Archaeologists at Hogwarts

Chapter 331 The Last Mason Gate (end of third grade)

When Toby rushed back to the ancient magic office, he found James who seemed to be nailed to the wall, and the Mason door that was open.

"He took Harry away!" James shouted anxiously, "Put me down quickly, I'm going to save—"

"Passed out."

Following the astonished gaze, James tilted his head and passed out.

The expression on Toby's face was never before solemn. He looked around the room carefully and saw that the three skeletons were still obediently staying in place.

Then, he slowly focused his gaze on the corner of the room, and saw the disappearing cabinet that was also opened.

"Aginbad."

He whispered the name, walked towards the disappearing cabinet step by step, got inside without hesitation for too long, and closed the wooden door of the cabinet.

After opening the wooden door of the disappearing cabinet again, Toby had already appeared in an office in the Waggadu School in Africa.

Angela's long silver hair spread out on the pillow, and she wore a cute sniffing eye patch, which seemed to be the same style as Al.

She was still sleeping soundly, and she was safe and sound.

After being pushed lightly a few times, Angela dazedly lifted the blindfold to her forehead, and rubbed those silver eyes again.

"Toby, why are you here? Did you come to take refuge?"

It seemed that she didn't know anything, and Akinbad didn't bother her.

"I'm here to take you out of here." Toby said seriously, causing Angela's gaze to become sober.

"Come with me, you don't need to pack your luggage, just follow me to Hogwarts now."

Angela hurriedly sat up from the bed.

"What happened?" she asked nervously.

Toby had already returned to the disappearing cabinet. He turned his head and said, "Your principal, Akinbad, he is the one who hides the deepest behind the scenes. It was not a coincidence that he met him near the temple. Those who know how to use the devils they get from the temples - which Andros the invincible became, who is said to have a Patronus the size of a giant, and is now a devil the size of a giant."

"Aginbad has been eyeing us since the beginning, I can't tell when, but maybe it's been longer than we thought. No, I know, that's when I found the mean in the temple There are traces of Hai Erbo's past, it is him, he still has Horcruxes left in this world, he is still alive, he has lived longer than anyone else, and he is still an enemy with Andros."

"No wonder he wanted to take Harry away. It turned out that Harry was his Horcrux."

"Helbo is using us to explore the temple. He failed once. People like him who have lived for so long are destined to be very careful and will not take this risk again. He is using us."

After Toby repeated it again in a low voice, Angela was too shocked to say a word.

But she obviously trusted Toby, she jumped off the bed without wasting much time, put on a witch robe over her pajamas, and nervously followed Toby back into the disappearing cabinet.

When they returned to Hogwarts again, Toby's exploding spell destroyed the Vanishing Cabinet without hesitation, completely blocking the communication between Hogwarts and Waggadu.

"I haven't brought so many clothes here." Angela was in a daze.

"This is a necessary measure." Toby interrupted Angela's thoughts with one sentence: "We have no way of knowing what a person who has lived for thousands of years will think, Hai Erbo is not the portraits in the principal's office , he is real and alive, not a copy."

"Moreover, even these methods are not enough."

At this time, Al, who estimated that the time was about the same, floated back on the small flying carpet. It saw the unconscious James at a glance, and knew that Toby was still capable.

But it couldn't figure out what happened afterwards. Harry wasn't in the office, but Angela appeared here instead.

While Angela and Al were talking about the shocking facts they had just learned, Toby took a deep breath, and then said, "Al, now announce the news about the law of conservation of magic through "The Quibbler."

"Yeah?" Al's eyes widened in surprise, why did Toby make such a sudden decision.

Toby said without changing his face: "Also, the first author of that report wrote the names of Dumbledore and Grindelwald, and I was placed in the position of the second author. After all, this is not my first discovery. The key to Gringotts is with you, and there is enough gold for you and Angela to use. It's a pity that I couldn't completely own Hogwarts until the end."

"Give me the scepter, Al, apart from this item, I can't think of anything else that would scare Hai Erbo."

Al gradually realized what Toby was going to do, and he yelled in a panic, while Angela stood aside blankly, at a loss.

But this couldn't stop Toby's determination at all. He hung Al upside down, shook it hard a few times, and then picked up the scepter that was thrown out.

He looked at his own black walnut wand in the other hand, weighed it several times and put it away again, sticking it tightly in the pocket of the witch robe.

