Archaeologists at Hogwarts

Chapter 311 Witch and James

Toby soon learned the whole story from Harry - he didn't expect that Gjeon had actually met "James", and even more unexpectedly, "James" actually went to the Veil Bar to inquire about him.

"Wait a minute, I'll call Wei Qi over and ask."

Witch soon came to Hogwarts through the fireplace. He happened to be handling business in Diagon Alley. He came out of the fireplace with a cigar in his mouth and "I'm not easy to mess with, and I'm rich" written all over his body.

After hearing Toby's inquiry, Weiqi said without even thinking: "Are you kidding? How can I remember everyone who has approached you, especially those who are unwilling to pay an introduction fee?

I usually don’t even meet the guests.”

She really has the style of a fairy.

"Then do you remember this thing?"

Toby took the cage from Harry and showed the flame bat inside to Wiggy.

Wei Qi stared at the little guy carefully for a while.

"Is this a fire dragon cub?" he asked with interest, thinking that Toby was back to his old ways and would take out some prohibited items at every turn.

"It's the flame bat." Toby shook his head and said, "It seems you don't even recognize it -"

"Wait a minute." Witch suddenly interrupted Toby, and Harry stared at him nervously.

"I don't know what flame bats are." Weiqi took a deep breath from his cigar and exhaled the smoke. "But I vaguely remember seeing a similar little guy. At that time, I thought it was a fire dragon cub, and I originally planned to use it to make money."

It was an extra sum of money, but the other party refused to trade and paid me a sum of gold instead, and then asked me for a lot of information about you."

Ron looked at him in surprise: "You betrayed Professor Heimer just like that?"

"Don't be excited, kid." Weiqi said proudly: "This is something I have discussed with Toby a long time ago. Not only that mysterious guy, but also many people will often appear at the Veil Bar to inquire about Toby's whereabouts.

Sometimes there are commissions, and more often they are enemies - I generally treat those people as enemies. While making gold, I will tell them where they went wrong, and then divide the gold equally with Toby."

"That's true, that's right." Toby nodded to the three children with weird faces and said, "It's too troublesome to deal with them, so I usually lead those people to seek their own death. Now it seems that 'James' is

It's really rare to survive - do you still remember where you told him to go?"

Wyche answered quickly.

"Loch Ness." He said: "It's usually Loch Ness. You said there are many horse-shaped water monsters there, which are very suitable for killing corpses-"

"Ahem, cough, cough." Toby suddenly coughed twice: "There's no need to say this in front of the students."

Harry almost fainted from the fright - they had seen the dangers of Loch Ness in their first lesson on ancient magic, and "James" had actually been there?

Witches come and go quickly. Anti-monster glasses and lucky charms have become very popular recently. If you delay for a second, you will lose a lot of gold, which can make you breathless.

"Very useful clue."

Toby finally said to the three of them: "Keep up the hard work, kids. I can feel it, we will soon uncover the truth of the mystery."

After the three people left with the flame bat, Toby sat alone in the office.

Regarding the reason why "James" would look for him, Toby immediately thought of Grindelwald's research on ancient magic.

And it happened that "James" was misled to go to Loch Ness. Could it be that Grindelwald also discovered the secret of the material of the magic ball there?——

Hogsmeade.

It was getting dark.

Lu Ping hurriedly avoided a few drunken figures, walked quickly into a small alley, and came to the wooden door of the Pig's Head Bar.

The Hog's Head Bar has been closing relatively early recently, and by the time Lupine walked into the bar, the customers had long disappeared, and only Sirius and Tonks were waiting for him.

"How is Toby?"

As soon as Lupine walked in, Tonks asked him, "Did he notice anything wrong?"

"There is one strange thing."

Lupine frowned and said after closing the door: "He terminated the Patronus lesson I taught Harry, Ron, and Hermione early, and asked them to study the flame bat instead. Maybe it was because

He guessed something again, but he didn’t explain the specific reason to me.”

