Archaeologists at Hogwarts

Chapter 325 Unfinished Deal
Why did Professor Highmore say this in that tone?

Wouldn't it be good news if both my parents were really alive?
Harry's originally good mood was messed up by Professor Highmore's strangeness.

This state continued until he returned to the common room.

The quarrel between Ron and Hermione has come to a conclusion-in the end, Hermione will engrave the magic circle on the flame bottle, and the reasons she gave are very good-only her magic circle item can make the three of them One per person, and the rest, neither the prank sweater nor the recorder.

After Harry came back, both of them saw that something was wrong with his face.

"What's wrong with you?" Hermione looked left and right, and found that Harry hadn't brought back the new manuscript, which made her feel a little guilty: "Could it be because of me that you were punished?" Right? How about I explain it to Professor Highmore?"

"No." Harry shook his head. He dragged the two of them into a corner and repeated Professor Higher's conclusion in a low voice-the broken soul in his body did not belong to Voldemort, that is to say, Harry's parents did It's possible they're still alive.

"Then the suspect we encountered." Hermione said in a low voice, "Is your father's man also real?"

Harry nodded.

Hermione and Ron looked at each other.

In the end, Ron patted Harry on the shoulder lightly, with a reassuring look.

"They must have some difficulties that they can't express, so they haven't come to visit you."

Harry knew something was wrong, he'd thought about it before, and now it was all the more convincing.

But why is this so?
Why did his parents refuse to show up, and the only time they gave him a flame bat?
At the same time, not long after Harry left the office, Al also brought back the flame bat hidden in the utility room.

Toby held the cage and looked at it carefully for a while. Under his menacing gaze, the flame bat suddenly became obedient and didn't dare to shout anymore.

James had been to the Veil Bar to inquire about Toby, and he was carrying this flaming bat at that time.

Now, James handed over the flaming bat to Harry, and just now, the method of studying the Cadmus skeleton through Harry failed.

But not long ago, James deliberately kept the resurrection stone and handed it to Toby.

Could it be that he did it on his own initiative?

The reason for everything was actually not on Harry, but on Toby.

James wanted to see Toby a long time ago, and handed over the resurrection stone and flame bat to himself?

After guessing this, Toby decided to give it a try.

He let the flame bat grab the resurrection stone, even though it knew it couldn't use the resurrection stone, it did so.

Later, Toby once again disguised himself as the god of death and appeared in front of the skeleton of Cadmus.

"Tell me, what is my wish?"

【revenge. 】

"It's time to say what you want."

Something magic happened.

The surrounding scene changed smoothly, and the real Cadmus Peverell appeared in the office.

Compared to the resentful Antioch, Cadmus's expression was more gloomy.

"I beg you to help me make the resurrection stone successfully."

He bowed his head and said: "To punish those enemies who persecuted our ancestors - even after their death, to drag their souls back from hell, to suffer never ending torture - is like They did to our ancestors."

"This time, they will be punished even more horribly than the devil, because I will not erase their memory, let those people remember everything, but nothing can be changed."

"I beg you to help me."
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Dumbledore sat comfortably in the office, he was waiting for Toby to return the resurrection stone to himself, and at the same time wanted to know what Toby could discover from it.

After a while, there was a knock on the door of the office.

Toby strode in, and he placed the intact resurrection stone on the table, as if he didn't even want to touch it again.

After a moment of silence, Toby finally changed his address to Dumbledore, back to the more respectful way he had been before.

"You're right, it's a trap, and it's a trap for everyone."

He said slowly: "The purpose of making the resurrection stone was not to allow the living to fulfill their wishes, but to take revenge on those who created the devil—to call back the souls of the dead and use their powerlessness .”

"James was used, and this is what he wanted to tell me in disguise—he was used by the person who once owned the Resurrection Stone, the person who taught Grindelwald the ancient magic, he must have Lily's soul, so James will be willing to obey the other party's arrangement."

"It's a good thing we didn't use the resurrection stone, it's a good thing we didn't. Especially you, principal. After all, what I want to do is to confirm whether James and Lily are dead or alive, but if you really resurrect your family, no one knows what the consequences will be." something."

Dumbledore was also silent for a while after listening.

After a full minute passed, he asked abruptly, "Are you sure that the resurrection stone brings back the soul, not the devil?"

Toby immediately sensed that something was wrong with this question.

"Is there anything I don't know, Headmaster?" he asked.

Dumbledore shook his head with a desolate expression, and he didn't know if it was caused by the thought of not being able to resurrect his relatives, or because of the following news.

"I didn't think to tell you about this at first, because it was too much like a trap left on purpose." Dumbledore said slowly: "During the time I left Hogwarts, I went to Nice I explored the lake, where I found the gift of the broom that James had left for Harry, and discovered an unknown devil—a special humanoid devil."

"Are you trying to say?" Toby said in surprise, "that humanoid devil might have been transformed by Lily?"

Dumbledore nodded and admitted: "Indeed, I thought so at first, but it seems completely different now, unless the soul alone can turn a wizard into a devil."

"This is impossible." Toby immediately denied: "But you reminded me of one thing - if it is true that Lily's soul has become a means of threatening James, as I guessed before, wouldn't it mean that she really Did she die once? Who would kill her?"

Dumbledore shook his head and said, "We have no way of knowing this now, unless we can find out who taught Grindelwald the ancient magic."

"Is he still refusing to say anything?" Toby asked with a frown.

Dumbledore shook his head again.

