Archaeologists at Hogwarts
Chapter 388 Weasley's Magic Tricks Workshop
Chapter 388 Weasley’s Wizard Wheezes
387 Weasley's Wizard Wheezes
Hogwarts.
As the melodious singing gradually rose, more and more people joined the dance, and the warriors were no longer the center of the crowd. This also gave the clumsy Ron finally a chance to talk to Harry.
"I saw you talking."
While circling, Ron put his head next to Harry and asked, "What did Hermione say? Did she explain to you about the house elves?"
Harry followed Qiu's control to go around to the other side, and after going back around, he said to Ron: "No, she doesn't want to say, probably only Cedric himself knows. Do you have any good ideas?"
"I said, you two——"
Qiu became more and more dissatisfied with Harry's performance: "Don't forget who your dance partner is, and don't mess up tonight, okay?"
"Sorry." Harry said subconsciously. He winked at Ron and asked Ron to concentrate on dancing with Luna and to talk about anything later when he took a break.
But this is not easy. Qiu is an excellent chaser, and her physical strength is no worse than Harry's.
Especially Luna, she danced even more cheerfully, but her dance posture was a little unusual. Ron was so tired that he was panting just to keep up with her movements.
"No, no, I have to go get a glass of water."
Ron heard Celestine Warbeck begin to play a more upbeat piece, and he had to say so in order to avoid collapsing on the stage from exhaustion.
Harry also looked at Qiu with pleading eyes. Although he was not that tired, it still took a lot of effort to avoid making mistakes. He even began to feel that the ceiling was spinning a little bit.
Qiu gave Harry a disgusted look, and then met Luna's eyes again.
"Want to come together?"
"I'm OK."
Harry and Ron watched Qiu and Luna dancing together, and felt a sense of shame in their hearts.
"Let's go, I saw there are drinks over there."
"No, I can still dance - oh, my legs. Forget it."
Ron was limping and Harry had to hold him up.
The two of them came to a table and sat down together. Ron took the cup handed by Harry and stretched his neck to look around on the dance floor.
"I just wanted to ask, why is Professor Heimer not here? He is so conspicuous tonight, and Professor Angela has never appeared either."
"She probably left after dinner." Harry was also looking for other people: "Hermione is not there. Where did she go with Cedric? She couldn't go to see the house elves, right?
?”
The two people exchanged suspicious glances.
"Want to go look for it?"
"Do you know where the kitchen is?"
"Fred and George must know, let's ask them."
So the two of them spent a long time trying to find Fred and George. They were not on the dance floor, and they were not in the auditorium. Finally, they heard Fred and George talking in the rose garden outside the castle.
The place was arranged like a cave, with unseasonable grass growing on the ground, gorgeously decorated winding paths and huge stone statues. Fred and George talked amidst the splashing sound of water that came from unknown sources.
Voices came vaguely from around the corner, and they seemed to be talking to someone.
"Have you ever thought about your life after retirement?"
"Not yet. Why do you ask?"
"Of course it's for the pension. You don't think you can play Quidditch forever, do you? Look at me and George, now we don't even have a team, what do you think?"
"That sounds reasonable but what exactly is going on with you?"
"That's right, George and I jointly opened a prank shop, which is located in Diagon Alley - do you know where Diagon Alley is? No? It's such a pity. When we have the opportunity, we will take you to go shopping together. By the way
You can also take a look at the layout of that store. When you become interested, you might open one yourself, and we will be responsible for the distribution of goods. What do you think?"
"I seem to understand, like the black devil's wish box?"
"Oh? You guys call him that too - wait, we're not talking bad about Professor Hemmer."
George said this only because Harry and Ron appeared mysteriously. Both of them looked like they had been eavesdropping for a long time.
"What prank shop?" Ron asked.
"This is none of your business." George waved his hand impatiently: "You are not willing to work for us anyway, and you have no money to join us - but, Harry, are you interested? I remember you also have a lot of bonuses."
"Hi, Krum." Harry greeted Krum first. The other person's brows were furrowed, as if he was really thinking about this proposal seriously.
"When did you open the store?" Ron asked again.
Fred frowned and stared at him: "You promise not to tell mom?"
