Archaeologists at Hogwarts

Chapter 441 Signing
440 signing
In Andros's special memory, there are many strange magic circles in Loch Ness City behind the Mason Gate. Those magic circles are related to the devil, and they are used to ensure that the devil can safely avoid the only sane day inside the gate—because The state of the devil inside the door is opposite to that of normal wizards. Instead, they can wake up in a longer dark period.

Toby remembered what those magic circles looked like, and it wasn't difficult for him.

Now, all he has to do is try to see if this magic circle can also work on the wand.

And this magic wand will also be the magic wand that Pandora will use to ensure her mental safety in the future - the premise is that this experiment can be successful.

Under the watchful eyes of everyone, it didn't take long for Toby to plan the size and position of the wand to be engraved.

Cedric's eyes widened. This might be the key to his future making of the auto-casting wand—Ms. Pandora has said that the devil has a close connection with the wand. No, then does he have to Learning from the devil?
Toby didn't care about Al's little assistant, he had to concentrate on building the magic circle.

The bedroom became quiet. Al's small shovel was brought by Toby, and he carved small traces on the pear wand very finely.

Time passed by minute by minute.

"All right."

Toby showed the pear wood wand to several people, and a small magic circle had been engraved on it, about the size of the pattern on Cedric's wand.

After taking a glance, everyone immediately looked away and stared at the black Pandora notebook.

"Mom, what do you think?" Luna asked.

"I don't feel anything, I—"

Before Pandora finished speaking, the black notebook suddenly trembled violently, and the pages fell down with a clatter, and then turned into paper scraps on the bed, and were burned to ashes by the black flames that suddenly appeared.

Everyone stared blankly at this scene.

Toby walked over, he reached out and grabbed a handful of ashes, and rubbed his fingers back and forth twice, making his palms black.

Luna's eyes were fixed on Toby.

Toby looked down at her, with the "remains" of the Pandora notebook still in his hands.

"I didn't mean to kill your mother - I guess you're not ready for that, are you?"

Luna's eyes were red, Ginny screamed in panic, Ron and Cedric backed away in horror, Angela and Al rushed forward, wanting to ask Toby what happened What's the matter.

At this time, the bedroom door was suddenly pushed open, and Lovegood came in with a tray full of teacups.

"What's up, kids, what's going on?"

He looked around suspiciously, and soon noticed the strangeness in Toby's hand.

"Why did you get your hands so dirty? Do you need me to get a towel?"

"Well" Toby was very tangled.He really didn't want to tell the bad news himself, especially not long ago he encouraged this former boss and old employee.

"Is this the tea you just made?"

A black hand reached out from the air, took a cup from the dinner plate, and then brought it to the same black mouth to taste.

Lovegood looked in amazement at the "person" who didn't look like a human at all—it was covered in black smoke, and he could even observe that the smoke was constantly flowing from top to bottom.There are no specific facial features on the face, but the eyes and mouth can still be vaguely seen.

This is really a weird feeling.

"Pandora?" Mr. Lovegood asked tentatively, "Are you Pandora?"

Others in the room have also spotted this devil-like guy long ago.

Luna stared in surprise for a while, then she ran over suddenly, trying to hug him.

However, the devil does not have a real body.

Pandora was about to bend down to hug her daughter, but she could only watch helplessly as she passed through her body.

"Then how did I pick up the teacup?" She tossed the teacup in her hands in confusion, and then tried to touch Luna with her palm, but she still couldn't touch her.

"Probably because of emotions, the devil's emotions are not complete, at least not as complete as wizards."

Toby came over and explained, he asked curiously: "So we actually succeeded, how do you feel now?"

"It's great." Pandora said excitedly, "I can move around freely now, and I guess it won't be long before I can reinvent the spell—"

"No!" Lovegood stopped suddenly: "You must stay away from those dangerous jobs-although I don't know what can hurt you now, but forget about inventing spells. Besides your wand It's been—huh? Where did you get your wand?"

Pandora's pear wood wand automatically floated up from the other end of the bed, and slowly landed in front of Pandora.

She didn't even need to hold the wand, and said casually, "Lumos."

The wand waved itself, and a bright light appeared on the tip of the wand.

"Knox," Pandora said again.

The light cluster was extinguished, but the wand was still in its original state, without being directly manipulated by anyone.

Cedric was already dumbfounded.

"Auto-casting wand?" He said incredulously, "This is the auto-casting wand?! I want to learn about the devil too, Professor!" He suddenly turned his head to look at Toby and shouted, "I need to learn now!"

"Calm down!" Ron, who had already learned how to be a monster with eight eyes, advised, "It's useless to know how to be a monster, you have to become a monster."

At this time, Toby suddenly said after being silent for a while: "It's useless to just become a devil, you have to find your own wand—the wand chooses a wizard, but I'm afraid not only wizards, but also corresponding devils." .”

"I seem to understand."
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Toby didn't say what he understood at Lovegood's house. He wasn't even in the mood to figure out Pandora's state at this time. Connect with yourself.

The blue magic car jumped into the sky. It has been transformed by Toby, and it will no longer be too tired to run because of the long distance.

Amidst the dull sound of the engine, Angela hugged Al and sat in the co-pilot. She secretly glanced at Toby in front of the steering wheel—at this time his long hair was all hanging down, covering his entire face. covered.

But through the hair, you can still see the serious expression on Toby's face.

