Archaeologists at Hogwarts

Chapter 235

Toby is also well-informed. Archeology is not an easy task. It takes a lot of effort just to confirm the location. He often encounters some swindlers who take chances and think that they can cheat big money from him. Take big handfuls of gold.

Seriously, Toby thought Sybill Trelawney was a liar--playing tricks and slurring things, not to mention she probably had a drinking habit--that was pretty much the hallmark of a liar.

Life is full of failures, no achievements, only one opportunity to seize and hold on to.

Toby knows the special surname Trelawney, because there is a famous prophet named Cassandra Trelawney, and it is estimated that Sybil is her descendant for many generations.

But even so, Toby felt that Sybil had no talent for divination.

He always maintained this view and shared it with his other friends.

"boom!"

The door of the potions office was pushed open, and Toby rushed in, shouting with a serious face: "Oops, Severus, the headmaster has Alzheimer's disease——oh, why are you here, headmaster?" ?”

In the cold and dark office, Dumbledore and Snape seemed to have just finished an unpleasant conversation, and the expressions on their faces were a little excited and indignant - mainly Snape, he looked like Toby had seen a lot Once, only when Snape was extremely angry.

Soon, Toby saw that look on Snape's face again, and it was directed at him.

"What are you doing here?" He said coldly, staring at Toby, and then at Lupine who was following Toby, his eyes were full of disgust.

"You want me to help him again? You two are hopeless, you two are hopeless."

Several people at the scene could hear the hidden meaning in Snape's words—he was mocking Lupine's identity as a werewolf.

Lupine's face turned pale and his smile froze.

"Hey!" Toby quickly glanced outside the door, and turned back until he found no passers-by: "Be careful, don't take your anger on us——what were you talking about just now?"

"A little knowledge about Potions." Dumbledore stood up and said, and he glanced at Snape. "Severus insisted on his views, and it was difficult to change."

Even though he knew that the topic the two of them were discussing could not possibly be potion science—unless Dumbledore wanted to find a potion formula that would make his hair greasy if he drank it—but Toby quickly changed the subject and said : "Leave him alone, principal, you can go at ease, I will help you persuade him."

He didn't want to be in trouble at this time.

But who would have thought that Dumbledore would appear in the Potions Office?

It wasn't until the principal left and walked away that Toby leaned against the closed door and heaved a sigh of relief, and his tone became more casual: "What were you talking about just now? Could it be that you wanted to secretly poison me? Did the principal find out?"

"Then he will definitely increase the dose." Snape said viciously, "I will do the same!"

"That would be wonderful," said Toby, suddenly cheering, throwing his arms around the silent Lupine's shoulder and saying, "Because he's going to drink the potion—listen to me, Severus— "

Toby explained his plan again.

Snape listened with a frown, the expression on his face somewhat unpredictable.

"What do you think?" Toby finally asked: "This may be related to the safety of Hogwarts, or even a disaster in the wizarding world—of course, it can also be regarded as a fight between two old men, but Their strength must be beyond ordinary. So now is the time when you are needed, can you make the Polyjuice Potion before the celebration begins?"

Lupine remained silent, saying anything that might anger Snape.In fact, just standing here, he could already feel the change in Snape's heart - it was written all over his face, and he almost shouted "Get out" brightly.

Finally, Snape spoke, he seemed to have guessed Toby's mind, and said with a bad face: "What the hell are you doing? If you really want to do this, why didn't you just tell Dumbledore these words ?”

This is the difference between Snape and Lupine's attitude towards Toby - at least Lupine will leave some kind bottom line.

As for Snape, he never felt that Toby was genuinely doing good.

Even more Slytherin than Slytherin - this Toby himself gave the title, Snape heard it almost rotted his ears when he was in school.

The only difference is that he has seen similar scenes many times with his own eyes, which proves that what Toby said is not wrong at all.

All in all, it's okay to think of Toby as a bad embryo.

Full of disappointment in Toby's eyes, he said: "I didn't expect you to distrust me so much-well, I didn't want to say these things to you at first, but have you ever thought about it, if you really want to beware of Grindel Wo is secretly doing bad things, so where should we keep an eye on him?"

Snape figured it out immediately.

"You want Dumbledore to go to Nurmengard?" He twitched the corner of his mouth slightly and asked, "It's simply fantastic. Can you persuade the headmaster to do so? In such a sensitive period?"

But any connection between Dumbledore and Nurmengard would stir the nerves of the entire Ministry of Magic, and even the magic world.

Not to mention the recent reports about Dumbledore's childhood with Grindelwald.Even though the Daily Prophet and the Quibbler were not talking about the same thing at all, and from different angles, they were equally brilliant.

"Give it a try." Toby said helplessly: "Problems always have to be solved. Let's think about the bright side. The last time Grindelwald trapped the principal in Azkaban, this time the principal finally wants to Fighting back - going to Nurmengard to visit the prison, doesn't it sound good?"

Snape sneered and said, "It's not only good, it's a genius idea. Do you know how many things can go wrong with this plan? What if the Ministry of Magic happens to know your plan? Just let Dumbledore also Lock it in?"

Before Toby could reply, Snape suddenly continued, "Then you go and try it out. If Dumbledore agrees, then I'm fine, and I'll help you make Polyjuice Potion."

On the way to leave, Lupine didn't understand what Snape was thinking.

"It's hard to imagine." Toby said with a curl of his lips: "I guess he was waiting to see Dumbledore's joke. They just had a quarrel, didn't they? What a dark guy."

Lupine stared at Toby, and he said with emotion: "It's really dark - I'm not talking about you, I just can't help thinking - if "Sing the Tune" can get the right to report this news, then it It's bound to be a sellout, there's nothing quite like a meeting between Dumbledore and Grindelwald - you don't think so, do you, Toby?"

