Archaeologists at Hogwarts

Chapter 287 Full Moon Night

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Quietly, Harry walked through the passage and returned to the common room.

"Harry!"

A deliberately low voice startled Harry. He turned his head and looked around, and saw Ron and Hermione emerging from the back of the chair.

"Man, why are you back so late?" Ron yawned and said, "Didn't Filch give you a hard time?"

Hermione said it more simply.

"We need to talk." She said seriously: "Do you have any plans to tell us? Or do you really think you have been pretending well during this period?"

Harry opened his mouth, but found that he couldn't say a word.

What else could he say?

Now that the rune snake's lightning-scarred head has been eaten, it also reminds Harry of his memories as a baby - something that could never have happened happened.

Should he describe the scene in his memory to Ron and Hermione in detail?

No, Harry didn't want to do that at all.

Professor Heimer was right, this was his own choice, but Harry still didn't expect it would be so torturous.

It is almost like the humanoid devil. It is constantly undergoing painful punishment and can never be freed.

"I have to go back and rest." Harry muttered, not even thinking of pretending that nothing happened, leaving Ron and Hermione with a lonely back.

——

At the same time, Toby was sitting in the quiet office, waiting for someone.

"Knock knock knock."

There was a knock on the door, and Lupine, who looked as pale as paper, walked in. He said weakly: "Let's go, Toby, it's tonight. I hope we still have a chance to spend a wonderful Christmas."

"As long as Severus doesn't poison your potion." Toby said as he stood up, and Al naturally jumped on his shoulders.

"Is it going to go too?" Lu Ping shook his head in distress: "You really like to mess around."

"Don't underestimate Al." Toby said while stopping the arrogant Al, "He is my assistant, and to be honest, he is much more competent than you. He can do it even if his tail is frozen."

Don't care."

Lupine glanced at the back of Al's body. His tail was astonishingly short, almost like nothing.

"Okay." He said helplessly, and coughed twice: "I hope you will be careful enough and don't pull my tail when I am groggy."

Al made a face at Lupine, and then the three of them set off together and came to the quiet corridor. On the way, they met Filch who was on patrol at night.

"Are you going...?" Filch looked at the group of people puzzled: "Are you going to find Professor Snape together?"

There was deep suspicion in his tone.

There was nothing that could be done about it. Shortly after Toby joined the company, Filch saw Toby and Snape nearly dueling in the corridor in the middle of the night.

Now, looking at their posture, it seems a bit suspicious.

"Maybe you should go to the trophy room and have a look." Toby said casually: "I just saw Peeves——"

"Peeves?" Before Toby could finish speaking, Filch ran away angrily.

It wasn't until he completely left the gate of the castle that Lupine asked a little weirdly: "Do you usually do this? I don't just mean school, but also when you are doing archaeology."

"What do you want to say?" Toby said nonchalantly: "Don't you think that deceiving a castle administrator is more serious than what we will do soon? Can you imagine if the Ministry of Magic finds out about your secret?

What will happen to Fudge's true identity? He will go crazy, and I guarantee that the celebration will not be held."

Lupine was silent for a while.

"You're right." He admitted in a low voice.

After the relationship between the Ministry of Magic and Hogwarts has finally eased, Lupine's werewolf identity will be another bomb, igniting the war that has finally calmed down again.

Toby looked at the full moon that was gradually filling up in the sky.

"So, the decision you made is not wrong at all. When you transform, someone has to watch you. Have you ever thought that the reason why you divined Black is actually because of his Ani?

Is Magus a big black dog? From some angles, it looks a bit like a fallen werewolf, which may be the key to your being harmed by the curse of your position - because someone else discovers your true identity

He has already revealed his identity and exposed it."

The silence lasted longer this time. The moon was covered by dark clouds and the playground gradually became dark. Toby and Lupine walked silently in the direction of the Whomping Willow.

