Archaeologists at Hogwarts

Chapter 277 Selected Courses

Until the end, Dumbledore didn't let Toby really release the devil.In the face of unforeseen consequences, he would not take such a big risk just for a guess.

But he still asked a question.

"I remember you made a deal with the principal of Waggadu, Akinbad." He said, "Let him give false testimony for us on the Sirius incident, and the price is this devil who acts as a key." .”

"There is such a thing." Toby said easily: "Are you worried that after he gets the devil, he will threaten me through the function of the key, or take away this memory? You can rest assured Yes, Akinbad is a very reliable person. He provided me with a lot of help when I explored the African ruins, and later took Angela in. Of course, it is not ruled out that he has ulterior motives, but I secretly After investigating him, there is nothing wrong with this person, except that he is a little obsessed with ancient magic. But who told him that he is a student who graduated from Waggadu, which is famous for casting spells without a wand, which is the closest form of ancient magic. "

"That's good." Dumbledore said, and he cast his eyes on the dark part of the ice, knowing that he would not be able to know the contents of the memory inside.

"There is one more thing." He said slowly: "Can I regard this as a deception? After all, I have fulfilled my promise to you and announced the extension of the teacher's commendation meeting in front of the students. But You didn't do what you were supposed to do."

Toby quietly moved back a few steps without leaving a trace, and Al had already sneaked into the bedroom, and closed the door by the way, making up his mind not to get involved in Toby's lies.

"Calm down, Headmaster." Toby said in a very serious tone: "You seem to have forgotten one thing."

"What is it?" Dumbledore asked calmly. He looked around the room, looking as if he was looking for a handy weapon: "By the way, where did you put the goblin's shovel?"

The door of the bedroom was pushed open a gap, and Al threw Toby's shovel out with all his strength, and then immediately closed the door again.

Dumbledore walked over to pick up the shovel, and waved it twice casually. His posture seemed to be more skillful than Toby's. If it was replaced with a sword, it would definitely be an excellent duelist.

Toby stepped back even further.

"Remus Lupine." He said quickly, "You forgot? There is another person present in this memory I have sealed. You should have guessed it, this happened when I was in school. At that time, Remus became a werewolf, and I faced him alone in order to save Severus, and then I don’t know what happened, all the memories were sealed by me in ice cubes that would never melt Middle. But Remus was the only witness at that time, even if he turned into a werewolf at that time, it's hard to say whether he still remembers anything."

Dumbledore slowly put down the shovel. He remembered some of the stupid things Toby had done, and asked with a frown: "That's why you teach Lupine over and over again? I remember before school started, There will be one more time after school starts."

"Not only that." Toby said in a mysterious tone: "Actually, there was the earliest one, which was the one I went to explore the snow mountain after leaving Hogwarts. At that time, I took Remus It was called, and I specially picked the day when the full moon is about to come, just to know whether he was also affected after becoming a werewolf."

"The result?" Dumbledore's tone became much more serious.

"Of course nothing happened in the end." Toby shook his head and said, "Everything is normal for Remus, but he always likes to complain that the experience almost froze his tail off. I can't afford to suffer."

Dumbledore pondered for a while, Toby waited silently, and lightly took the shovel away, put it in a corner far away from Dumbledore, sent two skeletons to guard, and don't let the principal noticed.

Just when Toby directed the two skeletons to stand together to cover the shovel, Dumbledore suddenly asked him: "Since you are very aware of your problems, then Severus knows that you saved him all the time." Did fate become what it is today?"

"I think he should know." Toby waved his hand indifferently and said, "But what's the use? He even thought about killing me because of Lily. If you want to use this to improve our relationship Forget about personal relationships, after all, magic cannot bring people back from the dead."

"I never thought of doing this." Dumbledore said with a smile, but Toby immediately felt a chill.

"How you want to treat each other is your own choice. However, it is still the teacher's commendation meeting. I suddenly thought of the missing point, which is the assessment. After the students learn the magic in the special column, no one is in charge. Evaluate them. Or just leave it to you and Severus, and the two of you will be responsible for evaluating the students."

Toby blinked: "Assessment? Doesn't this make Severus look at me? What have I become? A prisoner in prison?"