Al clung to his trouser legs tightly, and Toby pulled it off forcefully, and put it in Angela's hands, who were about to cry.

"An hour—no, half an hour, if I haven't come out after half an hour, I need you to destroy the Mason door outside, understand?"

Angela was also terrified. Toby forced James' wand into her hand, smoothed her long messy hair to her cheek, and then rubbed Al's throbbing little head. .

"That's all."

Toby finally smiled at the two and said, "I didn't expect my last words to be just these."

He broke into the deep Mason door and disappeared, leaving Al outside the door crying heart-piercingly.
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Toby, who appeared on the other side of the Mason Gate, still maintains a human form. Now is not the time for the Mason Gate to be opened safely. The internal world is in a state of out of control. It seems that because of this reason, it has no ability to change the wizards who enter.

He saw a gap left by the door of the office, and knew that Hai Erbo had left the office with Harry.

Behind him are three collectibles that would have been disassembled—the plant Animagus, the wide-brimmed hat covered with thin hands, and the pharaoh's mask.

Ever since capturing Grindelwald at the Shrieking Shack, Toby sent them into the Shrieking Shack to keep the Mason Gate safe.

But even so, it couldn't stop Hai Erbo's footsteps.

Toby casually piled up these three collections in the corner of the room. He gradually turned into a devil, surrounded the scepter and came to the out-of-control corridor.

As soon as he appeared, the monsters in the corridor stopped roaring and turned their eyes on him.

Toby had expected this.

Bloody red mist emanated from the scepter, as if a more terrifying monster appeared in the center of the mist, confronting the aborigines raging in the corridor.

After unscrupulously exerting the power of the scepter, the black mist on Toby's body seemed to be gradually fading. This was the price he had to pay. Once he used it for too long, he would be completely swallowed by the monsters in the red mist.

Fog gradually filled the entire castle, and Toby, with a painful face, felt that Haibo and Harry were not here.

He knew where to go.

Taking advantage of the power of the ritual magic once again, Toby quickly swam in the corridor, passing through the stairs, avoiding the attacks of all the out-of-control people along the way.

Finally, he came to the first floor of the castle.

After he pushed open the gate of the castle, he saw a scene even more spectacular than that in the pyramid - countless aborigines behind the Mason gate piled up into a towering tower, and Hai Erbo, who kept the appearance of Akinbad, was standing Standing on the top of the tower, he carried the panicked Harry in his hands, and stepped on the lion symbolizing Dumbledore's principal under his feet.

After Toby appeared, Hai Erbo turned his head and looked over.

"You brought him." Haierbo saw the scepter in Toby's hand: "You know I've been looking for it."

Toby's height rose little by little, he stepped on top of the monster's head in the red mist, confronted Haierbo from a distance, narrowed his eyes and said, "But before that, you had so many chances to succeed, and Angela once had it too." Pass the scepter—"

"But she has never owned it alone." Haierbo interrupted gently: "I know you have been vigilant against me, but now it seems that you are not vigilant enough. Moreover, the time is not right, and now is the most suitable time. "

"The full moon, and the Mason Gate," he said, and the magic ball gradually floated up beside him: "and something hidden in this magical creation, which is a wizard's brain, and the magic he once had Scepter, everything is complete now."

"Do you know who they all belonged to?" Toby frowned and said, holding the scepter more firmly.

"No, I don't know." Haierbo shook his head and said, "But I know they are very important to you. Yes, I know what these two things mean to you. After two Mason doors were destroyed successively , the emergence of Al and the devil, let your soul bind to these two objects - the principle is very similar to the horcrux. But the only difference is that making a horcrux depends on killing other people's lives, but you It’s killing yourself constantly, thinking that you can escape the curse of death.”

"It's a pity that James naively wants to destroy the magic ball. He has no idea that this is killing you. Naturally, Al will stop him no matter what."

Harry finally understood why Mr. Al reacted so strongly. It turned out that Professor Highmore also had his own "Horcrux".It's just that Professor Haimer's method of making Horcruxes seems to be irreproducible. There must be a Mason Gate and kill his own soul?

"Give me Harry." Toby shouted suddenly: "I can give you the scepter, but Harry must be handed over to me first."

