Hogwarts Archaeologist Toby

Dumbledore is also right, he does know Toby very well.

This was a strangeness that even Al didn't notice. Toby hesitated for a long time, but couldn't make up his mind to use the resurrection stone.

Fortunately, he was spotted by Dumbledore in the end.

Otherwise, he might really have the opportunity to see whether a wizard with a flawed soul can resurrect a complete soul.

But there is no need to worry about this now, because Dumbledore has taken away the Resurrection Stone and handed the Elder Wand to Toby for study.

This is also a good goal. It just so happens that Toby has learned a lot about wands because of his research on scepters, and knows the simplest way to distinguish them.

"Fifteen inches long, elderberry. The core of the staff is...the tail feather of a thestral? It's really rare."

Under Al's shining eyes, Toby flicked the Elder Wand twice at will, causing small fireworks to bloom in the office.

Soon, Toby noticed something was wrong with this wand.

He has used more complex scepters and can feel the weirdness.

"It doesn't seem to be very handy. Can't everyone use the full power of the Elder Wand? Then -"

Toby threw his wand to Al: "Here, try attacking me and see what the effect is."

Al was thinking hard about those evil spells, and Toby quickly warned: "It can't be the Unforgivable Curse, nor the Explosive Curse. Let's start with the Disarming Curse."

Al smacked his mouth twice out of boredom, and he casually cast a disarming spell, which was easily blocked by Toby.

"Come again."

Toby blocks a second time.

"Come again."

Unsurprisingly, he blocked it the third time.

"Come again——"

"ah!"

Al screamed angrily and shot out many spells in the blink of an eye, but even when he was tired and panting, he couldn't shake the Elder Wand out of Toby's hand.

"Okay, let's go here."

Toby took back his wand and compared the two wands.

Although Al was unsuccessful, Toby's guess was correct. The Elder Wand was indeed not as easy to use as his own wand.

He tucked the black walnut stick back into his pocket, and walked up to the three skeletons with the Elder Wand in hand.

After putting it into their hands one by one for a short while, one of the skeletons grasped the Elder Wand extra tightly, which looked very different.

"It seems you are Antioch."

Toby said as he drew a thin line on the skull's forehead. One of the skeletons already had a circular pattern (resurrection stone) on its head. As for the last blank one, a triangle was filled in - this is the symbol of the invisibility cloak.

Now we know who is who.

Toby looked at the three skeletons with satisfaction, and then pushed Antioch aside who wanted to take the Elder Wand back.

"You two keep an eye on it, don't let it steal the wand." Toby ordered, and the other two skeletons quickly held Antioch down.

It seems that Antioch was the most affected by Death, followed by Cadmus, and finally Ignotus - he is the owner of the invisibility cloak, but when Harry's invisibility cloak appeared in front of him before But there was no reaction at all.

Looking at it this way, "The Story of Three Brothers" still has some basis. Ignotus is indeed the most sober person among them.

"I hope it won't be my turn." Toby muttered in a low voice, and then rested with Al.

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The next day is the start of the game.

The brand new Chudley Cannons will face the same old team - Wimbourne Hornets.

It was a closely watched game, partly because of the Chudley Cannons' new dominance touted by The Quibbler, and partly because the Wimbourne Hornets had won their third consecutive UEFA Cup. , was originally an extremely popular team.

Ludo Bagman also came to watch the game. He once played for Wimbourne Hornets and it was under his leadership that they won the three consecutive championships.

Bagman, who was wearing a black and yellow team robe, was very conspicuous in the audience. He saw Toby sitting near the commentary stand with sharp eyes, and he also squeezed through the crowd and walked over.

"New team, ha." He said proudly as soon as he came up: "Newcomers really need to be well-trained and trained by the old team. Believe me, the Hornets are the best choice."

"We have to wait until the game is over." Toby said gracefully: "My students are not that easy to disappoint."

