Archaeologists at Hogwarts

Chapter 440 Incomprehensible
439 Incomprehensible
Judging from his size, Andros must be a half-breed giant.It was no wonder that he was able to summon a giant-sized patron saint—sometimes it was indeed difficult to distinguish the difference between animals and giants, and most animals were not as powerful as giants, nor were they brutal.

But Hagrid is different, he is somewhat similar to Andros.

There doesn't seem to be much violence in the heads of these two people, one is fond of plants and the other is very fond of animals.There is no harm in either, except that there is no clear perception of danger.

Hagrid picked up the pink umbrella nervously.

"Third grade, do you mean when you were in third grade?"

"That's right, read it to me now—Call God to protect you!"

"Calling the Guardian—isn't this the Patronus Charm?"

"Say it again, do you know the essentials of the Patronus Charm?"

"Not sure - no, you are teaching me spells? Forget it, even Dumbledore gave up on this plan -"

"Do not talk nonsense."

"How could you talk to me like that? But, third year, how could you be so young that you could see that my wand was in this umbrella?"

"Because I've sneaked a glimpse of you using the Expansion Charm on pumpkins—how did I find out? Oh, I remember, the first time I planned to use the Forbidden Forest to punish some bad guys—"

"What?!" Hagrid stared at Toby with wide eyes: "What did you say? When did you sneak into the Forbidden Forest? Why didn't I know?"

"Don't worry about this little thing." Toby said perfunctorily: "Go on, chant the spell again, and call on the gods to protect you!"

"God—no, you've got to make things clear today!" said Hagrid, holding on.

No way, Toby's plan to train Hagrid can only be temporarily delayed.

"Remember to keep practicing." He said to Hagrid angrily before leaving, "Try to learn this spell before school starts. If you can do it, I will consider promoting you."
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The idea of ​​dealing with Grindelwald can only come to an end before he can think of a way to deal with so many devils.

Although a magic circle specifically aimed at devils was found in Andros' memory, it wasn't worth Toby's risk if it was just these.

Because the real key is the Mason gate.

Those magic circles can only work in the world inside the Mason Gate, which means that Toby will have to experience the weakness of the full moon many times.

What's more, Grindelwald is not so easy to find.

He's not the type to make the same mistake and hide in Durmstrang again.

As for where exactly, neither Toby nor Dumbledore knew.

They can only hope that after the devil is out of control, the sequelae left by Grindelwald will be more serious.

As time passed, the day when Toby held the signing event was gradually approaching.

Ever since the signing meeting at Gringotts ended in failure, Toby had left a lot of psychological shadows, and made up his mind to stay away from this unfortunate place, Gringotts.

Ancient and Dark Magic.

Toby has high hopes for this new book. There will probably be a lot of trouble in the magic world in the future, so the students must know the moves and enemies they may encounter in advance.

As soon as Angela returned to the office, she saw the gloomy expression on Toby's face.

"Who are you going to attack this time?" She came over and asked.

"I'm thinking about the class schedule for next semester." Toby smiled coldly. He saw Angela slapping a letter on the desk, signed by Luna Lovegood.

"It's a letter from the girl who wants to open a clothing store." Angela urged curiously, "Take it apart and see if you plan to invite us to visit her clothing store."

"It's just a clothing store." Toby opened the envelope in dissatisfaction and said, "Don't mix up the opening time with my signing event."

【Dear Professor Highmore:】

[It's me, Pandora, in order not to arouse suspicion, that's why I will send you the letter in my daughter's name. 】

Toby frowned and struggled for a while—he wondered if Pandora was joking with him?

If it's really for avoiding suspicion, then you shouldn't have revealed your identity in the letter at all.

Will there still be thieves who collect envelopes and don't even bother to open letters?
He continued to read patiently, and the expression on his face gradually became more serious.

[I am writing to you this time mainly because of the devil.You also know that I have considered using a magic wand to stabilize my mental state before, lest I really go crazy like the devil, so I often come to Cedric these days, he has an auto-casting wand, it must be More powerful than ordinary wands. 】

[But the problem lies here. I don't know much about magic wands, and I don't know much about magic circles.So, do you think it's possible to transfer me from a book to a brand new wand? 】

[This is not a guess, but a fact that is happening. 】

[Also, I have a feeling.On the day when this wand is finished, I will be completely transformed into a devil, without any effort on my part.Is this normal? 】

【look forward to your reply. 】

Angela also read the letter in its entirety.

"If I'm not mistaken, Pandora is saying she's about to turn into a devil, and it's not even her will, it's happening in tandem with the crafting of the wand - you've heard it happen ?"

She turned to stare at Toby and asked, "Don't tell me you'll be a wand someday too?"

Toby silently took out his black walnut wand.

"How do I know." He frowned. "I've never changed my wand—but I seem to know how Grindelwald managed to control those demons."

"Either he has been to Death Castle and used black feathers."

"Or there's a wand that doesn't belong to him at all!"
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Although it is impossible to figure out the connection between the devil and the wand for the time being, the situation encountered by Pandora is still extremely urgent. This also reminded Toby that Grindelwald actually used a blindfold method at Hogwarts. His real means of controlling that horde of demons is his wand.

The wand was originally changed from the scepter.

Especially in more ancient times, the devil also appeared because of the wizard who used the scepter.

Of course, the influence of black feathers cannot be ruled out. This thing is also related to the devil, and it is an important reason to ensure that the residents in the death castle can live until now-love is not so easy to obtain, but hate is very easy.

After carefully sorting out the thoughts in his mind, Toby rushed to the Lovegood family immediately, accompanied by Angela and Al.

Mr. Lovegood, with cotton candy hair and a glance, opened the door, surprised by Toby's presence.

"Is there any change in "The Quibbler" recently?"

