Archaeologists at Hogwarts

Chapter 310 Flame Bat

More puzzles emerge one after another.

During Toby's previous attempt (Chapter 247), he successfully discovered the clue that Harry was a Horcrux with the help of Myrtle, and also had some inexplicable connection with Voldemort - the shadow of young Voldemort passed through

Harry seemed to have found his home in his body.

That's why Toby guessed that Harry was a Horcrux accidentally made by Voldemort.

But if the Potters are really still alive, and Voldemort failed to kill anyone on the night he was deceived by Grindelwald, then his process of making Horcruxes is destined to be incomplete - it must be done through killing.

As a result, the source of the other soul in Harry's body becomes confusing - if it doesn't belong to Voldemort, then who else can it be?

Moreover, how did this unknown soul enter Harry's body?

Whose Horcrux is he?

However, all this is just Toby's speculation and cannot be completely confirmed.

And someone who can confirm this guess.

The only remaining insider, apart from Grindelwald who refused to speak, was the only one who was suspicious of James Potter.

Only by finding James and hearing the news from him that Lily is still alive can Toby be proven right.

The other person who experienced this speculation, Harry, had no idea how to think about this issue.

Professor Heimer did not hide anything from him and told Harry all his thoughts, but Harry found that he could not understand what Professor Heimer said more and more.

What does it mean to not be Voldemort's soul?

Who else could it be?

Could it be his father's? Or his mother's?

Or maybe he split into two souls, one belonging to Gryffindor and the other a shrewd Slytherin?

But it's not that important whether he understands the problem or not. Harry only needs to know one thing - all the clues are hidden in the flame bat.

This was a gift given to Harry by the person suspected of being James. Now Professor Heimer asked the trio to abandon the Patronus class that had made no progress at all, and instead focus on this flaming bat.

Toby believes that perhaps only those closest to James can solve this mystery.

——

Since the flame bat is a magical animal, Harry naturally thought of who to ask for help.

Taking advantage of the fact that there was no class on Monday afternoon, Harry left the castle with Ron and came to the playground with his bulging schoolbag on his back.

Hermione also came with them, but before she came she asked some strange questions: "We are going outside the castle, right? Are you sure we won't go back before two o'clock?"

Ron couldn't help but suspect that Hermione was deliberately exposing Crookshanks to keep an eye on him so that Crookshanks would have a chance to eat Diandian (Ron's pet rat).

Just after Ron secretly decided to go back early, he couldn't help but ask Harry again: "Are you sure you want to ask Hagrid for help? Professor Hemmer has already said it, even Newt Scamander

Dedu can't tell what's wrong with this flame bat, and are you sure asking Hagrid isn't doing you a disservice? What if he likes the flame bat and wants to use it to teach us?"

The flame bat looked so much like a fire dragon that it was hard for Ron not to wonder where Hagrid would focus his attention.

"There will be no problem." Harry said with determination: "Don't forget, the number of flame bats is already very small, and Hagrid can't go to the ruins of the temple now. He can't find more flame bats.

Already."

This is a very good reason.

The three of them came to the cabin and knocked on the door hard.

They waited quietly for a while, but there was still no sound from the room.

"The crossbow is still here." Hermione pointed to the giant crossbow placed at the door and said, "It's unlikely that Hagrid went to the Forbidden Forest. It might be nearby. Let's look for it first."

So the three of them walked around the house again, and then came to the paddock next to them, looking through the fence made of fences.

Sure enough, Hagrid was in the paddock, and Fang, who smelled the scent, rushed toward them quickly, almost knocking Harry over.

"Why are you here?" Hagrid walked over and asked, his expression looking a little serious.

"What's wrong with us?" Harry asked curiously.

"There is a small problem." Hagrid frowned and looked into the paddock: "I heard a noise nearby last night, but I don't know who caused the noise, so I plan to try to find out today."

"Isn't it because of the Niffler?" Ron said, "Or is it because of the centaurs? They left the Forbidden Forest?"

