Archaeologists at Hogwarts

Chapter 336 The Triwizard Tournament and the Minister of Magic

"You want to hold the Triwizard Tournament?"

In the principal's office, after listening to Toby's opinion, Principal McGonagall put down her work of writing letters to the new students, raised her head quite seriously and asked: "Are you sure you want to do this? Dumbledore specifically asked before leaving the school.

Some of my things are related to you."

"How could it be for me?" Toby looked heartbroken at being misunderstood: "Obviously it is for Hogwarts, but the Black Devil Foundation has to bear a large amount of expenses for this, and it is almost impossible to pay it to the professors.

salary."

The portraits on the wall immediately booed, and Phineas mocked the loudest: "He is blackmailing you. Dumbledore has just left and he can't help but use such shameless methods."

, don’t let him fool you.”

"I'll have an idea." Mag said calmly.

"That's not what I meant." Toby glared at Phineas, and then defended: "Actually, I was planning to do the principal a favor."

"Tell me about it." Mag's tone was still calm.

"That's what happened." Toby analyzed bit by bit: "Everyone knows that Fudge's position is on the verge of falling, but there is still a small difference before he can completely step down. But we can't expect him to make another mistake.

This is unrealistic. But the Triwizard Tournament is different. According to regulations, when the Triwizard Tournament is held at Hogwarts, the Ministry of Magic will also be involved. At that time, we will appoint Dumbledore to be responsible for this matter.

, it just so happens that he also knows the principals of Beauxbatons and Durmstrang."

"When Dumbledore is able to intervene in the affairs of the Ministry of Magic through this matter, he can start to attack Fudge little by little, and at the same time let everyone know that changing the Minister as soon as possible is the right choice."

Although a bit cunning, this method sounds pretty good.

But Mag didn't let go. She stared at Toby silently for a while, and Toby looked a little confused.

"Dumbledore also said to me that once I am about to convince you, that's when I will fall into the trap you set."

Toby pretended not to understand: "So you think this method is feasible?"

"That's not the point." McGonagall said with a straight face: "The real point is that this matter obviously involves Albus, but you didn't come to him to discuss it, but came to me to discuss it."

"Can I tell you where Albus lives, or are you going to contact him yourself?"

It seems that it won't work here with McGonagall. She attaches great importance to Dumbledore's opinion.

There was no other way, so Toby had no choice but to continue discussing the matter with Dumbledore before it was too late.

Fortunately, Dumbledore doesn't live too far from the school.

Pig's Head Bar.

Toby looked at the dirty tabletop. He ignored Aberforth's warning look behind the bar and said, "How did you get used to living here? It's far different from Hogwarts."

Dumbledore, who was sitting opposite him, put down the cup in his hand and said expressionlessly: "If you have to mention why I left Hogwarts -"

"Stop it!" Toby didn't want to argue with Dumbledore.

He mentioned his idea of ​​holding the Triwizard Tournament again, and it was no different from before.

After listening to Toby's story, Dumbledore showed no sign of being moved. He said calmly: "This matter may cause some trouble. The Ministry of Magic is busy organizing the Quidditch World Cup, and Fudge wants to

This will reveal his abilities to the outside world and let wizards in other countries know that he can continue to serve as minister."

"And the Triwizard Tournament you mentioned, if nothing else happens, is likely to be rejected - Fudge is hostile to Hogwarts, and he regards you all as my people."

"Then I'll tie him up -" Toby said viciously, "and then send him to a place where no one can find him - okay, I'm just kidding."

After seeing Dumbledore's eyes, Toby reluctantly changed his words and said: "What can we do? If you can't control the Ministry of Magic, who can resist Grindelwald's counterattack? Just rely on that fool Fudge?

He will kill us."

Dumbledore didn't look anxious at all. He replied slowly: "It's not the official election day yet, and I've told you that even if I am elected as the new Minister of Magic, it will be very difficult.

Make sure that Grindelwald doesn't suddenly jump out and cause trouble, he is fully capable of this."

Dumbledore was right about this. Once Grindelwald actually shows up, he will easily break through Dumbledore's lies about becoming a hero again.

Toby saw that the only threat Dumbledore really cared about was Grindelwald, and Fudge was not at all on his radar.

