Archaeologists at Hogwarts

Chapter 280 The Out-of-Control Mason Gate
Draco was really going all out.

Luna's anti-demon glasses brought him an unprecedented sense of crisis. If this continues, his position as a minister will be replaced sooner or later.

Although Draco was very unhappy as a minister at the beginning, after improving the pen of truth, he was still deeply obsessed with this taste of power, and he refused to let go easily.

Now that he managed to get Professor Lupine to help him make a sheep-eating ball, how could he be blocked by a skull without a head.And what was written on it, "Go to Severus." Draco had already understood that, compared with the head of Slytherin, it was more promising to follow the president of the Black Devil Foundation.

Didn't you see his dad started working for Professor Highmore?

Although Toby's method at the beginning was not very honorable, and it could even be called coercion, but Draco still felt that instead of resisting, it would be better to accept his fate obediently.

And Professor Highmore wasn't that hard to please, as long as he wasn't offended.

Draco was completely unaware that what he was doing now was making Professor Haimer angry, but he was afraid that Luna would come up with something to compare himself to, and by then it would be too late to say anything, and he had to let the sheep eat The ball is also added to the wish box.

"Professor Haimo, it's me—the head of the Black Devil's Club, you can't see me!"

Draco slammed on the door hard, and he began to wonder if Luna was already inside, so he was turned away.

At this time, the door came loose.

Draco immediately stood up obediently, and stretched his neck to look in - the door opened a gap, revealing Al's small unfriendly eyes, and the small shovel tightly held in his hand.

"Yeah!" Its tone was even more unfriendly, even Draco could hear it, and saw Mr. Al raising the shovel, as if he wanted to hit him.

"Mr. Al!" Draco immediately dodged back and held up the ram ball: "This is my work—and there is an assessment, the assessment between me and Professor Lupine, you have seen it Is that article?"

Al squinted his eyes, glanced at the sheep-eating ball several times, and then angrily patted the tag hanging on the neck of the skeleton with the shovel.

"Yeah!" it yelled again, telling Draco to go find Snape quickly and don't ask for trouble.

"But...Professor Snape can't check the magic circle—"

With a bang, the door slammed shut in front of Draco.

"Work." He finally whispered, and stood blankly at the door for a while, his face flushed.

In an indescribable emotion, he let go of his clenched fist, turned his head and walked away.
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at the same time.

I. What's wrong with me?
Harry's eyes were pitch black, and his last memory was that Professor Highmore forcibly stuffed something into his mouth.

What happened next, Harry no longer knew.

At this moment, he heard a voice in his ear, which was extremely familiar.

"Harry, Harry? Haven't woken up yet? No. It should be fine."

Suddenly, a frantic voice interrupted him.

"Where am I? What the hell did you do to me? Damn, what kind of magic is this? You—you—!"

Harry raised his eyelids vigorously, and his attempt finally worked. A blurry picture gradually appeared in front of his eyes, and finally he was frozen in a scene that was both familiar and strange to him, and he couldn't remember exactly where it was for a while.

The air was filled with the smell of decay, and there was only a faint twilight in the whole room-Harry suddenly heard Professor Highmore's voice on his left: "Shut up! Shut up if you don't want to die!" Shut it up!"

Harry turned his head to the left abruptly, and opened his mouth wide in surprise—it turned out to be the head of a snake, with a message threateningly uttered from the mouth, which looked very scary.

"Ah!" Harry screamed, but he was immediately watched by the other party, and Professor Highmore's voice sounded again: "It seems that you are all right, and luckily you didn't make any mistakes, but you have to keep your voice down, Don't let this be our burial place first let me see."

Harry felt that his body was moving uncontrollably. He looked around in a panic, and found a mirror in the room. Looking far away, he saw a snake's head staring at him.

And not just one.

There are three snake heads in total.

The head that gave out Professor Haimer's voice was carefully observing the surroundings.