Now there is one more puzzle. In addition to Lily who does not know life and death, the humanoid devil that appeared in Loch Ness is also worth exploring.

But what Dumbledore said was also true, it was very likely that this was a trap set for Toby, because no one knew the devil better than him, and maybe he did it deliberately to lure Toby.

The study of the three skeletons had to come to an end for the time being. The only remaining Ignotus was the least affected by the god of death. Harry alone had no way of knowing why he made the invisibility cloak. Another person in the Potter blood would do.

Toby also gradually returned to his daily life. Now that the end-of-semester exam is getting closer and closer, the number of students participating in the teacher recognition meeting is also increasing, and he happens to be the examiner in charge of this matter.

On Saturday, after dealing with a group of uneasy students, Toby turned to Al and asked, "Is the final roster for the Chudley Cannons finalized?"

Al spread out his little paws, with a helpless expression on his face.

I don't know how unbearable the players Gjen has encountered, which has caused him to keep changing players during this period of time, probably because he is afraid of encountering alcoholics like him.

Except for Harry and Cedric, Gjeon would change the players in the team every once in a while.

Fortunately, Toby's training method is effective, and the number of flame balls is also sufficient, which did not let the team's performance drop.

But unfortunately, Toby's original plan to design and trap James failed.Especially after James took the initiative to show up, he must have been even more afraid to show up at Hogwarts.

Toby simply planned to continue to find ways to study more clues related to death.

But this also fell into a bottleneck. Without more members of the Potter family blood, Toby had no way of knowing what message Ignotus' skeleton left behind.

So far, he had learned that the three Peverell brothers were actually descendants of Muggle-borns in the city of Loch Ness.Judging from the performance of the eldest brother Antioch and the second child Cadmus, they deliberately summoned the god of death purely for revenge, and wanted to take revenge on those who persecuted their ancestors.

However, the three brothers did not live as long as imagined, all around the 11th century.

During that time, Toby remembered, nothing had been discovered that would lead to a war, nor had another Dark Lord risen.

This seems a little unusual.

The plan of the three brothers to attempt revenge was unsuccessful. The problem, perhaps, was the last Ignotus.

Sitting behind his desk, Toby mused for a moment.

"Is there any way to pry Grindelwald's mouth open?"

Grindelwald was still locked in the Slytherin Chamber of Secrets, and he was still the same, unwilling to reveal anything.

And in front of such a brilliant Occlumency master, many magic methods are ineffective.

Since being induced by Grindelwald to think about whether Ariana is still alive, Dumbledore has never interrogated him again.

As for Toby, he gave up his plan to waste time because he didn't believe what Grindelwald said.

But now it's different, maybe only Grindelwald knows all the truth.

"I can't ignore him any longer."

Toby said suddenly, making Al's little face beside him solemn.

At night, Toby walked alone through the passage of the abandoned bathroom and came to the hall of the secret room on the bottom floor.

"I thought you had forgotten me."

Grindelwald said slowly.

But Toby did not agree to his words, but went directly to the armor and ordered: "Come with me, it's time for you to change your place to live."

"Where are you taking me?" Grindelwald asked, but Toby didn't answer.

They walked back to the castle along the passage, and the corridor was quiet at this time, and they didn't meet anyone along the way.

It didn't take long before they were back in Toby's office of ancient magic.

Al was ready, and opened the door of the Mason Gate, revealing the dark entrance inside, like a hideous vortex.

Toby turned his back to Grindelwald and said: "If you know me well enough, you should also know what the Mason Gate means—now is not the time to open it safely, as long as you—"

Grindelwald suddenly interrupted: "As long as I refuse to reveal any truth, you plan to lock me in, and life and death depend on luck?"

"No." Toby turned around and said, staring directly at Grindelwald behind his hair.

"Whether you tell the truth or not, I have already decided to lock you in. Compared with the Chamber of Secrets, the Mason Door is obviously safer. Whether it is Hogwarts or Azkaban, it must be more strictly guarded." Hold tight."

"I'm sure Headmaster Dumbledore behind the door would be more than willing to help with this - oh, I forgot he's only willing to help when he's sober, and guess what, when the headmaster's dark side faces you, What will he do?"

"This time, will he let you go?"

Grindelwald looked at Toby calmly.

"Dumbledore won't let you do that," he said.

Toby actually admitted this directly: "Yeah, I also know that he won't do this, who asked you to blackmail him with Ariana who doesn't know the truth. But I've long been used to cutting first and playing later, don't worry, in my life Before the Mason Gate is completely sealed, the principal has no time to stop me."

It seems that Toby is really going to do this.

Since Grindelwald's existence is meaningless, it would be better to let him disappear-this is Toby's consistent style in archaeology, and not all insiders are willing to tell him useful information.

And those people also disappeared without a trace long ago.

Just before the armor was about to lead Grindel into the Mason Gate, he suddenly said, "You never told me where it came from."

"What?" Toby asked, frowning.

"Yes." Grindelwald said calmly: "I have studied you specifically, but this does not include the origin of the Mason Gate, and I can't find out where it appeared from."

"As long as you are willing to tell me the truth, I promise to answer any of your questions. What do you think of this deal?"

Toby turned and came to the armor, he stared into Grindelwald's eyes.

"no need."

Toby said abruptly, "I won't tell you the origin of the Mason Gate, and I don't need to ask you any questions."

"You already answered me. Turns out. You don't know where it came from, do you?"

"Take him back," Toby ordered the armor.

After Grindelwald left, Toby came to Mason's gate.

He seems to have found a clue.

(End of this chapter)