Archaeologists at Hogwarts

Chapter 6 Back to Hogwarts
Nick Flamay's Philosopher's Stone.

This means endless lifespan, and countless gold, even if Toby walks away from now on, as long as he can find a foolproof hiding place, it is estimated that he will be able to spend the rest of his life in a way that almost all wizards envy hundreds of years of time.

After all, Nick Flamel and Albus Dumbledore are both very old, so old that no one knows how long they will live,
As for the reason why Nick Flamel would give the Sorcerer's Stone to Dumbledore, it was clearly written on the chocolate frog card - [and his partner Nicole Flamel was very effective in alchemy].

This may be another collaboration between the two, and the Philosopher's Stone undoubtedly has sufficient research value.

Al raised his head and looked at Toby, his small dark eyes kept blinking. He took a few steps forward quietly, trying to get the Philosopher's Stone back and put it back in his pocket.

"I know how to make trouble."

Toby pushed Al back with his fingers, he put the Philosopher's Stone in the pocket of the witch robe, patted it twice, ignoring Al's struggle and said: "Don't be fancy, you can dare to use Dumbledore's things." Steal, he is still alive, and Hogwarts has not become an ancient relic, so there is no need for us to go to archaeology now."

"Don't forget our experience in Europe these years, Al, we all know what a terrible enemy Grindelwald is, but he has been imprisoned in Nurmengard, and Voldemort is also alive or dead in the Wizarding War, Only Dumbledore is alive and well."

"Let's go."

Toby reassures Al for a moment, letting him jump on his shoulders.Al deliberately turned his head to ignore him, still sulking.

But Toby still insisted: "It's time to report to Hogwarts in advance, and I planned to delay it for a while."

"But you've given me a reason to have to see Dumbledore."

Toby set off quickly. He strode along Diagon Alley, but he didn't see Hagrid and Harry. They probably were still walking through the corridor.

When Toby returned to the Leaky Cauldron, he unexpectedly found that Quirrell had returned, but when he saw Toby, Quirrell gave up taking a sip of his drink and ran away in a hurry.

"Don't go!"

Toby yelled, but Quirrell didn't even look back.

"New colleagues are really difficult to deal with."

Toby shook his head helplessly.

He borrowed some floo powder from Tom, the owner of the Leaky Cauldron, and sprinkled it on the flames in the fireplace, and a green flame suddenly rose inside.

Toby walked straight into the fire, yelled "Hogwarts" and was gone in the blink of an eye.

Surrounded by flames, Toby could vaguely see some wizard's rooms in the high-speed rotation, and they all passed by before he could see them clearly.Then he slowed down, and Al shook his head vigorously, patting the dust away with his little hands.

Eventually Toby showed up in the Hogwarts vice-headmaster's office, and Professor McGonagall, who was working, glanced at him, and Toby saw him too.

"Long time no see, Professor McGonagall."

"Yeah, Toby, I thought you were dead. There has been no news for so many years."

The two were obviously familiar. Toby stepped forward and gave Professor McGonagall a hug. He whispered, "I'm sorry about the matter of Elphinstone Elcott, Professor."

Elphinstone Elcott was Professor McGonagall's boss in the Ministry of Magic. He pursued McGonagall. It took many years, and the two finally got married in 1982. Unfortunately, only in Elphinstone died unexpectedly in 1985 after being bitten by a venomous tentacle.

Minerva McGonagall's emotional experience was particularly bumpy, and Toby had heard part of it when she was in school. She was an extremely strong and independent woman.

"It's all in the past."

Mag wiped the corners of his eyes without any trace: "Fortunately, there is Hogwarts, which is also my home."

Toby pretended not to see it, and looked at the scenery outside the window.

"Hogwarts is the same,"

He said, looking at the Black Lake from a distance, the giant squid was stranded on the edge of the lake: "Principal Dumbledore has protected the school very well."

Professor McGonagall's mood gradually calmed down, she raised her head and asked: "Are you here to find Albus? Oh, I remembered, he just recruited you as the new professor of the school not long ago, I remember Snape still He went to Egypt specifically for this, and he came back in a bad mood."

