Hogwarts Archaeologist Toby

Harry was frightened by the sudden turn of events. He forgot that he still had the Invisibility Cloak. He kept moving his hands around his body quickly, and finally found something in his pocket - the flute given to him by Hagrid, which he also prepared. Something used to make magic circle items.

Harry subconsciously blew the flute.

[Hogwarts, Hogwarts, Hogwarts, Hogwarts! 】

[Please teach us knowledge, only not from the devil! 】

[The ancient magic circle is omnipotent, endowing the devil with infinite power! 】

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Harry's original idea was to use the flute to play the school song with the melody of "Symphony of Destiny", but after the dirty words, he made another mistake and turned into the devil's song with the melody of "Funeral March", which is Toby Highmore. professor.

Harry was looking forward to someone hearing his cry for help. What he was looking forward to most in his heart was the devil in the lyrics, even Mr. Al.

The figure seemed to be affected by the singing, he slowed down his pace, but quickly picked up his speed again, and rushed towards Harry like a dark bat.

Harry wanted to yell in fright, but he couldn't make any sound, and fell to the ground in fear.

At this moment, Harry heard the sound of horse hooves trotting behind him, and something passed over his head and rushed towards the figure.

When Harry raised his head again, the hooded figure was gone. A centaur stood beside him. Different from the centaur Bane he had seen before - this centaur looked younger. His hair is white blond and he has the body of a silver-maned horse.

"Are you okay?" The centaur reached out to Harry, trying to help him up.

Harry quickly took a few steps back. Bain gave him a bad first impression, and he was even afraid of the centaur in front of him.

But the centaur seemed to know what Harry was thinking. He said, "It seems that you have already seen Bain. He is patrolling around here. I know that Bain has a very bad temper and some animals died in the forest. And the new professor at Hogwarts almost broke into our tribal gathering place, and Bain inevitably overreacted - no wizard has ever been so close to us before, and this is not allowed."

The centaur once again extended his hand to Harry, and this time Harry didn't refuse.

"Sorry." He said awkwardly, "Uh, and do you know what that was just now?"

The centaur made no reply. His eyes were astonishingly blue, like pale sapphires. He looked at Harry carefully, his eyes resting on the sharp and prominent scar on Harry's forehead.

"You're the Potter boy," he said. "You shouldn't be here, the woods aren't safe at this time—especially for you. Can you ride a horse? It'll go faster that way."

"My name is Firenze," he added, bending his front legs and lowering himself so Harry could climb onto his back.

Suddenly, there was the sound of more horse hooves coming from the other side of the clearing. Bain limped out of the grass. He looked miserable. There was a long gash in his chest, and blood was still leaking out. This must have been caused in the battle just now, ha. For the first time, Lee realized Mr. Al's cruelty. Compared with Bain, Al's method of punishing students was completely too kind.

"Firenzie!" Baine roared, "What are you doing? Thinking you're an ordinary mule?"

"This is the boy from the Potter family." Firenze said: "You are seriously injured and should return to the tribe for treatment as soon as possible. Moreover, I have already said not to provoke the new professor, but you He just refused to listen. You should know how vicious he would be when he really started to attack, but Dumbledore was there to prevent him from——"

"This is the mission of being a centaur!" Bane still roared in complete disregard of his injuries: "We need to protect the forest, not be driven by wizards like you. Remember, Firenze, we made an oath , must not defy Providence. Do we not see the omens shown by the movements of the planets?"

Firenze suddenly reared up in anger, and Harry had to hold on to his shoulders to keep from falling off.

"Have you not seen those dead animals?" Firenze roared to Bain: "Don't you understand why it was killed? Or did the planet not reveal this secret to you? I must resist that lurking The man in our forest, Bane. Yes, I will side with the humans if necessary."

After Firenze finished speaking, he turned around lightly; Harry clung to him tightly, and they rushed deeper into the woods, leaving Bane behind.

Harry had no idea what was going on.

"Why is Bain so angry?" Harry asked, "Also, what was that just now? Why do you hate Professor Highmore, and Bain even didn't hesitate to fight him?"

Firenze slowed down and reminded Harry to lower his head and avoid the low-hanging branches, as if thinking. Finally, just as they were passing through a particularly dense patch of trees, Firenze suddenly stopped.

"Harry Potter, do you know how those animals died?"

"I don't know," Harry was surprised at the strange question.

"I have observed the corpses of those animals." Firenze said: "They were so emaciated that they were forcibly taken from their lives, exhausted little by little, and died in weakness and pain."

"There is no doubt that this is black magic, extremely evil black magic. Bane suspects that this is the new professor who did it, but I know it is not him. He will not do things against Dumbledore's ideas. He respects Dumbledore." profitable."

Harry looked at the back of Firenze's head, which was speckled silver in the moonlight.

"But who is the murderer?" Harry asked his question loudly: "Why can't it be done in a more ordinary way, such as...such as a full meal? Why must the animal's life be taken?"

"Because the murderer is also weak, ordinary food is no longer enough to do this, you must use other life to delay your life, so that you can drink another thing-one that will fully restore your energy and mana—something that makes you immortal. Do you know what's hiding in the school at this very moment, Mr. Potter?"

"The Philosopher's Stone! Of course - the Elixir! But I don't know who -"

"Can't you imagine, who has waited silently for so many years, eager to make a comeback? Who is clinging to life and waiting for the right time?"

For a moment, it was as if an iron claw had suddenly grabbed Harry's heart.Amidst the rustling of the leaves in the wind, he seemed to hear again what Hagrid said the night they first met: "Some say he's dead. I think it's pure nonsense. I'm afraid he doesn't have much humanity left in him, so He can't possibly die."

"Are you saying," Harry said in a low, hoarse voice, "that it's Vadi-"

"Harry! Harry, are you okay?"

Hermione and Ron ran towards them along the path. Behind them were the frightened Malfoy and the sullen Professor Hemmer. Al was standing on his shoulders, not showing any signs of the previous battle. injured.

"I'm fine," Harry whispered, only daring to steal a glance at the expression on Professor Hemmer's face. He seemed to be on the verge of rage, and his face was terrifyingly gloomy.

No one said anything, Firenze silently put Harry back on the ground. He didn't want to stay with Toby, but Toby didn't let him go and strode directly towards him.

"What does Mars mean?"

He asked directly, his tone seemed to be threatening, as if Firenze dared to speak riddles like Ronan, he would attack him without hesitation.

Firenze watched Toby calmly.

“War,” he said. “In Centaur divination, Mars means war.”

Toby narrowed his eyes slightly, as if he was judging whether Firenze had deceived himself.

Just when a few people thought that another battle was about to take place, Toby said in an extremely calm voice: "Tell your leader Margaret, don't let me see Bane again. He shot at Al, please don't Let me see him again."

Firenze and Toby looked at each other: "The centaurs will not accept threats from wizards."

"You will," Toby said. "You must accept the threat."

After saying these completely unreasonable words, Toby turned around directly and glanced at the four students who were trembling in fear - this seemed to be the first time they had seen Professor Heimer really angry. In the past, it was just pretending.

"Rush back to the castle now, your confinement is over."

Toby was in no mood to smile at them. He had just learned that something weird had happened.

All the dead animal carcasses were gone, not a single one was left behind.

It's like...someone didn't want them to find clues on those bodies.

Whatever these clues are, they must be related to Voldemort.