Archaeologists at Hogwarts

Chapter 155 Sale and Attack

The repair work of the Vanishing Cabinet will take a while, and Toby quickly forgets it after trying it a few times, because he is facing a more important thing - the new version of "The Quibbler" is finally about to begin.

On sale.

"free?"

After hearing the news, Lockhart was the first to find Toby. He saw the new editions of magazines piled up on the entire wall - they were no longer thin magazines, but a thick black wall.

This book can be stored for a long time.

Lockhart finally realized that he had misunderstood his colleague's financial resources. He put on a bright smile and showed his shining teeth: "It's a grand business plan, but I believe you need a strong interviewer."

Or, this can increase the popularity of "The Quibbler" more quickly."

He straightened his clothes and wrote the words "This interviewer is me" on his face.

Al stuffed a new magazine into his arms and slammed the door in front of him, almost breaking his nose.

Then came Snape, who also had a few words written on his face, but they were all words like "suspicious".

"What on earth are you doing?" he asked, his lips twisting with a hint of sneer: "I see, I understand, you-"

Before he could finish his words, he was hit by a thick magazine and staggered several steps. The force was so strong that it almost knocked him away.

Compared with these two people, the attitude of other professors was much better. They all received gifts from Toby and expressed their gratitude.

"But how to charge it?" Professor Flitwick raised his doubts: "I heard that you plan to charge on a monthly basis, do you also want to use an owl?"

"No need to bother." Toby picked up the magazine and clicked on the El pattern on the cover. It immediately came to life. He opened the belly pocket and Toby threw a few Knuts and Sickles into it.

"Magic circle." Toby explained: "I believe that this alone will make the wizards pay enough attention to it."

"Wow——!" Flitwick's eyes were shining and he said excitedly: "Not only is it important, you will become completely famous for this! This is much more useful than your new textbook——Well, you should understand what I mean,

Right?"

He patted Toby's thigh awkwardly, not embarrassed to stay here any longer.

The last person to visit was Dumbledore. As soon as he came in, he saw Toby who was immersed in writing. It seemed that in addition to being a professor, he had a new job - the writer and editor of "The Quibbler".

Dumbledore was sitting across from his desk. He casually pulled out a few sheets of manuscript paper that he had written on. He read them carefully and found that most of them were related to magic circles, and they were specific to individual magic circles. It seemed that

They are all interesting, including the magic circle of the bite box, which allows wizards to keep their belongings and important items.

"How are the sales?" he asked without raising his head.

Toby also lowered his head and said: "It's not bad. Gringotts is willing to help with this, just like distributing pamphlets. There are also shops in Hogsmeade to help with sales, including the Three Broomsticks and the Pig's Head Bar - but I and I

I’m not familiar with the owner of the Pig Head Bar, he doesn’t seem to be easy to talk to, so I don’t know why he is willing to do this?”

He raised his head and stared at Dumbledore suspiciously, but Dumbledore made no response.

"Okay." Toby lowered his head again and wrote: "Besides, I also want to use this magazine as a graduation gift for the students, one for each student. As for the current students, they already have the college magazine.

If you want, you can apply to me and submit the application to avoid wastage. After all, funds are still quite tight now, and we will have to wait until the first batch of fees is paid back to know the effect."

Dumbledore nodded, put the manuscript paper back on the table, stood up and left without saying anything extra, acting like a boss who occasionally cared about his subordinates and just dropped by for a visit.

Toby stared at the closed door in confusion.

In this way, he had no way of knowing what Dumbledore was thinking, let alone whether Dumbledore had guessed the existence of the fourth master version.

But none of these can shake Toby's determination to start a new magazine, and the current results are gratifying. Free magazines are very popular among wizards, not to mention that Toby also set up a seven-day free trial period at the beginning.

Fees need to be paid after one week.

This time also happens to be midnight of the Halloween dinner, and the results will come out by then.

On Halloween, the Great Hall had been decorated. Huge pumpkins planted by Hagrid were carved into lanterns, big enough for three people to sit inside. People also rumored that Dumbledore had booked a skeleton dance troupe.

, to cheer everyone up.

Harry and Ron, who had already regretted their actions, were forcefully taken away by Hermione who had a determined attitude.

"Once you say something, it's hard to keep it back." She reminded domineeringly: "You said you were going to attend the death anniversary party."

So, at seven o'clock, Harry, Ron and Hermione walked straight through a doorway, which led to the crowded auditorium. There were lights, candlelight, and gold plates on the table, which was very tempting.

People, but they still walked towards the underground classroom.

At the same time, Toby was still sitting in the ancient magic office. He looked at the two manuscripts that had been sorted out in advance and was a little undecided.

"Do you think it's better to explain the experience of exploring Loch Ness, or should we continue to introduce the magic circle?"

Al collapsed on the sofa in boredom, and made a feeble "Yeah" sound, which seemed extremely perfunctory.

"Okay." Toby said helplessly: "Then you go to the Halloween dinner first. I have to finish the magazine first, and I can't make any mistakes tonight."

Al suddenly jumped up and left the office happily, leaving Toby alone to worry about the two manuscripts in front of him.

Time slowly passed into the night, and Harry saw hundreds of ghosts at Nick's death anniversary dinner, including Moaning Myrtle, who usually stayed in a toilet in the girls' washroom on the second floor and rarely

come out.

