Archaeologists at Hogwarts

Chapter 46 Armor
Ron came back to his senses in an instant, he stuttered and said, "Principal, we got separated, and we accidentally—"

"If you want me to say, it's time for you to go back to the dormitory."

Dumbledore interrupted softly: "Go back and sleep well, and I am glad that no one was harmed tonight."

The three of them immediately realized that Dumbledore had no intention of punishing them. With Hermione's timely reminder, they quickly ran away after thanking them, as if a devil was chasing them.

In fact, it was almost the same, because Toby, who heard the movement, quickly rushed over from the other side of the corridor, followed by Snape and Quirrell.

"Severus, Quirrell."

Before they could speak, Dumbledore took the lead in ordering: "Send out the news that the three-headed dog has been caught, and tell the students that they can sleep in peace."

"Toby, you stay and help me deal with the follow-up, oh, and Mr. Al, you can stay too."

Snape walked away without saying a word, and he went down the stairs, which was in the direction of the Slytherin and Hufflepuff dormitories.Quirrell had no choice but to go upstairs. The dormitories of Gryffindor and Ravenclaw were in the tower of the castle.

After they all left, Toby stepped forward and asked, "Do you want to move the three-headed dog back into the room?"

Dumbledore stood in front of the sleeping three-headed dog and put it in a small cage. A three-headed dog of this size looked much cuter.

"No need." Dumbledore said while holding the cage, "I will find a time to send Lu Wei away to a place suitable for him to live in. It doesn't make any sense for him to stay in Hogwarts."

Then Dumbledore repaired the damaged room, and the debris flew back to its original position and merged into one. Finally, the broken door was reinstalled on the wall.

"Come on, Toby, follow me to the principal's office."

"Go to my office, Headmaster, it's nearer."

Dumbledore did not refuse Toby's proposal, and they soon came to the ancient magic office, Toby walked behind and closed the door tightly.

When he turned around, he found that Headmaster Dumbledore was standing in the middle of the office, silently looking at the souvenirs in the room.

"Speaking of which, this is the first time I have seen your many collections with my own eyes."

Dumbledore slowly turned his gaze to the pharaoh's coffin facing the door, with scrutiny and memory in his gaze.

"Is this the coffin you mentioned in your letter?"

"This is the one, but the coffin is not the most important thing. The pharaoh's mask is. I have put it in the vault of Gringotts. The really dangerous and important items are stored there."

"I hope so, Toby."

Dumbledore sat down slowly on the velvet sofa, and he placed the cage gently on the floor at his feet.

Toby sat across from him, and instead of answering the instructive "I hope so", he finally asked, "What happened tonight, principal? Why did the dinner end early?"

"As you can see." Dumbledore pointed to the cage and said: "Someone released Lu Wei, and the dinner had to be suspended. For the safety of the students, I also told everyone how to avoid Lu Wei .”

"This is really a disaster." Toby pondered for a while, his hair drooping a little bit, covering his eyes.

"It wasn't Severus who let Walkway go." Dumbledore clearly knew what Toby was thinking.

Toby pushed his hair back at once, his expression full of regret: "That's such a pity, I thought I could catch him myself."

"I didn't know you were interested in being an Auror."

"Just think about it, Headmaster, just think about it."

After saying this, Toby's hair drooped again a little bit.

"Do you remember where you hit the thief with the Shadowless Curse in the vault?"

"At least the part above the neck, principal. Every attack of mine is aimed at the opponent's head. This has something to do with the fact that I have just left Egypt, and I haven't changed my habit yet—the only way is to smash the head completely, those mummies It cannot be revived."

"It's a thrilling adventure story, but I'm sure you already understand why I'm asking this question.

"Yeah, Headmaster, Quirrell has nothing wrong with his head, and the back of his head is also bald. Wearing a turban is just his hobby, and he is obviously not a thief who appeared in Gringotts."

Toby muttered and pushed his hair back to the back of his head again: "And you should know that you can finish the sentence at once, you have to wait until my hair falls out."

"It is also the teacher's responsibility to observe the changes in the students." Dumbledore said in a gentle tone: "The students have already talked about your new habits, which makes you very unique."

Uncharacteristically, Toby didn't loudly condemn those ignorant students. Instead, he murmured: "I feel that what I have done recently seems to be a bit too much. After thinking about it carefully, I found that the students—or most of them The students will not like such a strict principal."

"Are you referring to yourself? Future Headmaster Highmore?"

"Headmaster Dumbledore, can you put down the long ax first? If you are interested, I will give it to you, so that I won't worry about those ghosts in the castle finding me again someday."

Dumbledore didn't answer Toby's words, he held the sharp long ax steadily, and walked to the blood-stained black armor.

Toby obviously lied to Hermione and Cedric. The black armor is also movable. It pointed the visor in the direction of Dumbledore, as if staring at his long axe, but he didn't reach out to grab it back, or Said he dared not act rashly.

"I've heard your story."

Dumbledore said to the armor calmly: "Will you do me a favor? Help me guard a room with a trap door. As a reward, I can rescue you from infinite sorrow and torture, or Let you be a part of Hogwarts, there are many of your kind in the corridors on the fourth floor, and you will have a good time getting along."

The armor didn't respond, it slowly turned the visor in Toby's direction.

Toby was winking at it desperately, as if he couldn't help but nod his hands for it in the next second.

The black armor knelt on one knee, his head bowed.

Dumbledore returned the long ax to its hand, then put the wand on the left and right shoulders of the armor, tapped it twice, and uttered a complex and mysterious spell.

The bloodstains and pitch black on the armor and long axe slowly faded away, turning into a piece of silvery white, clean and shining.

It stood up and saluted Toby again, but Toby just turned sideways and didn't accept it, but Al waved his paw happily.

They watched the armor leave the office and go to the room at the end of the corridor on the fourth floor.

"Any more?" Dumbledore asked.

Toby's hair drooped again at some point, and his tone was inexplicably sentimental: "No more, principal. I never thought that I would find so many war-related traces on the road of pursuing ancient magic."

"Hopefully never again."

Dumbledore sat back on the sofa again, and he said inadvertently: "Really? Why do I feel that this sentence seems familiar? Oh, I remembered, it was the fourth letter you sent in 1983 In the letter, it says it four times. Four times, Toby."

Toby brushed his hair back without blushing and said, "Your memory is really good."

"Tell me about it." Dumbledore smiled and said, "I took away one of your collections, what do you want me to compensate you for?"

"Compensation is so ugly." Toby quickly denied: "That's called comfort, comforting pain with pain, isn't this what you have always been good at?"

"Say it."

"Headmaster position at Hogwarts?"

"next."

"Visit your treasure house. I have never seen all your collections. Many goblins have guessed that your wealth is amazing, but they never want to store those things in Gringotts."

"Because most of the wealth is going to Hogwarts after I die, next."

"You are really generous. I guess you must have a treasure house of your own? Is it also at Hogwarts?"

"You won't be interested in those things, and even if you were, I won't tell you."

"It's really Hogwarts. Okay, okay, I see, you put down that wooden door soon, it's the last one."

Just as Dumbledore turned his back to check the wooden door that was about to decay, Toby clapped his hands and said, "I thought of it!"

Dumbledore looked at him with a look that had seen through Toby long ago. Toby simply pretended not to notice, and he pretended to cough twice.

"What do you think of the idea of ​​rerunning the Teacher Recognition Show?"

(End of this chapter)