In addition to Harry himself, there was another snake head, growing on his right side, with a lightning scar that was so familiar to Harry on his forehead-this snake head was also looking at him through the mirror.

"Harry Potter."

Tom Riddle spoke, his voice was extremely cold: "We finally meet, famous boy."

Harry immediately turned his head and looked to the right. The head belonging to Tom Riddle was staring at him, slowly revealing its fangs.

Harry finally came to his senses—he had become a rune snake, and he had become one of its heads, while the other two were Professor Highmore, and the dangerous-looking guy in front of him, which seemed to be the same as he had just Something to swallow.

"Put back the fangs."

The rune snake's tail suddenly stretched out forcefully, and it slapped Tom Riddle hard on the head of the snake, making him dizzy.

Toby stared at him with snake eyes: "I don't mind biting your head off now, although you can try it, and who will survive in the end."

Riddle only dared to stare at Toby with resentful eyes, but he didn't dare to say another word.

"A wise choice." Toby said slowly: "You have to know that you are never the only way. Besides you, I have at least two chances - the locket, and the crown, of course, in the end It’s better to save as much as possible once, the founder’s relic is very valuable, no matter who it is.”

"Professor"

Harry asked cautiously, "Have we turned into rune snakes?"

"You have good eyesight."

Harry couldn't tell if Professor Highmore was mocking himself.

"You can still see yourself clearly without glasses—yes, Harry, that's right, you, me, and another guy, he is also the Horcrux of the mysterious man, he can be called a soul, and he is also a memory ——The three of us turned into rune snakes. Remember the knowledge I taught you? Tell me and let me hear."

"Remember, Professor." Harry said quickly, "The left head of the Runegrass is the Mastermind (Toby), the one in the middle is the Visionary (Harry), and the one on the right."

Harry glanced at the Riddle snake head on the right with complicated eyes.

"It's a critic. Its teeth are highly poisonous, and they are often bitten off by the other two heads. As a result, the rune snake's lifespan is not long."

"It's really not long." Toby said slowly: "But it's enough for us to leave—leaving the crazy world behind Mason's Gate."

Harry was completely dumbfounded.

He finally understood where this familiar feeling came from—it was the Mason Gate!

Harry had gone through the Mason Gate in his first year, with Hermione and Ron.That time they violated the rules, were severely taught by Professor Highmore, and were sent to the Forbidden Forest to be punished, and "enjoyed" a game where the devil was behind you.

That was a really bad experience.

After entering the Mason Gate that time, Harry, Ron, and Hermione all became their pets, and Professor Highmore was a horned water snake, which was very rare.

But Harry never imagined that this time he would turn into a rune snake, sharing the same body.

"This is a very magical method." Toby's voice sounded: "I discovered by accident that the devil can be used as a vehicle to break into the Mason Gate. Now it seems that broken souls can also do this. That will not only allow us to stagger the maturing time of the Mason Gate, but also protect us to a certain extent, so that we don't have to be disturbed by the darkness. Darkness, yes, you heard me right, Harry, this time our purpose is seek the darkness."

Harry was so frightened that he couldn't speak. He hadn't been able to leave this office last time. He was locked in the pharaoh's coffin by Professor Highmore until the end. Who knows what the outside world is like.

Only Tom Riddle showed great interest in what Toby said. He was about to speak, but was interrupted by Toby immediately: "Don't really be a critic, this is the last warning."

After Tom Riddle was unwilling to be quiet, Harry asked in a low voice as much as possible: "Professor, what do you mean by darkness? What exactly are we here for?"

"Mason Gate" Toby said in a deep voice: "Only in the mature days of Mason Gate, this world involving emotions is safe. Besides, on other days, the world behind the gate is full of Countless dangers will also be completely plunged into darkness. Now we are in it, this office can be regarded as the only safe place, and once we step out of the door, anything can happen."

"So things you can't imagine will happen."

