Archaeologists at Hogwarts

Chapter 312 Extraordinary Out of Control
During the days away from school, Dumbledore did not put all his thoughts on the urgent need to solve the Arianna devil, or to find the missing Aberforth—on the contrary, he The suspected resurrected James sees a more serious threat.

As a last resort, Dumbledore returned to Godric's Hollow, where the Potter family once lived.But Dumbledore found that the remains of the Potters were still sleeping in the cemetery, showing no signs of being disturbed.

This made him even more worried.

He knew that there was a legendary power that could bring people back from the dead—the resurrection stone in the Deathly Hallows, which might have been obtained by Grindelwald.

And that's not the worst part - the devil, being so similar to the wizard's soul, albeit more of a dark side and very different from the hopeful Patronus, is also somehow connected to the wizard's soul.

As Toby said, when the wizard encounters a major change, it will cause the Patronus to change.But the devil is just the opposite - when a major change happens to the devil, it will cause some unpredictable changes to the wizard.

This change is related to the wizard's soul.

Then there is the resurrection stone, which can also affect the soul of the wizard, and even snatch the soul from the hands of death.

In this way, Dumbledore couldn't help but associate the resurrection stone with the devil—perhaps, the resurrection stone can also affect the devil.

Then came the worst-case scenario—unlike Dumbledore's Ariana devil, or Harry's Rune snake, Toby seemed to be co-existing with his devil in some peculiar way, somewhat Sometimes it's not even clear whether he's a wizard or has turned into something half-devil.

So, if the resurrection stone can control the devil, can it also successfully control Toby?
That's why Dumbledore made those arrangements for the three of Tonks - he must find James before Toby, otherwise Toby is likely to fall into Grindelwald's trick.

After that, in order to learn more about the devil, Dumbledore decided to go to Loch Ness.

Some people now know that in the war caused by the law of conservation of magic, many Muggle-borns hid in the city under Loch Ness in order to avoid the pursuit of pure-blood or half-blood wizards.

This is a place that belongs only to Muggle-borns, and just right—the devil is another torture invented by other wizards for Muggle-borns, turning them into inhuman beings, suffering from endless pain, and never being able to recover. get rid of.

perhaps
Dumbledore thought with a glimmer of hope.

Perhaps the residents living there have also studied the devil in order to save their compatriots, and thought about how to get rid of it.

On the brighter side, maybe even the magic circle was created for this - to save Muggle-borns from the devil's torture.

But no one expected that before Dumbledore arrived in that mysterious city, he would be expelled by something.

a devil.

Not Harry's rune snake, a devil summoned by a wizard, but a real humanoid devil turned by a wizard.

It never occurred to Dumbledore that he would witness another wizard being tortured.

At that time, it was very inconvenient for him to move underwater, and more importantly, the battle with the devil was likely to attract a large number of horse-shaped water monsters.

In order to avoid causing more trouble, Dumbledore had to leave briefly, perhaps there will be a more suitable opportunity to explore in the future.

Originally, Dumbledore could safely leave the bottom of the lake. With Fox around, he could take him to any place at any time—but at the moment before leaving, Dumbledore saw something and he couldn’t help it. What I believe will be at the bottom of the lake - a new Firebolt, like a Firebolt just out of its packaging.

Then lie quietly at the bottom of the lake, swirling slowly.

So, the accident happened like this - Dumbledore tried his best to snatch the Firebolt, and he paid a heavy price for it - the devil at the bottom of the lake seemed to know how to deal with him, and even more how to use Ali The Anna Devil influenced Dumbledore, causing him to be seriously injured.

Fortunately, Dumbledore managed to take the Firebolt in the end-but the problem also appeared here.

Originally, Dumbledore thought that Toby had come back secretly, and accidentally dropped the prize that was going to be used in the wish box here.

This is a very normal guess. He knows that his student still hides many secrets. Perhaps Toby has secretly returned to Loch Ness—maybe it was to study ancient magic, or it might be because of the magic ball. Just came back.It's all possible.

But alas it is not.

On the handle of the broom was engraved a line of words——

[Merry Christmas, my child. 】

This was a gift that James Potter was going to give to Harry, but he gave it up for some unknown reason—it's like James has been refusing to meet his former friends, but instead hiding from everyone that he is still alive news.

Thus, Dumbledore also made such a bad discovery-James Potter had also been to Loch Ness.

Who could have ordered James to do this?

This couldn't be more obvious - Gellert Grindelwald, he didn't know when he stopped recruiting his men, but instead accepted all kinds of students, and called himself a professor of ancient magic , stole Toby's title.

James' question is important, but the reason why Dumbledore came back is mainly due to another reason - the mysterious devil.

Who did it become?

"Calm down, Albus."

Facing Dumbledore's questioning, Grindelwald shook his head calmly and said: "I didn't expect this to be our first conversation after that full moon. I really want to tell you something, but unfortunately, I I don't know what you found."

"However, maybe I can also give you a reminder."

Grindelwald looked through the visor, met Dumbledore's solemn blue eyes, and said slowly, "Since you care about the devil so much, why don't you ask your students?"

"I believe that there is no one who knows the devil better than him except him."
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Office of Ancient Magic.

The curly hair on top of Toby's head drooped in front of his eyes, and he stood motionless opposite the ice block, looking at the blurred silver memory inside.

Not far behind him, Al changed into his pajamas and nightcap, and yawned sleepily and tiredly.

"How are you feeling lately?"

Toby, with his back turned to Al, suddenly asked the question again.

This process has been repeated many times since the accident on the night of the full moon.

