Archaeologists at Hogwarts

【Merry Christmas, Harry Potter.】

There was only this sentence written on the small note. Harry turned the note over, but he didn't find out who the candidate for the most popular professor was.

There was only one signature left on the envelope - Hogwarts' most popular professor.

"The results of it?"

Harry still remembered what Sir Nicholas, the Gryffindor ghost, had said to him - he would understand what it meant by Christmas.

But what does this mean?

Harry didn't get it at all.

Ron also woke up, saw the package at the foot of the bed, and opened the letter addressed to him.

Harry looked over and saw that there were no final voting results on it, only a sentence similar to "Merry Christmas, Ron Weasley."

The two people exchanged glances.

"I understand." Ron said suddenly.

"What do you understand?" Harry asked in surprise.

"I understand why Professor Heimer did this." Ron said thoughtfully: "Percy didn't let me tell others what I said. He said that Professor Heimer probably didn't receive a Christmas gift when he was in school.

Gifts, at least for one year. That’s why the professor thought of giving everyone a Christmas gift, and this is——"

Ron raised the note in his hand: "A blessing from the most popular professor. Although I don't know who it is, it is still quite creative. This should be considered by the professor for the students who cannot receive the gift. Maybe other professors

Or, for example, Professor Binns, who would give a Christmas gift to a ghost?”

"W-wait-wait!"

Harry suddenly became as stammering as Quirrell, and he quickly asked: "Why haven't you said these things before?"

"Because Percy thinks this is Professor Heimer's scandal." Ron shrugged and said, "For our safety reasons, it is not convenient to publicize it. Oh, by the way, there is one more thing. We don't know who is going to host it.

It was a teacher recognition event, but the gift proposal was indeed proposed by Professor Heimer himself, and this was what he told us personally during the interview.”

Harry was silent, feeling his heart heavy.

From Ron's perspective, not receiving a Christmas gift was unimaginable, but Harry didn't think so.

He has lived like this since he was a child.

Even before he woke up this morning, he never thought he would receive a Christmas present.

Ron had already opened the package excitedly and saw a dark purple sweater.

"Oh, it's a sweater unique to the Weasley family."

His tone was a little helpless, and then he turned to look at the motionless Harry and asked, "What are you thinking about?"

Harry came back from his daze, opened a paper package without interest, and muttered in a low voice: "I seem to understand why Nick said that."

"Nick? Nick Flamel's Nick? Do you know who Nick Flamel is?"

"No, it's Nearly Headless Nick. I came to him specifically once to ask about Professor Hemmer - wait, what is this?"

Harry looked at the silver-gray liquid-like cloth in the paper bag in confusion, and Ron gasped.

"It's an invisibility cloak." He lowered his voice and said.

Harry soon found an unsigned letter in the invisibility cloak.

【Your father left this thing to me before he died.】

【It should be returned to you now.】

【Use it well.】

【Sincerely wish you a Merry Christmas.】

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On the other side, Toby, who was spreading blessings, had not had time to check his Christmas gifts. He was not even in his office. Instead, he and Al were sitting next to a small bonfire, holding two bunches of cotton, one large and one small.

Sugar, roasting on the fire.

Near them was a deserted land of ice and snow, and the sun had just risen.

"ah."

As Al said this, he put the roasted marshmallow into his mouth, and his mouth was stuck from top to bottom.

Toby opened the suitcase at his feet, took out a hot teapot from it, poured the steaming tea into the teacup, handed it to Al, and said at the same time: "At noon, isn't there a Christmas dinner at noon? Keep going.

We'll go back in a while, and it won't work if we don't go back, the Forbidden Forest in winter is really too torturous."

Both of them have gone deep into the Forbidden Forest. The Forbidden Forest that Professor Kettleburn spent half his life exploring is far from being as simple as it seems from the edge. For this reason, Toby and Al have not returned to the castle for many days.

, but this gave them a good look at the so-called Forbidden Forest, especially when night came. Last night, Toby suspected that the huge figure passing by the tent was not a troll, but a giant, or something else huge.

Fantastic animals.

