Archaeologists at Hogwarts

Chapter 222 Al’s little thoughts

In the corridor, Luna and Ginny walked forward furtively, fearing to disturb Mrs. Norris under the stone pillar.

Ginny pretended to be looking at an owl flying past the window. She lowered her voice and asked, "How is it? Can you see it?"

Luna held the temples of her anti-monster glasses with both hands, stretched her neck forward, and stared straight at the scrawny gray cat, her eyes unblinking, with just a few big words on her head: "I have a problem."

, look, I’m staring at you.]

Mrs. Norris squinted at the two students whose brains were not working well. The cat was hunched over, its back lifted up little by little, and there were several spikes on the cat's paws.

Through the lenses of the anti-monster glasses, Luna saw a line of words floating above Mrs. Loris's head -

[Toys that don’t work well with their brains.]

"It turns out we are toys."

Luna shouted happily, which made Ginny tremble all over. Even Mrs. Norris took a few steps back. She tilted her neck and stared at the glasses on Luna's face. After a few jumps, she disappeared into the corridor.

.

"Didn't you say you should be careful?" Ginny complained, and then asked curiously: "Are you just saying that Mrs. Norris treats us as toys? It treats all the students as toys?

!”

Luna nodded vigorously, her cheeks flushed, as if she had discovered something terrible.

"I thought it would think of us as female cats." Luna said happily.

Ginny's reaction was much more normal. She looked weirdly and said to herself: "How could it be a toy? It doesn't regard this place as its own castle. However, it can walk around freely every day.

Go, you don’t have to go to school, and there’s no curfew—it seems like that’s really the case.”

Ginny suddenly felt sad - she didn't live as well as a cat, and she didn't have as many toys.

Luna's eyes flickered, and she continued to look out the window while leaning on her temples. She saw short handwriting appearing on the head of the owl floating by, and read it in a low voice——

"It's going to be late, it's going to be late."

This is an owl flying very fast, panting.

"Come on, come on, come on! Pass, pass, pass!"

This brown owl looks very excited and flutters vigorously.

"Rest - work - rest - rest - rest."

The owl suddenly stopped. It flew to a branch and dozed off. The package under its feet swayed, and another word appeared on its head: "Sleep!"

"Thirsty, hungry, thirsty, hungry."

The owl noticed Luna's gaze and flew over with an expectant expression.

"Do you have anything to eat?" Luna turned around and asked, "Water will do, too."

Ginny took out a water bottle from her backpack, poured a capful of water and handed it over. The tired owl immediately drank it gratefully.

"It's so wonderful." Ginny praised: "Let's go and see other places - oh, I didn't say it was the Forbidden Forest. Don't forget the chaos that broke out in the forest last semester. If you don't want to be fooled by Professor Hemmer,

If you take your glasses back, you have to be more honest."

"It would be nice if I could take Care of Magical Creatures class earlier." Luna's head turned left and right, trying to find more animals nearby.

"Then we may not meet the Thestrals." Ginny said with a warning: "Do you want to go to Hagrid's place to see it? Fred told me that Hagrid has specially prepared a nest of Sniffers, and we can go and see it.

See the difference between them and Mr. Al."

Hagrid was digging a pit near the cabin. He was holding Professor Hemmer's shining silver shovel in his hand, and he was waving it vigorously.

"What a rare visitor." Hagrid held a shovel and smiled under his thick beard: "Why are you here?"

They knew each other, thanks to the trouble caused by the Acromantulas last semester. At that time, Hagrid anxiously ran into the Forbidden Forest. Ginny didn't know how Hagrid escaped later, but now it seems

It's okay, at least I have some strength.

"I heard from Fred that you raised a litter of Sniffers." Ginny stepped on her feet and looked around: "Can you let us take a look?"

"No problem." Hagrid said generously, and then quickly asked: "You don't have anything shiny on you, do you?"