"That's almost what it means." Dumbledore actually admitted: "I promise you to see Grindelwald, and you have to make some sacrifices for it."

"This" Toby still couldn't understand: "Are you not afraid that I will fight with Severus again? If the two of us stay together all day, do you think there is no such possibility?"

"You seem very reluctant to take the job," said Dumbledore in an inquiring tone.

"Of course I don't want to." Toby said loudly, "I have so many things to do, besides the usual lessons, I have to teach Harry and the others—"

"But that's only once a week at most." Dumbledore said slowly.

"What about the Black Devil Foundation?" Toby continued to question: "What about making money to pay professors?"

"Regarding this matter, your partner has done a good job." Dumbledore said, "And I didn't see how much you have been thinking about it recently. Even Witch's letters have dropped a lot."

"What about Sirius Black?" Toby said unwillingly, "He's missing and no one can find him. What if he dies or gets caught?"

"I have already contacted my friend." Dumbledore shook his head and said, "Although there is no progress yet, someone is already in charge of this matter."

"Where do you have so many friends?" Toby wondered: "I saw you writing letters before, because of this incident? Are those people trustworthy? Blake was involved in your previous trial. Once he If the news that he is still alive is revealed, everything will be over."

"Trust me." Dumbledore said seriously, "I still have a few friends I can trust."

"Okay." Toby said helplessly, and then he racked his brains for a while.

Dumbledore didn't seem eager at all, just waiting for him quietly.

Toby glanced at the principal casually, noticed the gaze cast by the other party, and the eyes met together.

He tentatively asked, "Is there really nothing else I can do?"

"It seems that you have finally figured it out." Dumbledore said with a satisfied smile: "There is no need to track down the Horcrux anymore, because Harry's problem is much more serious than that. Besides, there is Kingsley , but that was also taken over by Aberforth. So, haven't you noticed, Toby, you have a lot of time to squander now. In order to avoid complaints from the horsemen one day, I think it is better to give You'd better arrange something to do."

"No!" Toby immediately protested: "I'm right, there are new books! I haven't finished writing the textbooks for the next semester. I wasted a year of time last year. I can't do this again this year. I have to write Books will do."

Dumbledore didn't waver at all, he patted Toby's shoulder kindly and said: "I believe Severus will be very willing to be one of your many thanks, maybe you can also cooperate to write A book that I look forward to.”

"Only by him?" Toby was confident in his ability to write a book, and he shouted: "This is impossible!"

But Dumbledore didn't intend to continue listening anymore, he turned around and left without looking back, and said, "I hope you can remember the feeling at this time, because I just experienced it once. It transfers quickly, Isn't it? A wizard's emotion, that's really fascinating in magic."

revenge!

This is obviously Dumbledore's revenge!
Toby was being careful, but that alone made Severus look at him?And it's still a bright surveillance!

Merlin.
Then, just as Toby was denouncing Al's act of surrendering to the enemy just now, Snape arrived.

He stood outside the door, squinting at the image of Toby shaking Al's head vigorously.

Toby also turned his head immediately, hiding his unkind eyes behind his hair, and then said in an even more unkind tone: "You will really come? Why, don't you remember that you learned about the devil? Don't be afraid that I will hold you back." put?"

"Just try it." Snape sneered. "You can do it anytime, no matter how evil the dark arts you want to cast. Or it's your old rhetoric - the dark side of ancient magic. Tsk tsk tsk , but why haven’t I seen its good side from you?”

"Now you said that." Toby pulled his voice and said: "Let me think about who almost died under the claws of the werewolf? It turned out to be you. By the way, who saved you? I I see, it's me, and the ancient magic I studied in school. Otherwise, you would have died long ago, and even your body would have rotted."

Snape's expression immediately became gloomy, his long greasy hair drooped on both sides of his head, and his witch robe was dark, just like his face - it was ugly to death.

"Who knows if that's your real idea." He said in a more gloomy tone: "Until today, you have never said the reason for appearing near the Whomping Willow. Did you happen to know the news, or did you I planned it in advance to study the scum that turned into a werewolf with my own eyes."

"Your thoughts are really dark." Toby sneered, "Is that how you thank your savior?"

