Archaeologists at Hogwarts

Chapter 304 The new principal

No one in the school knew that the principal had become Toby, and they did not always appear together in front of the crowd, which further reduced Toby's suspicion.

At the same time, this did not delay Toby's time to teach the students.

In the ancient magic class.

"You've done well in the first half of term, kids."

Toby praised the students sitting below: "Now all the students have mastered the use of the scepter in advance, and have also successfully learned the ancient magic divination methods, which is very good."

The students were extremely quiet.

Did they hear it correctly? Was Professor Heimer actually praising them?

Just as they gradually relaxed, they heard Professor Heimer continue: "Although I don't belong to a specific college, I still hope to see you win more points for your college in the selection of the Teachers' Commendation Ceremony.

So, starting from today, I officially announce that this will become our main course in the second half of the semester - to cope with the final assessment of the Teacher Appreciation Ceremony. It happens that the assessment content is related to ancient magic, and I am also the assessor. What a coincidence.

Already."

Ron was stunned for a moment. He raised his hand stupidly and asked, "Excuse me, Professor, do you mean to say that our exams have changed from one to several?"

"That's it." Toby said with a smile on his face: "I know no one forces you to participate in every assessment, but the principal suddenly changed his mind. He thought it would be better to let the students be more exposed to ancient magic.

——After all, this is a sensitive period. You should have all heard about Grindelwald’s escape from Nurmengard. Maybe one day you will have to face him personally——Oh, by the way, there are also

,don’t you want to learn more ancient magic?”

Judging from the expressions on the students' faces, they felt from the bottom of their hearts that this was not a good idea.

Who would have thought that Professor Heimo would change his mind? Didn't he promise that as long as he successfully mastered the scepter, he could pass this year's exam?

Why are there still teachers commending themselves like this?

"Work harder, my little warriors." Toby encouraged: "Don't cry in despair, think about the bright side. If you have any good ideas and implement them smoothly, you may be able to improve your works."

Add to the wish box. Gold, sparkling gold is waiting for you - forget it, it's better for you to see it with your own eyes - Al, bring them in."

The door to the classroom was pushed open, and Al floated in front on a small flying carpet, followed by George, Fred, and Wood who were holding on to smiles.

It seems that this is not the first time they have done this kind of work.

Toby asked the three of them to stand in front of the students, then pulled out a piece of parchment and read: "In recognition of the lucky charms made by Mr. Weasley, Mr. Weasley, and Mr. Wood, hereby give each person an additional reward.

The reward of hundreds of galleons. Even though the quantity is not as good as Miss Lovegood’s anti-monster glasses, this is because the lucky charm appeared a little late and there will be more in the future.”

Under Ron's envious eyes, Al took out three small bags from his belly pocket and placed them in the hands of three people one by one.

But I don't know if it was an illusion, but when they left, Ron seemed to have a glimpse of Mr. Al asking for the three small bags again.

No matter what, the effect of this gold reward is still very significant. In the following class, the students were like chicken blood, trying desperately to transform their scepters into various forms. Animals, it's a pity that no one succeeded.

Especially Hermione, she suddenly found that her ability had become weaker. Except for the one time she succeeded on the night of the full moon, she had never transformed into such a lifelike cat or cat.

"What's wrong?"

Hermione was hiding in the abandoned girls' bathroom on the second floor. After checking that Myrtle was not here, she took out the time turner and planned to go back in time as usual so that she could attend Arithmetic Divination class at the same time.

But this time she got dizzy and couldn't help but think half-heartedly about the reason why the transformation failed.

Oops!

Hermione looked at the clock hanging on the wall and the hourglass around her neck in horror.

She set the time wrong and it was an extra hour!

This frightened Hermione so much that she tried to remember what she had done in the extra hour. Professor McGonagall had clearly told her about the consequences of facing her past - many wizards thought they had encountered the dark side. Magic accidentally killed the past or future self.

