Archaeologists at Hogwarts

Chapter 240

Al was kicked out of the Hog's Head by Aberforth.

Aberforth clearly recognized that this was Toby's pet. In Toby's first year back at Hogwarts, he and Al had a deal with a mysterious guest at the Hog's Head Bar, which was all revealed to Aberforth.

Bu Fusi saw it in his eyes.

Al was so angry that he screamed, and the students who came to the village on the weekend looked at this scene curiously - this was really strange, Mr. Al was here, but Professor Heimo didn't know where he had gone.

As soon as she left the Pig's Head Bar, Luna was dragged back under the invisibility cloak by Ginny again. She said regretfully: "It's such a pity that I can't see Mr. Al when he's drunk. It must be very interesting."

."

"Yes, it will definitely be interesting." Ginny muttered: "It will be even more interesting if we don't catch Mr. Al. What if the news that it secretly left the school reaches Professor Heimer's ears——

"

At this time, a curious voice interrupted Ginny's thoughts.

"Huh?" Ron, holding a large bag of candy, just walked out of Honeydukes. His eyes widened in shock: "Mr. Al? Why are you here?"

Elton suddenly became even more angry - what's wrong? Can't Xiu Xiu eat sweets? Which law stipulates this?

Ron couldn't understand why Mr. Al suddenly shouted at him. He didn't have anti-monster glasses, so he had to drag Harry over to distract the fire. By the way, Hermione was also there. Since the time turner was taken away, she had

They had more time to enjoy campus life - this made Harry and Ron, who didn't know the secret, feel lucky. They only felt that Hermione in this state was much easier to contact.

Seeing that Mr. Al was about to yell at him, Harry quickly asked: "Where's the invisibility cloak, sir? Why aren't you wearing the invisibility cloak?"

"Oh?" Hermione suddenly became interested: "And there is an invisibility cloak? Mr. Al also needs an invisibility cloak?"

Her eyes became suspicious little by little - Hermione was thinking the same thing as Harry at the beginning - Where does Mr. Al need to use the invisibility cloak to go? It is a professor's assistant in the school, and it almost owns and teaches

With the same power, there is no need to do things secretly.

Ginny is almost scared under the invisibility cloak - what should she do? She is only in her second year now and is not old enough to be allowed to come to Hogsmeade on weekends. What should she do if her parents find out?

Al was stunned for a moment, and it suddenly shook its body. The expression on its face was serious, but it looked a little dissatisfied when staring at Harry.

Then it turned around, sat on a small flying carpet and flew away without looking back.

It was a Niffler, and it wasn't supposed to talk to the wizard. It was normal to do so.

But only Al would think so, and even Ron opened his mouth in surprise: "Mr. Al, is he guilty? Am I right?"

"Of course not." Hermione bit her fingernails and said, "But why would it be?"

Not only Hermione couldn't figure this out, but even Toby didn't know how he came across it.

Just when Al was about to leave to try his luck at Mrs. Puddifu's Teahouse, he suddenly bumped into Toby who had just walked out of Zuko's Joke Shop - God knows why he came here from the Three Broomsticks? Could it be the Black Devil?

Tired of confinement and want harsher punishments?

These are all the voices of the students who saw this scene.

But the reality is completely different from what they thought - after saying goodbye to Fudge and the others, Lupine and Snape also left. It's hard to say whether their arrival helped Toby much, but at least they didn't have to let him go.

He was alone, and sometimes what they said was more credible than Toby's - at least to Fudge, because he couldn't find a reserve prisoner with more bizarre accusations than Toby's.

Then Toby came all the way to Zuko's Joke Shop, not to find inspiration for punishing the students, but just to see if the sales of multi-flavored juices would attract wizards other than students, and maybe he would also meet the owner Zuko

Sir, we have reached some cooperation or something.

This was going smoothly until Toby met Al sneaking out at the door.

"Why are you here?" Toby walked over and said, "Why didn't you tell me in advance? I thought you were helping to rehearse the program at school."

Al fell down on the flying carpet, opened his mouth, and simply screamed: "Yeah!" [I want to ask you again! Aren't you here to find Fudge? Why did you carry me here secretly?

Buy—well, buy these gadgets—eh, what are those?] He suddenly turned his head and stared at a pair of dentures displayed in the window and asked.

"Bite braces." Toby happened to be curious about the function of that pair of dentures, so after asking his boss, he knew what they were for: "As long as you put them on, you can grow shark-like fangs, and you can go back and forth."

It keeps biting, and it is said that it can even break stones."

"Yeah!" Al opened his teeth and claws excitedly, shouting that I want to give it a try.

"No problem, no problem." Toby took out a few silver coins from Al's belly pocket and said, "Anyway, the price is not expensive, about four coins, I can't remember clearly.

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Al sat on the small flying carpet and flew towards the door of the store, but found that the distance did not change at all.

"ah?"

When it looked back, it found that Toby was holding on to the edge of the flying carpet, looking very angry: "I knew you were hiding something from me, otherwise how could you even take money from your pocket?"

Don’t care? At least you have to protest twice!”

Al quickly wanted to make up for it - of course not to apologize to Toby or anything, but to make up for the protest process - but it was too late. Toby picked it up from the flying carpet and shook it hard, and found that it was from the belly.

Nothing unexpected came out of the pocket, but a black notebook was suddenly blocked by something - but there was obviously nothing there, like a transparent wall.

The notebook suddenly opened automatically, and words appeared on it: "Ginny, dear, is it you? Save me, come and save me, Ginny! Toby Highmore is crazy, he-"

Before little Tom in the diary could tell all his sufferings, Toby closed the diary tightly and hit it twice with his fist - this was obviously not an ordinary fist, Ginny saw it with helpless eyes.

