Archaeologists at Hogwarts

Chapter 319 Toby and James

Gaunt House.

Regulus, who was curled up in pain, widened his eyes. He covered his palms and exclaimed, "James Potter, I've seen you and you're actually still alive!"

James raised his hands and walked slowly out of the woods. His steps were very careful, as if his feet were not grass, but sharp spikes.

"Listen, Toby—"

As soon as James opened his mouth, he was interrupted by Toby: "No, you should listen to me--now, come here obediently, don't make any resistance, I have to figure everything out today, once Sex figured it out, I really hate being held back."

"First of all, the first thing, are you alive, or are you resurrected?"

Toby said in a non-negotiable tone that this was what James had expected to happen.

"I don't know either." James shook his head and said, "I really don't know what happened the night I was supposed to die, but what I can tell you is that at least I'm alive now."

Toby stared at James silently for a while.

"Wrong answer," he said coldly, before casting a spell at James.

Sure enough, Toby didn't expect to get any answers from James at all. Since he dared to appear in front of him, he should arrest him first, and he would have more time to figure out the reason later.

However, in Toby's bright sight, the spell penetrated James' body and hit the tree trunk behind him, splashing several sparks.

He seems to have become transparent.

"Now we can have a good talk—"

Once again, before James could finish his sentence, a dark gleam suddenly appeared all over Toby's body.

"Let's talk about it? I have nothing to talk to the guy who can only pretend to be ghosts. Is this a ghost, or—forget it, it doesn't matter, we will find out soon."

Regulus watched Toby inexplicably turn into a lump of lacquer, his face emerged in the black smoke, and rushed towards James in the blink of an eye with a strong whistling sound.

Seeing that Toby was about to trap James, but at this moment, James suddenly turned into a silver stag.

It was Jaime's Patronus, and he had become his own.

"I guess you know about the devil's natural enemies, don't you?"

The stag stared at Toby without fear, and James' voice came out of its mouth: "I have been to the ruins of the city under Loch Ness, where I found the magic you abandoned-you had the opportunity to learn it. This way of magic, but you chose another way Lily did not misunderstand you, you are fascinated by those dangerous magic."

The pitch-black smoke stopped suddenly, and it seemed to be very concerned about the silver light emitted by the stag.

"Did Lily tell you?" Toby's booming voice sounded from the black smoke: "When you are against the black devil, never believe anything he says—even the so-called clues?"

After saying these words, the black devil suddenly launched an attack again, and the stag jumped up suddenly. It broke through the darkness, still holding something in its mouth, and then slowly stopped beside the stunned Regulus.

Only then did James turn around and continue: "Lily did say this, but she also said that the black devil is not without weaknesses—as long as he can come up with something that fascinates him even more."

A black stone fell on the grass, with a pattern of triangles, circles, and straight lines engraved on it.

"I gave you the resurrection stone, but I took the magic ball away. Sorry, Toby, I don't want to do this, but I can't live without Lily"

"I can never lose her again."

The stag picked up Regulus, let him lie on his back, and disappeared with the blooming silver light.

"You really are James Potter."

Regulus' doubts also disappeared.

The black smoke turned back into a human form, and Toby appeared on the grass with a pale face. He grabbed the resurrection stone on the grass and couldn't help but groaned a few more times.

What James said was right, the patron saint he turned into was indeed the natural enemy of the black devil.
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Office of Ancient Magic.

Al was anxiously pacing back and forth in the room, stopping to look at the clock from time to time, and then wandering around again.

What is strange is that Angela is also here, holding the scepter that was returned to her at some time, and after waiting quietly for a while, she finally couldn't help asking: "Why hasn't Toby come back yet? Don't you need to go find him?"

Al thought about it for a while.

Just when it was about to agree, the door of the office was suddenly pushed open from the outside—it was Toby, who was still looking ugly, and he collapsed on the sofa as soon as he walked in. Angela hurriedly took out the prepared Lemonade, Al jumped on Toby's shoulder and stared at his side face carefully. After Toby drank the lemonade and let out a long sigh of relief, Al suddenly screamed: "Yeah!"

It recognized it, a sign that Toby had been wounded by a wizard-turned-patronus—but who would have known the magic?
This is the secret it kept with Toby, leaving this magic in Loch Ness forever.Even if Toby mentioned this place in his books and lectures, there is no need to worry, because the remaining records should have been destroyed long ago.

The way of destruction is even simpler - when teaching the course of the magic circle, Toby's illusion had a picture of him and Al summoning some terrible monster, and it was the guy who destroyed these things , leaving almost nothing.

"Yeah, I know that too."

Toby panted, he frowned and said, "Why did James learn this magic? He really thought that I would have been destroyed if I didn't know it. And the magic ball, how could he be staring at the magic ball. Clearly Grindelwald has already gotten something wrong once, and this whole thing is very wrong Headmaster."

Dumbledore also came in. As soon as he entered the room, he saw the stone held by Toby, and swallowed back what he wanted to say.

"Is this the Resurrection Stone?" he asked.

Toby nodded: "This is the resurrection stone. It should be true. James gave it to me on his own initiative, but as a price, he took the magic ball away."

"I have a guess, Headmaster."

"Just talk about it." Dumbledore said solemnly.

Toby thought carefully for a while, and then said: "Perhaps, could it be that we guessed wrong, from the very beginning. The person James is loyal to is not Grindelwald, but someone else There is someone who knows ancient magic well, even better than I do."

Angela said in a daze, "I know better than you, so who else could it be? Either Grindelwald or Dumbledore?"