Of course, Hermione may not do this. She knows that she has a time turner, but others may not think so - especially Professor Highmore. If Professor Highmore meets the redundant version of herself, she will. Will he be arrested and mistakenly thought to be Grindelwald's spy?

But whatever I'm afraid of will happen.

Hermione, who was hiding in the bathroom, heard the bathroom door open and then close quickly.

At the same time, Professor Heimer's voice sounded, causing Hermione to cover her mouth in fear.

"Can you tell me whether this method is feasible - asking Dumbledore to meet Grindelwald? Can we get more secrets out of him?"

"Yeah" Al showed some hesitation, and he was not sure.

"Then there's nothing we can do." Toby sighed, and then there was no movement.

Hermione felt that her heartbeat was too loud, ringing in her ears like a drum, beating non-stop.

She listened with bated breath for a while. The bathroom door opened and then closed, and then she was finally able to take a long breath.

But what did Professor Heimer just say? What does it mean to ask the principal to see Grindelwald? Does the professor know where Grindelwald is hiding?

She pushed open the compartment door in confusion, and the expression on her face froze the next second.

Toby was standing in front of her with his arms folded, his hair hanging in front of his eyes, and his eyes and gaze could not be seen clearly. Al sat on the small flying carpet and floated next to his head, with a human smile on his lips, and slapped Hermione. Say hello: "Yeah!"

Hermione's legs gave way and she fell crookedly, but was held steady by a pair of big hands.

"Professor." There was a cry in Hermione's tone: "I——"

"Miss Granger." Toby interrupted without any doubt: "I remember I just met you in the corridor, and you showed up here again. Is it possible that you still have abilities that Dumbledore doesn't have?"

"I -" Hermione didn't know whether to tell her about the time turner.

At this time, the bell for class came from outside, and the corridor became quiet.

"Follow me." Toby turned around and said.

Hermione thought Professor Heimer was going to take her to the office, but what she didn't expect was that he walked to the faucet in the bathroom instead.

She remembered that there was an entrance here, which was connected to Slytherin's Chamber of Secrets, and it was also the place where she, Ron and Harry were imprisoned.

When they were in the second grade, the three of them were so smart that they almost accidentally injured Professor Heimer who was dealing with a basilisk, and were then locked up for a whole night.

That was really impressive.

"I was wrong, Professor!" Hermione cried out. Even if it was Professor Hemmer's office, the secret room was unacceptable. It was too scary, and there was a corpse of a basilisk.

Al was startled by Hermione's cry. Toby also turned around and looked at her, saying in a strange tone: "What's your mistake? Isn't it a time turner? I never said I wanted it."

Punish you. Besides, you didn’t do anything wrong. At most, it was——”

He glanced at the time on the clock: "It's an extra hour. If I don't come, you can just hide here for an hour. You don't have to worry about anything."

Hermione stopped crying and looked at Professor Heimer blankly. It turned out that he had known it for a long time, but why did he still scare her just now?

"It was Al's idea." Toby said casually: "It wants to play a joke on you. Plus, did you just hear the conversation between us?"

"A little bit." Hermione said honestly, and stared at Al complainingly, making him feel embarrassed.

"Now that you know." Toby said slowly.

"But I don't know anything." Hermione said innocently: "I don't understand what you just said, and Grindelwald, I don't want to know where he is hiding, but

-Do you really know where he is?"

Toby stared at Hermione for a moment.

"No." He said: "I don't know either, it's just a simple idea - forget it, you'd better stop following me and go to the Ancient Magic Office as soon as possible, avoiding this hour first."

Hermione didn't know if what Professor Hemmer said was true, but she had learned how to avoid her curiosity. Many experiences had proved that students like them were not necessarily smarter than the professor.

After Hermione left, Toby and Al looked at each other, and he saw confusion and curiosity in Al's eyes.

Al didn't understand why Toby suddenly changed his mind again.

"I thought of a better way." Toby said, he used Parseltongue to open the passageway of the secret room, and got in together with Al.

