Archaeologists at Hogwarts

Chapter 209 Locket, Malfoy, Council

Office of Ancient Magic.

Early in the morning.

"Principal? Are you still there, Principal? Is it broken?"

Toby slapped the only intact skeleton frame, shaking it around.

As soon as Al took off the earplugs, he heard Toby's commotion. It didn't even take off its nightcap, it floated over in a daze on a small flying carpet, and then flew back in a daze, staring at the boy next to the bed. Gryffindor Sword was in a daze.

In an instant, Al's eyes glowed with gold, and he hurriedly dragged the sword and flew to Toby's side, baring its teeth and claws excitedly, shouting non-stop.

[Did you steal this?It's amazing!Get rich, get rich, get rich——]

Toby pushed Al away, and he said irritably: "How is it possible, at most it can only be regarded as the principal's relic—"

"A relic?" A voice came from outside the office. Harry happily dragged his suitcase. He didn't expect to hear such shocking news early in the morning: "The principal's relic? He—"

"He's fine." Toby pulled Harry over impatiently, intending to take him directly to the Leaky Cauldron.

At this moment, a flame flashed in the center of the office, a phoenix feather fell, and then a skull fell to the floor out of thin air.

Toby recognized that it was the skull he had given to Dumbledore, and he asked Harry to pick up the skull and stuff it into the pocket of the witch robe, and it suddenly looked bulging.

"It's a bit too conspicuous, isn't it?"

As Toby spoke, he cast a spell, turning the skull into a necklace, and the top was still a skull-shaped ornament, silver and shining.

"Wear it well." Toby said with satisfaction: "This way you can contact me at any time. Remember, don't be brave, and don't go to Sirius rashly. I guess he will come to you on his own initiative."

Harry hid the necklace under his clothes, and he heard Professor Highmore continue to ask himself, "You speak Parseltongue, I remember, don't you?"

Harry nodded confusedly.

"How about trying to teach me a few words?" Toby said in an irresistible tone. Words teach me, let me help you find a snake? Do you need to look at a snake to speak Parseltongue?"

"Just use... just use the devil." Harry finally accepted this title, and stopped calling him the Rune Snake directly.

He closed his eyes and tried hard to recall the experience of last night. When he opened his mouth again, what he said was already a hoarse voice, which became a complete tune, which sounded extremely weird.

In the clarinet, a diffuse black thread slowly rises, there are threads, and more of it is a thin layer of smoke, and then, the black rune snake is revealed.

Harry looked at his devil, pretending to be talking to it, and continued to spit out more Parseltongue words, and Toby memorized them one by one.

During this process, when he heard "kill" and "Mudblood", the Rune snake suddenly focused on Toby, with three heads.

Harry was very nervous, but Toby said indifferently: "It looks good, now you should know how to control your own devils, remember this, Harry."

Kill, and Mudblood.

Had it not been for Professor Highmore's request, Harry felt that he would never have been able to say these words in his life.

After the Floo powder was thrown into the fireplace, Harry left the school with Al.

Al was there to help pay the bill, and Toby didn't leave with him, but stayed.

He didn't learn Parseltongue on a whim, but for a reason.

Slytherin's locket was later found by Voldemort, which has something to do with Parseltongue.

Toby took the locket in his hand, and after thinking about it carefully, he placed it on the floor, so as to keep it away from him, as a respect for Voldemort's strength.

Then, he began to try Parseltongue words one by one, making hissing sounds from his mouth.

Parseltongue may be difficult for most people, but in Toby's view, it is not as complicated as the murloc's language, let alone as mummies - but the mummy's language can also be regarded as very simple, as long as you shout Just make it as loud as possible.

When Toby said the word "open", the locket finally changed. Its small golden lid popped open with a click, and a living eye blinked behind each of the two small glass windows, black and bright. , before Tom Riddle's eyeballs turned red and his pupils turned into a line.

Holding a black walnut wand in one hand and a white scepter in the other, Toby watched silently.

A hissing voice came from the box.

"I see your heart, it's mine."

It was Voldemort's voice, and he continued to bewitch: "Toby Highmore, I have seen your dreams, and I have seen your fears. What you desire can happen, but what you fear can also happen."

"The bullying has planted the seeds of hatred in your heart, vowed to kill all pure-blood wizards—no, even more extreme than that, you want to control the entire wizarding world, don't you? In your own unique way, and With the purpose of paying back the guilt you felt towards some people, and respect."

"You won't get what you want."

From the two little windows of the locket, and from the eyes, emerged two grotesque soap-bubbles, two heads—Albus Dumbledore, and Lily Evans , all bizarrely deformed.

Toby's eyes were hidden behind the long hair, and his expression gradually became dark.

"You are more hateful than Severus, I don't need you to pity me at all, why do you want to kill my sister? Who do you think you are? Slytherin, I shouldn't have sex with people like you friend."

Riddle Lily shouted in disgust: "Stay away from me, never appear in front of me, even if I really die, I will be killed by you!"

