Archaeologists at Hogwarts

Chapter 255 More Classes

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Principal's office.

Snape took out a small bottle, and applied the powder inside to his face, allowing the bruises to disappear at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Dumbledore, who was sitting opposite him, smiled and said, "It seems that your acting skills are superb enough to fool Toby - he must not have thought that you have learned how to ride a broom a long time ago."

"There's no need to tell him this kind of thing." Snape snorted coldly and said, "If you think about it, you know he won't say anything good."

"I think so." Immediately afterwards, Dumbledore's expression became much more serious: "And then? How is our professor of ancient magic getting along with Mr. Diggory?"

"At least it looks all right." Snape said, frowning at Dumbledore. "What on earth were you thinking? Using another student to draw Toby's attention? From Harry Potter?"

"I think—" said Dumbledore: "There are so many precious qualities in Mr. Diggory that anyone else would have noticed him. Toby may have overlooked some of them before, but luckily he was in time." Make up. Besides—yes, I think it would be better for Toby to stop paying so much attention to Harry—it has nothing to do with them per se, but because Grindelwald's scheme cannot be allowed to work, and I suspect he has long since Knew it was going to happen."

Snape narrowed his eyes slightly: "Is he that worthy of your concern?"

"Who are you talking about?" Dumbledore asked calmly, "Toby? Or Harry?"

Snape paused as he cleared the bottle, looked Dumbledore in the eye and said, "Probably both. Harry Potter didn't surprise me - but Toby - since we were at school At that time, I saw that you paid more attention to him than other professors—otherwise, there would be some people who deserved to be punished more often than Toby.”

Snape was clearly referring to the four former Marauders, so short of saying their names.

"There's still a werewolf wandering around Hogwarts." He then mocked, "But I didn't see you taking so much effort to educate him—"

"I think—" Dumbledore interrupted suddenly: "The reason why I did this should be very clear to you, Severus. Toby is far more than those students—how should I put it?" Well—with talent, extraordinary talent."

"There is still ambition." Snape said coldly: "I think you are almost the same, respectable headmaster, you would actually do things like Toby's tricks in activities like the Teachers' Appreciation Conference, but let Cedric Digger to be his professor."

"I don't think it's tampering." Dumbledore said cheerfully, "Didn't you like the last commendation meeting? The final outcome was gratifying, and it was a good gift. In addition, regarding this matter , you should also be clearer——Toby is not someone who can be easily persuaded. Although he has made some promises to me, he can't deceive his heart, and you and I both know that— —In other words, this is education, the knowledge that a principal should learn.”

Snape stood up.

"Hope you're telling the truth," he concluded, "especially the part about why you value Toby—and, well, wait and see what Cedric Diggory turns out to be. What, you don't really think that he won't be affected by Toby in any way? No matter how precious the quality is, it doesn't matter. You have praised Harry Potter in front of me more than once. But what about him now? "

Before Dumbledore could answer, Snape strode out of the office without looking back.

Dumbledore sighed, he looked at Fox on the perch and said, "Severus is still so keen, he may have already guessed something. Is this a warning? Or a friendly reminder?"

Fox couldn't answer the question, it looked at Dumbledore with pity.

After being silent for a while, Dumbledore whispered to himself: "Maybe there are all of them. I hope Toby won't be too unexpected in this event."
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"Are you—the Bloody Baron?"

In the ancient magic office, Cedric looked at the guest invited by Professor Hammer in surprise—Barrow was still the same, with blood stains on the transparent witch robe, just looking at it was daunting.

Cedric is no exception.

"Where were we talking last time?"

Toby was still sitting across from the desk. He opened Tom Riddle's diary and finally found his handwriting in the middle.

"Let me see. The self-casting wand, yes, this one—it's the soul's turn this time."

Ok?
Cedric looked at Toby puzzled.

"I can see that you haven't given up on your original idea." Toby said with a smile: "So I found a helper for you—if it goes well, maybe you can help him get rid of it—soul, Tell me, Barro."

This stems from the fact that Dumbledore replaced Toby to ask Barrow some time ago-the specific content is what Slytherin and Ravenclaw are studying: the answer includes crowns and souls.

Later, Toby found out that the two founders had been studying the souls of wizards for a long time, but they were hidden deep, so they had not been discovered by others—except for Barrow.

As Slytherin's favorite disciple, he had several opportunities to hear the conversation between the two.

Of course, these secrets will not be told to Cedric, and what Barrow said is a little different-mainly to explain the existence of the soul.

"I've had a lot of guesses," he said in a dull tone, "but I can't tell which one is really accurate—maybe it's somewhere between non-existence and existence, or maybe it's nothing but magic itself. , otherwise, how could only wizards be able to become ghosts?"

Cedric had never thought about these questions, his curiosity overwhelmed his fear of Barrow, and he was attracted by what the other said a little bit.

At this time, Toby suddenly interjected: "Does this remind you of anything?"

"What?" Cedric asked subconsciously.

"The patron saint, and the devil, are the same as the soul—unique." Toby said, "Oh, I forgot, you don't know what the devil is, do you? Maybe you should learn too, that is I don't know if it will work—”

Nor was he sure that a man like Cedric could actually conjure his own demons—would that exist?

Cedric only regarded this as Professor Haimer's distrust of him, and he immediately fought for it: "I will try my best, Professor, even if—even if the time for the team's training is moved."

This is really cruel.

