Archaeologists at Hogwarts

Chapter 291 The Three Dead Brothers and the Full Moon
290 The Three Dead Brothers and the Full Moon
Screaming Shack.

Toby and Al held a wand respectively, pointing at Dumbledore and Grindelwald standing on either side of them.

"There are three people in the house now," he said. "That's enough."

The atmosphere became extremely tense in an instant. Whether it was Grindelwald who thought he had persuaded Toby, or Dumbledore who had been trying to dissuade Toby, their eyes began to change.

"It's really unexpected." Dumbledore shook his head and sighed.

Everyone guessed wrong.

All along, Toby knew exactly what he was doing, and he never forgot anything, including the night of the full moon that year, which he also remembered clearly.

It wasn't until today that Dumbledore realized that Toby had tricked them all with that memory of not just anyone.

No, maybe you can already guess it.

"Is it Lupine?" Dumbledore asked, "And that expedition in the snow-capped mountains was planned by you in advance?"

"Otherwise, who else would it be?" Toby said indifferently, as if he had completely changed himself.

"No one but him will have witnessed what I experienced that night. Then I couldn't help it. Although Lupine had turned into a werewolf by then, it was better to be careful. So, I I thought of a way that would not alarm other people—find him, and then find a chance to erase his memory."

"I think, no matter what, he couldn't guess that in the so-called prophecy of the first professor training, what emerged was actually the picture of me attacking him in the snowy mountains. Now it seems that he doesn't remember anything, which is very good .”

Compared with Dumbledore, Grindelwald's performance is not so heavy. He seems to have expected this, thinking that Toby will make some abnormal decisions.

Even though he had nothing in his hands, Grindelwald became the most relaxed person in the room.

He asked with interest: "So, what are you going to do next? Turn me and Albus into devils too? It's really an amazing idea. A wizard who is more Slytherin than Slytherin is sure It's going to do that, isn't it—"

"No!"

Toby interrupted suddenly: "Compared to you, there is one more important thing. It's time to take away my stolen collection—do it!"

Almost at the same time, Al made the most abnormal move—he raised the wand in his hand to the ceiling, and shouted with all his strength: "Ah!"

Immediately a spell appeared, shot from the tip of the wand, and hit the dusty ceiling, blasting a modest hole.

This turned out to be an explosion spell.

It can be seen that both Dumbledore and Grindelwald are amazed by Al's ability, which is almost no different from ordinary wizards.

But Toby didn't bother to care about them, and he immediately looked up to the ceiling—just above the blasted hole, a mask with golden patterns was revealed, and a mask was worn on the head of the plant Animagus. Wearing a lady's wide-brimmed hat, there are thin and dense arms under the brim.

"Come back to me!" Toby roared with a distorted expression, a dark gleam surged from his body, turned into a black smoke, and rushed up directly.

Seeing Toby rushing in, the monster with three collections in one quickly backed away, walking back to the old bed step by step, and the pharaoh shouted angrily in his mask.

Toby pointed his wand at the monster's face, and the smoke around him grew more and more, almost filling the room, driving the monster back into a corner.

Immediately afterwards, Toby's huge face suddenly appeared in front of the Pharaoh's mask, and his pitch-black eyes stared at it fiercely.

At this moment, he almost became like a humanoid devil, a method that he had never used even in the face of Voldemort.

"It seems you've forgotten what it's like to be afraid," he said in a chilling tone.

While Toby was busy dealing with Grindelwald's advance arrangement, Al was not idle, and he quickly shouted: "Ah!"

The two skeletons standing behind Grindelwald moved immediately, and they surrounded them, intending to grab the frail-looking old man.

"Unbelievable." Grindelwald was still staring at Al, the magical creature. He didn't see any movement of him, and the skull necklace he held in his hand floated up by itself, slowly getting bigger, and returning to its original shape.

Inside the skeletal head that Harry was supposed to use to contact Toby, there was a second wand hidden.

Grindelwald pulled out his wand without haste, and he said a word to Dumbledore.

"You shouldn't have left Aberforth alone, he's always been reckless and never learned his lesson."

