Archaeologists at Hogwarts

Chapter 183 Toby's hidden danger

As soon as the words fell, everyone in the room moved.

Toby skillfully manipulated the magic ball, and Dumbledore suddenly raised his wand, trapped the magic ball, and flew backwards behind Toby.The bound mummy also rushed in, knocking down Snape who had just drawn out his wand, and the small shovel hit the mummy hard on the head, making a loud bang.

Dumbledore entered the house, the door closing slowly behind him.

About 10 minutes later, Dean McGonagall, who was wearing green striped pajamas, hurried over. The noise caused by the battle was too loud, and it was impossible not to attract her attention.

She knocked hard on the door of the potions office: "Severus! Open the door! Severus!"

"Take it easy." Dumbledore's voice came, and he opened the door with a gap, only allowing Professor McGonagall to catch a glimpse of Toby who was tied up. Snape was pouring unknown magic into his mouth angrily. The medicine and pajamas were burnt to pieces.

"What's going on?" Professor McGonagall asked. "It was you who made the noise just now? When did you come back, Albus?"

"Not much earlier than you." Dumbledore said, "Leave the matter here to me. How are the students doing?"

"It's normal for the time being." Professor McGonagall said with a sigh of relief: "I have sent other professors to appease the students, but how should I explain it to them?"

"Let me think about it." Dumbledore said ponderingly: "Let's say it's related to the Chamber of Secrets. I just saw related news being reported recently."

After Professor McGonagall left in a hurry, Dumbledore returned to the Potions Office, holding the struggling Al in his arm covered by the door, as if vowing to avenge Toby.

"How could it be?" Dumbledore looked at Al and said puzzledly: "It's fine if it's just Toby, why did you become like this?"

He was silent for a while, and suddenly reminded: "Severus, if you continue to pour Hell Potion on Toby, we may never be able to wake him up again."

Snape threw the potion bottle aside as if venting his anger, smashing it to pieces.

He said with a bad look, "You were the one who asked Toby to return to Hogwarts in the first place, and it wasn't me who wanted to cause trouble."

Dumbledore responded, "Yes, Severus. But I'm sure you don't want to see this, do you?"

Snape's cheeks were tense, his palms clenched into fists, and it was impossible to tell what he was thinking.

He said nothing.

It all starts from their student days.

Toby was just a kid who was bullied at the beginning. He was a Muggle-born and a student of Slytherin. No one would give him a good face.

But after that, he also got help from many people.

There's Lily's, Professor Slughorn's, and Headmaster Dumbledore's.

But only Snape.

Snape was the one who hurt Toby the most. Not only did he not help, but he hurt Toby.

On the night of the full moon that they experienced together, Snape wanted to secretly find out about Remus's embarrassment because of Sirius, so that he could take advantage of it.

It turned out that Toby saved him that night.

But just after that night, Toby's whole person changed completely.

This change is even greater than Professor Slughorn's influence on Toby, that is, it is more Slytherin and deeper than becoming Slytherin.

Snape never knew why, but he guessed it had something to do with Toby's subsequent break with Lily.

Not only that, but it also turned Toby into a man with a lot of words.

Just like what Toby has shown recently, he always tells the "truth" in his heart to some people, even more radically.

This is a difficult disease.

But according to Toby, it was only because he finally began to pay attention to the role of the wand-the black walnut wand.

One very special feature of black walnut is that it cannot coordinate internal contradictions normally.

If its owner deceives himself, its power will be greatly reduced.

Self-deception.

Since then, Toby no longer suppressed any terrible thoughts, gave the Slytherin students a good lesson, and even planned a countermeasure to kill Petunia, which resulted in a break between him and Lily.

Fortunately, this plan was destroyed by the Death Eaters who came to capture him, and Toby hid in the Longbottom couple's house.During that time, the Longbottoms were also shocked by Toby's ideas, such as becoming a wizard stronger than the Mysterious Man and destroying all pure blood.

This change is extremely abnormal.

The Longbottoms even considered going to Headmaster Dumbledore for help, which they did.

Toby may have guessed this, but never said so, nor did he ask how Headmaster Dumbledore responded to them.

He just continued to live in the house of the Longbottoms, and returned to Hogwarts as usual when school started.

But it's different now.

Toby was even crazy enough to attack Dumbledore, especially Al, who also became crazy. Whether it was Rita Skeeter or Barnabas Guffy, Al played a big role. effect.

After being given the same potion of living hell, Al finally fell into a peaceful sleep.

Dumbledore looked at their calm faces and said: "In fact, I have been aware of Toby's strangeness for a long time. This time I also left the school on purpose, just to draw out Toby's hidden dangers. But I didn't expect It's gotten to this point now."

Facing Snape's puzzled gaze, Dumbledore continued: "Many years ago, I saw the effect of love in Toby. That's why I let him continue to live in the Longbottom couple's house. Picking him up, I thought that might be able to change him. It turns out that my guess was right, and when school starts again, Toby will at least become less... ostentatious."

Snape sneered: "Zhang Yang? Is this the only word you can come up with now?"

Dumbledore ignored Snape's taunt, he shook his head and said: "We all want to know what happened to Toby that night, but I won't take the initiative to ask him, because even he himself doesn't want to ask him again." Recall anything. You should have seen his collection in the office, that huge ice block that will never melt, I believe Toby has sealed that memory in the ice block, there may be many reasons There are two, but I think one of them has the effect of avoiding today's situation."

"Toby has already realized the harm of that memory, so he wants to seal it up. But now, it seems that those influences have not been completely eliminated, and he is increasingly attracted by the pharaoh's mask. That's why he wants to frame it To frame you, rush to Azkaban to find clues."

Snape fell silent again, staring at Dumbledore, wondering what he was up to.