"It's time for you to cut your hair." Angela had nothing to say: "You can try to cut it shorter and make your hair unkempt—I don't know what I'm talking about, but you're sure you didn't see the one in front of you. An Iron Owl? We're about to hit it."

With the sound of the car's horn beeping desperately, Toby turned the steering wheel in time and passed over the plane.

"What's the matter?" Angela pressed Al who was screaming in fright and asked, "What do you understand?"

Toby took a deep breath, his face was tense, and even his tone seemed very unfriendly.

"History." He said bluntly: "The distant history, and the origin of the devil."

"The magic-casting tool of the pure-blood wizards evolved from a scepter to a magic wand. Something must have happened. Now I know, those people have realized the disadvantages of ritual magic, relying too much on the power of the full moon instead of their own. Except In addition, ritual magic is also more dangerous, and it is very likely that the caster will be backlashed by the ritual."

"Pure-blood wizards wanted to solve this problem, so the wand was invented."

"Pandora speculates that the wand can stabilize the wizard's mental state. She is right, but it is not complete. And you just saw that Pandora suddenly became very normal. She is clearly a devil, but there is no sign of madness at all— —”

"Wait a minute!" Angela interrupted: "Isn't that the function of the magic circle you found?"

Toby turned to stare at her.

"Of course it is, because Merlin learned this magic knowledge from those wizards, and then turned it into a magic circle—because it can make the devil quiet and make them easier to control—"

"A horcrux that turns every devil into an alien, and every wand into a perfect self-casting wand."

"Now do you understand?"

Toby said to the shocked Angela: "The devil's punishment has changed. The pure-blood wizards feel that it is not enough to make them suffer in confusion. Now they are imprisoned indefinitely while they are awake."

"Merlin, or the Muggle-borns in Loch Ness City, they knew the plan of the pure-blood wizards, so in order to save these devils, and also to prevent the advantage of the war from completely falling to the pure-blood wizards, Merlin changed himself Become a tree, and bear the fruit of the Mason Gate from the tree, which is specially used to hide the devils they have found, and also to protect them."

"Then the pure-blood wizards wouldn't have the perfect self-casting wand, and they'd never have access to this powerful weapon—I guess that's why the war ended here. Otherwise, the world would There would be no more Muggle-borns, and I wouldn't have the chance to go to school, and I wouldn't have access to the stuff—"

"Calm down, Toby." Angela was frightened by Toby's tone: "But these are just your guesses, aren't they? They may not all be true—I don't know what is true either. Yes. Actually, I kind of believe what you said, but what are you going to do in a while? I feel like something bad will happen."

Toby turned his head back, silently staring at the bright sky outside the car window, but his face was full of gloom that could not be resolved.

"Of course I will," he said in a low voice, "I'm half a devil now. Besides, I already have my own wand."
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Angela despairs that she can't stop Toby.

After returning to Hogwarts, Toby hurried to the Slytherin Chamber of Secrets under the castle, Angela and Al followed behind him anxiously.

"Why are you planning to do this experiment on yourself now?"

Angela shouted in confusion: "Isn't there still Andros? Why don't you try it first?"

Toby stopped in front of the Slytherin statue.

"Because there are no black feathers on Andros."

He said slowly: "Only me and Pandora have it, this is our common feature."

The black feather is the rescue method that Al worked so hard to find after Toby and the basilisk looked at each other.

That feather remained on Toby's body all the time, and he didn't expect that Dongxu would come in handy at such a time.

"Give me the shovel."

Toby held out his hand and said, Al reluctantly took two steps back.

"Hurry up and give it to me." Toby frowned: "Why don't you understand, if my guess is true, then Grindelwald may also know about it. Otherwise, he can't appease Can live with so many devils."

"He's going to have a bunch of perfect self-casting wands soon, and any wizard who gets them will become an invincible warrior. No, Grindelwald doesn't even need men anymore, or doesn't need so many—he already Showing that ability, anyone going against him would be a disaster."

"Now do you understand? So, hurry up and give me the shovel, it won't be so dangerous, it's not so easy to become a devil, not to mention I still have my own flesh and blood body, not living in some notebook inside."

Al yelled, it was condemning Toby.

It's not like Al didn't see anything just now, the black flames at the beginning completely burned Pandora, leaving only a handful of ashes.

The source of that flame is clear at a glance—it is the black feather in Death Castle.

Al didn't want to see Toby disappear in just a blink of an eye, leaving only an empty skeleton in place.

Toby showed a disdainful expression.

"That's not Fiendfire, other than that, what other flames can hurt me?"

Angela didn't know the answer.

But Al, who understands Toby's mind, is very clear about this.

"Yeah." It said coldly.

【The kerosene lamp, the kerosene lamp originally lodged by Lily Evans.There is a flame in there that can only be kindled with love. 】

Angela was stunned, and Toby was also stunned.

"what?"

After being relieved, Angela exclaimed: "You mean that feather will burn all Toby's emotions? But I don't think Pandora has become like this, she still remembers Luna, always It can't be an act, can it?"

[Because that's the reason for Pandora's existence, and don't forget, Pandora didn't really come back from the dead, she wasn't a wizard, it was already a miracle that she could become a devil. 】

After listening to Al's explanation, Angela turned to look at Toby.

"I know that what happened to me and Pandora may be completely different."

Toby said shaking his head.

"But that's not a reason for me not to do it. It doesn't matter if I burn out my emotions—but don't worry, I'll let Al remember the dance I owe you, and——"

"Don't forget to write down the signing event that will be held in a while."

"Now, give me the shovel."

(End of this chapter)