Archaeologists at Hogwarts

Chapter 434 Accident
433 accident
It all started some time ago.

On the day Toby planted the mason tree seeds, Grindelwald suddenly appeared from Hogwarts.

He personally told Toby his true purpose all the time—both his intention to solve the law of conservation of magic, and his intention to obtain Merlin's power—but all of this is inseparable from the Mason Gate.

Only in the world behind the door, Merlin is most likely to have the ability to communicate, and that will be the only place where he is awake.

Moreover, Grindelwald also needs to throw Muggles behind the Mason Gate to fill the emotions of the wizarding world, thereby increasing the number of wizards.

But in this incident, Grindelwald also accidentally told Toby another fact——

That was the night of the full moon when Toby first saw Death many years ago - Grindelwald has known about Merlin's existence since then.

This is the credit of the Celestial Eye, allowing Grindelwald to have an angle of sight that ordinary wizards cannot have - he saw Merlin covered by death with his own eyes.

But there is another difference in this whole process.

In Toby's third year back at Hogwarts, he met Grindelwald on Christmas Eve.

The place was at the Shrieking Shack, and Dumbledore was there at that time.

It was also at that time that Toby revealed the fact that he had never erased his memory from the beginning to the end-he still remembered Death.And what's hidden in the ice is actually Lupine's memory of that night.

This is what Toby did to protect Lupine - not everyone can face death head-on, which is not a good thing.

But it was also on that night that Grindelwald told Toby and Dumbledore the reason why he decided to escape from Nurmengard - it was all because he also saw the past on that full moon night and told the two People show images of a Muggle-born being persecuted as a devil by pure-blood wizards in a more distant time.

But this doesn't match up with what Grindelwald told Toby later - that he had actually been deceiving Toby and Dumbledore, and everyone else except them.

What he really saw was Reaper and Merlin, and that memory scene was not what he saw with his third eye at all.

That's what Grindelwald discovered in his quest for ancient magic.

He discovered the devil's secret one step ahead of Toby, and he had a much deeper understanding of the devil than Toby.

This was a lie that lasted for a year and a half, and it was not unraveled until Grindelwald revealed his true strength.
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With a flash of fire, Toby and Grindelwald, who was trapped by the magic ball, appeared on the Hogwarts playground.

Fox was dying on the grass, it was injured in the battle, and it has experienced such long-distance teleportation many times, and now it is completely unable to move.

Toby grabbed Grindelwald's collar, and he struggled to drag Grindelwald's motionless body, step by step towards the Whomping Willow in the middle of the playground.

"Before I knew about devils, no wonder you called yourself a professor of ancient magic. But your ability alone can't stop me, isn't it just ritual magic, plus the influence of the full moon—I've already Almost guessed, we can't do anything to you right now, but we'll try again at the next full moon."

The full moon is an integral part of many ancient ritual magics.

Grindelwald didn't know how to turn himself into a devil who could stay awake. In this state, he couldn't be completely killed. Even to trap him, he had to use the old enemy of ritual magic - the magic circle .

One was held by pure-blood wizards, while the other was created by Muggle-borns.

That's why Toby suddenly appeared in Godric's Hollow and exchanged the scepter for the magic ball-the only way to deal with Grindelwald.

No matter how powerful Grindelwald is, he can't avoid Toby's magic ball in the presence of Dumbledore.

That is to say, in the experience of being trapped in the Slytherin chamber in the past, Grindelwald pretended to be caught - he had only one purpose at that time - through the hostility between Hai Erbo and Toby, let him Can confirm the fact that Merlin is still alive.

All that was expected by Grindelwald.

After thinking of this, Toby felt an anger of being tricked. He deliberately didn't avoid the scattered stones on the playground, and let them hit Grindelwald's body.

"You are angry."

Grindelwald was pulled and swayed from side to side, his tone was surprisingly calm, and he didn't see the panic of being caught.

"That's why you are only half a devil, not all. You don't know devils as well as you think. Sometimes, you have to be cold and unhuman. But I think this should be Dumbledore's responsibility, he Taught you how to love, and planted a seed in your heart that cannot be eradicated—that was stronger than Merlin's heart, but it also made you weak."

"Do you still have to overcome those feelings in order to be ruthless?"

Toby really wanted to press Grindelwald's head on the grass and then stomp his feet hard.

"Continue to talk nonsense, talk more." He said in a cold tone: "Wait a while and lock you in Merlin's heart, and see if you can still speak. I don't understand how you became the person you are today. It looks good, but Merlin's heart can definitely trap you, but he has become a god of death, and you are just a devil, no matter how much you study ritual magic, you can't escape from there."

"I will quietly wait for the day when you become fertilizer. Maybe Merlin will like your body more than my blood, and your brain full of secrets - it all depends on whether you can Make it through the next full moon, and there's nothing you can do by then, can you?"

Toby dragged Grindelwald to the front of the mason tree, and a furry head popped out from the cabin in the distance—it was Hagrid, and he finally noticed that the atmosphere in the school today was somewhat different.

Toby was about to wave Hagrid back so he wouldn't scare him for a while.

But at this moment, Grindelwald suddenly said, "Do you really think so, Toby?"

"Why don't you just think about it, now that so many years have passed, and so many Muggle-borns have been persecuted - how can no one ever find the devils they turned into?"

Toby's eyes froze.

Grindelwald leaned his head on the trunk of the tree, and he continued, "Even the dementors will be trapped on the island where Azkaban was originally located. The five-legged monsters are also trapped. - everyone knows they're a serious hazard to the wizarding world."

"And what about the devil?"

"Where did the persecuted devil go?"