Holding the wand that originally belonged to Aberforth Dumbledore, Grindelwald quickly knocked the two skeletons flying.

Al was taken aback, and subconsciously planned to take out the flying carpet and escape first—this is nothing unusual, even when exploring ancient ruins before, it would often separate from Toby, as long as it could find each other again in the end. .

But inexplicably, Al felt as if he had forgotten something.

It forgot about Dumbledore.

Why hasn't Dumbledore—

Al turned his head to look, it loosened its claws, and the flying carpet fluttered down to the floor, and it never picked it up again.

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh."

Dumbledore had a painful expression on his face, as if he was trying his best to suppress the pain to the bone marrow, and cold sweat was rarely seen on his forehead, and he finally became like an old man who really fit his age at this time.

And right beside him, the surrounding smoke was thicker than Toby's.

"You made a mistake, Gellert," he said weakly.

Soon Grindelwald knew what Dumbledore was talking about.

The smoke is as thick as real smoke, they condense together, and then spread out quickly, like a beating heart, and a voice can be heard roaring inside——

"Aberforth, my brother, how dare you, how dare you!"

This is the voice of a young girl—Arianna appeared, covered in pitch black, with a disordered figure, and a face full of resentment. She turned into a cloud of smoke, and suddenly rushed towards Grindelwald, ignoring all his attacks. The spell came, bright colors and black were intertwined, Al hid under the sofa chair and shivered, the fluff all over his body was shaking non-stop.

"Your name is Al, right? We haven't met officially yet."

A discordant voice sounded, Al held his head and looked over, and saw that the Sorting Hat was also hiding here.

"Don't tell me this is Toby's trick too." The Sorting Hat looked at the scene of the fierce fight between the devil Ariana and Grindelwald, "How did he guess that Dumbledore would study the devil and make such a big monster?" He has kept it a secret, and no one can get such important news out of him."

"Yeah." Al said weakly, looking a little regretful.

Miraculously, the Sorting Hat understood what Al said without hindrance.

"You mean, Toby actually found out that Dumbledore was preventing him from meeting Harry, so he deliberately taught Harry the devil, because he knew that Dumbledore would definitely find a chance to ask the boy?"

Al nodded tremblingly, it turned around quickly, not forgetting to put on the sorting hat, grabbed it and ran out from under the sofa chair, and was overwhelmed by Grindelwald who was throwing it hard the next moment.

"Go to the closet!" The Sorting Hat waved in the air, and it commanded in a panic: "It's the closest to Dumbledore, Ariana won't hurt him—wait a minute, Toby won't even do this kind of thing." Guess it?"

"You're right, Mr. Sorting Hat."

Toby had already come down from the second floor at some point, his face was a little pale, and he was also staring at the fighting scene in the room and said: "Speaking carefully, it was Grindelwald who inspired me. It was he who announced Ariana's story. It's just that I didn't expect the principal's devil to be so real, it's not a good sign."

"Aha!" The Sorting Hat didn't listen to Toby's words at all, and it accused loudly: "Now you know how to call him the principal—"

"Shut its mouth." Toby calmly ordered, and Al immediately tied the Sorting Hat's mouth tightly with a rope, so it couldn't be opened.

The next second, Toby turned into a black devil again. Seeing the right time, he slammed into Grindelwald, hitting him in large characters on the wall, and sinking him deeply.

The devil Ariana took away Grindelwald's wand in an instant, and she held it carefully in her palm, with the expression on her face constantly changing between worry and anger.

"It's time to rest." Toby took out the pharaoh's mask out of nowhere, and quickly covered Ariana's face. Just before Ariana was about to lose control again, another wide-brimmed hat was covered on her head, Hold her by force.

"Death." Grindelwald panted heavily, coughing violently and said, "Have you known the meaning of defeating death a long time ago, and you know that these two skeletons are Antioch and Cadmus?"

"I only confirmed it tonight." Although his tone was very weak, Toby still said: "I still know from your mouth that the third skeleton is real. No wonder I always feel that there is something wrong. It turns out that it Wearing an invisibility cloak, that's why it didn't appear in past history."

"Now, I get it - swooning!"

Grindelwald, who was unable to resist due to an accident, immediately passed out.

