Hogwarts Archaeologist Toby

[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.

Only one signature was left on the envelope - the most popular professor at Hogwarts.

"The results of it?"

Harry remembered what Sir Nicholas, the Gryffindor Ghost, had said to him - and he'd see what it meant by Christmas.

But what does this mean?

Harry didn't understand at all.

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

Harry looked over and saw that there was no final voting result on it, only a sentence similar to [Merry Christmas, Ron Weasley. 】

The two men exchanged glances.

"I see." 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 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's quite creative. This should be considered by the professor for those students who can't receive gifts. Maybe other professors Also, like Professor Binns, who gives Christmas presents to ghosts?"

"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’s a teacher recognition event, but the gift proposal was indeed proposed by Professor Heimer himself, and this is what he told us personally in the interview.”

Harry was silent, he felt his heart heavy.

From Ron's point of view, it was difficult to imagine not receiving Christmas presents, but Harry didn't think so.

He has lived like this since he was a child.

Even before he woke up this morning, he hadn't thought he'd get a Christmas present.

Ron had already unpacked the package excitedly, only to see a dark purple sweater.

"Oh, it's a Weasley sweater."

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

Harry recovered from his daze. He unwrapped a paper package without much 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 went to him specifically to ask about Professor Highmore—wait, what's 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 said in a low voice.

Harry soon found an unsigned letter in the cloak.

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

[It should be returned to you now. 】

【Use it well. 】

[I sincerely wish you a Merry Christmas. 】

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On the other hand, Toby, who was spreading blessings, hadn't had time to check his Christmas presents. He wasn't even in his office. Instead, he and Al were sitting next to a small bonfire, holding a large and a small two bunches of cotton Sugar, roasting on the fire.

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

"ah."

Al put the roasted marshmallow into his mouth while talking, and his mouth was stuck up and down.

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 will go back in a while, if we don’t go back we won’t be able to do it anymore, the Forbidden Forest in winter is really torturous.”

Both of them have gone too far into the Forbidden Forest. The Forbidden Forest that Professor Kettleburn spent half his life exploring is far from 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 Beasts.

Early this morning Toby saw a Golden Snidget from a distance - there were no golden snitches in the previous Quidditch match, it was a creation made by wizards later, looking for the ball in the original Quidditch match The hands are all chasing magical animals like Jin Snidget.

This is really unbelievable, because the Snidget is on the verge of extinction, but it's a pity that Toby only blinked, and the Snidget flew away, and the speed was no slower than the Golden Snitch.

After sharing the little tea left, Toby put out the bonfire, took out a 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 order to avoid causing trouble, Toby can only avoid them far away—but this is no different from his previous archaeology. There are countless dangers, if they all get together, there will be no bones left.

They are now on a hillside, and there are many mountains in the depths of the Forbidden Forest, otherwise there would be no mountain trolls.

The surrounding trees are still lush, and although the leaves have withered, they are 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. The shovel seemed to suddenly come to life. It dug a medium-sized deep hole in the snow without anyone using it.

After the big shovel stopped swinging, Al took out the small shovel and threw it in the same way.The small shovel continued to dig automatically, and Al stayed in the deep pit, carefully swept the frozen soil with his paws, and then happily picked up a silver Sickle.

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

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

After Al put Sickle in his belly pocket, Toby took out a complex-looking device from the suitcase, which looked like a spinning top as a whole, but with a few curved thin legs growing underneath.

After the spinning top landed, the thin legs began to toss around, walking around.

Toby and Al waited patiently.

The spinning top walked around the deep pit a few times, and then stopped under a tree trunk. It suddenly opened its mouth and shouted: "It's a fortune! It's a fortune!"

"Good luck."

Toby said happily, usually the top would just shout "insignificant", "Poor guy! Poor guy!" and the like.

It is not easy to find ancient relics in the Forbidden Forest, because the Forbidden Forest is too big, and Toby can only let Al look for things like property first, and then let the top search carefully nearby, which is a bit like touching luck.

The two shovels began to wave again and again. Toby and Al each took out a pair of binoculars of appropriate size and put them on their eyes, looking into the deep hole.

I don't know how deep the foreign objects are buried in the ground, but for a location like the Forbidden Forest, the deeper the better, which means a long time.

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

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 it would not lead to anything terrible. Something comes out, such as a mummy that cannot be killed.

So the shovels started swinging again, and this time the digging took an extra long time. 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.

"Thank you."

Toby took Al's baked bread and said, the ground is pitch black, but both shovels are emitting silver light, so there is 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 had heard what he said.

Toby twisted the outer ring of the telescope, and carefully looked at the traces excavated by the shovels—it looked like a stone platform, and the surface was covered with strange carvings. Toby recognized that it was an ancient rune.

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

If Toby is not mistaken, the groove fits 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 raising the corner of his mouth.

"What a perfect Christmas gift."