This morning Toby also saw a Snitch from a distance - there was no Golden Snitch in the old Quidditch game. It was a creation made by wizards later. It looked for the ball in the original Quidditch game.

The players are chasing magical animals like Golden Snidget.

This is really unbelievable, because the Snitch is already on the verge of extinction. Unfortunately, Toby only blinked and the Snitch flew out of sight, and the speed was no slower than the Golden Snitch.

After sharing the little remaining tea, Toby put out the bonfire, took out the shiny silver shovel from the suitcase and put it on his shoulder, letting Al lead the way.

There are many strange things in the Forbidden Forest, but unfortunately there are not many useful discoveries. In many cases, in order to avoid getting into trouble, Toby can only stay away from it - but this is no different from his previous archeology. Many ancient ruins

The dangers are countless, and if they all come together, they will all be gone.

The location where they are now is a hillside, and there are many mountains deep in the Forbidden Forest, otherwise there would be no mountain troll species.

The surrounding trees are still lush, and although the leaves have withered, it is still a scene that blocks the sky and the sun.

Al circled around a tree several times, sniffed his nose vigorously, and suddenly found a spot and pointed.

Toby threw the shovel on his shoulder, and the shovel seemed to suddenly come to life, digging a medium-sized deep hole in the snow without anyone using it.

After the big shovel stopped waving, Al took out the small shovel and threw it away. The small shovel automatically continued digging. Al stayed in the pit, carefully swept the frozen soil with his paws, and then happily picked up a silver coin.

Sico.

"It's probably left by the missing students again."

Toby said in disappointment that many people have disappeared in the Forbidden Forest over the years, but he did not come to the Forbidden Forest to pick up money.

After Al put Sicco in his belly pocket, Toby took out a complicated-looking device from the suitcase. It looked like a top, but it had several thin, curved legs growing from the bottom.

After the top landed, its thin legs began to flop around and walk around.

Toby and Al waited patiently.

The top walked around the pit a few times, and then suddenly stopped under a tree trunk. It suddenly shouted: "Get rich! Get rich!"

"Good luck."

Toby happily said that usually the spinning top would only yell "insignificant", "Poor guy! Poor guy!" and the like.

It is not easy to find ancient ruins in the Forbidden Forest, because the Forbidden Forest is really too big. Toby can only ask Al to look for property and the like first, and then let Gyro search carefully nearby, which is a bit like a collision.

luck.

The two shovels began to swing one after another again, and Toby and Al each took out a pair of telescopes of suitable size and put them against their eyes, looking into the deeply dug hole.

I don’t know how deep the foreign objects in the ground are buried, but for a location like the Forbidden Forest, the deeper the better, which means it’s very old.

After the shovels stopped swinging, Toby took out a simple straw doll from the suitcase. Al also took out his own little flying carpet and let the doll sit on the flying carpet and get into the hole.

After a while, the flying carpet flew back to the two of them. Toby picked up the doll and took a closer look, and found that the expression on the doll's face was still smiling. This meant that there was no danger underground for the time being, and nothing terrible would happen.

Something comes out, such as a mummy that cannot be killed.

So the shovels started swinging again, and this time the digging time was extra long. Al had already set up an extra bonfire near the entrance of the cave, toasting slices of bread out of boredom. Only Toby was left staring at the progress deep inside the hole.

His eyes never left the telescope for a moment.

"Thanks."

Toby took the toasted bread from Al and said, "It's pitch dark underground, but both shovels are emitting silver light, so there's no need to worry about the light source."

"Wait a moment!"

Toby suddenly shouted, and the shovels in the distance stopped immediately as if they heard what he said.

Toby twisted the outer ring of the telescope and looked carefully at the traces dug by the shovels - it looked like a stone platform, and the surface was covered with strange carvings. Toby recognized them as ancient runes.

In addition, there is a small groove on the stone platform.

If Toby saw it correctly, the groove fits perfectly with the pensieve in the principal's office, as if they were originally a pair.

"It has something to do with the pensieve..."

Toby couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth.

“What a perfect Christmas gift.”