Archaeologists at Hogwarts

Chapter 446 Encounter
445 Encounter
Today is the last full moon at Hogwarts before school starts in September, and it is the second time Toby has watered the mason tree with blood.

Once the seed is planted, the watering cannot be stopped--this is the peculiar function of Merlin's heart, otherwise Toby will be cursed every day of the full moon.

It sounds a bit like a werewolf, but this curse is much more serious than becoming a werewolf.

Toby had learned much about ritual magic, and he knew full well that the curse would weaken him and make his blood boil—inside him, until the last drop of his blood was burned. Do it before you give up.

Although he has become half a devil, Toby is still unable to completely avoid the effects of the curse.

He will pour as much blood on the mason tree as he can every full moon, and it will not be over until the day it is fully ripe.

Toby doesn't yet know how long this will take.

And today, it was only the second time.
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The house-elves deliver dinner to the Office of Ancient Magic.

Toby, Al, Angela, even Morgan Le Fay was there - she had very little freedom these days, and even Toby had to keep her in his armor when he was out signing deals. Ken rest assured.

Surprisingly, Morgan, who looks like a little girl, didn't have the slightest thought of rebelling. She obediently obeyed Toby's instructions and orders, but only asked for one thing, that is, someone must feed her some snacks and ice cream when she was bored. , pudding, cake, whatever.

Dobby took the responsibility.

When Toby returned to school, he asked Dobby Morgan if he had any thoughts that he shouldn't have.

But apart from lamenting Morgan's appetite, Dobby found nothing.It seemed that Morgan was even more honest than most of the students in the school.

As it is now-

Morgan was wearing a small wizard robe that he found somewhere, and it was still from Slytherin House from the logo.She sat upright on one side of the dining table, leaving the rest of the food alone, only curious about the various snacks.

If it suits her taste, she will eat a few more mouthfuls, otherwise she will put aside the dim sum that she has only tasted once—I don’t know if she did it on purpose, these dim sums that she dislikes will always be placed in Er’s place. side.

Al was also curious about how unpalatable it was, so he would always pick up a fork to taste it, but it was unexpectedly to the taste.

Toby stared at this scene silently - it looked like Morgan was feeding Al as a pet.

As for Angela, she just pretended not to see anything.

She initially found out that Morgan only ate snacks and then kindly reminded her that she should eat other foods as well.

But after every reminder, Morgan would stare at Angela with a very strange look-this scene is also very magical, because the two people look exactly the same.Either Morgan is looking at her future self, or Angela is looking at her past self.

But Angela always felt that Morgan was actually looking at her body, and the words that Morgan almost blurted out appeared in her mind-【What is the use of me eating, as long as you eat well, so that my body can remain intact. Waiting to be The day I took it back. 】

Toby coughed lightly, breaking the silence at the table.

"You said before that Hai Erbo would trouble me tonight—but do you know what he's going to do?"

Morgan put another cup of cantaloupe-flavored pudding on Al's side, and she replied in a low voice: "I don't know, I just know that he plans to do something tonight, and he specifically mentioned Ni's name. Probably He had some special plans, but he never shared more information. He didn't trust me or anyone else."

Angela looked at Toby, and she expressed her inner worry: "What if this is just a cover? Haierbo let her go on purpose, so that she can convey this false news to us?"

Morgan showed no reaction to the skepticism.

After being silent for a while, Toby shook his head and said, "Even if it's a pretense, we have to find a way to deal with it. This kind of thing will happen sooner or later, and it cannot be avoided."

Al didn't take part in the conversation between the few people. He was busy filling his stomach so that he would have the energy to deal with the troubles that might happen tonight.

Now that things have happened, no one would naively think that everything will be fine.

Thousands of miles away from Hogwarts, the Potter family in Godric's Hollow had almost the same atmosphere.

James is not at home tonight, he needs to help take care of the transformed Lupine.Coupled with the sudden appearance of Regulus in Black's old house last time, James had to be on guard.

