Hogwarts Archaeologist Toby

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James felt betrayed.

He jumped up from his chair all at once, staring at Lily speechlessly.

"My transfiguration class has never been worse than yours." Lily said without looking away.

"This has nothing to do with Transfiguration!" James shouted in despair, "That's the head of Gryffindor! The head of Gryffindor!"

There was no house where students didn't want to be Headmaster, not even someone like Snape.

Harry's head stuck out of the window: "Dean? Is Ms. McGonagall here? Hasn't she resigned?"

"Come down with your broom, Harry." Lily said with a hook: "Your dear father needs treatment - go play Quidditch with him."

"Oh." Although he didn't understand, Harry immediately retracted his head, and after a while he walked out of the house with two brooms in his hands.

"Let's forget it." James stood up in frustration: "I'm going to stay at Sirius's house for a while. It's almost the full moon recently, and Lupin needs someone to watch him."

"Didn't you prepare wolfbane potion?" Lily asked.

"I'm ready, but..." James lowered his voice and said, "That's the old residence of the Black family. No one can guarantee that no one will break in - such as Regulus."

"Dumbledore knows about this?" Lily asked cautiously.

James nodded and said, "I can understand your worries, but he has already arranged the manpower and is just waiting for someone to come and trouble us at this time."

Although he couldn't hear it clearly, Harry could probably guess what his parents were talking about.

Ever since Sirius and Lupine lived in the Black family's old mansion, they had never encountered anything risky - until this full moon.

If anyone wants to play against them, this is the best time.

And it seems that Dumbledore also acquiesced in such a risky behavior of the two.

"I also need to go--"

"You stay with mom at home." James interrupted without refusal: "After I leave, you will have to protect her."

Harry was stunned for a moment. He looked at the two broomsticks in his hands, and then at Lily.

"And shall we play Quidditch together?"

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12 Grimmauld Place.

There were many pedestrians walking on the street, but no one could see this unique house number. Even James, who had just appeared at the door, did not attract anyone's attention.

"The protective magic is well prepared..."

James said and knocked on the door, and after a while, there was a rush of footsteps coming from the house.

Lupine's voice came from inside: "Which of my course did you copy the answers to for the final exam of the first grade?"

"Not one," James said. "You never cheat on a test."

"correct answer."

The door opened, revealing Lupine's pale face, and he gave James a forced smile.

James walked into the house, then turned and closed the door.

"You didn't go to work?"

"Not many people care about the work of the Werewolf Registration Office. Even if I don't go there, I won't arouse suspicion."

"Sounds like the Centaur Liaison Office - where are the others?"

"follow me."

Lupine led James from the hall to the stairs, and continued up the stairs.

James looked at the terrible environment in this house and said disgustedly: "Have you and Sirius never thought of cleaning it up?"

"I usually have work to do." Lupine said helplessly: "Sirius always used Azkaban as an excuse. He said that this place is at least much better than a prison, so he refused to clean it no matter what——I doubt that he is here. Something went wrong."

Lupine pointed to his brain and said, "Maybe he ate too many dead rats."

James sighed: "I'll go and persuade him later, or maybe we need a hostess here - do you understand what I mean? There is Tonks in Tonks's family, and now I also have Lily in my family. These two Every house was cleaned."

Lupine frowned and stared at James: "Mistress? You hope Sirius will fall in love? Just because of his kind?"

James knew that Lupine didn't despise Sirius, but too much—Sirius had never been short of girls, but he only liked adventure and play.

It was probably the sequelae of living in the Black family for a long time that made Sirius reluctant to return to a regular and rigid life.

"Then it's up to you." James had high hopes for Lupine.

But before Lupine could refute, James said again: "But it doesn't seem to work. The only good students like you can find are very active girlfriends. Being passive is not suitable for you - what's the good of two pieces of wood?" Talking about it, are you right - Tonks, why are you here? I thought there would only be Moody."

Just as Lupine opened the room belonging to Regulus, Tonks, who was lying behind the door and eavesdropping on the movement in the corridor, was discovered by the two.

Not far behind her, Sirius and Moody were discussing something seriously. They all held their own wands and repeatedly cast various protective spells around them, so as not to be careless at night. Let the werewolf escape.

