Archaeologists at Hogwarts

Chapter 374 Interview

Ever since Dumbledore proposed solving the Azkaban problem, the Ministry of Magic suddenly became particularly short of manpower - especially Aurors.

Because the ministry's current solution is to send Aurors to Azkaban in batches, on the one hand to protect the guards of Azkaban, and on the other hand to find if there are any missing Dementors - they are

It will keep multiplying in the emotion of forgetfulness, and there will be more and more if you are not careful.

But Tonks, who was originally an Auror, suddenly appeared at Hogwarts, and happened to change his position when he was in urgent need of help - a reporter for the "Daily Prophet".

This was undoubtedly Dumbledore's order, because as Tonks' former boss, Scrimgeour, he just nodded calmly when Tonks greeted him.

It is estimated that he only found out that his subordinate turned out to be Dumbledore's man not long ago.

Harry and Tonks knew each other. He stayed at the Tonks family's house during the holidays, and James and his friends were also there. This was Dumbledore's personal order.

From the moment Tonks appeared in the house, she came to talk to Harry very cordially.

"I didn't expect you to become a Hogwarts warrior. How does it feel?"

Harry glanced at the look Professor Hemmer was giving him, and couldn't stop feeling cold in the soles of his feet.

"Not good," he whispered, "Why did you come to Hogwarts?"

"Of course I'm here to interview you." Tonks said in a matter-of-fact tone: "This is my first time as a reporter. What questions do you think I should ask later?"

"I think it's better for you to run away quickly."

"What?"

At this time, another person came into the room.

The owner of the wand shop in Diagon Alley, Mr. Ollivander, has arrived.

"Let's get started." Toby nodded expressionlessly.

Mr. Ollivander began to check the warriors' wands one by one. Taking advantage of this moment, Toby stood up and walked to Tonks.

Tonks was holding a notebook and thinking about what question to ask for a while. She raised her head and saw Toby's cold face, and the smile she had just raised suddenly became stiff.

"Hi Toby?"

"Dumbledore asked you to come?" Toby asked with a frown.

Tonks' eyes darted around: "Yeah, what's the problem?"

"What do you think?" Toby's eyes became more and more evil: "Why don't you tell me how many more people he will send to Hogwarts and plan to move the entire Ministry of Magic in?"

"How is that possible?" Tonks said guiltily: "It's just an interview - by the way, you don't mind being interviewed together with Alastor, right?"

I don’t know since when, the long hair on Toby’s forehead drooped in front of his eyes.

"Are you kidding me?"

Everyone knows that the relationship between these two people is not very good, and they are about to have a life and death duel.

"Actually, it's okay." Tonks said helplessly: "You may not know, but I was Alastor's student before I became an Auror, and I was also his last student. I came here with the intention of trying to ease the situation.

The conflict between the two of you was caused by Dumbledore asking me to do this. If you have any questions, just go to him and talk to him. Can you please not embarrass me, a little reporter?"

"Little reporter?" Toby sneered, and he looked back at the expression on Scrimgeour's face.

It was obvious that the head of the Auror Office was also aware of the relationship between Tonks and Moody, and he also guessed this.

Toby stared at the uneasy Tonks for a moment longer.

"follow me."

He left the room with a relieved Tonks, and the solemn atmosphere suddenly dispersed.

Ollivander, who was marveling at the wonder of Cedric's wand, suddenly said: "I never thought I would meet him at Hogwarts."

"Are you talking about Professor Heimer?" Harry asked curiously.

"That's right, kid." Mr. Ollivander said sincerely, and everyone else looked at him.

"What's even more unexpected is that I can actually see the day when Dumbledore becomes a minister."

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"What did Dumbledore say before you came?"

"The minister said he was worried that you would lose control after knowing the results of the Triwizard Tournament. He also said that you would definitely doubt Moody. He did not want to mess up his position before the enemy appeared."

"Didn't he ask Moody to come to Hogwarts? Why does it sound like it's all my fault?"

Tonks couldn't answer this question, so she had to change the topic and asked: "Where is the girl with long silver hair next to you?"

"What?" Toby immediately asked, "Has Dumbledore begun to doubt Angela again?"

Tonks opened her mouth, but she simply remained silent.

The two people walked through the long corridor in silence and finally came to the door of an office.

Tonks saw that Toby was motionless, so she had to go up and knock on the door: "Teacher, are you in there?"

There was no movement in the room, and it seemed empty.

"Stay back," Toby said suddenly.

Before Tonks could react, Toby suddenly grabbed her collar and yanked her back. At the same time, the office door was pushed open with great force. Moody pointed his wand at Toby.

The evil eye kept scanning over his body.

"Look who's coming."

Moody said gruffly, holding the wand firmly in his hand: "Our vice principal finally decided to take action against the employees -"

"That's not the case at all." Tonks said in a tone that she had already guessed would happen, "Dumbledore asked me to come."

"Of course you would say that."

Moody didn't act like he listened to these words at all, but he still got out of the way little by little. His magic eyes were always staring at the calm Toby and said: "Come in and see what the great Dumbledore has said again."

What words."

His tone was slightly sarcastic.

Tonks rearranged her collar and walked into the office first. Toby walked in without hesitation. His confidence made Moody very dissatisfied. When Toby passed in front of him, he snorted heavily.

There was a sound.

This office had been decorated in different ways by its previous owners. Nowadays, Moody's characteristics are very obvious in this room. It is like an Auror's war preparation room, with various detection items placed on it.

The most eye-catching thing on the table and floor is a pile of books.

Toby walked over. He didn't reach out to turn the pages, but he had already seen the title on the cover of the book - "Ancient Magic and Ancient Wizards".

"I never knew I had such a loyal reader."

An expression finally appeared on Toby's face, but it was not very friendly: "Do you need me to sign for you?"