Riddle Dumbledore also spoke, and he said in a sarcastic tone: "Ancient magic? You will never succeed, otherwise why do you think I asked you to go back to Hogwarts? Just to watch You, bring back the restless factor, like Voldemort. I have learned enough lessons, and I certainly won't let similar things happen again. You will live in my shadow all your life. Oh, no, I It shouldn't be said that you are like Voldemort, in fact, you are not as good as him, there is nothing to hate, seeing you will only make me feel pitiful."

Then, the head began to deform again, this time replaced by Al and Angela.

"Yeah! Yay! Yay!"

"Seriously, why don't you just listen to me? Do you really think I trust you? Don't be kidding, one day, I will tear you to pieces"

The brain is still changing.

Lockhart ruthlessly ridiculed Toby for being so blind that he didn't even see so many flaws, which is simply extremely stupid.

Snape sneered coldly that Toby was just a poor wretch, a coward who could only run away.

Even Brother Black appeared on the stage, and another shadow condensed under their feet, it was little Toby who had just entered school many years ago, and was severely taught by them.

There are more, the professors in the school, as well as the students, they used words to dig out the scars in Toby's heart, let him
Let him put down the scepter and replace it with a shiny silver shovel.

"That's all. Sure enough, it's just a magic item in the end, and it's still too far behind the mysterious man."

Riddle Hagrid, who was talking eloquently, suddenly froze. Before Toby could say anything more, the lid of the locket automatically clicked shut, immediately floated up, and flew towards the door desperately.

"Where to run!"

It was an earth-shattering loud noise, and the locket was slammed down on the floor. Before he could escape again, Toby grabbed the chain tightly and pulled it back.

The chain was actively wrapped tightly, as if it wanted to pinch Toby's palm off, and the scorching heat came from it, but Toby didn't seem to feel anything, only the fine magic circle under the clothes was slightly surging with dark light.

"Fear, is this what you do?"

The eyes hidden behind the hair were fixed on the locket that kept trying to escape, and the corners of Toby's mouth curled up.

"I like fear."
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In the course of the third semester that has been decided, the students must prepare their own magic array items in advance, so as to act as the scepter in ritual magic.

But two people became exceptions.

One of them is Luna Lovegood. The anti-demon glasses she made can magically understand the minds of animals, which is largely thanks to Pandora.

Luna has already said the reason - Pandora wants to protect their father and daughter, and uses a magic that has not yet been created to allow them to see the minds of wizards with ulterior motives, so as to stay away from them.

Although the magic went wrong, it worked on the animals.

That is to say, it works for Al.

This is not acceptable, Al hides too many secrets, Toby dare not take this kind of risk, that's why he forcibly takes away the demon-proof glasses, using the excuse that the scepter of failure still threatens.

Luna has written to him many times, wanting to know when she can get back the anti-monster glasses, but she was fooled by Toby's vague words.

Fortunately, Luna is only in the second grade after school starts, so there is no need to learn ritual magic now.

But the other person was different.

Draco Malfoy, his magic circle item, which is the badge symbolizing Slytherin, was transformed by Voldemort into a tool to control Dobby, hidden in Dobby's body, and was later taken away by Dumbledore and returned Toby the professor.

Since returning from Azkaban, Toby hasn't had a chance to trouble Lucius yet.He'd heard that Lucius had been kicked out of the school board for threatening other board members, and the badge just gave Toby an excuse to visit him.

So, on the same day, Toby appeared in front of the gate of Malfoy Manor.

Unlike the last attack, this time he came over openly, without any disguise.

Of course, it would not be kind to give an advance notice.

There was a long driveway behind the wrought-iron gate, and then the gate slowly deformed, an abstract curly figure twisting into a terrifying face that said in an echoing clang of metal, "Say the purpose of your visit."

"It's me." Toby said lazily, his hair was pulled back his head, with a hint of sarcasm at the corner of his mouth: "I think this is enough weight."

There is no doubt that Toby's face is indeed very important, enough that Lucius did not dare to appear in front of Toby, but made the face on the gate his own.

Although it was made of wrought iron, it could be seen that Lucius was having a hard time recently.

A large fortune donated, plus Dumbledore's return, and the Quibbler, which he couldn't buy.
"What are you here for?" There was hatred in Lucius' tone, but it still revealed the reality that he had no confidence.

"I'm here to take your life." Toby said coldly: "If you don't open the door again, respect, you should show enough respect to a lunatic, Malfoy."

Lucius seemed to want to say something cruel, his expression twisted, and the door opened in the next second.

Toby saw Lucius himself in the living room. His face was haggard, his long hair became dull, and he looked really bad.

"What are you doing here?" Lucius asked repeatedly.

Toby didn't answer in a hurry, he looked around in the living room, walking back and forth slowly.

"Malfoy, Malfoy"

He sat down at the head of the long table, and said slightly mockingly: "Why didn't I see my students? Where is Draco?"

Before Lucius could answer, Toby took out something and put it on the table. It was the magic circle badge made by Draco, and he threw it in front of Lucius, whose face suddenly turned pale.

"It's his stuff, but why did it appear on Dobby? Can you tell me the reason, Lucius."

Lucius pursed his lips tightly and said nothing.

