Archaeologists at Hogwarts

Chapter 156 Harry, Ginny, Luna, Toby (4k6)

The group returned to Lockhart's office, and when they walked in, there was a sudden commotion on the wall. Lockhart hid in panic in several photos, with curlers in their hair.

The real Lockhart lit the candle on the table and stepped back.

Dumbledore placed Mrs. Norris on the smooth table, and Snape controlled the motionless Toby to stand opposite the table and began to inspect together with the principal.

A chill arose in Harry's heart, and he was so frightened that he could not move. He just looked at Professor Heimer's calm face, which still maintained a vigilant expression, no different from usual.

Al's eyes were red, and he looked extremely crazy - which is exactly what he did. He pushed Snape away roughly, climbed on top of Toby, and stretched out his trembling little paws in front of his eyes.

There was a slight shake, but Toby didn't react at all, and Al screamed sadly.

Snape didn't come forward anymore, his eyes were uncertain.

Professor McGonagall wanted to come to help, but was pushed away by Al, preventing anyone from getting close to Toby. This made Lockhart, who was planning to come over, also stop. He stood far away and made suggestions.

: "It must have been a spell that killed them - probably a transformation torture spell, I've seen it - oh! My God!"

Al raised his small shovel and rushed towards him, but Dumbledore stopped him in time.

Snape on the side said sarcastically: "Killing Toby? I would rather believe that he committed suicide than that he could be disposed of silently."

He turned to look at Harry and the others, and Harry saw malice in his eyes, but Harry had no intention of thinking about it anymore.

What exactly attacked Professor Heimer?

Yes. Could it be related to the sound he heard?

"They are not dead."

When Dumbledore came to this conclusion, many people breathed a sigh of relief.

"They were petrified, but I don't know exactly what happened."

"Ask him!" Filch screamed, turning his mottled, tear-stained face towards Harry.

"It's impossible for a second-year student to do this," Dumbledore said firmly. "It would require the highest degree of dark magic, let alone Toby, who -"

But Filch was completely mad. He spat and said: "He did it, he did it! You saw what he wrote on the wall! He knew I was - I was -"

Filch's face twitched horribly, "He knows I'm a squib!"

However, his roar did not get the expected response at all.

How could any student be able to deal with Toby?

Only Snape said sadly: "Please allow me to say something, Headmaster, I believe the situation is clear. Students have no ability to harm professors unless -"

Under Snape's gaze, Harry's inner ominous feeling became even stronger. He believed that what Snape said would never do him any good.

"Harry Potter, the famous boy." Snape twisted his lips and said, "He is the heir of Slytherin. It just so happened that Toby had sent him to solitary confinement before. There was every reason to harm Toby.

——”

"I didn't!" Harry said loudly, and he was uncomfortably aware that everyone was looking at him: "I had no intention of harming Professor Highmore - and Mrs. Norris!" he added quickly.

"But why were you in that place at the wrong time?" Snape said, his lips twisting into a sneer, as if he deeply doubted it: "Instead of going to the Halloween dinner."

Harry, Ron and Hermione scrambled to explain that they had gone to a death anniversary party: "Hundreds of ghosts came, they could prove we were there -"

"But after this, why don't you come to the party?" said Snape, his dark eyes sparkling in the candlelight. "Why go up to the corridor?"

Ron and Hermione both looked at Harry.

"Because - because -" said Harry, his heart pounding wildly.

Subconsciously, he thought of a terrifying guess and felt that he should lie.

"Because we are tired and want to go to bed early," he said.

"No dinner?" Snape said, a proud smile flashed across his thin face, "I think the food provided by ghosts at the party is probably not suitable for living people."

"We're not hungry," Ron said loudly, his stomach growling at the same time.

Snape's ugly smile became even more obvious.

"My opinion, Headmaster, is that Potter is not telling the full truth," he said. "We should probably take away some of his privileges until he tells us the truth. Personally, I think it would be best for him to leave Gryffin."

Quidditch team, let's wait until we become more honest."

"Honestly, Severus," snapped Professor McGonagall, "I see no reason why this kid shouldn't be allowed to play. This attack has absolutely nothing to do with Quidditch."

Dumbledore glanced at Harry with an inquiring look. Faced with the gaze of his bright blue eyes, Harry felt that he had been seen through.

At this time, Al, who had gradually become quiet, suddenly broke the silence. It seemed that he suddenly remembered something, and turned his head to stare at Dumbledore.

