relief and said, "What are you planning to do tomorrow?" Tell us?"

"Not this section." Hermione said mysteriously, "We have to wait a little longer."

"Look at her, Harry." Ron turned around and said sarcastically: "Hermione is going to have her own little secret again. Are you ready to become a doormat again? Harry—where is Harry? ?”

The two of them turned to look around in the crowd, and in just a moment, Harry actually disappeared.

"professor?"

"Oh, it's Harry, why are you back?"

"I'm here..." Harry stood at the door of the Defense Against the Dark Arts office with a very troubled expression.

Lupine, looking less heavy than before, smiled and waved, "Have you all eaten up the chocolate? If you want some more, I might make some hot chocolate—would you like a cup?"

In the next ten seconds, Harry witnessed Professor Lupine skillfully use magic to mix two cups of steaming hot chocolate. The aroma was fragrant just by holding the cup.

"I'm used to drinking something warm." Lu Ping said: "Because of my health, I have to take a good rest - so, do you have anything to say? Of course, if not, just after drinking this cup You can leave after hot chocolate, it doesn’t matter-"

"Yes, Professor." Harry said courageously, "I wonder, Sirius, when he was at school—"

Just by saying this half sentence, Harry felt something was wrong in the atmosphere. It was weird, but he believed that it was definitely not because Professor Lupin was angry or something, but because he seemed to be hesitant to speak.

Lupine's face was blocked by the glass, and from the rising mist came his inquiry: "What do you want to know?"

"The more the better," Harry said decisively.

After all, he still hadn't seen the later Sirius, and never thought that this incident would bring him so much fear—what if Sirius wasn't what he imagined?

Or, what if we never see each other again?

According to his understanding, Sirius was still in a very dangerous state and could encounter danger at any time - for example, a person who was reported dead should not appear in public.

Especially at this critical time when relations between Hogwarts and the Ministry of Magic are so tense.

"You really posed a problem for me." Lu Ping said with a wry smile: "But how much do you know? About Sirius... His story is a bit complicated, and it's hard to tell in a while. Qing - have you asked Toby this question?"

Gu Jiang</span> "Not yet." Harry asked puzzledly: "I only know that they should know each other, but I don't know the specifics."

"That's the problem," Lupine said. "Some people can't be avoided, even in another person's story - and, unfortunately, this has happened more than once."

Harry didn't understand, why did he say it was unfortunate?

"But this has nothing to do with Professor Highmore—"

"I seem to hear my name being called - can you tell me why? Do you have to think of me when you summon your Patronus? That would be an honor."

Toby walked in with a smile, and he looked left and right: "Why are you alone? Where are Mr. Weasley and Miss Granger? Don't tell me that you are detained - I know exactly what happened. Well, Remus, you must feel that you have to teach Harry the Patronus Charm. It's not necessary, but it's worth trying, how is he doing?"

"Not bad." Lupine helped Harry cover up that "little" mistake, and he said gently, "Why are you here? Don't worry about letting me teach them? Or do you want to show off your patron saint? "

Harry's eyes lit up all of a sudden, but Toby just waved his hand and said, "Forget it, it'll be bad if you're too popular."

Both Harry and Lupine were speechless at Toby's "confidence".

"So, what are you talking about?" Toby asked, looking at them.

"We -" Harry was about to speak, but was immediately interrupted by Lupine: "Nothing, just some past things, talking about his father -"

"Come on," interrupted Toby, "you can tell from the way you look, you must be talking about Sirius—there's nothing you can't say—"

"I don't think so." Lupine said this decisively, but he still couldn't cover up Toby's next words: "I can only say that the mysterious man - no, it should be said to be Grindelwald, he is better than It's a lot better than me, otherwise, I would have been the one who framed Blake and sent him to jail."

Harry was stunned for several seconds.

"Huh?" His eyes widened.

"We are mortal enemies." Toby looked into Harry's eyes and said, "A mortal enemy who hates very, very deeply, has thought of killing each other--as for now, it seems that my ability is better, he is dead , but I'm still alive."

Harry heard it in a daze—he only understood one meaning, that is, Professor Highmore seemed to be secretly reminding him not to tell the news that Sirius was still alive, and it wasn't time to be honest with Lupin, Whatever the reason.

But the relationship between mortal enemies - is this true or false?

"It seems you need time to calm down." Toby walked over and pulled Harry up and said, "Let's go, either go to the school hospital to lie down for a while, or go play a game of wizard chess with your friends - by the way, your homework Have you finished writing? There are still classes tomorrow, but don't let me find out that you have learned to be lazy."

After Harry left, Toby looked at the helpless Lupine.

"He will always know." Toby said indifferently: "I'm more curious about his expression when he knows the grievance between James and Severus-it's really exciting, but Severus Les himself will definitely not say it, so who else do you think is the most likely?"

"It won't be me anyway," said Lupine, staring straight at Toby.

"I didn't want to tell the truth." Toby said with wide eyes: "That would be meaningless, and Severus would definitely hate me to death - although it's almost the same now."

"Although I am very willing to listen to you continue to say these useless words." Lu Ping said as if seeing off guests: "But it is already late. Do you have anything else to do?"

"Otherwise, what do you think I'm looking for you?" Toby looked around and said, "Reminiscing about the old days? I can't see it-well, it's about induction."

"What?" Lu Ping was stunned.

"Induction training." Toby said with emphasis: "Do you still remember the divination I did at your house before school started?"

"Of course I remember." Lu Ping's expression became a little strange: "Before that, I never knew that you had the talent of divination. But the result later - didn't you say that the prophecy would only happen on the full moon? Time?"

In that divination, it was shown that Lupine was attacked after turning into a werewolf. Although it was not known who the murderer would be, the time was very certain - it could only be the full moon.

"Yes." Toby said seriously: "I have some questions to ask you next."

Lupine was still frowning.

"Have you found anyone suspicious recently?" Toby continued to ask.

Lu Ping thought carefully for a while: "No."

"So did you feel you were being watched?"

"No, I had a good time at Hogwarts - wait, is this part of the induction training? That doesn't sound right."

"Just treat it as a follow-up study-the next question, since when did you like hot chocolate?"

"It should be considered recently. The professor's salary allows me to pay more fees-but does this have anything to do with the elegance you said?"

"No." Toby smiled and said, "It's just a little curious."

Lupine looked a little annoyed.

"If you don't mind," he said, "I have another class to attend."

"Don't worry." Toby said, slowly lowering his tone: "Last question - are you really unable to remember what happened after you transformed into a werewolf?"

Lupine was silent for a moment.

"Only those that make me feel pain." He said in a low tone.

"Physically?" Toby continued to ask, "Like scratches or something?"

"No." Lupine shook his head and said, "It's not enough, it has to be painful enough - for example, it's scary, this happened many times when I was in school, and I've been regretting that I shouldn't be with you on the full moon. They're wandering around, and there's danger at any moment—any more questions? Your next subject is werewolves? It's also about ancient magic?"

He seemed to gradually understand Toby's intentions.

"If it is related to ancient magic, there is no doubt that this is the only possibility." Toby handed over an envelope and said: "But this has nothing to do with my next project, but an almost forgotten project. Let’s take a look at the event, this time it’s for real, there won’t be any more Christmas gifts or anything like that.”

Lu Ping opened the envelope without knowing why, and inside was an invitation letter.

[Hogwarts Teacher Appreciation Meeting - Remus Lupine. 】