Archaeologists at Hogwarts

After thoroughly inspecting the castle to no avail, Toby has shifted his target to a place that the elves cannot check-Slytherin's secret room.

Old Tom never expected Toby to say such a thing.

"Helbo? Why is he here?"

Voldemort behaved calmly upon hearing the name.

At the beginning, when Toby used the unrecovered old Tom to attack Voldemort, he secretly sent a note to Voldemort through Slytherin's locket-it said that besides Toby, Voldemort had more troublesome enemies to deal with.

And the enemy's helper, Severus Snape, was by his side.

"Herbo Horcrux is indeed like this." Voldemort whispered, like the neighing of a poisonous snake.

It seemed that he had roughly guessed the identity of this enemy long ago, and Haierbo just happened to be in this ranks.

At this time, old Tom shouted: "Then what are you doing to stop me, who else but him?"

Old Tom's finger was pointing in the direction of Voldemort.

"I'm just a little unsure."

Toby met Old Tom's gaze and said, his eyes were full of uneasiness that Old Tom deeply felt.

"That's Hai Erbo. To be honest, even if one day he suddenly jumped out of my body and used me as his means of hiding, I wouldn't be too surprised. Let's get started."

After Toby said this, he immediately changed back to the devil's appearance, and he turned his head—unexpectedly, he rushed towards Andros' devil in the air.

The two kept colliding in mid-air, causing the collapsed smoke to fill the entire hall.

"You're crazy, how could Hai Erbo look so weird."

Old Tom found that he didn't know Toby more and more. From this moment on, he felt that Toby had become crazier than before, and his mind was no longer clear.

"Stop talking nonsense."

Voldemort said suddenly, he was staring at old Tom, his eyes were full of red light.
"It seems that you have become different from before. Is it the ability given to you by this body? Let me see how much you have learned. Will you still be able to use an inferior pistol as before? kill me."
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While this little-known battle took place in the secret room, Al and Angela were not idle.

Angela asked Neville to go back to the dormitory honestly, then took out a note, wrote a few words on it, and then the note flew away along the corridor like a dove.

Not long after, there was a sudden knock on the door of the ancient magic office.

Before anyone could answer, Snape pushed the door open and walked in. He stood at the door, staring motionless at Angela and Al who were also looking at himself.

"Toby's really not here?" Snape said suspiciously, as if he wouldn't have come otherwise.

"He's busy." Angela didn't intend to explain too much: "You come in first and wait a while, there is another person who will come."

Snape vigilantly walked to the sofa and sat down, staring at Al, who was silently eating multi-flavored beans.

Al tilted his head back and looked at Snape once, then for a second, then for a third.

It turned around suddenly, covering its belly pocket tightly.

"I never thought of grabbing your beans!" Snape growled in a low voice through gritted teeth.

But Al refused to believe it, it always turned its back to Snape, glanced back every time it ate a bean, and then quickly turned its head to bite the bean until it was crunchy.

Just when Snape was about to turn his back on Al, there was another knock on the office door.

Harry with a blank face, and James, who was equally puzzled, walked in.

Then the actions of the two were also surprisingly consistent - as soon as they saw Snape, they immediately put on a pair of hostile eyes.

Snape's eyes were similar to theirs.

"Now is not the time to argue."

Angela stood up suddenly and said, "Harry, come here first, I want to ask you a few things."

Harry glanced back at James, he walked up to Angela in a daze, and James followed him step by step.

"May I ask what brought us together?" James pointed at Snape, "And him, why is he here?"

Before Snape got angry, Angela said without any concealment: "It's all because of Hai Erbo, he is hiding in Hogwarts now, the reason why Toby is not here is also because of this reason."

The expressions of James and Snape changed at the same time, this was the first time they knew the news.

Harry, who was also flustered for a while, heard Angela asking himself: "I remember that since the last vacation, you have experienced two scar pains."

"One time to be precise, ma'am." Harry corrected, "It happened suddenly when we were playing Quidditch during the holidays. As for the other time... it appeared inexplicably before the first test of the Tournament, At that time, I didn't know it at all, and it was Professor Haimer who told me later—before the test began, for some reason, I suddenly kept buttoning up my scars."

"Because you are Hai Erbo's Horcrux." Angela stared at Harry's bright green eyes and said, "That's why he affects you, right?"

"Probably." Harry said somewhat uncertainly.

Combined with the news that Angela just said that Hai Erbo is hiding in Hogwarts, he feels that the current situation is becoming more and more difficult.

This is the end of the inquiry.

Angela bypassed the restless Harry and the hesitant James, then walked past the livid Snape, and came to the corner of the office alone.

The restored disappearing cabinet is being placed here.

Angela opened the disappearing cabinet. What was strange was that this time the disappearing cabinet seemed to be an ordinary cabinet—Harry noticed carefully that there was a piece missing in the upper right corner of the cabinet, which should be the reason.

What happened next almost shocked Harry's jaw—it wasn't that there was nothing in the cabinet, but a person was placed in it. The person looked almost dead, and his big belly became flattened. It looked like he had suffered a lot.

After seeing this scene, Snape's expression didn't change much.On the contrary, James asked in surprise, "You...you were the ones who attacked Fudge?"

This person was Fudge. Although he had lost a lot of weight and emaciated a lot, he was still alive and well.

"It's a long story."

Angela let Fudge fall into a deep sleep on the carpet, and she simply explained: "The real attacker was Snape, who was then possessed by Voldemort and became a short-lived vessel. Until recently we put He was rescued—but, as you all know, the wizarding world is going through a very turbulent period, and Fudge is not fit to appear in public, so we hid him."

James quickly figured out the reason—if Fudge came back, what would happen to Dumbledore's ministerial position?
But there was still one thing he couldn't figure out.