Dumbledore immediately understood. He conjured up a piece of parchment and a quill, handed it to Al under everyone's surprised eyes, and watched as it began to write.

After the writing was completed, Al secretly handed the parchment back to Dumbledore. No one knew what was written on it, but they all saw that Dumbledore's expression immediately became solemn.

Dumbledore looked at Al with complicated eyes and nodded slightly.

Snape frowned and looked over, but the parchment was set on fire and destroyed in public.

"We should be able to cure them." Dumbledore said: "Professor Sprout recently obtained some mandrakes. Once they grow up, we can bring them back to life."

Lockhart was about to show off his potion skills again, but was interrupted by Dumbledore's next words.

"You can go." He looked at Harry and the others and said, then turned to Professor McGonagall: "Minerva, take Mrs. Norris to the school hospital."

"As for Toby, please allow me to excuse you for a moment."

He waved his magic wand, causing Toby's body to float in the air and follow him. Al also climbed on his shoulders, and then they strode away together.

They went all the way back to the ancient magic office. After closing the door, Al hurriedly ran to the desk and directed the two skeletons to open the pharaoh's coffin.

Dumbledore controlled Toby's body to slowly float into the coffin, and watched helplessly as the skeletons closed the coffin and locked Toby inside.

This is related to the note Al wrote to Dumbledore, requesting that the unconscious Toby be immediately placed in a coffin.

In previous history, this coffin was used to place mummies wearing pharaoh masks, and it also allowed Toby and Al who were exploring the pyramids to survive the years of being hunted by the unkillable mummies.

But Ayr didn't tell Dumbledore why he did this.

"Can I know the reason?" Dumbledore asked, looking at Al's back.

Al shook his head in frustration and did not answer.

Dumbledore did not look down upon Al because he was a Niffler, nor did he force him to answer his questions.

In the letters exchanged in the past, Dumbledore knew that Toby also had reservations about him, including the origin of Al, which seemed to be conjured out of thin air.

"If you need anything, come to me."

After sighing, Dumbledore turned and left the office.

Al stayed alone for a while, as if in a daze.

Two skeletons stood on both sides of the coffin, looking like guards.

The room fell into silence and stillness until—

"Bang. Bang."

The coffin moved.

It started lightly, then became more and more violent, until the sound was so loud that it almost knocked down the ceiling.

Al quickly used magic balls to create magic circles so that the sound could not spread out.

Then, it took out the Pharaoh mask from its belly pocket and stared at it with tangled eyes.

Staring at the proud face above.

"Yeah!" Al ordered.

The two skeletons looked at each other with empty eye sockets, then walked back to the coffin and slowly opened the cover.

——

Harry, Ron and Hermione quickly left Lockhart's office after receiving permission. They walked upstairs and tacitly agreed not to return to the dormitory, but entered an empty classroom and closed the door gently.

Harry squinted his eyes and looked at the faces of his two friends in the darkness.

"Do you think I should tell them about the sound I heard?"

"Don't say it," Ron said without thinking, "hearing a voice that no one else can hear is not a good sign, even in the wizarding world."

Harry heard something in Ron's voice and asked, "You believe me, don't you?"

"Of course I do," Ron said quickly, "but - you have to admit it's bizarre."

"I know it's bizarre," Harry said. "The whole thing is bizarre. What's with those writings on the wall? The Chamber of Secrets has been opened. What does that mean?"

"Oh, this reminds me of something," Ron said slowly, "It seems that someone told me about the Chamber of Secrets in Hogwarts once. It was probably Bill."

"Chamber of Secrets." Harry frowned and thought. He thought of what the Sorting Hat had said again and became silent little by little.

Hermione saw that something was wrong with Harry, and she asked with concern: "Are you okay?"

Harry was still lowering his head and murmured: "But, don't you think these things are connected?"

"What?" Ron asked in surprise: "What did you find?"

Harry said as if he was possessed: "At the very beginning, I heard that special sound in Professor Hemmer's office. As a result, he was attacked today. As for Mrs. Norris, it might

He was implicated by Professor Heimo, and also implicated by me."

Hermione looked at him worriedly: "What do you want to say?"

Harry slowly raised his head and plucked up the courage to say: "Only I can hear that voice. Don't you think it's strange? It's like a warning of a murder. The murderer has long been targeting Professor Haimer, but I

But he ignored the opportunity to remind him, which resulted in Heimer teaching him."