One of the conditions that Toby bought the magazine was that Lovegood would not leave the magazine, and he would continue to publish articles that he thought were interesting—that is, out of tune.

There is now a separate page in The Quibbler dedicated to Lovegood's articles, which many readers regard as jokes, and are unexpectedly popular with many.

Judging from Lovegood's performance, he was completely unaware of Pandora's changes.

"There is good news."

Toby held Lovegood's hands, and he said in a solemn tone: "The newspaper is considering increasing the weight of [Lovegood said] section, you will have a lot of work in the future, of course, as the boss, I also I will give you a salary increase as appropriate."

Lovegood was stunned for a moment, and then immediately said with a smile on his face, "No, it doesn't matter if you don't need to raise your salary. You have already paid me a lot of money—but do so many people really like my articles?"

"Far more than you can imagine." Toby shook Lovegood's hands vigorously: "And it has been strongly welcomed in all countries. Some readers may not like news reports, but they are only interested in the stories you write , sending letters to the newspapers one after another——Lucius had such a headache."

By the way, Lucius is still working for Toby. He is the editor-in-chief of "The Quibbler", but he has no power. He is a mascot who specializes in communicating with the Ministry of Magic.

"Stories?" Lovegood blinked. "But I'm not a story-maker. Those are news—"

"It doesn't matter." Toby said with a big wave of his hand, just in time to see Luna sticking her head out from the living room stairs.

"Okay, that's it, I have to go catch up with my students, check summer homework or something."
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It was crowded in Luna's bedroom.

Not just her and Pandora, but Ginny, Cedric, and even Ron.

Toby stared at the group of children very seriously.

"Have you finished your homework?" He asked "kindly".

Ron was dumbfounded.

He finally had a day off, and finally he didn't have to listen to Fred and George's nagging in the joke supply store, so he thought of coming to Luna with Ginny, looking for a chance to switch from the twins to their clothing store , thinking that his sister would treat him better.

As a result, I didn't expect to meet Professor Haimo here.

Worst of all, Ron has been busy working and hasn't done a word of his summer homework.

While the others nodded hurriedly, Ron stood up expressionlessly, attracting everyone's attention.

Al stared at him curiously, and found that Ron walked to the window, opened the window, stretched his head out of the window, took a deep breath, and then pretended to jump off!

Cedric hurried over and grabbed Ron's leg, and he shouted anxiously, "Come and help!"

Al hurriedly let the little flying carpet float over, wrapped Ron's head and dragged it back.

Toby looked at Ginny in confusion, and asked her what happened to Ron with his eyes—it wasn't the first time he failed to complete his homework, so there was no need to suddenly commit suicide.

"Probably because the time has not been going well." Ginny whispered; "Fred and George are very strict with him, I can see that they are deliberately cultivating Ron's abilities, but Ron only Thinking they were targeting him - and it turned out to make him feel like he was the most useless member of the Weasleys."

"The most useless?" Toby still didn't quite understand.

"It means no money, sir," said Ginny, blushing, ashamed of Ron's thoughts.

"So that's the case." Toby rubbed his chin and said, "If it's just a lack of money, I remember that Lupine is just short of manpower. He needs a bait, and his salary is not low. It should be better than working in a shop." Earn more."

"Really?" Ron exclaimed in surprise.

"Yeah." Angela stopped Toby from continuing with her eyes, and then said to Ron angrily: "If you are not afraid of becoming a werewolf, go and try it, then we have to put the Screaming Shack Just pack it up—no, now there is no secret passage, how should I send him to the house?"

"The secret passage is gone?"

Several people in the room cried out in unison.

Toby stared at the group of students strangely.

"Do you all know this secret passage?"

Ron immediately lowered his head, Ginny grabbed Luna's sleeve to keep her silent, and even Cedric was startled.

"Someone told me." He carefully explained, "But I've never been there, it's true, professor."

Fred and George, I guess, teased him on purpose to get him to break the school rules.

Toby shook his head in disappointment: "Then how much fun you have lost."

Cedric: "Huh?"

The cordial "hello" is over here, and it's time to lead the conversation in a normal direction.

Luna pulled out her black Pandora notebook, and then she pulled out an unfinished wand.

"This is the wand I intend to use."

Pandora's voice came from the notebook: "The material is the same as the wand I used before - the previous one was destroyed in the explosion of my death, so I thought about making another similar one. "

Ron, Cedric and Pandora didn't spend much time together, and they couldn't accept Pandora's calm talk about death yet.

But Luna and Ginny have long been used to it. This is Pandora's unique speaking style.

Toby took the wand and inspected it carefully. He could see that the unicorn tail hair had been stuffed into the pear wood as the core of the wand, but the surface of the wand hadn't been carved yet, and the magic circle on it was not complete—far from it. Reach Cedric's level of completeness.

"Listen," said Toby, "I know it's risky, but I just learned a magic circle recently. That magic circle is rather special, and I suspect it can only be used in a very special situation (inside the Mason Gate)." function, it is not known how it functions under normal conditions."

"Are you going to let me try it?" Pandora asked interestedly, "When will it start?"

She acted impatiently.

"I suggest you think about it for a while." Toby kindly advised: "This matter is not as easy as you think, and if you fail, it may lead to your demise or something—I said,"

Toby turned to stare at Luna: "Didn't you hear what I was saying? Why didn't you persuade your mother?"

Luna said with a dazed look: "But this is better than my mother needing me to understand her personally after she loses control?"

Pandora said excitedly: "How is it? My way of comforting her is not bad, right? After all, even if there are no mistakes, the devil is inherently uncontrollable, so she must accept it in advance."

Toby stared at them for a while, then suddenly smiled and said, "That's right, this is the charm of ancient magic. It is extremely attractive, but also extremely deadly."

"let's start."

(End of this chapter)