Archaeologists at Hogwarts

Chapter 194 The final test and reward

"Oh hahaha - call the gods to protect - eh haha ​​- guard - call the gods to protect the guards - hahahaha! Don't look at - professor, I - ah hahahaha!!!"

Loud laughter echoed in the special training classroom, reaching deeper into the tunnel. Due to the distance, the laughter turned into a faint howl, and Lockhart, who was writing a manuscript, could be heard.

Everyone felt cold in their hearts.

He raised his head and glanced quietly at Al, who was lying on the flying carpet with his legs crossed. Al noticed Lockhart's gaze and grabbed a handful of multi-flavor beans with his paws: "Yeah? (Want to try it?)"

Lockhart quickly lowered his head, not daring to have other thoughts, pretending to write something on the parchment regardless of whether he had any inspiration or not.

He didn't expect that Haimo would dare to abuse students so blatantly. If he didn't work hard, sooner or later the punishment would fall on him.

On the other side, Cedric was lying weakly on the floor. His mouth was wide open, but he could no longer make any sound. He could only hear intermittent gurgling sounds coming from his throat.

Heimer waved the feathered skeletons away.

"Tsk tsk tsk." He helped Cedric up, placed him on the seat that had been prepared long ago, and said regretfully: "What a pity, Mr. Diggory. How can you make a real thing with just this little willpower?"

A self-casting wand? How do we rid Hufflepuff of being vilified as a loser?"

Cedric retorted weakly: "I didn't say that. Professor, I never said the word loser. That's all because of you——"

"Okay!" Toby interrupted loudly, turning to look at the other two people: "It's your turn, Miss Granger."

Hermione trembled for a moment. She walked tremblingly in front of the skeletons, looked around at the feathers in their hands, and then said in a pleading tone: "Professor, can I wait until next week? Give me one more week."

practice time.”

"Practice?" Toby said eloquently: "Then do you know how to practice the Patronus Charm, Miss Granger. In fact, the best way is to let you face the fear in your heart, but after all, I am not

Devil, that's why I thought of this method that is more acceptable to people now. To be honest, I am still too soft-hearted. But this also has the effect of adding points to me and can bring me a better image.

It will also allow me to take over the position of principal more smoothly. In short-"

"start!"

"Ah? Ah? Ah?" Hermione hurriedly raised her wand. Unfortunately, she didn't learn anything really useful in the dueling class. In the blink of an eye, she was surrounded by skeletons and began a new round of torture.

"Oh, oh, don't! Haha! Don't! Hahahaha! Hushen Guards Hushen Guards Hushen Guards - Hahahahahahaha!!!"

Hermione lasted even shorter than Cedric, and she seriously suspected that a special tickling spell had been cast on those two feathers.

After placing Hermione in place, Toby looked back and found that Luna had taken the initiative to stand in front of the skeletons. She was trying to take the feathers away from the skeletons, but the skeletons didn't waste any effort at all.

Raising her arms high will keep Luna out of reach.

Toby looked at Luna who was jumping up and down and said: "Okay, that's a good idea. From now on, as long as you can take the feathers away from the skeletons, you will pass. This is harder than summoning a tangible patron saint."

too much."

Hermione tilted her neck and looked at each other with Cedric - this seemed to highlight the specialness of the skeletons. They had never thought that the skeletons were so powerful before.

Immediately afterwards, a new round of torture began.

Luna gave up her plan to stand and fight back at the beginning. She immediately lay down on the floor, spinning back and forth in circles, raising her arms high above her head, regardless of whether she was pointing in the right direction, and shouted loudly with her eyes closed.

: "Hu-hahaha! Huu Shenshu-hahaha! Hahahahaha!"

This novel way of evading shocked both Hermione and Cedric. Unfortunately, Luna failed to successfully cast the Patronus Charm until the end. On the contrary, she laughed louder than anyone else.

Tobiti slipped Luna's collar and put her on the last chair. He looked at the three people and said: "I have to say, your performance disappoints me. But fortunately, this is a happy time. This

This is the end of last week's exams. You can decide whether you want to come here again next week. This will not affect your final exam scores for this semester. They are all excellent."

Hermione hurriedly left the tunnel, and she immediately shared this experience with Harry and Ron, who were waiting in the common room early.

"Tickle curse?" Ron said in shock: "Professor Heimer really never lets us down."

Harry looked at Hermione who was in a depressed state and worried: "Then do you want to continue taking the exam next week? This seems unnecessary."

Hermione did consider this, but -

"No!" She said firmly: "I will not quit early before Diggory quits!"

Well, she was still thinking about the assistant position and planned to compete with him in the second test.

As for Cedric, he also said gently to the classmates surrounding him in the Hufflepuff common room: "This is an opportunity. I must pass more tests so that I can be qualified to find Professor Hemmer."

The matter of helping with the auto-casting wand has been bothering me for a long time."

"This is the Black Devil - oh no, Professor Heimer promised you in advance?" a student asked curiously.

"No." Cedric shook his head and said, "But I still haven't seen Mr. Al."

