Archaeologists at Hogwarts

Chapter 80 The Inevitable War

It was no secret that Toby knew that Headmaster Dumbledore had lived in Godric's Hollow.

He just didn't expect the principal's office to look like this.

The old lion opened its mouth and yawned. It lay down on the floor again, apparently intending to continue resting.

But Toby kept asking: "Hey, principal, do you know where the founders are? Are they in the castle?"

"Where's your treasury? Where do you hide your treasures?"

The lion roared impatiently, and it glared at Toby angrily.

"Alright alright."

Toby had no choice but to say: "I'm here for House, the centaur ancestor House in the Forbidden Forest, you must figure out the secret of the fifth founder. Do you have anything to tell me?"

At last the Lion rose to his feet, and thrusting his thick paws under the rug, fumbled as if by magic for a longsword—the sword of Gryffindor.

"Uh"

Toby watched the lion push the sword in front of him, and he said hesitantly, "Are you going to let me use this sword to protect myself? But I don't have long hands either."

He slapped his tail twice, showing off his snake body, and Toby struggled to even hold on to his sword, let alone fight with it.

However, the lion seemed to have expected this scene a long time ago. It gently arched the ruby ​​on the hilt twice with its head, and then motioned Toby to bow his head and put his forehead on the ruby.

There was originally an emerald on the forehead of the horned water snake, and the moment Toby's head touched the ruby, the two gems were lit up at the same time.

At the same time, Toby finally possessed the abilities that the horned water snake should have-flying and invisibility, which are the powers given to him by gems.

"Wow."

Toby exclaimed, watching his body lift off the ground a little bit, float up, and become transparent again.

"This is unbelievable. Well, it seems to be some kind of magical unknown magic. Unfortunately, I haven't heard of any wizard who can turn into a magical animal Animagus. Otherwise, I really have to find a way to become a long A horned water snake."

In all the records in the magic world, there has never been a situation where a wizard turns into a magical animal Animagus, all of them are ordinary animals.

The Lion put the sword back in the rug, and lay down again on it, and it seemed that this was all the help he could do Toby.

"Good-bye, then, Headmaster."

said Toby, gradually disappearing into mid-air.

The invisible long-horned water snake flew across the long corridor. On the way, he saw Peeves wearing a sorting hat walking around on a carriage, and saw many strange-looking things, some of which looked bigger than the auditorium. The gate is even bigger, like some kind of protective magic device, with a precise and magical structure.

"Could it be related to the goblin rebellion?"

Toby thought suspiciously.

He remembered that the goblin rebellion in 1612 happened near Hogsmeade, and it was hard to say whether it had spread to Hogwarts.

The history hidden for nearly a thousand years was presented in front of Toby in an incomprehensible way. The giant alone was enough for him to study. Unfortunately, these clues were incomplete, and he didn't have enough time——

After Toby finally flew out of the range of the castle, he looked up at the sky—there was no sun in the sky, but only a pair of clocks shining with dazzling light, and the hands of stars were swimming around.

Toby needs to get back to the castle, by the Mason Gate, before the needle points to the moon, or there's a good chance of never going back.

On the other side of the castle is the deep Forbidden Forest, but the Forbidden Forest behind the Mason Gate is much sparser than the outside world, but it is filled with all kinds of magical animals. The fire dragon Toby alone has seen a lot - there are ordinary Welsh green forests. The dragon, the Norwegian Ridgeback, and the largest Ukrainian iron belly, and these fire dragons are not as honest as staying in the castle, and they all guard their territory with great force and will not be violated.

"There are so many magical animals in the Forbidden Forest"

Toby carefully avoided a horned camel. He suspected that all these animals had appeared in real history. They might have been done by students who violated the rules, and maybe some professors.

"Hagrid will love it here."

Great changes have also taken place in the Forbidden Forest. Toby couldn't find too many familiar reference objects, so he could only fly silently in the direction he remembered—that is, the place where the base of the Pensieve was buried.

The ability to fly greatly reduces the time Toby spends, as well as the risks that may be encountered along the way-with the decline of ancient magic, many magical animals are all extinct, which makes the usual experience unable to be applied in today's world In the forbidden forest.

Toby watched from a distance several white bears with two horns fighting together, spitting out cold white flames from their mouths, overwhelming a large forest, and the destructive power was astonishing.

After passing by a bunch of trees basking in the sun, big hedgehogs rolling around in a ball, and countless kinds of birds and insects of different sizes, Toby finally saw the bulging in his memory from afar. Small mountain bag.

That hill was the only place where no magical animals lived, as if it had been cleaned up, and there stood a huge statue on the hill, which was exactly the same as the one Mundungus collected and gave to Toby, which even Toby couldn't help but wonder if the magnification spell was not used enough, which caused the statue to become much smaller.

It wasn't until Toby landed slowly on the bottom of the statue that he finally realized the difference between the two statues.

The statue seems to be alive.

"Oh my God"

Toby looked up blankly, and the centaur in front of him was bigger than any giant he had ever seen. It was obviously impossible for such a huge centaur to exist in the outside world.

There was a breath of life coming from House, and he was also looking up, but what he was looking at was the dazzling clock in the sky.

Toby flew to a position parallel to the centaur's head, and heard the other party whispering a sentence repeatedly——

"Mars is bright tonight. It will stay bright for the foreseeable future."

Mars?

Toby simply shouted: "House! House! Why did you take the centaur to hide in the Forbidden Forest and refused to go out?"

House acted as if he couldn't hear Toby's shouts at all, and Toby inevitably became anxious, and he continued to shout: "I know you are friends, and the four founders of Hogwarts are friends, But why are you the first to leave?"

The words in House's mouth finally changed.

"Because war is inevitable." He said: "The war between wizards and other races will eventually come, and I have no choice."

Now, Toby was finally able to confirm.

House really foresaw the emergence of wizard supremacy, even a thousand years ago.

Next, no matter what inquiries Toby made, House stopped answering.He didn't seem to be answering Toby's question in the first place, and Toby suspected that House had said the same thing to the other four founders, only repeating it now.

Toby had to go back to the castle before the clock went out. Along the way, the animals in the Forbidden Forest became more and more restless, and even the wizards in the castle began to quarrel.

He hurried back to the ancient magic office, grabbed the three small animals that were frightened and slumped in the coffin, and wrapped their tails around them.

At the same time, the noise from outside the office grew louder, and the roars of animals came from outside the castle.

Behind Mason's door is a strange world, related to emotions.When the light is there, everything remains normal until the light goes out, like werewolves on a full moon, all losing all sanity.

Toby opened the Mason door in the corner, and the light inside was no longer brilliant, but dark and deep.

With three disobedient students, Toby got into the endless darkness.

(End of this chapter)