Archaeologists at Hogwarts

Chapter 398 New Professors

397 New Professors

Sweaters don't work well.

But at this time, in order to avoid further embarrassment, I have to do it even if it doesn't work.

As a result, the name "The Sweater Man" soon spread throughout Hogwarts, and was known to all the teachers and students in the school. Peeves even composed a song specifically for James——

【Sweater freak, sweater freak, you are so embarrassed】

[It’s really embarrassing for you to run around in broad daylight]

[It’s really not embarrassing for you to be laughed at by the students]

[It’s really not a shame to be an assistant under the old bat]

When Harry came to James' office again - it was actually a small room. Let alone a normal office, it was probably only a little bigger than Filch's. Even Myrtle

The restroom is incomparable.

"Why don't I feel embarrassed?!"

James protested strongly against the "Shame on You" ode: "Didn't I put on a sweater? How did he know who I was?"

"Probably because of your size." Harry looked at James' height and said, "Plus the news that the new professor will have an assistant, it's easy to guess who you are."

"The invisibility cloak is more useful." James sighed. He hadn't decorated his office yet. The place seemed messy. Harry could only find an empty cardboard box and sit on it.

He watched James casually put his legs on the table, and the chair under his butt tilted into a dangerous arc.

This made Harry suddenly regret coming to him.

James didn't notice Harry's strange expression at all. He was tossing a Quaffle he had taken from nowhere, and while throwing it out, he asked: "Does your Quidditch team still lack a coach?"

- Oh, I forgot, there is no Quidditch match this year - so how should I spend my time? Do you want to go out and play? Let’s see if you have improved recently?”

Harry sighed.

"Is this how you usually work at the Ministry of Magic?"

"I see that you are dissatisfied with me." James said with a smile: "I have never known what work means in my life. Remus may know it very well, but this certainly does not include me - your grandparents gave me

I left a huge inheritance so that I never have to worry about gold in my life. As for the job in the Ministry of Magic, Toby found me a job. He probably expected that Dumbledore would be kicked out before that.

It’s a day, so Sirius and I were arranged to occupy a few seats in advance.”

"But it's the same. Bagman doesn't dare to really order us to do things, so even when I go to the ministry, I usually chat with Sirius, and occasionally I sneak out for a walk."

"Wait a minute!" Harry seemed to have discovered something: "But I remember when we lived at Tonks' house, you never came back early, not even once - you all went out to be lazy at that time?"

"Don't make such a fuss." James waved his hand and said, "This happened from time to time when we were in school. Besides, Lupine didn't get off work either, so he had to pretend - so do you want to go out and fight with me?

Quidditch?”

"No." Harry immediately shook his head and said, "I wanted to ask you something, but now I don't know if I should ask you."

"Just say it." James tried to make his expression more serious: "Since you have found me, I won't let you down."

Harry didn't think so, but he really needed someone who could solve his problems now.

So he talked about his decision to continue participating in Professor Highmore's tutoring class. By the way, he also mentioned that maybe he could help ease the conflict between Professor Highmore and Principal Dumbledore, but he didn't know the specific details yet.

solution.

After listening, James sighed: "He really values ​​you."

This is exactly what Harry had in mind.

He asked with some trepidation: "Do you still want me to reject Professor Heimer?"

"No." James sighed and said, "He has obviously set his sights on you. Although his intentions may not be that bad, at least we all know what he will do to achieve his goal. Now even Dumbledore doesn't want to

It really pisses him off - it seems that I can only remain silent, of course, I still feel that it is not too late to leave Hogwarts - I can take you away from him."

Harry was silent for a short while, but finally he shook his head and rejected the proposal.

"What if we run into Herbo? What if he's waiting for us to do this?"

"yes."

Faced with Harry's worries, James seemed even more powerless.

In order to change the atmosphere, Harry quickly changed the topic.

"What about Snape?" He said with a sullen expression when the name was mentioned: "Are you really going to be his assistant? Are you going to start a fight with him on the first day of class?"

"I really want to do this." After seeing the change in Harry's expression, James changed his words in time: "But as a professor at Hogwarts—well, an assistant, I have to set an example, and I can't let anyone else do it.

There is no excuse to drive me away. After all, this opportunity is hard-won. Even Bagman didn’t express any opinion on this matter. You know, I am still his subordinate now - I remember we had a meeting in the afternoon.

One class, right? You’ll know by then.”

After seeing James making the promise, Harry also breathed a sigh of relief.

But some people in school live in fear.

"Bang bang bang!"

"Please come in - Dean, why are you here again?"

After seeing a worried-looking Slughorn walk in, Angela and Al turned and left the office at the same time, leaving Toby to face the trouble alone.

Toby had helplessness written all over his face, but Slughorn didn't care what he was thinking now and ran to Toby almost at a fast speed - he could run so fast with such a big belly.

It's really magical.

"Say it!"

Slughorn asked as soon as he came up; "Where did you hide that person? I haven't slept well for several days. Do you have to drive me crazy before you stop?"

"What do you mean?" Toby quickly waved his hand and said, "I never wanted to trouble you, Dean, you know how much I respect you, don't you? If you hadn't come to talk to me, I wouldn't be here.

I didn’t know that I was even more Slytherin than Slytherin.”

"But I didn't teach you how to recruit people like that."

Slughorn looked so excited that he couldn't even breathe. Toby quickly stood up and helped him to sit on the sofa.

"What do you want to drink? Mead?" Toby asked skillfully.

"The more expensive the better," Slughorn said angrily.

When he saw Toby take out a bottle of fine mead, Slughorn's face became a little tense.