"I promise." Ron nodded quickly.
"Not long ago." Fred started chatting and said, "Don't we still have a few days off before the ball, so George and I secretly went to Diagon Alley and specifically picked out an empty shop, which almost left us
All the money you saved has been spent - you can see it if you go, it's called Weasley's Wizarding Wheezes. But remember, you have to spend money to buy things."
"Why?!" Ron said very dissatisfied: "Am I not your brother?"
"Boys just have to be strong." George patted him on the shoulder perfunctorily, and then asked Harry again: "How is it, are you interested? Maybe we can hand over the Hogsmeade branch to
You, but you have to pay for the opening of the store yourself. We are still discussing the specific process and can provide suggestions at any time."
"Wait a minute." Harry seemed to have just come to his senses: "The sign you put up is Weasley's Wizard Wheezes. Isn't this just asking for trouble? Is there any other wizarding family with the surname Weasley? Your mother
Can’t we know sooner or later?”
Fred said confidently: "Don't worry, Mom won't say anything more when she sees that we have made a lot of money, and - maybe you don't know, the first clerk we hired is Severus
Snape, you didn’t expect it, did you? This was the line that Professor Slughorn set up for us. As long as mother sees him around, she won’t embarrass us. After all, she is so superstitious about Hogwarts - even though it is Snape.
Lytlin’s, but they’re all the same—what’s wrong with you?”
"Wow." Ron sighed.
"You guys are crazy." Harry said his true feelings bluntly.
"Guys, who did you just mention?"
Moody suddenly walked over from the other end of the path, and it seemed that Harry and Ron were not the only ones eavesdropping.
"Um, Professor Moody, we were just chatting, nothing more."
"don’t worry."
Moody walked quickly. He walked up to a few people and stared at the awkward Weasley twins with his magic eyes: "I'm just asking, who did you say was your clerk? Did I hear you right?
?”
"It is indeed Severus Snape." George could only say: "But we haven't met each other in person. Professor Slughorn is helping to write letters and contact me. I remember this is not a violation of school rules.
?”
Moody stared at them in silence for a while.
"Of course not."
Before several people could breathe a sigh of relief, they heard Moody continue: "But I'm afraid you violated the archaeological regulations. I remember having this thing, right?"
He didn't explain the deep meaning of this sentence, and then walked away in a hurry, as if he was busy dealing with some problem.
——
Diagon Alley, Weasley's Wizard Wheezes.
Lockhart really didn't expect to see Snape in a place like this. He was one of the few people who knew the secret, and it was all because Grindelwald gave him extra instructions--
[Don’t mention Severus Snape in front of Toby Highmore, otherwise it will be difficult to ensure your safety at Hogwarts.]
He really wanted to turn around and leave immediately, but his eyes caught a glimpse of something that seemed to be struggling to come out from under Toby's clothes, spreading to the back of his head bit by bit.
Lockhart was already beginning to regret what he was about to say.
"Aha!"
He stepped in front of Toby, separated the two of them very stiffly, blocking their sight of each other, and then said in a tone that he didn't know whether he was crying or laughing: "What a coincidence, old classmates, we meet again, what a coincidence.
Including me - I don’t know if you still remember, although we are not in the same grade, we also went to Hogwarts together. By the way, I am a Ravenclaw. Um, how about we go
Want a drink? The Leaky Cauldron is probably not closed yet, what do you think?"
Neither of them spoke.
“I feel great!”
Lockhart simply answered to himself. He pushed Toby gently and tried not to pay attention to the black smoke that kept pouring out of his eyes.
"Let's go, let's go. I'll treat you. You can drink as much as you like."
Toby was pushed, he turned around and walked towards the Leaky Cauldron.
Lockhart sincerely hoped that Snape would be more discerning and not come too close to him, or that he could disapparate away quickly.
He looked back to see if Snape had done this -
"Stop looking."
Some of it seemed to be speaking to Lockhart, but more of it was an answer to Toby. Snape followed a few steps behind Lockhart and said in a gloomy tone: "There is only me here, no one else.
"
Okay, he's following.
Lockhart really wanted to strangle himself.