Tonks didn't answer James' doubts. She still maintained an eavesdropping posture, raised her head and asked, "Wood? Where are the two pieces of wood?"

"She is here to help." Lupine had no choice but to explain himself: "She is also Moody's disciple. She knew the news in advance on the way to bring Moody here, so she thought of helping me. We have cooperated before. Many times, when looking for werewolves."

James did not pursue the matter further.

Of course, the more helpers, the better. Otherwise, who knows if it will only be Regulus or a lot of "friends" led by him who will show up at night.

"Good afternoon, Moody."

"Hello, lucky boy."

Moody's magic eyes immediately looked at James, and his tone was a bit weird: "I've been wanting to visit your house, I heard that Lily Evans is back, and Harry Potter is safe and well— — it seems like all the good luck has come to your family."

"That must be limited to four years." James suddenly realized after saying this.

"You wouldn't suspect that our family is all spies, right? That's why we get so many benefits? But Harry is only so young..."

"The most inconspicuous ones are the most dangerous." Moody admitted simply: "But I trust Albus's judgment. He has no doubts about you."

"You're still the same." After expressing his emotions, James turned his head and made a face at Sirius, but Sirius was in no mood to laugh.

"When are you going to invite us over as guests?" he asked in a gloomy tone, obviously still sulking.

"Wait until after this full moon." James said helplessly: "Some small things happened at home before, that is, the two times when Toby and Dumbledore were invited to dinner... In short, they were very tortured. Human. Once you get through this full moon, you should all be able to come over."

Lupine came over to ease the atmosphere and said, "Then we will just wait."

It wasn't until this moment that Sirius's complexion cleared up again.

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Hogwarts is also waiting for the full moon.

Principal's office.

Although Toby didn't officially move his office here, he still had a different password for Stone Beast.

The pronunciation is "呀".

But the real meaning is "black devil".

In the entire Hogwarts, only Al, Angela, and Toby could pronounce this password correctly.

On this day, Al asked the stone beast to give way, then walked along the spiral staircase to the oak door, pushed the door open and walked in.

"It's you again, cute little guy."

Delise Devonte was playing a card game with Armando Dippet. She smiled and said, "Why don't our principals come here in person?"

Al waved his paws, and it jumped to the edge of the photo frame to see what they were playing, and gave Devant a trick by the way.

"Don't make trouble." Dippet's beard stood up in anger.

"I won." Deventer threw the last card on the table, and she said contentedly: "Tell me, what do you want us to do for you this time? Let me go to St. Mungo's to monitor Fudge? Or are you sending some strange patients there again?"

Phineas hid far away, and he muttered under his breath, "Just don't tell me to go back and spy on my great-great-grandson."

Al turned his head, and it gave Phineas a smirk.

Phineas froze.

"You're not the principal, you—!"

However, Al took out a note from his belly pocket, which had Toby's autograph on it.

"I've had enough, I-!"

Before Phineas finished protesting loudly, Al took out another bottle of Bluebell Flame from his belly pocket, and circled back and forth around the edge of Phineas' photo frame in a demonstration.

"You guys are really going too far... Tell me, when."

Phineas has absolutely nothing to do with Toby and Al, they are not reasonable people.

Al conveyed a time to Phineas - the full moon tonight.

Time passed quietly.

Al, who played with the Sorting Hat for a while and urged it to come up with a new song as soon as possible, left the principal's office.

It was once again repeatedly told by the Sorting Hat that the most suitable house was Gryffindor.

This is normal, because Al was originally Toby's Patronus, and it is also related to Dumbledore's education over the years.

The only thing that dissatisfied Al was that Toby actually gave up the head of Gryffindor to someone else - even if that person was Lily.

It has worked tirelessly as an assistant for so long and should have been promoted long ago - this is what Toby promised it long ago.

After returning to the ancient magic office, Al grabbed Toby who was preparing to travel and complained loudly.

Angela, who was also in the office, looked over curiously.

"Are you really planning to let Al become a professor? No... you do seem to have this power now - eh, what about me?"

"What are you?" Toby pulled Alpa away angrily: "You two will be teaching assistants by my side first, and then I will give you another position-principal assistant. How about it, does it sound better than a professor?" Is the assistant much better?"