"Did you already know that I would come to find you? Otherwise, how could you be so well prepared?"

Toby spread his hands innocently: "How could it be? I just asked Snape to bring this back by the way, or I bought it abroad. It cost me a lot of gold-"

"Isn't this prepared in advance?" Slughorn asked doubtfully.

Toby thought about it carefully.

"That's right."

"you--"

"Don't be angry, old dean, try this bottle of wine quickly, even I haven't tasted it in advance."

Perhaps sensing the student's thoughts from these words, Slughorn didn't look so angry anymore. He picked up the glass and took a sip, then a second sip, and a third sip.

Soon the glass was empty, and the bottle automatically floated over to refill the glass.

After drinking more than half of the bottle, Slughorn put the cup on the coffee table. Toby also drank the last sip of wine in the cup. He smacked his mouth twice and felt the lingering fragrance in his mouth.

"Although it tastes good, it's still not as exciting as the Black Devil wine."

"Don't compare that poison with this wine." Slughorn lectured Toby, and then his tone suddenly became sad.

"I really can't understand you students more and more now. Snape is like this, and you are similar. How could it suddenly lead to such a situation today? Albus is sometimes very strong, but relatively speaking

It’s easy to talk to him, at least he won’t force others openly——”

"But not now." Toby interrupted abruptly: "He just said two days ago that after solving the trouble in Azkaban, he could finally take out his hand to deal with me - and he told me in front of me."

"He really did that?" Slughorn looked shocked.

Toby raised his eyebrows and nodded.

"Alas." Slughorn sighed: "Then no wonder it turned out like this. At least I know something about your temperament, and you never want to admit defeat. I just didn't expect this day to come so soon - eh

?”

He suddenly said to himself strangely: "It seems to be my first year back at Hogwarts - did you do this on purpose?"

"I never thought about it before." Toby said frankly: "But I will be short of a vice principal soon - no need to be so surprised, everyone knows that I have always wanted to be the principal of Hogwarts.

Even Dean McGonagall knows this very well."

"Don't take me with you!" Slughorn immediately said angrily: "Are you going to separate me and all my old friends? I'm not Salazar Slytherin, and I don't want to end up like him.

The ending is a complete tragedy.”

"Relax, old dean." Toby comforted him nicely: "I won't force Principal McGonagall to resign this time, she will leave on her own initiative. But who can she give up the position of principal to? Except for

I, who else has this qualification? Those people will make the school a mess, at least I still know some business knowledge - isn't the Black Devil Foundation running well now?"

"That's true." Slughorn accepted Toby's words. The treatment of professors in the school was much better than before.

"But you're lying to me again, right?" He then said: "You don't even want to tell you where the mysterious man is? What on earth do you think about this matter? You actually found a way to let him know.

Is he resurrected?"

"He is no longer a threat." Toby explained lightly: "The specific reasons are a bit complicated, but you only need to know this. I can completely control him and will not give him a chance to do evil."

"you sure?"

"I promise."

There was silence in the office for a while.

Slughorn wanted to speak again several times, but under Toby's gaze, he swallowed back all those words.

"I don't know what to say either."

He bent down tiredly, his face looking much older.

"After all, I'm already so old, and I'm not as energetic as Dumbledore, let alone as smart as him. You are my proud student - now I think there is no one else. Being sandwiched between the two of you is a big deal.

It’s really uncomfortable.”

"I don't think this is a problem at all." Toby seemed to have already thought about what to say, and he blurted out: "I think Dumbledore thinks so too, no one will force you to do anything, as long as

You can go wherever you want, and you might even become the last buffer between me and Dumbledore."

Slughorn stared at his student.

"What you said is exactly the same as Albus - well, it seems it will be useless even if I try again."

He finally revealed the reason for his visit - just like Harry, he came to ease the conflict between the two of them.

"This is nothing for you to worry about."

Toby stood up to greet the guests, and at the same time stuffed the half bottle of mead into Slughorn's arms: "Just enjoy your professorship at Hogwarts, and I will try hard not to let this fight affect innocent people.

Human - if you insist on an accurate answer, I think it should be the students."

Slughorn nodded, and with the help of Toby, he came to the door of the office, but before he could open it, there was a violent knock on the door.

"professor!"

It was Harry, who was shouting anxiously: "Professor Heimer! I - Gjeon and Snape are about to fight! Go and help!"

"oh?"

Toby opened the door first and asked enthusiastically: "Who do you want me to help?"

"What?" Harry said quickly after being stunned for a moment: "You are helping to stop them. Why are you helping whom?"

Slughorn looked at Toby dissatisfied. His gaze was not as heavy as Dumbledore's, but it also made Toby a little interesting.

"I'm used to it." He simply explained: "Let's go quickly, otherwise we will miss this duel - ah, no, we have to stop them quickly!"

At the same time, in the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom, the students all gathered at the back of the classroom like chickens. They stared wide-eyed at the two professors on the podium who were pointing their wands at each other.

"Gjeon! Do you dare to disobey my order? It's just an Unforgivable Curse. Students should have learned similar courses long ago. Isn't it too late for them?"

"The Unforgivable Curse? I can do it too! Why aren't you the guinea pig? My salary is lower than yours, so you should be the one to bear the greatest risk! Children, you all have to pay attention to this spell.

It will definitely make his life worse than death - heartbreaking -"

"Heart-"

Two spells sounded at the same time, and Toby kicked the door open, attracting everyone's attention.

Under Harry's hopeful gaze, Toby raised his wand and read aloud:

"Avada——!"