Ginny grabbed Luna's arm hard to stop her from running into the Forbidden Forest, and asked at the same time: "Can I have glasses?"

"Just be careful not to let it reflect light." Hagrid took a few more glances at the glasses on Luna's face: "They look very similar to the principal's glasses. Where did you get them?"

"This is Luna's magic circle item." Ginny followed Hagrid and walked around the cabin. She explained: "The anti-monster glasses can see through the minds of animals. Professor Heimer is planning to sell them.

You can also buy one."

"That's it." Hagrid looked very surprised: "Speaking of which, Toby also took away a lot of things from me, almost emptied my house, and he said that he would give it to me when the time comes.

A bonus, no matter how much I refuse, I refuse to agree. How much is that thing worth? If it can help the school, it’s already pretty good - you should know that the school board has been dissolved, right?"

"I've known it for a long time," Ginny said. The news was published in the house magazine in the common room, and it was difficult to see it.

"Toby said that this will help improve the overall environment of the school and take back power step by step." Hagrid said proudly: "Although I don't understand very well, from now on the school affairs will only be decided by the principal, nor will it be decided by the principal."

It would happen that Dumbledore would be kicked out of Hogwarts, so I voted in favor of this matter. Fortunately, Toby thinks highly of me. After all, I am still a first-year professor."

He smacked his mouth twice and ended with "Toby is really awesome now", then pointed to the shack surrounded by a pile of hay next to the wooden house and said: "Sniffer is right here. Fortunately, Professor Kettleburn helped me."

I contacted Mr. Newt, otherwise I would still have to worry about where to get such a nest of Sniffles."

The Sniffs in the shack were closed by a wooden door, otherwise they would definitely run around. There were also a bunch of shiny things inside, including glass balls and a lot of gold coins.

Hagrid opened the wooden door, sniffed out two bulging bellies, one each for Ginny and Luna.

"Is this a real gold coin?" Ginny asked curiously. Siu Xiu, who was lying in her arms, was too lazy to move and just held his belly tightly.

"No." Hagrid said proudly: "It's the leprechaun's gold coin. It will disappear in about a week. The hole I just dug is to bury the gold coins. When class starts, the students can put the gold coins in again."

Dig it out, with the help of a sniff."

Ginny carefully picked up Sniff and looked at him for a few times. No matter how she looked at him, she didn't think he was as smart as Mr. Al.

But it could also be because the Sniff was too lazy to pay attention to her.

At this time, Luna held up the Niffler in her arms and asked: "Have you ever found a Niffler as powerful as Mr. Al? For example, the kind that can serve as an assistant to a professor."

"No." Hagrid said distressedly, and took out a much smaller shovel from his pocket. Ginny recognized that it belonged to Mr. Al, but she didn't expect that Hagrid had borrowed both shovels.

"Not to mention being an assistant, he can't even dig a hole. He's much stupider than Al - by the way, are the anti-monster glasses working?"

Luna nodded: "This Niffler wants to go out and play for a while, and the one in Ginny's hand also thinks so. And Fang-"

"What happened to Fang?" Hagrid asked nervously, looking at the hound at his feet uneasily.

"It's fine, but my stomach feels a little uncomfortable. Did you eat something bad?"

"It's just a little rock cake." Hagrid said worriedly, squatting down and staring at Fang back and forth: "There shouldn't be any problem."

Ginny had heard about Hagrid's craftsmanship, and she had also seen with her own eyes the rock biscuits that Ron brought home. They were harder than steel and almost made a big hole in the table.

"The problem is big." A voice suddenly sounded, and Toby walked over from the other end of the wooden house, with Mr. Al still standing on his shoulder.

"Did you really feed Yaya rock biscuits?" Toby said with a strange look in his eyes: "I've wanted to tell you for a long time, not everyone can accept your afternoon tea set."

Hagrid looked hurt.

"Really? But obviously everyone likes it——"

"That's because they can't bear to irritate you." Toby waved his hand and asked, ignoring Hagrid's frustrated eyes: "Where are all the Sniffs? Oh, they are here. Go see your kind, Al.