She suddenly raised her scepter vigilantly at Dumbledore—Angela knew that Toby had maintained correspondence with Dumbledore during those years as an archaeologist, and shared many research results.

Toby raised his arm with difficulty and patted her on the forehead.

"Al, take back the scepter, it really can't just be handed over to her."

"ah!"

"You two bad guys are teaming up to bully me again."

Toby ignored the aggrieved Angela and continued: "I mean, there is one thing that we have overlooked together, but now that I think about it, it doesn't seem that simple."

He looked up, meeting Dumbledore's increasingly serious gaze.

"Who taught Grindelwald so many ancient magics? Did he really research it himself?"

Although Toby made a mistake in the duel with James, allowing James to hurt Toby with a magic that no one should have known, but apart from this deliberately left resurrection stone, Toby is not without gain.

Thinking about it now, the whole process of this matter was inconsistent.

If James needed the magic ball, why didn't he just ask Grindelwald to take it from Toby in this way.

But Grindelwald couldn't contact James no matter what. The most important thing is that he did something similar, and has been covering up James' behavior intentionally or unintentionally.

Moreover, James was able to indirectly use Regulus, which was also unusual.

"The person who taught Grindelwald the ancient magic." Dumbledore and he were still staring at the resurrection stone, until Toby noticed his strangeness and stuffed the resurrection stone into his pocket.

"Albus Dumbledore," Toby said, calling the Headmaster by name, "think about the consequences of using this stone, and don't let Ariana get in the way of you—she's really doing that, isn't she?"

Dumbledore closed his eyes hard, and when he opened them again, his gaze gradually returned to normal.

"Sometimes I can't tell whether it's my idea or hers." Dumbledore shook his head and said, "But I do think about resurrecting our parents if there is a chance. If it can be done."

"It's impossible." Toby still insisted on his own thoughts: "People who make a deal with the god of death will not end well. No matter what kind of wish you make, you need to repay it a hundredfold."

"A deal?" Dumbledore suddenly looked at Toby and asked, "You're talking about a deal? So, when Death asked you what it wanted, you made a deal with it. Is that so?"

Elton became uneasy for a moment, and Angela looked at Toby in shock.

"You should have guessed this a long time ago, Headmaster." Toby admitted in a low voice: "Otherwise, Harry, Ron, and Hermione, how could they have escaped from the gaze of death unharmed. Only You have to experience it yourself to know how to avoid death, and you can't ask a child how experienced and seasoned. At that time, I was young and thought I had a chance to achieve everything, so I-"

When he said this, Toby suddenly stopped talking and did not continue talking.

Dumbledore frowned slightly. He was getting closer and closer to the truth. What happened to Toby was related to the wish he made.

However, when it comes to wishes related to the God of Death, besides Toby, there are two other guys in this room who have contacted the God of Death.

He waved his hand and called the skeletons who were stunned in place. There were two of them in total, and the remaining skeleton was still pretending to be a corpse in the Ministry of Magic.

"Now we have the Deathly Hallows at last, Headmaster."

Toby watched Dumbledore's reaction carefully and said: "Although the way to get it is very strange, but if you don't say it, you have to leave it alone. Whether it is the god of death or anything else, it is very important. I am ready Well, what about you?"

Dumbledore's answer was quick.

"You don't need to test me on this," he said, "but don't forget the mystery surrounding James, there's one more thing I need to know - since you said you've seen him, he's real Back from the dead?"

Toby breathed a sigh of relief silently, he didn't want to have any more conflicts with Dumbledore over such a trivial matter.

"According to James, he doesn't know this." Toby quickly replied: "And I also very much doubt whether any wizard can come back from the dead. But according to James, Lily doesn't seem to be able to." Fully alive, this is also related to James' purpose of stealing the magic ball - he wants to get Lily back."

"But he left you the Resurrection Stone." Dumbledore said abruptly.

"I also feel that something is wrong." Toby nodded: "It is obviously to save the dead, but the other party is unwilling to use the resurrection stone. However, it may be used, but it does not work."

"There is another possibility." Dumbledore analyzed: "James needs us to study the resurrection stone, and he wants to get something extra from us."

There is indeed this possibility.

Perhaps the Resurrection Stone was a trap deliberately thrown by James. The most annoying thing was that both Dumbledore and Toby knew very well that even if it was a trap, they had to get into it.

Because of death.

Toby needs to study Reaper.

After a period of silence, while Angela was silently drinking another glass of lemonade to quench her thirst, Toby suddenly asked, "Where's Grindelwald? Did he reveal any additional news?"

Dumbledore didn't hide.

"The interrogation ended prematurely in the middle," he said. "Suddenly Grindelwald started threatening me with Ariana—I mean the real Ariana, and he said that he had secretly resurrected Ariana. Use this to deal with me and avoid repeating the same mistakes."

Toby pondered over the meaning expressed in this passage. This is indeed an unavoidable problem-no one knows what the relationship between Grindelwald and James is, which will determine whether Grindelwald really has Over the resurrection stone.

"Then you plan to—"

"You don't need to ask any more." Before Toby continued, Dumbledore said decisively: "I told you before I came back that it is time for some problems to be resolved, and there must be no further delay. "

"You withdraw the third skeleton from the Ministry of Magic as soon as possible, and the rest is left to fate and death."

"This is not a good object of hope." Toby said shaking his head.

"But we really have no better choice." Dumbledore stared at Toby and said, "Isn't it?"

(End of this chapter)