"If it were me, I wouldn't ask this question." Moody closed the door behind his back, as if he didn't want to let his back fall in front of Toby's eyes.

"You two, can you listen to me first?"

Tonks interrupted helplessly: "I really don't want to take this job, but I have no choice. Only I can do this - I did bring you Dumbledore's message."

"It's really surprising to me." Toby said sarcastically: "It can be solved with a note, and I remember that now is not the time for Fox's Nirvana."

"How come you remember this kind of thing so clearly?" Tonks asked in surprise, and then she heard Moody say maliciously: "Doesn't this just prove the ambition of our vice-principal? He has been targeting him for a long time.

It’s Dumbledore’s turn.”

"I don't think he needs you to remind him." Toby said coldly; "Dumbledore knows who the real enemy is better than you."

"Merlin"

Tonks expected that this job would be difficult, but she really didn't expect it to be this difficult.

"Can you listen to me first? I just came back from Azkaban, and I don't want to face two wizards who are more terrifying than dementors."

Azkaban?

Toby finally shifted his gaze.

Similarly, Moody also looked towards Tonks, who seemed to have been waiting for this sentence for a long time.

"What's the result?" he asked warily.

Tonks shook her head and said: "Dumbledore checked it himself. It's not Grindelwald, and it can't be Toby. Fortunately, the minister drove away the dementors in advance, otherwise I don't know what would have happened."

What they were talking about was not information that Toby knew at all.

Tonks took two deep breaths and explained: "The Minister has been busy with this matter recently. Somehow, the dementors in Azkaban seemed to have noticed the change in the Ministry of Magic's attitude towards them. At first, they

Well, old Barty didn't encounter any problems there, until some time ago, probably before the start of school at Hogwarts, some dementors quietly hid."

"At the beginning, few people noticed this anomaly. Only Old Barty noticed something was wrong, but he did not dare to act rashly, because according to the original plan, these dementors were all driven to the same small building.

On the island, so as not to harm other people."

"It wasn't until half a month ago that the problem was completely exposed. Old Barty's suspicions were confirmed to be real. Those dementors seemed to suddenly become smarter. The ministry had to send a large number of manpower to maintain stability. Unfortunately, it was still accidentally

A small part of it escaped, and now it's floating somewhere in the sea."

Toby's brows furrowed tightly, and he asked seriously: "Where is the culprit?"

Upon hearing this question, Tonks' expression immediately became unnatural.

"Are you doubting me?"

"Well, not exactly." Tonks felt guilty again.

"That's it."

Moody suddenly raised his voice and shouted: "Don't think that no one knows that you secretly went to Azkaban. Just two years ago, Dumbledore personally asked me, saying that one of his students continued to go there to save

My own life, but what happens next?”

"I have heard from Dumbledore that Grindelwald has the ability to command dementors. Who knew that this ability would be targeted by Dumbledore's own students, and he also lied that he had to go to Azkaban to do it -

—Now that we know the answer, who else but you, Toby Highmore?"

Toby understood.

This involves a long-standing clue.

At the end of Toby's second year as Professor of Ancient Magic, Voldemort used the ancient magic knowledge absorbed from the magic ball to create a special magic circle item, and left this item in the belly of the elf Dobby.

Use this to control him.

This is part of Voldemort's plan.

At that time, both Toby and Dumbledore speculated that Voldemort planned to use an Acromantula rebellion to create prisoners, and hid in Azkaban while the prisoners were being escorted, in order to rescue his former servants.

Voldemort undoubtedly needed help at that time.

Later, with the help of Dumbledore, Toby also sneaked into Azkaban and fought with Voldemort, who was possessed by the plant Animagus, until he discovered the coffin at the bottom of the prison.

Contained there was the body of Ignotus.

Later, Voldemort disappeared without a trace and did not appear again for a whole year. His presence was gradually replaced by the more threatening Grindelwald.

Although no one knows where Voldemort is, at least one thing is certain now.

That is, Toby has been to Azkaban himself.

The dementor riot was inevitably connected to him. No one knew whether he went to find Voldemort or whether he took a group of dementors as his subordinates.

At least that's what Moody's thinks.

"No wonder you didn't deal with me from the beginning."

It was not until today that Toby finally understood why Moody was so hostile to him. It was not only due to Dumbledore's description of himself, but also because of Moody's imagined "betrayal" of Dumbledore.

"Isn't it?" Moody said in a deep voice: "A wizard who cannot summon a patron saint is best suited to be friends with dementors."

Tonks looked at Toby on her left and Moody on her right. She felt that the atmosphere in the room had become cold again.

"You...have you forgotten what I just said?"

She said in surprise: "Dumbledore's original words were that it could not be Grindelwald or Toby who caused all this. Both of them have been eliminated as suspects."

"Then I really have to go and thank him in person." Toby said sarcastically: "Thank him for hiding it from me for so long, and by the way, for doubting me for so long, and only today revealed the truth, thinking that I would not unite.

The Dementors fight against the White Lord's rule - what else? Goblins? Giants? House elves? Who does he think my future helpers will be? Underage students, perhaps?"

"I see this trend." Moody's seems to really think so.

"I" Tonks looked at the two people speechlessly: "Can you please listen to what I have to say before we start arguing? Dumbledore discovered that those dementors have no helpers, or they themselves are helpers. I didn't understand this paragraph at first.

The meaning of those words was not made clear to me until Dumbledore later."

She shifted her gaze to Toby.

"Don't tell me you forgot about You-Know-Who."

Toby's eyes tightened.

Tonks continued: "Although it is not certain yet, Dumbledore said that the most likely cause of all this is a mysterious person who has absorbed ancient magical knowledge."

"He's possessed by a dementor somehow, now."

"He is back."