Archaeologists at Hogwarts

Chapter 317 Angela

Pig's Head Bar.

Toby and Dumbledore looked at each other, he took out the magic ball from his pocket, turned it into a magic circle and trapped Regulus inside.

In this way, Regulus could only see the two people talking outside, but couldn't hear anything.

"Principal." After creating a separate environment, Toby stared at Dumbledore closely and asked, "You don't really believe his nonsense, do you?"

Dumbledore thought for a moment.

"Could it be the Grim Reaper?" He asked rhetorically, "According to your statement, the Grim Reaper was transformed by a wizard and happened to be a persecuted Muggle-born. This possibility of reduced magic power—by the way, one more thing, after the full moon many years ago, is it the only time you have seen the god of death recently?"

"That's right, and the time is just right." But Toby frowned, obviously dissatisfied with Dumbledore's attitude: "But Regulus is not trustworthy, I wouldn't trust him anyway. "

Dumbledore was still thinking about what Regulus said, and he didn't answer for a while.

After seeing this scene, Toby simply removed the sound-proof magic circle. He picked up the fierce tone just now and asked Regulus: "Whether what you said is true or not, there is one thing that must be done." Find out in advance——James Potter, you should still remember him, has he also become a student of Grindelwald now?"

"What?" Regulus was stunned: "The professor has other students, why didn't I know? And this person...isn't this person dead?"

Seeing that Toby was about to make a move, Regulus quickly explained: "What I said is true, and I don't know how many students Grindelwald has. It's like Peter Pettigrew, if he didn't see the report in the magazine , I have no idea what he did."

Then Toby pressed Regulus for a name he knew.

It turned out to be a bit monotonous, with names familiar to Toby - Lockhart, and Kingsley.

It seems that Regulus is not as valued as he imagined.

"Then let me change the question." Toby stared into Regulus' eyes and asked, "How do you know that the level of magic power is indeed decreasing rapidly? Could it be that Grindelwald is hiding other means? Or, you Do you think you can sow discord between me and Dumbledore with just one or two sentences? Let us turn against each other again because of our disagreement?"

Regulus opened his mouth, but couldn't say a word.

"You still want to be tough?" Toby rolled his eyes, and he was about to take out Voldemort's locket and let Regulus have a good taste of fear.

When he took out the locket, Regulus was visibly panicked, of course he knew about it, and even stole it secretly by himself.

"You...you look at my arm." He shouted anxiously: "I have made an unbreakable oath, once I say it, I will die!"

Dumbledore walked over and pulled Regulus' sleeves away, tapped his wand a few times, and three transparent ropes appeared on it, which looked like fire-breathing snakes.

This is indeed a trace of an unbreakable oath, which cannot be faked.

Toby sneered and said, "Stupid, really stupid, so you thought you could convince us of your lies without providing any evidence?"

"If you want me to say, principal, just find a place to lock him up. I know some interesting places. It only takes half a day off to let him live a life that he can't imagine in his whole life."

Regulus didn't feel that Toby was joking at all. He looked at Dumbledore for help, but he also didn't see the hope of being rescued from Dumbledore's eyes.

But Regulus had already guessed that there would be such a consequence.

"Actually, there is actually another way." He said cautiously: "Angela, your friend, she has the ability to know whether what I said is true or not."

Toby's frown deepened.

Just then an owl flew in through the window, and it brought a note from Angela to Toby, which read——

【Where have you been?I just came back from Beauxbatons to see you, do you think I should change jobs? 】

Dumbledore also saw the words on the note.

"It seems she trusts you," he said.

Toby put away the note, and he looked up at Regulus, his gloomy eyes made Regulus shrink back.

"But it's also hurting her." Toby said solemnly.
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Office of Ancient Magic.

Al was eating multi-flavored beans while casually listening to Angela's thoughts.