Grindelwald stood up again like a marionette. His limbs were still bound by the magic circle, but it seemed as if someone was manipulating him, and he was lifted up steadily.

"Or maybe I should ask you that."

Grindelwald stared straight into Toby's eyes and said, "Do you want to meet your fellow countrymen?"

Almost at the same moment, Toby turned into a dark devil, and he attacked towards the wooden house without looking back.

"Toby, what are you doing?"

Before Hagrid could finish speaking, the devil rushed back into the cabin with him in his arms, and the door was closed tightly behind them.

"Don't show your head, don't look at anything—"

Toby turned back into human form in the blink of an eye. He pressed Hagrid's head to prevent him from looking up, but he quietly showed his eyes from the window sill.

Before Toby could see what happened, a violent shock wave rushed towards the wooden house, shattering the glass windows and knocking everything in the house away.

Hagrid held his head and screamed in panic, Fang Fang also whimpered non-stop, hiding under the bed and refusing to come out.

Toby was still maintaining an incomprehensible posture, and all the sundries passed through his pitch-black body, which also allowed him to see the scene that just happened—countless black shadows exploded on the grass in the playground, thickly Fog swept over everything.

Immediately afterwards, in the next second, the dense fog shrank back and poured into Grindelwald's body - it was already difficult to distinguish his identity at this time, because Grindelwald became like a plasticine, with Something black was running around in his body, but it also allowed him to release the restrictions brought by the magic circle.

Finally, Grindelwald disappeared in a flash.

A deep pothole was left in the grass of the playground - only the place where the mason tree stood remained unharmed.

After returning to silence, Hagrid finally poked his head out cautiously to look out.

"Merlin," he said, looking at the destroyed playground in disbelief, "did you bring some monster back to school—a bunch of giants?"

The expression on Toby's face was extremely ugly.

"I'm afraid I have to ask Merlin in person to see what he has done in his head. How can he tell such an important thing to this kind of person?!"
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After half an hour.

More than 100 house elves wield their shovels diligently to refill the potholes in the playground.

Angela, Al, and Hagrid were also helping, and they could still see the horsemen on the edge of the Forbidden Forest in the distance. They looked at the destroyed playground with more solemn expressions on their faces.

Dumbledore withdrew his gaze from the window, held the reborn Fawkes in his palm, and looked at the sofa on the other side - Toby's legs were propped forward, his hands were holding his head, looking very depressed.

"Is the magic ball still there?" Dumbledore asked.

Toby replied in a muffled voice: "It's still with me, Grindelwald didn't have time to take it away, he was about to lose control, tortured by so many devils in his body, he was about to lose control. This lunatic actually took so much damn responsibility alone Merlin!"

Toby suddenly roared angrily: "This must be the clue that Merlin told Grindelwald—that old stubborn man chose Grindelwald, and I dare say he even acquiesced in Grindelwald throwing Muggles to the Mason Gate The latter idea—how else would he have told a Dark Lord where the devil was hiding!"

"I should have figured it out a long time ago, Merlin. He also participated in the war, and he was not as great as we thought, let alone kind. I don't know how many wizards died at his hands, let alone Muggles—I Guess he never cared about the Muggle situation from the very beginning, in his eyes only the wizarding world, that is the environment he recognized."

Dumbledore calmed down gently: "Calm down, Toby. These things are still undecided, and we can't figure out whether Merlin said where the devils are hiding or whether Grindelwald observed them with his third eye. "

"The most urgent task now is to find out what the enemy is capable of—and then tell me carefully what happened at that time."

"I don't know." Toby said with a headache, "I don't even know how that lunatic did it, he—he almost hid all the devils in his body, and those devils are his real ones." men."

"But he also has weaknesses." Dumbledore continued to try to calm Toby down: "Grindelwald couldn't control those devils, and he ran away in a panic afterwards, right?"

Toby thought about it carefully for a while.

"I seem to know."

He murmured in a low voice, and slowly raised his head to look at Dumbledore: "It is the pain suffered by the devils, and those reactions are reflected in Grindelwald-he told me that I don't understand devils at all. Sometimes , I have to be cold and not human.”

"This is what Grindelwald is trying to achieve - as long as he completely removes all human emotions, he will never have to worry about those devils anymore, because then he will no longer have inner pain, and Not affected by the devil."

"It's just that he can't do it yet, so he's in a hurry to leave."

While saying this, Toby suddenly stood up.

"Where are you going?" Dumbledore asked.

"Go find the real devil." Toby said with determination: "Grindelwald is right, I don't understand the devil, otherwise I would have noticed the strangeness in him long ago, and I am only half of it." .”

"But fortunately, I found a whole devil - the invincible Andros. Didn't he learn the instinct of the patron saint just to break into the Mason Gate? Although what he brought back was only the flame in the Goblet of Fire, and It was also used up when Merlin woke up. But Andros must know something else."

"I'm going to get to know him now."

Dumbledore watched Toby's leaving back, but he didn't follow, still standing in front of the window, silently looking at Angela who was wielding a big shovel on the playground.

"The enemy is getting stronger, and Toby is trying to get closer to the devil—it's getting harder and harder for us, brother and sister, to be together, isn't it, Fox?"

The petite Fox didn't have the strength to respond, it turned over in Dumbledore's palm, and gradually fell into a tired sleep.

Dumbledore sighed slowly.

It's just that Grindelwald is already so difficult to deal with, not to mention Voldemort and Haierpo who are hiding in the dark.

Besides, there was one more thing that made it difficult for Dumbledore to tell Toby.

Dumbledore understood when he heard that Grindelwald's goal was to strip away all human emotion.

As long as Grindelwald kills him completely, he will no longer need to be trapped by any emotions.

He is his last hurdle.

(End of this chapter)