Hogwarts Archaeologist Toby

"Mr. Al?"

Hermione was surprised: "Why are you here - no! How did you get in?"

Even if Al knew the password, he couldn't say it himself, after all, he was just a sniff.

Al flew in front of Hermione. He suddenly took out a skull from his belly pocket and put it on his head. His small eyes looked at little Hermione through the empty sockets.

Hermione was frightened. What was even more frightening was that the skull opened and closed its mouth and actually started talking!

"Is it Miss Granger?"

Hermione thought it was Al speaking at first, but after being stunned for several seconds, she finally realized that it was Professor Heimer's voice.

It's just that the voice of the other party is extremely low, so small that it is difficult to hear clearly, and it seems that they are in a situation that is not suitable for speaking loudly.

"Professor Hemmer?"

Hermione asked tentatively.

She didn't know where to look for a while, the eyes of Al and the skull overlapped, but Hermione really didn't want to look at the skull, so she lowered her gaze and stared at Al's belly pocket.

Al immediately covered his pocket, stared at Hermione warily, and pointed at the skull's head.

Hermione had no choice but to move her gaze back, and at the same time she saw the skull's mouth opening and closing again, revealing Professor Hemmer's voice: "It's me. It seems that Al has found you. Fortunately, you are not like Mr. Diggory." When he fell asleep, I originally wanted to put the skull head next to his pillow, but after thinking about it carefully, I decided not to, after all, you have experienced a fright."

"Long story short, after I got back to the office, I already knew what was going on - the two skeletons were just one of my collections, and while they looked scary, they were actually quite shy, just Wanted to say hello to you. And they got punished, as you can see—I took their heads off, and one of them is in Al's hands."

is on its head.

Hermione muttered something in her heart, and felt a little warm and grateful for no reason at the same time. She didn't expect Professor Highmore to comfort people.

"Will you forgive me then, Miss Granger?"

"This...it's nothing, Professor. After all, I wasn't hurt at all."

"That's great."

I don't know if it was an illusion, but Hermione felt that the skull in front of her laughed happily: "Then you won't tell Principal Dumbledore about this, right?"

"Huh?" Hermione froze.

"Here's the thing." The skull explained patiently: "Well... this is a surprise for Principal Dumbledore, but we can't let him know in advance, otherwise there will be no surprise, right? "

"That seems right...Professor, can I ask a question?"

"Just ask."

"When are you going to show this surprise to the principal?"

"It's not sure yet, but the later the better."

"Is there a specific time?"

"This is the second question, sorry I can't answer it."

Hermione's expression gradually became weird—is Professor Highmore worried that he will sue?

He actually has people to be afraid of? !

"This is very dangerous, Professor!"

"Archaeology is inherently dangerous. I coexist with the danger. The danger is myself. Otherwise, it would not be me to control ancient magic, but ancient magic to control me."

"......What?!"

Hermione felt as if she had heard something extraordinary.

"It's nothing, just pretend that you heard it wrong. Well, if that's the case, then this matter is settled."

"What's settled?"

"We can't reveal it to Principal Dumbledore in advance. Isn't this what we were talking about at the beginning?"

At this time, a strange voice suddenly came from the skull——

"I seem to hear Principal Dumbledore's name... Toby, can you explain what you are doing? Your appearance is really funny. You are whispering to the skull in the corridor in the middle of the night."

It was Snape's voice!

Hermione's eyes widened. Seeing that the situation was not good, Al quickly put away the skull's head, flew the flying carpet back into the passageway, and left the common room.

Meanwhile, in the corridor on the fourth floor.

Toby covered his heart with one hand, and held another skeleton's head in the other, with a half-terrified look on his face: "Are you a ghost? You don't even make a sound when you walk!"

Snape stared at him unkindly: "Don't try to change the subject in front of me, tell me! What are you wandering in the corridor in the middle of the night, and why did you mention Principal Dumbledore? Oh——"

He suddenly said in a clear tone: "I understand, you have caused trouble again, and you are worried that you will be called by the principal to talk."

Toby put away the skeleton's head, and he threatened unabashedly: "So what. Do you want two people to be called to talk? Do you want the principal to find out that two professors are dueling in the school corridor in the middle of the night?" ?!"

"Don't argue with me, come with me, I'll take you to see the principal!"

"Let go, Severus, I'm warning you, let go! Also, please keep your voice down! Don't wake the portrait!"

"portrait?!"

Snape slowly turned his head, and the schadenfreude in his eyes deepened: "So you were planning a portrait. Don't tell me that it has something to do with archeology."

Toby didn't speak, he tried his best to break away from Snape's hand.

Snape narrowed his eyes, he looked Toby up and down: "Are you serious?"

Toby snorted coldly, and he walked in front of a portrait. This is the portrait of Aberric Groning—he is the inventor of the dung bomb and one of the members of the Chocolate Frog Card. Now he is lying flat on the portrait sleep on deep beds.

Toby gently opened the frame and looked at the back of the portrait and the wall behind the portrait. Alberic Groening's body turned twice involuntarily, but Toby's movements were particularly familiar, and he was obviously not the first The first time I did this kind of work, I didn't let the other party really wake up.

After the inspection, Toby sneered disdainfully: "Ignorant guy, do you know how many organs are hidden behind the portraits? I have experienced countless things, not to mention the countless organs in Hogwarts. Qing’s portraits, there may be secrets hidden behind any of them.”

"But you also said that this is Hogwarts—"

Snape grabbed Toby's arm again: "It's not a place for you to do archaeology! I have to take you to see the headmaster today, let him take a good look at what you have done! I want to see if you can still be in school stay How long!"

Toby said "Aha", he raised a finger, which was almost touching Snape's forehead: "I knew you didn't completely stop thinking about driving me away, if you don't let go, I will really Let you meet the headmaster in person—the dead headmaster! How about Phineas Black, he and you are a perfect match, you can form a 'who is more annoying' combination!"

Just when the two people almost started fighting (they didn't dare to actually use the wand), Filch appeared out of nowhere. He looked at this scene in shock, but he still took the time to say: "Mr. Snape, I heard We heard the students sneaking out!"