Archaeologists at Hogwarts

Chapter 157 Pandora, Lockhart, Angela (6k)

The secret of the awakening was hidden in the airtight magic office, and was not known to anyone except Toby and Al, including the headmaster of Hogwarts, Dumbledore.

For the next few days, the students talked about nothing else but the attack on Mrs. Norris. Filch's performance made everyone never forget this incident: he often

Mrs. Norris walked back and forth around the place where Mrs. Norris had been killed, as if she thought the attacker would come again. Harry saw him scrubbing the writing on the wall with Mrs. Skoll's All-Purpose Magic Stain Remover, but in vain; the writing remained

It shone so brightly on the stone wall. If Filch was not patrolling the crime scene, he would hide in the corridor with his red eyes, and then suddenly pounce on the unsuspecting students, trying every possible means to find an excuse to lock them up.

Confinement, such as saying they are "panting too loudly" or "smiling playfully".

As for Professor Heimer

Professor Heimer's ancient magic class was canceled unexpectedly. Some students were still hopeful that Mr. Al could take over the professor's position. However, he suddenly disappeared and rarely showed up in the castle.

Doing something.

Ginny seemed very uneasy about this. According to Ron, she was the only one who enjoyed Professor Highmore's tutoring at the Burrow and was willing to have contact with Mr. Al.

"It may be too sad." Ron comforted, trying to cheer up Ginny: "After all, we can all see that Mr. Al is not like an ordinary pet. I mean, who would

What about giving pets a position with special care? As for Mrs. Norris, to be honest, it’s the same with or without her. Almost all students don’t like her. As long as we can catch the madman who caused the trouble in time, it’ll be okay—eh

!”

Ginny's face turned pale, and she ran away as if fleeing, leaving the three of them behind in a hurry.

"You shouldn't talk to her like that." Hermione said as she closed the book, and then muttered: "It's a pity that the library's "Hogwarts: A School History" has been borrowed, otherwise it would still be available for checking.

Check out the legends related to the Chamber of Secrets. Hmm, I wonder if this question can be brought up in the history of magic class."

Harry, who had always remained silent, looked at the two of them. He wanted to bring up the old things again and said, "About the Chamber of Secrets - Uh! Uh! Let go, what are you doing?!"

He quickly pushed Ron's palm away, and Hermione looked around cautiously. She whispered: "Didn't we agree not to mention this matter again, Harry?"

"I'm not kidding you, and Slytherins are not all bad people - yes, I am talking about Professor Highmore, he is at least not as bad as Snape - woohoo!"

After being attacked by Ron covering his mouth again, Harry finally stopped shouting. He lowered his voice and said, "Seriously, why don't you believe me?"

Ron also lowered his voice and said: "Because then you will become the murderer who attacked Professor Heimer. Listen to me, of course we will not believe such ridiculous things, but others may not, they will arrest you

Get up, lift your skull, and study your brain—"

Harry's eyes became more and more weird, and Ron smacked his mouth twice and said: "Okay, this sounds a bit excessive, but what about Azkaban? Do you want to be imprisoned in Azkaban?"

?”

"I didn't say I was the murderer!" Harry said angrily. When he saw Ron silently raising his palms, ready to attack, he had to lower his voice quickly and said: "But you can't deny it. Only I can hear the murderer.

The other party focused on Professor Heimer first. What about next time? What should I do next time? At least I can give others a chance to warn others."

"But what if the murderer's target is you?" Hermione said sharply: "The other party borrowed the name of the heir. What if the other party's plan is to lure out the real heir? We can't do anything until we are sure.

Let you take risks - don't interrupt me in a hurry. The certainty I am talking about also includes your true identity. It is not yet possible to determine who you are - "

Hermione looked around, and then whispered: "The real heir. Evidence, we need evidence, don't we? When the two voices appeared, the three of us stayed together, but you were the only one who heard it.

That's not enough, Harry."

"Let's go." She pulled the speechless Harry up and said to him: "It's time to go to the History of Magic class. I hope Professor Binns can tolerate students asking questions. This seems to have never happened before."

——

Ginny ended today's class in a daze. She went back to the dormitory without eating dinner. She sat alone on the bed blankly, her eyes were dull, and even her long red hair was hanging down limply.