Toby's eyes narrowed slightly, and he said, "It seems that you also know that Dumbledore and I are different. I don't care about justice, and I don't care whether it meets the formal trial procedures. I only care about the result."

He tapped the table lightly with his finger.

"This is the result, Malfoy, it's right in front of you—tell me!" Toby suddenly roared, "Do you have anything to say now?"

His voice traveled down the corridor, up to the higher floors, through the tightly closed doors, and finally reached Draco's ears.

"I want to go out, don't stop me!" Draco blushed anxiously: "I have a way to explain it to Professor Haimer, it has nothing to do with my father! He—how can he mess around!"

"Because he's Toby Highmore." Snape held Draco's arm tightly, his tone unusually calm: "Don't try to get what you want from him—unless it's him too Wanted. Narcissa, you should understand what I mean."

Narcissa, who was standing far away by the window, was also pale, just like Lucius.

"I understand, Severus," she said, her voice trembling slightly.

"That's good." Snape pushed Draco away forcibly, and he said with a deadpan expression: "Take care of your child, I will try to persuade Toby, but don't hold out too much hope."

Narcissa hugged Draco tightly, and she pleaded hopefully: "At least don't hurt our children."

Snape pushed the door open, gave Narcissa one last look, and left without saying anything.

After he appeared in the living room, Toby glanced at him lightly, and said mockingly: "You are indeed here, Severus. I knew Malfoy would ask you for help. What is this? Death Eater Is the profound friendship between disciples? Is it more important than my kindness for saving your life?"

"If you take away the fact that you nearly killed me so many times—" Snape retorted, "It's all because of your damn ancient magic, I don't even know what is sitting in front of me now A living person, or a corpse."

Toby sneered: "Even a corpse will scare you—look at it, Malfoy." He suddenly ignored Snape's words, and threw the locket on the table: "Now, Look at it, don't take your eyes off it - open it."

The last sentence turned into a hoarse hiss, Snape's eyes suddenly became serious, and Lucius - he saw two bubbly figures with his own eyes, one was Toby's, the other was Draco, tortured repeatedly by Toby using every means Lucius could imagine.

"Don't" Lucius said fearfully, "Don't do this"

Accompanied by another Parseltongue command, the locket closed with a click, and before he could escape, Toby grabbed it tightly and hung it around his neck, and suddenly became quiet.

"It seems that this is your fear, very good, wonderful"

Toby began to nod his fingers on the table again, like a pendulum threatening to kill.

"three things."

He stared straight at Lucius and said, "First thing, tell me how you knew I'd be there all those years ago - the day I planned to kill Petunia - don't even think Fool me, I know you planned the arrest, you should thank me for letting your life go."

Lucius looked at Snape with begging eyes, but Snape didn't respond at all, just stared at Toby closely, as if he was still faintly uneasy about the Parseltongue incident.

"It's Regulus." Lucius finally revealed the truth: "It was Regulus who secretly told me that you kept asking about Sirius's movements before then, and you were especially concerned about running away from home. I also asked him where he was most likely to go and told me several routes."

"I knew it." Toby murmured, "It's true that he is right. The funny thing is, I thought it was Lily before, but I just suspected that she had guessed my plan in advance. Of course, it is impossible for her to contact The Death Eaters, just accidentally spilled the word - okay."

Seeing that Snape had no intention of laughing, Toby dismissed the subject indifferently.

"The second matter is about Draco—you have no right to refuse, Malfoy, because the third matter is about yourself. The school board, I remember you were expelled from the school board, right? "

Lucius was still flustered at hearing Draco's name.

Snape frowned and asked, "You want to join the Council? It's not that simple—"

"No." Toby interrupted coldly: "What I mean is that since the school board has the power to appoint and dismiss the principal, mainly to dismiss, then there is no need for this organization to exist—it is nothing more than some funds , there are ways to raise funds, and I have never heard of a school board in the founding period, it is time to make Hogwarts great again - great as it has always been, it must be greater."

"Of course, it's better to be even greater in my hands."

He stood up, walked in front of Lucius, and said condescendingly: "I leave this matter to you, Malfoy, a group of guys who can be threatened by you are not worth my shot at all. Don't find anyone with me." Excuses, you have nothing left to lose. Remember, you have to get this done, it's the only value you have left."

Lucius curled up. He had already imagined the consequences and knew that Toby could do it.

"Dumbledore won't allow you to mess around." Snape spoke again, but his eyes were full of suspicion in an instant: "Unless the headmaster is caught by you—"

"Don't talk nonsense." Toby waved his hand impatiently: "It's just a slight sign, it looks like a last word, otherwise I wouldn't make a decision at this time. You have to seize the opportunity, right? ?It happens to start at the same time as the third semester course, which is a rare opportunity."

He looked at Snape and said, "How long are you going to stay here, are you ready to make the wolfsbane potion?"

"It's not your turn to order me yet." Snape's cheeks twitched.

"Okay, okay." Toby said indifferently.

He walked to the wooden door of the living room, turned around suddenly, and smiled at the two: "Until now, I finally understand the feeling of the mysterious person."

"Compared to a lunatic, mastering fear is much easier to use."

(End of this chapter)