Archaeologists at Hogwarts

Chapter 254 Professor Diggory

Of course Cedric thought he had heard wrongly. How could he possibly be able to teach Professor Heimer?

"If you don't mind, I'd like to ask more about the auto-casting wand -"

"Of course I don't mind. Will this be our first lesson? It's a good start - come here, you sit here."

Toby held Cedric's shoulders and pushed him behind the desk. Cedric was so frightened that he quickly braked with his feet and pressed his legs tightly against the floor.

"No, professor, I-how can I sit in your seat?"

"Then it's yours now." Toby said cheerfully, and easily pressed Cedric on the sofa chair behind the desk, making him fidgety.

Then Toby took out a pocket watch, stared at the star hands on it and said, "There is still an hour until get out of class officially ends. Tell me, what are you going to teach me?"

Cedric opened his mouth, but he couldn't say a word. Until now, he thought he was dreaming.

"Stop joking, Professor." Cedric wanted to stand up, but was pushed back down by a pair of small claws.

"Mr. Al!" he said in surprise, remembering that he had a helper: "Please help me persuade Professor Heimer. This must have nothing to do with the teacher recognition meeting. Professor Heimer is just joking, right?"

Al shook his head seriously, looked left and right, and suddenly took out a pair of glasses with half-moon lenses from his belly pocket, hung them on his face, and looked at Cedric through the lenses with his eyes, his expression unreadable.

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This imitation was so much like Principal Dumbledore that Cedric didn't even have to guess, he could tell it at a glance.

A strange idea came to his mind.

"You mean -" he asked with a strange look in his eyes: "This is all Principal Dumbledore's idea?"

"Yeah!" Al nodded with satisfaction.

Cedric's guess was absolutely correct. All the ideas were provided by the principal - allowing students to in turn pass on knowledge to professors, and then make evaluations based on it - this was really a novel teacher recognition meeting.

I don't believe anything like this has ever been held at Hogwarts before.

He took out a black diary in a decent manner, and took out a quill pen, as if he was going to take notes seriously, and he looked decent.

Cedric thought he was hallucinating--no longer because of Professor Heimer's bizarre behavior, but because--

"Professor, it seems to be calling for help. Did I hear it wrong?"

Cedric looked at the diary in confusion and asked.

"Really?" Toby acted as if nothing unusual had happened at all. He picked up the diary and slapped it twice on the table. When he picked it up again, it had become wrinkled.

"Not anymore," Cedric said, shrinking back.

"One more thing!" Toby suddenly said loudly, which almost made Cedric turn over in fright.

"I'm not the professor now, you are." Toby looked at Cedric and said, with a smile on his lips, and he didn't seem dissatisfied at all: "Don't be too busy refusing, this is the rule. And

——To be honest, I have also lived through your age. When I was in school, I felt that some professors were hopelessly stupid. This may be an exaggeration, but I still often feel that some professors are hopelessly stupid.

Maybe you are not as good as me, and your understanding of magic is too one-sided - haven't you had the same feeling, Professor Diggory?"

I don't know if it was because he was not used to this title, but Cedric shook his head honestly and replied dryly: "No, Professor."

The atmosphere became a little awkward.

This was not the reaction Cedric should have had after Toby said something heartbreaking.

"Really?" Toby frowned subconsciously: "I don't believe you have never been overconfident once. Think about it, your grades are so good, your appearance is not bad, and you can play Quidditch well - this

Why does it remind me of another person - forget it, if nothing else, how do you view everything around you?"

Cedric's eyes widened. This seemed to be the first time he heard Professor Heimer praise someone so directly. This immediately made him feel embarrassed and even his voice became softer:

"It's just school life, Professor. I've always done what I should do. I don't think there's anything special about it."

Toby seemed to have forgotten about the identity reversal. He stared at Cedric closely, wanting to know the true thoughts hidden by Cedric from his face and his mind.

However, the result is nothing.

Cedric really thinks so - in the face of the excellent results he has obtained, he only regards it as a normal part of life. If I have to say, helping Hufflepuff House win more honors is actually

All his selfishness.

Toby looked at Cedric several times, as if he was meeting this student for the first time.

It was hard not to think of another person, a person who showed off his skills on the Quidditch pitch. He was noticed wherever he went and made the limelight everywhere - of course it was James, who had very good grades when he was in school.

, and the ball was played beautifully——

Well, besides James, there is actually another person, and that is Sirius.

Before he could truly see his own heart, Toby was no different from ordinary students, even worse than Neville in the first grade. He could only watch these people become the focus of the students from a distance - for this reason

He was confused for a long time. Would anyone really like them? Could it be that they were deliberately teasing and ridiculing them?

It can only be said that the experience when he first entered school made Toby suspicious everywhere, and many external performances made it difficult to gain his trust.

But no one thought that someone would really like them.

This even includes Lily, who is married to James, which is incredible.

"That's weird." Toby muttered under his breath.

He couldn't figure out why two people who were so similar in many places were so different inside - or were they actually the same?

Cedric, and James are actually the same?

But Toby thought about that full moon night when he was in school. He saw with his own eyes that James actually wanted to rescue Snape from Remus who turned into a werewolf. They had always been enemies, and later

Snape has always been unwilling to admit this, and has been looked down upon by Toby a little bit since then - he believes that he must understand his own heart in order to truly master powerful magic, otherwise there will be no good results.

"Professor?" Cedric asked carefully. He originally didn't want to disturb Toby's thinking, but - they had been sitting in silence for ten minutes, and every moment made Cedric feel more and more uneasy.

, want to adjust the position back as soon as possible.