Toby couldn't help laughing: "Severus is still the same, well, professor, I have to go to see Principal Dumbledore, we will get together again when we have time, and call other professors, unfortunately Professor Slughorn is not at school."

"Albus is in the headmaster's office," said Professor McGonagall. "The password is ice mouse."

Toby looked a little surprised: "He still likes to eat sweets so much, and it hasn't changed over the years."

He left the vice principal's office and inadvertently saw the list of freshmen on the table. He didn't stop and came to the corridor.

It was still a holiday and the corridors were empty.Toby thought his memory of Hogwarts had faded, but whenever a familiar scene reappeared in front of him, he could always recall some tricks, such as where the stairs lead to on Friday and which door is which door? To poke gently.

Al kept turning around, wanting to have a panoramic view of all the scenes, he whispered something in Toby's ear, and Toby responded with a smile: "Yes, Al, this is Hogwarts , the greatest magic school in the world."

"Whatever you think about it, I think it's better than Ouagadou, I just can't get used to African architecture."

Despite the negligible enrollment at Hogwarts, Toby runs into an old friend.

"Toby Highmore."

A transparent ghost stopped in front of Toby. He looked terrible, staring with dull eyes, haggard, and his robe was stained with silver blood spots.

This is the ghost of Slytherin house, the Bloody Baron.

Toby hardly had any friends when he was in school, especially when he was young, so he would rather regard the bloody Barrow as a friend, even though no one would ever take the initiative to approach Barrow.

It's pretty pitiful to imagine now, but Snape is even more pitiful than Toby, he doesn't even have a friend like Barrow.There was only one Lily, and then they went their separate ways.

"Long time no see, Barrow."

Toby stopped to say hello.

Barrow stared straight at him, and just when Toby thought he was about to say "I thought I was dead", Barrow said in a calm tone, "What a pity."

"I originally reserved a place for you as a ghost in the academy."

This was the first time Toby heard Barrow utter such a long sentence, and it seemed that he was really sorry.

The two sides separated at this point, and Barrow kept turning his head to look at Toby, with some regret in his eyes.

Toby subconsciously quickened his pace. He had been to the ghost's Deathday party, and he couldn't accept the rotten food anyway.

Finally, Toby appeared in front of a huge ugly stone monster.

"Ice mouse."

The monster suddenly came to life, leaping aside, the wall behind it split in two.

Toby walked up the spiral staircase, and the wall closed behind him with a bang.The higher he went, the more complicated Toby's mood became.

He still remembered the quarrel with Headmaster Dumbledore before leaving England. For a moment, guilt, anxiety, uneasiness, anger, all kinds of emotions constituted a more complicated psychology.

But when he walked to the last oak door, he found that his heart became unprecedentedly peaceful.

He knocked on the door lightly, and heard a voice from inside the door: "Please come in."

After taking a deep breath, Toby pushed the door open and walked into the principal's office.

The headmaster got older.

This was the first thought that came to Toby's mind.

Headmaster Dumbledore was sitting in a chair behind the desk, reading a book with his head down, half-moon glasses hung on the bridge of his nose, and wise blue eyes behind him.

Judging from the cover of the book, Toby knew that it was "Ancient Magic" written by himself.

"Bring it."

Dumbledore said without raising his head, and tapped his fingers on the table twice.

The headmaster was still so calm, as if he had expected everything a long time ago. In the wizard war, he was also so confident that he would win the final victory.

Toby didn't hesitate. He took out the cloth bag from his pocket, folded it twice, exposed the Philosopher's Stone inside, and placed it gently on the desk.

Dumbledore raised his head and stared at the Philosopher's Stone.

One second, two seconds, three seconds.
A full minute passed, but Principal Dumbledore still remained silent.

Toby kept his head down at first, but he couldn't help raising his head later, and found that Headmaster Dumbledore's hand was clenching the book with extra force, and veins appeared on the back of his hand.

Something seemed to be going wrong, and Toby felt that Dumbledore was trying to resist the urge to beat him up.

"Well"

Toby hesitated and asked:

"Principal, do I still have a chance to re-enter?"

(End of this chapter)