Archaeologists at Hogwarts

Chapter 230 Package
What the three of them couldn't have imagined was that when they got into the empty classroom to discuss, the Professor Haimer they were talking about had rushed to the principal's office with a large package in his hand. It should be a broom.

Toby waved his broom excitedly and shouted: "Principal, I found a clue to Blake - look, this broom is sent by him, I'm sure there will be no mistakes this time. It's really interesting to say, just A few days ago, I heard Witch say—oh, Witch is the goblin in Egypt, he saw a cat that could withdraw money in Gringotts, I almost took it for Dean McGonagall— But it's an orange cat, and the color doesn't match—see where I'm at, by the way, guess what?"

Dumbledore was writing something at his desk without looking up, he pulled out a piece of parchment and handed it to Fawkes, who made a flame and disappeared with the paper.

The headmaster's ignorance didn't dampen Toby's enthusiasm at all. With a look of gloating on his face, he continued to babble: "The Quibbler! That's the report that Harry won the lottery before school started! I dare say that Blake must have seen it with his own eyes. Went to that article and saw me standing with Harry - he was jealous, jealous as hell, that's why he took the risk to get money from the vault - look at this beautiful broom."

Toby opened the package that had been opened and inspected long ago, looked him up and down and said, "Firebolt, Blake is really rich—he must not know who owns this broom now, and I've already figured out how to give it to you." He wrote back - I wish I could have seen the look on his face - and you said that if he knew Harry trusted me so much, he would let me check the presents before receiving them, even the one Black gave Harry Gifts—tsk tsk."

Dumbledore finally raised his head. Seeing that Toby's expression was getting worse and worse, his eyes looked a little surprised, and he silently took out the earplugs that were stuffed into his ears.

"Don't tell me you really came here to strike first."

"So you didn't hear anything." Toby said helplessly, "What's the first move?"

Dumbledore picked up a piece of parchment at hand, pointed to the big word "Act" on it, and said: "The ministry has recently considered adding a new education act to Hogwarts, so that the school can become more disciplined— The rules in their eyes."

Toby frowned and took the letter paper and read it carefully. It said that this news will not be published in the newspapers in a short time. Grindelwald is really back, so who else can stop him?

Dumbledore can't be locked up in advance, maybe this just took advantage of Grindelwald's intentions - as a bystander, he watched the magic world go into chaos first.

On the other hand, regarding Ariana—many people’s thoughts are very clear—since Dumbledore himself only said that he was suspected, then just push everything to Grindelwald. It is a solution after all.

In addition, the Ministry of Magic has recently come under strong international pressure—unlike Voldemort, Grindelwald has acted recklessly in many European countries for many years, and many people are afraid of him.Although it is not yet seen that he has the idea of ​​fleeing, the voice of Grindelwald's death penalty has gradually sounded.

This group of people also strongly demanded to see Dumbledore with their own eyes—although the Ministry of Magic has not opened the second trial for a long time, and has not sent Peter Pettigrew to the International Court of Justice, but their guards on Hogwarts have become tighter.

Complying with the request of the residents of Hogsmeade Village, the Ministry allowed more elite Aurors to settle in the village while withdrawing most of the Dementors.

The Ministry is said to have also called in some retired Aurors for this purpose, including those who have changed careers.There is no doubt that Fudge is calling in helpers to help him deal with Dumbledore.

This is really ironic.

It is estimated that Fudge also knows that dementors alone cannot scare a great magician like Dumbledore, but the action he took to summon the Aurors is in line with Dumbledore's previous advice - beware of dementors Strange.

Fudge didn't seem to be wary of the dementors, but he did increase the combat manpower in the ministry, and made the dementors not so close to the wizards, which was considered to have fulfilled Dumbledore's request in disguise.

But Fudge did this entirely to deal with Dumbledore's threat, and had nothing to do with the dementors.

"I don't like this bill." Toby put down the letter, and he said with a sullen face: "I don't like it at all. The Ministry of Magic has no right to ask us what to do. If you want me to say, Hogwarts should also set up a special bill." Department, used to manage wizards - Hogwarts has a much longer history than the Ministry of Magic."