.”

Al immediately jumped off Toby's shoulders, and he trotted to the shack and looked at the Sniff inside through the wooden door. The Sniffs in the shack also stopped playing, and they all gathered at the door, staring curiously at this

Assistant professor.

"Hasn't Mr. Al ever seen his own kind?" Ginny asked with interest.

"I've never seen it before. I haven't had time to help it fulfill its wish until today." Toby said, walking over and quietly asking Al: "How are they? Are they suitable for working? Can they make magic on their own?

Array items?”

Luna looked over with her glasses on and saw that the words that popped up on the head of Xiu Xiu in the shack were relatively short words, such as "want to go out", "gold gold gold", "let's play together".

Only Mr. Al's head popped up——[It's a bit troublesome, these sniffers are too ordinary, none of them are as smart as me, probably even the magic wand——]

Luna can't see the subsequent content.

Al suddenly made a strange cry and waved his head, erasing all those words like a blackboard eraser.

Toby immediately turned back to look at Luna.

"Why are you so careless?" He complained to Al, then stood up and walked towards Luna with a smile: "It seems that the function of the anti-monster glasses needs to be further improved, let me see-"

Luna immediately stepped back holding her temples, as if she refused to agree to anything.

"Won't the anti-monster glasses work on Mr. Al?" she asked.

Toby simply stopped, raised his arms to his chest and crossed them, saying: "Yes, it is my assistant after all. There are some things that are not convenient for students to know, and neither can others - forget it.

You can keep it for now. I will ask you for it in a few days. Then we will start mass production. But we have to find suitable workers first. It is best to be obedient enough and able to keep the secret of the magic circle. I

I really don’t want to find the goblins anymore. It’s not a good thing to get involved with them. We need to even out the distribution of power.”

He snapped his fingers, and Al walked over, standing on Toby's shoulders and waving goodbye to the other sniffers.

"Where is Buckbeak?" Toby finally asked Hagrid.

"Just stay in the Forbidden Forest." Hagrid said sadly: "Just follow that path and you'll see it in a short time."

Just as they were about to leave, Luna ignored Ginny's look and suddenly asked: "Can I come with you, Professor?"

"You want to go to the Forbidden Forest too?" Toby turned around and said, "That's right. I need to test the ability of the anti-monster glasses, but I don't have time. Let Al, and Hagrid - Hagrid, are you free?

?”

"Time is a bit tight." Hagrid said in a low voice, "I have to dig all the holes before the next class."

"This is not easy!" Toby snapped his fingers, causing the shining silver shovel to stand up automatically, as if some transparent person was grabbing it and shoveling it on the ground.

Then Al took out a rag doll from his belly pocket. The doll immediately came to life, took away the pocket on Hagrid's waist, and buried all the leprechaun's gold coins in the pit in order.

"Miss Weasley, you come too." Toby suddenly called out: "I see you have brought your schoolbag. Later, Miss Lovegood and I will write down the thoughts of the animals in the Forbidden Forest. I will check them when I come back.

Yes—I’m leaving first.”

He took the first step holding the scepter he took out of Al's pocket, and soon disappeared into the path of the Forbidden Forest.

Luna looked very happy, Ginny was troubled by the extra homework, and the Sniffers were completely shocked by the scene where they just took out the scepter. They hung upside down on the wooden door one by one, trying to see if they could remove it.

Put it in too.

"Okay, don't try." Hagrid cheered up and said. He caught the sniffers and put the two outside the cage back in: "It would be great if you could be half as smart as Al.

I save a lot of trouble."

Al chuckled, and it took out a small flying carpet and sat on it, floating as high as Ginny and Luna's heads.

Ginny had already begun to prepare for going to the Forbidden Forest. She watched Hagrid pick up the giant crossbow and asked if there were any weapons she could use. It seemed that the experience last semester had scared her a lot.