"I know that Principal Akinbad is very kind to me, but Mrs. Maxim is also good to me, and Beauxbaton looks more gorgeous than Waggadu, but there are more rules, unlike Waggadu So comfortable—"

"Yeah?" Al suddenly interrupted Angela. He was asking, as a vice principal, shouldn't the students be more concerned?Or something like education work.

"Of course I have paid attention to it." Angela said seriously: "I met a pair of sisters in Ouagadou. They are really beautiful. It is said that they have Veela blood, which is really strange."

Al stared at her blankly—it didn't seem to have much to do with the vice principal.

Thanks to Toby arriving in time, otherwise Al really doesn't know how long he can stay in the office - if it wasn't for the scepter still in Angela's hand, Al would have forcibly driven her away.

Dumbledore also came, which caused Angela to stand up for a while. She glanced suspiciously at the two people, mainly on their clothes, trying to find traces of the duel.

"What about the scepter?"

As soon as Toby came in, he stretched out his hand and waved it up and down.

Angela narrowed her eyes in dissatisfaction.

"That's my scepter, obviously I found it first, why do you—"

"Al!"

"ah!"

Al jumped in the air, swung the small shovel and rushed towards Angela with his teeth and claws open.

"stop!"

This made Angela immediately recall that not-so-beautiful memory, and she quickly said loudly: "I'll give it to you, can't I give it to you?"

Toby silently put down the larger shovel in his hand, stretched out his hand and tugged at the scepter, and it took a lot of effort to get the scepter back.

Angela pouted, sulking alone.

"This item is very dangerous for her." Toby explained to Dumbledore: "It will hurt her if you are not careful, but she has never been able to understand this."

"Excuses," Angela muttered.

Dumbledore watched this scene with a smile, quite a perfunctory attitude of "everything Toby said is right".

"It's true." Toby repeated: "Other people might be fine, but Angela is a little different. I guess that's why Regulus mentioned her."

"It seems that this is another secret you are hiding." Dumbledore said calmly, as if he had expected it: "I remember that you wrote about the experience of meeting Angela in your letter, which happened in a The ancient tribe, and everyone in the tribe is just using her, or even trying to harm her. But you have never told me the specific reason."

Angela raised her ears and listened quietly to the conversation between the two, forgetting to even pretend to be angry.

"Because her brain is not working well." Toby said while pushing away the angry Angela: "And she is born with some special abilities, very special—specifically, Angela Being able to communicate with many animals without hindrance, including her talent for wandless magic is extremely rare. So she never needed a wand until she met this one and felt that it was worthy of her."

Angela leaned back in surprise and said, "Why did you tell me everything—didn't you tell me to keep it a secret?"

"Because I need to use your ability to do something."

Toby looked at Angela and said, "Now it's me who uses you, if you don't mind—of course, it's useless even if you do."

"You're still very impolite." Angela snorted twice: "Tell me, what exactly are you looking for from me?"

Toby and Dumbledore looked at each other, he took a deep breath, then took out an hourglass and handed it to Angela.

"Isn't this the memory hourglass?"

Angela repeatedly looked at the things Toby gave her and asked: "I remember this thing is used to find clues, you can observe what wizards did at different times, but the location is limited, you give this thing to What am I doing?"

"Come with me." Toby said and brought Angela to the Mason door: "raise one of your hands, put it like this, and stick it to the door—be careful, don't use too much force, it's still too late It's not time to enter the door. The other hand is holding the hourglass, yes, just keep this posture and don't move."

Angela complied with Toby's request in a daze. Now she held both hands up, one of which was pressed against the surface of the Mason door, and the other was holding the memory hourglass, motionless.

Then Toby held Angela's hand holding the hourglass, turned it upside down, and let the sand in the hourglass return to the top.

"Try to communicate with the door," Toby said.

Although this request seemed weird, Angela still closed her eyes, her long silver hair fluttering in the windless room.

Under Toby and Dumbledore's dignified eyes, the sand in the hourglass fell slowly at first, and then the speed suddenly increased a lot, and it didn't take long for it to fall to the bottom.