Overall, this was the worst banquet Harry had ever attended. There was no food for living people to enjoy, and the whole room was cold and exuding an infiltrating chill.

This discomfort reached its peak when Harry was helping Nick - he promised to intercede for Nick and find a way to describe the scary aspects of him, but was seen through by Sir Patrick of the Headless Hunters and was attacked.

Ignore.

"I can't take it anymore," Ron muttered, his teeth chattering.

"Let's go." Harry agreed, taking the two of them away together, hoping to have some pudding or something at a normal dinner.

Then, on the steps leading to the hall, Harry heard it.

".Tear you apart.Kill you."

There was that voice again, but this was not the Ancient Magic Office, and there was no reason for Harry to hear the voice here.

Is it because he guessed wrong?

Harry staggered to a stop, grabbed the stone wall, and listened intently while looking around, squinting up and down the dimly lit corridors.

"Harry, how did you-?"

"That voice appears again - don't talk yet -"

".I've been starving for a long time."

"Listen!" Harry said urgently. Ron and Hermione were stunned and stared at him.

".Killing. It's time"

The sound grew weaker and weaker. Harry was sure it was moving - moving upwards. He stared at the dark ceiling, feeling a sudden feeling of fear and excitement in his heart; how could it be moving upwards? Could it be a

Ghost, a stone ceiling can't stop it?

"This way," he shouted, breaking into a run, running up the stairs and into the foyer. The sound of the Halloween party in the Great Hall was echoing, and it was impossible to hear anything else. Harry ran up the marble stairs at full speed,

Ern and Hermione stumbled behind.

"look!"

Hermione suddenly gasped and pointed down the corridor.

There was something shining on the wall in front of them. They approached slowly, squinting in the darkness to identify it carefully. Between the two windows, on the wall a foot high from the ground, there were some writings scrawled on it.

, shimmering in the light of the burning torch.

【The secret room has been opened,】

【Those who are enemies of the heir, beware.】

"What's that--hanging down there?" Ron said, his voice trembling.

They approached cautiously, and Harry almost slipped: there was a large pool of water on the ground. Their eyes were fixed on the black shadow below.

It was Mrs. Norris, the caretaker's cat, her tail hanging on the torch stand, her body as stiff as a board, her eyes wide and staring.

"Let's get out of here quickly." After being stunned for several seconds, Ron said, "It's definitely not a good sign to be discovered here."

But it was too late. A low noise, like distant thunder, told them that the banquet had just ended.

From both ends of the corridor where they were, there was the sound of hundreds of feet stepping on the stairs, as well as the cheerful chatter and laughter of people after they had had their fill of tea and food. Then, students crowded in from both ends.

Entered the aisle.

When the people in front saw the upside-down cat, the bustling and chirping sounds suddenly disappeared. Harry, Ron and Hermione stood alone in the middle of the corridor. The students suddenly became quiet and crowded forward.

Come and see this horrific scene.

Malfoy's face turned red with excitement. He stared at the three people in the room with a ferocious smile, but for some reason, he did not choose to actively provoke them, so as not to be reprimanded by the passing professors and locked up again.

What.

Filch arrived too, shouldering his way through the crowd. Then he saw Mrs. Norris and stumbled back, grabbing his face with his hands in horror.

"My cat! My cat! What's wrong with Mrs. Norris?" he screamed.

"Argus!"

Dumbledore rushed to the scene, followed by many other teachers. Harry also saw Mr. Al with a bulging belly on his shoulder. In the blink of an eye, Dumbledore passed Harry, Ron and Hermione Next to him, he untied Mrs. Norris from the torch holder.

Snape looked at the line of text on the wall with gloomy eyes and said nothing.

Under Dumbledore's calm command, he asked many people to leave alone together, and Lockhart volunteered his office, which was closest to here.

On the way, Harry saw Snape approaching Dumbledore. He glanced at Al warily, but still said: "Headmaster, I think it is necessary to find Toby now."

Dumbledore turned to look at him.

"You should understand what I mean." Snape ignored Al's increasingly unfriendly eyes and said: "The heir of Slytherin is written on the wall. No matter what, it will attract people like Toby and mess up this place. It’s completely turned upside down. I even suspected that he might be some kind of heir, isn’t it because he has been saying that he is better than Slytherin——”

"Severus." Dumbledore stopped Snape from continuing with his eyes.

At this moment, there was a loud scream from the stairs, and everyone stopped.

"Professor! Professor!" Percy ran down the stairs and shouted breathlessly: "You need to come here, the students can't solve it-"

Before he could finish his words, Dumbledore walked over. He led a group of people behind him to the top of the stairs. The frightened students automatically made way for them so that they could see the wet stairs. And the back view standing at the top of the stairs. Many people are familiar with this back view, which was printed on the cover of the revised version of "The Quibbler".

Snape subconsciously looked at Dumbledore, but Dumbledore just walked to the opposite side of Toby without saying a word. He looked at the familiar face that had no longer changed, pulled out the wand in Toby's hand, and put it back again. Inside his pocket.

Al suddenly let out a sharp scream, and the hair all over his body trembled, showing signs of losing control.

Dumbledore tried his best to comfort Al. He looked at Snape who had walked over silently and said: "Bring Toby to Lockhart's office as well."

Snape and him looked at each other for a short while. No one knew what they communicated through their gazes. Snape finally nodded silently.