Then Hagrid handed over Al's small shovel. Ginny looked at the "silver chopsticks" and was worried because they were not as long as her wand.

At this time, Al floated over and whispered: "Yeah."

Luna stared at it curiously, and then explained to Ginny: "Mr. Al said there is a special spell that can turn this shovel into a shield. It's very simple. You just need to do this, and then do this -

"

As she spoke, she raised her wand and waved it, chanting a spell that Ginny had never heard before. The spell hit the small shovel with a "bang" and a flash of light, turning into a fan that was taller than Ginny.

The shield is covered with various patterns. It looks strange, but it has a wonderful sense of beauty.

"It looks really good." Hagrid supported Ginny who was almost pinned down, then raised the shield and waved it back and forth twice. It was very easy to use.

"That's great." Ginny said with eyes shining: "But how do we change it back?"

Al waved his hand nonchalantly: "Yeah."

Luna then explained: "You don't have to do anything, it will change back by itself after a while."

Sure enough, within half a minute, the small shovel returned to its original shape, and Ginny held it in her hand lovingly, planning to use it when she had the chance.

At this time, Al caught a glimpse of a figure flying out of the Forbidden Forest. It was Toby riding Buckbeak.

The three of them also set off with Al. Al quietly pulled Ginny and Luna's hair to ask them to walk slower, and then whispered: "Yeah."

"What did Mr. Al say again?" Ginny asked with interest, "Is it a new curse?"

"Not exactly." Luna blinked: "It said that the premise is that we must secretly buy it some wine to drink, and we can't let Professor Heimer know - you can also entrust others to do it, and you don't have to worry about money.

, I will have enough gold when the anti-monster glasses start selling."

Ginny covered her mouth in surprise, and she secretly glanced at Hagrid who was walking in front: "That's really what it said?"

Without Luna's answer, Al nodded solemnly, and then said again: "Yeah."

"It has long wanted to taste magma wine." Luna translated conscientiously: "Before this, it had only tasted Black Devil wine once, but after that, Professor Heimer refused to let it drink anything.

Already."

"Did Mr. Al say the reason?"

"No, it said it didn't remember what happened."

"Then what are you going to do?" Ginny stared at Luna eagerly, racking her brains to think of an excuse to avoid being punished: "Doing things for Mr. Al shouldn't be considered a violation of school rules, right? It's also considered one of the professors in the school.

, even though he is still just an assistant.”

Al suddenly interrupted: "Yeah."

Luna saw above its head: "For the time being, I am just an assistant for the time being. Sooner or later, I will become a formal professor."

Luna was amused by Mr. Al's words, and when she said it, Ginny also giggled.

Al stared at them angrily.

"I'm not," Ginny said out of breath, "Of course Mr. Al can become a formal professor, but where will Professor Heimer go then?"

Al laughed very strangely twice. This time, Luna didn't see any words above its head. It had obviously been deliberately erased.

Ginny, who didn't know what was going on, had an idea that scared even her - is Mr. Al going to drive away Professor Heimer? Or is it the existence that has been silently controlling Professor Heimer?

Could Mr. Devil Al be Professor Heimer's devil? But it doesn't look like it. It's not a dark mist, it's obviously fleshy.

Al pushed Ginny's finger away, looking sacrosanct.

"Why are you so far away from me?" Hagrid suddenly turned around and said, "Come closer, it's very dangerous in the Forbidden Forest."

Just before they were about to follow, Ginny grabbed Luna and asked quietly: "What do you think? Do you really want to secretly buy alcohol for Mr. Al after making money?"

"It won't take that long." Luna adjusted her temples and said, "The pocket money dad gave me hasn't been spent yet. The sales of "The Quibbler" have improved a lot. When can I go to Hogsmeade?

, we can ask the upperclassmen to help - how is your brother?"

Ginny said with a sad face: "He is not old enough, so he may have to find his brother's brother."