He was worried about this. After all, he was Mr. Al's assistant. He always felt that it was because Professor Heimer was dissatisfied with him that he did not let Mr. Al see him.

At the same time, by the Black Lake, Ginny listened to Luna's story, her mouth wide open in surprise.

"Merlin, that sounds really scary." She asked doubtfully, "Then why do you continue to take the exam next week?"

Now Luna has an extra book in her hand, which is Toby's most original book - "Ancient Magic". It contains the most comprehensive knowledge of ancient magic. It is only because the description is not thorough enough and the reading threshold is high.

Sales were dismal.

She turned the book to the page related to ritual magic, and said in a dazed tone: "It's for ritual magic, and also to give mom a surprise."

"I have a hunch that I will succeed this time."

The week was not long. Toby was dealing with the magic circle items for the freshmen, while checking the test results of the higher students. He occasionally met with Lockhart a few times, giving him some comfort while giving him the article requirements.

, so that he doesn’t have to come here every day.

Lockhart did not dare to say that he came here to avoid trouble from the students, but on the other hand, Snape did not have so many scruples.

He broke into the Ancient Magic Office one Friday morning and had a very bad attitude.

"I suspect you are targeting Slytherin!" He asked darkly: "Why are there already Gryffindors, Ravenclaws, and even Hufflepuffs who have passed the exam, but no one from Slytherin House?

student!"

Toby was sitting on the sofa inspecting a pair of shoes. This was the homework Ginny had just given. After putting it on, he could jump up to 7 feet high, but it was still far short of Ginny's imagined goal of flying.

some distance.

"Look at what you said, Severus." Toby said without raising his head: "What do you mean [even Hufflepuff]? You need me to help you convey this to Sp

Dean Lauter?"

Snape sat coldly opposite Toby, and Al reluctantly moved to the side and stared at him angrily.

Toby finally raised his head and asked: "You are here because of the content of the exam, right? Don't tell me that you still can't summon the patron saint."

"This has nothing to do with you." Snape said coldly: "And don't forget, I haven't seen your Patronus. Who knows if you can cast the Patronus Charm normally now."

"Oh, this is your purpose." Toby said in an exaggerated tone: "Are you accusing me of becoming a dark wizard? It's really rare that I am still so deeply loved by you.

A day when wizards of black magic accuse themselves."

"Go back, Severus," he said at last.

"Those children haven't left the campus yet, they will summon their own patron saint, even the students of Slytherin are no exception."

Just that afternoon, a new announcement appeared in the college magazines in various common rooms, written by Professor Heimer himself.

The general idea of ​​the content is that he knows that many students think that they are not yet ready to learn the Patronus Charm, but he has already deliberately taken care of the younger students. He does not even ask those students to summon the invisible Patronus, as long as they can concentrate.

It is not difficult for them to pass the exam by recalling happy memories. This is also one of the prerequisites for summoning the patron saint.

Immediately afterwards, the tone of the announcement suddenly changed. Professor Heimer wrote in an unquestionable tone: There is a consensus in the magic world that only real dark wizards cannot summon a patron saint. Of course, they who are so evil do not need

Patronus. If there are still students who are resentful about the method of passing the exam, then he can come to the Ancient Magic Office in person. Professor Hemmer will examine these specific students to see if they meet the standards of a dark wizard.

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Professor Heimer also carefully mentioned that even if you want to become a dark wizard, it is not that easy. You must be extremely evil to an exaggerated degree, and you also need those wizards to have done very evil deeds, such as killing innocent lives.

But the good news is that evil does not mean strong. Professor Hemmer told many stories about the dark wizards he encountered during archeology, and also mentioned the fate of those people - some were almost drowned, and some were almost killed by an avalanche.

Some died of suffocation, and some were even nearly killed by meteorites.

They're all a little bit different.

Of course, the kind-hearted Professor Heimer is not a person who kills people randomly. The fate of these people is without exception. They are grateful to Professor Heimer, change their minds, and become wizards again.

Finally, Professor Heimer welcomes the school's little dark wizards at any time.

Originally, there were some voices of resistance in the school, all of which were concentrated among the ignorant senior students. In addition, among the lower-class students, Slytherin students in particular had the largest number, and many of them did not bother to study guardianship.

Godspell, proud of the dark wizard.

As a result, after this announcement appeared, none of these people dared to make any dissenting voices.

What else could they do?

Going to the Ancient Magic Office to die?!

Oh no, I almost died.

That doesn’t work either!

They can all think of Professor Heimer's methods to deal with them - endless confinement alone is torture enough.

All in all, this incident ended with Marcus Flint, the captain of the famous Slytherin Quidditch team, nicknamed the Troll, appearing in the library.

According to people present, he was crying while learning the Patronus Charm. He looked disgusting and pitiful!

On the other hand, after just one week passed, Toby did not receive any students who passed the first test, not even the seventh graders who were about to graduate.

This made him very angry. You can imagine how low the level of Defense Against the Dark Arts education before Hogwarts had been!

