Archaeologists at Hogwarts

Chapter 309 Whose soul?

Cedric and Harry were both seekers, but the Chadley Cannons' missing players were not only the seeker, but also a goalkeeper. There was no other way, so Cedric had to use the seeker who didn't need much physical confrontation.

Give the seat to Harry.

He was worried at first, worried that this would interfere with the team's battle plan.

However, the Chadli Cannons, who lost to the Rangers, had no battle plan at all.

Before the game started, as the team captain, Gjeon said to the audience, "Let us all cross our fingers and look forward to the most glorious moment."

Then they were beaten by the Holyhead Harpies.

This was truly a complete defeat. Harry had never been so desperate in a game.

Not only does he have to avoid Bludgers from the opposing team, he also has to be careful on his own side.

What's even worse is Cedric, who deflected his own team's quaffles more times than the opponent's. For a while, he couldn't even tell the number of people on the enemy team - whether it was seven or eleven.

In other words, Gjeon was considered relatively honest, but he also almost didn't get his head blown off by a bat from his team's batsman.

This was a match between three people and eleven people, and it was not until the illegal fighting in the second half that Harry felt the warmth from his own team members - if we only judged the fighting, they were still good players, but very difficult.

He was sent off soon, and he didn't have time to cause too many problems to the opposing team - at most, he lost a few hairs, replaced the torn witch robe with a new one, and smoothed the tail of his broom.

The final game ended with a score of 20:370. Harry had a chance to catch the Golden Snitch, but unfortunately it was knocked away by a batsman from the Cannon Team, which almost broke Harry's finger.

"It doesn't matter."

After the game, Gjeon was even in the mood to comfort the two little guys. He said with a smile: "I feel that our strength is almost equal to that of the Rangers. This can be considered an improvement."

Harry was gasping and unable to speak. Cedric looked at the Holyhead Harpies who were not even celebrating perfunctorily, and he felt no reluctance at all.

The other members of the artillery team were already discussing going to the bar for a drink.

The audience on the court began to leave one after another. Slughorn stood up after reflecting on the fierce game for a while. He said to Toby intentionally or unintentionally: "You must notify me when Albus comes back."

, retirement days are slowly becoming boring.”

"Boring?" Toby deliberately stood next to Snape and said loudly: "Then come back and be the Dean of Slytherin. It happens that there is an old guy in the school who wants to retire - of course, he will definitely retire voluntarily.

.”

Snape stared at Toby with unkind eyes, and he said gloomily: "If you really have so much free time, you'd better take more care of your proud disciple."

"Ah, Severus." Toby turned around and patted his shoulder hard and said: "Of course, of course I will take care of you. You will retire tonight, and I guarantee that your pension will be paid to you in time.

Yes, it will definitely allow you to live a good life in Spider End Alley."

Snape angrily shook off Toby's palm, and Slughorn said goodbye to them cheerfully, but at the end he glanced at the castle with some reluctance.

The game was over, and Snape, the referee, had nothing to do, but Toby still had things to do.

He came to the players' lounge and saw the Cannon team members who were enthusiastically praising each other, as well as Harry and Cedric huddled in the corner.

"The shot you made just now was awesome, definitely at the World Cup level!"

"Your pitch is not bad, it's so fast that I can't even see it clearly!"

"Please give way."

Toby walked through the crowd while shouting. He found Gjeon and asked: "How are they? Are these two little guys okay?"

"Excellent!" Ge Jieen said excitedly: "Can these two kids sign the contract now - I can fire the two guys who didn't come when I go back!"

Harry and Cedric were immediately panicked.

"No!" Harry shouted quickly: "I usually have to go to class!"

"Don't worry." Ge Jieen insisted: "We don't have that many games to play in normal times. Each game can be moved to the weekend."

"But we are not adults yet!" Cedric said desperately.

"Where are the guardians?" Gjeon looked eager to try: "I am best at persuading others. You may not know that I built this entire team by myself, and I am the only one in the league without a team manager.

team!"