He didn't take it too seriously. All those movements were probably caused by Hagrid's "teaching materials".

"They can't be centaurs." Hagrid shook his head and said, "They won't leave the woods casually - forget it, let's talk about your business, I can look for them later."

So Harry stood there and opened his schoolbag, revealing the flaming bat in a cage. Sure enough, Ron was right. Hagrid immediately asked with interest: "Fire dragon?! Ha!"

Li, this is——"

"No! No!" Harry quickly shook his head and denied, "It's not a fire dragon, it's a flame bat. Have you seen this kind of creature before?"

"Fire bat?" Hagrid shook his head with regret: "It's a pity that it's not a fire dragon cub. I have never heard of this kind of animal - can it really not grow bigger?"

"Don't think about it, Hagrid." Hermione said angrily: "Even if you use the Expansion Curse, it won't work."

"Shh." Hagrid reminded sheepishly: "Keep your voice down, don't let others hear you."

Hagrid's wand was originally supposed to be broken, but Harry and the others knew that Hagrid's wand was miraculously preserved and was occasionally used on the big pumpkins needed for Halloween.

They did not leave immediately, because Hagrid was indeed, as Ron thought, very interested in the flame bat. He kept playing with it with his fingers and did not care even if he was bitten several times.

"I think it already knows me." Hagrid was moved: "Maybe I should give it a name specifically to commemorate Norbert."

Harry and Ron exchanged a look, and he felt it was time to leave with the Fire Bat.

At this moment, Hermione, who was standing a little further away, suddenly screamed. She pointed at the hedge behind her and said, "Hagrid, is this the person you are looking for?"

"who?"

Hagrid turned around immediately, and Harry and Ron also turned to look over.

They saw, just inside the dense fence, lying an unknown person.

Captain of the Chudli Artillery Brigade—Mr. Gjeon.

——

"Ah, I'm sorry, I drank too much last night and thought it was the bedroom, but I didn't expect it wasn't—hahahaha."

Gjeon was woken up by Hagrid's forceful shaking. As soon as he got up, he checked the situation around him. From the expression on his face, even he did not expect that he would sleep here.

Yesterday happened to be the match where the Chudley Cannons lost to the Holyhead Harpies. It seemed that no matter how indifferent Gjeon acted at the time, he could not escape the suspicion of drinking to drown his sorrows.

"It's fine." Hagrid also said with a headache: "But how did you get in yesterday?"

Ge Jieen tried hard to think about it for a while, then grinned and said: "I forgot, hahahaha. Once I'm drunk, I often do things that I can't even think of. This time it's okay -

One time I woke up and found that I was not in the UK, but somehow ended up in Egypt - was that a flaming bat? I remember that was the first time I saw a flaming bat with my own eyes - "

"Do you know the Flame Bat?" Harry asked in surprise.

"Oh?" Gjeon was interrupted and asked doubtfully: "Is it more surprising to know it than to travel to Egypt? I didn't expect that our new seeker's brain circuit would be so outrageous - but it is just right for the Chadli Artillery Team.

"

"I didn't say I wanted to join-"

Before Harry could finish his thoughts, Hermione suddenly stopped him and said, "Can you be more detailed, sir? This is an important factor in whether Harry can join the team and determines his future."

"Oh?" Ge Jieen suddenly became serious: "Then I have to talk about it carefully, but before that - do you have anything to eat?"

He touched his stomach and looked at the castle from a distance with hopeful eyes: "I remember that it seems that it will be lunch time for a while, but I am almost starving."

Hagrid immediately agreed to the matter.

In the cabin, Ge Jieen stared at the rock biscuit in his hand with strange eyes. He picked up another piece and bumped the two biscuits together. As a result, he couldn't push the two biscuits together even with all his strength.

Crack a biscuit.

"Okay, I've seen your new bat." He put the biscuits back on the plate and said, "Now can you tell me where the food is? I can get it myself."

Hagrid looked very hurt.