Just when Harry was shocked by what Professor Highmore said, he heard Haipo say with a smile: "Then you can die with me without any scruples? I know your plan, I know everything. In front of me, you have nothing It’s a secret. I know what you’re thinking, if you can’t kill me completely, at least you must prevent this night’s disaster from happening.”

"But alas, Toby, the ceremony requires at least three people present, as it did many years ago."

"Take a good look, it's time for me to get rid of the threat of death."

Almost at the same time, Toby turned into a pitch-black devil, intertwined with the ferocious monster in the red mist, and transformed into a black thestral with red wings, with a strong red light in his eyes, looking towards Hai Erbo rushed over.

Harry stared at the huge monster in disbelief. He struggled hard, trying to help at least a little, but Haibo quickly restrained him, making him unable to move.

"Don't worry, kid." Haierbo still had that kind tone, completely inconsistent with the hideous appearance in the legend, and nothing seemed to surprise him.

"It's not yet time for you to die. When the god of death appears, and after I have completely fulfilled my wish for eternal life, I will let you be the final test subject to see if the Horcrux can continue to restrain me. But not now."

Harry was horrified to see that Hai Erbo turned into a huge snake head, and the tower under his feet turned into a body of a basilisk. His piercing eyes stared straight at the rushing Thestral——Toby quickly closed his eyes , but it was still too late, the Basilisk stared straight through him, making the Thestral's movements a little bit stiff, and finally stopped in front of Harry and Haibo with its mouth open and roaring, and remained motionless again.

A tail feather slowly floated over and returned to the original appearance of the scepter, held tightly by Haierbo, maintaining the same height as the magic ball beside him.

Under the full moon, something appeared in midair little by little, and came in front of the two of them.

Harry remembered Professor Highmore's instruction - he didn't dare to open his eyes, and kept them tightly closed, so as not to be noticed by the Grim Reaper.

In the cold moonlight, Death's body unexpectedly became uncontrollable. His scepter and magic ball were his weaknesses, and he gradually drifted towards Haierbo.

"It's about time." Hai Erbo looked at the god of death and said, "It's finally about time."

Not far away, Toby watched this scene unwillingly. He saw Haierbo suddenly take out a long dead snake from his pocket.

"You should still remember it." Haierbo introduced: "One of Voldemort's Horcruxes, the diary, was killed by you and sent into the Mason Gate, where it became Peeves' whip."

"He is my most satisfying work, the only weakness is death."

"I guess you would think that I want to become the god of death, no, that's not the case, I want to control it, this is the complete eternal life."

"Go ahead and swallow it."

Following Haierbo's order, the long snake seemed to come alive. It opened its mouth wide, forming a terrifying arc, which was bigger than Harry's entire body, and then swallowed the whole Death God in one gulp.

The long snake gradually began to change. It slowly stood up and grew its limbs. The only thing left was the snake face, and its cold eyes were aimed at Hai Erbo.

Hai Erbo carefully looked at the newborn Grim Reaper, and the two stared at each other silently.

"In the face of the unknown, there will always be accidents."

Hai Erbo said suddenly: "However, after all, I am one step closer to eternal life. I should have guessed this earlier, Merlin, and Toby, next time, I—"

Before Hai Erbo finished speaking, his body suddenly dissipated like rotten wood, turning into a pile of burnt ashes.

The newborn Grim Reaper—or Merlin, picked up the scepter and magic ball that fell on the top of the tower, and turned his gaze to the huge Thestral not far away.

Only then did he speak the first sentence.

"This is far from over."
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The fussy Al was held tightly in Angela's arms, and he kept trying to dissuade Angela from giving up Toby's plan.

Now that the time limit of half an hour is getting closer, Angela is also crying and said: "No, this is what Tobit told me. You must have a way to find other Mason doors, yes Is it? As long as we can find the extra Mason doors, we have a chance of rescuing Toby."

【there is none left! 】Al wailed and said:【This is the last one, we can't find another one, we--】

Watching helplessly, Al and Angela saw that the Mason Gate had also become rotten, and within a few seconds it decayed beyond recognition, becoming drier than dead wood, and suddenly couldn't support it, and shattered into pieces all over the ground. powder.

When the dust cleared, the figures of Toby and Harry appeared, and there were two things, the magic ball and the scepter, next to them.

Al and Angela were stunned for a few seconds, and then rushed over to check if Toby was okay.