"It sounds reasonable." After a long time, Lu Ping wondered: "But who could it be? Who else would casually break into the Whomping Willow? I remember that a student was almost blinded when I was in school.

After the eyes, no one will go around there again.”

"What do you think of Severus?" Toby suddenly said: "He hates you, at least he will not willingly help you prepare potions. This will make things much easier, he will not even

If you need to take the initiative to do something, just add a little bit to the wolfsbane potion——"

"Stop talking." Lupine shook his head: "There is nothing wrong with the potion that Snape prepared for me. After all, I have been drinking it for half a semester."

"But this time is different." Toby insisted: "This time, I will go over and watch you. If everything goes well, he may be able to solve two troubles at once - me and you."

"Is this possible?" Lupine asked in surprise: "Did you tell Snape about tonight's events?"

"No." Toby said with strange eyes: "What I'm more curious about is why you don't have any doubts at all. Do you even think that Snape intends to kill me?"

Lupine stared directly at Toby, as if he had told a joke - no need to ask, when they took the carriage to Hogsmeade to see Fudge, the two men almost gave him up too

He was killed by the way.

"That was just an accident." Toby said casually: "He and I have never dealt with each other. Who would want to get close to such a dark wizard?"

"Maybe only something darker will do." Lu Ping smiled slightly, but he soon coughed and was unable to speak.

"Look, let me tell you." Toby stopped him and said, "Snape must have added some ingredients to your potion."

"No, no." Lupine leaned down and said with great effort, "It's my fault. I drank a cup of hot chocolate before coming here. It was really bad. I obviously followed Snape's instructions and didn't add the potion.

Adding sugar, but I didn’t expect it would still cause trouble. It should be fine after a while when I fall asleep.”

Al smacked his mouth twice, and Toby said in amazement: "He is really a pampered werewolf - do you need help? I think you don't want to transform on the playground, right?"

Lupine took a deep breath and said, "Don't worry, there's still enough time - but can you help stop the Whomping Willow?"

Now they were walking near the Whomping Willow, but this was also the beating range of those branches. If they wanted to successfully get into the tree hole passage inside, someone had to hold down a scar on the trunk.

Pettigrew, who can turn into a mouse, was responsible for this kind of thing before, but now he doesn't know which cell he is in.

But of course this kind of small mechanism can't trouble Toby, and even more difficult for Al - it is a real archaeological assistant, and it can't help Toby survive to this day without any skills.

Lupine saw Al quickly jumping off Toby's shoulders. Just when he thought Al would use his nimble posture to break through, he found Al taking out a small shovel from his belly pocket and aiming it carefully in one direction.

He took aim, then threw the small shovel out with a "yeah" sound, chopped down the branches and snow and frost on the ground, and nailed it hard to the scarred position of the tree trunk.

The Whomping Willow paused suddenly, then stopped moving.

"Isn't it beaten to death?" Lu Ping raised his head and said worriedly.

"Then I have to change it to my own shovel." Toby pushed Lupine forward and said, "Hurry up, otherwise the story of more than ten years ago will happen again, and you don't want to

Facing me alone in the passage again? You should understand what I mean. If something really happens to me, you will probably die of guilt."

They slid in through the hole between the tree roots, Lupin first, then Al, and finally Toby.

After Toby slid down, he declined Lupine's extended arm, for fear of accidentally dragging Lupine over again - he was so weak now that he could not even negotiate a landslide, and he could not even breathe when he spoke.

Angry.

He continued the previous topic and said: "You have reminded me. I remember that today is the same as more than ten years ago. They are both on the same day."

"Yeah," Toby patted himself and stood up: "If I wasn't there that day, well - James would have to be included. If both of us were not there, today we should go to Snake.

If you lay flowers on Pu's grave, he died young."

Lupine smiled bitterly, and he and Toby walked deeper into the passage again, and soon became out of breath. But even so, he still had time to ask Toby a question: "I'm still

Remember what you said later - even if you weren't there, James would have saved Snape."