"But you should also understand, Harry." Toby said again: "I will not take you to take such a risk for no reason. For you, this experience will be very important-because we You must be clear about one thing, that is whether the darkness comes from the mysterious person or yourself."

What he said was exactly the same as Principal Dumbledore, who reminded Harry in the same way at the beginning-it is difficult to ensure whether Harry's devil comes from the influence of the mysterious man or the dark side of Harry himself.

If it was the latter, then Dumbledore thought that Toby's method might not be so effective, and he had to do it himself.

Now, Harry didn't expect to hear the same statement from Professor Highmore.

"It seems that the principal reminded you."

Toby stared at Harry with snake eyes and said, "Don't worry, I didn't overhear your conversation or anything, and it's not surprising that the headmaster would have thought of that. But, I just happened to be thinking of going with the headmaster." That's all, because I have faced similar problems and urgently need to solve them, so I have to take such a big risk."

"Now, let's go, and remember to keep your voices down—and you two—"

Miraculously, in the office, the two skeletons are still there, and they can still obey Professor Haimer's orders and behave very obediently.

"Remember to keep this room safe." Toby ordered: "Don't let anything break in—the most important thing is to keep the Mason door well."

Harry caught a glimpse of the door to the outside world, which was open to reveal a dim gleam within.

Tom Riddle didn't say a word, he turned his head to stare at the Mason Gate, and then at the two skeletons guarding the side.

Toby was dispatched, and he seemed to be the only one who could manipulate the body of the rune snake, just like his revealing representative identity-the mastermind, deciding where the rune snake should go and what to do.

Harry saw that they were getting closer to the door of the office, and the sound of roaring wild animals could be faintly heard from outside the door. He didn't know what kind of animal could roar like this, which made Harry gradually become nervous.

Gradually, the rune snake with three heads came to the gate. The snake's tail stood up and stretched towards the doorknob.

Obviously this voice was softer than the previous ones, but for some reason, Harry still felt that it sounded like a thunderclap in his ears.

At the same time, he noticed in horror that the sound outside the door disappeared in an instant, as if something was quietly lurking outside the door, waiting for the food in the can to come to the door automatically.

The door slowly opened under the hook of the snake's tail——Professor Haimo was right, the corridor this time was much darker than the previous one, and there wasn't even much light coming in.

Just then, Harry felt like his ears were going deaf—

Tom Riddle suddenly shouted: "Here! They're hiding here!"

Almost at the same time, Riddle's snake head spit out its fangs, and immediately stretched towards Harry's neck!

But there is another one that moves faster than him!
Harry didn't even see Professor Highmore's movements clearly, Riddle's snake's head was completely bitten off, and then flew into the air, fell outside the corridor, and stared at his unwilling eyes until the end.

"Don't forget, it's not the first time I've turned into a snake"

Toby murmured under his breath, and he looked at Harry sharply, his eyes focused on his forehead - Harry was still staring out the door, something seemed to be attracting him.

Harry saw that Riddle's snake head was still alive, and finally a different vision appeared in his eyes—looking back and forth to both sides of the door outside the corridor, he couldn't tell what it felt like, Harry could only guess that Riddle saw a terrible sight. s things.

He wanted to see more clearly, however, with the twitch of the rune snake's tail, the door was instantly closed - leaving Harry with the last image of something jumping at Riddle's head.

And that's it.

Harry felt his heart beating wildly, if he had one.

Toby was still staring at Harry's forehead. There was nothing on it, but a scar in the shape of lightning gradually emerged and became clearer little by little.

He whispered, as if talking to himself.

"It will be difficult now."

The scar followed like a shadow, did not disappear with Voldemort in the diary, but remained on Harry's forehead all the time.

It was Harry after all, not Voldemort.

"Perhaps we have a remedy."

In a trance, Harry heard Professor Highmore's snakehead say to himself: "Are you interested in joining Slytherin?"

"That will lead you to glory."

(End of this chapter)