Archaeologists at Hogwarts

After all the students were gone, Harry and the three secretly went to the fourth floor. But as soon as they walked up the stairs, they heard rapid footsteps behind them.

"The prize room!" Harry quickly reminded in a low voice.

Thank God, Harry still remembered the trophy room, which was where Malfoy originally asked him to duel.

The three of them quickly hid in the prize display room with their waist low. They quietly poked their heads out and looked into the corridor, and the person they saw was Snape.

"What is he doing?" Harry asked in a low voice.

"How do I know?" Hermione hissed and quickly moved their bodies closer to the room to avoid being seen.

Snape did not notice the three of them and left directly in another direction. Harry remembered that that was also the direction of the room where the small package was hidden.

A terrible guess suddenly appeared in his heart.

"Snape is Professor Highmore's classmate. Could it be that he went to pick up Professor Highmore? These two are accomplices!"

"Come on." Hermione said impatiently: "The two of them had a fight in school. Do you think this is something that accomplices should do?"

"Why not?" The more Harry thought about it, the more frightened he became: "Have you ever heard of a professor going out to fight during class? It was obviously done for us to see, and for everyone to see, just to let others see.

I know they are at odds. And why did Snape show up in Professor Hemmer's office without incident during the last solitary confinement? That might be because they were discussing a specific action plan."

Ron's eyes widened: "It's really yours, I can imagine this."

Hermione looked at them in shock: "It's true that one of you dared to make wild guesses, and the other actually believed it."

"It's just a random guess. We'll find out soon."

Harry said as he was about to walk out of the trophy display room, but the next second he silently stepped back and made a shushing gesture to the two of them.

The three of them soon heard another set of footsteps. They cautiously looked around and found that the person walking up this time was Professor Heimer, and Al also appeared on his shoulder.

"did you see it?"

After Professor Heimer walked away, Harry said with a confident look on his face: "I knew my guess was right. First, Professor Heimer lured the three-headed dog away, and then Snape went to steal the small package.

Now Professor Heimer has successfully escaped and is going to join Snape."

"I have a question." Ron suddenly said: "Why do you call Snape just Snape, but you add an additional title of professor to Highmore?"

"What if he hears you?" Harry said quickly: "It's not like you don't know how cautious Professor Hemmer is. It's always right to be careful."

Ron nodded in agreement.

Hermione was completely speechless, but she was surprised to find that Harry's logic was becoming more and more perfect, and even she couldn't find any point to refute.

"Isn't it possible that I won't have any new books to read in the future..."

Hermione followed them unwillingly and quietly came to the corridor, intending to find out.

On the other side, Quirrell took a detour and reached the rightmost room of the corridor on the fourth floor first. But as soon as he got here, he became cautious. The three-headed dog just now almost bit off a piece of meat from him. Fortunately, he

You had to dodge in time, otherwise you might be eaten alive by the three-headed dog.

There was a big hole in the wall of the room where the trap door was hidden, and the door had disappeared. It was broken open by a three-headed dog. It was so dark inside that nothing could be seen clearly.

Quirrell didn't dare to rush in. What if the three-headed dog came back? He didn't know whether it would be safer to use the lighting spell or go in singing the school song.

Just when he was hesitating, unexpectedly, but naturally, Snape's voice sounded from the corridor behind him, which startled Quirrell. He didn't understand why Snape came so quickly.

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"What are you doing?" Snape strode over with a gloomy face, and Quirrell could clearly see that he was holding the wand tightly in his hand.

"I-I-I'm looking for clues."

Quirrell didn't look into the room anymore. He stammered and explained: "I-I'm very good at dealing with giant monsters. I can also chase them. Maybe I can also find the three-headed dog through the same method.

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Snape had already walked to the opposite side of Quirrell. He stared at Quirrell closely: "Then have you found any clues? Do you know who released the three-headed dog?"

"Let it out?" Quirrell said with a frightened expression: "Why would you think that?"

Snape stared coldly into Quirrell's eyes. Just as he was about to continue questioning, another voice came from the corridor——

"I seem to have missed something."

Toby walked out of the shadows and looked around at the two of them: "Can anyone explain? Why are so many people gathering here? I remember that the Halloween dinner was held in the auditorium hall."

Al pointed to the broken wall and shouted twice. Toby had already noticed this strangeness: "It seems that I am not the only professor who can fight. I didn't expect you, Quirrell, to be so brave and dare to fight with Snape."

In a fight, he is not that easy to deal with."

He apparently mistook it for Quirrell's duel with Snape.

Then he asked one more question: "Where is the three-headed dog? Is the three-headed dog still in the room?"

Neither of them answered.

Quirrell was secretly speculating on the purpose of Toby's appearance. Although Voldemort told him that he didn't need to worry about it, Toby happened to appear again, and they had just met in the Forbidden Forest, so they happened to interrupt.

Quirrell's plan to capture the troll.

Snape, on the other hand, did not intend to tell Toby too much because he remembered Dumbledore's instructions.

"Oops."

Toby's face darkened little by little. He stared at the two of them closely and quietly tightened his grip on the wand. Al also took out a small shovel from his belly pocket and stared at them with a vigilant expression.

It's not just the three-headed dog's escape that's bad.

These two people who didn't say a word made things worse.

Who told them to appear at the door of the room where the magic stone was hidden?

On the other side of the corridor, the three Harrys were walking quietly with their waists low. Next to them was a long line of armor, which made them dare not walk too fast for fear of causing a tragedy during the midnight duel and causing the armor to fall.

The sound of falling echoed throughout the castle again.

"Did you see it?" Hermione, who was walking at the back, asked, "Did you see anyone there?"

"Not yet." Harry said anxiously, "I don't dare to walk too fast, the corridor is dark, and I'm worried about bumping into them all at once——"

"Um..." Ron, who was caught in the middle, said hesitantly: "Did you smell a familiar strange smell? I can't explain why it is familiar, but you-"

"Stop talking." Hermione's voice trembled. She looked back and saw three huge heads appearing silently from the darkness, and the noses of each head were sniffing around.

"It's a three-headed dog." Hermione warned in a suppressed tone of horror: "It remembers the smell of us. It might have been hiding at the other end of the corridor before, but now it comes to find us!"

Ron and Harry suddenly looked back, and just then one of the heads of the three-headed dog raised up, its ferocious eyes turning slowly towards them.

Before Ron could scream, a loud singing sound came from behind the three-headed dog. Harry swore that this was the most beautiful school song he had ever heard.

"Hogwarts, Hogwarts, Hogwarts, Hogwarts!"

"Please teach us knowledge,"

"Whether we are an old man with a bald head or a child with a broken knee——"

The song was sung to the melody of "Symphony of Destiny". The three-headed dog's six eyes drooped downwards uncontrollably. It swayed a few times, its knees softened and it knelt down, then plopped down.

He fell on the floor and fell into a deep sleep.

Dumbledore walked around from behind the three-headed dog, walked up to the three stunned children, and smiled gently at them:

"Looks like I'm ahead in the race to catch the three-headed dog, kids."