Archaeologists at Hogwarts

Chapter 315 Grindelwald and Death

Toby didn't expect that Dumbledore would greet him at the gate of the castle.

If it had been before tonight, it would have been an unavoidable conversation, the kind Toby couldn't refuse.

But after meeting Regulus, things began to develop differently.

Toby had no choice but to walk forward quickly. After seeing that there was no one else nearby, he whispered to Dumbledore for the first time: "Go to the secret room, Grindelwald has a problem, if you don't stop him as soon as possible, Unforeseen disaster will happen tonight—it will be easy for him to escape."

Although this passage was a bit jumpy, Dumbledore gave Toby indescribable trust at this time.

He immediately turned around and walked into the castle, decisively making Toby stunned for a moment, but then Toby followed immediately, and at the same time said with a somewhat embarrassed expression: "Maybe you don't need to go there. I should be able to solve it myself." .”

"No." Dumbledore said without turning his head: "No matter how careful you are with Grindelwald, you can't be too careful. And, if I guess right, what will happen to Grindelwald is also the same. It happened to you too, am I right?"

"Then I have to go and see for myself."

No one thought that Grindelwald would be the key to ease the relationship between the two. This was their first face-to-face conversation since the full moon that day.

Time was urgent, and Toby couldn't take care of that much anymore. He quickly talked about what happened to Regulus just now, and then he seemed to defend himself: "I don't know if there is something hidden in him. There are other means, there is no time to capture him, and there is no time to ask about James and Aberforth, especially Aberforth. Sorry."

"You don't have to feel sorry for anyone." Before opening the door of the abandoned bathroom, Dumbledore looked back at Toby, and he said gently: "I believe it will not be long before Aberforth should be able to return safely Yes—as long as we can make it through the night."

Toby immediately understood what Dumbledore meant—this was the retreat that Grindelwald had taken the initiative to leave for himself, in order to use Aberforth as a threat so that they could be rescued in time.

"Then why didn't he say it earlier?" When Dumbledore opened the passage to the chamber of secrets, Toby frowned and asked vigilantly: "Could this be a trap? Just to drag us into it?"

Standing in front of the dark passage, Dumbledore pondered for a while and said, "In this regard, I also believe that Grindelwald will have sufficient reasons to do this. For example, only in this way will we pay attention, and he has always been more Prepare an option - if we don't get to him in time, no one knows what's going to happen next, but that happens to be part of his purpose."

It seems that no matter what, you have to go and see Grindelwald with your own eyes.

Toby got into the passage without saying a word, and Dumbledore and Dumbledore slid down the pipe to the bottom of the chamber of secrets, and walked towards the hall of the chamber of secrets non-stop.

At this moment, even in the distance, Toby felt the palpitation, which made his expression a little ugly.

Finally, he and Dumbledore saw the figure with their own eyes.

Right in the hall of the final chamber, in front of the trapped Grindelwald, stood a black shadow.

Its voice came out little by little:
"So, can you tell me what my wish is?"

"Don't listen to it!" Toby yelled hastily, "Don't answer anything, it's a trap!"

Grindelwald cast his eyes on Toby, his eyes were hidden behind the visor, and his eyes could not be seen clearly.

"You know," said Grindelwald, "you've fallen into its trap, haven't you?"

Toby didn't answer the question, and then he shouted: "I warned you, you don't understand what you are facing, even the most powerful prophet can't predict your future fate, it can affect you Your fate has deeply affected you, or is it that you have already been affected by it, which is why you escaped from Nurmengard?"

The black shadow remained motionless, acting very patiently.

Dumbledore stared at this scene inexplicably, and he listened to Toby's words verbatim.

After being silent for a while, Grindelwald said slowly: "I can hear it, you answered the wish of the god of death, and that is also your wish, that's why you are so profound in ancient magic, and it also makes you Suddenly decided to help your friend solve two troubles at once - because you know, you have been targeted by the god of death, and there are not many days left. Unless your continuous research on ancient magic wishes becomes a curse, which is What happens after you meet the Grim Reaper."

"Thank you for your answer, Toby Highmore."

Just when Toby and Dumbledore thought that Grindelwald would achieve some unknown purpose in the next second, he continued: "Now we have three people. This is the cause and the result. It seems that tonight I can Dodged once."

After he finished these words, the god of death disappeared little by little, just like what Toby did to save Harry and the three on the night of the full moon-to this day, the three people still don't understand what happened that day, Didn't know they had come close to facing death.

After the Grim Reaper disappeared, the hall became quiet again.

Grindelwald seems to do nothing, yet does everything.

"Don't look at me like that." Grindelwald said these words specifically to Toby, who had an ugly expression: "Unlike you, I have followed the footsteps of death with Albus very early— —For the Deathly Hallows. Later, I was able to resist the temptation in my heart, and the life of imprisonment has changed me a lot. If I were young, I think I would definitely be trapped by this trap."

"But not now, at least not for now, at least not until the next full moon."

"You won't have a chance." Toby said angrily, he threw a spell and hit Grindelwald, causing him to faint immediately.

Then Toby turned to look at Dumbledore with a questioning look in his eyes.

"Don't tell me that you also participated in tonight's ceremony—just to get the secret out of my mouth."

Dumbledore looked at him calmly.

"I told you a long time ago that Grindelwald is the best at deceiving people. I didn't know that there would be an accident tonight. Even if it seemed to be planned by me, the time was just right, and it happened to be back in Huo Gwartz's day. But I didn't do it."