"Ahem. I'm fine." Toby's face was as pale as white paper, and he asked weakly, "Is everything okay in school? Where is Dumbledore, where is he?"

Dumbledore was still in the Chamber of Secrets, he was also very weak, and the huge devil was re-bound into the armor, but neither Grindelwald nor Snape was in the hall anymore.

They fled.

After hearing footsteps behind him, Dumbledore said weakly: "It seems that we have found another member of your clan, Andros, he is also a Muggle-born, I should mark this point when I have time." There should probably also be a letter to the Chocolate Frog Graphics Company on all the books in the library, that's a valuable message."

Toby sat down next to Dumbledore with difficulty.

"I announced the news of the law of conservation of magic."

After a long silence, Toby said suddenly.

Dumbledore looked at him sideways, light blue eyes shining brightly.

"I see." He said flatly, without any sign of anger.

Perhaps, it was also because he knew exactly when Toby would make such a decision—a time when he would never be able to face himself.

But now they have all survived, which is at least good news.

"Helbo is still alive."

Toby continued: "As long as Harry is alive for a day, he won't die completely, there will always be a time to come back."

"I think it's time for us to face our true selves, Headmaster. The Ministry of Magic needs a wiser controller, and I can't think of anyone other than you who is up to the task. And I have put the Longbottoms ahead of time. Inserted into the Ministry of Magic, they are your people and will make good help."

In front of this series of shocking thoughts, Dumbledore still said calmly: "What about you, Toby? What are you going to do after I leave Hogwarts?"

"I will stay at Hogwarts."

Toby said in a steady tone: "This is my long-standing wish. You should already know that I have dealt with the God of Death twice. The first time it happened when I was young. At that time, I had no idea what happened. What, I don’t know the correct answer of revenge.”

"So, I said what I wanted most at the time—not ancient magic, or blood theory, but Hogwarts."

"I long to have it, that's my first wish."

Dumbledore turned his head, and he silently looked at the huge statue standing in the distance - Salazar Slytherin.

"Pile of cockroaches."

"This is the password of the office," said Dumbledore.

Toby got up and left.
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"Pile of cockroaches."

The stone beast looked suspiciously at Toby, who was exhausted in front of him, but it still jumped to the side dedicated to its duty, and made way for the crossing leading to the principal's office.

Along the spiral staircase, Toby walked up step by step.

He finally got his wish.

The door of the office was slowly pushed open, which stopped the noisy discussion in the room. The previous portraits on the wall dozed off one after another, and secretly opened their eyes to look at Toby who was standing motionless at the door.

Dean McGonagall, who was sitting behind the desk, pressed down her glasses. She looked at Toby and said in a serious tone: "It seems that we already know the answer. Would you like a glass of lemonade?"

Toby didn't respond at all.

"Then you can go back." McGonagall continued to pack up the documents on the table and said, "Don't forget to attend the two-day final dinner, when I will announce the candidates for the teacher recognition meeting, as well as your black devil Club, then a new minister must be re-elected—of course, this matter mainly depends on your opinion.”

"Anything else?"

Toby dragged his weary pace to sit across the desk and sat down, he said disheartened.

"Yes, principal, bring me a glass of lemonade with more ice."

Mag raised her head again, this time with a satisfied smile on her face.

Toby was not the only one who left his last words tonight.

(Third grade, end.)
　The third grade ended in this way, basically all the important characters were introduced one by one, and there were many more interesting developments - Dumbledore who joined the Ministry of Magic, this point is buried relatively deep, he has never been with him in the original book Meet Grindelwald.But now, he has not only achieved this, but also possessed the Arianna devil under Toby's "frame", which caused a considerable change in his mentality.Coupled with more serious enemies, so I will make such an arrangement.

　　Toby's wish to become the headmaster was not fulfilled, and was blocked by McGonagall arranged by Dumbledore in advance-this can also be regarded as his last words.

　　It's actually kind of interesting about this, because the rift between Toby and Dumbledore keeps widening, especially with Toby's brazenness before facing death again.In this way, Umbridge, who came to Hogwarts in the fifth grade in the original book, is not enough to read, maybe it can be replaced by someone from Dumbledore's side.It's fun to think about.

　　That's probably it.

　　Finally, ask for the monthly ticket at the end of the month, thank you for your support, thank you!
　　Thank you very much!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)