"Then I'll just wait." Toby didn't insist any longer.

"One more thing." He said by the way: "The candidate for next year's Defense Against the Dark Arts professor has not yet been determined. What do you think of Angela?"

"Has she officially resigned from Wagadu?" Dumbledore asked rhetorically: "Did the disappearance of Ajinbad, that is, Halbo, have any impact on her? I am not referring to her personally, but to the school.

Influence."

"No." Toby shook his head and said: "Helpo would often leave Wagadu before. He couldn't stay in the school all the time. You know, he wanted to make some evil plans. So the teachers and students of Wagadu had already

I got used to his style and thought he would just go out for a longer time. As for Angela, she resigned, but the excuse was that Ajinbad agreed, and others did not know the real reason."

Dumbledore nodded and thought for a while.

Just when Toby thought the matter was settled, Dumbledore suddenly refused: "I don't think it would be a good idea for Angela to stay at Hogwarts."

"Why?" Toby asked with a frown.

"Because this is too close to you." Dumbledore gave an unexpected answer: "Helbo values ​​you and especially Angela. He has no reason to accept a girl to work in the school.

He is just spying on her. If you continue to stay together, it is very likely that Haierbo will catch you all, and even Grindelwald may have such a plan."

It seems that Angela's specialness cannot escape Dumbledore's attention.

"I will find an extra helper." Dumbledore continued: "Even if you don't worry about being separated from Angela, there must be more people who belong to us in the school."

"Is he one of yours?" Toby asked dissatisfiedly: "If I read correctly, even if you target the Ministry of Magic, you are not going to let Hogwarts go?"

"Who said that only teachers can understand students?" Dumbledore said with a smile: "Students have finally begun to understand professors."

This conversation ended in vain.

After returning to Hogwarts, Toby found Angela and explained the difficulties encountered in organizing the Triwizard Tournament.

"How long do I have to wait for this?" Angela asked blankly: "Can you use other methods to relight the Goblet of Fire?"

"No more." Toby spread his hands and said, "It might have been okay in the past, but it's not okay since I turned into half a devil. If I hadn't been extra careful that time, Andros would have set the flames on me.

The cup is completely destroyed and cannot be saved."

"Then what should I do?" Angela suddenly realized that she seemed to have nowhere to go. Fortunately, she had thought of taking Toby away before, but instead she ended up having nowhere to go.

"There's no need to go anywhere." Toby said nonchalantly: "Just think of me as adding another assistant. Remember to say hello first when you see Al in the future. After all, he is also your senior."

As soon as Al heard this, he immediately shook his body, looked very serious, and then patted Angela on the shoulder encouragingly.

"Yeah! [Very good, come on!]"

Angela looked at them helplessly until she heard Toby say again: "As an assistant, the first job I give you now is to write a letter to Ms. Maxime of Beauxbatons."

Angela knew Principal Maxim. Not long ago, she took the students of Waggadu to Beauxbatons for exchange and study, and she was almost recruited by him because of her amazing magical talent.

After unfolding the letter paper, Angela asked curiously: "What do I need to write?"

Toby responded: "Let's just say that the Triwizard Tournament will be held soon. The vice-principal of Hogwarts, Toby Highmore, invited her to bring the best students in the school to Hogwarts to make preparations in advance.

Some preparations or something - Al, you can also write a letter, just to the principal of Durmstrang."

Angela stared at Toby stupidly, and it wasn't until Al urged her that she suddenly came back to her senses.

"Is this really possible?" She asked in shock: "Bypassing the Ministry of Magic and Dumbledore, do you have a way to hold the Triwizard Tournament?"

"Don't forget, I'm also the vice-principal of Hogwarts." Toby said with a smile similar to Dumbledore's.

This position has the effect of appeasing Toby. It is estimated that even Dumbledore did not expect Toby to take advantage of it so quickly - after all, he is not dead yet.

"Besides, even the most complicated competition aspects don't require preparation in advance."

Toby said as he glanced around the room.

"My collection alone is enough."

Just when Toby showed his true nature again, on the other side, several people who had just visited the Zombie Trail also ended their short vacation.

Harry was so frightened that his face turned as pale as a blank sheet of paper.