Sirius got himself a glass of wine, and he drank it quietly without saying a word.

Lupine knew that it was difficult for Sirius to be unable to leave the bar, but he had nothing to do. If Tonks hadn't been covering up the Aurors, who knew whether Sirius' identity would have been exposed.

So, Lu Ping deliberately changed the subject and asked, "What about you? When the school held a competition a few days ago, were there any suspicious people in the village?"

Sirius shook his head slowly, and Tonks explained: "We have carefully checked the spectators. There is nothing suspicious, at least not yet. Maybe they will appear in the next few games."

This is a bit difficult to handle - especially for Lupine, who is now responsible for tracking Toby in the school, and always remembers Dumbledore's instructions to them - they must find the suspect first.

James's people, otherwise terrible things may happen.

But until now, they still don't know what the so-called terror actually refers to.

Tonks got up and went to the kitchen upstairs to make some sandwiches for dinner. After she walked up the stairs, Lupine walked over and sat down opposite Sirius.

"Do you think James is really resurrected?" Lupine also poured himself a glass of wine and asked.

Sirius slowly put down the cup. He was silent for a while and said, "It's very similar. The tone of the person who found me was exactly the same as James when he spoke. It's not like he was pretending."

Lupine sighed.

"But if he is really still alive, why is he unwilling to contact us?"

Neither Lupine nor Sirius could figure this out.

It has been more than ten years since James reappeared. How did James manage to remain completely intact for such a long time?

He wasn't Toby, nor did he have a fight with Dumbledore when he graduated and ended up refusing to come back for years.

James seems to have absolutely no reason to do this.

"What if it's because of Lily?" Lupine guessed: "It seems that the only person who can make him make such a decision is Lily. After all, Harry is still alive and well, and we..."

Next is something that Lupine has been unwilling to mention - if James is really still alive, then just by showing up, he can save Sirius, who was framed and imprisoned, and save him from the pain he has suffered for so many years.

But now, Sirius has become a "dead man" in the outside world, and James has never made any effort to clear his grievances.

Sirius frowned subconsciously and said, "No, James must have done this because of some difficulties."

Lupine saw the words "That's it" on Sirius's face. He shook his head and said, "I'll go upstairs to see why Tonks hasn't come down yet -"

At this moment, Tonks suddenly poked her head out from downstairs. Her face was full of panic and she couldn't even utter a complete sentence.

"What's wrong?" Lupine frowned and walked over, and Sirius stood up with the wine glass in hand.

After walking halfway up the stairs, Lupine suddenly heard another distinctive breathing sound coming from upstairs.

"It's Dumbledore!"

Tonks finally made it clear: "Dumbledore is back, upstairs - and he's really hurt!"

Dumbledore was sitting on the sofa in the living room on the second floor of the Pig's Head Bar. He was wet all over, his beard and hair were in a mess, and even one of his spectacles was broken.

Fox lay crookedly next to him, having transformed back into the appearance of a fledgling - this was obviously caused by a fatal injury.

"Principal, how do you feel?" Lu Ping hurried over and asked worriedly.

"Did Toby Highmore attack you?" Sirius immediately suspected that Dumbledore's injury was caused by Toby.

Dumbledore denied weakly: "It's not Toby, it's James. It was the things he left in Loch Ness that made me like this - go find Severus, call him over quickly, I

The injury needs to be healed as soon as possible.”

"I'll take you there now!" Lupine thought that Dumbledore was confused and thought of calling Snape over. Now it was obvious that it would save more time to send Dumbledore to school.

"No -" Dumbledore suddenly raised his hand to stop him: "Not yet, go and call Severus over, but don't let him reveal the news to anyone - especially Toby, you must not tell

he."

Although Dumbledore's request was very strange, Lupine complied immediately.

After he left, Tonks waved her wand to dry Dumbledore's wet clothes. Then she carefully picked up Fawkes and placed him in the nest made of towels.