"I'm still saying the same thing." Snape walked into the room, closed the door and said, "No one knows what your real thoughts are, or if you planned all this in advance, no one knows."

"No, you're wrong." Toby said suddenly, "There is someone who knows, and you know who that person is."

Snape's movements suddenly became stiff, and he stared at Toby, and heard him continue, "Yes, it's Lily. Do you think you're really smart? Come on, in class that day, you You're about to have revenge written all over your face. And, seriously, you were the last of the three of us to find out that Remus was a werewolf, you're pretty slow."

Snape didn't speak, his lips tightened slightly.

Toby was still saying: "Then, I probably guessed what was going to happen, so I told Lily by the way. I remember that the two of us were studying dark creatures together. It's strange enough that you weren't there That's right, so Lily quickly believed what I said, and was about to stop you from doing this, but I stopped her."

"Do you know why?"

Snape said full of resentment: "Because you are a twisted, self-righteous person who doesn't know how much you are hated by others—"

"Hey hey!" said Toby, wagging a finger. "Don't tell me you're going to say that word, it's really rude. But I don't really care, like the reason I stopped Lily that day Same—I don't care. I was thinking about the connection between the moon and werewolves. My helper. I guess she is planning to help Remus when she has the opportunity. Everyone knows that he is different from James and Black, and doesn't like to get involved in those annoying troubles. So Lily thinks so Forgivable. Remus is the only good guy left in that small group."

"However, you also know what happened later. Lily failed to go, and she never showed up. Instead, it turned out that I went to find you. Although it was a bit late, it was all because I was still thinking about werewolves. And the full moon, it's amazing, isn't it? Just one moon can affect all werewolves, what a powerful magic it must be."

"Okay, the topic is a bit far away, now let me tell you something you don't know-actually Lily was there at the time, hiding near the Whomping Willow, I saw her, but didn't expose her, Because that's what Lily told me when I stopped her—"

Toby cleared his throat, and deliberately imitated Lily's tone and said, "How can you not care about Sev so much? I thought we were friends. It seems that these mysterious magics have affected you too deeply." .I heard that Seaver is very close to the wannabe Death Eaters, what about you? You know I've been worrying about you guys lately? One is about to become a Death Eater and the other is still going through The sky talks about ancient magic. Do you think what we will become in the future? What will the three of us become?"

"Look. It's us who have the problem, but why is Lily always the saddest person?" Toby returned to his normal tone, and he stared at Snape who was extremely angry.

"You must want to know what happened next, I can tell you now - I told Lily at the time that I thought it was only me and Severus who would end badly. But now, Lily , you are likely to be worse than us."

"In the end, this sentence made Lily very angry. She tore up all my manuscripts, and even damaged several books borrowed from the library. This is really uncomfortable. Everyone knows that Mrs. S is not to be messed with—the topic is off topic again. However, I really don't think Lily is angry because I said that she ended badly, but because I have already tacitly agreed that it will not end well for you and me. "

"At that time, I was thinking, how can there be such a strange person in this world? Maybe she should be sorted into Slytherin, so that Lily might not become so naive."

"The next thing became a little easier, Lily just stared at me angrily, without saying a word. I guess she was going to say something like hopeless, but she just didn't say a word Say."

"So, I said to Lily - well, I'll stop Severus."

"Thinking about it now, this should be Lily's real meaning. She must have endured to the limit at the time, and was already hesitating whether she should really stay away from people like us, but she couldn't make up her mind. Later, she also hid in the grass. It proves this, she is too tired, having a friend like us is a very hard thing, she can't bear it, she must see with her own eyes a reason to convince herself."

"This is Lily, who keeps giving us opportunities and is so kind that she can't be saved."

Toby shook his head regretfully, he sighed, and then said cheerfully again: "By the way, I haven't told you why I changed my mind to save you—"

But he didn't need to say any more, Snape's body was agitating, as if he wanted to rush up and beat Toby hard, but he turned around and left in the next second, without staying for a moment.

Toby looked at the door which was closed with force, and he said to himself in a voice so low that he could barely hear it: "So why did you come here? Who let me meet you. When we first met, I told you, don't provoke me easily, it will bring you trouble."

"Now, we have all suffered, and no one is left behind."

(End of this chapter)