After a while, she seemed to have made up her mind, pulled out the suitcase from under the bed, found the black notebook under the neatly folded clothes, and opened it with trembling hands.

"Are you still there?"

【Of course I'm here, dear, I'm not going anywhere. Listen to me——】

"No! Listen to me! It's impossible for me to give you back."

【Luna Lovegood.】

The notebook reminded: [She is my daughter, as cute as you, but of course, in my eyes, she is the cutest. She was assigned to Ravenclaw House, and she is a student in the same grade as you.

You should have seen her, at least at the sorting ceremony.】

Ginny thought about it carefully for a while.

"Yes, I remember her. Her—well, long hair was impressive."

[I seem to know what you want to say, but, forget it, my husband and I think about our work from an angle that ordinary people can't imagine. We both hate the same life, and Luna has inherited this very well.

One point. Okay, dear, let’s talk about business. Can you let me know why you won’t let me go back to your daughter?】

Ginny hesitated before writing.

After a while, another line of text appeared on the paper.

[Is it because of the paragraph you wrote before? Amnesia, paint, and Professor Highmore. Among these three clues, the only one I am most familiar with is probably Highmore. His full name is Toby.

·Heimer?]

"How do you know? Luna told you?"

[Not entirely, to be precise, he helped my daughter create me. In the real world, I am already dead.]

"Sorry, I didn't mean to"

[Oh, don’t be like this, dear. Well, it’s a bit regretful, such as the unfinished spell, and not being able to see my daughter grow up and so on, but I believe Xeno will take good care of her, so I can

I can rest assured. But, listen to me, dear, I know very well what kind of impact an existence like me can have on you——】

"No, you don't know at all, Tom is--he's very different, different from everyone else."

[Really? Does this also include asking you to attack a professor? 】

"No, I don't! I don't remember at all-"

[Calm down, honey. It's not your fault, and you can trust me because I know exactly how kids your age are - how should I say? naive? Although I don't hate that, even

I like it very much, but we have to admit that this makes children easy to be taken advantage of. You are being taken advantage of by Bad Tom.】

"Bad Tom? I won't allow you to say anything bad about Tom."

[Okay, okay, how about this? Since you are not going to let me go, can you help me pay more attention to Luna? She is my daughter, and I care about her very much. Moreover, I am a little worried that she may get

She broke Tom's notebook, and is even more worried about her current situation - wait a minute, are you thinking about stealing that notebook back now?】

"How do you know?" Ginny retracted her hand in surprise and almost closed the notebook.

[Because you are worried that Luna will know what you have done. But, kid, do you know how to enter the Ravenclaw dormitory? And do you know which room Luna lives in? 】

Ginny didn't answer, but it was an answer.

[So, is this deal done? You help me take care of Luna secretly, and I may not have helped you sneak into the Ravenclaw dormitory or something. I also know where Luna lives, how about it? 】

Ginny didn't notice at all that Pandora secretly changed "attention" to "care". She struggled for a long time, and finally wrote crooked fonts in her notebook -

"make a deal."

——

The trio, who had just finished the history of magic class, looked at each other.

According to Professor Binns, the Chamber of Secrets is a ridiculous story because it has never been truly confirmed, but he still revealed some surprising information - Slytherin left a secret room before leaving school, and other

The founders knew nothing about this.

According to legend, Slytherin sealed the Chamber of Secrets so that no one could open it until his true heir came to the school. Only that heir could open the Chamber of Secrets and release the horrors inside, allowing it to purify the school of all unworthy

A person who studies magic.

"Professor Heimer." Harry analyzed calmly: "He is a Muggle-born, and he happens to be the target of the murderer."

"But why does it sound to me like the murderer is the real heir?" Ron wondered: "How else did the other party control the monster? Can you do the same thing, Harry?"

Harry shook his head. He couldn't even command Hedwig perfectly. Sometimes she would get angry and peck his fingers.

They came to the top of the corridor where the attack occurred. The scene in front of them was the same as that night, but the petrified cat was no longer hanging on the torch holder, but instead there was a sign saying "The secret room has been opened"

There is an empty chair leaning against the wall where the text is written.

Taking advantage of Filch's absence, the three of them quickly searched for clues.

"Come over and take a look at this!" Hermione said, "It's really interesting."