"College duel and Union Cup are completely different things." Ludo rolled his eyes and said, "Otherwise we can make a bet, the bet doesn't need to be too much, as long as-"

He held up a finger.

Toby turned to Al to confirm, and then readily agreed: "Okay, just a thousand Galleons!"

"One thousand?" Bagman's screams were blocked by the cheers of the audience, and the players of the two teams walked out from the player tunnel. As long as they were not blind, they could see the difference between the two sides—no way, Harry and Nana Wei Du is too thin, even with a monster like Flint, it is difficult to cover up their weakness.

Gjeon was smiling and shaking hands with the opponent's captain, with harmlessness written all over his face.

Wood pursed his lips tightly, as if he was going to break the opponent's palm - Flint was already doing this, the troll was indeed a troll, even the players on the official team couldn't pinch him, his face was suffocated flushed.

Amidst the whistle of the referee, Toby patted Ludo on the shoulder and said, "That's it, Director, one thousand Galleons, not a dime less! Find me after the game, I'll wait in the office you."

He said it as if the Chudley Cannons had already won the game, and seemed to have no intention of continuing to watch. He walked around the chair and left the stadium with the roaring crowd, and then found Luo who was waiting for him obediently near the castle. Well and Hermione.

Ron...well, it should be said that it was Hermione. She did not disappoint Toby. She had read the manuscripts all night long and learned a lot of new knowledge.

"Show me your thoughts."

Ron immediately handed over a scrawled piece of parchment, and Hermione very willingly took out her own, which she had surreptitiously used the Time-Turner to finish.

After seeing that Professor Highmore didn't refuse her assignment, Hermione's lips curled up triumphantly—now that Cedric is busy with the team's training, it won't be long before she regains the stolen assignment. assistant position.

This is the perfect opportunity!

"I'll read it sometime, come with me now."

Toby took the two of them back to his office. On the way, he casually asked Harry if he was also involved in the research process. Why didn't he hand in his homework?

Ron's heart skipped a beat. He subconsciously wanted to defend himself. Fortunately, Hermione's reaction was faster than his, and he responded immediately: "He didn't write it, but he will soon. I will keep an eye on him."

It seems that anyone who has read that manuscript has to reflect on it, no one is an exception.

Toby nodded with satisfaction.

After returning to the office, he took out another part of the manuscript and handed it over to the two of them. Before leaving, he kindly asked: "Don't forget to hand in this assignment as well."

The two immediately nodded obediently.

After seeing off Ron and Hermione, Toby saw Snape coming as well.

"What are you doing here?" Toby looked like he didn't want Doris Snape.

Snape said in his usual tone: "I didn't expect you to be able to endure it for such a long time - Sirius Black, I thought you would take action without permission. Why, could it be that you were afraid of those people at the beginning?" Are you here?"

"If these things are the case, you can go back." Toby scratched his ear and said, "You don't feel at ease when you see it. You either want to get revenge on him, or you want to drive me away together. But if you want If I do it, I won't tell the truth."

Snape heard the sarcasm in Toby's words, he raised his eyebrows and said, "Well, if I told you that he hasn't been so honest these days, would you be indifferent?"

Toby looked at Snape for a moment.

"You know the news that James is still alive." He said sharply: "Who told you?"

Snape was obviously implying that Sirius had secretly gone to find James, otherwise he would not have suddenly taken the initiative to come to Toby for "help."

"I knew what was going on as soon as I saw Regulus."

Snape said coldly: "It is rumored that he is dead, but he appeared in the Pig's Head Bar alive, and with Blake's crazy appearance, it is not difficult to guess."

"It was the headmaster who told you." Toby sharply pointed out, "He told you to watch Regulus. At that time, he told you that James is still alive?"

Snape's face suddenly became a little ugly.

Toby stared at him for a few seconds, knowing that he had guessed correctly.

"The principal really trusts you." Toby narrowed his eyes and said, "In addition, I can probably guess what you are coming to ask. Yes, I have met James, but after listening to what he said, Lily didn't seem to survive."