He didn't let Lily get involved, and he didn't intend to let Harry appear in such a dangerous place-Harry finally got rid of all the troubles, and if there was anyone that James didn't want to be involved in, it must be It will be Harry.

After all, it is really difficult for Lily to escape this series of troubles.

Like James, she used to be Hai Erbo's subordinate, and she had been targeted by the other party for a long time.From that moment on, Hai Erbo's idea could no longer be avoided.

Both James and Lily have already made mental preparations for this in advance.

Tonight was no exception.

At the kitchen table, Lily and Harry ate their dinner in silence.Lily looked calm, except that Harry occasionally showed a worried expression.

He had to wait until tomorrow morning, after Lupine's transformation was over, to see his father again.

Any unexpected situation may happen before this.

"do not worry."

Lily could see what Harry was thinking at a glance, she put some more stew on Harry's dinner plate, and at the same time comforted: "There will be many people at Sirius' house tonight, not just James, Order of the Phoenix Some people will be there. Maybe even Dumbledore is hiding in that house. His recent whereabouts are a bit secretive, and he doesn't know what he's busy with. But it's probably related to these recent troubles."

Harry nodded silently.

In order to let himself stop thinking about this matter, Harry took the initiative to change the subject and asked, "Where is that little girl? Did Dumbledore write back to you asking what to do?"

The expression on Lily's face collapsed almost instantly.

"No." She said with a headache: "I really regret that it was Toby who brought her to see first. I would have gone to Dumbledore if I knew it. Who would have thought that her thoughts would be so extreme? Kill all A pure-blood wizard?! Thanks to her, she figured it out."

"It's possible that you've been bewitched." Harry thought about it and said, "Professor Angela has some magical abilities, which should only be displayed by fairies in the lake. There may be such abilities left in Morgan. That's why you are misled by her appearance. She looks really young, and she looks like a child when she asks for ice cream. Is she not a wizard who has lived to this day? Why is there a relationship with Hai Erbo? Is there such a big difference?"

Lily thought carefully about the series of behaviors she had observed after meeting Morgan.

"Maybe it was pretended on purpose." She frowned and said, "Helbo's acting skills are very good, he can transform himself into anyone, and I heard that Grindelwald also seems to have this ability. Probably something The Dark Lord's standard equipment. From this point of view, Voldemort is still far behind them."

"Not really." Harry whispered about Voldemort who was still studying at Hogwarts. At that time, he also pretended to be himself and deceived all the professors in the school.

"So there's such a thing—eh?"

Lily thought about it several times in her heart: "Why do I feel so familiar? Toby Toby did the same. Few professors except Dumbledore know what kind of person he is. But he seems to be getting more and more recent. Becoming more and more like the Dark Lord - something I've been worrying about since I was a kid, and occasionally having nightmares - Toby has become the famous Dark Lord, and Severus has become his most powerful sidekick. There's a bunch of Slytherin students standing behind Toby, with Voldemort's head on their feet - I've had similar dreams many times, and he always says something crazy."

Harry didn't need Lily to actually tell him just how crazy Professor Highmore could be - he showed it in the first class of his first year at Hogwarts.

That period of blood theory has also become a classic course at Hogwarts.

The two chatted for a while, and Harry felt that he couldn't eat anymore.Perhaps in order to make her feel better, Lily made today's dinner extra rich.

"I'm stuffed."

Pushing away the plate, Harry said, "I'm so full I might have to go for a walk to get to sleep."

"Now?" Lily looked out the window and said, "Not now, it's better to go out during the daytime. It's still too dangerous at night, if you accidentally step out of the range of protective magic, it will be bad."

Harry muttered, "I'm just talking, I won't really go out."

After briefly defending himself, Harry noticed that Lily's head hadn't turned back, she was still looking out the window.