"Let's talk about it tomorrow."

Dumbledore sighed and said, he put his eyes on Al, looked at this obviously different Sniff and said: "Perhaps, the problem is more serious than we imagined."

The situation was out of Dumbledore's control.

Due to the influence of the basilisk and the pharaoh's mask, Dumbledore foresaw the hidden dangers hidden in Toby's body in advance and wanted to help him solve the problem.

But it wasn't just Toby anymore.

And Al, why is it also affected?

Early the next morning, Toby woke up on the soft sofa, table and chair. When he opened his eyes, he saw Snape's gloomy face, holding a small glass bottle in his hand. It was obvious that he had just helped himself. Take the antidote.

They stared at each other for a while, and Toby recalled the recent past little by little, and a trace of embarrassment appeared on the black and gold interlaced pharaoh mask.

"Oops, why did I speak out what was in my heart, and even made it out. It should be more concealed, at least I shouldn't tell you all the plans."

Snape's face was livid with anger.

"Get out!" he roared, "Get out quickly!"

Only then did Toby realize that he was not in the ancient magic office, but in the potion office, where he slept all night last night.

On the other side, Al, who was originally awake, planned to continue to catch up on sleep, so he covered his ears and turned over.

Toby grabbed Al, put it on his shoulders habitually, put on the hood again, stretched his waist and said, "What's the hurry, can't we catch up with old classmates? Besides, even if I It’s not that I didn’t think about not rescuing you when I got you to Azkaban, what’s the rush—oh, yes, there’s also Sirius, maybe you will become neighbors!”

Before Snape really wanted to do it, Toby left the potions office slowly and walked all the way to the door of the headmaster's office.

"Is the principal waiting for me?" he asked the stone beast.

"No." The stone beast replied, "The principal told you to find him in the ancient magic office."

So Toby went back the same way, discussing something with Al.

"It should be fine. It's not that the principal has never seen me like that. I'll tell you something secretly. Before I graduated, we almost had a big fight in the office."

"ah?"

"Of course it's true, how could I lie to you?"

"ah?"

"What do you mean I dare not make a move? Obviously Dumbledore has some scruples, don't underestimate me."

"Yeah."

"As for you. Let's just say that when the time comes, and treat it as my instigation. He should believe it, right?"

Toby pushed open the door of the ancient magic office, and happened to meet Principal Dumbledore walking out.

"Leave it alone." Dumbledore said, "Lend me the pharaoh's coffin for a while, just to hold the undead mummy. In addition, I also need a place for research, which must be far away from the students, so as not to Harm them—the secret room, just choose the secret room."

"Uh..." Toby watched the principal leave with the coffin, without asking himself anything, but this made Toby feel a little bad.

Also, the Chamber of Secrets.
There are still two people locked in the secret room!

"Wait for me, principal!"

He yelled and ran after Dumbledore.

Dumbledore didn't pay attention either. He walked all the way to the special classroom of ancient magic. He obviously knew about the transformation here, and continued walking along the dark tunnel.

Al tugged on Toby's collar uneasily, looking terrified.

Principal, what is this number?

It doesn't understand.

Toby didn't understand even more.

They walked through the molted skin of the basilisk and walked all the way into the wide secret room.

The stones of the statue were deliberately cleared in the corner, and at the foot of the statue, there were two people lying on their backs——Rita Skeeter and Barnabas Guffey, as if they had fallen into an eternal sleep .

"Take them away." Dumbledore put the coffin on the floor, and there were still thumping noises from inside.

"Oh." Toby could only agree, intending to let the two go after erasing the memory.

But Dumbledore said another word next.

"Just put it next door. I need a place where I can release the mummy casually, and it cannot be influenced by other people."

Toby paused.

"oh oh?"

He turned to stare at Dumbledore, eyes full of doubts under the mask.

"What's the matter?" Dumbledore turned back and asked, "Do you want to study this mummy with me?"

"No, let's forget it." Toby quickly refused, "We've had enough of getting along with it."

Al nodded as well.

They are now an eyesore instead.

After being driven outside the secret room, Dumbledore carefully sealed the secret room with scattered stones, and disappeared behind the rebuilt stone wall.

On the other side of the stone wall, Toby and Al stared at the two bodies on the floor in a daze.

"I remember that I didn't seem to hit the headmaster on the head last night, did I?"

"Yeah." Al didn't hit him either, only the mummy. As for Snape, he escaped by luck.

"Then what happened to the principal, he just let me go? Or did he see something?"

Toby slowly shifted his gaze to Al, who looked at him in horror.

"ah!"

"It should be like this. Your performance is too abnormal, and the principal noticed it. No, maybe it's more."

The situation was not only out of Dumbledore's control, it was out of Toby's control long ago.

It's not that he hasn't thought about solving the hidden dangers in his body, on the contrary, he has never forgotten this problem.

Plus the extra Al he had after returning to Hogwarts, and the magic circle engraved on his body that Dumbledore might know about.

"Ancient magic." Toby murmured, "The headmaster also decided to start studying ancient magic, and he started with that mummy. He wants to help me, but if he doesn't understand, it's useless to say anything." .”

Al tentatively asked, "Huh?"

"No!" Toby said immediately: "How could it be possible to study you! Probably not. Probably not? Should we prepare an extra retreat?"

Al's expression changed from terrified to relaxed, and finally became terrified again.

"Yeah yah!"

"Escape? Where can you escape? Angela? Even if she is willing to take you in, you will be found by the principal sooner or later."

"Forget it, don't think about these things."

Toby ignored Al's small fist. He stared at the two bodies on the floor and said, "These two have been missing for so long, why hasn't the Ministry of Magic found them yet?"

"What are they thinking?"

(End of this chapter)