The diary looked like it was about to be broken into pieces, and it was about to fall apart.

But Ginny's mind just went blank.

What the hell? Why does that diary know my name? Does it know me?

No - now is not the time to think about this kind of problem, Professor Heimer found us!

Toby stared at the empty ground. He rubbed his chin and said, "If I guessed correctly, it should be Harry's invisibility cloak. I have already guessed that this invisibility cloak is different and different from the others."

Invisibility cloaks are a little different and hard to spot - come on out, Miss Weasley, or are you going to find a place where no students are watching and don't want them to discover this cloak?"

What else could Ginny do?

All her hopes were dashed, and she soon turned her mind to a few more confinements, hoping that Mr. Al could help them beg for mercy.

She was just about to lift off the invisibility cloak when she suddenly found Luna beside her taking out another notebook - this was Pandora's notebook. The personalities in it were very real. If Luna hadn't told her that it was all because of Professor Heimer's help, Jin

Ni thought Luna's mother really turned into a book.

After Luna took out her notebook, something magical happened - she drew a simple face on one of the blank pages, some of which looked like paintings drawn by a beginner, but the mouth was the best - and then

The mouth opened and a sound came out.

"I think you made the mistake of blaming me, Toby."

Ginny was so shocked that she couldn't speak, and even Toby's palms froze for a moment - he was originally going to take the initiative to lift the invisibility cloak.

"Pandora?" Toby asked tentatively in a low voice. He turned around and glanced at Al suspiciously: "Did you ask Al to take you out secretly?"

"That's what happened!" Pandora's tone became cheerful: "It's too boring to stay in the castle all day, so I thought about going out and walking around - but I have no legs, and Al is very tired.

I happily agreed to do this favor for me——"

It's a pity that Pandora couldn't see the expression on Al's face - its mouth was wide enough to fit a whole piece of pie, and the look of shock didn't look fake at all.

Toby lifted off the invisibility cloak.

"Then, I met you - wait, is that you, Toby? So, you saw me and you saw Luna? Well, can you agree to my last request? Can you please?

Lock them up for a few days. I really don’t like being in the same room with your skeletons. They always remind me of what I will look like after death. Toby? Toby?"

Toby said nothing, but the expression on his face was serious.

Five minutes later, Ginny, who had her head lowered, followed Toby to the Hog's Head Bar again. There were no customers inside. Aberforth behind the bar didn't say much after discovering that Toby was here this time, which annoyed everyone.

Al was unhappy.

"Four bottles of butterbeer."

"Eight Sickles."

The dirty bottles were brought up, and Toby wiped away the dust with his wand, then placed two of the bottles in front of Luna and Ginny, and took one himself.

Al naturally stretched out his paw to take the last bottle, but Toby immediately slapped it away with his finger.

"Yeah!" It complained angrily about the injustice it suffered.

"Only milk." Toby said angrily, "I can heat it up for you at most."

After Al curled his lips and drank the hot milk, the atmosphere suddenly became quiet.

"Ahem."

Toby coughed twice and asked in a less weird tone: "So, when did this start?"

"What time?" Luna raised her head and said, with foam still on her lips.

"I mean Pandora." Toby finally asked: "When did Pandora start to be able to speak?"

"It's been a while." Pandora's mouth appeared on the pages of the notebook again, and she answered herself: "It's really magical when you think about it carefully - how did you do it, Toby? Do you still have those magical feathers left?

?If I get a few more, maybe I can really grow hands and feet."

Silently, Ginny imagined the scene - slender limbs growing next to the diary. She was not as tall as Mr. Al. She walked unsteadily and might fall down at any time.

It fell on the table with a sound.

She almost couldn't help laughing, the corners of her mouth twitching violently, repeatedly swinging between twitching and expressionless.

"Well" Toby suddenly had nothing to say.

But he really didn't expect those black feathers to have such a magical effect.

Originally, he thought it would be amazing to have Pandora appear in the form of a diary - but now? She has grown a mouth!

After a while, will Toby be able to see Pandora's ghost with his own eyes?

So what should Toby do?

After being attacked by a basilisk last semester, Toby himself used a black feather.

Will he also see his own ghost? One morning, it suddenly floats out of his mind and greets him with a smile.

"Yes." Toby said in a brisk tone: "The reason why I didn't tell you in advance is to give you a surprise - just wait and see, the real surprise is yet to come."

"Really, Professor?" Luna asked with wide eyes, "How long do we have to wait?"

"It's hard to tell clearly." Toby said with a troubled face: "It's also hard to judge - but if there are any signs of changes in Pandora, you can come to me early, and it should be clear by then."

Ginny couldn't believe that she and Luna were not punished in any way. After drinking a bottle of Butterbeer, they left the Hog's Head Bar smoothly. Under the cover of Professor Hemmer, they entered Honeydukes' secret passage and returned to Hog.

Watts.

By the way, Toby now also knows the secret of this secret passage, and he also discovered the Marauder's Map that Al borrowed from the twins - it looks really good.

But now is not the time to study maps.

After returning to Hogwarts, Toby and Al hurriedly left, saying goodbye to Ginny, Luna, and Pandora.

Then they wandered around the castle, choosing places where there were few people.

finally--

"Okay, okay, I didn't expect him to be the first ghost discovered. We have no choice now, right?"

While Al was trying to hold back his laughter, Toby waved his hands and shouted: "Barrow! Hey! Don't go, I have something to ask you!"

Bloody Barrow's body slowly withdrew from the wall. He floated slowly in front of Toby. The blood stains on his clothes were very clear. He stared at Toby with his dull eyes and asked in a dull voice:

"I knew you would figure it out one day, Toby Highmore, become the ghost of Slytherin and help me end this fate that will never end."