Archaeologists at Hogwarts

Chapter 264 Devil
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For various reasons, and more because of Dumbledore's exhortation, Toby did not describe the method of summoning the devil in detail in his writings.But he didn't really do nothing. Earlier, he occasionally published articles in some newspapers, which mentioned the devil.Moreover, in the book "Ancient Magic", I also explained my own experience of encountering terrible monsters.

It is not impossible to learn about the devil if one reads them all and studies them carefully.

Snape was the man.

Toby never expected that Snape would learn the devil himself, and since he left school, Snape had been paying attention to Toby's movements, otherwise Snape would never have learned to learn the devil by himself.

If it were someone else, it might be seen as Snape's duplicity, hiding a warm heart under his cold exterior, caring about his few friends.

But Toby would never think so.

After Snape left alone, Toby let Harry and Cedric continue training in the same way as before, and then he rushed all the way to the potions office under the castle.

"We need to talk," he said from the doorway, his tone sombre.

"Talk about it."

There was no movement in the house.

"Don't force me to do it at the door." Toby said in a bad tone, "You know I can do it."

With a bang, Snape angrily opened the door, and Toby strode in unceremoniously.

After looking around for a week, he cast his eyes on Snape, and said in a persuasive tone, "Tell me how you learned to be a devil—don't say that the mysterious man asked you to investigate me."

Toby published those articles at exactly the same time as Snape became a Death Eater.If Snape had targeted Toby at that time, there was no doubt that it was only because of the order of the mysterious man.

Snape stared at him without blinking, and said in a suffocatingly cold tone, "Do you think only the Dark Lord wants to take your life? I can tell you right now. If Dumbledore didn't stop me, I would have settled with you long ago."

It seems that the reason is a little different from what Toby imagined.

"Is it because of Lily's death?" Toby asked calmly, "If it wasn't for my plan to kill Petunia, Lily wouldn't know how to love, and she wouldn't have died protecting Harry—you just Are you always blaming me for this?"

Judging from Snape's expression, it was so.

He didn't care about James and Harry at all, he only cared about Lily.

Lily might have survived if it wasn't for Toby's schooling influence - at least Snape thought so.

"You really haven't changed at all." Toby said coldly.

"Isn't this what you've always wanted?" Snape said, looking straight into Toby's eyes, "Know your heart, that's all I can see."
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Harry and Cedric both guessed that Professor Highmore must have gone to find Snape, which was not surprising, and the fact that Snape could be a devil also shocked them.

Both of them had learned the magic themselves, and they knew full well that it couldn't be done instantly, but that Snape had already learned it by himself.

But the problem is that this is obviously the first magic discovered by Professor Haimo.And he didn't seem to know such a thing at all, how did Snape learn it?
"Need to say."

At dinner, Ron clutched a drumstick and said, "They're a perfect match."

Harry asked with strange eyes: "You mean Professor Highmore and Snape?"

"I'm referring to the devil and Snape." Ron said angrily: "Everyone knows that he and Professor Highmore are deadly enemies, but the devil is different——except for Professor Highmore, who else do you think?" Is it the most suitable professor for the title of black devil?"

There was no doubt that it could only be Snape, as he was dressed in dark all day long, and Harry had never seen him change into other colors of wizard robes.

"That's it," Ron continued. "The devil is a very evil magic, even my father has never heard of it, but it is a perfect match for Snape - I don't feel that he suddenly turned into a devil." Strange."

What Ron said seemed to make a little sense. A dark-hearted person like Snape must be handy with the devil, and it is easy to learn.

"What are you talking about?" At this moment, Hermione walked around the long table towards them, with a smile on her face, and she seemed to be in a good mood.

Ron tentatively asked, "Why are you here so late?"

"Because—oh, can you pass me that steak? I'm starving."

Seeing Hermione rushing to fill his stomach, Harry and Ron looked at each other silently. They knew that Hermione must be hiding something from themselves.

But they didn't want to know the reason at all, so as not to be forced to make up lessons or something, that would be too bad.
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Principal's office.

"Has the Time-Turner been returned to Miss Granger?"

"Yes, Albus." Professor McGonagall frowned tightly: "But I don't understand, what is the risk you mentioned before? Has it been successfully resolved?"

Dumbledore was silent for a short while.

"Maybe we have to wait a little longer." He said something incomprehensible, got up and sent Dean McGonagall out of the office.

But this time, before he could close the door, he heard a greeting from outside.One of them was McGonagall who had just left, and the other—

Snape walked in coldly, and said as soon as he opened his mouth, "I can't help you keep an eye on Toby."

"I already know about this." Dumbledore was very calm: "Not long after Toby and you had a [friendly] negotiation, he found me and told me the whole story—— Admit it, I was equally shocked at first, but it's much better now."

Snape sneered, "Should I be honored by that?"

Dumbledore stared at him silently.

"Do not."

He said: "Obviously, I ignored your feelings. This is the mistake of a confused old man. If I could have known earlier, I would not have arranged such a task for you, but kept you away from Toby." If you are far away, it is best not to meet again in private."

Snape sneered, "That's not the only mistake you've made."

Dumbledore was not angry because of Snape's offense, he just asked calmly: "Can you tell me?"

"Remus Lupine!" Snape said coldly: "You will also arrange students for him to teach, and it happens to be from Slytherin House (Draco Malfoy). I don't know. Never knew you would take revenge on Lucius in this way."