——
The Leaky Cauldron was indeed open, but since it was Christmas Eve, there were no customers tonight.
Old Tom was dozing behind the counter. After seeing the three people who walked in, he just raised his eyes slightly, and by the way, he made the flames of the stove a little brighter. Then he stood up and walked up the stairs in a daze and said:
"Get what you want to drink. Remember to put the money on the counter. I'll pick it up tomorrow."
After saying that, he randomly found a guest room and went to sleep.
Lockhart stared dumbly at his disappearing figure.
Why does he know how to avoid trouble better than he does?
He had no choice but to continue to hold on to his smile and said: "What do you want to drink? I'll get it -"
"Need not."
A hand reached out to hold his shoulder, extinguishing Lockhart's last thoughts of escaping.
"Just sit here and I know where your drink is."
Toby walked directly to the room behind the bar. It was estimated that what he was looking for was very deep, and it might be because he wanted to secretly poison him or something - the latter sentence was Lockhart's own suspicion.
The table has four sides, one side is against the wall, and Lockhart is sitting on the opposite side of the wall. This is the most convenient position to distance the two of them.
While Toby was looking for a drink, Lockhart rolled his eyes, leaned his head forward, and whispered: "How did you provoke him? Can you tell me, so that I can save it later?"
Made the same mistake."
Snape glanced sideways at him.
"Why, are you also Haierbo's subordinate?"
Lockhart immediately sat back at the table and covered his face with his hands in pain.
If I had known better, I would have cast the Forgetting Curse on the two sisters earlier.
Not long after, Toby came back from the back room. At this moment, he had a tray in his hand with three wine glasses on it. They were filled with transparent colorless liquid that looked a bit like water.
"Gamp's vintage social wine."
The three wine glasses floated to three sides of the table respectively. Toby took his seat and introduced: "It is named after the first Minister of Magic, Ulric Gamp. Also, I don't know if you have heard of it.
Before I decided whether to leave the UK, I was sitting here and ordered a glass of Gamp, and now that I think about it, it still tastes terrible."
"Try them all. It's been a long time since I've tasted them."
Listening to Toby's introduction, Lockhart stared at the cup in front of him with some suspicion, obviously not believing it.
But he really needed to get drunk at times like this.
So Lockhart was the first to pick up the wine glass. He first brought the tip of his nose close and smelled it, but found that there was no smell. Then he tentatively stuck out his tongue and licked it——
"Ugh! Ugh! Ugh! Ugh—!"
The next second, Lockhart lay on the ground and kept vomiting. He swore that he had never tasted anything so unpleasant, and he almost vomited out his entire stomach.
Ignoring the embarrassed Lockhart, Toby turned his attention to Snape.
It's your turn. He said with his eyes.
Snape glanced at him, then raised the glass to his mouth little by little, and drank it slowly.
Lockhart raised his head with difficulty and looked at this scene.
"Ugh (why)! Ugh (don't you think)! Ugh (it tastes bad)! Ugh (this is not fair)!"
Toby also picked up the glass and drank it. It could be seen that he really enjoyed it and even wanted another drink.
"Because for people who are not strong-willed enough, gamp wine is like an emetic potion, unless the person who drinks it has some purpose that cannot be given up."
After explaining slowly, Toby stared into Snape's eyes and said: "Back then, I was trying to prove that I was right, but what about you now, Severus, why did you decide to come back to see me?"
Mine. You know the consequences very well, don’t you?”
Snape would look at him and say in two glances:
"It's always been Lily Evans."
——
There were traces of vomiting that had not been cleaned up, two empty wine glasses, an almost full wine glass that had not been drunk, and a few gold coins on the counter.
These were all the clues Moody found when he arrived at the Leaky Cauldron.
He limped to the table, his magic eyes scanning everywhere, and then he picked up the wine glass that didn't seem to have been touched much and smelled it carefully.
After confirming that there was no poison inside, Moody stretched out a finger to dip a little wine into it, and then put it into his mouth.
After tasting the Gamp wine, his whole body immediately tensed up, and it took a lot of effort not to spit it out, but even so, he inevitably became breathless.
"Two students can tolerate this. Looks like you're going to be in big trouble."
"Albus."
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