"What, you don't believe it?" Toby asked, raising his eyebrows.

"It's not just me." Lupine shook his head and said, "Everyone knows about the grudge between James and Snape. Even I suspected that it was not just Sirius who planned to frame Snape. James

Maybe he was involved. Can you tell me what made you think that? What broke the bad blood between him and Snape?"

"You should really take a look in the mirror." Toby mocked: "Look at how you look now. You are exactly the same as the principal. He usually talks to me like this. He always wants to make me understand more, but he doesn't understand anything at all.

It has no effect. In fact, I can tell you the reason now - because I saw it, it's that simple."

"Of course Severus was in a very dangerous situation, so I had to show up. Almost at the same time, I saw James preparing to set off to save Severus. It would have been better if I had waited a little longer. By then

Let's see if Severus will be so stubborn and continue to deceive himself and others."

"If you hadn't seen it with your own eyes -" Lupine sighed: "Who would believe this kind of thing? It would be fine if it were someone else, but it would be unimaginable if it were Snape and James."

"It's normal that you don't remember." Toby patted Lupine's shoulder hard several times and said, "After all, you have turned into a werewolf, how many things can you remember."

"I really can't remember." Lu Ping could only admit silently.

They continued walking inside, and on the way Toby took out his wand and cast an illuminating spell to help them see the path under their feet.

After walking for a long time, they turned a corner, and there was a small exit in front of them, with moonlight shining in.

It was a room, a messy, gray room. The wallpaper was peeling off, the floor was stained, the furniture was all broken, as if someone had smashed it in, and the windows were boarded up.

"It looks really bad." Toby looked at it with disgust, and Al kept slapping his little paw back and forth under his nose.

"Something worse than this will happen in a while." Lupine walked into the room habitually and explained: "I rarely have the intention to cast spells here. Once I wake up, I don't want to stay for a second longer.

I just want to leave, so as you can see, this makes this room a little shabby, but fortunately it is very safe."

Toby took a look at the scratches on the wooden board that sealed the window in the moonlight.

"It's indeed safe." He nodded and commented.

Since entering this room, Lupine acted as if he was eager to fall asleep and was unwilling to wake up for another second.

"I will go to the attic bedroom to transform." He said: "Are you going to follow me there, or - I strongly suggest that you don't go there together. If you are just looking after it, you just need to stay in the living room.

, there is absolutely no need to take more risks for this.”

"What a coincidence, I thought so too." Toby was surprisingly easy to talk to: "Did you drink the wolfsbane potion on time?"

"I drank it as soon as Snape brought it to me," Lupine said.

"Then I can put away the big shovel." Toby exaggeratedly breathed a sigh of relief. Lupine looked at him and said in a helpless tone: "This joke is not funny at all. Even if it is true, I hope you will cut it when the time comes."

It was only my tail that fell off, not my head or anything. I'll go up first, you can just do what you want."

He walked through the foyer and up the stairs that were almost collapsing.

Toby and Al heard a noise from upstairs in the living room. It sounded like Lupine had also closed the door to the bedroom tightly. I didn't know whether this was to protect Toby and Al, or to avoid this kind of thing.

Two guys would randomly break in and do some dangerous experiments on themselves.

After the door to the bedroom was closed, Toby found a quiet chair in the living room and sat down, picked up "The Quibbler" and read the latest Quidditch report. Al also watched one by one

Eating Bibi multi-flavored beans, the bite is crunchy.

Time passed minute by minute.

As the full moon approached, a black shadow emerged from Toby's feet, extending from the witch's robe to the floor, and then slowly stood up.

At the same time, several figures quietly appeared from the entrance of the passage - two skeletons, both with and without heads - they were cast with a silent spell and did not make any sound.

A muffled roar began to sound from the rooftop.

Toby listened silently for a while.

It wasn't until the sound slowly stopped that he stood up from his chair and said, "Tonight."

"Let's get started, my dear collections."