Judging from the expressions on the faces of the two, this result is not very good.

It can even be said to be very bad.

Toby asked Angela to sit on the sofa to rest. He looked back at Dumbledore and said, "The method Regulus said has worked, and the result he predicted is also correct-the magic world is indeed not normal."

Dumbledore didn't express his opinion immediately, he fell into deep thought again.

"What's the matter?" Angela asked out of breath, she consumed a lot of mana in just that little time, which was more tiring than taking care of the animals in the school - this is also one of her usual jobs as the vice principal Well, it is estimated that even Mrs. Maxim's solicitation idea came up after seeing Angela being able to communicate with the rune horse. (The rune horse—the mount for Beauxbaton's gigantic carriage.)
Toby shook his head, didn't tell Angela the reason, but helped her make another glass of cold lemonade.

After Angela's attention was successfully diverted, Toby walked up to Dumbledore and whispered: "But this may be a scam, I'll say the same thing - I won't believe Regulus and the others Man, he's clearly here for Grindelwald, and will rescue their professor if he gets the chance."

"I think you're right." Dumbledore finally responded aloud: "I believe he has been in tandem with other people before he came here, maybe we can use this opportunity to find out all the rest of the enemies— He'll do it when Aberforth wakes up, and this time I'll get an extra old friend to help, so I won't leave him in danger alone again."

Toby stared at Dumbledore curiously, wondering who his helper might be.

"Alastor Moody." Dumbledore did not hide this: "There is no one more suitable than him."

"It turned out to be Mad-Eye." Toby raised his eyebrows and said, "I have no problem, as long as his mind is clear enough."

Originally Toby thought that Dumbledore would just leave after saying this, but he didn't.

Suddenly, Dumbledore suddenly asked Toby:

"Do you want all the Deathly Hallows?"

The back of Toby turned around and paused for a moment, and his voice came from the face that could not be seen clearly: "Is there any need to ask, principal. After all, this is related to my life-the god of death is getting closer and closer to me , but I can only watch."

"I have the Elder Wand, as you already know," said Dumbledore again.

Angela noticed that the atmosphere in the room suddenly became a little strange, she raised her glass and pretended to be drinking lemonade, and stared at the two with wide eyes.At the same time, he reached out and pulled Al quietly, intending to take him away from the duel at any time.

"Yes, Headmaster." Toby turned around and said, "But I also remember that you also need the Elder Wand to study ancient magic and use it to deal with me, right?"

Al straightened his neck and looked at them. At this moment, Angela had silently put the cup in her hand back on the table, and got ready to run.

"Maybe one day." Dumbledore whispered: "Maybe one day. But we don't want to see such a result, and I believe you think so too, Toby. If this is the case, why not try to find What about the only remaining sacred artifact?"

"The only one left?" Toby asked in surprise.

He knew that the Elder Wand was in Dumbledore's hands, and that the Invisibility Cloak had learned of its whereabouts on the full moon before Christmas—the Potter family's Invisibility Cloak.

Then the only thing left is the resurrection stone.

"I thought—" Toby said suspiciously: "You will prevent me from getting the resurrection stone. After all, whether it's Al or the devil, it seems to be related to the soul."

"So you guessed it a long time ago." Dumbledore said gently: "Yes, I did have this idea-but these were all things before you told me the truth. Now I know Al's The origin, and the reason why the devil on your body is so special, and more importantly, I also know that you don't have much time left, and this is the most important thing."

"My death will save you a lot of trouble." Toby said calmly.

Dumbledore shook his head.

"It's not like that, Toby. Ideas are just ideas, and that's no trouble, only the desire to transcend death."

"I've already caused myself a lot of trouble. You know, I never blamed you for Arianna's affairs, because you reminded me."

"In front of the resurrection stone, maybe only you can stop me from using it."

(End of this chapter)