Angela and Al looked at each other.

"Is there a position in the school?"

Toby smoothed his collar with force.

"There is now."

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The quiet Al walked out of the castle with Toby and Angela.

It was completely dark, and only Hagrid's cabin at the edge of the playground was still lit.

Toby and his party didn't bother him, they walked towards the center of the playground, the Whomping Willow seemed to have sensed their arrival, its long branches were fluttering restlessly.

Al took out the small flying carpet from his pocket and jumped on it. It quickly came to the trunk of the Whomping Willow, and pressed it down along the scar.

The Whomping Willow was motionless.

Toby took a deep breath, took his left hand out of his pocket and spread it out, revealing the dried seeds held in his palm.

"Let's begin," he ordered.

Following Toby's order, Al and Angela immediately got busy.

A sufficient number of protective spells and blinders had been cast near the Whomping Willow to prevent others from seeing what was happening here.

Then Al controlled the magic ball to Toby's feet, and released a complex and mysterious magic circle in the blink of an eye, covering Toby and Whomping Willow together.

Angela tightly clutched the scepter in her hand, she was useless right now.

Toby looked up at the dark night sky - the moon was almost full.

Time passed by, and the magic circle under his feet was emitting bright light. At the moment when the full moon was about to be completed, Toby suddenly raised his free arm into the air and pulled Al's small shovel out of the air. ——That was regarded by Toby as a dagger, and he swung it hard at his other hand, cutting the seed in half, and then blood gushed out from the split palm.

The seed seemed to have come alive. It kept sucking the warm blood, and blood threads stretched from the cracks, trying to close again.

"Angela." Toby said in a deep voice, while walking step by step towards the hole of the Whomping Willow tree.

Angela also started to act, the scepter in her hand emitted a thick red mist, the roar of the monster sounded at the same time as the whisper in her mouth - the ancient ritual magic was cast, and the road turned into blood in Toby Spread out underfoot.

It's just that after such a while, Toby's face has lost all color.

He endured the feeling of weakness and then said:

"Live trees, full of magic."

"The blood of the living will awaken you."

"Born in an ancient ritual - I am willing to sacrifice everything that is insignificant about me, just to open the door to a new world."

"Come to life again...Merlin's heart."

After being filled with blood, the seed swelled and turned into the shape of a human heart, beating hard like a giant drum.

The heart was thrown by Toby into the entrance of the Whomping Willow passage, and the trees that had been quiet suddenly spread out their branches, each branch stretched straight, and then they twisted each other, crooked out of shape.

It looked very much like a person who was suffering.

During this period, the wound in Toby's hand was still oozing blood, and the warm liquid floated out of his palm automatically, and was connected to the heart in the hole like wool, until it grew into the surrounding body. One.

Finally, the entrance to the Whomping Willow disappeared, and this secret passage will disappear forever. And the Whomping Willow itself became quiet again, like a tired man bent over.

After the ceremony was completely over, Angela and Al hurried over.

Toby was still standing there, and he warned extremely weakly: "Don't remove the magic circle first, otherwise I will definitely faint... I will have to come here to water it once a month in the future... ...If I hadn't met Merlin, I would never have guessed that this would be his heart...Give me the scepter, Angela..."

Angela handed the scepter to Toby with a worried expression on her face, and he clenched it tightly.

"I kept wondering if it was Merlin's spine... and Merlin's brain... I haven't done nearly enough compared to him... "

"Help me back to the office. I have to know if anyone will go to trouble Lupin tonight... Otherwise it will be difficult to hide this secret of mine... I can't let others notice it. Just find a shield..."

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12 Grimmauld Place.

Lupine, who had taken the wolfsbane potion, fell into a state of incomparable weakness, and he was falling asleep while maintaining the appearance of a werewolf.

But at this time, just as others were worried, someone really took the opportunity to come back here.

Regulus nervously looked at the wands stretched out in front of him. He tried to calm down and said, "Listen to me first - except for me and Kreacher, no one knows the location of this place. In other words, even Even Grindelwald can't break your spell - that's my sincerity."

"But I still advise you not to act rashly - otherwise Kreacher will bring them all here."

"Can we have a good chat now?"