For this reason, Lockhart, the current scapegoat, was vaguely ordered to write twice as many manuscripts.

Then Toby broke into the principal's office and belittled Dumbledore overtly and covertly, saying bluntly that Hogwarts does not need such a low-level principal, and only I, Toby Highmore, can save it!

Then Toby was forcibly controlled by Dumbledore, and while yelling, Snape drank a spoonful of the Living Hell Potion. The remaining large bottle of rash potion was stopped by Dumbledore in time, and the rest was more

There were so many weird looking potions that Snape was not allowed to take into the headmaster's office.

Looking at Toby and Al sleeping peacefully on the sofa (of course it was applauding and demonstrating for Toby), the two of them were silent for a long time.

It wasn't until ten minutes passed that Snape whispered: "The influence of the Pharaoh's mask on him is getting deeper and deeper. Have you figured out how to solve it?"

Dumbledore looked out the window.

"Wait." He said calmly: "Just waiting is enough."

When he woke up the next day, Toby finally recovered from the hidden danger of recurrence.

As soon as he opened his eyes, he saw Dumbledore who was enjoying breakfast in his pajamas. Fortunately, the fog covered his face so that Dumbledore didn't notice that he had woken up.

So Toby quietly touched Al with his finger.

"Huh?" Al turned over in confusion.

Toby touched it twice more.

Al looked like he hadn't woken up. He tried to take off his nightcap out of habit, but failed. There was nothing on his head.

After calming down for a few seconds, Al suddenly sat up, his little eyes widened in shock and panic.

It reminds me of everything that happened yesterday.

At this time, Dumbledore looked towards it with a smile: "What do you want, all-flavored beans? Beans may not be so good to eat in the morning, how about pie?"

At this moment, Tobi stood up like a gust of wind, ran toward the door quickly, and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

Al immediately realized that he had been betrayed. He barked angrily, but his movements were not slow at all. It took him only a few seconds to complete a series of actions such as taking out the flying carpet, jumping on it, and flying to the door.

At this time, Dumbledore suddenly sighed.

"It's been years since I had breakfast with anyone except in the auditorium."

Al hesitated, then he flew back and stretched out his paw towards Dumbledore's plate: "Yeah! (Pie, pie is pretty good!)"

Dumbledore's blue eyes flashed, and he conjured up another plate of pie, and he and Al ate this untimely breakfast together.

On the other side, after paying Al's price, Toby felt guilty for a second, and then he came to the special training classroom seriously.

There, Cedric, Hermione, and Luna had arrived early, and no one was absent.

Cedric was silently practicing the Patronus Charm. Occasionally he would look at Hermione in surprise, who was staring at him unyieldingly. She was also seizing the time to practice.

Luna was sitting on a rest chair, fiddling with a pair of half-moon glasses. This was originally given to Hermione by Toby to protect her eyes. Now Luna borrowed it and looked very interested.

"Can I make these into monster-revealing glasses?" Luna asked enthusiastically.

Hermione didn't want to give away these glasses because she thought they were quite useful and she didn't want to look like Harry one day.

However, she has recently become accustomed to wearing these glasses when studying. Has this changed or has it not changed?

At this time, Professor Heimer walked into the room. He glanced casually, conjured another pair of glasses, and flew directly into Luna's hand.

He also has many similar glasses, all of which he got from the glasses room conjured by the Room of Requirement.

"Okay." He said seriously: "Let's start today's exam."

For a moment, loud laughter spread throughout the entire tunnel - a minute later, Cedric was shamefully pulled into a chair by Professor Heimer and sat down.

Hermione's laughter was much shriller. Although she was younger, her voice was louder and she made no less noise than Cedric.

Fifty seconds later, Professor Heimer lifted Hermione up by her collar and put her on her seat, like she was carrying a sleeping cat.

Both of them failed, but they persisted longer than last time.

Luna is the only one left.

She walked up to the skeletons and lay down on the spot, seemingly planning to use the same method as last time.

But this time she didn't roll back and forth, the skeletons didn't have to chase her around, and the feather soon had Luna bursting into hysterical laughter.

Cedric and Hermione were too tired to show their expressions. They stared at Luna blankly. Suddenly, they saw Luna slowly raising her wand. She laughed wildly for a while. At the moment of taking a breath, suddenly

before laughing again and shouting: "Call the gods to protect you!"

An almost invisible cloud of silver-white gas floated out from the tip of the wand. The skeleton and the two of them were stunned. They all looked at Professor Heimer and saw him applauding vigorously: "Very good!

"

Toby said with satisfaction: "It couldn't be better. You have completed the test, Miss Lovegood, and reached the minimum standard for the third test - successfully summoned your own patron saint. Although it looks very weak,

You can’t even tell what it is, but you did it!”

"Next, I will tell you the content of the third test, and you two can also listen to it." He said to Hermione and Cedric who were still in their thoughts, and then completely shocked them with one sentence.

Speechless.

"The essence of the third test is a reward. It's time to make your own scepter, Luna. It will also be the most suitable tool for you to use to perform ritual magic."

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