Harry got up and walked towards the window next to the words on the wall. Hermione pointed to the top piece of glass, where there were about twenty spiders crawling hurriedly, as if eager to squeeze through a small crack in the glass.

Go out. A long silver thread hangs down like a rope. It seems that they hurriedly climbed up through this thread and planned to escape out the window.

"Have you ever seen a spider look like this?" Hermione asked in confusion.

"No," said Harry, "What about you, Ron? Ron?"

He turned his head. Ron stood far behind, seeming to be resisting the urge to escape.

"What's wrong?" Harry asked.

"I - don't like - don't like - spiders." Ron said nervously.

"I've never heard of that," Hermione said, looking at Ron in surprise, "You use spiders so many times in Potions class."

"I don't care about dead spiders," Ron said, carefully avoiding the window. "I just don't like the way they look."

Hermione chuckled.

"What's so funny," Ron said angrily, "you know, when I was three, Fred turned my - my teddy bear into a... because I broke his toy broom.

Big ugly spiders. You won't like them if you've ever been like me; if you're holding your teddy bear and all of a sudden it has legs sprouting out and "

He shuddered and couldn't go on. Hermione was obviously still holding back her laughter. Harry thought it was best for them not to talk about this topic, so he said: "Do you remember that piece of water on the ground? Where did it come from?

? Someone mopped the floor."

"It's probably right here," Ron said, gradually regaining his composure, walking past Filch's chair and pointing it out to them, "parallel to this door."

He reached out to grasp the brass ball handle, but suddenly withdrew his hand as if it had been burned by fire.

"What's going on?" Harry asked.

"You can't go in," Ron said unhappily, "it's the girls' bathroom."

At this time, the door handle of the bathroom suddenly twisted on its own, and the door was pushed open from the inside, and a girl with long dirty blond hair walked out. She was looking down at the notebook in her hand and walked forward in a daze.

While walking, he accidentally bumped into Ron.

"Are you okay?" Harry quickly helped the girl up. He saw her dazed, bulging gray eyes and light eyebrows.

The girl stood up and looked at the three people standing at the door in confusion.

"This is the girls' bathroom," she said, obviously going to Ron and Harry.

"You are Harry Potter." She suddenly recognized Harry again and moved her eyes to his forehead.

Harry subconsciously took a step back: "I do."

At this time, Hermione stood up to the rescue and said: "Well, we were just passing by here. By the way, have you seen Myrtle?"

"She's in there." The girl said, poking her head in as if to call Myrtle out, but fortunately Hermione stopped her quickly.

"Oh, okay, thank you, Lovegood."

"Do you know my name?" Luna moved her eyes to Hermione and stared at her closely.

Hermione finally understood why Harry retreated subconsciously, Luna's gaze was undisguised.

"Yes." She said: "I saw the article where you interviewed Cedric, and by the way, I wrote down your name——"

"What do you think?" Luna interrupted with interest.

"Alright, not bad." Hermione subconsciously didn't tell the truth. Luna's questions in that article were all kinds of weird, and there was no useful knowledge.

"Okay." Luna's expression suddenly turned cold. She patted the water-stained notebook. After taking a few steps, she turned back to look at Ron and Harry and said, "This is the girls' bathroom.

.”

After Luna disappeared at the top of the stairs, Ron looked around confusedly: "How did we provoke her? She doesn't look very enthusiastic."

"Maybe it's because this is the girls' bathroom." Just as Harry was hesitating to go in, he suddenly caught a glimpse of Percy at the top of the stairs. He stopped suddenly and strode towards them, holding the prefect's badge.

It sparkled on his chest, and an expression of utter surprise adorned his face.

"That's the girls' bathroom!" he gasped, "How did you—"

"We didn't go in!" Ron shouted angrily: "We haven't had time yet -"

"Not in time?!" Percy's voice suddenly rose several tones. He opened his arms and urged them to leave quickly: "Hurry up - hurry up - leave - leave - don't you care what this looks like? Others don't care.

We were eating, but you came here."

"Why can't we come here?" Ron said angrily, stopping abruptly and glaring at Percy, "Listen, we didn't lift a finger against that cat! We didn't mean to harm Professor Highmore either.

idea!"

"I said the same to Ginny," Percy said without any sign of weakness, "but she still seems to think you will be expelled. I have never seen her so sad, crying all day long. You should think about her.