"You're going to blame me for that." Dumbledore shook his head and said, "I wasn't the one who chose Draco Malfoy, but Lupine chose it himself."

"What?" Snape frowned.

"That's right." Dumbledore said: "It was Lupine's choice. He saw Mr. Malfoy confronting Harry on the train, so he wanted to try to change Mr. Malfoy and use this method to help Harry."

Dumbledore smiled at the scowling Snape, "I think it has something to do with James's friendship with Lupin too, just like the connection between you and Toby."

Snape narrowed his eyes, "What do you want to say?"

"As friends, sometimes they become the object of mutual teasing." Dumbledore still said gently, "Isn't it?"

Snape stared at Dumbledore for a while, then he suddenly sneered and left the office without saying a word.

It wasn't until the door was closed that Dumbledore slowly restrained the smile on his lips, and his face gradually became serious.

devil
Now, he has another difficult student.
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In Hogwarts, many people know that Draco Malfoy has also become one of the students selected for the teacher's commendation meeting.The only thing that was somewhat unexpected was that the professor he was going to teach was Lupine, not Professor Highmore.

Many people think so, anyway, Draco is still the head of the Black Devil Club, responsible for evaluating the magic array items submitted by the students to see if they are eligible to be included in the prizes in the wish box.

Although at the beginning, there were a lot of jokes due to the truth, but later Draco quickly adapted to this identity and became flamboyant again.

Of course, every time when Professor Highmore was away, he had learned to be smart now, so he would not touch the black devil's mold.

In the activity room of the Black Devil's Club, Draco sat on his exclusive sofa chair, which he had brought from home, and it looked very luxurious.

Crabbe and Goyle stood behind him, one on the left and one on the right. The two were tall and tall, which added a lot of momentum to the identification process.

Identification, that's what Draco was doing now.

He held a spinning top covered with silver patterns in one hand, and hid the other hand under the table. He slowly opened the false book specially used for recording, watched the pen of truth float up automatically, and wrote on it : "A spinning top? I lost interest in this stupid toy when I was three years old."

The pen of truth and the book of falsehood are supporting facilities for club ministers, and they can be used to supervise candidates for the ministerial position. Ministers must make decisions based on the words written by the pen of truth, and must not violate their own wishes, let alone deceive themselves.

Draco was originally dissatisfied with this spinning top, and after seeing the answer, he said happily: "Take it aside, you dare to hand in anything, if there is another time, your college points will be deducted."

The Ravenclaw student sitting opposite him caught the spinning top and said dissatisfiedly, "It's as if you have this power."

Draco is not a prefect, let alone the president of the student union. Of course, he doesn't have the right to deduct points casually, but it's cool to talk about it occasionally, and he doesn't need to be responsible for it anyway.

After sitting for a while, Draco glanced at the clock hanging on the wall.

"It's time to go." He said to Gore and Crabbe who were dozing off behind him, "Go back to the dormitory first, you don't need to come with me."

Gore asked in a daze, "Boss, what are you going to do?"

"Didn't I tell you many times?" Draco said with a frown, but his tone seemed very complacent: "It's time to teach Lupin a lesson, just wait and see who can sustain the next minister people."

After the two left, Draco put away the book of falsehood and the pen of truth. At this time, the expression on his face became a little vigilant. He looked back and forth several times, and did not leave the classroom until he found no one. The stairs go all the way to the top of the castle.

This is not the direction of the Defense Against the Dark Arts office.

With twists and turns, Draco came all the way to the owl shack on the top floor and whistled softly.

A black shadow flew down from the beam, and was about to hit the pillar mountain beside Draco, and was quickly stopped by him.

"See clearly, Virgil." He said angrily, "I'm here, not a pillar."

Virgil is Draco's pet owl, with black feathers all over his body and sharp eyes - but not because of the need for hunting, just because he has very severe myopia and can't see clearly.

It is worth mentioning that he was also selected as an actor in the drama "The Legend of Sirius", as the most important behind-the-scenes man and the most evil guy.

This has made Draco proud for a long time, and it is also fortunate that this drama does not have high requirements for Virgil's role, and it is enough to just stand there, otherwise he would have to worry about how to train Virgil.

"Go in and stay there first, don't make a sound."

Draco moved very cautiously, not even speaking loudly.

Virgil tried back and forth several times before finally getting into the backpack with Draco's help.

With the backpack in hand, Draco went down the stairs again.The corridor was quiet, it was already past dinner time, and students rarely had classes in the evening, so Draco was the only one in the whole corridor.

He walked quickly, his steps getting bigger and bigger, and finally stopped slowly in front of a door.

He knocked on the door.

"Please come in."

Draco first released the owl and let it stand firmly on his shoulders, which seemed to be imitating the posture of Toby and Al.

Casually he pushed the door open and saw Lupine sitting behind the desk critiquing students' papers.

"Let me see." Lupine looked up, and he glanced at the clock on the wall.

"Very punctual." He smiled gently at Draco, "Then let's start today's lesson—what are you going to teach me this time?"

"It's still Virgil." Draco said honestly, looking less contemptuous of Lupine than he did on the train.

"Today I'm going to teach you how to take care of a nearsighted owl."

This is the course that Draco has been participating in. He doesn't know what the devil is, and other skills, such as curses, are inconvenient to use.

But Virgil would fit right in.

As it happens, the friendly Professor Lupine happens to have a lot of knowledge about Fantastic Beasts.

(End of this chapter)