Under Lupine's terrified eyes, Toby actually nodded: "How can you not think about it? Do you know how short the Foundation is now? But don't worry, how could I provoke two Dark Lords at once, unless I don’t want to kill myself to do this.”

Lupine shook his head and said, "I hope you can call Dumbledore that in the headmaster's office later - I won't be going with you, there are still classes to attend."

So Toby came to the stone beast under the principal's office alone.

The stone beast seemed to have been ordered by Headmaster Dumbledore long ago. After seeing Toby, it took the initiative to make way for the door behind it.

It seems that Dumbledore already knew that Toby would definitely come to him.

The principal's office was very quiet. Dumbledore was sitting on a generous chair, looking down at a book in his hand, and the pages were slowly and automatically opened.

Toby peeked into the room, and asked curiously, "What book are you reading?"

Dumbledore said without raising his head: "Of course it is how to prevent Alzheimer's disease - oh, no, it should be treatment, after all, I am already Alzheimer's disease."

Toby pretended that the person who said this was not himself at all. He quickly turned his head and asked, "Who said that? Who dares to slander you like that? Could it be you? Blake, the whole family Dirty blood."

Phineas Black in the portrait froze for a moment, and he shouted angrily: "Who are you talking about, boy? How dare you insult the great Black—"

"Yeah, yeah." Toby sat casually on the chair opposite the desk, not even giving Phineas the chance to face each other: "Your Black family is the most amazing, and you are still alive today. Of those few, some were imprisoned, some were ostensibly dead, and one was the most powerful——he even took refuge in two Dark Lords successively, and perhaps there was always only one."

This refers to Regulus, but Dumbledore looked up and asked, "Let me think about it, have you taken refuge in anyone else besides me?"

Many of the portraits were amused, and even Phineas let out a short, strange cry.

"It's almost." Toby said slowly: "I'm almost there, I'm going to join Grindelwald, principal. I've always wondered how he researched the secret of the magic ball, and I often can't help it Go to Nurmengahdry and ask him——How about going for me, Headmaster? The Ministry of Magic and Hogwarts will hold a celebration in Hogsmeade Village in a while, what about the day of the celebration? Sample?"

Surprisingly, Dumbledore's reaction was very calm, as if what Toby just said was just confiding what he had eaten this morning.

"Interesting idea," he commented, "but are you really comfortable letting an elderly person with dementia travel alone?"

"Oh, come on, principal." Toby said helplessly: "I have seen Trelawney, and I really don't understand why you compare her with Grindelwald? Even if I haven't seen Grindelwald with my own eyes Waugh's talent, but at least he won't be at the level of a liar. How did Trelawney threaten you back then? What method is so effective?"

Dumbledore nodded slightly, but what he said was the previous topic: "Have you ever thought that it might be a good thing that Grindelwald, instead of you, researched the secret of the magic ball?" ?”

Toby quickly reacted and asked, "Because I'm not as evil as him? Can't do things that only real dark wizards can do?"

"That's it." Dumbledore said gently: "Even if you have seen the infiltrating torture of the devil, it is still hard to imagine that there will be wizards who use their brains to make magic items-to me, this is more than ordinary." The torture is even more terrifying, unless it is extremely ruthless or hateful to the extreme."

Without much thought, Toby said, "Yeah, Headmaster, it's really hard to imagine—it's like not many people know that the Ministry of Magic is also studying the secrets of the brain. Department of Mysteries, that sounds fascinating. "

"I think it would be more charming if you were calm enough not to break in at random," said Dumbledore. "Besides, I promise you, Toby."

"Oh?" Toby blinked.

"Remember to tell me when the celebration will start." Dumbledore smiled and said, "It's time to meet Grindelwald in person, at least to know the purpose of his tossing back and forth, otherwise I think it will be a long time Inside, there are many people who can't sleep well-this includes you, Toby, I am very impressed that you can bear it until now and don't go looking for Grindelwald without authorization."

Toby showed an embarrassed smile: "Don't praise me like that—eh? Why does this passage sound weird? Am I that reckless in your eyes? The real reckless person should be Severus, he How dare you, yelling that word in the school playground, that's insane."

"So we have to learn the lesson." Dumbledore said: "Otherwise, sooner or later, mistakes will overwhelm us again."

This sounds like the previous paragraph, which doesn't sound like a good thing.

Some are like Dumbledore's exhortation to Toby-this feeling is really too familiar, and it still happened many times when Toby was in school.

At that time, Dumbledore seemed to know Toby's character well. When he was a child, Toby was far less flamboyant, or introverted - his world is very simple, and the way to distinguish people is also very simple - the same college There are almost no good people in the world, because they will laugh at Toby's blood and origin, then they are enemies.

Especially after Toby realized the reason why he was selected into Slytherin, this trend became even more out of control, and the methods Toby used secretly became much more cruel.

Until Dumbledore opened Toby's heart knot, the method he used was also very simple, correcting Toby's mistakes in an encouraging way, which made Toby feel more kindness.

This method works very well.

It turned out that Toby didn't study the secret of the magic ball-he really didn't know if this was really a good thing.

What about other ancient magic?
You can't go to Dumbledore, can you ask him to ask Grindelwald for help?

Or, is it to make yourself the next Grindelwald?

Is this the right way to do research?
"What are you thinking?" Dumbledore asked, looking at Toby.

"I was wondering," Toby said abruptly, "I was wondering why you and Severus got into a fight. Did he believe those reports?"

"No." Dumbledore shook his head and said, "Precisely, Severus has always trusted me. Let the conversation end here, Toby."

Toby knew that was all.

"Okay, Headmaster," he said, standing up and leaving the office.

(End of this chapter)