"what a pity."

Snape's face was so gloomy that it was about to drip water, he turned his head and walked away without saying a word, Toby shook his head at his back and sighed.

Through the open door, Toby saw Bagman appearing at the door with a pale face, despair written all over his face.

"Looks like I won." Toby's tone became cheerful again: "Al, go and get back the money we won from the bet, it's a thousand Galleons—what, he didn't bring that much money? Chief Bagman—”

Toby's expression changed immediately, he walked up to Bagman who was slowly retreating, and asked in a low tone: "You don't want to blame the black devil, do you?"

"I...I..." Bagman stuttered and said: "How on earth did you do it? Why can those students-"

"Because your training methods have long been outdated." Toby said disdainfully: "No one knows the potential of wizards better than me, but unfortunately you can't see it, only I can see it-yes, this is just the beginning, check The goal of the Derry Cannons this year is to qualify for the Quidditch World Cup, and no one can stop us."

"Whether it's the director or anyone else, it won't work."

When Bagman left, he was holding an IOU that he didn't know when he signed it, and the signature method was a bit weird. It couldn't be quill and ink, it had to be his own blood.

Bagman had vaguely heard about Scrimgeour's loss at Toby's hands, and he dared not refuse.

Toby told Al to put the IOU away, and he closed the door so he wouldn't be disturbed again later.

The three skeletons came to Toby, watching him hold the Elder Wand in a circle, and finally pointed at the skeleton of Antioch.

"Maybe it can be done..." He whispered: "Maybe it can be done...let's try it first and then talk about it."

While Al closed the last curtain, black smoke emerged from Toby's body. The Elder Wand was wrapped in the center of the black mist, and was slowly handed over to the palm of Antioch's skeleton.

Afterwards, the black smoke slowly condensed, forming an uncertain figure wearing a hood.

Al saw it—Toby was posing as Death in the guise of the Dark Devil.

No one knows whether this method is effective, but it obviously worked for Antioch.

It picked up the wand, and unconsciously returned to the memory posture that Toby had seen on the full moon—it was the ceremony where the three brothers summoned the god of death.

"tell me."

Toby's vague voice emerged from the black mist: "What is my wish?"

This is Death's special way of asking questions, not asking about other people's wishes, but its own.

【revenge. 】

Toby made out the exact word from Antioch's pause.

Death's wish is for revenge, revenge for all Muggle-borns who have been persecuted.

"It's time to state your wish."

Toby said the steps that should be followed: "Tell me, what is your wish? What are you willing to exchange for?"

The skeleton in front of him remained motionless, but in Toby's eyes, the surrounding scene had a wonderful change—the living Antioch appeared in front of Toby, and he said excitedly: "I hope to get a war-resistant The invincible wand, only in this way can defeat all enemies."

"Who is your enemy?"

Toby found that under this wonderful connection, his voice became more and more like death.

"There is only one enemy of the Peverell family."

Antioch's expression gradually turned resentful: "Those damn pure-blood wizards, they were the ones who harmed our ancestors——"

The picture stopped abruptly here, and Toby took the initiative to change back to the human form. Almost at the same time, he saw a full moon slowly rising in the room, and then disappeared in an instant.

Unexpectedly, the Peverell family turned out to be the descendants of the Loch Ness city survivors.

Toby silently digested this information, he was panting non-stop, Al didn't understand what happened just now, it only saw Toby stood face to face with one of the skeletons after turning into a devil for a long time, and then Suddenly it became like this.

Toby took the lemonade from Al and looked at the other two unresponsive skeletons. He knew in his heart that it was because the god of death did not have such a deep impact on them, so a closer connection was needed to wake them up.

The Peverell family, and Muggle-borns...

And the invincible wand.

At the end of the day, Toby suddenly had an idea.

Who will use the Resurrection Stone when it is Cadmus' turn?

Is it him with a defective soul, or Dumbledore who has been suppressing his resurrected relatives?