Hogwarts Archaeologist Toby

"Take it easy, Neville - your name is Neville, isn't it?"

Neville said nothing, he didn't know what to do now.

Who is this man? Why did he send grandma away? What is he going to do to his parents?

"I'm a friend of your parents, Toby Highmore."

He suddenly heard a strange man say: "You can call me Professor Heimer. Yes, he is the professor you are thinking of. I am responsible for teaching the course of ancient magic. Have you bought that book? It is also called "Ancient Magic" , what do you think when you read it?”

Neville's mind went blank. Of course he knew who Toby Highmore was. It was written in the terrible "Ancient Magic" - Author: Toby Highmore.

"Is it bad?"

He saw this man named Higher rubbing his chin and said: "I knew that book was still too difficult for freshmen, maybe I should speed up the process of writing a new book - just like Miranda Gosack wrote "Standard Spells", I can also publish a set of "Ancient Magic: Elementary", "Ancient Magic: Level II", what do you think of this idea?"

Why does he keep asking himself how he is? And how did he know what was going on in my head?

"Because you have your thoughts written all over your face."

Toby shook his finger and said, "I don't think it's hard to read."

Neville watched helplessly as Toby opened the flower curtains of the hospital bed. A couple lay on the hospital bed. They were thin and emaciated. .

They saw Toby, but they didn't recognize him at all. They seemed speechless, or they couldn't speak, and even their movements seemed cautious and full of timidity.

"Frank, Alice, I'm here to see you."

Toby said softly, but neither of them responded.

"Ugh."

Toby sighed heavily: "I really didn't expect it to be like this when we meet again. Seriously, if I knew this, I wouldn't be coming back. You guys look really miserable."

He looked back at Neville, whose plump face turned purple.

Toby couldn't tell for a moment whether he wanted to run away or beat himself up.

"Relax, Neville."

Toby said: "I'm an old friend of your parents. They helped me a lot when I was young. At that time, I was being chased by bad guys. It was your parents who accepted me and hid me so that the bad guys didn't find me. .”

"They had just gotten married at that time, and Mrs. Longbottom was also there. She didn't know the whole story. She just desperately hoped that your parents could have a baby soon. She thought that my arrival broke their beautiful newlywed life, so she will be unhappy with me."

"Proud, arrogant, thinking that I can control everything, and stubbornly believing that my own ideas are the most noble. This cost me a heavy price. Fortunately, your parents were not affected. In the end, they still had a healthy child. - That's you, Neville, I'm sure they'd be proud of you."

Neville didn't go to see Toby, or his parents, and his face was getting more and more purple.

This time Toby was able to confirm that Neville was just trying to escape.

"Are you feeling embarrassed?"

Toby asked softly: "Do you feel ashamed by such parents? Don't you want future professors to discover this secret?"

Neville clutched the pocket at the seam of his trousers tightly, and said in a suppressed voice: "No, I just can't stand it, I can't bear it..."

"Oh!" Toby suddenly shouted, as if he was frightened: "It turns out you can talk. I thought their child was mute."

Neville was stunned, his tears were held back, he didn't know if Toby was mocking himself, or just joking.

"Wait a minute." Toby suddenly wondered, pointing to a piece of wood protruding from Neville's trouser pocket: "Is that your wand? Why does it look so much like Frank's?"

Toby changed the topic too quickly, and before Neville could recover, Toby took the wand out of his pocket and put it in front of his eyes for a careful look.

"Hmm..." He murmured, carefully identifying the pattern on the wand: "It really belongs to Frank. It looks like it has been around for a while. Didn't Mrs. Longbottom buy you a new wand?"

"Grandma thinks this will allow me to better inherit my father's talents..." Neville whispered, and his fingers couldn't help but curl up again.

"Tut tsk tsk." Toby shook his head in disgust, and made a series of strange noises: "I've never heard of such a saying, wizards always have a wand that suits them best, and that's in the Ollivander wand shop. Don't forget [the wand chooses the wizard], it took me a long time to understand this sentence. In short—”

He patted himself on the side of the waist, and Al woke up from his sleep. He got out of his collar in a daze, and felt a hand stuffed into the pocket on his belly, and he lost a lot of weight.

"Is the current price of the wand still the same? I can't remember clearly. Forget it, I'll give you all of these. Remember to buy the wand first, and use the rest to buy snacks. Remember not to let Mrs. Longbottom see it. If you are discovered, don’t say that I gave it—”

Neville didn't know how to react. He saw Toby stuffing many gold coins into the pockets of his clothes, which became bulging. In order not to be easily discovered, Toby also put the extra gold coins into other pockets. Moved.

"One last thing."

Toby whispered, "Don't tell Mrs. Longbottom about this, she won't understand."

Toby took out a crystal ball from Al's pocket, which was hollow, half of which was filled with clear and transparent water.The water seemed to be alive, constantly jumping and surging, turning into tides for a while, and waves for a while, beating down hard.

Neville saw Toby hiding the crystal ball in the middle of his parents' hospital bed, and heard him say at the same time: "I suspect that these waters come from near Avalon. Have you heard of Avalon? That is an important part of many legends." The island will also be called Utopia, Blessed Island, Blessed Island, or Paradise of Bliss, whatever it is called.”

"You won't believe it. I found this water from Loch Ness. God knows why and where. I originally planned to use this lake water to find Avalon, and then find Merlin who was imprisoned in the oak tree in the legend. It is said that He's still alive and attending Hogwarts."

Toby slapped it hard twice at the end, making the crystal ball more difficult to detect.The Longbottoms were taken aback, and Toby quickly apologized quietly to them.

"But now..."

After sorting everything out, Toby turned back to Neville and said with a smile: "Let's put it here with your parents first, I found that this water is very effective in healing the wounds caused by the Cruciatus Curse, and it probably won't take long for them to recover. "

"Have faith in them, Neville."

Before leaving in a hurry, Toby gave one last instruction: "Remember, you must buy a wand of your own, and don't break Frank's wand. He will have to go back sooner or later. Okay, I have to hurry up. Withdraw, it’s time for Mrs. Longbottom to come back..."

Neville didn't know how he got home. Mrs. Longbottom was still complaining about the hapless therapist, babbling non-stop in the living room.

Neville returned to his room alone. He carefully took out a wrapper of Chuibao Super Bubble Gum, and then took out a box under the bed.

The box was opened, and it was already filled with all kinds of candy packaging.

After putting away the candy wrapper in his hand, Neville put on his pajamas and lay down on the old-fashioned bed.

Fell asleep with tears.