Archaeologists at Hogwarts

Chapter 219 The War Without Gunpowder

Everything has an answer now.

It was Getler Grindelwald who was studying ancient magic, Lockhart and Regulus were his men, and it was he who replaced Dumbledore's current position.

But why did Grindelwald do this?
And how?
Hadn't he been imprisoned in Nurmengard since he was defeated by the headmaster?
In the ancient magic office, Banban, who was locked in a cage, couldn't bear the tiredness and fell asleep.Angela and Al also fell asleep lying on the sofa on the left and right.

Only Toby was still awake.

He was staring at three items on the table—the journal, the locket, and the pen of access.I remembered Dumbledore's instructions to himself during the holiday - use these three things to find a way to find Voldemort's location, and more similar items.

Could this be a clue?
After all, Dumbledore has never asked Toby about this matter since that day's explanation.Of course, it is also very possible that that person has become Grindelwald.

Could it be that the principal stayed with Voldemort?Or did the headmaster have other items related to Voldemort that he secretly hid?

In this way, after Toby succeeds, he can find the principal?
wrong
Toby suddenly put his eyes on the motionless access pen. He picked up the quill, took another blank parchment, and wrote on it: "Principal, can you see this?" ?”

Of these three items, only the pen of admission is most associated with the position of principal.Even if Dumbledore is gone, Grindelwald knows the password of the principal's office, but Grindelwald is still not the real principal.

Toby waited patiently for a while, and just when he was about to give up, he suddenly found that the Pen of Access floated by itself, and then Toby's question on the parchment continued to write: "It seems that you already know, my original prediction At least a week, now—let's see, it's only a day before school starts. He's right, I've got a terrific student."

The pen of admission stopped moving.

Toby read the words on the parchment carefully, and while gradually relaxing, he held the pen of admission again and wrote: "Principal, where are you now? Are you imprisoned in Nurmengard? "

"No." Dumbledore replied on the parchment: "I am in Azkaban, trapped here by Grindelwald in disguise, he persuaded all the dementors in the prison to do things for him, once I refused , will use them to start a war. How about your side?"

"Fortunately," Toby wrote, "I abolished the school board, set up a black devil foundation, Lucius is now my man, oh yes, I also found out that Blake was framed Yes, Peter Pettigrew was the one who actually leaked the secret, and now I have caught him. In addition, Peter leaked the secret under the threat of Grindelwald. Now I suspect that James and Lily may not be dead. Shouldn't have stormed into the principal's office to interrogate Grindelwald."

The other end of the quill was silent for a long time, so long that Toby thought Dumbledore was asleep.

"Principal, are you still there?"

"Toby, the time I left is only one month, not a whole year? Maybe I should have been away for a longer time, so that you can be more secure in the position of headmaster, maybe even the Minister of Magic will listen to you The transfer order. I told that person that we can see who will take the principal's seat when I come back. I didn't expect that I still underestimated you."

"Now is not the time to praise me, principal! You can save these words for later. Shouldn't you think about how to catch Grindelwald now?"

"I'm not really praising you, but, well, this problem really needs to be solved urgently, which is why I left this quill for you on purpose."

"Then when do you plan to do it again?"

"Now."

Toby stared at the answer for a long time.

This time, it was Dumbledore who came to question him.

"Are you still there, Toby?"

"Not here—" Toby erased the line, and he quickly wrote: "Are you serious?! Even I never thought that I could subdue the first generation of Dark Lords by myself! What I just said Interrogating him was just a joke!"

"But I'm not kidding." Toby wrote at the same speed when he saw the pen of admission: "I know Grindelwald and know that he will not be a person who makes decisions lightly. Now we have two doubts , one is the reason why he really decided to get out of trouble, and the other is how he managed to develop his subordinates in Nurmengard many years ago."

"On the first point, the reason Grindelwald gave me was that he foresaw two different prophecies."

"Many years ago, Grindelwald foresaw his own death. But just a while ago, he told me that the prophecy changed, and the place of his death also changed. Not only him, but also my death prophecy appeared, And we all died at your hands."

Toby read this paragraph carefully twice. He didn't even think about killing Grindelwald, because this person was too far away from him.

As for killing Dumbledore himself?
Forget it, even when Toby was at his craziest, all he wanted was to take away the headmaster position of Hogwarts, and he never planned to really kill Dumbledore.

In such a comparison, Toby felt that he was quite kind.

Obviously, Dumbledore thought so too, and he continued to write with the pen of manipulative access: "I occasionally fantasize about my own death, but I never thought that I would die at your hands. Do you know why? ?”

"Why?" Toby asked curiously.

"Because I don't think I'll survive that time."

With a very philosophical answer, Toby decided to move on to the next topic first.

"What about your second doubt?"