"I will not cooperate with Grindelwald. In fact, the breakthrough I am looking for is Al, and I try to communicate with it. Unfortunately, this makes it more afraid of me."

Dumbledore was so frank that Toby didn't know what to say for a while.

"Al?" After a long time, Toby said as if venting his anger: "It can't hide its thoughts the most. It writes all the secrets on its face, and it can't be changed no matter how you teach it."

"I don't think there's anything wrong with it." Dumbledore added unhurriedly: "It's exactly the same as when you were in school, of course, I mean before that full moon. Since then, you have begun to change." It is different, and it has increased the difficulty of education a lot, which is also a challenge for me.”

After a moment of silence, Toby said suddenly, "But you know now."

"Yes." Dumbledore said full of regret, "I finally understand why you refuse to ask me for help—who can resist death? Just like you erased memory just to help Remus, you It is also to avoid involving me in this trouble, avoiding getting involved in the trouble of Death."

Toby couldn't accept Dumbledore's disguised compliment, which made his skin crawl.

"It's time to go back," said Dumbledore.

They returned to the abandoned bathroom in silence, and then came to the ancient magic office very naturally.

Al couldn't help but exclaimed when he saw Toby and Dumbledore walking in together. For a moment, he thought that Toby had been captured by the principal, and his desire to run away immediately became stronger.

"Go, go." Toby impatiently waved away Al, who was full of fear but couldn't help being curious: "You are really useless, you can't help at all, do you know that you It has become my breakthrough.”

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!" Elton yelled angrily, but no matter how he shouted, he seemed a little lacking in confidence. At the same time, he kept carefully glanced at Dumbledore beside him.

"Don't worry about it." Toby lay on the sofa as if resigned to his fate. He said weakly, "I am not threatened, and this is not a trap. Besides, we may not be able to escape under the principal's nose—by the way , and your beans, oops, I forgot those at the train station. Forget it, I almost ate them anyway."

Al looked at Toby in surprise, and he turned his head to look at Dumbledore again, not understanding what was going on now.

What happened to these two?
Didn't you still have conflicts a few days ago?Why did you suddenly change back to this ghostly look today?
The world of wizards is so complicated, it's easier to do sniffing.

There was a clear sound of chewing beans in the room, and Al simply sat far away from them, took out all the food and drink, and looked like he was watching a good show.

Anyway, Toby is not afraid, so what is it afraid of.

Dumbledore sat down on the sofa opposite Toby, and he asked softly: "So, can you tell me about Al's origin now, is that also related to Death?"

"more or less."

Al was taken aback by Toby's answer, for fear that someone would catch him for research, and felt that the entire wizarding world had become unsafe.

"Be quiet." Toby said angrily: "We can't hide it, neither of us can hide it-that's the thing, Grindelwald has already said it very clearly, the death wish is a trap , is also a curse. I was young at the time, and self-righteously said the wish related to ancient magic-probably what I said in the first class when I first took office. I only realized it after the fact, the god of death Wishes are like the Mirror of Erised, after you make a wish, you have to keep doing it to keep the curse from being fulfilled."

"But even so, once you fall behind a little, you will still be caught up constantly, and the process of realizing your wish is also extremely difficult-my injuries are all caused by this, and sometimes I really feel that it is better to die .”

Dumbledore listened quietly, even in front of such soft words, he did not speak without authorization.

This made Toby feel a lot better. He was most afraid of someone suddenly comforting him at such a time, which was the last thing he needed.

Toby went on to say: "In order to seek the secrets of ancient magic, I have been to many places and found a lot of collections - including those two skeletons. They appear in the historical pictures I have seen with my own eyes , it’s just that I didn’t expect the existence of a third skeleton at the time, and it wasn’t until recently that I learned about the Deathly Hallows, that it was hidden by the Invisibility Cloak.”

"But this is just the beginning."

"Later, in order to solve the curse of the god of death, I also tried many other efforts - such as the devil, the Mason gate, and Al - the origin of Al is related to the Mason gate, it is the world from the gate. Find it and bring it out, it's a weird thing that happened, okay?"

Under Dumbledore's sudden gaze, Toby changed his words helplessly: "It's actually like this. I could feel it at the time. I was going to die. The process of studying ancient magic has never been smooth sailing. I I will also encounter a bottleneck, so I don’t have much time left. In order to continue to live, I have to try some extraordinary magic—soul, this is the only way I can think of.”

"Al is a part of my soul that I deliberately allocated, but the price is that I can no longer summon my own patron saint. This bought me a critical period of time."

"But it always doesn't work, what's missing has to be filled by something else - so there's the devil, the only difference is that I'm merging the devil with myself instead of being separate. That's what won me The second critical period."

"Now it's the third paragraph. I can feel that death is getting closer and closer to me, but I have no other way. There is really no way. Only those two skeletons are left—oh, There's a third one."

"Although I finally got them all together, the key doesn't seem to be them - it's the Deathly Hallows, maybe. All in all, that's about it, I became a dark wizard who can no longer summon the Patronus, It's turned into the person I am today, so if possible, can you erect a statue of me after I die, principal?"

"My request is not much, it is best to put the sculpture on the door of Severus's office, I feel very uncomfortable when I think that he will be in charge of Slytherin house forever, what kind of Slytherin is he. Must have Just make him feel better."

I don't know when it started, Al stopped eating beans, and he slumped on the table in a depressed mood, looking miserable.

But neither Toby nor Al thought of asking Dumbledore for help.

From the beginning to the end, they never thought of involving anyone.

Like Remus, and Snape and Lily, and Albus Dumbledore.

(End of this chapter)