Toby didn't look bothered at all. Instead, he looked much friendlier than usual. He smiled and said, "No, you are the professor. If you ask me, you should take advantage of this opportunity. Remember, the professor is

You can ask students questions.”

Cedric vaguely understood something, and his eyes lit up little by little.

"Ahem, let's talk about the automatic magic wand." He took the time to say: "According to the Swallow-tailed Dog Law in "Magic Theory", many times magic is not as simple as it seems on the surface. For example, the Swallow-tailed Dog is dealt with

After losing its tail, it will be regarded as an ordinary dog ​​in the Muggle world, but the swallow-tailed dog has not really changed——"

As Cedric recited skillfully, Al looked back slightly cautiously, and only felt relieved when he found that his tail was still there.

At this time, Toby interrupted: "Do you want to say that the essence of magic circle and magic war is the same, and it is possible for them to coexist peacefully?"

Cedric nodded excitedly. It was because of this rule that he was unwilling to give up the idea of ​​making an automatic casting wand. That made no sense and wouldn't work.

"Actually -" Toby shook his head and said: "I discovered very early on that we can't use today's theories to study ancient magic. It doesn't work at all. I didn't mean to question Adebe.

· Woflin (author of "Theory of Magic"), I actually met him in person, and it was a very interesting conversation. In the end, we agreed that magic made the difference - you heard that right, magic

He changed it, and that’s why we have the current "Magic Theory". This is also the reason why I have always insisted on my own ideas. He gave me a lot of encouragement."

Cedric asked curiously: "How did you know him?"

"About this matter-" Toby's expression was a little helpless: "Well, I actually met him when I was being reprimanded in the fourth grade. Mr. Woflin and Principal Dumbledore are very good friends, as early as

I corresponded frequently with the principal when he was a student, and I wanted to do the same. Unfortunately, Mr. Wofflin was too old, so communication was difficult. He has been dead for nearly ten years now.

What a pity, otherwise I would have liked to see him write an "Ancient Theory of Magic" with my own eyes."

After the atmosphere was low for a while, Toby took the initiative to bring up the topic and said: "In addition, regarding the research on ancient magic, you must know that magic also has oppositions - to be precise, there is an oppositional relationship when magic is manifested.

, like five-legged monsters who don't want to become wizards - I like to use this example so much, they are so magical, more magical than vampires and werewolves put together - they can never change back, they will be there for the rest of their lives.

They can only remain as monsters, and they are also very dangerous - it's a pity that the island they live on has been cast an unmarkable spell, so we can't see them with our own eyes."

Cedric understood the meaning of Toby's words, and he said frustratedly: "Are you saying that the magic circle and the wand are also opposites?"

"It's not impossible." Toby spread his hands and said: "We can think of the wand as a magical item evolved from the scepter - but the scepter also indicates ritual magic, and ritual magic and magic circles have many contradictions.

Relationship, illogical and mind-numbing meticulousness, this alone is enough to make many wizards unwilling to take another look at the magic circle - that's why my books sell so poorly, it's really believable, they don't know

What kind of wealth have I missed?"

Cedric had reservations about this. Of course he had read Professor Heimer's work, which was indeed difficult to understand and not interesting at all - but the magic circle was aimed at the biggest shortcoming of wizards - logical adaptability.

Very bad.

Just like this. When Cedric heard the whooshing sound coming from the window, his first thought was not to lower his head and lie on the table to avoid it. Instead, he immediately turned his head curiously, and his tone was full of surprise: "Sea

Professor Mo, that is--did I read it correctly?"

Toby walked to the window. He looked out the window at the figures flying in the air and said, "Yes, you read that right. That was either the Dementor who learned to fly on the first day, or it could only be Severus."

- His flying skills are still so bad. Let me tell you, he was like this when he was in school. No matter what he tried, it didn't work. He would be thrown out by the broom every time - just like now - "

Cedric shouted in horror: "Professor Snape is flying towards us!"

"No, it was thrown away." Toby corrected him. He moved slightly out of the way, just in time to avoid Snape who smashed the glass window into pieces.

Snape hit the desk with a loud thud, which was extremely painful just from the sound.

"It's a pity that the Pharaoh's coffin is gone." Toby rubbed his chin and said, "Otherwise we would have saved ourselves a lot of trouble - forget it, it should be too late to do it now."

"I won't die even if you die!" Snape raised his head and said fiercely, his face was bruised and bruised, obviously the impact was serious.

He climbed down from the table in embarrassment, leaving things everywhere. When he passed by Cedric who stood up helplessly, he warned him with his eyes, probably not to tell anyone about what happened today.

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Then Snape looked around and saw that Toby was holding the broom.

"Eh?" Toby looked at the broom carefully and said, "Isn't this - that person's broom? Why is it here with you? Is this also a deliberate arrangement by the principal?"

Snape could already tell who "that person" was from Toby's tone. It could only be Sirius.

"How dare he tease me like this!"

Snape's face turned pale with anger, and he ignored the broom. Even though it was a very rare rocket crossbow, it was not worth mentioning in his eyes.

"Here you go." Toby then threw the broom to Cedric, who caught it hurriedly.

"G-G-Give it to me?" Cedric couldn't even speak clearly. This is a rocket crossbow. It is said that a famous team has reserved several of them in advance. Cedric was still repeating it outside the display window.

I have seen models with the same proportions several times.

"Yeah." Toby said with a smile: "Don't worry, this is actually my broom. It was originally supposed to be used as a prize - but, Harry has a new broom anyway. I remember that decisive time is

The day when Hufflepuff competes with Gryffindor? You must behave well then and don't embarrass Hufflepuff House, Professor Diggory."

Cedric grabbed the Firebolt, looking even more shocked than before.

Isn't he really dreaming?