"Do you need to hide it first?" After all this was done, Tonks looked back at Sirius and asked, "After all, your identity is a bit sensitive now."

"No need." Sirius didn't want to wait any longer. He looked at Dumbledore who seemed to be in a coma, and just wanted to know what James left behind in Loch Ness as soon as possible.

It didn't take long for Lupine and Snape to rush to the Hog's Head Bar. He was obviously shocked when he saw that Sirius was still here. Snape obviously didn't know that Sirius was still alive.

When he saw the strange bar owner, he couldn't move his eyes away. There was a look of shock in his eyes, and then it immediately turned into unparalleled anger - hatred made him recognize his former enemy, just through Sirius's eyes.

You know what kind of face is hidden under this disguised appearance.

Before the two people were about to speak, Lupine interrupted in time: "We'll heal Dumbledore's injuries first."

Fortunately, Dumbledore was present and defused the upcoming fight. Snape gave Sirius one last cold look, then immediately opened the medicine box he carried with him and took out the bottles of medicine.

Tonks asked while lighting the fire for the cauldron: "You didn't meet Toby when you came here, did you?"

"No." Lupine said while helping to place the potion jars: "I guess he has fallen asleep a long time ago, and the potion office is already in the basement, so there is no need to go upstairs."

Snape never spoke while preparing the healing potion. He concentrated on pouring the last herb into the crucible. After the purple fluorescence appeared in the mist, he poured the potion into the cup. Then he chanted a spell and

Give the potion to Dumbledore.

The effect was almost immediate. Dumbledore's eyelids trembled slightly. He slowly opened his eyes and saw Snape standing in front of him, looking like he had a question to ask.

"It seems that my luck is pretty good." Dumbledore even had the time to smile and said, "Okay, gentlemen and ladies, please allow me to leave for a short while -"

"Where are you going?" Sirius asked hurriedly: "What did James leave behind?"

"I'm sorry." Dumbledore shook his head and said, "I can't tell you why yet, and I sincerely hope that you will never need to know."

"I'll return the towel."

He finally said, and the figure holding Fox gradually disappeared, leaving a room full of people looking at each other.

I don't know from which second it started. When Lupine came back to his senses, he found that Snape and Sirius were staring at each other closely. Even Tonks noticed that something was very wrong in the atmosphere in the room.

"Well," she said hesitantly, "so I'm going to make an extra sandwich, right? Are you going to stay for dinner, or - well, I'll be fine with two for myself, maybe three."

——It can’t be four portions, right?”

Her last words were spoken while staring at Lupine.

"What?" Lupine was stunned for a moment. He was forcefully dragged to the kitchen by Tonks. He heard Tonks still deliberately saying loudly: "You have to eat up this sandwich - okay -" She suddenly

He lowered his voice, picked up a piece of sliced ​​bread, took a bite, and asked in a vague tone: "So what happened to the two of them? Can you tell me?"

Looking at the extremely curious Tonks in front of him, Lupine turned around and glanced worriedly in the direction of the living room, and then explained helplessly: "This is what happened -"

——

At the same time, Dumbledore had quietly returned to Hogwarts Castle.

He put the weak Fox into the principal's office in the dark, and then walked down without disturbing anyone on the way, including the portraits on the wall.

The entrance to the Chamber of Secrets opened in front of him, and Dumbledore walked along the passage, arriving deeper into the damp and cold depths.

Just before entering the final chamber of secrets, Dumbledore suddenly pulled out his wand, pointed forward and said: "Confuse the audience."

The spell hit the diligent armor. It was hit by a confusion spell and would not remember anything that happened next.

Then, in front of Grindelwald who had just woken up from his sleep, Dumbledore strode over and asked in a solemn tone that he had never used before: "You are studying forbidden magic. Who are you?"

"Tell me, who is the humanoid devil hiding under Loch Ness?!"