"You can try soaking the cookies in tea"

Gjern glanced at the hot tea. For a moment, he couldn't tell whether he didn't hear what Hagrid said clearly or whether there was something wrong with his brain - since he couldn't break the biscuits, how could he break the rock skin?

How about putting the cake in such a small tea cup?

"Well, maybe we can put this matter aside for a while?" Harry tentatively said, "Can you tell us more about the flame bats, Mr. Gjern?"

Gjern silently pushed the plate full of rock biscuits away, and then he said in a cheerful tone again: "No problem, where did I just talk about - oh, by the way, it was Egypt. That was several times

It happened years ago, and it was also the time when Chudley Cannons narrowly defeated Wigtown Wanderers - yes, we beat them. Then I accidentally drank too much when I was happy, and when I woke up, I found myself

In a strange place - like today."

"Later I found a bar and asked about it, only to find out that I had accidentally gone to Egypt - I didn't even know how I did it, but I was already there. But there is a drink in that bar.

It tastes really good, it seems to be called the Devil. The Dark Lord, or?"

"Dark Devil Wine!" Hermione said in surprise.

"That's it!" Gegen clapped his hands suddenly and said in surprise: "It's the Black Devil wine. I also asked the owner of the bar, but it turned out that there wasn't much stock of this wine and it couldn't support me.

Being drunk can empty out my wallet - I just want to drink one more time, so that when I wake up, I might find that I have returned to the UK and have a lot of travel expenses left."

"Although my wallet was empty, I still met an interesting customer in that bar. He played cards with me for a while and invited me to drink. At that time, I saw such a little guy hiding in his arms. It looked like

Like the fire dragon, I thought he was a rich smuggler. But the man told me that he was not, but came to get some information. He introduced me to the flame bat and asked me if I knew the ancient spirit.

The ace curse-breaker in the pavilion—but who do I know? Fortunately, that person is not a bad person. Even though he knew that I didn’t know that ace, he still treated me to a lot of drinks."

James!

The person who went to find Professor Heimer must be the guy who seems to be James!

Harry didn't expect to have such a harvest, so he hurriedly asked: "Then what?"

"Then?" Ge Jieen thought for a while and said, "Then the man went to the bar owner to inquire. I remember that there seemed to be many people in the bar who knew the ace, and many people placed bets on whether he still had the chance.

How many days will it take me to come back? I even made a small bet myself, but I don’t know if I won or not - oh, by the way, the owner of that bar is also a goblin, he seems to be called Wei or something."

Veitch.

Harry looked at Gjern in shock - that person had gone to find Professor Hemmer and also found the Veil Bar.

Then the trio hurriedly said goodbye to Hagrid and Gedern, and they ran towards the castle without stopping.

"Eh? Where's Hermione?"

Just before entering the castle, Ron turned around and found that Hermione, who had been following him, had disappeared again.

"Where has she gone?"

Harry rushed up the stairs before he could stop, and just then a tired-looking Hermione appeared from the corner of the stairs holding her schoolbag.

"How did you run so fast?"

Harry felt like there was something wrong with his head.

Hermione yawned slowly and said, "Because - by the way, where are we going?"

"Go to Professor Hemmer." Harry said with a confused look: "Gjeon just told us that he met the suspicious person in the Veil Bar. The other person also had a flame bat at the time. We must tell him the news as soon as possible.

Professor—you don’t remember?”

"How is that possible?" Hermione waved her hand and said, "Then hurry up. I just saw Professor Heimer returning to the office. It should be too late to find him now."

Harry had no choice but to put aside the surprise in his heart for the time being. He, Ron and Hermione arrived at the door of the Ancient Magic Office, and then knocked on the door.

"Please come in."

Professor Heimer's voice came from the room. He was sitting behind his desk playing with a locket. After he raised his head and saw these three people, a smile appeared on his originally solemn face.

"It seems you have made some progress, let's talk about it."

"Tell me, what exactly did you find?"