"This is about asking about your ancient magic. Do you think you can destroy the blood alliance with the magic circle?"

blood alliance?
Toby understands that this magic is related to the contract.

"Why do you ask?"

"Because before Grindelwald was imprisoned in Nurmengard, we made a blood alliance so that Grindelwald could stay in prison honestly. I know very well that he alone cannot destroy this Blood alliance, but it will be different if he has a magic circle. Because as long as he learns the magic circle, he no longer needs to use a magic wand, and he can destroy the blood alliance just by casting spells without a wand."

"How could he learn the magic circle? This kind of magic hasn't appeared for a long time, at least I was the first to discover it in thousands of years."

"I know about it too, Toby. But what about the magic ball? Why did Grindelwald take the magic ball? I now suspect that the prophecy screen he showed me later was an illusion created by him through the magic ball. It is lifelike, not fake at all. And as long as there is a magic circle, he can break through Nurmengard's guards, because a prison cannot strictly guard magic that has never appeared."

"It's even more impossible for him to control the magic ball! I have completely occupied the magic ball through ritual magic, and no one can control it—unless."

Toby suddenly thought of a possibility.

"Unless Grindelwald knows what the magic ball is made of, it is now in a damaged state and cannot cast the seven-pointed star magic circle, but Grindelwald successfully repaired it, so it can be used. "

Dumbledore replied: "That's what worries me the most. Even Grindelwald has begun to delve into ancient magic. You and I know how dangerous it is."

Of course Toby knew that ancient magic didn't just threaten the people who cast it, especially the dark side of ancient magic—don't expect wizards thousands of years ago to behave as well as they do now, when even the Unforgivable Curse was still legal.

He hurriedly asked: "Then how did you plan?"

"It's simple."

Toby didn't know where Dumbledore's confidence came from.

"This question can be taken apart. One comes from Grindelwald, and the other comes from the dementors who obey his orders."

"And what about his men?"

"Those people are not important right now, at least not the most important."

Toby thought of Lockhart and Regulus, too, Grindelwald's subordinates would definitely not be many, otherwise he would make a comeback with great fanfare, so there was no need to be sneaky.

"Grindelwald has made a blood alliance with me, so that I can't take the initiative to contact you, but you can contact me through the pen of access. This is a loophole I deliberately left. Correspondingly, the blood alliance has also done something to Grindelwald. He can't hurt anyone in the school outside the limit, so you are safe for the time being."

While silently postponing the calculation of the headmaster's position, Toby asked: "Then the next thing we really have to deal with is the dementor?"

"That's right, including the dementors in Azkaban, as well as those in the school. I'll take care of it here in Azkaban. As for the school—in order to avoid alarming the enemy, now you go to Severus, his The Patronus is extremely powerful and can protect you for a long time."

Someone like Severus could summon a Patronus?
Toby never knew about it.

"What was his Patronus like?"

"You can ask him, and he will tell you himself if he wants."

"Okay, I'll give it a try when I get a chance. What about Grindelwald? It's also to avoid alarming the enemy, so you plan to let me face him alone?"

"You really are my most amazing student, Toby, you can figure out the key to the problem at once."

Toby took two deep breaths, and forced the swear words that flew to his mouth back into his throat.

"Listen to me, Toby, you are the safest. Severus and I have to face hundreds, even thousands of dementors here. You only need to withstand Grindelwald's attack." The first attack - then he will destroy the blood alliance without authorization, and I can rush back to help you deal with him. I know who is the greater threat. There is no doubt that no matter how many dementors there are, they cannot catch up with one who is good at demagoguery Grindelwald."

"And, I know very well that you have the ability to do this, otherwise I would not have arranged such a task for you. You also know your own ability very well."

Toby was silent.

It was a while before he went on to write:
"Are you referring to the devil? But Harry Potter and I are different. Once successfully summoned, it is very difficult to get it back."

"I'll help you, Toby, just like you used to when you were in school. Severus would be willing to do the same."

"Don't mention him, my devil doesn't like him—well, Headmaster, I'll go to Grindelwald, as long as you don't blame me for the destruction of the castle office."

"If it's just the price, I'm willing to bear it. Go, Toby, we're ending a war we didn't start, go."

A flame ignited in Toby's palm, burning the parchment covered with handwriting, and then scattered the smoke and dust into the air.

He stood up, walked over to Al, and gave it a couple of gentle pushes.

"Huh?" Al asked confusedly.

"Give me the scepter." Toby also said softly.

Al's eyelids moved, and it suddenly opened its eyes, looking straight at Toby.

"If there is danger in a while, take Angela out of Hogwarts quickly, and don't forget to take the cage with you. It's hard to make sure Peter didn't lie to us."

Under Al's worried eyes, Toby held the scepter tightly and cast the illusion spell.After thinking about it, he handed his wand to Al again, just in case.