Sirius was still yelling about how boring he was. Lupine took out a pocket watch and said, "It's time to pick up the players. There is a game tomorrow."

"You're not a bad team manager." Sirius said casually, and Lupine just smiled bitterly. If it weren't for this chance, he would never be able to become a real team manager in his life.

"Let's go to the Weasley family first." James said after thinking for a while: "Cedric lives not far from there, and then we will go to Wood and Qiu Zhang. What do you think of this idea?

Or should we go have a few drinks first?”

"I would like to get drunk." Sirius said with a sideways glance, "But I guess our manager won't agree. He has already fallen in love with this job."

Sirius's words were intentionally or unintentionally accusing Lupine of trusting Toby too much, which made him extremely unhappy.

Lupine gradually got tired of the helpless dissuasion, and he retorted calmly: "But Toby is not our enemy, your brother is."

"I want to catch Regulus sooner than anyone else." Sirius frowned and said, "But why can you turn a blind eye to what is happening in front of you? Snape has already surrendered to Herbo——"

"To be precise, it should be Haierbo." Harry corrected in a low voice.

"It's almost the same." In Sirius's opinion, there is no difference. He also regards Snape and Toby as the same kind of people: "Dumbledore trusts Snape, you all know this, otherwise he would

I can't stay in Hogwarts either. Don't you think this scene looks familiar? Think about it carefully, people who have betrayed Dumbledore are not worthy of trust."

Harry gradually couldn't understand.

"Snape betrayed Dumbledore?" He asked in confusion: "What does this mean?"

James shook his head and explained: "It seems that you don't know. Snape, he once joined the Death Eaters, which means that he betrayed Hogwarts once a long time ago. This was at that time

It's a trend, and many Slytherin students have thought this way."

"I didn't expect that Dumbledore would be willing to vouch for him and accept him again. You should know the next thing. Toby and Dumbledore also had a very unpleasant quarrel, so Sirius said this."

Lupine on the side explained to Harry what Death Eaters were - roughly speaking, they were Voldemort's men who had caused serious panic during the Wizarding War.

This leads to such a line of information in Harry's mind - Snape has defected to Voldemort and Herbo successively, and now he is missing with Grindelwald.

"Snape is indeed untrustworthy," Harry retorted, "but Professor Highmore - he -"

Harry was suddenly speechless.

He did know that Professor Highmore had been deliberately hiding it from Dumbledore for many times, but could this be considered another betrayal?

"Let's see." Sirius sneered: "Even Harry knows that Highmore is unreliable. Who can guarantee that Dumbledore won't make a mistake again?"

"Stop talking." James sighed and said, "Let's go to the Burrow first and pick up the twins. I heard that they seem to be looking for something to sell, so I have to warn them not to delay their training."

However, when the four of them arrived at the Leaky Cauldron where they were going to borrow the fireplace, they met an unexpected person.

Scrimgeour strode towards them, as if he had been waiting for them for a long time.

Harry subconsciously became extremely nervous. The news that James and Sirius were still alive was kept secret. Could it be that the other party had noticed some clues?

Scrimgeour's eyes moved among the four people and landed on "Gjern".

"Congratulations on qualifying for the World Cup. I hope to see you in the finals."

"You will." James just replied calmly, without any panic.

Sure enough, there was a reason why James was so calm. Scrimgeour didn't seem to think of another level at all. He then turned to look at Lupine and said, "In a few days, after the process is completed, Peter Pettigrew will

He will be sent to Azkaban. As one of his few former friends, do you have anything else to say to him?"

"No." Lu Ping answered simply.

Scrimgeour didn't show any surprise at this result. He nodded and walked away immediately.

"I guess he is targeting us." Sirius narrowed his eyes and whispered, "I think our Haimer people, or Dumbledore's people, want to use this to exchange some conditions with us."

"Then Fudge is really desperate." Lu Ping analyzed calmly: "He must have done nothing to cover up until he had no other choice."

"Let's go." James sighed again inexplicably. He grabbed a handful of floo powder and threw it into the fireplace. The firelight illuminated his face filled with complicated thoughts.

For a moment, no one knew what he was thinking.

Peter, Lily, Toby, or even Harry are all possible.