Hogwarts Archaeologist Toby

The original confinement arrangement for the few people was to bury the bodies of those inexplicably dead animals in the Forbidden Forest, but Harry didn't know what happened to Professor Highmore, and suddenly let them go back to the castle, and there was no need to do this anymore.

But after returning to the common room, Harry told Ron and Hermione what happened in the Forbidden Forest.

Their eyes widened in surprise. They seemed to have heard something extraordinary—the murderer who killed the animals turned out to be Voldemort?

"But he's dead." Ron said incredulously: "Many people say he's dead, and he was defeated by you."

"I never thought I could defeat Voldemort. I was just a baby and I didn't know anything."

Harry said agitatedly that he could not sit down comfortably and walked up and down the fire, still shaking.

"Voldemort was going to get the Philosopher's Stone so that he could get the elixir of life without risking killing more animals... He must have been the one who planned to steal the Philosopher's Stone in Gringotts... ....Who is helping Voldemort... It is impossible for him to suddenly appear in the Forbidden Forest..."

"Don't say that name again!" Ron whispered in horror, as if worried that Voldemort would hear.

Harry wouldn't listen to him.

"Fierenze saved me, he shouldn't have done this...Bane was very angry...saying that this would disturb what the stars of destiny predicted...the stars must have shown Voldemort is coming back...Bane thinks Firenze should let Voldemort kill me...I guess that's in the stars too."

"Can you please stop saying that name!" said Ron in a low voice.

"So now I can only wait for Voldemort to steal the Sorcerer's Stone," Harry continued with great excitement, "and then Voldemort will come here and kill me... Well, I think Bane will It’s time to be happy.”

Hermione looked terrified, but she still wanted to say something to comfort Harry.

"Harry, everyone said that the only person that You-Know-Who has always been afraid of is Dumbledore. With Dumbledore here, You-Know-Who will not hurt you even a hair. Besides, who said that what the Centaur said must be correct? I think that One set sounds like fortune telling, and Professor McGonagall said it was a very imprecise form of magic."

"and......"

Hermione hesitated for a moment. She looked at Harry and Ron, believing that they were thinking of the same thing as her.

"Do you still want to anger Professor Heimer tonight? We have made the same mistake twice and we must not mess around again. This is the first time I have seen Professor Heimer so angry. He will definitely... ....meeting......"

Hermione stammered, and Ron got out what she hadn't finished.

"He's going to kill us."

Ron said: "Professor Highmore will kill us before the mysterious man takes action."

On the other side, Toby was sitting on the sofa in the ancient magic office, and Al was sitting opposite him, babbling and telling what happened in the Forbidden Forest—including the reason why Al didn't continue talking to him. The reason why Bane fought down.

They stopped the battle early, otherwise Bain would definitely be injured more seriously. Bows and arrows alone could not hurt Al.

And the reason why it did this was because it witnessed the mysterious figure in a black wizard robe - judging from the timeline, this happened not long after Firenze rescued Harry.So Al gave up his plan to duel with Baine, and chased after that figure.

It's a pity that Al couldn't catch up with the opponent, and even the speed of the flying carpet wasn't fast enough.

This is not unusual, Toby knows Al's ability very well, knows what treasures are in its belly pocket, it is impossible not to catch up with a wizard who can only run with his head buried.

"ah!"

Al said with a solemn expression an extremely important discovery.

Immediately afterwards, Toby's face also became gloomy.

"You mean, the opponent floated without using a wand—this is the ability to fly without a wand?"

Wizards who want to fly can use a series of magical creations and magical animals such as broomsticks, flying carpets, and thestrals, but the true ability to fly without a wand is an extremely rare problem - especially the one that is fast.

Toby knew that Dementors had the ability to float, but even Dementors couldn't fly much faster.

And the only wizard he knew who could do this was Voldemort.

Voldemort is the only wizard who can fly without a wand, which was demonstrated during the last wizarding war.

"But how is that possible." Toby frowned and said, "It's impossible for the mysterious man to be resurrected now, otherwise he wouldn't need the Philosopher's Stone."

"Unless the mysterious man gave this magic to his helper."

"Or, that figure is some kind of powerful dark creature, maybe it's really a vampire."

The reason why Toby pays so much attention to the other party is because Al saw the fox carcass in the other party's hands, that is, the guy who stole all the animal carcasses.

Toby didn't pay much attention to these corpses at first, because he was busy doing archaeology in the Forbidden Forest at that time, and the key point was that he had checked these corpses and found nothing wrong.Despite traces of black magic, the Forbidden Forest is inherently dangerous, and there may be dark creatures hiding there.Moreover, these corpses are not unusual compared with Toby's previous archaeological discoveries.

He still remembered the characteristics of those corpses, but besides that, were there any clues that he hadn't discovered?

By now, the whole incident has been sorted out clearly.

First, a mysterious guest appeared in the Pig Head Bar. The guest used fire dragon eggs to confuse Hagrid and asked about the situation in the Forbidden Forest, focusing on the dead animals.

From the very beginning, these corpses were the other party's purpose. The other party was worried that the corpses would be discovered, so they planned to take them away and destroy them.And this mysterious guest did the same thing. Tonight, all those dead animals disappeared.

The question now is, who is it that stole the animal's carcass?

The target of Toby's suspicion at first was Draco Malfoy, because Lucius ordered him to be placed on probation and unable to leave the school. It just so happened that during this period another mysterious guest incident occurred.

That's why Toby put Draco in detention too, and used it to observe the child.But once the Forbidden Forest is involved, this matter seems a little unreasonable - Draco has no ability to appear in the Forbidden Forest without authorization, and it would take a lot of risk to enter secretly.

Early the next morning, the "Daily Prophet" brought by an owl completely dispelled Toby's suspicion of Lucius contacting Voldemort.

The reason why Lucius put Toby on probation was only so that he would not have the opportunity to leave the school and find out what happened in Egypt.

Larry, the goblin supervisor who was once unceremoniously rejected by Toby, was interviewed by a female reporter named Rita Skeeter and wrote a shocking article, which was published on the front page of the newspaper.

And the title of the article is -

[Toby Highmore's crime! 】