Archaeologists at Hogwarts

This is a strange room. The three of them never imagined that they would come to such a place after passing through the Mason Gate - the air is filled with an ancient and dangerous atmosphere, and it smells like decay. Throughout the room

There was only a faint shimmer, coming from nowhere.

"Where are we?"

Harry asked uneasily. He twisted his head back and forth, and was surprised to find that his head could actually turn behind his body. Maybe if he tried harder, he could turn his head in a full circle, which was as magical as Hedwig.

"I am not sure as well......"

The orange cat whispered, making Hermione's voice. The only clue she could think of was emotion. Professor Hemmer paid special attention to mentioning this, but what does emotion have to do with animals?

"Um, Ron?"

Hermione turned her head hesitantly and asked in a calm voice: "Is there anything you want to say?"

The mouse stood one meter away from the two of them, which was the farthest distance Ron could maintain to see the two of them clearly.

After Hermione asked, he almost jumped up anxiously: "What do I want to say? Oh, of course, especially before I am eaten by you, I still have a lot to say -"

Ron has become so crazy since he found out he was a mouse. He almost went crazy and completely lost his mind - both cats and owls eat mice!

"Calm down, Ron! How can Harry and I eat you? Besides, the little meat you have is not enough for us to share -"

"Whoa whoa whoa whoa! Look what you are saying now! What should I do next? Fatten myself up?"

"Stop arguing, you two-"

Harry suddenly stopped him and said, "Listen, there seems to be some movement."

There was a rubbing sound in the darkness, like sandpaper being twitched back and forth, which sounded extremely uncomfortable.

Hermione and Ron held their breath subconsciously. They stared nervously at the direction of the sound - not far in front of them, there seemed to be something huge squirming on the floor. From their perspective, it looked completely unreachable.

climb.

Gradually, the figure revealed its true face - it was a plant that looked like a human, with skin made of dry bark, which made people's skin crawl.

The three little animals ran back in fear. This "vegetative man" was obviously coming towards them and heard their voices.

But before they could run for long, they were blocked by two pale skeletons again. They were constantly throwing their skulls towards each other and catching them again. The skull heads were watching them in the air, making crunching laughter.

On the other side, the mummy's coffin jumped over without knowing when, making continuous "bang" and "bang" sounds on the ground. The face on the coffin lid smiled strangely at them, slowly opening and closing, as if to remove the coffin.

They are locked inside.

Then several dark figures appeared one after another above their heads. They seemed to be bats and ghosts, slowly wandering above the roof, getting closer and closer to the ground, and they were about to be enveloped -

"OMG......"

Ron didn't care whether he was a mouse or not. He hid under Harry's body. It was hard to imagine that there was so much vast space under the owl's fluffy feathers, like a stick covered with fluffy feathers.

"Are we going to die?"

No one answered.

Harry flapped his wings helplessly, but he had not yet adapted to this owl body and could not fly at all.

The orange cat subconsciously lowered its forelimbs and made a "meow" sound. Harry and Ron looked back and saw that Hermione's meow was really weird. They had never seen a cat pretending to meow.

"Do you have any other better ways?"

Hermione glared at the two of them angrily: "We don't even have wands now, how can we scare them if we don't do this?"

But Hermione's method was of no use at all. The guys around were not frightened at all, and it was only a matter of time before they were caught.

at this time--

"boom!"

There was another sound coming from nowhere, and the three people quickly turned their heads to look - at the other end of the room, the door was suddenly opened, and something stood in front of the door, casting light on the ground along with the light outside the room.

A long shadow.

The sound startled the three of them, but the monsters in the room froze, and they retreated little by little into the darkness - which made the three of them even more nervous, because the figures outside the house were slowly moving.

Swimming in - it was a snake, a species they had never seen with their own eyes. Its cold eyes were aimed at the three of them. Its long horns stood at the front of its head, and a magnificent green star was deeply embedded in its skin.

gem.

It's a long-horned water snake!

Hermione suddenly remembered that she had seen a description of this magical animal in "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" - the ????? level, which is also the highest level of danger. The long horns on its head are the origin of its name.

And the gem on the forehead - it is said that only a very small number of long-horned water snakes will have gems on their foreheads. It is also the most famous and precious of all long-horned water snake species.

The long-horned water snake slowly spat out the message. Its body was dozens of times larger than the three small animals. It was so big that Harry felt that the other one could swallow him in one bite.

The three of them were completely frightened. At first it was just Ron who looked like rations, but now they all were.

They didn't dare to make a sound, and when the horned water snake opened its mouth, they didn't dare to speak anymore. They heard -

"One, two, three... three animals, why are they not magical animals this time?"

It's Professor Heimer's voice.

They should have thought long ago that the monsters in the house are all souvenirs of the ancient magic office. If anyone can conquer them, it must be Professor Highmore, the devil of Hogwarts. Maybe there will be another monster added now.

The name of the king.

Now, Professor Heimer was staring at them coldly. The three of them could understand what he said, but they couldn't understand what the professor was saying.

"The number doesn't match, three, not one..."

"The mice, orange cats, and owls are all ordinary little animals. It would be great if they were phoenixes like Fox. Isn't that all? Tsk, tsk, tsk, I don't want to take you out."

The three of them still didn't speak, and they didn't want to be caught by Professor Heimer. After all, they had just passed through the Mason Gate, and they didn't even understand Professor Heimer's plan to steal the Philosopher's Stone.

So the three little animals all pretended to be confused and a little scared. Professor Heimer seemed to regard them as original animals in this world, and they planned to take advantage of them.

But at this moment, the two skeletons came over holding their heads. They pointed their heads at the horned water snake with both hands and clicked their mouths up and down several times.

In the frightened eyes of the three people, the long-horned water snake suddenly turned its attention to them, and its eyes suddenly became even colder.

"You mean they can also talk? Al can't do that..."

There is no doubt that Toby has guessed the origins of the three little animals. Like himself, they are all wizards who passed through the Mason Gate.

"And Al actually wasn't guarding the door of Mason Gate..."

Only Toby knows what other tasks Al has to do besides guarding the Mason Gate——

Keep an eye on the magic ball, guard against problems caused by the magic circle, and protect the magic stone deep in the agency.