He closed the door gently, not even disturbed by the portraits in the corridor, walked all the way to the first basement floor of the castle in silence, and walked in front of the potions office.

"Severus, it's me." Toby knocked lightly on the door.

There was a slight sound from the room, and after a few seconds, Snape opened the door and came out.

He looked at Toby strangely, and then looked at the safe and sound door.

"You actually learned to knock on the door?" He was obviously mocking Toby's past of kicking in the door: "It seems that you have regained your mind today, and you are still polite."

Toby just looked at him and said, "Go to the playground and keep an eye on the dementors before they break into the castle, can you do it alone?"

"What are you talking about—" Snape suddenly gave up the idea of ​​going back to sleep. He stared at Toby closely, and asked in a deep voice, "How did you know that I will have the Patronus Charm?"

"I also know what your patron saint is." Toby said with raised eyebrows.

Snape squinted at him for a moment.

"No, you don't know." He turned around and put his coat over his pajamas and asked, "Are you going now?"

Toby said regretfully, "Yeah, go now. How do you know I don't?"

They came to the corridor side by side, Snape clenched his wand tightly, and said in a cold tone, "Because you are as stupid as a troll, a brainless guy who only knows how to study those ridiculous ancient magics."

"You're no worse than me." Toby immediately sarcastically said, "The guy who doesn't wash his hair is as dirty as a slug, he hides in the crowd wherever he goes, even the rats in the sewer can only hide run with you."

They walked up the marble staircase to the door of the Great Hall.

Before letting go, Toby suddenly turned around and said, "I'll tell you a good news and a bad news, and I won't ask you which one you want to hear first—the good news is that Lily might still be alive, and the bad news is Maybe James is alive too."

Snape's face suddenly became as white as paper, his gaze was fixed, and his body froze completely, as if under a petrification spell.

"Don't be so excited." Toby said with a smirk: "It's just a guess, an interesting guess."

After saying this, he turned away regardless of Snape's angry face, and walked up the stairs all the way.

The curly long hair hangs down, blocking his eyes.

Toby was surprised that he didn't feel nervous at all, and even had an even stranger idea-what if Grindelwald used a magic ball against him?
Is this the day when the battle between the magic circle and the ritual magic will be decided?
"Ice mouse."

The sleepy stone beast stepped aside, revealing the spiral staircase behind it.

Toby stepped up and walked up, and he began to think about some more serious questions-for example, how did Grindelwald know the material of the magic ball?Toby tried many experiments for this, but none of them worked.

This is the strength of the first generation Dark Lord?
I really want to open his head and have a look.
He kicked open the last oak door, raised the scepter in front of him, and laughed loudly: "I've wanted to do this for a long time—Principal, it's time to retire, don't force me to do it! Principal? Principal? !"

The office was empty.

One of the portraits on the wall yawned and said, "Is that Toby Highmore? Dumbledore wasn't at school. He left something for you. It's in the cabinet. It's mysterious. I don't know what it is." what."

playground.

Snape stood alone in front of the gate of the castle. Just from his appearance, he knew how restless he was, but he didn't know how much impact Toby's last two news had.

But no matter what, it was definitely not as serious as facing hundreds of dementors alone.

Because until the end, Snape was not attacked by any Dementor.

Azkaban.

Dumbledore looked at the shattered blood alliance in his palm, which meant that Grindelwald had broken the contract without authorization.

He raised his head and looked at the gray sky.

From the beginning to the end, the dementors in the prison were still guarding the cell, and none of them showed signs of losing control.

With a flash of fire, Fox brought Dumbledore to appear in front of the tower of Nurmengard, and came to this area that he had not stepped into for a long time.

It is unusually quiet here, similar to decades ago, the only difference is that there is only one prisoner left in the prison.

Dumbledore finally appeared in front of the cell on the top floor, and saw the back figure curled up on the wooden bed.

That's Gellert Grindelwald.

"Is that you, Albus?"

Grindelwald turned over and asked, showing his old face: "Are you finally willing to see me?"

"Don't tell me it was just a joke," said Dumbledore, looking more angry than ever.

"I don't understand what you're talking about." Grindelwald shook his head and said, "You obviously don't want to see me, maybe you should go back, go back to your Hogwarts."

Dumbledore took one last look at Grindelwald, Fawkes let out a loud chirp, turned into a flame, and disappeared with Dumbledore.

This time, Dumbledore was directly in the headmaster's office, and Snape just arrived after waiting in the playground for a long time.

At the same time they saw two Tobys standing in the room.

There was ecstasy on their faces.

The two turned their heads, one looked at Dumbledore, the other looked at Snape, and said in unison, "Guess, which one is Toby Highmore?"

"Who is the black devil?"

(End of this chapter)