Dumbledore responded calmly: "If it's just about the name of the Ministry of Magic—you're right, Toby, Hogwarts has a longer history than the Ministry of Magic."

Hogwarts was founded around 990 AD, and the predecessor of the Ministry of Magic was the Wizards Council, which was not officially renamed the Ministry of Magic until 1707.

"What are you going to do?" Toby stared at Dumbledore and asked, as if he would rush out of the office in the next second and announce the birth of the Hogwarts department everywhere!
But Dumbledore's reaction was easier than Toby imagined, he smiled and said: "We don't need to do anything, things haven't gotten so bad yet - this is also thanks to our old friend Fudge, he didn't I have seen Grindelwald with my own eyes, but I have already underestimated him, thinking that Voldemort is the most capable dark wizard—this is not surprising, Grindelwald has not developed power in the UK, and many people know him well. It's not clear enough."

Toby asked again: "So this bill will never pass?"

"If Grindelwald is involved—" Dumbledore nodded and said: "It is indeed difficult to pass. While underestimating Grindelwald, Fudge also underestimated the fear of Grindelwald in the European magic community—that's all International pressure can keep him busy, and I dare say he must be having a hard time now."

"What a pity." Toby said regretfully.

Shame on not being able to build a Hogwarts Ministry.

"Then it can't make this a pity." Toby held up the Firebolt and said, "It's time to go to Black, Principal, he should have contacted Grindelwald, and maybe he can learn more from him. News about Grindelwald."

"So you were talking about Sirius just now." Dumbledore said clearly: "He has never been in contact with Grindelwald, and he has always communicated through Regulus."

"Oh?" Toby blinked: "How do you know?"

"Because I have already found Sirius." Dumbledore continued to explain: "Yeah, I know it is difficult. But in fact, it was Sirius who found me on his own initiative and sent me a copy of it through one of the students' pet cats." A letter—there is a lot written in it, and I think it will interest you."

Toby was confused and saw a piece of letter paper floating out of the drawer. This paper seemed to be torn from a magazine dug out from the trash. On the back was an incomplete recipe. I wrote a few words.

Not much content.

Sirius was very grateful to Dumbledore for helping him clear up his grievances, and he didn't mention Toby who was also in the court room at the time. Obviously, he didn't think Toby would kindly help him.

The following content is probably that he thinks what Dumbledore said is correct. During the days when he left with Regulus, he could directly feel that Regulus has been dealing with evil things—— These include a coffin, and a human-looking figure with an ugly hat and a scary mask.

"That's my collection!" Toby yelled angrily: "The coffin is also mine, and sooner or later I will take it back—"

"Keep looking down." Dumbledore reminded.

Toby sank his heart and looked at the content behind, and soon, a title caught his attention-Professor of Ancient Magic, this is what Regulus and others called Grindelwald.

They called him the Professor of Ancient Magic.

This happened to be Toby's position today.

This seems to be why Sirius told Toby over the car radio earlier that his death was imminent.

It turned out that Toby had been targeted by Grindelwald long before that.

"It seems that Grindelwald wants to be your subordinate, Headmaster."

Toby threw the letter on the table in disgust, as if he had offended something unclean.

Dumbledore silently put away the letter, giving Toby more time to digest the news.

"It turns out that this is the feeling of being stared at all day long."

Toby obviously thought of the fact that he was going to be the principal every now and then, and today he finally felt the same way.

"No wonder Grindelwald wants to study magic balls. The professor of ancient magic asked me to think about it"

Toby thought for half an hour, so long that Dumbledore had already turned his head to deal with other letters, looking very busy.

"Is there any lemonade?" Toby asked suddenly after a long silence.

Dumbledore waved his wand and conjured a glass of refreshing lemonade, and Toby took several sips.

"Understood?" Dumbledore lowered his head to read a new letter, and asked without raising his head, "How? During the time you left Hogwarts, even before this, did you Have you noticed that you've been followed?"

Now that Grindelwald has his eye on Toby, how exactly he starts doing so is key.