It was dark now, and the full moon had risen, dimly illuminating the surroundings of the house.

Under the moonlight, not far from the house, facing the door, a person suddenly appeared.

"Grindelwald. Why is he here?"

Lily stared at the figure outside the house with wide eyes. If it weren't for the protection of protective magic, Grindelwald would have broken in long ago.

Judging from Grindelwald's performance, he also knows that he can't break in right away.

He stood at the far end of the house and opened his mouth to speak, and his voice was heard very clearly into the kitchen.

"Lily Evans, I'm only here for you. I can promise you to let Harry go, as long as you show up, I won't make things difficult for your family."

"You have ten seconds to think about it, otherwise, you won't be able to decide this matter. You know very well that these magics can't stop me, and it won't take me too long to crack them."

"ten"

Grindelwald started counting down.

Harry looked at Lily in panic. He couldn't understand that the first person to come to the door would be Grindelwald—even if Harry didn't want anyone to come, it should be Haier.
Why did Grindelwald focus on Lily again?

At this moment, Lily had already taken out her wand, her tone suddenly became calm, and she ordered Harry, "Go back to your room, go back to your bedroom."

"do not--"

"It's okay, I have a way to deal with him, and I also have a way to contact other people, you go back first."

Harry had never heard of Lily's ability, so he took it for granted that his mother was lying to him.

At this time, an extremely surprising voice came from the living room outside the kitchen.

From the sound of footsteps, the other party seemed to be walking down the stairs.

"What Lily said is true, Harry."

Dumbledore came to the kitchen, and he smiled at the shocked Harry: "She does have a way to deal with Grindelwald, and that is to find me."

It turned out that Dumbledore had been hiding in Harry's house all along, and Harry never knew about it.

Before Harry realized what happened, he heard Lily say vigilantly, "Toby guessed it right, how did he know that Grindelwald would come?"

"I will explain this to you later."

Dumbledore glanced at Grindelwald outside the window, then walked out of the house alone.

On the grass in front of the house, Grindelwald saw Dumbledore who appeared not far in front of him out of thin air.

"It seems that you have guessed it."

Grindelwald said calmly: "Tell me, what do you all know?"

"I think it should be all." Dumbledore replied in a steady tone: "You let Regulus appear in the old house of the Black family for no reason, but to imply that we are not safe there, More people are needed to take our energy away."

"Other than that, it was Toby who reminded me."

"He told me that Hai Erbo never knew where the Mason tree was, because Andros refused to tell him the news. In other words, it was very difficult for Hai Erbo to know the function of Hai Erbo's heart. But Morgan knew this very well— —There is only one possibility, that is, you really plan to join forces with Haierbo, so you will share the information you know."

"But I don't think that's right, because there's still a question that hasn't been answered—how did Morgan escape from Haierbo?"

"Who else has this ability?"

The answer is almost there.

In the entire wizarding world, there are not many people with this ability—and after ruling out all possibilities, only Grindelwald is left.

He was the one who helped Morgan escape from Harper.

Grindelwald looked at Dumbledore calmly.

Dumbledore asked: "Why did you come to Lily Evans? Is it because she is Hai Erbo's subordinate? Or is it because of her experience of living behind Mason's gate for a long time? It makes you think she has a way to help you find Merlin." ?”

Grindelwald finally spoke.

"You all guessed right about these things. I came here with this purpose in trying to find Lily Evans."

"But there is still one point, an extremely important point, that caused you to make a wrong judgment."

Grindelwald looked into Dumbledore's eyes, and he was satisfied that there was a little solemnity in them.

"Don't you wonder why I am safe and sound now? Even after experiencing the troubles caused by the devils last time, I can still stand here well?"

"I think you probably guessed it—I didn't help Morgan escape, but Hai Erbo managed to escape from Morgan."

"That idiot has no idea what he did. But I think we'll find out soon enough."

"Just tonight, on the night of the full moon."

(End of this chapter)