"It doesn't need to take you so long." Toby waved his hand and said, "The specific process is still very simple, it depends on whether you can accept it - you should also know who Barrow is, now, since the auto-casting wand It's not going very well, so we'll have to use something more radical—do you see that door?"

Of course Cedric saw Professor Higher's collection in the office, and occasionally he could see Mr. Al watering it carefully - now it is doing this with the shower, going around the wooden door again and again.

"Next we are going to do a bolder experiment, which will happen in the near future." Toby said: "The specific date still needs to be determined, and we have to wait until when the Mason Gate is mature-in addition, there will be The headmaster of Waggadu accompanied you in, it is my compensation to him."

The development of the whole process has become less and less like Cedric teaching Toby, but he didn't take this selection method seriously at first, and asked excitedly: "In this way, we can make an automatic Has the wand been cast, Professor?"

Next, Toby's cold water made Cedric calm down immediately: "It's not that far yet, just start by studying the soul-the Mason Gate is a means, and I don't know if it will make you feel better." The harvest—however, the key lies with Barrow."

He looked at Barrow and said, "Are you really ready? I'm not sure what will happen when the ghost enters the Mason Gate—maybe you'll just die."

"I've been waiting for this day," Barrow said.

"Okay." Toby shook his head helplessly, and saw Cedric looking at them in confusion, so he asked, "What's the matter? Did you find that the tutoring this time compared with the last one? big change?"

Cedric nodded grimly.Indeed, in the last class, they discussed why the automatic casting wand was not feasible, and saw Snape riding a broom with a black and white face, and finally received a gift from Professor Highmore - a Firebolt.

That made everyone else envious, that is, he also noticed that Harry Potter looked at him strangely the last few times they met, and he didn't understand what happened.

But how did the soul have anything to do with autocasting wands?

"This comes from the inspiration I got from other people." Toby said with a smile: "If the soul can directly give someone a special magical ability, doesn't that also mean that this is what the automatic casting wand lacks? —soul. Of course—”

Without waiting for Cedric to ask, Toby continued: "It certainly can't be the wizard's own soul, that would be too evil, but other things may be—such as Patronus, and the devil. If enough If it goes well, they may also be able to replace the role of the soul."

The person who provided Toby with inspiration was Harry at the time.

After learning that Harry turned out to be one of Voldemort's Horcruxes, plus Harry's proficiency in devils and Parseltongue, Toby quickly thought of the flaws in automatic casting wands.

Since the magic circle is incompatible with the scepter, if it is another soul, is it enough to put a disguise on any one of the two magics?

Maybe there are many ways to realize it in the future, and they are all different from what Toby thinks now, but fortunately, it is a beginning.

As for the relationship between the Ravenclaw crown and the soul-it was not until now that Toby understood why the crown could resist the influence of Voldemort's soul.

In it, maybe the soul of Ravenclaw is hidden.

After all, only eternal life can deal with eternal life.

At the same time, while Cedric was busy realizing his ideals, other students were also called into the office by different professors to teach them.

This is a matter of course, Dumbledore would not list Toby alone, but changed the rules of the entire teacher recognition meeting.

"Let's take a look at yours first." Toby looked at Cedric and analyzed: "It's not perfect, but it's okay--that's right, otherwise you don't need to come to class again."

Cedric didn't know how to answer the conversation at all, he could only treat himself as air.

"So, are you ready to start learning about the devil?" Toby asked.

This time, Cedric finally nodded vigorously.

At the same time that the knowledge is being passed on, other professors, they also have their own students to meet.

For example, Dean McGonagall, the student she wants to meet is Hermione.

"How have you been recently, Miss Granger?" Dean McGonagall asked as soon as he came up, his eyes kept sweeping back and forth on Hermione, who didn't look like a student at all, and Toby's Attitudes vary widely.

Hermione was nervous, she never imagined that she would one day need to teach Dean McGonagall, but the question was easy to answer - she knew that McGonagall was asking about her life after losing the time-turner.

"Very good, Professor." Hermione didn't dare to call Dean McGonagall casually, probably not in the other party's expectation, and said a little cautiously: "But when can I get it back?"

"Not yet." Dean McGonagall said solemnly: "Besides, what I have to remind you is that you probably need to make more psychological preparations for this in advance, knowing that you may never have a time-turner again." Already—there seems to be a lot of problems hidden there, and they need to be solved one by one—alright, let's start this lesson, where did we go last time?"

Hermione pulled herself together and said, "Talking about the difference between magic circle items and scepters, have you tried making your own magic circle items, professor?"

Dean McGonagall raised her eyebrows. She didn't show it, but said, "I've tried it, and there are indeed a lot of worthy research."

Hermione couldn't confirm whether this was true, but she wouldn't be so stupid as to really ask - giving Dean McGonagall a lesson in ancient magic was ridiculous enough, who knew what else would happen?
She really didn't know what to teach, so she could only choose this new course, which might make it easier for Dean McGonagall to accept.

The same scene happened in the Defense Against the Dark Arts office.

Draco Malfoy, who turned out to be a student of Lupin's class, also taught the class of ancient magic, constantly fiddling with his scepter-the badge with a snake pattern.

There are stranger things than that.

Harry Potter, he knocked on the oak door cautiously and tiptoed in.

Dumbledore was already waiting for him, and asked with a smile on his face, "What surprise did you bring me today, Harry?"

(End of this chapter)