There was a proud expression on his face, as if he regarded this as some kind of bragging rights.

Fortunately, the kind-hearted Professor Haimer took action in time.

"You can wait and see." He said with a smile on his face: "You still have two college teams that you haven't seen yet - by the way, since you said that the entire team is now built by you, then the deal

Isn’t that right?”

Harry and Cedric looked at the two figures walking away arm in arm. They turned their heads and exchanged glances with horrified looks at the same time - Could Professor Hemmer have really sold them?

No one knew what kind of deal Professor Heimer made with Gjeon, but in the following days, Gjeon would often show up at Hogwarts, almost every day, except for eating in the auditorium.

, the place where students saw him most often was on the Quidditch pitch.

The other academy training team members have heard the news, and once Gjeon appears on the court, they will immediately pretend that they don't know how to play - once Gjeon appeared too suddenly, scaring Flint and running into each other in a hurry.

Draco screamed so much that he lay in the school hospital for several days.

"I said, if you really don't want to join, just say no to Professor Heimer."

In the corridor, Ron followed the sneaky Harry impatiently. Along the way, they had to check every stairwell in advance to avoid being discovered by Gjeon.

"But how should I speak?" Harry lowered his voice and said, "Whether or not you want to join the team is one thing. The key is to bring out that person. That person who looks like my father. I can't refuse before that. I also want to find him."

he."

This is really a dilemma. As long as Harry wants to find James, he must attend every Chadley Cannon game. Who knows which day James will come.

Relatively speaking, Cedric was much worse off.

Harry and Ron stared silently at a figure who was much taller than them as he walked by. The figure picked up his backpack and held it in front of his head. He glanced forward quietly from time to time before continuing to walk forward.

A second later, the figure stepped back again.

Cedric asked suspiciously; "Is Gjeon here today?"

"Here he comes!" Hermione suddenly appeared from the stairs, startling the three of them.

"But he is watching Slytherin's training in the stadium right now, and he doesn't want to disturb you." Hermione turned to Harry and Ron and said, "We should go, hurry up, we won't be able to catch up if we are late."

Today is the day for the trio to learn the Patronus, and Lupine, who has returned, still assumes this responsibility.

Only very few people knew about him being transferred in the first half of the semester, and Harry and the other three were not included. Of course, Sirius didn't mind telling them, but Lupin thought that the fewer people who knew about it,

The better, there is no need to cause more trouble for several children.

When the three Harrys came to the Defense Against the Black Cube professor's office, they found that Professor Lupine was trying to tame the flame bat of unknown origin. Surprisingly, Professor Heimer was also there, and he was trying to persuade Lupine: "

Flame bats are difficult to tame easily. The best way is to find the soil where they live and then apply it on your hands. Only in this way can they feel familiar."

Hermione, who was walking at the back, quietly closed the door, and Toby turned his head in time and said to them: "But the roost of this flame bat, that is, the temple has been almost destroyed, no matter who it is,

, I don’t recommend anyone to explore there again, a chaotic ruins is very dangerous.”

Harry and the others had long known that this flaming bat came from the temple that Professor Hemmer had explored, and it was said that the scepter and the humanoid devil were also obtained from the temple.

Harry and Ron had even seen with their own eyes the photo of Professor Heimer snatching away Angela's scepter in front of the temple.

"It seems that we can only lock it up like this." Lupine stood up and sighed. The flame bat squirmed uneasily in the cage, biting a tooth mark from time to time. Ron grinned when he looked at it, as if it was a tooth mark.

It appeared in my own hands.

In fact, he has already begun to think so - the appearance of the flame bat here cannot be an accident, and Professor Heimer is even less likely to be just a coincidence. They all remember that this flame bat was created by the person suspected of James

It was given to Harry, but Harry didn't stay long before the professor asked him to leave.