"No." Toby shook his head and said, "I've thought about it for a long time, but I haven't found anyone who has followed me. The key is that many ancient ruins are not suitable for tracking. Who would venture into the crater? Or the deep sea, It’s not so easy to hide and still succeed every time.”

"That's the problem." Dumbledore said with an emphasis: "The Grindelwald I know is a prophet, a very powerful prophet."

"Like Trelawney?" Toby interrupted.

"To a certain extent, yes." Dumbledore's answer was somewhat beyond Toby's expectations.

Dumbledore continued: "Is there a possibility that Grindelwald foresaw something long before you were born? I know this is outrageous, but prophecies are like this, and everything sounds impossible. "

Toby thought about it for a while, and suddenly he widened his eyes and said, "Regulus! Do you remember, Principal, when I was still in school, I almost made an irreparable mistake one holiday."

"The memory is still fresh." Dumbledore said blankly. "Many people were frightened by this, Petunia, the Longbottoms, and Lily."

"You don't have to name these people at all."

Toby quickly changed the subject and said, "I once asked Malfoy who tipped him off, and it turned out that the person was Regulus—before that plan was implemented, I was at Regulus' After inquiring a lot of news, I didn't expect him to have the courage to tell Malfoy. Now that I think about it, this is almost impossible. Maybe Regulus contacted Grindelwald earlier than we thought. DeVoe's instructions to do so—wait a minute, so Grindelwald saved my soul?"

Toby's expression became weird.

what is this?
The favor of two generations of Dark Lords?

Perhaps he should be given a name similar to Harry, the boy both demon kings want.

Sounds really bad.

Toby quickly denied this idea: "It's not about saving, it's better to say that he treats me as a spy, otherwise how could he easily know what the magic ball is made of."

Toby is still brooding over this. He has studied the magic ball for so long but found nothing. He didn't expect Grindelwald to study it thoroughly all at once.

Toby never thought that there would be a day when the magic ball would be repaired by Grindelwald.

Yes, that's right, the magic ball has finally been fixed.

Repaired by Grindelwald with the brain of the Department of Mysteries.

"You seem to be hiding something from me." Dumbledore said sharply, "I've wanted to ask you for a long time, why did you say that to Scrimgeour before the Ministry of Magic's trial?"

"Gamp?" Toby said, playing dumb.

"No." Dumbledore said, "It's a choice. You made a decision for yourself, and—I didn't mean to tease you, but you were deep and sudden that day."

"Is there?" Toby continued to play dumb.

"Yes." Dumbledore nodded affirmatively, staring at Toby with a more penetrating gaze.

Well, even with Occlumency, the Headmaster can always read his troublesome students' faces.

Toby couldn't hide anything from Dumbledore, so he simply told about the magic ball, and brought up Kingsley's identity doubts by the way.

"He has a problem, Principal." Toby said as if claiming credit: "It can't be such a coincidence, it was him who went to Azkaban, and it turned out to be him again in the Department of Mysteries."

Dumbledore frowned, and he was silent for a long time.

After a full 10 minutes, Dumbledore suddenly asked: "How is your research on the two things left by Voldemort?"

Toby, who was worried about being robbed of the magic ball, was stunned for a moment, and he said casually: "It's very rare, there is a key point missing. I can feel that as long as I find this key point, I may be able to crack the diary and the crown. secret."

"Then continue to study." Dumbledore said decisively: "Don't provoke Grindelwald, just pretend that such a thing never happened. If my guess is correct, this is his old way of recruiting his subordinates , is very simple, but extremely effective, and can make you think that he is the person who understands you best."

"What about Regulus?" Toby asked dryly, as if he was caught by Dumbledore and deliberately changed the subject: "What should we do? Don't we need to go find him?" Regulus is an important clue, as long as we find him, we may know exactly when Grindelwald was called—”

"Professor of Ancient Magic." Dumbledore looked at Toby, and he said with a pun, "Don't worry, I certainly won't leave him alone."

"Otherwise, why do you think Sirius hasn't come to thank you yet?"

"He should thank me." Toby snorted and said, "Maybe I should get Harry to call me godfather before he does. It doesn't work either."

Dumbledore looked at his students with a smile, and a trace of worry flashed in his eyes.

(End of this chapter)