"Since you called us here to find Haierbo, what use is Fudge?"

"He can help us rule out an option." Angela said slightly coldly: "Of course, Harry as a Horcrux is the real key—maybe you are not clear, but Toby has been studying Horcruxes for a while. It's time, and he didn't get nothing, but he still needs some other help—that is, the three of us."

Angela looked at Snape, then glanced at James and said, "We are the few people who have been in contact with Haierbo, and we have all been with him for a relatively long period of time. Although our impression of him may be all Wrong, but we can try to help Harry so he can find Herbert right away."

"It would have been extremely difficult in the old days, but it's not the same now."

Because there are very few targets in the secret room.

Strictly speaking, there are only Voldemort and Old Tom.

There was a brief silence in the office.

James was still trying to digest the information, and he never imagined that Toby would have such a method.

Very rarely, his eyes made brief contact with Snape.

Both of them are shocked by Toby's plan.

Harry thought Angela's silence was to give them time to think, but he soon realized he was wrong.

The door of the office opened again, and this time no one walked in, but a small metal ball floated - it was a magic ball, and flew all the way into Al's claws.

Angela also took out the scepter.

"It's about time," she said.

Angela looked like if these people refused to cooperate well, they would be punished one by one.
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in the secret room.

Toby in mid-air is still constantly entangled with Andros's devil, while Voldemort and Old Tom on the ground are also dueling non-stop - neither of them use a wand.One didn't have it, and the other didn't know how to use it at all, but even so, the ability to cast spells without a wand alone was enough to make the opponent feel ashamed.

Antioch and the armor that did not know when to condense together stood guard at the entrance of the hall of the secret room. One of them roared twice at every turn, while the other remained silent all the time.

With a wave of Voldemort's arm, the broken stones from the statue slammed into Old Tom, but was quickly dodged by Old Tom - he became more and more comfortable with this body, not only at a fast speed , even limbs often turn into vines.

Perhaps this is the original intention of this collection - to incarnate into an existence stronger than wizards.

It's a pity that with the passage of time, all he left behind was this body.

"Do you think killing me, Toby Highmore, will let you go?"

Voldemort roared: "Do you think he will obediently help you find Merope?! Do you think he would be such a kind person?!"

Old Tom looked at him firmly.

"But what kind of person he is, I have to deal with you first."

He then wanted to attack Voldemort again, but this time he didn't need to do it. Voldemort's body suddenly paused, a little out of control.

Toby in mid-air noticed this scene.

He knocked Andros' demon back, and suddenly swung straight down, enveloping Voldemort in a black mist.The armor and Antioch guarding the door also rushed up at the same time, blocking Old Tom who was about to make a move.

"What are you going crazy again!?" Old Tom roared unwillingly.

"Quiet."

A rough roar rushed out from the middle of the devil, and Toby's face was revealed in the big cloud of smoke. He was staring straight at Voldemort who had stopped again.

"It seems that you are not so difficult to deal with Hai Erbo without your wand."
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An extremely complex magic circle had already appeared in the center of the ancient magic office, and a thick red fog covered the magic circle. Angela tried her best to maintain this magic circle.

James and Snape stood on opposite sides of her, and the three of them surrounded Harry who was in a coma - this was the most effective way to ease his pain.

And beside Harry, Fudge's body was still lying quietly.

At this moment, a faint thin line flowed down from Harry's forehead, connecting with Fudge's body.

"what does that mean?"

James asked anxiously. He was holding his own wand in his hand. Like Snape, he pointed his wand at the thin line between Harry and Fudge.

Angela didn't answer right away.

She dispersed the red fog first, and Al also panted to restore the magic ball to its original shape, lying motionless on the ground.

Then, Angela suddenly pointed the end of the scepter at Snape.

"Don't you know that Fudge was once possessed by Hai Erbo?!"

Snape looked at Angela all of a sudden, and James immediately pointed his wand at Snape after hearing this sentence, his face was full of doubts.

"I don't know about it," Snape said stiffly.

"Toby will figure it out." Angela cast a stun spell without hesitation to knock Snape unconscious.

As if to prove his innocence, Snape did not evade the spell.

Until this time, Angela said to James weakly: "Put down the wand."

"Maybe it won't be long before all of this will be over."
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The people in the office gradually left, and even Snape was tied up tightly. He hadn't fully woken up yet, and was being watched closely by Al and Angela.

After a while, Toby finally came back.

As soon as he walked in, he said: "Fortunately, old Tom can't get used to that body for the time being, otherwise it would be difficult to calm him down."

"Also, how did your results go?"

Angela explained everything that happened just now in detail, and she finally pointed to Snape and asked, "What should he do?"

Toby stared at Snape for a moment.

"Severus didn't know about it." Toby whispered, "He wouldn't dare to betray me twice... let alone risk Lily's life and death."

"I knew this when he was showing me the magic circle that summoned Lily."

Angela couldn't accept this result.

"But what if—?"

"I know what you're worried about."

Toby interrupted: "I made a deal with you, I won't take the initiative to ask Hai Erbo for any clues - nothing he said is trustworthy. As for Severus, believe me, he really doesn't know."

"But we don't need to bother about this kind of thing, and the Goblet of Fire will help us know who you really are."

Angela was silent for a while, until Toby opened his arms to hug her and patted her on the back.

"I hope so." Angela said weakly.

Behind her invisible, Toby's eyes were fixed on Al who didn't know what to do, his eyes were full of warning.

Al pursed his mouth aggrievedly, but finally remained silent.

As Toby's former patron saint, even though they have separated from each other, Al can still feel Toby's emotions.

It didn't understand why Toby's mind became heavier on this day that should be celebrated.

The most obvious thing is that touch of fear, like a nail, pierced into Toby's heart fiercely.

What is he afraid of?