Archaeologists at Hogwarts

Chapter 114 Dumbledore and Harry

Harry felt himself falling back and forth in the darkness, falling until he saw a golden thing gleaming above his head.

It's a snitch!He tried to grab it, but his arms were too heavy to lift.

He blinked, and it turned out that it wasn't a snitch at all, but a pair of glasses.

He blinked hard again, and the smiling face of Albus Dumbledore gradually appeared in front of him.

"Good afternoon, Harry," said Dumbledore.

Harry stared at him blankly, then suddenly remembered: "Sir! Philosopher's Stone! It's Quirrell! Then there's Vol—oh no, You-Know-Who, who—"

"Don't get excited, my dear boy, what you're saying is getting a little outdated," said Dumbledore. "Voldemort didn't get the Philosopher's Stone—I suggest you call him that too, and always use the correct name for things. Yes Fear of a name intensifies fear of the thing itself."

"Yes. Yes, sir."

Harry swallowed and looked around.He realized he was in a hospital.He was lying on a hospital bed covered with crisp white linen, and the table next to him was piled up like a hill, as if half a candy store had been moved here.

He remembered more things - there seemed to be an explosion before he passed out, Hermione, Mr. Al was very close to the center of the explosion, and Professor Highmore
"Are Hermione and Mr. Al okay?" Harry asked, "Are they hurt too?"

"Al is fine, and Miss Granger has also recovered after a night in the hospital." Dumbledore said, "Only you, Harry, you were in a coma for three whole days, and Mr. Ron Weasley and Mr. Miss Granger will be relieved to know you're awake. They've been worrying so much."

"What about the Philosopher's Stone? And the magic ball?"

"There seems to be no way to distract you. Well, let's talk about the Philosopher's Stone and the Orb. They are still safe from Voldemort. The only difference is that the Philosopher's Stone has been destroyed."

"Destroyed?" asked Harry puzzled, "but your friend—Nicole Flamel—"

"Oh, you still know Nicole?" Dumbledore asked, looking very pleased. "You made this very clear, didn't you? Well, Nicole and I had a talk, and we agreed that This is the best way—even though Toby complained about it, it’s normal for him not to understand, he couldn’t find where Nick lived, and he couldn’t get more clues from me— As Voldemort said, my existence is Toby's bondage, and he must be obedient."

Dumbledore said these words easily, but Harry felt flustered in his heart. He never asked about Professor Highmore's condition from the beginning, and he also deliberately avoided this question, but Dumbledore seemed to be He directly saw through his mind and led Professor Haimo out first.

This time, the unavoidable person became Harry.

"Hammer taught him." Harry hesitated, "Is he still at Hogwarts?"

"Why do you think so?" Dumbledore asked, "Did those words of Voldemort affect you, making you think Toby is an inherently evil person?"

"More than that"

Harry whispered.

Quirrell once told him that the death of his parents might be related to Professor Highmore, and he also said that he was a person who disregarded life. In addition, the conversation between Voldemort and Professor Highmore seemed to cover the whole world. All the camouflage on him was torn off at once.

"Professor Highmore knows my parents." Harry asked puzzledly, "Are they friends? They—"

Harry hesitated to ask, and Dumbledore looked at him with twinkling eyes.

"The situation about this matter is a bit complicated." Dumbledore finally agreed to speak: "Let me think about how to explain it to you better, um. He is indeed your mother's friend, but the relationship with your father Not so much. Then, one day, Toby rescued Severus, but he insisted that James intended to do the same. This made it difficult for Severus, he and your father It is the enemy, I believe you have been able to feel this for a long time."

"Of course." Harry remembered Snape's bad attitude towards himself: "Of course I understand, sir. But can you explain in more detail? Professor Highmore is really my mother's friend, but why did he treat me like this?" My father—does he like my mother?"

By the end, Harry literally screamed.

But Dumbledore smiled broadly.

"Many people think so at the beginning, but the truth is not what they think - this story begins with a kind-hearted girl helping a boy who is discriminated against everywhere, they come from different colleges, but Both are interested in ancient magic and help each other. As for the relationship between the two, I believe that even Toby himself has thought about this issue, but gratitude cannot replace the role of love."

"They are just very good friends. Although this has caused misunderstandings by many other people, it has not changed anything - because Toby knows his heart very well, and he also values ​​his black walnut wand. This The biggest requirement of wand-like masters is not to deceive themselves, and Toby did this when he was in school, so he insisted that your father would also want to save Severus, and always because Severus didn't Ken admits it and looks down on him."

"In a way, Toby is a very arrogant person, but at the same time he is very real. So you don't have to worry about whether he is really evil, he is just himself."

Harry was in a daze, he couldn't imagine the stories of the previous generation when they were students, and he still couldn't fully understand them now.

"But what about my parents' death?" Harry asked, "Did Professor Highmore have anything to do with their deaths?"

To Harry's surprise, Dumbledore fell into a rare silence.

It wasn't until Harry thought that Dumbledore would avoid talking about it that he slowly said in a sad tone: "Lily's interest in ancient magic started because of Toby, but the two of them were born because of their mutual personalities. They walked in different directions because of their differences. Toby has always been pursuing greater power, but as for your mother—Lily, she has been studying love."

"Love?"

"Yes, Harry. That's her magic protecting you, too, like Frank Longbottom's wand crushing the shapeless Voldemort, all because of love."

Dumbledore sighed.

"In front of Voldemort, Lily didn't run away, and she didn't give up saving your life. She protected you with love, so that Voldemort could never touch you again—this is the relationship between Toby and the cause of your mother's death."

Harry felt his chest suddenly constricted, he turned his head, and Dumbledore continued, "Let's stop talking today, I have to go—"

Harry immediately turned his head back, his eyes were red: "But, sir, I still have a lot to ask you—"

"Wait for the next time."

Dumbledore turned his head to look at the door of the ward of the school hospital, Harry followed suit and found that Professor Highmore appeared there at some point.

"It's time for me to answer another student's question."

(End of this chapter)