Archaeologists at Hogwarts

Chapter 406 Confrontation
405 Confrontation
Whichever came first, Dumbledore had really decided to go back to Hogwarts anyway.

The wizards in the magic world also quickly remembered the whole incident - at the very beginning, it was Toby who said that he and Dumbledore teamed up to kill Grindelwald, and then Toby made up a Dumbledore The lie that Lido was recuperating made people have to temporarily believe him.

In addition, Grindelwald did not show up again later, so everyone regarded it as true, and Toby also received a lot of praise for this lie.

But now, the person who revealed the contents of that letter happened to be Toby, which seemed to be trying to demolish himself.

Not only wizards in the wizarding world can't figure out why Toby would do this, but people in the school also think so, unless...unless this letter is real, and Toby feels threatened because of this, so he has to carry out this letter. road plan.

Principal McGonagall apparently thought so.

After seeing the lively Snape and leaving, Principal McGonagall and Dean Slughorn who came with him came to the Office of Ancient Magic.

"Is that letter real?"

McGonagall asked seriously: "Don't tell me it's just a method you fabricated to persecute Dumbledore."

"Yeah." Slughorn's eyeballs were rounded: "How could this be? He and Grindelwald have always been rivals and didn't Grindelwald be solved by your cooperation long ago? He still not dead?"

Toby didn't answer these questions directly, he just said calmly: "We will know the result tomorrow."

The two seemed to have made a good start. After they left, more and more people broke into the ancient magic office.

Mrs. Maxim: "A bunch of liars! I knew you were all a bunch of liars!"

Hagrid: "Toby, I don't understand what's going on. What's going on between you and Dumbledore?"

Dean Flitwick and Dean Sprout yelled "This is impossible", besides them, some other professors asked the truth, but Toby had only one answer from beginning to end:
"Tomorrow we will know the result."

This is when the Ministry of Magic responded that Dumbledore would come to Hogwarts, but it has not yet responded whether it will be a public meeting or a private conversation.If it is the former, presumably Dumbledore is more confident and will not attract so many doubts.

Naturally, the students didn't dare to ask Professor Haimer about such things, so it only took half a day for the Ancient Magic Office to regain its calm.

Until the afternoon, James also came.

"That letter is real."

Unlike other people's conversations, as soon as James walked in, Toby said: "And I gave Dumbledore enough time to notify me, but he has no intention of discussing with me at all. No way, I I can only think of the worst, he really wants to join forces with Grindelwald to deal with me. So what about you, James? Which side are you going to be on now?"

James looked at Toby with a complicated expression.

"I'm not here to choose a camp, but to inform you that Dumbledore is waiting for you at the Pig's Head Bar, you decide whether to go or not."

Toby glanced at James, and he got up from his chair immediately.But when he passed by James, he suddenly said: "Look, our minister has become more and more qualified, and he knows that it is time to collude in advance."
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Hogsmeade Village, Hog's Head Pub.

For some reason, the business hours of the Pig's Head Bar have always been a bit irregular recently, especially on this day, it was closed in broad daylight.

But no one dared to reveal too much dissatisfaction after seeing the closed business sign on the gate, otherwise, like Mundungus, he would be expelled by the bar owner forever, and would not be allowed to step into the bar again.

Toby came to the door of the Pig's Head Bar alone. He originally wanted to stretch out his hand, but after seeing the dirty marks on it, he chose to kick the door open with his shoes.

When not in archaeology, Toby didn't want to have to touch these things that would dirty his hands.

The door was easily kicked open, and there was no customer at the table inside, only a familiar figure sitting by the bar, patiently feeding Fox.

Toby walked in, and the door closed automatically behind him.

"Come and sit." Dumbledore said calmly, as if nothing happened today.

Toby walked towards the bar step by step, not wanting to be filled with various emotions as before, but after looking back and forth twice, he asked, "Where's Aberforth? Why doesn't he come to entertain the guests?"

Dumbledore calmed the restless Fox with his palm.

"He doesn't want to see you, he's afraid he can't help but use your head to test the hardness of those wine bottles-this is his exact words, so we won't have waiters anymore, take what you want to drink, but if it is Your words have to be worth a hundred times what they were—that's what he said."

"Tsk tsk tsk." Toby shook his head disdainfully. He was sitting next to Dumbledore with a chair away, tapping his fingers on the table.

After feeding Fawkes, Dumbledore smoothed the feathers on top of its head, then turned his head suddenly, and those blue eyes silently stared at Toby.

Toby's heart tightened, he knew that the key was coming.

"Let's go."

"About tomorrow's meeting, here's what I'm thinking—what, where?"

"Go to the place where Hai Erbo is hiding." Dumbledore said in a steady tone: "I have already tried to get Grindelwald to tell me the news. With Fox's help, we can go there at any time."

Toby frowned and stared at him: "This is a bit different from the conversation I imagined, and how do I know if it's true? What if I suddenly see Grindelwald later? If you two If I was ready, I would have no chance of escaping at all."

Dumbledore didn't feel angry at all because of this passage, he didn't even have a word to refute.

"Then how are you going to believe it?"

Toby looked at Dumbledore carefully for a moment.

"Unless you tell me how Grindelwald agreed to tell the news, it must be at least a deal, right?"

"It is indeed a transaction." Dumbledore said: "But don't worry, the price of the transaction is not you, but myself, but it still has something to do with you-remember my devil?"

Of course Toby remembered, and this was the magic he taught Dumbledore indirectly through Harry.And very rarely, the pain and guilt in Dumbledore's heart turned into his devil—Arianna Dumbledore, in the form of a human devil.

This caused Dumbledore quite a bit of trouble, only to rarely see Dumbledore summon his devil later on, but that was obviously impossible as he had already solved the problem - Toby was well aware of that .