This is completely in line with the rules. It is impossible for students to be allowed to keep such a dangerous pet in the school, not to mention that no one knows whether the so-called "James" is dangerous or not.

Now, the Flame Bat and the people who took away the Flame Bat are back.

Will the next lesson ask them to deal with this fire crow bat?

The tragedy of the Pharaoh's mask is still deeply engraved in the hearts of the three children, as well as the mummified rooster.

"Children, the curriculum has temporarily changed."

Lu Ping announced as soon as he came up, which made the three people's hearts skip a beat.

"I have already taught you everything I can teach you about the Patronus Charm. All that is left is continuous practice. However, Professor Heimer came to me today and said that he had another good idea."

The three of them looked at Professor Heimer silently, waiting for the other person to tell him what this good idea was.

"Don't cry and look sad." Toby saw through their thoughts at a glance and said, "Just considering your current progress, I think your time can be used in more useful ways."

schedule?

What else could be the progress?

The three of them immediately lowered their heads like students who had done something wrong.

They didn't make any progress in learning the Patronus. Hermione occasionally succeeded in summoning silver smoke a few times, but nothing happened after that.

"It's not your fault." Toby said in a rare gentle tone: "The Patronus Charm is still too difficult for you. It is easy to understand. Maybe you have to wait until you are in a higher grade. It seems that

This year’s final assessment also needs to be put aside first.”

"Huh?" Lupine turned around and asked, "Did you originally plan to actually teach the students the Patronus Charm?"

"That's why I changed to the teacher commendation meeting later." Toby rubbed his chin and said, "The patron saint will just wait and see if it is feasible next year."

"You should know that this is difficult for even adult wizards to learn -"

"Listen up, kids."

Before Lupine could finish speaking, Toby interrupted: "You have only one task next, and that is to take good care of this flame bat and find out what secrets it hides."

Lupine shook his head helplessly and said nothing about Toby's decision.

But the trio was a little anxious, especially Ron and Hermione. They had always learned the Patronus Charm to help Harry solve the Horcrux problem. How could they suddenly stop now?

What to do about Voldemort's problem?

Toby carried the cage and walked back to his office with the three people who were hiding a lot of problems. Al was lying on the flying carpet and dozing off. Two skeletons were pushing the flying carpet back and forth, somewhat like they were swinging.

swing.

"I know you have a lot of questions for me."

After the door closed, Toby turned around and said to the three of them: "But now there are more urgent problems to solve, and"

He turned his attention to Harry: "Have you ever thought about it, Harry, that making a Horcrux requires killing innocent people. If I mean if, that night when the mysterious man found your parents, your

My parents survived by luck."

"Then whose soul is it that is hidden in your body?"

Harry opened his mouth in horror, while Ron and Hermione looked at Professor Hemmer in disbelief.

"Is it my mother too?" Harry asked with the last glimmer of hope.

"No." Toby did not leave Harry much time to rejoice. He shook his head and said: "There is no clue about your mother yet. This is just a guess. Now the guess has moved to your father - James

Tom Porter, one of the few insiders, we can only hope to get answers from."

"Talk carefully, this is the clue given to me by the person who is suspected of being James - instead of rushing to see you at the celebration, he gave priority to meeting Black. Maybe the friendship between them is very deep, but no matter

No matter what, this seems too abnormal, as if he is not worried about you at all."

"But how could that be?"

Toby narrowed his eyes and said.

If James Potter really became Grindelwald's subordinate, how could he not know what Voldemort did to Harry?

On that night more than ten years ago, Toby now knew that it was Grindelwald who ordered Peter Pettigrew to reveal the secret.

So is it possible that the Potters had actually turned to Grindelwald and put on a good show for Voldemort because of this leak?

In front of Grindelwald, who is so good at deceiving people, if he is using Harry's life to indirectly threaten the Potters.

This doesn't seem impossible.

But in this case, Harry's problem becomes somewhat unclear.

Whose soul is hidden inside him?