Although he was extremely sleepy, Al still shook his body carefully, from head to tail several times, and then he shook his head to indicate that he was fine, and then yawned again.

"It's fine."

Toby murmured to himself in a low voice: "Go to sleep first, I have to wait a little longer before I can rest."

Before returning to the bedroom, Al curiously asked Toby what he was going to do if he didn't sleep at night.

"I smell a familiar scent."

Toby sniffed his nose lightly twice, and said in a complicated tone: "There is pain, anxiety, and a smell full of misfortune."

"Before I go to sleep, I must find this devil."

The corridors of the castle were dark and silent.

Toby was like a ghost, but also like a shadow, he didn't make any sound of footsteps, even Peeves, who was thinking about where to make trouble, couldn't find him - Toby had completely merged with the darkness Yes, and by the way, he also rewarded Peeves with a big fight, knocking him into the wall, and probably won't wake up until tomorrow morning.

After all, he is still the acting principal, so of course he cannot allow this kind of violation of discipline to happen under his nose.

Speaking of Acting Principals
"I don't know when the archaeological guidelines will be listed as school regulations."

Toby muttered in a voice that no one could hear: "Maybe by then, I can also teach students real archeology lessons, instead of these little tricks now."

"Even the teaching materials are ready-made, the castle is full of secrets, the secrets left by countless generations of wizards. These are all worthy of being discovered by others, and worthy of being discovered by me."

In the quiet darkness, the shadow extended his arm to the doorknob of the abandoned bathroom on the second floor, and gently pushed the door open.

Myrtle is not here, and she is probably nostalgic about the taste of death in the toilet again. She always shows her enthusiasm for this, and has shared this experience with those who are willing to listen to her more than once.

Toby didn't come to look for Myrtle. He followed the smell that no one could smell and came to a faucet. The snake's mark was engraved on it, which was the entrance to the secret room.

Then, in Toby's increasingly proficient Parseltongue, the entrance to the secret room opened, allowing Toby to slip into the passage smoothly.

He didn't stop all the way, passed through the cold and dark corridor, passed the huge basilisk shedding its skin, and rushed directly to the end of the corridor - Slytherin's chamber of secrets hall.

Grindelwald, who was trapped in the armor and the devil, was dozing off. After hearing the sound of footsteps, he slowly opened his eyes and saw Toby walking towards him.

"It's so late, do you have to come to me now?"

He spoke as if he was the owner of the place, with a hint of impatience in the sleepiness: "Even in Nurmengard, no one would allow me not to sleep—"

"Shh-"

Toby suddenly covered the visor with his palm, and Grindelwald immediately acted as if his mouth was covered. He saw a pair of strange eyes through the hair on Toby's forehead—not normal eyes, no whites, Instead, it was pitch black, like two black glass beads.

Toby shook his nose slightly again, his eyes turned left and right in a more weird way, as if he was checking the surrounding situation.

Even now it seems that he is the one who needs to be checked the most.

"You're awake, aren't you?" Toby said abruptly.

Grindelwald immediately realized that Toby was not talking to himself, and his eyes were not focused on the face behind the visor, but wandering around.

Soon, Grindelwald saw that Toby was staring at the black smoke swimming in the armor—the special humanoid devil.

"What do you remember?" Toby asked again: "Why did you leave the secret room in the middle of the night, and why didn't you take this opportunity to escape, but came back instead?"

Grindelwald finally understood - Dumbledore's return did not escape Toby's attention, he seemed to have some means of tracking the devil, but he couldn't normally distinguish the difference between the devil, mistakenly put the devil on Dumbledore Arianna is his collection.

"Maybe we can talk, if you want."

In the dark secret room, Toby was staring at the armor and talking, but neither the armor nor the people trapped in the armor responded, which made Toby look like a lunatic talking to himself.

"Well, it seems that now is not the right time."

Toby stared at the devil in the armor motionlessly and said, "I hope you understand that we are on the same side. I may end up like you at any time."

"I think you still underestimate yourself too much." Grindelwald said suddenly: "The ancient war has long since ended, and the torture that turned wizards into devils does not exist in the records, not to mention you still have so many lovely people." Favorite, no one can do anything to you."

This time, Toby set his sights on Grindelwald.

"The first rule of archeology." He said coldly: "The more people praise you for no reason, the more dangerous the moment is coming—this trick is useless to me."

Grindelwald opened his mouth, he found that Toby seemed difficult to get along with tonight, more... unreasonable than ever.

Fortunately, Toby didn't continue to entangle. He stared at the devil in the armor for a while, then turned and left silently, disappearing into the darkness of the corridor.

After a while, Grindelwald suddenly spoke, without any tiredness in his tone.

"Hope this is of some use to you, Albus."

Dumbledore came out from behind the statue of Slytherin with a solemn expression, his blue eyes looked at the darkness at the end of the corridor without blinking, as if searching for something.

"Out of control. This time it was different than before, Toby didn't yell or do things that looked like they were against the rules."

"Maybe there is one thing that Toby did wrong." Dumbledore said in a low voice: "The person who should be checked is not Al, but Toby himself."

"I've never seen him go so crazy before."

Amidst Dumbledore's self-talk, Grindelwald acted as if he fell asleep and said nothing.

At the same time, Toby also returned to the ancient magic office. He changed into his pajamas after washing, but just before he entered the bedroom, he suddenly stopped and looked at the never-melting building again. ice cubes.

He now knows at least one thing—

As the key, the devil can control and keep the memory of the god of death.

Then, perhaps becoming an outright devil would be a choice to deal with the god of death.

And the three dead brothers.
Have they tried this too?
(End of this chapter)