Moreover, as Toby said, humanoid devils are extremely rare, and they are usually transformed by wizards, or according to extremely superb ancient magic techniques-and neither of these two points Dumbledore is up to standard .

Then there is only one possibility left.

"I still have the sin of crushing Ariana's soul in my hands." Dumbledore said slowly, "I think Grindelwald probably wanted to stimulate me through this reminder, but I still can't figure out what he is doing." Therefore, we can only put it aside for the time being and find a way to get rid of Hai Erbo's soul first."

"I won't believe his nonsense so easily." Toby sneered: "And don't you think, after you say these words, it seems that you are here to harm me? How could I agree to casually?" to an unknown location."

Dumbledore shook his head.

"But I won't do this. Both you and I know Grindelwald's purpose - on the one hand, to recruit you, and on the other hand, to provoke the relationship between us. If this is the case, wouldn't it be true? It turned out that I was helping him? No one wants to see this scene, except Hai Erbo and Grindelwald."

"Aren't we?" Toby frowned and said, "Don't you think our relationship is very good now?"

Dumbledore smiled.

"At least on one point, we still have a consensus - that is to deal with the enemy Hai Erbo. It's just that the two of us have different methods. In my opinion, your vain attempt to know Angela's identity is actually a step-by-step process. Get into Hai Erbo's trap. And you think I'm too careful, and I can't defeat an enemy I don't know."

This was a real disagreement between the two. Dumbledore had too many doubts, as if he had already decided that Hai Erbo had already planned everything.

But Toby didn't want to waste any longer, lest Hai Erbo really have a chance to make a comeback.

Dumbledore thought Toby was too reckless, and Toby also thought that Dumbledore was just delaying death.

After a short silence, Toby asked abruptly: "If I heard correctly, you don't seem to have mentioned Grindelwald again. Why, isn't he our common enemy?"

Dumbledore looked at him calmly, as if asking: How dare you ask me such a question?Even today, you are the only one joining forces with Grindelwald, and I was sarcastically ridiculed by him again.

Toby turned his head and simply pretended not to see anything.

"So where are we going?"

"Delia Island."

"Delia Island?!"

"Yes, it is Deria Island."

"Aren't there five-legged monsters there, and the dementors that were driven away later?"

"About this point, I'm afraid I have another unfortunate news to tell you - besides these two features, due to various reasons, the giant octopus spiders that used to live in the Forbidden Forest also inhabited that island, They seem to get along very well."

"Is it really pleasant? It reminds me of some terrible ritual magic, which is specially used to select the most powerful dark creatures. Of course, only the most powerful can survive."

"So do you want to come with me?"

Toby didn't hesitate for too long. He shook his collar and said, "I'll have to wait until I drink up all the wine here. Even if I don't come back, I'll make Aberforth half dead."
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It's a pity that Toby didn't get what he wanted in the end. Aberforth suddenly rushed down the stairs with a broom on his shoulders, as if trying to make Toby look good-he had obviously been eavesdropping on the conversation between the two, and Or just to keep an eye on Toby, lest he not pay after a drink.

Fox hurriedly teleported the two of them away, and when the light in front of him regained light again, Toby had already appeared on a small island that had been ravaged countless times. Except for the thorny plants that were still growing tenaciously, the rest of the trees were all dead. Leaning to and fro, the weeds grew as high as Toby's waist.

Looking from a distance, the sky is full of dark figures. They are dementors expelled here. The animals on the island cannot attract their attention, and they have been hungry for an unknown amount of time.

The continuous rattling sounds sounded almost at the same time, and besides that, there was an extremely terrifying roar in the distance.

The cloud became dense in an instant, and the creatures on the island became completely jubilant because of the arrival of the two.

Toby looked at the black figures attacking them, he took a deep breath, and then exhaled freely, forming a substantial black smoke.

"I like here."

The thick black mist suddenly exploded, and rushed towards the black tide, completely covering the incoming dark creatures, and continued to expand, leaving behind a ground of ashen figures.

A gigantic fist was formed from the black mist, and it pressed an acromantula with its teeth and claws firmly on the ground, hammering its head continuously.

"tell me!"

A terrible roar sounded from the black mist: "Where is Aragog?!"

Dumbledore watched this scene silently. He passed by those decadent dementors and acromantids without any haste, as relaxed as walking on the school playground.

He told Fox: "It seems that this is the advantage of being a principal. You never know how capable your students are."

Fox watched helplessly as the acromantula, which had been knocked unconscious by the hammer, flew to the sky, and then landed at the feet of Dumbledore not far away with a bang.

It chirped lowly.

It still prefers Al to Toby, at least it doesn't look that scary.
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Aragog's peaceful days were broken.

It opened its eyes that were no longer so clear, struggling to identify the uninvited guest in front of it, until it saw the fiery red figure, it gradually came back to its senses.

"Albus Dumbledore, have I returned to the Forbidden Forest? Where is Hagrid?"

Toby, who was acting as a thug, didn't come forward again, Dumbledore took the initiative to walk over, and he said gently: "This is not the Forbidden Forest, and Hagrid can't come here for the time being. I'm here to ask you for help, Aragog, recently Is there any special movement on the island?"

"Special?" Aragog asked puzzledly: "What is special? I just heard my children crying. Is this special?"

"Today's doesn't count."

"Then I'm afraid I'll have to ask my children. I'm too old to move, children, children? Where are you?"

Toby blinked, and he looked around at the acromantulas scattered all over the ground. The one closest to him was still struggling to kick its legs.

Dumbledore comforted him without changing his expression: "They seem to be resting, why don't you ask them later, we still have enough time."

"...All right then." Aragog said.

(End of this chapter)