Ron still couldn't understand, but Hermione became surprised when she heard Harry say intermittently——

"I can't help but guess that maybe I am really the heir of Slytherin."

There was a bell ringing somewhere.

"It's twelve o'clock." Hermione reminded, grabbing the shocked Ron and the increasingly silent Harry, and left the classroom as if running away from something.

——

Ginny was frightened by Professor Highmore who was attacked. She became uneasy and walked with her head down among the Gryffindor students. She didn't even notice that she was walking in the wrong direction and accidentally bumped into a Ravenclaw.

Lao's student knocked the black notebook out of his arms.

"ah!"

Ginny screamed in fear. She crouched down in panic, trying to pick up the notebook, but accidentally bumped into the girl opposite. The girl had long dirty blonde hair, which was different from Ginny's red hair.

They are entangled together and cannot be untangled.

"Please step aside! Please step aside! I am a prefect! Please step aside! What's wrong with you, Ginny?"

Percy noticed the commotion at the back of the team, and he immediately rushed over to help. After helping the two of them untie the knot, he subconsciously wanted to teach Ginny a lesson like an elder brother, but she picked up something and flew away.

Normally ran away.

"It seems that she was quite frightened, but this is understandable. Who would have thought -" Percy was embarrassed and had nothing to say, but he soon found that almost everyone around him had walked away, and no one could

Nothing left.

Ginny rushed back to the dormitory to avoid other people. She hid under the quilt, opened the black notebook with great confusion, and wrote on the blank page: "Tom, are you there? I suddenly became so panicked.

I don’t remember what happened. When I woke up, my clothes were stained with paint, and Professor Hemmer, what happened to him? Can you tell me? Tom? Tom?”

Ginny's handwriting disappeared little by little, and then, another line of unexpected words gradually emerged——

"Tom? Honey, is this the new name you gave me? I've thought about changing it, but don't you think it's a bit ordinary?"

On the other side, in Ravenclaw's dormitory.

Luna glanced at the roommates gathered together. They were discussing the attack that happened tonight, except Luna was not brought with them.

But Luna had long been used to it. She took out her notebook as usual, opened it to a blank page, and wrote on it: "Mom, something weird happened in school today. A cat and a professor were affected."

Attack, and I bumped into a student and our hair got tangled together."

After a while, Luna's handwriting disappeared, and another line of text appeared.

"Sorry, dear. Before I answer, please allow me to ask one more question - do you like to call people close to you mom? I really don't know about it. Of course, I won't blame you for this, it's just that

I hope you can inform me in advance. Well, just inform me in advance."

——

The Ancient Magic Office has completely changed. There are signs of destruction everywhere, and it has become even more serious than the last time Lockhart arrived.

On the sofa that was broken into several pieces, sat a worried Al, and a tall figure hiding in the shadows. At this moment, the figure was holding the fourth master copy to check something.

"Be happy, Al."

A familiar voice came. It sounded like Toby's voice, but it was a little different. It was deeper than before: "We have made a fortune. The promotion plan of "The Quibbler" is very good. Almost all customers are willing to pay for this book.

The unique magazine pays for it - but they seem to be more interested in the list of Quidditch teams, well, that's not important, at least we have taken an extremely important step."

Al didn't respond. He was staring blankly at the smashed coffee table.

Toby continued: "As for me, I know that my current state may be unacceptable, but as long as the mandrake can mature in time, it will be no problem. If I can survive until then."

"It's a pity that this special treatment plan can't be applied to other people. They don't have an imprinted magic circle, and they only have one Pharaoh mask."

"Okay, Al."

Toby stood up slowly and looked out the window. The moonlight shone on him through the window, intersecting with the magic circle on his skin, illuminating the long hair in front of his forehead, and clearly showing the long hair on his face.

The mask on the mask - black lines appeared on the Pharaoh's mask, as if completely integrated with his face, and it would suddenly become ferocious every few seconds.

"Don't tell anyone about my awakening. We still have a lot of things to do next."

Al asked hesitantly: "Yeah?"

It's asking if even Dumbledore should hide it.

The room fell into silence.

Under the moonlight, Toby's face became ferocious again, and his appearance turned into a lifelike mask.

He thought of the Philosopher's Stone from last semester.

Until now, Dumbledore has not told him the real reason for destroying the Philosopher's Stone.

Toby could feel that Dumbledore was hiding something from him.

"Yes, Al."

Toby said with a deep look.

"That includes Dumbledore."