"Keep him close," Toby said to the two skeletons who fell to pieces.

Then, Toby walked slowly to the weak Dumbledore.

"It seems that the devil has tormented you enough, Headmaster." He looked down at Dumbledore who was leaning against the wall and said, "But why is it Ariana? Even I didn't think it would really work. Did she Still alive, not dead? Like how much you asked to be assigned to Gryffindors to hide her existence?"

"I didn't expect that either." Dumbledore said weakly, "But what about you, Toby, is there no one really important to you?"

"Are you referring to me turning into a devil?" Toby shook his head and said, "No, I'm different from you, principal. I didn't study devils voluntarily, but after losing my patron saint, I must have someone to save my life." means."

"If there is a chance, I think I would be very willing to continue listening." Dumbledore was almost in a coma, he forced himself to cheer up and said, "But there are three people in the room now, you finally did it, yes Do you intend to realize your great ideal here?"

Toby stared at him silently.

At this moment, Al felt something in his heart, he barked in surprise, and turned his gaze to the direction of Hogwarts Castle.

"I feel it too."

Toby slowly put down the wand in his hand and said: "Believe me, principal, ideals are not equal to crimes, I can tell the difference. After a while, you will know that I have always valued my soul so much. , never forgot."

Dumbledore closed his eyes and seemed to be asleep.

Toby leaves the Shrieking Shack without a sound, leaving Al to clean up the mess.

While Al was busy pressing the restless Sorting Hat, it suddenly heard someone asking, "Did Toby erase his memory to protect Lupine?"

Al froze for a moment.

This is the beginning of everything, it is a curse, and it can also become an ambition.

It is well aware of this.

"Yeah." Al nodded sadly.

There was no more sound in the room, just two steady gasps.

In the dark corridors of Hogwarts Castle, Toby appeared quietly. He walked up the stairs without stopping, walking forward weakly and slowly.

"What are you doing secretly again?" Snape suddenly appeared from the corner of the corridor, as if he came here specially to follow Toby.

He sarcastically said: "Are you going to open all the portraits again, have you forgotten your unreasonable thoughts?"

Toby glanced at him, then shook his head with a disappointed expression.

"If you only have this ability, how can you avenge Lily?"

Almost at the same time, two different expressions appeared on Snape's face - a natural anger, and almost no expression of confusion.

He could hear something was wrong with Toby's voice.

"Get out of the way if it's okay." Toby said, staring at him.

Even the remaining confusion was gone, Snape's face turned blue and white, twisted to the extreme.

"That's right." After walking forward for a while, Toby suddenly stopped and said, "If Lily is still alive, maybe we will really succeed, the three of us."

"What nonsense are you talking about again?" Snape seemed to be going over to ask clearly, but his feet were fixed in place, motionless.

Toby came to the final hallway alone.

"Three people," he murmured in a low voice, "then become Lily's pets."

It didn't take long for a kitty to sprint out of the entrance to Hogwarts, followed by a rune snake.

After successfully getting rid of the trouble of the password, Toby walked into the common room with Cat Lizi and Rune Snake, and saw three little wizards with confused faces.

"Kids, close your eyes," he said.

After the three of them did so, Toby immediately collapsed on a sofa chair, staring closely at the picture formed by the black smoke——

Under the full moon, two wizards and the man hidden under the cloak of invisibility cast ancient ritual magic - something was summoned by them.

Toby didn't look at that thing again, he knew what it was from the beginning, as if he had known it from birth.

The scorching invisibility cloak was held in his hand, releasing a rare temperature.

At the same time, in the final picture formed by the smoke, there is a dark figure watching Toby from inside.

He was being watched by the Grim Reaper.

"Old friend." Death's voice sounded in Toby's mind. It was difficult to describe, and it was hard to tell what language it was, but it was easy to understand.

"Now can you tell me what my wish is?"

Toby didn't answer. He closed his eyes and seemed to pass out.

After a long time, the cloak slipped from his hand and fell to the floor.

Harry faintly heard a whisper coming from his dream.

"Open your eyes, children, you are safe."

[The first half of the third grade volume, finished. 】

(End of this chapter)