In the hall of the secret chamber, Grindelwald was still the same as before. As soon as he saw Toby, he asked: "Have you brought me any new news?"

"There are some." Toby said calmly: "I originally thought of an idea - since you are unwilling to tell the truth in front of me, what if I pretend to be Dumbledore? For this reason, I also thought of a request

A student came to assist me, but later I discovered that students should not be involved, and it is difficult to avoid that you will not see it."

"However, others may not believe it."

Grindelwald stared at Toby with interest until he saw Toby take a polyjuice potion, then change into Dumbledore's witch robe, and finally asked Al to take out a camera, he finally couldn't help it.

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"What are you going to do?" Grindelwald asked warily.

"I want to make Hogwarts safer," Toby said.

He let the armor control Grindelwald to a corner so that no one could see the specific location, and then let the armor lead Grindelwald to the floor, as if he was helpless.

"Good night." Toby cast a stun spell on the struggling Grindelwald, making him fall asleep immediately.

Then, in the "click" sound of the camera, a photo of Dumbledore, who was exceptionally tall, facing Grindelwald, who did not know whether he was alive or dead, was left behind.

——

In the next three days, the students unexpectedly discovered that neither Professor Highmore nor Principal Dumbledore was missing. Even Mr. Al, who usually filled in for Professor Highmore, was not at school. No one knew where they were going.

Where is it?

It wasn't until the fourth day that Toby returned to school dragging his seriously injured body. As soon as he came back, he was surrounded by professors in the school.

Headmaster Sprout of Hufflepuff House carefully helped Toby to the school hospital. She and Ms. Pomfrey carefully checked Toby's injuries. Both of them were surprised that Toby could survive like this.

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"Where have you been?" Dean McGonagall asked nervously, "Where is Dumbledore? Why didn't he come back with you?"

"Headmaster, he, he." Toby's weak tone made people think that he was about to die. Professor Flitwick screamed in horror, and Hagrid's cry spread throughout the corridor.

"he got hurt."

Toby's next words almost made these people choke to death. He continued under Snape's particularly suspicious eyes: "The headmaster was seriously injured, ten thousand times more serious than me. He won't be able to come back for a while."

, we have to wait until the injury heals."

"But we brought back Grindelwald's body."

For a moment, the atmosphere in the school hospital was stagnant.

"What did you say?" Snape suddenly stepped forward and said, "Whose body did you bring back?"

"Gellert Grindelwald, that's him." Toby kept coughing up blood and said, "He died. He died in the hands of the principal. I didn't even have time to stop him. It was already too late."

"He said he wanted to end the war that hadn't started yet, and I don't think anyone who was there could stop him."

"He finally told me to let me be the acting principal of Hogwarts, and the rest will be discussed when he comes back."

Before these people could ask more questions, Toby passed out.

The professors in the school hospital looked at each other, especially Snape and Lupin, who had the most complicated expressions on their faces.

"This is impossible!" Snape roared, looking very excited, and then he was quickly stopped by McGonagall, who forcefully took him out of the school hospital so as not to disturb Toby's rest.

In the afternoon of the same day, the disgraced Ayr came back with Grindelwald's body, and what he said was exactly the same as Toby's description.

In fact, he originally wanted to add an additional sentence, asking himself to be the vice principal, but unfortunately Toby vetoed it.

Then the next day, a new article was published in "The Quibbler"——

[The Dark Lord’s Nemesis—Albus Dumbledore, and Toby Highmore.]

Among them, the photos taken in the secret room were printed on the headlines of every magazine, completely overshadowing the "Daily Prophet".

At the same time, Dumbledore's reputation is higher than ever before, and the voices in the ministry calling for Fudge to step down are becoming more and more obvious - he is truly the most incompetent minister in history. Not only did he misjudge Green

DeVoe's situation allowed Dumbledore to solve all the troubles in advance before he even had to do anything.

And Hogwarts finally welcomed a new principal——

The venerable Professor Toby Heimer.