I think the first-year students are all disturbed by this - Ginny, why are you here?!"

Percy was surprised to see Ginny appear at the top of the stairs. She piled her collar high, covering her chin and mouth. After hearing Percy's shout, Ginny glanced this way.

, saw Percy and Ron with blushing faces, and then saw Harry with a surprised face——

She immediately turned around and ran away, without even daring to look back. Her long red hair flowed behind her like a cluster of flames.

"Look!" Percy accused loudly: "Look at the good things you did, Ginny was even scared by you!"

"What does it have to do with me!" Ron shouted angrily: "Why not because of you?! Look at Charlie and Bill, they are also prefects, but which one is not better than you and not more popular than you?!"

Harry and Hermione wanted to separate the two, but their quarrel became more and more intense, and the ears on the back of their necks became equally red.

"Hey kids, what's going on?"

A person that Harry never wanted to meet appeared at the top of the stairs. Lockhart strode over with a smile, his gorgeous witch robes raised high behind him.

"Are you guys quarreling?" Lockhart dramatically stretched out a finger and shook it from side to side: "This is not okay. I will never allow similar problems to arise in the castle. Yes, I will never allow it.

.”

He spoke as if he was the master of the castle and everyone else was his servant.

Ron was forcefully dragged away by Harry who was running away. He didn't want to stay with Lockhart for a moment, for fear of causing something embarrassing again.

Fortunately, Lockhart didn't cause any trouble for him this time, but smiled and watched them go away.

After the few people disappeared, the smile on Lockhart's face faded little by little.

He walked quickly and reached the top of the stairs. He walked in a hurry and finally stopped in front of a door.

It's the ancient magic office.

Lockhart quietly looked around and found no one in the corridor. He gently pushed the door open, opened a gap, got in, and hurriedly closed it from the inside.

The room was dark, with only the moonlight streaming in from the windows, illuminating a floor.

Lockhart wiped the sweat from his forehead. He looked at the Pharaoh's coffin facing the door and the only skeleton on the left. He hesitated for a while, but as if he had made up his mind, he stepped forward step by step and endured the discomfort.

In front of the Pharaoh's coffin.

"It should be here," he murmured, holding the lid with both arms and slowly moving it away.

"ah!"

Lockhart suddenly screamed, causing him to fall backwards in fright, narrowly missing being hit by Toby's body that fell downwards.

"Professor Heiheimer?" Lockhart didn't dare to move, looking nervously at Toby who was lying on his left.

Just then, the lights in the office suddenly turned on.

Lockhart blinked in confusion, quickly got up and looked back.

On the sofa at the other end of the room, sat Al, who had strange eyes, and a woman Lockhart had never seen before, who was even more beautiful than a Veela.

Angela frowned and asked: "Who are you? Why did you come to Toby's office secretly?!"

Al said "Yeah" and stared at the panicked Lockhart maliciously.

Angela seemed to understand. She narrowed her eyes and looked Lockhart up and down: "So you are the new professor of Hogwarts. Are you here to steal something?"

"No, it's not!" Lockhart jumped up suddenly, and he used to put on a bright smile: "How is that possible? I just came to see Al. I haven't seen him for many days. I'm worried that he will show up.

What an accident."

Lockhart strode towards Al. He stretched out his hands, as if he wanted to hug Al. But Al quickly hid behind Angela, staring at Lockhart warily, looking at him.

Feeling uncomfortable all over.

Angela stared at Lockhart coldly and gave instructions like a queen: "You can leave, don't let me find out a second time."

Lockhart seemed to want to explain a few more words, but under Angela's cold gaze, he immediately turned around and rescued her, without staying for a moment longer.

After the room returned to silence, Al shouted unwillingly: "Yeah!"

Angela shook her head: "My identity is the vice-principal of Wagadu. I cannot act as recklessly as Toby. This involves a lot of issues, including the friendship between the two schools."

She stood up, walked to the fallen "Toby", and signaled the other skeleton with her eyes. The other skeleton came over and helped "Toby" stand up. The postures and movements of the two were almost exactly the same.

After closing "Toby", Angela turned around. She looked at Al with sparkling eyes: "So, where is Toby now? Why did he call me here specifically? Because he wanted to understand

Yet?"

"Toby has finally decided to overthrow Dumbledore?!"